Julie the Newly(wed): Hello, world.

It's been a while.

With a full-time job and full-time school, it's hard to find time for the things I enjoy.

I will be making time, however.

I love and need my "me" time.

Listening to Ray Lamontagne.

I love him.

My sister and her boyfriend just left.

They are in town, so they came over for lunch with me.

Jamie was supposed to be here, but he ended up having to work last minute.

Long story short, he was the only guy who could cover his old position, because the guy's grandma died.

Which I completely understood, and my sis did too.

So, it was just the three of us, and the furry children.

We had Crispy Cracker Chicken, Rice, and Fresh Cooked Carrots.

It was delicious.

We followed it up with some tea.

Yum.

Speaking of furry children, one has been indiferent to Jamie and I starting back to school:

I kind of think she enjoys it, she gets to lounge on the bed more, which doesn't happen when we are home.

This furry child, however:

Has been a holy terror.

She is doing things she never used to do, and doing things that she has been broken of for months.

Like pottying in the house. She peed multiple times on the blanket Jamie's mom made us for our wedding. She hadn't peed in the house in 8 months. She has also been pooping in the house, which we had her completely broken of.

We had been able to leave her out of her crate almost all of the time, and now we have to crate her even if we leave for just a few hours.

She digs in the trash, and gets it everywhere, which she has NEVER done before, and steals my underwear, even the clean ones, and tries to hide them in her cage.

She also nipped at my sister today, which is another completely new thing.

I am at wits end with her.

We still love her, and I feel guilty that she doesn't like us being gone, but there is nothing we can do about it, and she can't keep behaving like this.

Uggh. Children.

It has been a weird week altogether.

These randomly appeared:

Along with a bruise on my neck.

I know I am clumsy, and run into things, but this is ridiculous. And I don't remember where I got any of them.

Weird.

Jamie says I am like a bull in a china shop. He laughs at me when I run into stuff.

But I know he thinks it's cute.

I just wish I didn't bruise so easily.

I recently discovered that I really needed new work/school clothes. We have to dress up when we do field work, and I am quickly running out of clothes. So, my awesome husband took me shopping.

I got all of this: