After a year and a half of mexico, newlywed, professional musician, daycare and pre-school teacher life, I made a 180 turn and now we are doing something totally different! Ricky and I are doing long distance again! It's easier than before, I guess we are less insecure than we were when we we engaged. But I still miss him so much! But we are still very grateful, we're doing it for a good reason, actually a great one.
I got a job in the houston area as a live in nanny. Why leave my mexico lindo to take it? Lets just say double the salary of my 4 jobs combined plus they cover my taxes, room and board and food. That means I will be able to pay my loans off way faster, hopefully by the end of the year or partway into next year. Instead of the ten year plan that I'm currently on. We could never start a family when even in mexico I made twice as much what Ricky makes and if I had to quit one or more of my jobs, we'd be in trouble. And I don't want to wait 10 years either, so, yeah, that's why. It's crazy, but worth it.
Also, I am doing the i130 petition for Ricky, so he can get a greencard! I wish we could just live in Queretaro forever, but he deserves his abroad experience. He's never been to the US before and there are a lot of opportunities here that you can't find in Mexico. We'll just see where the Lord takes us after this year. I at least want the option to live here.
My host family, is. Awesome. They are young and have 2 kids. So far, I mostly take care of the baby because his 2 year old sister goes to pre-school. He's 10 months old and weighs the same as a 2 year old. His daddy is an NBA player and is 6'9". I feel like Willow. Baby is definitely too big for me. But I am already starting to fall in love with him. In a year that will probably be bad. But for now, all of his affection helps me with my neediness from being away from Ricky. The parents are so nice to me and they have made me feel like part of the family. So I guess I made a good choice in choosing this job. There were a lot of places that wanted me as their nanny!
Houston is beautiful, we live on the outskirts about an hour from the city, but it's true when they say that everything's big in Texas! i dont know if I could live here because I feel so small. Maybe I just need to get to know it better. I'm going to the temple next week. Everything will be in english. I had everything memorized in spanish. .. Hahahaha
At least I know I left Ricky in a good place. He has all of our friends and family who hang out with him. They are taking good care of him just like they told me they would. He has a new job at the casa de la marquesa - day shift!!! I'm so happy about that. He can actually get some real rest. And he loves it there. And, he's executive secretary at church and he loves serving and he really gets along with the bishop. And he's also doing school part time and managing the apartment complex we recently moved to. In short, he's suuuuuper busy! I think I would only be in his way right now. But it's good for him too. I'm so proud of him. I guess I'm bragging but it's my blog I can brag. ;) I am grateful that he's okay and that the Lord is watching over him and he is learning.
We both bought ipads to facetime eachother and they are awesome! I have never had an i-anything! Haha but seriously, this is my first apple purchase and I don't regret it one bit. It was a great investment, for those of you who are thinking about it. I don't even like touch screens but I love this. Okay, commercial over.
So with all the rehearsals and everything I never did follow through with my practice plan. I'm horrible with that, always. Well now I have a little free time in the evenings and now Im not in any orchestras so I have to practice, or else I will be in big trouble after a whole year. This is what I did and so far it's working. It's plan debbie...
Debbie has to study for lsat retake in one year. I have to practice to keep up my skills to look for orchestra jobs after I'm done with the nanny stuff in one year. Every day, we tell eachother what we are going to do related to that goal. We have to do something every day. We have to follow through for 2 weeks, and then we get ourselves a small prize. Then, we have to keep going, maybe for a month, 2 months, etc. until we have gotten ourselves a lot of practice and a lot of prizes. The idea is to have someone to be accountable to. Well, we just started but it really helps for my, oh I'll just skip a day nothing will happen moods that I get in just after forming a practice plan. Wish us luck.
Well, I'll sign off for now. I hope everyone is having a good new year!
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