The second month is nearly over and already it’s been a great year thus far. Maybe my favorite to date. I have a few outrageously fantastic adventures coming up this year and I’m waiting with great expectation for all of them.
Tonight I get to visit with cousin Jill Wallace and her babies. Haven’t seen them in quite awhile, so it’ll be a treat.
Next weekend is a trip to Portland with a college friend to visit, Lydia, my college roommate (not my sister). Who I haven’t seen in far too long. We’ll play with her new dog, I’ll get to see the place she bought recently and enjoy visiting.
After that comes one of the BIGGIES. Lydia (sister) is Oh-so-Pregnant and is due March 4th. I’m going to be an aunt!! I’m mentally preparing for changing poopy diapers and falling in love with something that is part me. It’s the very first. First grandchild for mom and dad, first nephew for me, first baby for them so I know every single thing he does is going to be an experience with all us adults giddy with every move he makes.
I spent the good part of an evening with my hand jammed between the floor and Lydia’s belly in the hopes of feeling him move. Lydia would say, “He’s moving, that’s huge, can’t you feel that?!?”, which I would respond with a “uh, no, nope, I don’t think so”. This went on for some time until I did feel “something”. Which I am taking as a success and is down in the record books as me and Baby Rogers’ first interaction.
The second BIGGIE is my best friend Jill’s wedding in April where I have the honor of being the Maid of Honor. With a wedding comes lots of parties, showers, wine, gifts, dresses, jewelry, flowers and fun. I get to play a part in it all and I am enjoying it already.
And if those two BIGGIES were BIGGIE enough I then am moving to New Zealand in May for the remainder of 2010. My boyfriend extraordinaire, Marienus, lives in New Zealand and is going to school in Auckland to get his Captains qualification. Like a graduate degree, but for sailors. For those of you who don’t know, he and I have been dating for 2+ years (give or take) and the last 7 months we’ve been apart. He’s just so wonderful I can’t bear to be without him anymore, so I’m moving to his city! He has lived most his life in Auckland and his close family and friends are all their so I’ll have a wonderful network of people around me. I got a working visa for the year so I am hoping to find work with a non profit that works in microfinance. If that doesn’t pan out I’m shooting for a florists apprentice and if that doesn’t work out I will do just about anything to get paid. We’ll see what happens, but regardless of job I am so excited to be with him in a normal life setting for 7 months straight where I can get to know his family and friends as most of our time dating has been on ships or backpacking around the world. Rough, I know. 
It’s cliche to say, but I think 2010 is going to be a good year.
