The past week has been all about me and Mark!! It's been very fun! Barb has been gone and Mark and I have been concentrating on 2 things, wedding planning and getting him ready to move. The moving part started Wednesday night when we began by sorting through his spare room. We decided that since we planned to move into a 1 bedroom apartment, we should try and consolidate as much as possible.
Wednesday night led into all day Saturday. After my long run, breakfast, a quick shower and picking up boxes, we were at his place by 1pm and he started with continuing to sort through his school/work things, while I moved through the rest of the house. We worked HARD all day long!! After a couple trips to the garbage and 8 bags for Good Will, we finally left just before 10pm to grab a quick bite at Chili's before calling it a night. We were both dead tired!!
Today we did our traditional Noah's Bagel breakfast and church and then to Walgreen's to drop off a prescription refill, then back to my place (I had forgotten to put my ring back on after putting on lotion this morning :( then over to the new apartments Mark is moving into. It's very fun to be looking at OUR place and making decisions together!
After going through Mark's stuff, it was determined that even though we want to be aggressive about living minimal to pay off debt, perhaps we should at least consider a 2 bedroom, if it was available. It was and after looking through the 1 and 2 bedroom places, several times, we decided to pick size over view and snagged the 2 bedroom. We're both a little sad about the added expense and lack of something nice to see out the windows (parking lot), but think it's far more realistic for our life.
We then went to the offices at Mark's place to finalize the details for moving out, grabbed some pizza, my prescription refill, and headed back to my place for lunch and watching a moving and procrastinating before cleaning a little. And yes, WE cleaned my house :) Mark is very sweet and indulges my hatred for vacuuming. He did that while I cleaned the bathroom.
The sermon this morning at Sunset Pres was awesome!! If you didn't make it, or are curious, you can click on the link and then click on the 'Sunset Podcast' icon on the home page. The sermon was, "Life's Too Short To be Envious". I'm not sure how many others have struggled with this, but I sure have!! As we left church, I told Mark that I should have heard this sermon before we got engaged because I definitely wanted to be engaged to him bad enough that I felt envious of everyone who already was engaged or married. To the point where I had difficulty being "normal" with some of my friends because I was so sad for myself.
That's exactly how Ron described envy = being sad for ourselves over someone else's happiness.
Wanting to get married wasn't the only thing I was/am envious of. Ron also mentioned others' talents. I had a friend who I used to be so jealous of her God-given gifts and abilities and how she was able to serve others with them, that I almost had trouble liking her!
One of the points Ron mentioned for helping us get over our envious feelings, is to appreciate God's sovereignty. I think this is what is helping me right now. This is truly, for me, the answer to not being envious! Although it's hard when you are in a situation that doesn't seem like you are doing anything and others are doing so much. But I guess that's the trust part. And life goes up and down so much that even if you are up, you'll be down again some time. It's nothing to get depressed about, but to recognize and appreciate. Right now I'm UP!! And very much appreciate that!!
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No doubt, the thinning/sorting of items for the new apartment must be hard work. It must be SO MUCH FUN to sort through his stuff and hear the stories behind the various things, though. What a great way to continue getting to know more and more about each other!
Window views the parking lot? You could put up a decorative screen that lets in light, but blocks the view. Our apartment window use to overlook the garbage dumpster. We found a pretty stained glass window at an antique store and hung it inside the window frame. Having two bedrooms will be worth the less scenic view!
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