No, bad villagers, bad….
I knew when Becca and I got married some things would change. I would start eating better and she would start hiking and doing outdoorsy things. This is the arrangement that was understood. I knew it would be difficult to adapt to living with another person that is so close but I didn’t count on the whole actually enjoying doing things together. I thought I would come home and play my computer games and she would… I don’t know cook and clean some more stuff. Sure, we only have a one bedroom apartment, but I figured she wouldn’t have a problem with staying home all day and just taking care of my stuff. Boy was I wrong!
It’s our two month anniversary and it’s all I can do to keep her from playing my computer games all the time! And wouldn’t you know it, she practically pulls me up the mountains when we go hiking, and we go hiking a lot now. My parents have visited and Becca’s sister has visited (the “dreaded inlaws”). It was fun having people over.
We are still searching for a church, I don’t know what we’re going to finally settle on. It seems almost impossible that there is a church out there that we will feel comfortable at. There are just so many things that combine to make the right church. Some have quality preachers, with little emphasis on evangelism or salvation. Some are so enormous we doubted that we would ever see the pastor, like those brave souls who watched the image of the great Oz, we watched a church service on a video screen, the service could have been transmitted from the moon for all we knew.
Right now Becca is getting ready for a nice dinner at Carrabbas, we have a gift certificate to there. I highly suggest that you ask for dinner gift certificates as wedding presents. We have no money to go out to eat normally, so these make it really easy to get out of the house and do something we both love, eat.
Becca is still searching for a job, we are seeing that the job market in Colorado Springs isn’t exactly the most welcoming. We spoke with several people last night at a friends birthday party who told us stories about being in the same place. It would be harder to keep from being discouraged if I didn’t know that there were some great things in store for her. She has unique gifts that I’m sure will bring her some great satisfaction. One of the things that she is starting is volunteering with ISI. Internation Students Incorported, Becca has a real heart to serve interational college students and she is starting to really get involved with the people and activities that ISI has to offer. We hosted a foreign student for one night last week. It was interesting… she was from India, and very sweet, I’m really glad we had the opportunity to do that.
I’ve been taking so many pictures with our new camera. Every time we go hiking we take a few shots. I will have to sort through and upload some of the best ones. I still haven’t finished uploading the honeymoon pictures. Alright, time to wrap things up. If things go like they have been this will be the only post for the next 6 weeks. I always have so much I could say, but I never really feel like distilling it all at once.