We Got Hitched. Now What?

Yep. It happened. Stuart and I sealed the deal May 2, 2009. I can now fill out that extra box that says "Maiden Name" on the criminal background check application. You may find that an odd application to be filling out...or maybe you can relate to the hellacious process known as 'Job Searching.' Those two words occupy my days and haunt my nights as I fill out monotonous job applications that ask you questions such as, "Why would you be an ideal candidate for this job?" Or, "What are your three strengths and weaknesses in a work setting?" Are you kidding me? I don't find it necessary to explain to you why i'd be a valuable asset to a store that sells overly-priced candles that claim to smell like fresh baked cinnamon rolls or grandmother's apple pie. How do you know what my grandmother's apple pie smells like? Oh wait...it smells nothing like your candle! Seriously. And why are they so expensive? Isn't it just wax and a string? Oh, the joys of being unemployed.

Stuart and I definitely didn't plan to start out our married life broke and living upstairs in his parents house...but we're doing what we can to not have to ever do this again. It's a pretty good time though. No rent, his parents are amazing and they have a beautiful home. They have been overly generous and we hope that we can reciprocate their behavior if they ever needed it. We spend our days bumming around and trying to get someone to hire us and pray they don't ask us how long we plan on staying in the job (because the answer would be: just till August when we go back to school where we have more important things to do than sell your stupid smelling candles). I think we've been on honeymoon for like a month now. We are actually to the point where we WANT to work...that's when you KNOW you're being lazy, or rather when you are finally bored with doing nothing--something you would ordinarily dream about as you sit stuck behind your cubicle or holding a screaming child.

Married life is great though. Or at least what I know of it from the whole 3 weeks that we have actually been Mr. and Mrs. Briggs. It still feels a little surreal and I don't see that really changing until we are actually having to live back in the tundra in our own apartment and deal with juggling school and work schedules and then finding time to be our happily married selves. I do believe that the only time in my life I will say I want to be in Idaho is, right now...but only to begin our married life. And that is it.