Alright friends... It has really been too long. But where to begin? Can I just write an outline until I feel like filling in details? I think that is what I must do.
- April 23: Our new baby nephew, Isaac Daniel Wachdorf is born!
Click here to view more pictures and videos of this adorable baby boy.
- May 1: Daniel leaves town for the weekend.
- May 2: Ryan and Rebekah get engaged! Woohoo! August 14th!
Also, Hannah and Daniel's apartment floods. Remember how Daniel's outof town? Yeah.
- May 3: Hannah's finals week kicks into full gear, and Daniel returns to Nashville.
- May 5: Hannah and Daniel sign lease on a new (much cooler, much bigger, miraculously cheaper) house.
- May 6-7: Hannah and Daniel move everything worth moving to new house, with much help from beloved friends and family.
- May 8: Daniel leaves the country in the morning, Hannah graduates college in the afternoon.
- May 8-26: Daniel travels the world while Hannah unpacks and cleans at the new house.
- May 21-23: Hannah goes to Oxford, MS for Clark Rice's baptism, and gets a much needed family fix.
- May 26-June 2: A happy time in Hannah's life. (Daniel is home.)
- June 2: Daniel leaves again, Hannah cries and cries.
- June 4: But not for long! Hannah is off to Mississippi to visit her sweet friends Racheal Burnett and Rachel Purser in Jackson, MS.
- June 6: All good things must come to an end, however, and Hannah cries some more until she picks Daniel up from the airport the same evening.
- June 8-9: Hannah and Daniel go to Oxford to shoot engagement pictures for Ryan and Rebekah.
View more pictures of the gorgeous couple here. - Today: Things are winding down and getting back to sweet, comforting normalcy.
So... that pretty much covers everything important.
So far, we have replaced most of the essentials that we lost in the flood (living room and dining room furniture, kitchen appliances, etc.) We are so proud of our cute new house and have been having a lot of fun painting and decorating it. I will post pictures when things get a little more presentable around here.
I have been on a reading frenzy since graduation. I'm like a kid in a candy store- the whole world of literature has just opened up in front of me. You might think that completing my English degree would have satisfied my literary appetite for a while, but let me explain. For the past four years, I have had very little free time to read what I've wanted to because I've always been reading for school. I have been developing this mental list that I can't actually keep track of in any organized fashion of books I've been wanting to read, and now every time one of them pops up in a conversation or a book store or my head, I can just... read it. It's so exhilarating to be able to read whatever I want to- it's like discovering reading for the first time all over again. The only problem is that I am getting sucked into too many books at once. I'm reading five books at the moment, and have five that come to mind that I intend to start reading any minute now. At this rate, I wonder if I'll ever be able to actually finish another book in my life.
Meanwhile, I'm looking for a job. This is a much less exciting topic for me, so I'll probably be brief. Or maybe I'll rant. We'll see.
So far, all I've done is browse online classifieds day and night, write cover letters, tailor my resume ever so slightly for some positions, and email strangers asking for work. I am starting to feel like a lunatic because not one person has responded to an email I've written. I must have applied for at least 20 jobs by now. At least. And no one has answered. I am starting to secretly believe that Craigslist is actually the Matrix, and Craig just posts ads day and night to maintain the illusion that there are actual people out there looking for employees, and stringing me along as some sort of cruel joke. Maybe I'm the only person who buys the whole Craigslist thing anymore, so Craig has deserted the other communities and mostly just focuses on Nashville, occasionally posting ads in Hendersonville, Spring Hill or Murfreesboro to keep things believable for me. Meanwhile he's got cameras set up all over my house and he's broadcasting my job hunt like the Truman show, and everyone is tuning in to watch me shuffle into the office in my p.j.s every morning to tinker on the computer, drinking my coffee and applying for imaginary jobs in my naivety. "Will you look at that idiot??" they all jeer. "She really thinks that someone's going to answer! Look at all that hope... that pathetic hope. I almost feel sorry for her."
Sigh.
Before I go, I have a prayer request to make: Tomorrow morning, Daniel's mom, Jerri Meigs is having spinal surgery to hopefully correct some severe pain she's been having. Please pray that the surgery goes well and is successful in alleviating her pain.
Well, that's all I've got for now. I promise to post a little puppy montage sometime soon to break up some of the heavy, intimidating blocks of text on here. :) So tune in for that...
