Am I a Slacker or What?!

So here we are again, months later with no update!! There are so many times I get the inspiration to write, but I just don't have the motivation. It's something I really need to work on in the new year.

Anyway....I went back down to Mexico in October, and my David and I finally got hitched!! <3 <3

Para siempre, mi amor.

Yes, everything worked out. I went down there for about two and a half weeks. Unfortunately, it wasn't all fun and games that time, as most of the days were spent fulfilling obligations--going to city hall, taking pre-marital classes, filing paperwork, and then actually planning a wedding in just a few days, when we decided to do it at his house rather than the courthouse! But it was all good. I wouldn't have changed any of it for the world. I got to spend almost three weeks with my love. Despite the obligations, we got to spend a lot of time with his family, go to parties in the neighborhood, attend his nephew's (sobrino's) wedding, and of course get married ourselves! It was the fastest two and a half weeks of my entire life. And of course when it came time for me to leave....it was yet another sobfest.

I think both of us had a pretty hard time after that. Imagine getting married to the love of your life--and then having to fly to another country and be separated for an indefinite amount of time. Especially right before the holidays. We both had a little bit of a hard time being apart after that. So much so that I was like....okay dammit, I am going to go for just a couple of days in December just so I can see him before my next long trip. So I took off a Tuesday/Wednesday from work, and flew down that Sunday and came back on Wednesday. That way I could be gone for four days, but only take two days off work.

It was definitely worth it. And it so happened my trip occurred over Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe, which is a HUGE holiday down in Mexico!! So I got to enjoy all the festivities surrounding that, which was amazing and so much fun. And of course I got to see my love, as short as our time together was. It was absolutely worth it.

And now here we are. Nearing the end of 2017. I was going through photos from this past year, and just thinking about how much time has passed. I see photos from earlier in the year, and I think--wow. That feels like it was five years ago. But in reality it was only like seven months. Time is a crazy construct. But I will most likely elaborate on my whole "year in review" in a post in the next couple of days.

In the meantime, most everything is the same. We are still waiting to hear about the visa, although with every day that passes, I lose a little more hope. We are still together and still committed to each other. We are married and we are in this to win it. But come 2018, things are going to start moving, no matter what the federal government, USCIS, or ICE tells us. There will come a day where we will eventually refuse to live with the restrictions they have put on our lives, take matters into our own hands, and make the necessary moves to finally be together for good once again.