This time tomorrow I will probably be through with a very important interview. I'm interviewing at the Center for Practical Bioethics here in KC. It may be a volunteer position...or it may be a paid position of being a personal secretary of sorts for a neurologist who splits his time between Duke University and the Center, so I'd be keeping his schedule and arranging his meetings here. Um, yeah. That would be cool. Especially considering it *actually* has to do with my master's degree. Prayers please!
Things are finally settling into a nice groove here. Still trying to straighten up here and there, but this weekend we tackled the office (that is, the room where I was throwing everything I didn't want to organize yet from the other rooms I was cleaning), and we got myself a desk so I could organize my items, so all in all everything feels much better around here. Now about those wedding thank yous and homework (I DID catch up on homework this weekend, there's just a different 15-20 page thesis I've been avoiding)....
Also, I will say I'm hooked on an already-finished show that I'm just now catching up on. The Adventures of Merlin was a BBC show on for five seasons starting back in 2008ish, and I had some friends through FOCUS that LOVED it (and Matt watched it already too and I never realized it. Man. So behind the times.). I'm in the first few episodes of season 2. It's good, wholesome, has plenty of adventure and fairy-tale...probably not quite for kiddos, but I could see it as a good show for pre-teens, as most of the cast at the time were late teens, early twenties. It's just so much better than American shows...evil is destroyed, good is rejoiced over, romances are subtle, or if they are blatant then they're very gallant and chivalrous... That makes my only 3 shows I watch all BBC (Sherlock, Downton Abbey, and Merlin). There are the occasional episodes of House I'll watch, but that's more Matt's show at the moment.
Good/Funny things about marriage: Matt thinks my reflection in the mirror looks funny. Since he's not used to seeing it, he thinks it looks different and swears there's a certain tilt to my mouth that isn't there otherwise...at which point he jokes that I'm stroking. What a goofball.
Difficult things about marriage: We have different ideas of how Saturdays go. His family apparently starts the day early, gets stuff done...my idea of a Saturday is that it's the weekend, so I'll get to doing things, but in a slower manner. We started our first normal Saturday earlier than I'm used to and later than he really wanted to, but we got lots of errands accomplished, including the office space. Just one of those things where we'll need to learn to compromise.
New things learned in marriage: Matt's made friends with several of the men in his Knights council, and the Grand Knight and his wife graciously took us out to eat on Sunday. It was one of those realization moments of being "adult"--our peers are now our parish family, and in their 40s on up. What? When did that happen? Crazy. I liked it, it was really nice, just a different experience for me.
:) Saturdays I think change throughout marriage too. Our Saturdays are sometimes early days, but every so often we need to just have a day at home to relax. I definitely "sleep in" on Saturday as I don't have to get up for Charlie to go to school, or for us to go to Mass.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I hope the interview went really well! (I know I'm a bit behind the times since I've been out of town and not caught up on blogs.)
ReplyDeleteDaniel and I tend to struggle with weekends... do we try to work like crazy and catch up, or do we sleep/relax/chill? It tends to be a little of both, but it's starting to be that *some* of the things we need to get done feel relaxing after a week of other work (like yard work, not so much the organizing or anything involving getting out of the house for me!)
Also, I definitely think Daniel's reflection is funny! He has the cutest crooked smile, but I'm not used to seeing the way it quirks in the mirror!