A new place...sort of

So it's been awhile since I've touched my blog and I've felt deprived! Things have been in a whirlwind these past two weeks. I knew it was going to be fast, but I didn't think things would have been hectic. Packing wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was very freeing to be able to finally go through stuff and decide what's really important to me and what other stuff I could go without or even dare I say, depart from.

When my baby arrived in SD, it was definitely non stop from there once again. I was so excited to see him! I didn't have to be away from him anymore and being away from the one you love for 2 months is NOT easy, props to military and other long distance love. When he got in, the race began. We had dinner with my parents and my sister and her wife. It wasn't too bad, they got to meet him and we celebrated mothers day, mom's birthday and my going away all in one shot. The family definitely loves him and that is always a blessing. The night didn't stop there, we headed over to B's house (my girl scout co-leader) and we had a few drinks and played a few games. Her coworker Mabel was there and we had met her before at B's birthday. It was such a good time, i loved it and hated it at the same time. Bittersweet. We had such a good time, but it would be the last time for awhile.

Saturday wasn't too bad though. We went up to Temecula to see his Great Aunt Anita and meet his Uncle Bruce. Uncle Bruce was cool and Anita was a dear sweet old women who has a cute dog, Sherman the German as they called him. She had a cool house with a nice layout that I wouldn't mind living in myself. After that we took off home where we relaxed for a bit and then headed over to Billy's house for his dad's birthday/going away. We were there kind of early and it was a good time. We had a little BBQ and then the games began. Oh man, Greg played Survivor, which starts off as a race. The first player has to bounce a ping pong into their cup, chug it, and then flip it. There are always 5 cups and 3-5 players per team. Which means, some players may have a few cups. Here's the kicker, whichever team loses, has to "vote" someone off and in the end, it's 2 people going against each other chugging 5 cups...It ended up being Crystal vs. Greg. Greg won...but he also puked a bit. No one gave him hell cause he did win, but poor him couldn't keep it down after throwing back about 6 beers in ten minutes. It was our cue to exit after that. We went home so we could be well rested for the drive the next morning.

On sunday, the car was pretty much packed and by 11 a.m. we were ready to go. I said bye to my parents, which I was on the verge of tearing, and then we took off. The first day driving wasn't bad, we made it to El Paso, TX. The next day just plain sucked. Anyone who has ever driven through Texas knows how much of a pain it is to drive through about 10 hours of just plain land. It even rained a bit, which was definitely not fun. That's one thing I'll have to adjust to again is learning how to drive in the rain. Memorial Day night is when we arrived. It was about midnight and boy was it good to be home and out of the car. We knocked out and the next morning I thought it'd be lazy days..not so fast.

When I woke up, his grandparents were already awake (they get up at about 6am or so) and I met them..in my pjs..at 8 am. They're so sweet, but grandpa is definitely a talker. Now I know where Greg gets it from. The week with them was fun. We cooked dinners together, went out to dinner together, went on a sailboat and celebrated his moms birthday too. The funny thing about that, our moms share the same birthday. Thank goodness my mom doesn't care for hers or else it could be trouble in the future. I got his mom a quilters bag which is very cute and it has special pockets for their tools. She loved it. =)

They left on Saturday and it was sad to see them go, but now I could unpack my car and get things situated since they were staying in gregs room and I couldn't unpack my clothes or anything. The weekend was lovely to be lazy. Greg did some work for a friend and made some dough and we got to relax, just him and me..and my future mother in-law. ;) We want to get married, but no ring yet. I'm not worried. I have all the time. Plus he doesn't believe in being engaged longer than a year. It's his belief people won't get married or it'll cause more problems. But to each their own.

Monday rolled around and things definitely settled. His mom was heading back to work and we would be able to start job searching which is hard in this bad economy on top of looking for short term work. I still have my internship that I'm resuming now that things are settled and the best part? I'm actually gonna get paid. Sweet, my boss loves me. So, to a normal schedule I go of going to the gym in the morning and then doing some work and searching for more work.

I'm off to watch some Jon and Kate plus 8 with my baby.