Us Two ....

We (or maybe just 'I' because I'm speaking from my own personal experience here and you may not think such things- and if you don't, then you just won the Spouse of the Year award. Congratulations.) let these things get on our nerves sometimes and probably dwell on them a little too much. But then, one day, your spouse goes away for a few days and leaves you all alone and you're wondering what the heck to do with your self because there's too many darn pillows on the bed and there's no empty cereal boxes left for you to fold up and make yourself useful. And pretty soon, you'd give up anything to have someone sleeping in that bed next to you.

Life has kind of changed up for us a bit here as the whole employment situation for us is kind of in limbo. Confused? Yeah, so are we. I'd explain the situation but it' s hardly worth the workout my fingers would get from typing it out. So I'll just say that A: we're not sure if Brad's boss wants Brad to work for him anymore and doesn't seem to want to get back to us on that memo, and B: more money is currently needing to be going out than is coming in. Potential problems.

But alas, this story is not sad. Rather this story yet again speaks of the provision of the Lord. Not the provision where you think the Lord is going to hand you this totally awesome job just down the street where it pays you triple what you're making now and you can finally buy that new computer, camera, car, whatever it is that you think will make your life complete. If you're waiting for the Lord to provide in that manner, the waiting on the Lord thing is going to get old pretty fast.

I'm talking about the sort of provision where He provides for your very needs, not the wants. The kind of provision where sitting on the beach one day with a friend you've met once before, the topic of employment comes up and pretty soon your husband has a week worth of work, in a town a little ways a way with some people he's never met.
Out of the blue on Sunday, Brad was given the opportunity to stay with some people and work with her father doing some landscaping stuff in a town an hour away. It's pretty humbling and it's pretty amazing. This job opportunity came at the perfect time and, while it's just for this week, it is providing for what we need at this very moment. It's pretty cool and we're really grateful.

The sad part of the story is that I have been all on my lonesome all week. Well, just me and the herd? flock? pride?murder?colony? of cockroaches that reside in our place.
I heart cockroaches.
Not.
You probably already know that for the 2 1/2 years of our dating, Brad and I spent the majority of it apart. We got really good at the long distance thing and while we never really enjoyed it, we got used to it.
And it made marriage that much better because we don't count down the days until we're leaving each other anymore. And it has been good.

However, normality has been thrown into complete disarray now that Brad is gone and I'm kind of thinking that he should probably never go away again because it's so much better when he's around.
And pretty fast I remembered why I decided that I'd rather spend the rest of my days sleeping on half of a double bed than spread across the whole thing.
Marriage is funny like that.

And, I need to issue a bit of a warning:
This blog could get seriously more boring very quickly.
We suffered a bit of tragedy here. We had this really totally cool awesome rad waterproof camera that we got to go swimming with and document neat stuff like that time when my bathing bottoms fell off in the water when I dove under a wave. Memorable stuff.
This totally cool awesome camera was totally cool and awesome and WATERPROOF until the day it decided NOT to be waterproof when we took it in the water.
Yeah- you know where this is going.
No need to really go into depth about our precious little camera filling up with salt water and going black and never turning back on again.
I feel really bad about the whole experience because the camera is really really new and quite great and was a very generous gift. I feel like I should be angry about it all but while I'm disappointed about it, no amount of rage is going to bring it back. Stuff happens. That's just the way life goes. And I guess, really, it's just stuff and there could be worse things.
Like a shark could bite your leg off or something.
It is still covered by warranty and so we're looking into all that kind of stuff but it'll take awhile to fix. And so that means that there is a good chance the blog could be seriously lacking in pictures- more than usual.
No pictures makes for a lame blog- I KNOW.
I'm just warning you. I'll have to get really witty really fast if people are going to keep reading this thing.