A month and a half later...

I posted again!
Starting a blog a month and a half before graduating may not have been the best idea. Blogging sort of (okay, completely) took a back seat to, oh I don't know... term papers, my thesis, group projects, final exams, getting an apartment, getting engaged, wrapping up my THREE jobs (and starting a new one!), moving and of course GRADUATING.

Whew. That was a lot. Maybe I should slow it down some and take this step by step.

Engagement bling.

1. I graduated! Whoo! No big deal, just completed four years of study and two majors, AND get to stop giving all my parents' and my money to the school (well, except for my student loans). A friend (who still has a semester left before graduating) asked me what it's like to have graduated, and the best analogy I've come up with is this: it's like getting in bed after a really long day. You've been working and studying and whatevering for fourteen hours (or four years, or more) and you finally get to just rest... but you know you have to wake up and face another day soon. Yeah, now I have a "real life" and a job and all that, but I'm still enjoying "yesterday" (college) being over.
2. Soooo I got engaged. :) That's pretty cool. It's not like it was unexpected; the Big D (that's what my brothers call him) and I have been talking about marriage for about two years. But I'd been getting more and more antsy about it (to the point of even saying that if he hadn't proposed by the end of the year, I was going to propose for him and he'd better not say no!) and couldn't stop bugging him about rings, and bling, and proposals, and locations, and everything... It happened on the first. We walked into our new apartment (more on that later) for the first time. I was busy checking out the bathroom (our tub is huge!), the closet, the other closet, the OTHER closets (there are a lot of closets). Then Dave stopped me and turned me to face him. "Meg, we're starting our lives together," he said, "and as such--" "YES!" I didn't even let him ask the question, I just said yesyesyes and kissed him a lot. (Like you do.) I did eventually calm down and make him ask the question-- "Will you marry me?" And I got this sweet "engagement bling" that is really just perfect for me (I'm a huge Harry Potter nerd).
3. And yeah, the apartment. It's pretty self-explanatory, we got an apartment and with it, free furniture (we scavenged TWO free futons during move-out) and lots of bills. Since I'm the one with the real job and the savings account, I'll be paying the rent and bills for a while, and Dave'll catch up once he has regular income. It's pretty nice, and I'm excited to get to decorate--maybe there will be pictures! Who knows!
4. Finally, my job. My REAL job. I wrapped up editing for the school paper, working in the bookstore, and being a Resident Advisor (all that on top of being a student--it was tough!) and started doing some contracting with my company so that I could learn what exactly I'll be doing for the next 18 months plus. I start full-time on Monday, but I worked full days this week so it won't be that much of a switch. My job is copy editing for tax software, and it's about as interesting as it sounds, so hopefully this old guy will be a way for me to at least pretend I have a creative outlet.

That's enough of that. If I talk too much today, I might not post again for another month and a half!