I finally have some good news. The company we were hoping would come through never did, the staffing agency says that they never made a decision to bring anyone in yet. But, the same agency sent him on an interview somewhere else a few days ago. He had to do a psych test and drug test for it, so I'm assuming it's a "for real" job (because these agencies are so good at presenting one-or-two-jobs as temp-to-hire when either they know full well it's just fill-in, or sometimes companies misrepresent it to the agency because otherwise no one would accept it) since they spent the money to do all that. He starts not this Monday but next Monday from 8:00-4:30. I am so relieved it isn't a night shift job, he did night shift for a year and a half before being unemployed, and it was so rough since we technically only had one day a week together. I'm so glad he won't go back to doing that.
I'm so happy that it finally seems like we can start building our lives together now. I had to get a 401K loan to catch everything up and eliminate some smaller bills this past week, but now it looks like as long as this job stays stable, we can pay our big credit card down, elope as planned on 11/11/11, be able to hold the reception a few weeks later like we want to, and I can have my ring set:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/52690113/sa ... ne-diamond . We currently stay with my family, and it's looking like we'll have to continue living there at least short-term after being married to save up for a house (we don't want to rent again, plus with my dad being unemployed since December we can continue to be of more financial help to them now), but I'm ok with that. I wasn't so hot on the idea of being married and knowing we'd be stuck there indefinately though.