Yes, waffles. I promise, the title will actually make sense if you keep reading, although you might be a tad bit disappointed.

So, I got to see Nix this weekend! It was happy. My flight out was Friday morning at 6:30. SO EARLY. Which meant I got up at 4am so I could get myself organized and the cats organized for the weekend. Got to the airport and through security just in time to potty and then board my plane. Yay smaller airports! As we took off I had the sudden realization that I had forgotten part of our invitations, and the adhesive for said invitations. Fail! I said, well.... nothing I can do about it now. I have the rest of the stuff, we can go buy adhesives and I'll just have to do the last part when I get home. It will be a great TV activity, so I'm not worried about it. The hard part (assembling and stuffing) of the invites is all done. Got to the Indy airport right on time and practically ran to the baggage claim/ground transportation with a stupid grin on my face. He pulled up just as I walked out, I think we have this down, haha! And happy, since we hadn't seen each other since April. We went to the jewelers straight away and we picked up my wedding band, it's so sparkly!!!!!! We took my ring and went back to his house. I was going to get my hair cut that afternoon but I had to reschedule that appointment because I had a JOB INTERVIEEEEWWWWWW.

So on that. The interview was scheduled for 2, (so I rescheduled my hair appointment to 4. I figured that would give me an hour for the interview and I'd have plenty of time to get back and get my hair cut.) so we drove up and I got there about 20 minutes early. I went in and went to the bathroom, then got to wait a few minutes to be retrieved from the lobby by one of my interviewers. Yes, there was me, and 5 people in the conference room. It was a little horrifying. But I think it went really well. They interviewed me for an hour, and then I had to do a little portfolio presentation, which took about 20 minutes, and then they gave me a tour of the cubes. Yes. This is the major downside to this possible job, I would be Dilbert in Cubeland. (But seriously, that's not that bad of a downside if I get to see Nix every day.) So I had to cancel my hair appointment, since there was no way I would make it by 4. Sad. (So my hair is still forever long and shedding. I think I'm just going to have to find a salon here to get it cut.) Anyway. So we went home after a quick tour of campus because there's so much construction going on since it's summer break.

Saturday morning was our premarital counseling with T. I was nervous going into it, but it actually was pretty awesome. We took a survey thing back in January (which we weren't supposed to take until a month before our session, which no one told us...whoops!) and we got our results back. (This is the test we took) We talked through our results and did a communication/active listening exercise. Overall, I think we learned a good bit about what topics we need to talk about (our "leisure activities" score was only 10%. Most of those questions were "how often to you spend time with your partner" type questions and it was all well....... we don't live near each other.... lol. Our counselor put a little note about that on our results for our pastor.) and where we are happily going along and don't need to stress about. Oh! And the title of this post.

We learned that Nix is a waffle and I am spaghetti. Relationship tip for everyone: men think like waffles. Women think like spaghetti. It's just how it is. Nix & I are very much the perfect examples of this. Nix is REALLY awesome at compartmentalizing everything. I am not. I have a problem and then all of a sudden that problem releases 12 more problems - my noodles are all touching each other. And this is something we discovered not too long ago, but Nix has a problem-solving box. When I start talking about how stressed I am about this that and the other thing, he immediately goes into problem solving mode to try and fix it, when, in reality, I just want to sort through my noodles. I don't need a solution, I just want to make sense of it all.

One of the things that T asked us was, "Nix, have you ever thought while driving, "Well, I'm going 60mph. I just passed that mile marker, so I know I'll hit the next one in 60 seconds. 1....2....3..." He laughed and nodded. T turned to me, "Um. No. I haven't." He said that he has never met a man that hasn't, and never met a woman that has. This is what Nix lovingly calls his "empty box". All men apparently have them. They go there to relax, to unwind. Men can turn their brains off just DONE whereas, women, by nature, have a much harder time of it. It's just waffles vs spaghetti. So when I ask Nix, "Whacha thinking about?" And he says "Nothing" it really is nothing. He's hanging out in his nothing box, not worried or stressed out about anything. He's just chillin'. So I need to work on recognizing that - and letting it go.

Then we went to the pet store and oogled over the kitties and talked about future fish tanks. We decided we'd like to have one, but we'll need a heavy tank/lid to keep Miss Queen away from them.... stinker. After the pet store we walked through a book store to try and find the book T recommended, "Men are like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti." No luck. Instead I walked out with The Sword of Shannara. Nix has been bugging me to read it, and it's a nice FAT book, so I was a happy camper. Then we went to the craft store and picked up adhesives for our invitations. Once we got home we finished those up and put them all in the envelopes and everything, now I just have to go and wrap the paper around the outside of the pocketfolds, and we need to get the last few addresses updated so I can address those envelopes. I'm going to send them out in about 7 weeks, so I have plenty of time, but I'm going to try and get them done as best I can by next weekend. I know there's at least one address I can't get until July, because my friend will be moving to Montana with the Air Force.

And then we napped and watched Scrubs. Well, napped, Scrubs, napped, etc. That was pretty much all we did Saturday, it was pretty good. We stayed up late talking and cuddling and I regretted it Sunday morning, but, it was worth it. Sunday we went to church early since he was running sound for the middle & high school worship. I sat with him for the 9:15 service and it was awesome getting to watch him in his element. I can tell that he just loves doing that. I went and sat with his family for the 2nd service in big church, partly because he kicked me out since after that service he would have to clean up and I'd probably just be in the way. I admitted it before he did though, so, no hard feelings. After church: more naps! Napping with him is probably the best thing ever. And we had lunch as a family, which was very tasty (and good times). I packed my stuff up and we definitely decided on our first dance song (this). And half-napped while listening to our choices, haha! Then we watched a few more episodes of Scrubs before I had to go back to the airport.

I didn't get back home until midnight, and I wasn't in bed until 12:30, so this blog & anything that may be productive today is brought to you by COFFEE. Overall, a very good weekend. I will hopefully hear back on the interview around the end of the month, which means I am hoping I'll hear around the 4th of July. That would be perfect timing, it really would. Anyway, that was our weekend. Now here's hoping that I'll get to see him again soon.