What I’ve Been Doing Instead of Blogging June 27, 2008

1) Working
2) Running around changing my name
3) Honeymooning

Just because my darling husband and I got married Saturday did not mean that the bosses did not expect me back at work on Monday. And Mondays suck - at any job there is. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are slightly better but nevertheless, it’s been a little daunting to switch mental gears from ooey gooey and back again to go to work.

And in the mornings before I go to work, I have been absorbed in the great adventure that is called Changing My Name.

Actually, the name was legally changed in ten minutes on Saturday of course - but no one knows that until you take the certified copy of the marriage certificate here, there and everywhere and have it changed on things like your driver’s license. Then when you get it changed on your driver’s license, you have to have it changed on other things like your checks, your debit card, and - omigod I almost forgot!! - my nursing license.

Oh. And my Social Security card. I might not be going to New York, but I absolutely had a multicultural experience at the Social Security office.

And honeymooning. Ahhhhhhh yes.

Since, as mentioned previously, we have no paid time off until September and we both went right back to work, our method of coping is to treat any day off we have together as a day of our honeymoon.

As in yesterday.

So we slept in together. And then we did a lot of running around to various agencies and places, but then we treated ourselves to lunch at Applebee’s. Which I love, because they have a way of serving things cooked in a way which I never would have thought of. I had a chicken sandwich with cheese AND Ranch AND some spicy something and thought - wow - this is awesome. I never would have thought to put all these different flavors together.

And we were holding hands and chatting and apparently glowing enough at each other at the table that an older woman stopped by our table and said “Keep that up! I’ve been married 42 years and that’s the secret!”

Insert huge grin plastered all over both our faces.

Then we went to the casino, which always seems very decadent in the middle of the day. Then we drove around looking at the way people have landscaped their yards, which is a thing for me.

And at night we came home and built a fire in the fire ring and just sat out there, with my head on his shoulder.

Sigh.

Tuesday was one month since the tornado hit Parkersburg. A whole month - it’s hard to believe.

And as I’ve said before so many times, everything has changed.

Everything.

It’s like decades of anger and bitterness and defensiveness I didn’t even realize was there - or at least to that extent - swirled away in the debris.

What’s left is just bliss.

I haven’t been keeping up on any blogs but one.

But it’s been a week of heaven.