the married life...

Here, I am, after long months of neglect to my blog. I'm still alive (at least one could assume that since I'm typing now...), and things are going well at home. Settling in to the new house together, and everyone is getting used to each other. The dogs actually get along now (before they fought constantly), and the cat... well, he stays upstairs. HE does NOT like Cody (Nick's dog). Well, the feeling is quite mutual, I'm afraid. Well, the dog might like the cat as in thinking it is FOOD -- She already tried to eat the cat for dinner (on Thanksgiving Day), and the cat hid for four hours.

Since then, the cat has stayed almost exclusively upstairs, although he came downstairs on Christmas Day when he thought the dog *might* be gone. The dog was sleeping, it learned very quickly, when it meowed, which woke Cody up. I have rarely seen a cat move that fast. I read a description of a cat somewhere, in which it had a bottlebrush tail, and that is exactly what Cartman had -- a huge, bushy bottle brush tail, sticking out behind him as he shot up the stairs.

Nick is spoiling me -- he won't let me do the dishes, because he says he'll do them when I'm at work. He's adjusting to the shock of Wisconsin Winter. Its ten below zero here, and it makes England sound very warm and cozy right about now. Perhaps we can arrange something where we live in England in the winter and here in the spring and summer. :D Did I mention I hated cold weather? Actually, if we moved in January, that would be fine -- it never really gets cold before then anyway.

Well, its quite fun being married, and having my own little house to live in and decorate. But its hard to remember to sign my new last name on things, and to still write my old last name on my checks and check card (which I haven't changed yet).

We decided to worry about THAT until AFTER we got his visa paperwork out. That's almost done, so now I get to look forward to FINALLY changing my hideous driver's liscense (YES!! a new picture!!!), and getting different bank cards and checks.

I also have to order new address labels, since after I mailed out ALL my Christmas cards, I reallized that I had printed up the new address labels with my OLD zip code. *sigh*

I wonder how many people noticed that?

Well, I"m off for now, got to work on my book. :)