Update in Fiddling with my new set of keys.

up·date (p-dt) tr.v. up·dat·ed, up·dat·ing, up·dates To bring up to date

Hi. I lurk all of you SO HARD, but I have such a hard time writing these days.

I don't even know where I left off, but let's do an itemized list just for funsies.

1. I got engaged in April

2. I applied for jobs in my new town and got one, 5th grade.

3. I finished the school year in June and worked two weeks of summer school.

4. Jared and I hunted for a house to rent.
5. We found one and moved. We were in this new house August 1st
6. I started school. 6a. I HATED, LOATHED, DESPISED, my new school. 6b. I almost had a complete nervous breakdown about my new job. (Spoiler alert: It's gotten [slightly] better)
7. We got engagement pictures made! (SO FUN!)
8. Um, Thanksgiving at his step-mom and dad's house and here we are!

Work sucks, but things have settled down some and I don't want to change careers anymore. Things aren't awesome for North Carolina teachers right now as it is, so to work at a really challenging school is extra tough. I love my class, though, and Jared is my rock. He has been absolutely amazing throughout this transition.

I'm so very utterly, undoubtedly, and blissfully happy with him. I have never had this support, this absolute sense of "we're a team," or this feeling of peacefulness and content in my love life. It's always good. Always. I've normally been in such hard relationships. Relationships where I'd think about jumping ship quite often. This is sinfully good. It's not always easy, but it's easier than I want to admit to people. It isn't always easy, of course. But we talk (a lot) and we compromise (a lot) and we work together to solve problems (a lot) and we come together and laugh (a lot). We laugh and laugh and laugh. We dance in the kitchen, we cuddle the dogs, we run through the house chasing each other, we.lie in bed and play phone games with legs intertwined, we are happy. It's these moments that make me wonder what I did to get so lucky. I'd do anything in the world to make this man happy because I am happier than I have ever been in my life.

We are getting married next October, the 17th to be exact 10-17-14. It is a Friday. We're running away, "eloping." We will come home and have a big party in November with cake, lots of good eats, booze, music, a photographer and the people we love. It's perfect for us. Not everyone is happy about this plan, but it's what is going to happen. I've found that planning a wedding makes me break out in cold sweats. It isn't my thing. I'm pretty much giving my future mother-in-law (One of them. I will have two) the reins to handle the party. I trust her and she's in her element with this sort of thing. My requirements are what is listed above. I could care less about colors, flowers, linens, blah, blah, blah.

We are mulling over having a kid. Discussing. It isn't off the table for me as completely as it was two years ago. I am 32, so the decision shouldn't be put off for too long.

It's been a year, October, since Jared's stroke. It really scares me sometimes. I'd be completely lost without him. He is probably 95% recovered, I say 95% because he has some weird numbness in the bottom of his right foot. He sees his doctor every couple of months. They think it was a freak thing that happened because of the Chantix he was taking (a quit smoking drug) and the migraines he has. Every time he gets a migraine, which is often (sadly enough), I still freak out. He's healthy, otherwise. He has perfect blood pressure and great cholesterol. It's still scary, though.

I have nothing else for you. I'd like to start writing about day-to-day instead of these huge life updates.

Right now things:

1. I'm obsessed right now with the show Scandal. I've watched almost two seasons in about 2 weeks. So obsessed that I want to quit my job and work for Olivia Pope or work in Washington, DC. ;)

2. I can't make a strong enough cup of coffee with my Keurig, any advice?

3. I'm so behind in the music scene, anything I need to hear?