Making Plans and Kicking....well nothing

Girls road trip to Chicago is done and over. Great experience but torturous drive home. Leave it to us to end up driving through a blizzard on our way back. We left Chicago at 7 am and I didn't get home until 7:30 pm. Thank goodness for good company for the long car ride. Slow and steady the whole way through.

It was a great relaxing weekend with my favorite blonde "sisters." Plus, I scored some amazing new clothes and my first ever pair of boots. Yes, I am that late to the trend and finally bought adorable boots. The best part is that I scored them for $60 at Nordstrom Rack and when I went home I discovered they are originally $240 boots! I love a good deal!

One more picture just for funsies, this is my "little sister" and I looking classy:

Of course, I got home from this little trip and needed to try to schedule another one. Luckily, the stars aligned and the Mr. and I scored cheap tickets to San Francisco to a friends wedding in April. I was finally resigned to missing the weekend because whenever I checked flights were well over $400 a person but I checked again yesterday and they came down to $309! Needless to say I convinced the Mr. it was a must have and we booked last night. I don't think he's super excited for the trip since he's not really a 'lets go explore the city' type of person but he's being a trooper because he knows how much I want to see my friend on her special day. All this means I need to start finding activities for us ASAP because we'll have 3 whole days to ourselves and I want to make sure he enjoys himself. I have been to SF 3 times now but my time is usually spent shopping and I know that won't thrill him. So, if anyone has guy friendly Bay Area activities let me know, I need them!

Now we just need to figure out this whole baby thing. We are getting so close to our original off the pill date and it's starting to terrify me. I know that I want a baby but it's starting to freak me out a bit that it could happen so soon! Should we wait till we're a bit later? Will we regret spending our 20's raising babies? I really don't know and my mind flips back and forth just about every day. Decisions, decisions.

Good things to come

There are many things on my to do list right now and the next few weekends are full of social obligations leaving little to no time to do them!

Currently, I am in the middle of sewing five more bags like these ones:

It's so rewarding when they are done, but man alive it's putzy! The last time I made a group like this they were for my bridesmaids so I didn't even get the reward of a purse for myself in the end. This time, I made sure that wasn't going to happen. There's a beauty in the mix for little ole me!

On top of that, I'm trying (rather unsuccessfully) to redecorate our bedroom. I know we can't afford a nice matching bedroom set so I'm searching for pieces that coordinate. Before new furniture comes in I need to paint one of the walls, which will be quite the project since it's a deep red now so it'll need primer as well as a few coats for gray I'm sure. In other words, a definite weekend project (if not two weekends!) and there isn't an open one until at least March at this point.

With all that said, I am so excited for the next couple of weekends. We have a wedding this weekend for one of my many cousins, but I'm really looking forward to it. I enjoy weddings on a whole new level now that I've had my own big day. Then next weekend, three friends and I are road tripping to Chicago. I haven't visited the city since I was about 8, so even though it's only two nights I know it's going to be great!

Enough rambling for tonight, I think bedtime is approaching quickly. It's been a rough week.

Finding a New Normal

This is an odd one for me. No worries, there haven't been any drastic changes in our lives. For the first tine in a long time there isn't anything 'big' happening. No wedding to plan for, no time consuming holidays, and the honeymoon is officially over. So, we are left with big ole empty evenings that need filling. Don't get me wrong, we can relax and bum around with the best of them. And according to my coworkers we're supposed to relish every last minute of that exact 'bum around' time before kiddos come into the picture. The problem is, I feel so darned lazy if I do that, it seems like I should be doing more with my time. So, how do I fill it? Sure I could start some new hobbies, like try to amp up my sewing projects, but then what happens to it once we do have a kid?

I suppose I'll just wrap this up by saying, I sure am happy my dilemmas are so trivial.

It's been awhile......

Wow, a lot has happened since August. The Mr. and I were married October 23rd, and it was absolutely perfect. Our day turned out just fabulously and it couldn't have been a better day. I am so happy that we both truly enjoyed our day and had fun.

Now, a few months later, we're just back from our honeymoon to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, and, surprise surprise, it was a great vacation. It was the Mr.'s first time out of the country and his first time in the ocean. I was so honored to be able to experience those with him. He was happy as a clam swimming in the ocean, but wasn't too keen on the saltwater :)

With all the wedding/honeymoon craziness out of the way, we've been trying to find a new rhythm to our life. I have been inspired recently by a handful of blogs and am really trying to challenge myself to try new things. For one, younghouselove.com has lit a fire in me to become more of a do-it-yourself'er. The Mr. isn't too keen on all of my ideas but we're compromising on a variety of projects so it's all good! I've also gotten into another sewing kick, but this time it's all for fun! I made all the ladies of my wedding party an Amy Butler Birdie Sling as a thank you gift and they were such a hit everyone in my life wants one now! So, I've started another round of 5, and two of them are getting purchased! The rest are gifts, but a whole bunch of others have showed interest in purchasing them, so I may start making them to sell, guess we'll have to wait and see.

I really want to become dedicated to this blogging thing, so if anyone actually happens upon my little blog, please feel free to leave some tips. I'm pretty clueless about this whole process. All I know is I love love love to read blogs and would love to take mine 'a step further,' if you will.

Pure Bliss

Live has been nothing but pure bliss lately. I know I'll be singing a different tune in just a few short weeks when my Dear Fiance is stuck working out of town, when we're both sleeping in lonely beds longing for the other. That, is not bliss. However, those nights just shed light on how much we truly love one another and how blessed we are to share any time together. When he's gone, the hugs when we reunite just feel so much better. I love him. With every part of my being. He's the half that makes me whole, that makes me strive to be a better person. I am so excited to be his wife and I hope I can do the role justice.

Just Another Day

Ok, so I guess it's official that I'm an adult now. Don't know when it happened, but it did. All of a sudden I'm working an 8-4:30 day wherein I spend the vast majority in a cubicle and then I come home. It's the coming home part that boggles my mind a bit. What the hell are you supposed to do now?! I should explain, I'm not a go out and about spend money type of person, because, lets face it, I don't have the money to do that. So, I try to spend most of my evenings at home. Which is all fine and dandy to me because I like being home. I just don't know what one is supposed to do at home at this age. I don't have kids to chase after, I'm not a household project person and I don't find a ton of enjoyment in cleaning (don't worry, my house usually doesn't resemble a pigsty, I keep it relatively tidy). This means my evenings are usually spent on the computer with the TV running something in the background or possible with my nose in a book. I just feel like I'm missing something! I mean, there has to be more to life than this, right? Seriously, my only solution is thinking, once I have kids it won't be like this, they'll take up my time. But what do adults without children do for the rest of their days? Are their evenings all low key like this forever? I guess if that's what you so desire good for you, but damn, I don't think I could take it. I feel like my time is wasting away. All done rambling now, if I find something to do with my free time I'll let you know.

Ever have a day that starts great but many small let downs turn it into what seems like a overall craptastic day? Guess what?! Today is one of those days.

I really need to get better at not letting little things bug me, but I'm having a big old problem doing that.