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I am just so late with this post and I am so sorry. Now that we are married the time seems to fly. I've nothing much to report except that we are totally pre-occupied with Christmas.
I managed to get Andrew a really nice fishing rod with some extras, I thought it would be really good if he caught some fish when he goes up to the farm, there's bound to be some fishing holes up around that way, surely.
I didn't know where to hide it, so I asked my next door neighbour to keep it for me, and I'll really have to be careful about the wrapping, I don't want Andrew to guess what it is before he opens it.
Guess who had to do all the Christmas shopping even though things have settled down for Andrew at work.
I must say we are having some very haphazard meals, but I did get in plenty of supplies and have told Andrew he must pull his weight a bit more.
Mornings are always such a rush and I'm finding being married is just so different from being single.
Anyway, we've started wrapping the presents and Andrew is clumsily making an effort but he thinks Christmas paper and sticky tape and a card does just fine nothing fancy about my Andrew.
So I really do leave him with the basics and I add the extra touches.
To-night I am going to start the cards to be sent and as it's our first joint effort we are being rather slow about it, working out his relatives and friends and looking up addresses and then adding mine. We really do need to get a move on as time is fast running out and we've already received a lot of ours.
On the weekend Andrew went out and got a tree, it's a beauty if a little big for just two people, but it is our first Christmas together and we want it to be very special.
We're visiting for the big celebrations so at least I don't have to worry about food too much.
Tinkerbelle is having great fun with the paper and other things we leave lying around and although she is very entertaining with her antics they can be quite disruptive.
She has her own little supply of presents so that should be fun on the day.
As things stand it looks like she'll be the focus of our attention. She still believes in Santa would you believe and so incidentally do I.
Musn't spoil the illusions if one looks forward to lots of presents.
I've had great fun filling a stocking for Andrew but it is a BIG secret, I doubt whether he'll do the same for me. Not worth the trouble to throw out any hints, he'd be lost.
Work is going well for both of us but other things are causing quite a dilemma, I guess we'll muddle along until after Christmas and after that we'll have to start getting more organized, how slow some folks seem to be with managing a household and I'm afraid those folks include Andrew and me.
Well we are just about to start our Chrissy chores so I'll wish all of you a wonderful Christmas with lots of good cheer and family gatherings.
So until my next post then which I'll try to do before the year 2009.
It is so thrilling to think that this is our first Christmas together as man and wife, well, in fact we didn't even know each other last Christmas and so much has happened in under a year and you know it is now almost 12 months that I have been blogging.
What a lot has happened since then.
We're going to decorate the house of course and will be having a large fresh tree, I really do not like those plastic substitutes.
I spent most of the weekend shopping and Andrew went off to his beloved farm.
I have bought all sorts of decorations and baubles for the tree, it is really so exciting.
I don't know what to buy Andrew, maybe a nice fishing rod would be a nice change, I'm sure he'll be able to find somewhere suitable either on the farm or close by.
I think I'd like some more crystals but I don't know whether Andrew is capable of thinking of that without some good solid hints.
I've bought Tinkerbelle some things to put under the tree so we'll at least have someone to share our Christmas morning with, before we go off to Mother's for Christmas Dinner and we'll call into Andrew's mother's place later on in the day.
Naturally I didn't do the regular shopping on the weekend, I'm trying to teach Andrew that he'll have to help but I haven't had much luck yet, all these things that didn't even occur to us as part of married 'bliss'
To-night he arrived home with a Pizza, as his contribution, I'm afraid my new husband is turning into something of a slow learner, I guess there are a lot of guys like that, don't you think?
We'll have to go shopping together to buy presents for family members, Andrew has confessed he doesn't usually buy anything, even for his parents, he's rather slack like that. But things are going to change, or my name is not Crystal.
At least he is not now putting in those exhausting hours at work, what a muddled life we led for a couple of weeks, it was a sharp learning curve for both of us.
So what did all of you do for your first Christmas in a relationship, and I realize that many of you won't be married, but it is so romantic, there's the rest of your life to be practical.
I'd better sign off now, Andrew has just got out of the shower and he'll be looking for me, it's that time of day.
Sweet dreams, everyone, I'll be on my way.
I must tell him soon about my little blogging adventures.
Is marriage bliss?
How quickly time goes by, I feel as if I've been married forever.
At least Andrew does not, now, sleep all the time he is at home, which, I must say is something of a relief.
He still doesn't know about my little blogging habit, there simply hasn't been the time or circumstance in which to tell him.
You know we can afford and are happy to pay quite a variety of people to free us from burdensome chores. But I still notice by the time we get home from work, recover, eat, watch some TV there is very little time for anything else.
Our walking plans have fallen by the wayside, and I feel bad about that as I know how important exercise is for sedentary workers. I can understand why people go to classes, at least it gets you up and going.
However, now that things have settled down with Andrew's work we should be able to work out some sort of plan.
I've decided we must eat healthier food but Andrew's idea of helping with meal preparation and disposing of dishes is to order in a take away and eat out of the containers.
I keep reminding him that this is no good for the environment, too much waste disposal and it is not at all good for our internal environment.
So, take away only once a week is now the target.
Andrew does not like shopping, so that leaves me. But shopping for two is not so easy as shopping for one I am finding out.
Just as well we love each other and enjoy each other's company or else I think we'd be having a lot of rows and that simply would not do.
It's funny, before we got married I gave little thought to what it would be like afterwards. And as for Andrew sex was mostly what he thought about and now that he has that ( when he's awake ) he is totally happy. The lazy thing.
I'm really glad I have, for me anyway, an easy job, which although it requires a high level of skill and University training, I am, in fact used to it by now, and I don't have too many hassles with people as mostly I work on my own.
I've been giving some thought about what it must be like for others and it must cause a lot of stress for people.
I'd ask you what you think, but as I post so infrequently and had a month off for the honeymoon, I find I now have very few visitors but my external readers might like to give this some thought.
I guess I'll see you all in a week's time and I'll try to have some questions ready for us to explore.
For now, it's do the dishes and off to bed, when I can drag Andrew away from the TV.
Are all men like this?
September 28th 2008 04:44
September 14th 2008 09:20
The engagement party is next weekend, and it's already created problems, but mum is taking care of all of that and she handles things with the flair of a diplomat
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Comment by Krystal
on Finding a man that does everything?
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The wisdom of experience, I guess.