:: Brinna's ::

:: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 ::
:: it's been awhile ::

Hello all...
I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. Right now I'm sitting in an extended stay place's room, it has internet. I don't have a lot of opportunity to get on, though.

Let's see, what's happened since I've written...well, Andrew's back!! That's great. We had a tough time at first..even though we were staying at his grandparents' house, who are really nice, I was sick the first couple days he was back, and the next day he got sick with something else. Then we were on the road, with all the stress that comes with it. But, we're fine now. We stopped to visit the Goodriches, Andrew's best friend from when we lived in Monterey. He's now a car salesman, so Andrew went down to the lot and came back with a new car. It's used, but still really nice. It's a Subaru Outback station wagon. The insurance isn't much more than our current car, and it's got full coverage. It is nice to have two cars.

After we visited them, we stayed at my mom's house about a week. We spent some time with Britt, my best friend in Colorado, and went to church, where the pastor had the best message I'd ever heard out of him.

My sister has a job now, at a gas station. She was getting framed and ripped off by the assistant manager, and he recently got fired, and she's getting her money returned to her. I think lots of people must have been praying for her, I know I did, because rarely do those situations work out so well.

We headed to Andrew's folks next, in Virginia. We saw Debbie graduate from high school, and visited the Lees, who are Andrew's old employers and really nice, and saw Chris. He's doing pretty well. We saw Zach and James in Richmond, who aren't doing that well, really.

Then we headed to Savannah, our new home. We saw the house we'd been talking about, and under Andrew's more experienced eye, it failed. It wasn't that much worse than I thought, but the fact that just about everything that had been done was left unfinished, and that we'd gotten a new car, we don't have the time or the money to do it anymore. That and Andrew felt uneasy in the house, and when we looked at the foundation it looked like a bunch of ashes, so for all we know someone died when the previous house burned down.

We were looking at a house Andrew liked, with an ok house and a good yard with storage houses, but that turned out to be under contract, so we're looking at a house I liked, that's still in a pretty good neighborhood and has a better house with more room for improvement, and a decent yard. It also has a pretty nice above-ground pool, which we're not sure we'll like, but we'll try it for a bit if we get the house. We put an offer in last night and they have to respond by tonight.

Probably other things have happened, but I'm not sure what they are...other than things you don't want to hear, like, I finally got my period back, after 11 months. I haven't had one in almost 2 years. :)

:: Brinna 7:17 AM [+] ::
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