North Carolina

Most of you know that I am now living in North Carolina. My husband has been attending Duke for the past few years and still has a few more years to go. We just moved into our new apartment last Sunday and when we got here the electricity was shut off and we couldn't get the people to come out until 2 days after. So we were walking around blinded, tripping over boxes, and taking cold showers for a few days. But once we got the electricity back on I went straight to work, trying to get everything unpacked and organized. I wanted to surprise my husband (still trying to get used to that word "husband") when he got home from a long day of work. I didn't get everything done, but I did get a good amount done and I did have dinner on the table.  He was very pleased- goal achieved.

I am doing an Interior Design program in Asheboro (we live in Carrboro) which is about an hour away from my school. Needless to say I hate the drive, but what I absolutely hate more is the fact that I don't get home until 10:30 at night. Being away from Evan that long is just super annoying, I hate it. But count my many blessings that its only twice a week. The roads here though are crazy insane. There are thousands of  "highways". I miss the one and only I-15  that pretty much got you everywhere you needed to go. So I basically live with my GPS and will live with it for quite some time I'm sure. Another thing is the trees here- there a loads and loads of them. You can't tell if there are living souls off the exits, especially at night. Last week when I was driving home from school the car was on empty and I could not find any gas stations because the trees block EVERYTHING. And every time I did decide to get off an exit there was nothing! I was so terrified that I would run out of gas on who knows what "highway" I was on out in the middle of nowhere, and have some guy with a chainsaw and mask emerge from the trees to come kill me. Note to self: Always have the car full when I make that long trek to school.

Evan was generous to let me use the car every day. He rides his bike to a bus stop and takes the bus the rest of the way, which takes him about an hour each way as well. He leaves at about 8 in the morning and gets home a little pass 6. I am always super anxious to see him by that time. Finally being with him is like a dream. I love every minute of it. He works so hard and is always trying to do better. He is ALWAYS thinking about my wants, needs and feelings. I don't feel like I deserve him sometimes. He is so amazing in every way, I definitely got lucky. I love him so much.

This weekend we decided to do some painting. I love gray and white right now so our bedroom walls we painted gray. The bedding and the decorations are white with a little bit of silver. I LOVE how it turned out. I'm still not finished decorating it yet, I still have a few things I want to hang up on the walls. We also painted our dining room and part of the living room a blue-gray color. At first I was worried about having blue walls, but I realized Evan has a good eye as well and I need to trust him more. The walls turned out great and we just bought a sofa off of Craigslist that went so well with the color. I am so excited to get our apartment done. As a wedding gift my parents bought us a washer and dryer and that arrives Monday. Evan and I just have his old loveseat to sell, and his TV and TV stand to sell and then we're done. Evan is working on building himself a desk in our bedroom with some book shelves. I am very impressed. It is so much fun being married to someone who is as artsy as you are. And he is a lot like me when he thinks of things to do- he gets excited to get it done and gets it done quickly. And I was very impressed that we got our painting done in two days. I don't think any other guy would have had the patience, but him and I had a lot of fun doing it together. It makes me excited to do more projects together in the future because I know he will be happily doing it with me.

Here is a picture of our bedroom

I took the pictures with my phone since I left my camera cord in UT-boo. So the pictures aren't great.

 Here is the new couch with the blue walls. Not bad for a Craigslist couch, eh?

Once I get my camera cord I will post better pictures and I will post some of Evan building his desk.  

I will also make a very anticipated honeymoon post :)