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Snapshots :: Final Moving Day + Weekend #2

07.30.2012 by Vanessa //

Saturday was our last night in our apartment together, and we were both sad and anxious. We spent the night doing one of our favorites – watching movies. This time though we had to cuddle it up on a single mattress on the floor, and watch the movies off my laptop. Only our second weekend together after Brian’s move, but it already seems like it’s been longer than that. As you can see above, I got our “at least one picture of us.” I didn’t get one for weekend #1, but I’ll count this picture as its equivalent.

Sunday was our final moving day, and this time it was just us two moving things, no helpers. After we finished with our last load at the storage unit, Brian took me for ice cream at MaggieMoo’s. It was really sweet of him, and he doesn’t usually eat sweets, but he helped me tear that ice cream up! Delicious!

Seeing the apartment all cleared out was crazy. I got a little teary-eyed looking at it, and then the dam really broke after Brian left that night.

My new room is currently a disaster. I’m going from having an entire apartment (with two bedrooms and a large walk-in closet) with just me and Brian, to a single bedroom to cram all my things into. We put all the big things in storage, but there is still stuff all over the place, and nowhere to put them. I don’t have a desk right now either, which is really frustrating. Hopefully I will figure out a new organization system soon, but what I want even more than that is for us to save up tons of money quickly so that I can be with Brian, and we can have our own home together again.

This morning was my first day commuting from my new, temporary home, but I missed the last a.m. TTA bus, so I made the 30 minute drive into town and then caught the Wolfline bus to campus. Once I made it to campus I had to go to our warehouse over in Avent Ferry to bundle stacks of Computing@ publications, which is kind of a pain, but I really liked working somewhere other than the office today.

This post is a part of ‘Weekenders’ (our weekend adventures together until we are reunited hopefully in our first house), a temporary series on this blog. Find all ‘Weekenders’ posts here.

One Fine Day

07.14.2012 by Vanessa //

Today was a really great day. For some reason I kept thinking today was Sunday, but every time I remembered it was Saturday I just felt relieved. Brian and I spent the whole day just spending some quality time together, and we also got our storage unit locked down. Thanks to my hook-up we got a really great discount on it.

Brian and I are family, and I’m excited about this new chapter. He deserves so much better than the job and most of the people he’s had to put up with the past several years. We are moving on to better things, and Brian is one of the best people I know. I am truly fortunate to have him. Can you tell how much I am going to miss my man?

This post is a part of ‘Weekenders’ (our weekend adventures together until we are reunited hopefully in our first house), a temporary series on this blog. Find all ‘Weekenders’ posts here.

The Move

07.13.2012 by Vanessa //

This is just a repeat of the announcement I posted to our wedding blog. Although slightly different, I don’t usually like to duplicate posts, but our wedding website will be archived eventually, and I just wanted to let folks know about the big change that is about to happen.

I wanted to post an update about our mission to become homeowners in case anyone was still checking the website. We also pledged that we would keep everyone updated, and we are going to hold ourselves to that promise.

We have already been blessed with so much, including the fact that we are both working in this economy, but our biggest dream is to become homeowners. Any amount that you donate will go into a fund we specifically created to go towards a down payment on our first home. After the wedding, we pledge to update our wedding blog for all those who have helped us. We will post news about our search, and eventually photos of our new home. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

In July, Brian will be moving to Winston-Salem for a new position and to stay with family. I (Vanessa) will be maintaining my job in Raleigh while staying in Chapel Hill with family. We want to be together in Winston-Salem, but because of my individual financial responsibilities it isn’t possible for me to leave my job right now. We anticipate we will be apart for about a year, and plan to see each other every weekend. It takes so much generosity, support and kindness to donate to such a cause. We were truly fortunate for every single donation and wedding gift we received to go towards our first home. While we raised a great amount we still have a very long way to go, especially due to other financial responsibilities that make it seem as if we are taking one step forward and three steps back. We are continuing to add to our fund, never withdrawing from it, and we have come to a very difficult decision together that we hope will expedite our efforts to save money.

This has been a difficult decision for us to make, but by making these sacrifices now it will make it so much faster to save money. The faster we are able to save up enough money, the sooner we will be able to reunite as a family in our future home.

We truly appreciate your love and support!

We are finishing moving Brian out this weekend. It still hasn’t all hit me yet, but I have been feeling small bouts of sadness as I pack up our current apartment. I am going to miss Brian so much, and I can’t wait for that day when we close on our first home.

This post is a part of ‘Our Wedding’ (we were married May 19, 2012) and ‘Weekenders’ (our weekend adventures together until we are reunited hopefully in our first house), two temporary series on this blog. Find all ‘Our Wedding’ posts here, and all ‘Weekenders’ posts here.

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