Today we hit the two month mark till our wonderful St.Thomas wedding! I think if life doesn't bring in one crazy thing to do something else will be passed your way. The both of us are finishing up our undergraduate degrees whitin the next two weeks and it is coming as a relief to the both of us. However just when we think this craziness is about to end... We realize we have so much more coming our way.
We've been looking for rental houses lately, realizing its not the best idea to invest in real estate when we aren't exactly sure where we will be in the next few years. This process has been fun to say the least, but we've had to set it to the side a little lately because eventually it becomes more fun than homework... We find ourselves getting lost in this endless sea of rental houses. I think we love this process so much because it feels as if the closer we get to finding our rental home, the closer we get to being together.
Obviously a new house brings up new expenses, things such as furniture and paint, rugs and decor. This is fun to plan as well, but it is hard to make ourselves hold off a few more weeks till summer hits and we don't have anything else to focus on in the meantime. The worst part about this process is waiting, I am very not very patient, but Mr.Smile on the other hand is. Even though his patience always exceeds mine I think we both have equal feelings about this wedding not coming soon enough. Every time we are together and then have to leave one another the feeling of being alone gets worse... It feels like being only and arms length away but still not being able to reach something you really want. So house hunting has become in a sense thereputic for this grueling feeling we are struggling with.
The other issue we have come across is one all med students face... Money. Do we rent a house we really want or try and save money to put towards paying back his loan, do we buy the couch we really love or the one that's just ok??? So many money saving issues have made especially me feel guilty for buying the more expensive toilet paper. I think this is something that most people have concerned with when first getting married, med school or not. One really good thing we have done is set down and budgeted out our expected monthly expenses and I think this really helped us. Hopefully it all goes as plan but if we... Meaning I... Are frugal enough my sense of urgency to not spend money feels slightly at ease when reminded of our plan.
So more than anything, these past few months finishing up our undergrad have been an ultimate tug-o-war of trying to balance house hunting and wedding planning with our schoolwork... I have a feeling that this balancing processes, even though we will be graduating in a few weeks, will be endless for the next few years for us.
