Hot Fudge and Hockey Players

Sound dirty?

Lol. I just finished a bowl of ice cream (ie the hot fudge) and I am watching the first Wing's game of the playoffs. Not a bad combo if I do say so myself.

So..... yeah.....I've sucked at blogging lately. Honestly, I just haven't thought about it. I think Justin and I are still in the transition period with moving and with the wedding just around the corner, I'm spending all my extra time on finishing up the finer details of the big day. It's been so sureal getting those RSVP cards back, the wedding has been such a huge part of MY life for the past 13 months, but now other people are involved. I am officially on their calendar. Crazy. Almost everything is done, just have some small things left to actually "do" then it's all about execution and the day of. I honestly, can't wait. I'm so exhausted I just want to go on my honeymoon and relax with my husband for two weeks.

In more recent news, we ordered a new digital camera last week and it arrived today. This camera is absolutely amazing! I am in love with it. I was afraid I was going to regret spending so much money so close to the wedding but I am so happy we got it. It will be awesome on the honeymoon. It's a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX1. It got great reviews online and takes great pictures. Here are a couple test shots I took from the balcony of the apartment tonight.

It's funny, I've been so busy with things I have to do lately that something really silly is getting me excited for my weekend. After meeting with the DJ Justin and I are doing a shopping trip to Kohls, he is in desperate need of some tennis shoes and work clothes and I have a gift card from my birthday, so I can find something fun for the trip for myself too! We're also making a stop at Lowe's so I can get some flower boxes to hang off the balcony rails, I'm super excited to have some pretty plants hanging out there!! OH! And I'm going to try and take advantage of Meijer's 10 for 10 sale this weekend and get some good deals on groceries. Awesome!

Now that I have completely bored you tonight, I'm going to head to bed and watch a little bit more hockey before hitting the hay. The hubs is out hanging with his best man so I can fall asleep before he gets home and avoid being elbowed in the face :)

Hopefully I'll get some time and good stories to update soon.
Nighty Night!

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.

Big Freaking Check!

The invites are DONE! FINISHED! SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED (well, almost delivered, Justin is taking them to the post office tomorrow).

This has seriously been the biggest and most aggravating wedding project to date! I purchased invite kits from Michaels and added different colored ribbon and a background of green cardstock behind the invite panel, so for the most part I made them. So this is what I did:
1. Printed the invite panels, RSVP cards (custom with guests names), Reception cards, inside envelopes, RSVP envelopes and outer envelopes.
2. Glued the invite panel to the green cardstock and glued that to the pocket fold
3. created belly bands with a custom monogram for the center of the ribbon.
4. put them all together (this took over a week...and about 10,000 paper cuts on my hands)
5. Put on the stamps
6. sealed them with a sponge and some water (because you know I'm not licking all those envelopes.

I started this project around October-ish and finished tonight.

Next on my list? Programs, seating chart and table numbers. Nothing earth shattering - most of them I can do at work ;)

I'm too tired to keep writing, so I will update on Saturday after Mom and I bust out some flowers.

Nighty Night Blog World!

Oscar Worthy

Evening bloggers!

Tonight was a fun night. I went out to dinner and saw "The Blind Side" with my mom. We did our usual chinese buffet which was fun. The vegetable lo mein was fantastic like always :)

I have to say - I really enjoyed the movie though. I am already a Sandra Bullock fan, but this performace just put her on a whole other level. It was solid and completely amazing. She totally made the movie! And, as we were walking out of the theater I said to my mom "Can you imagine seeing Sandra Bullock win an Oscar for playing YOU in a movie??" -- It makes me want to research more about Michael Oher (I think that's how it's spelled) and his family. It ALSO made me think about what I want to do with the rest of my life. I've been struggling with this lately and know there are about 7 different things that interest me and I can see me doing, but I just don't know what road to take. This movie made me take notice to two things:

1. Becoming a teacher -- Elementary Education was my major for the first two years of college. I bailed after two years mainly because I didn't want to do the student teaching and take the exams in order to get my teaching certificate. I regret that A LOT.

2. Non-Profit Management -- This is something that I have been thinking about lately. It would give me the ability to help people (whatever population I choose) while still be in the office enviornment, which I have grown to love (I'm weird, I know).

I guess I will have to look into both futures and start weighing my options. I see a Gilmore Girl Pro/Con list coming on :)

Bittersweet Symphony - It is my life

Welp. It's been a couple weeks since I last posted. (Sorry for that, by the way). A lot has happened and I'm going to break it up into a couple different posts because I don't want to overwhelm you with the past two weeks all in one shot. So first - Moving :)

