Happy Anyway

It's been kind of a hectic beginning of the new year in terms of things going wrong or needing to be sorted out. I was talking to a friend last night about life's phenomenon of everything deciding to happen at once. You know when there are just a lot of nagging things to fix, call someone about, or sort through? Basically, that. I know, my last post was kind of about that too, but what can I say - it's life right now.

After my car problems from the end of last year were fixed (it's great having a handy-man husband who wants to figure out how to replace radiators on his own), there may have been a time when everything was mended, still, and generally normal. And when I say my car problems were fixed, I mean now it runs, even though you can't really be sure by the sound of it, and the heater isn't very, well, heat-y.

So there was this still period for a little while. And then Levi came home one morning after working through the night and told me that he was in a wreck, after which it was determined that the car was totaled. Right after that we handled insurance companies, car rentals, a trip south for Christmas, getting a new car (that we still haven't picked up thanks to our bank), a trip north for New Years, signing up for Spanish classes, handling school finances, coordinating rides with people to pick up my car from the bus stop every morning, and Levi having sinus sickness.

On the way home from dropping Levi's sister off in Fredericksburg today (using a friend's car) it just dawned on me. I said to him, If you think about it...we have a lot of broken stuff right now. Only one car. That barely runs. Without a decently-working heater. AND a broken dvd player. (We really like watching movies together, so that might just as much a toughy for us as the car...)

A few seconds later he just shrugged - he does that a lot because he's chill like that - and said, I'm happy.

Yeah, I'm happy too, I said. I think I was just talking about it because it was the first time I really thought about it - probably because I'm happy anyway too.

I'd like to think that without Levi, I would be just as happy in the absence of these basic "life necessities." (How Americanized we are, yeah?) I'm not really sure though. But I think that's part of what marriage is about, right? - one person influencing the other in a positive way to help them grow. I am glad my husband isn't really concerned with material possessions and that he doesn't tend to let circumstances bend him out of shape. I think I would be weaker in that area without him. He has a shrug-and-move-on approach to a lot of things in life, which really helps me take things less seriously sometimes. 

I'm so happy I married him.