Its an interesting time in my life right now. So many new and crazy things are happening. Its funny to look back on my life four years ago and think of all the goals and dreams I had and its amazing to realize that so many of them I have actually achieved, and so many of those dreams have come true. 

I am going to be married in exactly 25 days and its exciting and bittersweet at the same time. As I go to bed in my room every night it makes me kind of emotional to think that these are the last nights that I am spending in my house. My dad will never wake me up with his recitations of looooong russian poems, we will never have morning devotionals and breakfast together again, I won’t have to get annoyed by my mum vacuuming at 8 in the morning on a sunday, my dad will never again surprise me by making my bed for me after I leave, I won’t be able to bug my brother on those nights that I can’t sleep, we will never again annoy my parents by discussing “life” at three o’clock in the morning with our loudspeaker voices, I’ll never get mad at my dad stealing my shampoo again because he secretly like Frederick Fekkai, I’ll never….

And yet at the same time I can’t wait to be able to wake up next to the love of my life every morning, I can’t wait to get ready with him, to eat breakfast with him, I can’t wait to say goodnight in person instead of over the phone, I can’t wait for our first christmas, our first easter, our first everything!!

I will also be working full-time for the first time in my life. I have never gotten benefits, a salary, and all the other things with having a real, adult job. I am happy because I prayed not to get just any job (even though I would have taken it due to our situation) but for a job that I would find fulfilling and would love. This job will do just that, I hope. Its in the area that I know and like best and I think it will be the best use of my “talents” so to speak. But its just crazy to think that I won’t be going back to school this fall. Its kind of sad to think that I won’t be buying “school clothes” which any girl knows is just an excuse for extra clothes money, I won’t be scouring target for notebooks and pens in my usual fashion because I like to wait two days before school to do that, there won’t be that first day excitement in the air that comes from the anticipation of meeting new people, but hopefully one day I will return :).

Also another minor detail, I am getting a D-O-G! I’ve only had a dog once before and it was bought with four beer bottles from a homeless man my parents found in russia. You see we had been robbed the day before and my dad felt it was absolutely necessary to have a dog. Everyone knew this semi-homeless that lived a few blocks from us who had close to three dozen dogs in his house, so my parents thought whats the big deal he’ll just give us one. Wrong. He started crying and saying that he loved his dogs and couldn’t part with them and yet when presented with four bottles of good ol’ russian beer the parting became easier. Well, to cut the long story short my dad decided that keeping a dog on a leash was inhumane and that he should have a little walk… he never came back from the walk. This time however I am getting a dog from a reputable breeder, its an inside dog, and I can’t wait to love it with all my heart. 

So there are a lot of changes on the horizon for me and as always the adventurer in me is extremely excited and the sentimental in me is sad.