Well I'm lame...

6 months!!! Holy crap...

Well ok, so my life hasnt been all that interesting in 6 months but I'll try to summarize.

So we've been married for 6 months on April 5th which is in a few weeks and I'm absolutely amazed how the time has flown by on us. We have already done so much together already. We've had a lot of family events, hockey games and tournaments, a trip to Florida and tons of good and bad.

I havent been working since September and I am trying really hard to go crazy. I try to keep busy, some weeks are better than others though. I have read a lot of books, played a lot of Sims and other games and watched a lot of tv.

Hmm what else...well Canada has been good to me most of the time, but some folks havent been so nice. A few interesting stories I may post about later. Mostly its been good, not all that different from the US.

It was interesting though...when we lifted off from Chicago to Toronto way back in October I cried a bit realizing it was gonna be awhile til I was back in the mother land...yet another thing I let go in the course of a few weeks with the wedding, leaving my family and my friends. It was rather bittersweet.

We went to Florida for Christmas and when we crossed the border into Detroit, it was so...exhilarating...for lack of a better word. My in-laws and husband probably didnt notice much of a change in me but I definitely felt it...Canada and the US may be very very similar but there are a lot of differences and it felt so awesome to be HOME even though I wasnt really at home in NoDak.

Christmas was hard...for one, Florida didnt feel like Christmas as there was no big dinner or get together with family, no gifts or tree or Grandma's goodies after. I did call my family and I talked to all 20 of them....I was tearing up a bit with the first 3 people...my grandma, mom and sister...but for some reason, when I got to my aunt Tina, we both just lost it. It was really sad. Florida was fun but I wasnt really there mentally at times.

Since the new year Rumba and I have been working on our health. We've started eating healthier and I've been working on exercise which is my nemesis. We bought DDR which is really fun and gets me off my ass during the day. Since then I've moved onto other exercise videos...we cant afford the gym but for now its working for us.

Not working is really tough. Rumba and I have had some tense moments financially, things are tighter than a drum and I really wish we didnt have this immigration challenge in the first year of our marriage when the first year is hard enough. I feel like our dreams are on hold,....careers, home, babies...I have learned the true power of patience and how much of it I really have. There are day when I feel very hopeless and useless...its unfortunate that this is part of the deal to get me here permanently.

I dont feel like I have many rights as Rumba's wife...which is hard to handle at times when I come to face it. There are so many things I hate about this, but in the end, its a challenge we have to get through and its something I was aware of full on when I decided upon this life. But it will pass soon and it will be much better than it is now.

Anyway, thats my life...it hasnt been that exciting, in fact, quite boring...and normal which I think is a blessing too. We are happy and so in love, despite it all and I couldnt ask for more.