The Happiest Place on Earth!

I am in Oklahoma now and couldn't be happier!  I never thought I'd say that lol but when the love of your life is in Oklahoma, you suddenly love Oklahoma too!  I got here last Wednesday, just hours after Scott got the keys to our new house :)  This last week has been spent cleaning out the old place, packing up our stuff for the one mile jaunt east to the new place, and then finally settling in here and unpacking and making minor repairs.  I just loooooove our new house!!  It's a cute 2/1 with a really good size back yard. We have onions and tomatoes so far, and just got three baby chicks!!  So we'll have eggs too in the next 4 or 5 months :)

Our sweet baby chikkas :)

We haven't really gone anywhere crazy/amazing.  We've just been setting up the house which makes me just as happy :)  Fixing little things and setting up our baby chicks' house and watering plants - it's just so ridiculously, unbelievably nice..  I am so happy here; content, peaceful and so happy.. it is so indescribably wonderful, being with Scott again.  When I was here in February, he was suuuuuper busy with classes and getting his research off the ground; but now classes are out and things have calmed down for now with his work.  It's just been really wonderful spending so much time with him.. things are just so perfect that it's hard to believe that I have to go back to Bakersfield in just a few days.. hard to believe but also hard to forget.

Gushing and euphoric with my love, at the OSU Botanic Garden <3

I really, really REALLY do not want to leave.. I am trying not to think about it, but it is just so imminent.  I really feel like I am just in a dream right now and that Bakersfield is reality.  It's just.. yeah, it's just going to be very hard come Saturday.  I've been looking for jobs since I posted about on here last month; I've found some jobs and had an interview or two, but with nothing coming to fruition.  I am trying so hard to find something here, it just seems so very impossible..

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Well, here I am Sunday morning, pulled from my dream and plucked back into reality.  If Oklahoma is the happiest place on earth, I am now residing in the opposite.  After a one hour boarding delay, a layover, waiting 2 hours to board my 2-hour shuttle ride to Bakersfield and a taxi ride after that, I made it home a little after 1 a.m. this morning.  Yesterday was just horrible.  I cried myself to sleep Friday night, cried in the shower, cried at the check in counter, as I went through security, while I waited for and boarded the plane..  At least on the plane, the engine was loud enough so no one could hear me crying.  So yeah, long story short, yesterday was hard.  I hated leaving Scott and our new home and our baby chicks..  I know that everyone thinks they have perfection in their relationship, and I'm no different.  And when you find perfection, when you know you've got it, you don't need or want to be anywhere else..  As Harry would say, "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

So anyway, it's Sunday and I've quickly morphed into my go-to character of fighting instead of wallowing, no matter how easy it may be to just do the latter.  Nothing keeps me down for too long, and I am grateful for the continual tenacity that my mind and heart produce, even when I think it's just impossible.  I've hit the ground running again here, continuing to look for jobs and doing my best and learning all I can at work while I'm still here.

As always, thank you all for reading; I hope you're having a beautiful weekend.

Love & velvet,

Rachel