Wow, everything's gone to hell and a hand basket. I don't know anybody who had a good weekend. If you didn't experience the insomnia of endlessly thinking about screaming, terrified children being murdered, there's definitely something wrong with you. I'm a proponent of gun ownership but I'm totally behind practical, real ways to get guns out of the hands of evil people who want to terrorize our population, local and global.
I got my period yesterday and although, let me be honest, I prayed not to be pregnant, and I'm happy I'm not, I'm still totally amazed that we can have awesome sex multiple times during the "fertile" time and never a blip in my scheduled period. Incredible. We're both technically fertile but overwhelmingly not so. The reason I prayed so fervently is that the travel insurance I bought for our trip to Africa next year didn't include a pregnancy clause. Only a pregnancy complication clause. And of course, living solo doesn't make me a great candidate for motherhood.
Speaking of that, good news! My husband got a call today from the "local (hey, where I am) company he applied for and almost got the job but their funding hadn't come through" company and said they want to meet about offering him the job!!!!!!!!! Of course, my husband has salary requirements (who doesn't?) but we are still having a drink this Saturday to celebrate the promising news. We were going to drink anyway since Saturday is the sixth anniversary of our first real date. I call real when he first kissed me. That took work and so I have every right to celebrate my victory in landing this guy!
So, I think ATC and her husband deserve to live together again and if you agree please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PRAY for us! I'd really like to have him back. That'd be very nice. I always have big things happen to me in January so this feels right.
I kept meaning to write about this but I started running back in August and it felt great until the start of fall but now it feels like maintenance. I can comfortably run a 5K at a nine minute mile pace. I think that's OK. I should have run tonight but I'm on my period, eating nothing but high fat foods, and lots of chocolate so screw it. Screw it for a week or two.
More news to come....
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Every Day Matters
This was a big week for me. On Monday, I went back to a "regular" work schedule, the one where I don't get two days off per month by working an extra hour every day. I had just switched to that schedule in August when my husband left for his new job. I realized working longer hours just for the sake of it (meaning, I didn't have pressing tasks that were keeping me at the office at night) didn't work for me at all. Because that extra hour a day means a great deal to me. I can exercise at a decent hour, eat dinner at the right time, sleep a little longer in the morning. You now know how important sleep is to me.
Besides, if I need a day off to do something special, I'll take a day off. Easy.
Tuesday night, my husband and I wasted over an hour arguing about stupid stuff on the phone. And it was a total waste of time. I've had a lot of "rock bottoms" lately but this one was pretty significant. I felt horrible afterwards. And angry. I journaled in handwriting on paper (really!) about how unhappy I was and how deprived I felt in this marriage. I even spent some amount of time on Wednesday reading an article on my bank website called "Thinking About Calling It Quits With Your Spouse?"
After getting through the article and especially reading some of the comments members had left, I was convinced a marital split would compound my existing problems, not make them any better. So praise God for some of those members who said divorce wasn't worth it and to stick it out. And God turned my heart around on Wednesday. I gave thanks to have a view of marriage that isn't all about me and my fulfillment despite subconscious and cultural beliefs that reinforce that idea. And the pull is strong.
I made a very conscious effort Thursday morning to find ways to cope. Healthy ways to live my life honorably and to do the best I could with the life I'd been given. Yes, this sounds sappy but I can't give a better description. And I'm the first to say that infertility and separation are very hard to cope with. I'm living proof. But, I know that some people at my church are dealing with much harder things. For example, I have a friend whose husband just left her. He lives in the same town and they talk all the time. He doesn't make any move towards divorce but she was left nevertheless. I know this is very painful for her. But she is a faithful woman who spends a lot of time in prayer to give her husband a heart to love Jesus.
And I realized that my choices were for no one else to judge. I'm not living a perceived archetype. My husband went to a Christmas party last night with his parents. He's known this family (the party hosts) for a very long time and ran into one of the sisters he had a big crush on when they were younger. He said she said, "it must be so great to be back with your parents. Your mom must be so happy."
