H: Where have I been, anyway?

Yet another "you haven't blogged in forever why is that, huh, HUH???" post.
We've been doing two things:
1. Rehearsing, rehearsing, and rehearsing some more followed by opening night this past Friday. Thank God, I'll be getting some time back now that the show is open (and it's GREAT. Both the show and the time we get together now that it's open).
2. House hunting. Yep, Josh and I are buying a house.
So since wedding planning is for the most part taking care of itself for right now (meaning most everything is paid for on that end), we've backed off on it. Don't get me wrong, it's always on my mind. And things are starting to shift: do we still want fruit as our place cards? What about our guest book? How many disposable cameras do we want? Do we really want disposable cameras??? It goes on. In a couple of weeks, we'll be meeting with the florist.
But mostly it's the house hunting and the play and the paperwork involved that's been on the forefront of our lives.

House hunting is surprisingly a lot like dress shopping. Seriously! You get people together to go looking, you try on dozens of them and when you find the right one, you get a good feeling (I'm told). Of course, you have to keep price in mind and it's crucial to stick to the budget. Considering this is something we'll be paying off over 30 years as opposed to two one time payments, that last one is particularly important/serious. Honestly, it's overwhelming and that's with a highly communicative and wonderful Cousin/agent assisting us in our endeavor (we heart him so much). We went again yesterday and when we were done I was absolutely exhausted. But that's nothing too new, I've been perpetually exhausted for the past month so I can deal with no problem, and as per usual Josh is the most amazing man on earth so that helps.

Actually, I think I'll just take a moment to remember why all this is happening. Allow me if you will to gush about Josh:
- doesn't matter how hard my day was, he always wants to hear about it.
- he holds me when I need him to.
- he shares everything with me.
- we talk about everything.
- he makes me laugh constantly.
- he doesn't judge, he just loves.
- the usual what you'd expect; he's kind, loving, gentle, honest, caring, generous, funny, smart.
- he stops to help people by the side of the road/calls 911.
- he's the greatest man on Earth.