Changing and Moving

I feel like my blog is a work in progress. I can be kind of a perfectionist, so I know I'll be changing and tweaking things as I go along. Like the name of my blog. I already decided to change it to Mrs. Mark. 

I was visiting with my good friends from high school, Eliza, Katie, and Jennifer, last night. Just before Katie and I left we were talking about Mark and I moving up to Canada, where Mark's from, and it made them think of the book Mrs. Mike. It's, in short, based on a true story of a girl from the U.S. (like me) who marries a Canadian mountie (like Mark minus the mountie part) and she moves up to the rough, Canadian wild (except that we'd be going to Calgary, AB, which is actually a pretty big city). They thought it sounded like what I was about to embark on and thought I should name my blog Mrs. Mark and I thought it sounded good too, so I changed it.

Mark and I currently live at my mom and step-dad's house, where I grew up, in Southern CA. We've been trying to work and save money so we can start having kids, but because of the U.S. economy being the way it is, this task has turned out to be a bit difficult. 

We started thinking of other options and thought of Canada because most of Mark's family is still in Calgary, where he grew up. I didn't like the idea at first, but the more we talked, analyzed, and prayed about it, the more the idea grew on me. Their economy is better right now. Mark has an old job he can go back to. He has more connections to possibly get an even better job. We were also going to try to do some house flipping, something he and his step-dad had done before. Plus, if I get residency, we can have babies for free!

So, that's going to be my new adventure! I never thought I'd live outside the country. I guess marrying a Canadian made that more of a possibility. I'm excited, nervous, and a little worried about figuring out a new place to live - where everything is and the things that are exclusive to Canada. I guess I need to get used to colorful money and saying "eh" (which I'm totally going to start doing) and figuring out what I'm going to do without Target (no Targets in Canada? What the?) and get frustrated that the U.S. decided to be different from the entire world and not do the metric system (maybe there's an app for metric conversion?). We're not sure when exactly we're moving up there, but we're thinking in the next month or so...when the weather's still nice up there so we can ease into the bitter iciness with everyone else.

Here's a little vid that I love and laugh at so, so much. Every single time I watch, I laugh. I love quoting it.

"I can't go back! It's so cold!" In some Canadian language or something...