ZAC IS COMING HOME!!!!! OH MY GOSH I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELF!!!! My fiance will be in Texas on either Friday or Saturday and I am so excited! We have been separated for almost a year now, meaning each of us lived in a different state, and now my baby is moving back home! YEAH!! Maybe I should embaress him at the airport with a big sign saying, "WELCOME HOME ZAC! I LOVE YOU!!" Lol, somehow I don't think that would fly over very well with him. *giggle* oh well. I am extremely nervous and anxious that my stomach is acting up. Zac thinks I am so crazy for being nervous. Well, he isn't a girl. Girls are always nervous, especially since I don't get to see my fiance very much, and it has been 2 months since I have seen him. EEKKK!!! There are so many things I want to do when I see him, but things are just going to have to take time. Dang it, I am so impatient. Definitely something I need to work on.

I got this email from my soon to be Mother-in-law, and I thought it was so funny. Definitely didn't expect something like this from her:

1. Men are like Laxatives ..... They irritate the crap out of you.
2. Men are like Bananas ....... The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like Weather.... Nothing can be done to change them.
4. Men are like Blenders.... You need One, but you're not quite sure why.
5. Men are like Chocolate Bars .... Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.
6. Men are like Commercials ....... You can't believe a word they say.
7. Men are like Department Stores ..... Their clothes are always ½ off.
8. Men are like Government Bonds .... They take soooooooo long to mature.
9. Men are like Mascara ... They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
10. Men are like Popcorn ..... They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
11. Men are like Snowstorms .... You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.
12. Men are like Lava Lamps .... Fun to look at, but not very bright.
13. Men are like Parking Spots .... All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

Now isn't that the funniest thing ever?

Well it is short and sweet today, really tired and don't feel well. I haven't been sleeping very well because I have been over stressed, anxious and my allergies/sinuses have been going haywire. What I need to do is go home, take a benedryl as soon as I get home and knock myself out. Now that sounds like a great idea. I have a long drive ahead of me tomorrow and then it will be relax time with my sister. Thank goodness for 3 day weekends. Happy Friday everyone!

Happy Valentines Day?

What is the big deal about Valentines day? You get chocolate, you eat it, you get fat. You get flowers, they look beautiful for a couple of days, and then they die. You get stuffed animals, you think they are cute for a couple of days, then they end up in a drawer or under the bed, never to be seen again. You get lingerie, you wear it once, and then it gets put into a drawer. What is the point of celebrating ONE day?!?! Zac and I had talked about this quite a bit when we were dating. Celebrating our love for one day is ridiculus, celebrating our love everyday is what you are supposed to do. It doesn't matter if there is a holiday that is all about love, Zac and I celebrate our love for each other everyday of the year. That is real love. I don't need a holiday to inspire me to tell my true love that I love him with all of my heart and want to show him how I love him. I do that all the time anyways. Zac I love you so much sweety and I thank God everyday for you. You have been such an amazing blessing to me and I cannot imagine a man more wonderful than you. You are my best friend, my companion, my partner in crime *giggle*, my strength, my heart, my one and only love. Thank you for choosing me to love and choosing me to spend the rest of your life with. I will do my best to be the wife you want and deserve.

"LORD God, please bless our marriage and bless Zac for choosing me to be his wife. LORD you know I am very difficult, very emotional and hard headed. But LORD you also know my heart, you know my soul and mind, and you know how much I love this man. Please help me to be the wife he wants, deserves and needs. Help me to be the woman you describe in
Proverbs 31:10-31:

"Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies. Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life. She will not hinder him but help him all her life...She is energectic and strong, a hard worker. She watches for bargains; her lights burn late into the night. Her hands are busy sprinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber. She extends a helping hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy. She has no fear of winter for her household because all of them have warm clothes. She quilts her own bedspreads. She dresses like royalty in gowns of finest cloth...She is clothed with strength and dignity and she laughs with no fear of the future. When she speaks, her words are wise, and kindness i teh rule when she gives instructions. She carefully watches all that goes on in her household and does not have to bear the consequences of laziness. Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her: "There are more virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!" Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the LORD will be greatly praised. Reward her for all she has done. Let her deeds publicly declare her praise."

LORD God please watch over us and protect us from the enemy. You know he hates marriage, even when it is under you and your perfect love. Lord I pray that our love will grow even more to be the unconditional love that you have for us, your children. Help our marriage to grow strong so that we may stand strong with our feet firmly planted on the ground during the storms that we will face! I love you Lord God and I thank you for the many blessings. Thank you again for Zac. He is such an amazing and wonderful man! I LOVE HIM LORD. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
In Jesus' perfect name, AMEN!"

My prayer to all of you out there, may God bless you in each of your lives, bless the ones you love, and to shower you with his unconditional love. God loves you and so do I!

