Author: hannah.ananas

Home Dorks

We went to the hardware store. He fussed at me for fixing the displays of the doorknobs as we checked them out. Then, ten minutes later, he is fiddling with something that runs under the middle shelf all the way along the aisle. Eventually, I figure it out mostly and he come clean – there are lights above the doorknob displays, but only one set is on in the whole aisle. All the others are off. I join his efforts, of course, and we find the plug, hidden away behind the doorknobs. He goes to the other side of the aisle, shoves aside some cleaning bottles, and plugs in the extension cord. And voilà, the lights are all on and the displayed doorknobs look fantastic.

Good job, honey!

Even though that was a perfect example of hypocrisy. 😛

I love my husband and our weird ways.

Thank you, God. Amen.

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Friday

Tomorrow is Friday, and I am grateful. I also have my meeting tomorrow morning to express the terrible-ness of this year at work, for which I also am grateful. I am nervous, too, because I don’t like being in trouble, and I worry it will make me be in trouble. However, I have prepared reasonably well for the meeting and it will be a relief to have communicated everything, so that I can move on freely and complete with this job and the nonsense that has gone with it this school year.

God, give me your words in my meeting tomorrow, please. Be with me. Keep us safe, please. Thank you. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Mid

Today was “mid,” as the teenagers now say. It was mediocre, so-so. I had some really hard times earlier in the day, and some good times in the middle, and then an awesome time at the end of the day, when I ran into old friends and family friends who were attending various events happening on campus this afternoon and evening. Now that part was awesome today.

I also really enjoyed running errands with my husband. They were short and so was his annoyance temper, but I enjoyed just hanging around with him while we did something useful together.

Now, I go to bed not as stressed as last night for tomorrow. I still am unhappy about my job, but I am handling things now in a way that seems to be helping so far.

God, help me to find my work and income to support myself and my family well. Thank you for this life and these trials for growth. Help me to be the woman I long to be. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Tomorrow

I go back to work tomorrow, to school. A big part of me wants to continue this life of getting things done for my home and family. I also know that, meager and unfair as it is, my salary will help significantly for our family, too. I only have a month left of it, so I would do best to take advantage of it while I have it. I can find what’s next when the time comes. Until then, I can wrap up this school year and the relationship with this school.

God, help me to continue to improve our house and home. Guide me clearly in my words and actions, that I be who you call me to be. Help me to love my husband fully and to honor him always. Help me to love and to trust myself, as well as you. Thank you for this opportunity in life. Help me to do well with it. Also, please, help us to have spectacular, loving babies and children, as we so long to have. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Struggles

It has been very difficult for me lately. It hasn’t helped that my husband is stressed with his schooling and work. We both have been stressed, and then also sad. Not to mention the stress we already had about figuring out how to organize and make our house function both well and to our liking – though either would be nice to start.

And he is doing a fast right now, which doesn’t exactly help him to be in a great mood. Though, to be fair, he’s doing much better than he has done on any of the juice cleanses he’s done, by far. Nonetheless, he is still doing a fast.

And I love my husband.

I wish we could have gone on a month-long honeymoon. I wish a lot of things that also are not in God’s plans for our lives.

I’m not sure where I’m going with these seemingly disjointed thoughts… I guess the point is that I am struggling, and we are struggling, and I love my husband.

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Beach Day

We are supposed to leave for the beach at 8am tomorrow. Lightning and rain are expected in Galveston until at least midday. It has been pouring here for hours.

This beach day isn’t feeling great right now.

It is expected to clear and even be sunny by afternoon on Galveston, but still… I’m not thrilled to be up and out in a rainstorm in the morning… :/

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New Neighbors

Well, after five PM today, the house around the corner belonged fully to the new buyers. Our friends are fully in their new house down the road – a bit of a ways down the road, really – and the new folks are moving into their old house.

We took the dog – our friends’ dog that we borrow now – for a walk just after six, both to walk her before returning her by seven and to see if the new folks had shown up yet. And, naturally, there were two new cars in the driveway.

They were unloading seemingly random things from their cars, and not really paying any attention to their surroundings, so they never looked up to wave when we went by, which was a bummer. They had a Chewy box, which suggests they might have a dog. (I say suggests, because those are good boxes, and they very well could have just gotten the box from someone else for the sake of packing and moving.) That could be cool.

When we passed by again, on our way home, someone’s mom and, possibly, brother had just shown up. The mom saw me and waved enthusiastically. I waved back happily. My husband told me, embarrassed, to ‘stop waving like I know everybody’. I told him that she waved to me that way first. He was surprised by this revelation that I wasn’t just being totally nutso, but he accepted it, nonetheless.

I’m hoping they’ll be great folks whom we get to know well and who become friends of ours. Time shall tell.

Do you think they’ll have a big moving truck tomorrow???? Supposedly, they’re coming from an apartment, because they only wanted to buy a house in this area. (Turns out she went to the nearby public high school, so I guess she grew up someone near here.) Anyway, hopefully, I get some more fun intel tomorrow(!).

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Accomplishing things

I got the letters written. I had expected only to do some today, but I sat down again tonight and ended up doing the rest. So, yippee!

There are a few my husband has to do on his own for some of his family members. However, I’ve even gotten his signature on all of the others, so I just need to load the final ones in the morning, once they’re dry, sticker them, and them stamp them all and drop them in the mail.

I am thrilled.

Only three months after the wedding, but they will be a happy surprise for everyone at this point, I hope!

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