So last you heard I was packing the night before the big move to our apartment. I have to say, I never want to move again (even though we will in approximately 15 months...), it is incredibly exhausting, frustrating, emotional and just plain crazy! We ended up moving on that Friday morning and mother nature decided to throw us a curve ball - it snowed for 24 hours straight. It was cold, wet and windy. Thankfully we had a lot of help from my parents and Justin's friend Tim. We eventually got everything inside and began to settle in. My mom had stayed with me the entire day. She brought over my first load of stuff and then we went shopping at Target for some food and "house basics", I was incredibly surprised by how calm I was, I wasn't nervous, I wasn't sad, I was just having fun. Then the time came to get my last small load from my parent's house and going back myself. I completely lost it. I didn't want to leave my room, my parents, my cats, my house, I just didn't want to leave at all. It was quite possibly the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Once I got to the apartment (longest drive of my life by the way... I ended up going through a red light because I was crying so much I couldn't see...) I cried on Justin a little bit and then went to bed. Each day was hard, each day is still hard, but it's getting a little bit easier as time passes. It's just so incredibly weird to be living somewhere else. My room has always been my room, my house, my bathroom, my bed, everything has been the same my entire life and it all changed in one day.

On the bright side, Justin and I are making a home here. It's taking some time and I'm trying not to be quite as OCD as I would like to be. It's a work-in-progress. And as we start making a home here we are getting closer and closer to the wedding. Our shower has already come and gone, the gifts have been unwrapped and put away in cupboards and closets...we've now got less than 2 months before we're walking down the aisle. YIKES!!

This is what I've got for you for now. I'm home sick from work today, but feeling a little better after getting some extra sleep. It's amazing what a couple hours on a comfy couch will do for you.  Maybe I'll take some pictures of our home later and maybe post them this afternoon.

Happy Hump Day!

Procrastination or Multi-Tasking?

So... we're moving tomorrow and I'm still not done packing.

So, is me sitting on my bed watching The Real Housewives of Orange County while blogging considered procrastination OR multi-tasking??

I think I'm just a little bit overwhelmed at this point. One can accumulate a lot of stuff in 25 years... and not all of it can come with me, but I have to have my room semi-cleaned out because my sister is stealing my room when she moves home in a couple months. BUT my 2 bedroom apartment will only hold so much (sidenote - Simon is a dick! I cannot stand him, he's does nothing but start drama - end sidenote) stuff, so we shall see. But I'm working on it, and I've brought PROOF!!

 

Notice the boxes and garbage bags, lol! I'm just not sure where the heck to put everything - my dad's truck isn't here, my mom's Jeep isn't here, so here sits my crap waiting to be taken downstairs for moving day. Unfortuantely and fortunately, we have no furniture (except a bed) to move because it's being delivered next week when it's in stock at the store. So right now we have a table, a 42 inch flat screen, a bed and all the crap I've accumulated over the past 25 years. I've definitely gotta get picutres of the festivities tomorrow. 

I'll update later when I'm closer to being done -- add a picture or two. In the meantime, have a great evening :)

And another one bites the dust....

In a good way!!

I have another thing to cross off my list today! Justin and I went out to Gardner White to find some furniture for our apartment, and we ended up finding one of those "couch with TV" packages that comes with not only a 42 inch LCD TV, but also a WII!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. As soon as it comes, I'm going out to buy Wii fit and Wii sports because I'm all about the bowling game. I think I might be more excited about the Wii then the furniture, lol. I haven't done much as far as packing goes, but I'll get to it this week. I am planning on doing nothing this week but packing (and working) so I can get it all done by D-Day.

In wedding news: Justin and I had a meeting at Laurel Manor on Saturday to go over our menu options and finalize everything. We ended up adding up-lighting and linens to our order. Originally I wasn't going to do special linens because it was ALL about saving money and not doing anything that could be considered "extravagant" but after going over the numbers and getting some much needed financial help from some family members, we actually have extra money in the savings account, so we looked at what they had to offer and got some sage green (chiffon) linens and will be doing 4 light pink lights at the points in the room. We also added a cake from Sweet Dreams. Originally, our package included the wedding cake from Sweet Dreams, or we could get 2.75 per person taken off of our bill and take care of the cake ourselves. Well, we were 77 days away from the wedding and hadn't taken any steps towards finding a bakery and honestly, I had no desire to drag Justin to another wedding meeting, so when our consultant brought it up again, we jumped at it. I wanted a simple cake, white on white with some scrolling and they had the perfect one for us. We don't have to do ANYTHING, our consultant asked if we liked strawberries, and both Justin and I said "yes!" as if she was dangling a million dollars in front of our faces and she suggested one of Sweet Dream's most popular cakes - Vanilla cake, butter cream and fresh strawberries. We said - Awesome, she filled out the sheet and faxed it over. CAKE - DONE!

We've got mostly little things from here and 77 days to get it all done. The biggest things that are fogging my mind this week are getting the coasters done for the shower, and moving. Once those two projects are done, it's on to the invitations they are about 75% done, and I've decided to just take on the rest of the project myself. That will be my project for the week after the shower so they can be in the mail before the end of that week. So, ladies, hold me to it. Invites in the mail by Saturday March 13th!!

That's all I have for now - I think. I'm off to update my 101 in 1001 list and to watch some US vs Canada Olympic Hockey.

Have a great evening and Monday!