Samber Updates

Since I've temporarily returned to Facebook, people have asked me what has been going on with our lives. Even after I re-quit Facebook, you can always check in with us through my blog. But for those of y'all who haven't been reading it, here are a couple of updates about Sam+Amber, plus a few soap box moments since I haven't been able to post any Facebook rants.

**We have a new roommate, Annie. You can read more about that here.
**We are getting a fence put up in our backyard so that we can get a dog. I really want to get a rescue pit bull. [Soap Box: If you buy a puppy/kitten from a breeder or a pet store, please realize that you are perpetuating a horrible system. There are countless dogs and cats on death row that need a good home. Adopt from a Shelter! Please get your dogs and cats spaid/neutred. Puppies and kittens are cute but we are overflowing with them.]
**We are not even close to being able to move back to Tennessee. I miss it so much that I get pains in my gut thinking about it. Seriously, that's how homesick I am, I actually get physically sick. Our house's value has dropped so much that the only way to sell it would be to willingly lose money. Sam and I are too cheap to do that so we are staying here until the housing market changes.
**Sam is ridiculously smart. He got two academic achievement awards. One for Anatomy and Physiology I Lab and one for Anatomy and Physiology II Lecture. It looks like he'll be around 55 when he's done with school and we'll be ready for kids when I'm around 65ish. Here's more to that story and you can stop asking us when we will start procreating. The real answer is roughly 5 years from now unless we make a mistake. Let's hope we don't.
**Sam's hip replacement is officially past the one year mark. Sam is physically doing great and it has been an amazing year watching his pain go away and his strength grow. [Soap Box: A few people have asked him why he is still limping. Shut Up! His femur was grinding into his pelvis. There was a lot of bone loss resulting in a one-inch difference in leg length. The doctor got it as long as he could but 15 years of damage had done its toll and one of his nerves couldn't be stretched long enough to make up the entire inch. Also, Sam's ankle is still and will always be weaker than his other one. Please comment on how much improvement has been made and not what has stayed the same. That's like asking a woman that just had a baby why she's still a little plump in her belly.]
**I'm still the same. I'm still an Events Coordinator at a great non-profit. I'm still in love with my husband. I still carry Squeaky around like a baby. I spend my time writing, doing paper crafts, drinking Cabernet, and keeping Sam sane with his 2 jobs and school. I'm failing at gardening, house cleaning, and not eating cookies.

In conclusion, we are getting a new fur baby but no real babies, we are stuck in GA forever, Sam is smart and walking, climbing, and hiking just fine, and I'm still the same opinionated person. Together we are wandering through this wonderful life together and maybe one day we can wander back to Tennessee.