58 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes and 19 seconds

That's how long it's been since my last post. Life has been a little crazy since then, so I figure the best way to get back into it and update you the past 58 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes and 19 seconds is to make a list of things that have happened and make my way through it.

1. We got MARRIED!!!

2. Our Honeymoon

3. Meet Gus Gus!

4. Work Drama

5. The Chopping of the Tresses

6. Relay for Life

7. Upcoming Mackinaw Trip :)

8. Grad School, Here I Come!

 A lot of stuff has changed and a lot of things are the same... which really isn't very revealing is it? It would make the most sense to start with #1 and tell you all about our special day, but I won't get the CD with the pictures on it for a couple days, so until I can fully amaze you, I will skip straight to #3. GUS GUS!! He is our new kitten. We adopted him the week after we got back from our honeymoon. He is absolutely adorable but is completely insane as well.  

 

Kitty (Justin's family cat that also lives with us, she's 16 years old and pretty sick) is SLOWLY getting used to him being here, but she definitely doesn't like playing with him. She doesn't like doing much of anything so I'm not surprised that she has issues with him. In hindsight, we probably should have waited to adopt Gus, so that Kitty wasn't stressed during her last couple of months, but we had good intentions, we thought he would help her feel more youthful and have fun... not so much.  

He's tearing our apartment up, knocking stuff over and pulling up some carpeting, but other than that he's pretty sweet. He's a cuddler too, when he wants to be... Once he get's neutered and mellows a little bit, he'll be the perfect "First Baby" :)

That's about it for now. I will be back in the next couple days to upload some pictures and give you some stories. I'm glad to be back and am slowly getting back into the groove of life, but it's quite a shock to be off of work for 2 1/2 weeks and then being thrown back into a life of work, cooking, money, bills, traffic, etc. Urgh. Maybe the weekend in Mackinaw will mellow me out too. Maybe Gus and I both need to mellow :) Happy Blogging - I'll type at 'cha soon!

Counting The Minutes...

12.

I have 12 minutes until I get to step away from my desk for half an hour. It may not sound like much, but on days like to day, it's a life saver. Today has been so incredibly slow, I don't want to jinks myself, but I'm just getting a little stir crazy. Yesterday was super busy, now today, when I'm here by myself covering the phones...nothing. I guess it's a good omen. I don't want to me going crazy all day.

11.

So, I've been kind of slacking on my blogging lately. I think it's because Justin and I are just starting to get acclimated to living together and frankly, by the time I get home from work, cook dinner, eat dinner, do some laundry, random cleaning and make lunches for the next day - I'm beat. I haven't been sleeping very well lately either, so I just need to let my body/brain adjust to my new life.

9.

I already know there is one thing on my 101 in 1001 list that I will not accomplish... I've decided to give up selling Mary Kay. I know some of you are saying "what!? she just started"... others are saying "yeah, I'm not surprised"... Well, I'm not surprised either. It just took me way out of my comfort zone and frankly, when I'm working full-time I just don't have time to do everything that I would have wanted to do with the business. AND I would never get used to cold calling people to do pre-profiling or putting myself out there to get new clients. I'm just not that type of person. I also didn't get the friendships that I expected out of it, I honestly could have put more of myself into it, but it just seemed really "cliquey" (I know that's not a word, get over it) and seemed like I was just another one of the recruits. I didn't like that. Honestly, I could think of a million things that I would rather do on a Monday night, Saturday and Sunday then subjecting myself to something I wasn't confident in or even liked most days... So I'm just working on getting some of my investment back by selling my consultant supplies and the inventory I have left and using the crap out of my discount while it lasts, lol. Oh well... on to bigger and better things.

5 minutes...

The wedding is litterally just around the corner. 5 weeks. I will be a married woman in 5 weeks. It's just craziness. We had the shower the first weekend in March, it was beautiful. The next big event is the Bachelorette Party which is being planned by my Maid of Honor, my sister, Laura. She's been completely shocking me with her MOH abilities. She could make a career out of it :) I have a feeling she did some googling shortly after I got engaged to find out her responsibilities. Lol.

3 minutes...

I have really been feeling the need to go back to school lately. I'm just still stuck on what exactly I want to study. There are pros and cons to each arena I lean towards. Education - would have to get a second bachelors, hard to find a job, etc. MSW - not sure how I would manage the part-time internship, my full-time job and school...I'm having anxiety just thinking about it. Business - what if I end up finding out that I don't want to start my own business/non-profit OR I do start one and it's dead after a year and then I'm stuck with no job, no money and no health insurance... a lot of "what ifs".

LUNCH TIME!

While I leave you to ponder the rest of my life, I am going to go nuke my Lean Cuisine Beef and Brocoli and chit chat with Wanda.

Enjoy the rest of your day. I promise to update more soon.

Longest Week Ever...

