the carolyn saga part...

alright ok FINE katy i'll tell you what's going on in my life!

the reason i've been MIA recently is because i, well, you see, have been, sort of, well the thing is...sigh. i flew to england, moved into a flat in london, went to some interviews, got the flu for two days, went to some more interviews, moved out of my flat in london to ali's brother and sister-in-law's place in reading, spent a week and a half figuring out what ali and i should do with our lives and had one of those michael w. smith moments where we just wanted to find "our place in this world...our PLAAAACE in this world" and got on a plane and flew back to chicago last night.

please, everyone, cut me a break. things went down. life is hard sometimes.

what else do i need to say really? many of you may be thinking..."UH...LOTS more"...but, well, to be quite frank, i don't want to. so, i'm in chicago now, ali's coming soon, and we'll probably be here for a couple of months before we make the next move.

and because i don't feel like talking about the heavy things of life anymore, let's move on to something lighter...twilight series. book 4: breaking dawn. i have a similiar feeling about the twilight series that i have about watching lost...WHY DID I EVER START!?!?!? it sucks you in and when it starts turning rubbish it's too late to go back. i can barely get through a page anymore without spouting out in astonishment and disgust.."really!?!? really stephenie meyer?!? this is the direction you decided to take this series?!? really!?!" anyway. i'll get through it. (confession: i'm still entertained.)

i see london...almost...

so....

tomorrow i'm heading back to chicago. bringing kristin and grant a new car to replace their poor dying toyota, then a couple of days with the chicagoans, and thursday at 6:05 pm i'm flying to london. again. but this time i get to stay. :)

it's crazy how as soon as you leap over one hurdle, you are simply faced with several more hurdles to get past. the morning after ali and i found out about our visa, he lost his job due to this blasted economic crisis, leaving us both with a very blank state as we start this new chapter of our lives! don't get me wrong, i'm all WHOOP WHOOP about the visa, but finding a job, a place to live, and trying to squeeze yourself a space in the world can be kind of scary. i'm already on the look out for people renting rooms from flats and houses in london, and i've applied for about a thousand jobs already (i just want to teach music to little kids! please london, give me a job!) so hopefully things will start falling into place for both of us eventually. at least we can be together!