Well, life is tough; no doubt about that! Lately has just seemed so chaotic and, if I didn't have my wonderful husband to lean on, I would feel like things around me are falling down on my head. I was supposed to be posting my blog about our vacation to Texas and Cozumel, but my brand spankin' new laptop has a defective hard drive and I lost all of my documents/pics on it. Major bummer! So instead of rewriting that whole post, I'm promising to catch up on it this weekend, and dedicating tonight to feel bad for myself lol.
So since we've been back from vacation, everything has been just insane. We've been back now for just over 3 full weeks and I have literally only seem my husband 2 times. Well, that's a tiny bit of an exaggeration, but not much. We've gotten to spend time together on two different occasions, and other than that, I've seen Michael coming and going about 2 other times. One of them was at 4am, when Michael got home from the library and woke me up just so I could see him for a second before falling back to sleep. It's hard. Actually it's harder than I'd ever imagined. It's not like we haven't been through this before, but the second year is supposed to be a little better. It's really not. I think I was over-anticipating lots of Michael time.
Besides having to readjust to having no time with my man, after a great 2 months off, we've also had everything that could go wrong, actually go wrong. I feel like every product that has a recall on it, somehow ended up in our possession! Both of our cell phones already went out and had to be replaced right after our vacation, but additionally, we've had 4 flat tires, 2 of which were on Michael's car. Actually, we thought the car was super out of alignment, so he took it in, paid to have it aligned, and they told him that it was actually a problem with the tires and it was due to a manufacturer defect. within the next couple weeks, he had 2 flat tires.
Then last weekend, I had my favorite candle burning when all of a sudden it burst into huge flames and burned a hole through our counter top, and the area around it bubbled up. I'm just so glad there was nothing around the candle to catch fire! A counter top is one thing, but our belongings are irreplaceable. After googling a possible cause for the fire, I found out the candle was recalled because of this exact reason. Figures haha!
After the loss of my laptop and all my pics, I was super frustrated, but today when I got to work, I realized that all of my follow-up excel sheets were on my laptop and weren't back up on. Those are pretty much irreplaceable and will probably cost me a lot of money in future sales. Michael's tried to recover them with his magic, but it's not looking good because a bunch of them were destroyed when the hard drive crashed. Best buy told us they probably could, for a minor $1,500 fee. Hahaha yah right! Sry for such a long post dedicated to venting, but I'm just at a really hard place right now. Plus it doesn't help that I can be completely mindless and got a speeding ticket our first day back in Iowa and managed to leave half my wardrobe, including all my nice, new clothes on the cruise and they just told us that they were never turned in by our room cleaner.
On top of everything, I do have to admit that I'm completely smitten and feeling blessed beyond belief with my supportive hubby. It's inevitable that life will throw punches, but when you have someone always standing in your corner, cheering you on, it's easier to remain standing. In fact, looking back over the past few weeks, I almost feel like it's the most frustrating times in life that bring you the closest and for that, I'm thankful. It's the crazy interruptions in life that sometimes help you acknowledge your own weaknesses and keep you dependent on each other. More and more, I find myself wanting to be the best wife possible, so I can return the support and love he shows me on a daily basis. It literally took me until this very moment to realize that haha. Well, I guess I'm done whining lol! I guess tonight, instead of feeling stressed and rundown, I'm almost feeling restored and thankful for a God who knows exactly what our needs are, whether or not we even realize them.
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