Tangent Tuesday: Long Distance

I'm just going to warn you up front—this is going to be a depressing post. I'll keep it short though. Nathan is officially done with undergrad—which is AWESOME! I'm so proud of him. Unfortunately, I still have a semester of school left in South Carolina. Which leads me to the depressing part...

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According to Google Maps, it is 680 miles and 10 hours and 11 minutes from Michigan to South Carolina, and Google Maps does not lie. Unless you're going 80 the whole way. Then it only takes 9 hours and 30 minutes. *cough*

So Nathan and I will be long distance for the remainder of our engagement. I'm not too concerned about the wedding planning part of it—we can do almost everything on the phone and on the internet and he'll come down when he can. And let's just be honest, Nathan wasn't enthused about cutting and folding tissue paper anyway!

The hard part is just being apart. I read about how important the engagement is for preparing for marriage or how this is a time when you work things out as a couple—but I know that can still be true. We'll just have to text a lot more (if that's even possible) and maybe I can even convince Nathan to call me a few times (he's not much for talking on the phone). And hopefully the four months after New Years—since we're spending the holidays together—will fly by!