Today feels like the real start to 2010. It's Monday. The day when new year's resolutions can really begin (so if like me you skipped the gym and ate potato chips for the past three days, it really doesn't matter.) I am battling a cold but will not let that stop me from getting lists, items and spreadsheets organized, both business and personal, today.
2010 is a BIG year for Elise and Paul. Our biggest yet by far. January is already underway. Paul started his four week medicine rotation this morning. I am working on working and taking a quick trip to Vegas with my college girlfriends in twelve days. Paul will spend February in Washington state for an ER rotation. I will be here in DC except for a week in Sacramento for a bridal shower. And then March is where everything hits the fan. Paul will be back here on a surgery rotation and we have 28 days to pack up our apartment, say adios to the east coast, sell my car and try to keep our heads on straight. The month of April will fly. We are both going to be back in California : Paul will be rotating in Travis and I will be tying up wedding loose ends.
We marry on April 24, 2010 and then spend a glorious week in Bora Bora.
AND THEN, it's back in action. Paul flies out to Maryland for two weeks to prep for graduation. I stay in CA, go to my brother's college graduation and then fly overnight to be back in Maryland for Paul's graduation ceremony on May 15. After that, we hop BACK across the country to San Diego to find an apartment. I am hoping that somewhere around May 25, 2010 we are moved and settled and still very much in love.
It hurts just to type it all out. Especially right now through sniffles and a sore throat. But I had a great realization on Saturday after our 14 hour travel day that involved lost baggage : My ATTITUDE through these next five months is the only thing I have control over. I don't know if the military is going to store our stuff while we settle our plans. I do know it will be freezing cold during my month in February. I don't know what I am going to do these next few months to stay creative and active with the shop. I do know that our wedding will go off with at least 17 hitches.
But most importantly, I understand that if I take each event and inevitable hiccup in stride and JUST DEAL WITH IT POSITIVELY then Paul will too and we'll not only get through these months, but enjoy these months. (I realize that this sounds like something right out of a self help book. No worries though – this might just work.)
2010, you are a beast. You are anything but boring. But we are ready for you. Me, P and my box of Kleenex.
enJOY it 
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