God, give me the strength...

My younger cousin got married about 3 months ago and she is now pregnant. This came as a total surprise to our entire family. I really want to be happy for her, but I just can't. I am so upset and feel like she is stealing my thunder. It is supposed to me my time now. She just got married and her time with people oogling over her and now I am supposed to have mine, but I feel like I won't now. That sounds totally selfish of me, but I am only getting married one and I kinda want this time to be about me and Kurt; not my 23 year old pregnant cousin. I don't even know if she is going to be in my wedding anymore and I actually dread talking to her about it. I am going to give her the option to decide whether or not she still wants to do because I don't want to kick her out. She is going to miss out on the fun, though. I know she won't come to my bachelorette party and she is not going to have fun in Vegas with a three week old baby. I just think she could have been a little more careful and a lot less careless with this situation she has out herself and others around her in. I really want to stop being so upset about this, too.

It's been a while

So I just read the last post I wrote on here and I cannot believe it has been that long. Kurt and I are still living together and we are now engaged. We are planniong on getting married in June of 2011 at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas of all places. Believe me, it was not my dream to get married here. I have been dreaming of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans since I was 12, but that all went up in smoke... It is okay, though because I just want to marry Kurt and start our lives together.
I resigned from teaching after this last year. I am attending the University of St. Thomas and working towards my Masters in English. I went in with the intention of becoming a college professor, but I have become interested in persuing publishing. I had always thought that it would be fun and exciting, but I never actually thought that I could do it, and now I have given myself that chance.
Kurt is now in the oilfield business. He has been out on his second rig for almost a week now. He was gone on his first site for a week, as well. I am having to get used to him not being here and there have been nights when it has been hard, but knowing that he has a job that he is actually enjoying. This is alos something that is stable and that he can actually move up in, which was not the situation with his old job.
Right now, everything seems to be going okay in life for us, which is good.