The Life of a Newly Wed

Well my whole family has made it home safe and sound from our trip to Illinois. My parents ended up being there for 9 days, which was originally a 3 day trip so to say that they were over ready to be home is an understatement.

Mark and I flew first class to St. Louis which was a first for Mark. I told him that once you sit in the front, you will never want to go to the back! I think he agrees with me.

My uncles funeral was nice and so was the visitation that they had for him the night before. All of my cousins made it down except my Uncle Tom's daughter Heather. It was nice to see everyone but I wish it would have been for a better reason.

One of my second cousins was being a real ass hole. He met a girl over Thanksgiving and they got "engaged" last night. He was actually so shitty that he didn't come to the funeral. He had a million excuses as to why he didn't come. I think he wasn't man enough to deal with it. With that being said, he laid in bed with this girl all weekend and never even said hi. She has dropped out of school and is moving to Texas from Ohio to be with him before the leaves for Iraq in February. Ugh. It just makes me so mad that he was such a dick but that's between him and Uncle Ralph one day.

I found out today that one of my good friends is expecting. I'm super happy for her but I must say I'm a little jealous. I know our time will come but I'm the least patient person in the world. She is 8 weeks pregnant and due on August 16th. When I saw her the first week of December I knew she was pregnant. She had gained some weight and I could just tell. When she told me today, I told her that I had a feeling now for a month! She just got married September 27th so it happened super fast but we all knew that's how it would be. I hope Mark and I are that lucky. I must say though, personally, I want to have my one year anniversary before my first child.

By the way, as of yesterday Mark and I have been married 6 months! Time has flown by so fast.

Tomorrow i'm going to see Dr. Yo so maybe she can tell me why my body is screwed up! I'm also going to have her make sure things looks okay since we are trying to have a baby. I know that she is planning on doing a sonogram because she mentioned that to me last time I was there.

Also on the plans tomorrow is a shopping and Chucky Cheese day with Madison. I can't wait!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

I'm sitting at the airport in Pittsburgh. If you have never been to the Pittsburgh airport you aren't missing out on anything in life. It's super old and use to be a hub for Delta but since the landing fees are crazy here, they moved to Atlanta, which is where I am headed.

Mark got home about 10 last night. I was so happy to see him. It had been such a hard day that I just needed a hug. I was so upset about being apart on Christmas and then I talked with my Mom and found out that they might be going to Paris, IL for Christmas and I was just there for Thanksgiving so the more I thought about it, the more I thought that I don't really need to be there tomorrow so I talked it over with Mark and my parents and we decided that I would just fly to St. Louis on Friday morning with Mark.

I'm so glad that this is the plan now. I was not looking forward to flying all day today and it just seems silly for me to rush up to St. Louis when there is nothing I can do. So we are booked for the 8AM flight on Friday and we will be coming home on Sunday.

My flight today is not until 10:20 but Mark took me this morning to the airport and he had to be in West Virginia by 8:30 this morning so at 5am we left to drop me off. I'm so stinking tired since I didn't sleep well last night. The plus side of being stuck here is that I have found the one outlet in the area and the Pittsburgh airport has free Internet which is hard to come by these days!

Mark will not be on my flight today since he has to work but I was able to get him the last ticket for tomorrow afternoon and he gets into Dallas at 8:40. Merry Christmas to us right? As crappy as the last 48 hours have been I just have to remind myself that there are 5 people who are going to have to bury their Dad on Friday and luckily, I'm not one of them.

Mark and I will be spending our first Christmas apart. Such is the story of our life.

My uncle passed away this afternoon so tomorrow I will be flying from Pittsburgh to Atlanta (2 hour layover) then to Dallas and then I have a 5 hour layover and will be back on my way to St. Louis to be with my family. I am currently the only one in the family who is not in Breese. I wish I could be with them sooner but it's just not possible.

Mark has been at work since 4AM and they are not having any luck with the job. The water is freezing since it's -10 here. The company wants to try again next Monday but Marks company wants to continue to work on the well. I vote to go Monday but needless to say I don't get a vote. I am already having to look into other flights for Mark because there is a very good chance that he will not be able to make the flight tomorrow. This has been a very emotional day with lots of flights being booked and cancelled.

When I finally did get to talk to Mark tonight he said that he will fly up for the funeral on Friday so we will see what happens.

