because I’ve got a lot to do before April…

An email to my girlfriends in my accountability group (totally love them to pieces).  Included here for posterity’s sake:

I thought I would email you all prior to us getting together tomorrow night because its been a big couple of weeks in my neck of the woods, and this will keep me from talking too much tomorrow (assuming we are meeting?).  Also, you all know at least some of this information and some of you know more than others, etc., so this way we’re all on level playing ground and you guys don’t have to fight about who knows me best.
 
In my favorite fashion (bulleted):

• We bought a new house.  Duh.  Its closer to [church] and Husband’s work and [yours and my favorite mexican restaurant].  Pending any major life changes that we aren’t planning (i.e. the unwelcome ones), it will be the house that we live in until we are too old to live in a house with stairs and trade it down for a cozy ranch.  We close at the end of May and our [current] house should be listed officially as of tomorrow.  Send all of your house-shopping friends our way.
• I had another miscarriage.  A couple of weeks ago.  Right before I stayed at the [family I house-sat for] - probably explains some of my attitude problem.  I was between 8-9 weeks pregnant, which made the whole ordeal much more physically difficult – we’ll leave it at that to spare you all the graphic details.  We didn’t really tell people I was pregnant, and we haven’t really told people I miscarried (to include my parents and sister, but not to include Husband’s family due to some unfortunate circumstances at [nephew's] birthday party – where my gift was the favorite gift).  We don’t know what our next steps are and we don’t really want people asking, so you guys can feel free to pray, but not to ask.  I mean we’re real friends if I can boss you around like that, right?
• I got a job.  I’m going to be working at [company name] (with [girl we all know] and [other girl we all know]).  Its party-time (er, part-time) and will be 20-25 hours a week.  I’ll be printing forms off of the computer, sticking those little stickers that say “sign here” or “initial here” on the forms, packing them in a UPS bag/envelope and then printing a UPS label.  Its the kind of job a monkey could do – exactly what I was looking for.  And by looking, I mean thinking about it for a few days and then it kind of fell in my lap.
• And most importantly of all…I got a new purse.  See 2008 really is great.

Peace, love and queso dip.
 
Mouse