"Home is wherever I'm with you"

Does anyone else hate new years resolutions? I truly hate them. I think they are the lamest excuse for people to brag about doing great for a month and then they are forgotten or mutilated beyond recognition. Why can't you eat better and lose weight in December? Or August? What made you fat in May will still be making you fat in January. Same with whatever made you procrastinate, or flake out, or just be damn lazy. You are not suddenly full of more willpower and energy in January. I don't hate resolutions, or comments like, 'I've decided I'm going to be better about eating or working out or writing more' ad naseum. But when it's chalked up to new year's resolutions, it makes me angry. I can't fully explain why but... I just wanted to put it out there. I'm a new year's resolution scrooge. :)

Anywho, I've obviously been doing poorly with writing about what we're up to out here, but I've been doing great with my reading. Powering through books of all different genres. It's been... really refreshing. And I've also been doing great with studying my German. I need more practice putting thoughts together, but I'm retaining a lot and actually feeling able to speak clearly. Watching some of these travel shows, namely The Layover, it astounds me how crippled the US is by the lack of bilingualism (or more). Ed wants to learn Korean and I'm interested in Swedish and Italian. How exciting would that be?

I wish I had more to write about on here. I had wanted to keep everyone updated on our lives out here, but we've been keeping a low profile. I don't mean that in a bad way, it's very calm and simple, I cook a lot (which I love and it's fun) and have my routines. I just wanted to check in this time and write something to let everyone know that much like all the other people returning thanks to new year's resolutions, I had not forgotten about this blog... just haven't had much to write about.

This is all about to change! Well, at least change a little in the next month or two. We've signed up for a survival class. Yes, I know this will be hilarious but if I don't get a good blog post out of that then clearly somethings not clicking. We also signed up for a beekeeping class :) Ed is quite excited about that and it definitely plays into out future plans of a farm life. Also I'm going home for a visit! Jan 18th thru the 25th I'll be on a whirlwind visit to MD to get a new license, plan this damn wedding and run many other errands along with visiting with friends and family. Ed will only be there for the weekend, so it'll be quite a madhouse of a visit. I'm just so excited to go visit. So excited to see people and get things done. I even get to pick up my wedding dress :) There's tons to talk about in the coming weeks and even a couple days. Joe said he'll have my save the dates ready to preview in the next few days and sent out this month. I'm pretty psyched. Yay Joe!!

So. All in all. I'm not dead. Things are good and are going to get even more amazing and I cannot wait to tell everyone about it. Thanks for sticking with me :)