Just my everyday blogging

I got to thinking that it's been some time since I've done one of my normal everyday blogs. It's a shame really. Well, here it comes...

First of all, life as an engagee is fantastic! Although Josh and I are spending most of our time hundreds of miles away from each other, we cherish every minute we spend talking on the phone or texting about unimportant second-to-second details of everyday stuff. For example, I got a text yesterday that read, "I slid on my back on the trampoline and my shirt came up and I got a big burn. Ugh" Haha. But I think I can speak for both of us and say that it's the little things that get us through each and every day. My life right now consists of work and wedding planning. We're getting married on August 23rd which is now only 47 days away. Things are quickly falling into place and the stress levels are slowly dropping. We hit a pretty big crunch time when we went down and visited Josh. We had three days to pack as much wedding planning stuff in as we could. There were pictures to be taken, gifts to be registered for, a dress to be found and bought and a couple that desperately needed to spend some time alone. Since we got back we've been working on the invitations and we bought the bridesmaid dresses. The story of how we found the dresses is actually kind of interesting. We'd looked everywhere for modest, cheap dresses and couldn't find anything. We finally decided that it would just be cheaper and maybe even easier (at this point) for my mom to just make all 6. But alas, our city lacks in fabric stores and we couldn't find anywhere that had enough fabric to make 6 dresses out of. She said it would take more than 3 weeks for the extra fabric to come in. That was definitely pushing it. Saturday we decided we had to find something, no matter what. We went into town and stil couldn't find anything close to decent or for a reasonable price without having to alter them. Finally we decided to try this little mexican town. It may be lacking in English speaking people but it sure had a lot of little dress shops! We found about 6 all on one block. They each carried the same lines of dresses and sure enough I found the one I wanted in the right color and everything! They are spaghetti strap so they will need some alteration but for $70 each we would have taken anything! They had 2 on the rack and we ordered the other 4 that should be in this Friday! Thank goodness. It was quite the adventure. Almost all the big details are in order now, it's just the small details and decor that we have left now. But I figure that will all come over the next few weeks. I really want to just sit back and enjoy the ride because it's my day and it only comes once!

Josh informed me yesterday that I should start eating wheat bread instead of white bread. :P Bleck. I ate wheat bread everyday at school because all of my roommates did and there was no point in buying white bread when I was the only one that would eat it and couldn't finish it before it went moldy. But even though I had it for 8 months I still enjoy white bread way more. Well, I decided today that after I finish this last loaf of white bread at home, I'm switching to wheat. Ugh...reluctantly, but at least I'm doing it. Josh will be proud. Plus, I want my kids to eat wheat bread, so I guess I'd better start now.

I'm not too tired considering it's a Monday.

I really enjoyed Fourth of July this year despite the fact that I really wanted to be with Josh for it. It was fun seeing my nephews oo and aww at the fireworks. They are so adorable. My brother bought a big bow of fireworks and didn't realize til we opened it that they were all poppers. None of them were actual fireworks. Luckily I spent a few dollars and picked up a couple fountains. And the neighbors gave us quite the show in their yard. They had one that must have been 2X2 feet and was shooting arials up like a machine gun. Back and forth. It was so entertaining and really loud.

I'm not sure why we don't own more chip clips at our house. We had about 10 at school and it still wasn't enough. We may have one here but I'm finding myself needing them all the time. Good investment...

I'm starving.

It's strange that when I was in high school I would say, "middle school seems like just yesterday" it being 4 years prior to high school and now after being at a university for just one year, high school seems like centuries ago. The maturity level must not change much from middle school to high school. It sure changes a lot when you leave home though.

I wonder if I need a new pillow. I constantly wake up with bad neck and back aches. I wonder how much of that is connected to my bed/pillow or how much of it is just how I sleep. Maybe I sleep really odd. That honestly wouldn't surprise me at all. Lately I've been waking up in the morning with dead arms because my arms were above my head all night. Or my shoulder joints will ache when I wake up because I move my arms so much. Odd.

I always chew on my pens and pencils. I always have. I can remember my pencils having chew marks on them all the way back in elementary school. Well lately I've had the problem of breaking the little hook/tab things off my pens. You know the thing that makes them able to hook on your pocket. I broke 3 in one day last week. At work I need that because I hang a pen on my lanyard so it gets frustrating when I keep breaking them off.

I think I'm going to take my lunch a little early today because I'm so hungry. :)

I'm really excited to get married. And it's not just marriage I'm excited about, it's marrying Josh! We went through some expectations in his marriage book last night and our expectations are almost exactly the same on everything! We have so much fun talking about our future and what our lives are going to be like together forever. One of my favorite things to do is think back to when Josh and I first started dating. It seems like forever ago. In fact being with him just 8 days ago seems like ages ago too. But when we first started dating, neither of us were super interested. And it's so fun to look back and see how we progressed and how we slowly fell in love with each other. From day 1 Josh treated me like a queen. Not in the overly annoying way. He still teases me and pokes fun but no matter what I always know he loves me and would do anything for me. But even though he was great from the start the way he treats me now is so different. It's still great, but to such a higher degree. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what's changed but I know it's good!

I don't like potty-mouths.

One of my favorite ways to be waken up is by a phone call. I know how ridiculously tired I sound when I've just woken up and I know that I often make no sense at all. But there's something fun about getting an early morning wake up call. :?

Josh is coming to stay for 10 whole days! I can't wait. Sigh, best 10 days of the summer I swear. We don't have any big plans but I know it will still be great. :)

Only 11 days til Josh arrives!!!

til next time..
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