a lot has changed...

i know i have neglected this blog, which is a shame because i love to write and stay connected with people...i am just busy and when i am not busy, i am very very lazy...

so, consider this an update...since the last time i posted:

*Ryan quit Jackson Waters and took a full-time artist management job with brite entertainment.


*We celebrated our 24th and 25th birthdays, respectively, and our 2nd wedding anniversary.


*We got a dog, a miniature schnauzer named Gus--he is awesome.


*We got a new car, because the trooper decided to "take a dirt nap." :(

*I got a promotion and am now a Starbucks Store Manager...I have my own store in Brentwood, TN.

we have always had a great life, and we are thrilled by the fun changes that have occured in the past few months! life is grand. thanks for listening.

On Sleeping Alone...

I am married to a man who travels for a living. He is still frequently home, so our lives are always in some sort of transitional period. Luckily, I’m a very independent girl and I’m not often afraid or lonely when he’s gone.
However, sleeping alone is something that I always have to relearn how to do. Growing up, my little sister was frequently scared at night and nine times out of ten I woke up with her in bed with me. In high school my friend, Mary and I, once spent over 275 nights in one year at each other’s houses—sharing a bed. In college, my friends and I would take naps together, Ryan being one of those friends. The point I’m trying to make here is that for the most part of my life I have been used to sharing a bed and I am a total snuggle bug.
So, when Ryan is away I spend my nights tossing and turning, trying to remember how to stretch out. I make “fake Ryan’s” with pillows and sleep with a teddy bear (Norman) and a squishy pillow in my arms. It usually takes two or three nights to get used to sleeping alone.
Then of course, I have to learn how to share the bed again once Ryan comes home.

back...perhaps

hello long lost readership....
i'm thinking about starting up writing on here again. i have my own computer now so posting should be easier. ry and i are doing well, we're planning our first real vacation together. we'll be going to savannah, ga in a couple of weeks! yay! we both really need a vacation.
stay tuned.

three hundred and sixty five.

yesterday was our first anniversary! yay! we had a fantastic celebration that started thursday night with a damien rice concert and concluded yesterday with a lunch cruise on the general jackson showboat! we had a blast spending time together, as usual. we are still madly in love after all of these days...

in a flash...

this is going to be quick, because i'm at the library. sorry it's been a month since a post, but life has been crazy! crazy good though. soon i will no longer have to untilize the internet at the library because we will be able to afford our own internet connection... i got my assistant manager promotion and will be started at a different store september 11th. i'm really excited! we took a most wonderful vacation to colorado for summer and toby's wedding, and to visit the amazing fam. and next week we will be traveling to the great states of arkansas and oklahoma for brian and lindsey's wedding. so like i said, busy. hopefully things will slow down and we can actually get back to regularly posting. and i will eventually get around to putting up pictures of the house. i promise.