At this point in my day, there is nothing really exciting to post about, but I thought since I had the time I would anyway. Its amazing how I can kill a dead horse. I have absolutely nothing to say today, yet I log on and write a whole lot of nothing. But then again, what is something? Would that be if I had got to do all sorts of fun and exciting things? I guess so, but I guess this whole converstaion about writing nothing is pretty relative, because what is nothing? What a goof… On with this post!

I had a couple of people ask how I got here, so I thought I would do a little recap- now THATs something (not really). This can get confusing, so I apologize for the everything that makes absolutely no sense. There are a lot of things that should probably go in the middle too, like cry fests, and getting mad, and a ton of other things- you can look in the archives or just insert whatever emotion you see fit and you’d probably be right! Anyway…

The May after Will and I got married, my dad left for Kuwait (as a side note, there is a pretty funny running out of gas story that happened that day I’ll have to tell sometime). It was a one year contract with the option of renewing. In November, my dad just kind of jokingly threw out the idea of all of us moving over there. He broke down what we could make and save and this and that and we just kind of talked about it without much real thought. He came home for Christmas prepared. He brought all of this recruiting stuff and a TON of information. It was overload. I think all of the information made me more scared to go than excited ( ha ha, and 6 months later here I am). That sort of got the ball rolling in our heads about going over. Will and I were having a really hard time where he was working, and we knew that once I was graduated he was going to leave anyway- so why not make a huge change now when we didn’t really have anything holding us back.?

My sister was on board from the get go. In fact, her persuasiveness and prodding was what got us really truly thinking about the possibilities of going over there. She and my mom went over there during Spring Break to check out the school she would go to and meet people at the company and stuff. They came back totally excited about the opportunity, and a few days later my mom got a job. I was pretty upset at first because I thought that my whole family would be thousands of miles away, while Will and I were still in Oklahoma. I was disappointed because they would miss my graduation, and they were leaving with very little notice- they had to be in Kuwait 3 weeks later!

We ended up turning in our resume in March as well, but didn’t hear anything until the beginning of April. I felt a lot better knowing that we were all going to be over there, and my dad would be able to help us get adjusted. We found out in early April that Will got a job and that they needed us there in 30 days from the day of contact, which put us in Kuwait on May 11. It was a mess. Between finals, selling our house, and packing… it was quite an experience and I do not want to move again once we get back! We were only allowed 2 suitcases and a carry on each, and we could ship up to 100 pounds that the company would pay for. After that we had to pay for everything. It was really hard trying to figure out what would stay and what would go. Packing my whole life in a few boxes was really weird. The apartments we live in are furnished, so it wasn’t like we were going to need a lot of household type stuff, but it was mostly, “Okay does the wedding album stay or go...” just more sentimental stuff. Plus a ton of clothes, shoes, towels...I became a pro packer. You can roll ANYTHING into the size of a baseball!

So, we packed everything up, stuck a for sale sign on our condo, and headed to Kuwait for the change of our lives!

Like I said, there is probably a 5 minute monologue that should go in the middle, along with some more clarifying information, but gosh that would take forever. I hope at least that kind of gives you an idea how we ended up in the hottest place on earth. Things are SO different here, yet at the same time, things are a lot alike.

Anyway, so there is my post of nothing but confusion. Thanks for listening and have a nice day.