Sorry it has been so long everyone!

Mike and I have settled into Raleigh, NC (on the border of Cary, NC) quite well. We found an apartment (beautiful), have 2 cars, no pets, and 2 jobs. It has been fun picking out new furniture, TV's, you know, all the decorating fun of a new place. I still have to take a map wherever I go. I think I prefer it that way... so it seems as though I am always on vacation in my mind. Well... that is half the reason why I had to leave San Diego! I didn't need a map anymore! Great. I found my new justification of running around the U.S. with my head cut off.

We are enjoying the fall colors out here and the frost on our windshields in the morning! But they say around here that it is abnormally cold for NC this year...figures...cold weather likes to keep me company. When I moved to San Diego there were record breaking rain falls since like 20 years ago. My luck!! Can't wait to go to MI for Christmas and see some snow too! Mike will be having quite the culture shock pretty soon!

We both start work today :) yuck in general but it is good to stop being a bum all day everyday. Mike is working in the sales soon to be finance department of a car dealership until he begins either real estate or goes back to nerdy IT classes... the boy can't make up his mind on what he wants to be when he grows up :) me neither. I am an Account Manager for Fortune Interactive in downtown Raleigh. Basically, I work for an SEO firm (Search Engine Optimization for the non-internet marketing kids) working with clients of all different business sizes. For all you Ashford people (Ross Woodard's job without the start-up company VP of Marketing title). Wish us luck to stay focused and career oriented... uh huh. yeah.

Well... that is all for now... my journey across the country is now over and I am starting a new page in my book... gay, ha. Anyways, I hope to see all of you soon - so get your butts to North Carolina soon!!

I might pop back in when I know some of my own wedding details!!!

Miss y'all

Nicole &
Mike