We had all of our plans made and in order and now everything is out of whack. I know for sure I will be on a plane tomorrow to Dallas and St. Louis and I have no idea when Mark will join me.

My Dad seems to be doing okay. He was with my uncle when he died. I can't imagine being with my brother when he dies. I'm not very good with death. I never know what to do or say.

I have all of our bags packed which has been a challenge in itself. Mark and I can both check a bag and carry one on. I have a big suitcase with the presents and some of Marks clothes in it. I had to fit ALL of my things in my one bag since marks dad will be bringing me another bag with my parents clothes so that gives me my two bag allowance. It's been a royal pain.

I'm gonna go have some dinner by myself....yummy fish sticks.

If there is one thing you know know about me and Mark is that you can never plan anything with us because something will always come up or happen. It has been this way for almost two years now and it's starting to get a little unreal.














My uncle in on the left.

Today I have been super sad. I'm having a bit of issues dealing with slight depression. I love this time of year but with us being in Pennsylvania I feel super alone.

At least Mark and I are going to try and make a baby tonight. That keeps me going!

Also, I feel like my really good friend has replaced me. We were suppose to be going to London for New Years but now that we are going to Dallas I wasn't able to go. She told me today that she is going in January with another girlfriend. I feel totally replaced. I was suppose to be going to London and I wasn't even invited. I'm super sad.

On the bright side, Mark and I get Madison on the 30th for the whole day! So excited!

Last night after Mark and I finished Christmas shopping and having dinner we headed out to Auggies to meet Eric and Candice. Auggies is not exactly my favorite place but it's just about the only place to go in Washington.

We had a really good time and the band that was playing was really really good. We didn't get home will after 2am! It's been a long time since closed the bar down. We slept in till around 9:30 this morning, well correction. I slept till 9:30 when Divot let me know she was ready to get up and Mark is still sleeping.

Today I'm going to head off and do a little more shopping at Waterfront. I need to purchase another suitcase for our trip home. Somehow we have misplaced our small suitcase and we need it for when we go home on Tuesday. I also need to look for a dress to wear on New Years Eve in case we decide to go out that night. Seeing as it's suppose to be in the 70's almost the whole time we are in Texas, I'm gonna purchase a really cute dress. I'm going to leave Mark home for this shopping trip since he was less than pleasant yesterday.

Well, I have to get ready to go shopping! Have a great day. It's the most wonderful time of the year!

PS. We are suppose to get 4 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. ICK!

Today Mark and I ventured out in the pouring rain to finish our Christmas shopping. We have most everything bought but I still need a few things. I'm so glad we at least have most of it done though. I was starting to get worried that we hadn't gotten anything. We are very limited to what we can get seeing as we are flying back for Christmas. We have allowed one piece of luggage for gifts to bring and to bring things back.

Mark was sorta grumpy about going shopping but after I reminded him that if we hadn't moved to Pennsylvania I would have had someone to go shopping with and he shouldn't be selfish, he started to see things more of my way.

Yesterday we did a little shopping but didn't really get anything done because Eric was with us. We decided to have a nice dinner of sushi at Benni Hanna's. It was the worst trip I have ever had. Our waitress was totally swamped and we felt super bad for her. We got our sushi about 40 minutes after getting there which wasn't that bad. Eric on the other hand, it took and hour and a half to get his food. Totally unacceptable! Our waitress has told the manager that there was a problem and he never came over to apologize.

So after being there two hours, our waitress brings us the check and said that the manager had taken 25% off the bill. WHAT?! Are you f*in kidding me? So we asked to talk to the manager. Eric explained to the manager that that was unacceptable and the manager got attitude so I jumped in and chewed the manager. He finally agreed to take care of Eric's bill.

When our waitress came back to finish our check we were talking with her apologizing that he has to work for such an ass hole and he came back over and said "is there a problem here?" This is where I lost. I told him that we were just telling her how great she was and how it must really suck to work for and with you and that I was going to be calling corporate and complain about him. His response? "Do you need me name?" And mine. "No ass hole, I can read your name tag."

I have never had an experience like that before. I was so dang pissed! Then we went to Texas Roadhouse today and waited 20 minutes for our waitress to acknowledge that we were at the table. We are suppose to go out tonight with Eric and a girl he is seeing. I sure hope we get better service!

Have a great weekend!