2 Years.

In three days, we will be coming up on our second 2-year anniversary. Despite the drama that gave us a second anniversary, I like to joke about it. It gives us both a second chance in case we forget.

Anyway, by the grace of God, we completed our second year of marriage mostly intact. The struggles have definitely been significant, but the recoveries steal the show.

I am very proud of us and how far we've come. I know two years isn't generally such a milestone, and it's not like our marriage has been that rocky, but I still think it's something to be proud of.

Things definitely are changing, and hopefully for the better.

I'm sure I mentioned this already, but I will be finishing my AAS transfer degree at the completion of this quarter. Finishing up with audio production and beginning guitar. So far, it's been a really fun quarter, and I'm looking forward to how I can apply these things that I'm learning (definitely not what was happening with my business classes).

Speaking of business, though, I've saved my spot on Etsy with a shop where I hope to sell my yarnworks and doodles. Taking it seriously enough to have applied for a business license, and registered a domain name. I won't advertise the actual shop yet since it's still a bit far from being up and running. But I'm excited about it. Not quite sure what this will mean for my Mary Kay. I'll still be a consultant because I love the products, but don't know if I'll actually take it to full time as I originally intended after school.

The other thing that gets in the way of that is my parents' offer of one of the 99-cent stores. According to my mom, the main reason my dad insists on moving us back down to Cali is so that we can take a store, enabling him to step away and focus on other things (like another business venture, or retirement).

The struggle here is that Yubo thinks it's a really good idea for us to take a store. Unfortunately, I really don't want to. Of course, I will if I have to, as long as Yubo doesn't leave me stranded with it. There has been a lot of back and forth discussion about whether or not Yubo still wants to start his own plumbing thing, and if he does, what that means for me and the store that I don't want.

An old-ish idea has sprung up amongst all of this. As I continue to get more and more involved with church, I'm about 80-90% sure that I want to become a worship director. I really wanted to go to seminary, but silly me, I didn't realize seminary is a graduate school. So I would have to get a bachelor's in something before even being able to get a certificate from seminary. I don't know if I can take that much more school, to be quite honest. I suppose it really depends on if I can make the rest of the way to a bachelor's anything like these past two quarters, where I've enjoyed the classes and enjoyed what I was learning.

But I think Yubo is now at 100% that we're moving back down to Cali, and probably next spring or summer, since this summer is too soon, and we don't want to move during fall or winter. However, we can't say anything solid until I'm done with school. And Yubo still has to get his license.

That's about where we're at.

In the mean time, we're going to take some friends over to Leavenworth. Already wanted to go for our anniversary, but all they have are 2-bedroom units, so we decided to bring along my best WA gf Alex, and her husband Tyler. They both work ridiculously hard, so they deserve a break too, even if it's just a weekend.