Die Buchwalds

I’m sure you’ve all been asking yourself, “Where did those zany Buchwalds go?”
We’re still here. So if you know where “here” is and you’d like to come visit us, we’d love to have visitors. We’re having an open house soon so that people can see where we live, so email us if for some reason we haven’t told you the date/time or given you directions. In addition to our open house, I’m also having a book party for Party Lite candles…. no consultant to super-pressure people in to buying… just me begging because I *really* like the Christmas tree and it’s just a little bit too much money. (PLEASE BUY STUFF FROM ME!)

This past month has been kind of difficult. I’ve been on mandatory overtime at work which makes me extra-plus tired and cranky for a multitude of reasons, one being that I spend considerably less time with my husband, who also now has a job. Matt’s been working part time at Burger King for a few months now, and sometimes he works in the evenings, which is the only time I’m home and half awake. I think Burger King makes Matt grumbly too because he isn’t always able to accomplish everything he’d like to during a day… especially when his shift is 11:45am to 2:00pm.

We threw a surprise party for my parents in the middle of the month. They were surprised & it made me happy.

On Wednesday, Matt & I attended the first meeting for the RCIA program at Beloved Disciple. There was a really good turn out. I think it helps that this is a college town. About half were college professors with their spouses, there were three college kids, a guy who’s looking into becoming Catholic because his wife & kids are, and then there was us. Hopefully Matt will begin to blog some about his experience with the class… I got somewhat of an impression that he may be the only catechumen… that everyone else is a candidate… so his perspective of things will be very interesting. I’m looking forward to learning more, too. The team seems to have a really firm understanding of theology, doctrine and Tradition (note the big “T”). Now if only I can convince Father Z. that we should KNEEL AFTER COMMUNION. I digress. One of our NFP instructors is part of the RCIA team so it’s good to have a familiar face when we’re so very new to the area.

The new CCD year started last Sunday. Matt is “helping” me teach the class. I don’t know my students very well yet… Only two of them have older siblings that I taught, and one is a daughter and sister of two of our other teachers. Other than that, they’re all new faces to me, and it’s going to make it kind of difficult to learn & get to know them all.

Today, we’re going to meet my mom at the bank to finally close out my “single girl” bank accounts (mom’s name was on them so she could deposit money for me if I needed while I was in college). After that, we’re going to look for some collage photo mats for a picture frame screen that I purchased a while back. Then, we have to do laundry.

Lately, I’ve been feeling like life is very ho-hum. After writing about it, I realize I have an awful lot going on and I shouldn’t be feeling so ho-hum. This is something I should investigate. In the mean time, keep me in your prayers. And I’ll try to blog here a little more than I have been.

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Matt started a part-time job today. We’re practically a couple of DINKs. Somebody save us! Please!
The good news of all of this DINK-ness is that we’re a step closer to completing our 3-year plan. With any luck, Matt’s paychecks will go entirely toward two “little” vacations I’d like to take, and savings.
We just have to decide which vacation to take first.
Also on the 3-year plan are:
1. Finish Matt’s thesis
2. Find Matt’s “real job”
3. Buy a house
4. Quit Amy’s job
5. Start our family.

In the mean time, we’ll continue plugging away at our jobs and Matt will continue to slave away over his thesis and his resume and we’ll say some prayers. In the end, it will all work out the way it’s supposed to. Whether it’s the way we think we want or not, we’ll just have to wait & see.

In other news, a girl at work, who has been trying to get pregnant for a few years, told us that she’s expecting and due in April. Say some prayers for her & her baby, as she has potential to have a high risk pregnancy.

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I do not find it fun to mail miscellaneous paper to people I don’t know. I also find it very very hard to follow my husband’s logic as posted below. Taxes are NOT like children. But my husband is really cute.

In other news, the Souzeks have officially made the Big Move, which involved an awful lot of time in my home state, but no visit with the Buchwald family. *pouts* We’re glad to hear that they made it safely and have furniture.

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The other night Amy and I were watching Seventh Heaven. No, I don’t know which night it was; Seventh Heaven is on like every night of the week. It’s everywhere. It’s so omnipresent that it’s on nine days a week! Okay so maybe not so much, but it’s there a lot. And we watch it. And we were watching it on that night during which our activities consisted of watching Seventh Heaven and doing other things. Which could be any night really. Hah hah hahaha! I just tricked you into a reading a whole freakin’ paragraph and all I basically said was, “Hey, I don’t remember what night that was exactly.” Sucker.

So during the show, there was dating stuff going on. There’s always dating stuff going on in that show, amongst whatever other moral lesson it happens to be bringing to you this fine evening in question. So, after said dating stuff occurred (does occurred have one r or two r’s? I can never quite decide), Amy emits these following words of impending doom: “See what we have to look forward to?”

I did what comes naturally: I used my male intellect to produce the best course of action that would prevent said impending doom and thus make her point invalid. I told her that our children simply weren’t going to date, because they were all going to be priests and nuns. I stood triumphant, beaming with pride at my quick thinking. That was until it was realised that we’d never have grandchildren at that rate, and grandchildren are good things. See, grandchildren are children with all the fun and none of the effort. It’s like you took something of mixed blessing, like taxes, and removed the bad parts. You get all the joy af mailing random pieces of paper to complete strangers without having to spend buttloads of money while doing so.

So this brings us to my point: taxes are like children. You heard it here first.

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Name Change To-Do List:
**Get a new social security card
**Change the name on my credit cards
**Change the billing information for my cell phone so that we can perhaps combine the cell phone bill with the real phone bill
**Finish notifying people at work so that my paycheck will have my new name on it (they can’t change anything with out the SS Card)

Miscellaneous Other Things To-Do List:
**Create inserts for thank you notes
**Write thank you notes
**Assemble thank you notes
**Mail thank you notes
**Decide which pictures belong in our wedding album
**Show pictures to assorted friends & relatives & let them pick things out
**Order pictures
**Gather orders for my PartyLite party.

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