June

Holy cow its the last day in June...that means next month is ....JULY!!! I don't know whether to feel excited or extremely nervous...maybe I'll just go with both! I can't believe how quickly it came up, and how much I still have left to do! On top of that we have our big move the Monday after the wedding! I'm super nervous/excited about that!!! Its a 12 hour drive (booooo!!) but we're splitting it up into 2 days..there's no way I could have driven 12 hours straight through!!
I'm excited to see our new townhouse and nervous at the same time, its really hard to go by pictures to get a size idea..it looks pretty spacious in the pictures..hopefully its that way in real life! We just got our electric company picked out last night so we will have electricity/air conditioning when we get there. (yay!) I also have a job interview already lined up which is awesome! I've been filling out petsmart applications online and got a call for a grooming/pet stylist the other day and the manger was super nice and understanding about us not being there yet and wants me to call her when we get down there, so hopefully I get a job with them!
Speaking of jobs, after job hunting ALL summer I finally got a job; go figure its when we have 3 weeks left until we move..but money is money. I'm really bummed because I LOVE this job!! I got a job at Petco as a grooming assistant and get to give doggies baths all day and brush them out :) Its soo much fun! Especially because there are tons of cutie pie dogs that come in :D Yesterday was my first day and I mostly just helped some and stood around and watched, but today I get to wash the dogs by myself so it should be more fun today!! Yay!! Now if only I can figure out when to tell them that I'm leaving haha..I feel so bad only being there for 3 weeks because everyone there is SUPER nice!
And poor Danny..I feel so bad for him, he is working 70-80 hours a week trying to get more money (rental trucks to drive to texas are expensive!!) I can tell he is just so overworked and so over stressed :( Our honeymoon will definitely be well needed!! Although I am sure we are just going to want to sleep the whole time!! I'm still super excited though!! At the same time I'm sad to be leaving Iowa..we won't know ANYONE..well at least I won't. Danny has his grad school friends, but all my friends are back in Iowa :( Hopefully I make friends there fast otherwise I will be really lonely!!
I kind of wonder how it will all feel after this is all over with the wedding and the move..if it will just feel like I have nothing to do with my life anymore because this has been my life for the past year! I can't remember my life without an overwhelming amount of stress in it haha. I guess we will see soon!!! 18 more days!!!

Its official!!!

Danny and I signed our lease on our first home together today!!! I have so many emotions going through me right now!! On the one hand I am beyond thrilled that we FINALLY have a place to live!! For a while I was seriously thinking that we were going to end up living in a big cardboard box!! On the other hand I'm nervous about moving to a place we haven't physically been able to go and look at aside from pictures and reading reviews. I feel so relieved that this whole process is over..no more spending hours of apartment hunting everyday..its done! I am so excited as well to be starting out on this new adventure, moving to a new home, seeing and doing new things, just everything that comes along with moving to a new place out of your comfort zone! Then I also feel elated that this places is ours..not juts mine..or his..or our parents house..its ours together, and whats even more exciting is that when we move into our new home I will be moving in as Mrs. Laura Goodding...a wife...no longer a girlfriend of 5 years! That feels so good just reading that..I can't imagine how much better it will be when its a reality!
So that leaves me with 4+ hands of different emotions haha most than I can possibly contain in myself! I've caught myself several times today thinking or talking to someone about the plans after the wedding and realize 'hey! we are actually moving down there..we have a home waiting for us to move into, not just a theoretical place that we have yet to have found!' We are one step closer to starting the rest of our lives together!!