This is one of those blog posts that is just going to consist of me complaining about how my week went, so consider that your disclaimer.
1. I am incredibly frustrated with my job, it's really hard for me to go in everyday and seems to get more ridiculous every. single. time. I walk in the door.
2. I have been sick for about two weeks now. This past Monday, I was feeling pretty good, most of my yuckiness was gone...fast forward to Monday night --> I start to feel WORSE then I did before. Fever, chills, achy, runny nose, stuffy nose, sinus, coughing, headache, dizzy... you name it. So Wednesday rolls around, and I am having a lot of trouble breathing, I just couldn't seem to get enough air in each breath, so I am forced to take really big deep breaths every third breath or so. Wednesday night: I am weezing, and when I go to bed my throat and chest are burning each time I take a breath.
3. I take a personal day today to go to the doctor, no bronchitis, my breathing has gotten a little better, but I am told to take the next couple days off and rest. Excellent. Except I have some scheduled time off next week and I'm sure it look very good for me to be gone for two days, then back for one before I am gone for another four. I hate my job, but I NEED my job.
4. I haven't seen my fiance in five days. We have both been working and he was keeping distance so that he can stay healthy (he needs to be healthy to go to work), which is completely understandable, but I MISS HIM!
5. The medicine that my doctor prescribed me says it might cause diarreah, REALLY??? Can't I just get a break. (I know this is an over-share, sorry).

I think in an effort to keep up with my blog, I am going to start taking pictures of things and blog while watching some of my favorite shows. I love TV and that's all I'm going to be doing for the next couple of days, so we'll see if that keeps me blogging. Hopefully I will get some pictures taken for my knot bio as well. Here's hoping I will feel good enough tomorrow to get some stuff done.

Stay tuned... I might just blogg while watching your favorite show ;)

214 days and counting...

I'm home sick from work today. I usually feel pretty guilty when I can't go into work, which I did this morning, but I got progressively worse as the day went on, so I would say it was a pretty good decision. I work in a call center where I have to answer calls all day long, so if I'm not feeling well it makes my job impossible because the phone never stops ringing. So I figured I would use some of my down time to update my blog (not that anyone reads it, but whatever!)

Justin and I have decided to hold off on the house hunting for a little while. After going through the numbers we wouldn't have been left with enough money to eat/live while still saving for the wedding. So for now, we're still with our parents, which is okay, I've been here for 24 years. A couple more months won't make a difference. We did find a few condos we liked though. I'm still going through the condo-house debate. Any suggestions??

So changing topics - I watched my first episode of Gossip Girl last night. I was intrigued but also found a couple things slightly annoying. Being obsessed with other teenage drama shows, I knew I would at least be interested in it. I was surprised that even though I have never seen an episode before I enjoyed the characters and plots of the show. My beefs: Blair and her BF (I cannot remember his name, just that his initials are CB) are strange. I find him highly annoying because he reminds me of a Luke Perry impersonator. His voice sounds SOOO fake. But to Blair's credit, I think he's funny. I enjoy her personality/priorities, lol. I do, however, find "Gossip Girl" very intriguing... who is she? how does she know all these things??? Crazy!!

Alright, I know I am all over the place today, but I think I need to lay down and get some more sleep. Maybe I'll have another "The Office" marathon, those are fun.

Thanks for reading,
XOXO
Gossip Girl.

First-Time Home Buyer/Bride-To-Be

Crossroads. That's where I am. I can see my future, but I see about four different paths to take to get to that final destination. I graduated from college a year ago, I am closing in on my year anniversary at my first full-time job, I am getting married in 7 months, 3 weeks and 6 days, I am in the process of trying to find a place for my fiance and I to live, and in the midst of all of this, I am just trying to live my life and figure out how to pay for adulthood.

I cannot wait to find a place to live, apartment, house, condo... whatever! I just want to find a place to call my own and start building my life with my future husband. With the economy has it is, I know there are homes out there that we can afford, but I am nervous that maybe we will end up over extending our finances. Although, this could just be my "becoming an adult" cold feet. Sometimes I just can't believe I'm old enough to have these kind of responsibilites.

7 months, 3 weeks and 6 days.

I am wedding crazy, now-a-days. My fiance and I have been together (with a few derailments along the way) for over 6 years, we have been engaged since April of this year. I honestly still find myself not believing that I am engaged and actually PLANNING MY WEDDING! Everything has pretty much been planned, now it's just about execution and paying for everything. I have a feeling a lot of my posts will end up being wedding related for the time being, because I am in project mode :) I consider myself a DIY bride (for those of you not, "Knot Saavy" that just means I plan on doing a lot of things myself). I found a DIY project on a bio on The Knot that had instructions and pictures for coasters made out of ceramic tiles and scrapbooking paper. So far I have made 30 of them, and have fallen IN LOVE with them. I cannot wait to make the next batch. The "knottie" (as we call them) made hers for favors for her reception guests, mine will be used for shower favors. I cannot wait to give them out. I could probably go on forever about wedding plans, but I will refrain for the moment, since this is supposed to be a introduction post.

I work for a non-profit organization in downtown Detroit, which is both good and bad.
Good = I have some sence of job security because the economy seems to be worse here then everywhere else in the country.
Bad = The economy sucks! There isn't much out there right now to help people that need it the most.
I have some reservations about my current employment. Some things I chalk up to my inexperience in the "Real World" and others I chalk up to the fact that I work for some real jerks.

I think that's enough for now. I'll update later on, gotta get back to work.
Thanks for reading!