A month into marriage

Katie and I are well over a month into our marriage... and I'd like to take this time to say something to the preacher. I told you it would last.

Things are good so far, but the first weeks are not as easy as you'd think they would've been with two people who were inseperable as a dating couple. After all, two people's worth of stuff was crammed into a space designed for a tiny herd of circus clown-car clowns. Every where I look, there's Katie...touching my stuff and looking at me. She's sneaking into the bathroom while I take showers, sleeping right next to me (though she got the worst end of that deal. I smack her at night while I'm thrashing around in my sleep). I even have a feeling she's creeping around outside the bathroom door while I take poo's... just waiting to jump in there mid-squeak and ask if I've seen her hoop earings... you know the silver ones with the little dangly thingies on the bottoms of the loops... the ones you said you liked! I digress...

Though we are cramped here and are having to deal with issues that we never had even thought would cause multi-session discussions - who knew you had to put the toilet seat back down!!!???... crazy talk) - things are pretty much amazing. We're cooking for each other. We hosted a dinner function for my family on mother's day where WE (Katie) cooked! We brush our teeth together at night. We even have a small home theater system and have decreed that Saturday mornings are Saturday morning movie time.

*Reading from the book of Monkey*

And thus sayeth the couple to each other, "Thou breath reeketh in the morning. Speak not to me foul dragon breath. Point thou face toward the TV and fill thine face with hot brewed liquid and jimmy dean sausage goodness until that smell hath passed."

And lastly, since it's fresh on my mind, we're looking into the possibility of buying a house (right next door to Taylor in a Sheriff's sale this coming Wednesday *crosses fingers*).

All these things that come along with sharing money and a small apartment are new to me, the bad and the good. I'm enjoying it though. I'd rather put up with the little nit-picky arguments and the stress of being pre-approved and switching insurance and tax forms than be single/engaged again and not get to spend all this time and these experiences with Katie.