I’m like a month away from being ready to buy a car… which is amazing on its own. My first car and it will be brand-new and I will pay for it all on my own! Thank you USPS!!
I’m really starting to get independent and Tom and I have been wanting to move out of our parent’s houses for a long time. We actually have been stockpiling furniture and stuff for a few years. We have a bed, 2 desks, dishes, silverware, pots and pans, cups, and maybe some other stuff I can’t remember right now. We have looked at 1 apartment so far and will be looking at others soon. After I get the car we finally can move but I’m feeling like such a coward because when we move in together my parents will freak and sometimes I don’t want to move out until after the wedding just to avoid the drama.
They can’t do nuthin though except complain cuz I make enough money at my job to pay for my own life and Tom makes money being a grad student. I really just need to be adult about it and say that even though they don’t approve I am an adult and can make my own decisions. I was told at one point that if we lived together they would be “very irritated” and that it was going against all I was taught. Gee I think there are more important life lessons than that, personally I think their priorities are out of whack but being bible-thumping evangelicals will do that.
We are 7 months out from the wedding right now I am sure as hell not moving out by myself at this point. Its either stay here (ugh) or move out with Tom. Aat least I have won a small victory in not going to church since the summer. Even if pressured I would strongly resist, a waste of my precious weekend time and of my gas. I drive their car right now (not for much longer!!!) and I buy the gas for it.