I resolved not to get upset while he told the story. Because I'd done that already and what's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. So, I listened. Then he said he was talking to the matriarch and told her I had applied for a job and got pretty close to getting it but no cigar. She said, "Well, it's important to be near your husband and she might just have to take anything." :)
Ok, so I got a little upset at that. Because my husband, when he was looking for a job, wouldn't accept just anything. He was looking for something that matched his experience, his education, and his ambition. So, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? I'm not leaving my job that is going so great and interrupt an upward career trajectory. And that's what we're committed to.
My husband remind me that these people are simple (his word) and none of the women in the family work. So, respecting a career woman is not on their radar. I should mention the Crush said in response to hearing we can't get pregnant, "You can always adopt." So their empathy track record is not so good.
I told my husband that I didn't expect to be counter-culture. I was going to get married, have kids, work, but my husband's job would always be more important, etc. You know, what the culture expects of you. But, now we're working against the system and it takes wisdom (that I don't think I have yet) to live your life and not always argue with the people who want to gossip about you or try to subtly bring you down. This is going to take work.
Besides, if I need a day off to do something special, I'll take a day off. Easy.
Tuesday night, my husband and I wasted over an hour arguing about stupid stuff on the phone. And it was a total waste of time. I've had a lot of "rock bottoms" lately but this one was pretty significant. I felt horrible afterwards. And angry. I journaled in handwriting on paper (really!) about how unhappy I was and how deprived I felt in this marriage. I even spent some amount of time on Wednesday reading an article on my bank website called "Thinking About Calling It Quits With Your Spouse?"
After getting through the article and especially reading some of the comments members had left, I was convinced a marital split would compound my existing problems, not make them any better. So praise God for some of those members who said divorce wasn't worth it and to stick it out. And God turned my heart around on Wednesday. I gave thanks to have a view of marriage that isn't all about me and my fulfillment despite subconscious and cultural beliefs that reinforce that idea. And the pull is strong.
I made a very conscious effort Thursday morning to find ways to cope. Healthy ways to live my life honorably and to do the best I could with the life I'd been given. Yes, this sounds sappy but I can't give a better description. And I'm the first to say that infertility and separation are very hard to cope with. I'm living proof. But, I know that some people at my church are dealing with much harder things. For example, I have a friend whose husband just left her. He lives in the same town and they talk all the time. He doesn't make any move towards divorce but she was left nevertheless. I know this is very painful for her. But she is a faithful woman who spends a lot of time in prayer to give her husband a heart to love Jesus.
And I realized that my choices were for no one else to judge. I'm not living a perceived archetype. My husband went to a Christmas party last night with his parents. He's known this family (the party hosts) for a very long time and ran into one of the sisters he had a big crush on when they were younger. He said she said, "it must be so great to be back with your parents. Your mom must be so happy."
I resolved not to get upset while he told the story. Because I'd done that already and what's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. So, I listened. Then he said he was talking to the matriarch and told her I had applied for a job and got pretty close to getting it but no cigar. She said, "Well, it's important to be near your husband and she might just have to take anything." :)
Ok, so I got a little upset at that. Because my husband, when he was looking for a job, wouldn't accept just anything. He was looking for something that matched his experience, his education, and his ambition. So, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? I'm not leaving my job that is going so great and interrupt an upward career trajectory. And that's what we're committed to.
My husband remind me that these people are simple (his word) and none of the women in the family work. So, respecting a career woman is not on their radar. I should mention the Crush said in response to hearing we can't get pregnant, "You can always adopt." So their empathy track record is not so good.
I told my husband that I didn't expect to be counter-culture. I was going to get married, have kids, work, but my husband's job would always be more important, etc. You know, what the culture expects of you. But, now we're working against the system and it takes wisdom (that I don't think I have yet) to live your life and not always argue with the people who want to gossip about you or try to subtly bring you down. This is going to take work.
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