Finally on the last day of my medication that my doctor had to prescibe me. And let me tell you, feeling like an emotional roller coaster is no fun! I have been on a high hormone for 10 days and it sucks! One minute I would be ok, the next minute crying my eyes out, and then the next wanting to chew someone's head off, anyone within arms reach. Oh sure, I thought I was going crazy because I have never acted this way. So I seriously thought there was something wrong with me. Zac was so scared because I would call him crying my eyes out because I was so sick from this medicine. Because it was such a high dose of a hormone, I was sick to my stomach for the whole 10 days. It was so bad one night that I called my dad who is a doctor telling him to prescribe something to me to stop the sickness. It was unbearable. Thankfully, I had something that my other doctor gave me when I had the stomach flu during Christmas. I took one of those pills, dang, I was out in 15 minutes. It was great! I slept over 12 hours that night, which of course never happens. But anyways, my last one was yesterday, now I just have to wait. My doctor told me that I could have kids and all the other schmucks that were feeding me nothing but crappy opinions and stupid assumptions were wrong! I felt such an amazing amount of excitement, I think I even started crying. I have always hated those idiots that told me I couldn't have kids. That is so important to me because I want Zac to be able to have his own kids with me. I want us to have kids together. And I know he wants to be a father. He would make such a great father. And I bet anything our kids will be the spitting image of Zac. Looks, character/personality, etc. As long as they aren't like me, I think I will be happy. But I will make sure that my kids don't ever have a life like mine. And they better not be obsessed with the computer. *giggle* I think I'll go off the deep end if they do. Lol.
Wedding plans are going well, I think. My bridesmaids have ordered their dresses and shoes, which is a load off of mine. Red and I went to David's Bridal on Saturday, and I thought I was in a bad dream. There were tons of brides, with their bridesmaids, and TEENAGERS, shopping for prom. Talk about little hoochies with slutty dresses. Yuck! Anyways, we brought Munchkin with us to find some shoes, hair piece, etc. to go with her dress for the wedding since she is my flower girl. She looks so adorable! We found the exact dress she is going to wear and put it on her. I found the cutest bow for her hair and little ballet slippers, which are named after here too. *giggle* We put all of that stuff on her, and she was so precious! Every bride and bridesmaid that was there, just stopped what they were doing and looked at her while I was taking pictures. All of them said, "Oh, how adorable", "can I come to that wedding", "can she be in my wedding?" It was great. I piped up and said, "she is MY flower girl" with a smirk on my face. It was great. She really will be adorable. I'm gonna have a kissing ball for her to carry down the aisle instead of spreading rose petals or carrying a bouquet. Red was blushing and you could really tell she was so happy that she was the mother of Munchkin. I can't wait.

Days until my Wedding: 88 (YEEHAW)
*now wouldn't it be sick if I actually had it down to hours, minutes and seconds too?*

Let it sleet, let it sleet, let it sleet...

Well Temple and Belton are seeing the 2nd or 3rd day of rain, sleet, mixture and temperature that hasn't gone past 28 degrees. So of course like most Texans they would stay indoors, cuddle up with a blanket and a cup of coffee or tea infront of the roaring fireplace...
but where am I....at work! Of all places. Oh well. At the moment, the sun is trying to peek through the clouds, but it is still sleeting. The roads are slick, the sideswalks are being iced over, and where am I still...at work. Goodness. I know I am being whiny, but I would rather be safe at home and i my pajamas curled under a blanket and in my bed. My warm fuzzy pajamas are calling my name...ok maybe I need to get that checked out. Well, not much to write about...maybe more later. In the mean time, stay warm, stay dry, and think twice before going out in this weather. Later!

Getting ready for the holidays

Sunday Munchkin and I went to see Ballet Renee's Texas Nutcracker. It was so cute. It was great seeing munchkin's eyes light up watching the pretty ballerina's dance across the stage. She kept asking, "Kristen, can we go see the ballerina's backstage?" And of course I would tell her we would afterwards. We even got a couple of pictures with her and a ballerina. She was so adorable. Red was completely sick with a stomach bug, so I took her. I don't think I stopped for more than an hour on Sunday. It was crazy. Poor Red, she couldn't keep anything down and she was in bed just looking so pitiful. I hate getting a stomach bug. If it is one thing that I am a complete wimp and will act like a baby about, it is my stomach. I can pretty much handle a lot of other things, but not when it comes to my stomach. But we had fun at the ballet and it just kicked munchkin's drive to be a ballerina into overdrive. *giggle* She will definitely be a cute little ballerina. But watching that ballet reminded me of when I was in the Nutcracker in California when I was younger.
I was a little mouse and it was so adorable. My dad was the Nutcracker and he was amazing! We had tons of fun. Oh what I wouldn't give to have been able to stay in Ballet.
I guess you could say things are going well right now. I am just anxiously and eagerly awaiting next Thursday so I can drive East to see my family and Zac. I can't wait. So of course, this week, and I bet next week are going to go at a snails pace. That sucks!
Today, I am going to lunch with some girlfriends of mine from McLane Company. They are such a great group of women, and I am so blessed to have them as friends. Two of them are my bridesmaids. They were so excited when I asked them to be in my bridal party. They almost cried and said they were honored to be in the wedding with me. They even love the dress that is picked out for them. Both Chris and Misty said they were glad that I had picked out a dress that they could wear again. That makes me so happy because that is one of the things that was important to me. I don't want my friends to wear something that they can't wear again. That is why I didn't choose some AWFUL looking dress, like seafoam. That would be cruel. But I want them to be beautiful on my wedding day as well, not just me, ya know? It makes me very happy that they are excited about being in the wedding. Kim is a little sad because she can't be down here to help me with wedding plans, since she is my Maid of Honor and all. But I understand she has priorities as well. Things are really going to be executed until after the holidays anyways. But thankfully, I get to get out of Texas for a while and be around the ones that I can act silly with and understand me fully, and play Phase 10 with while reciting movie lines from stupid movies like, Tommy Boy and Shrek. *giggle* I love my weird family!

Bridal Fitting

Do you know how you are at a dress shop or a clothing store, you find an outfit that you are sure fits, you grab it and go to the dressing room to try it on; you start putting it on, and it WON'T fit?!!!?! Well, that is exactly what happened to me last night. I had my bridal fitting last night. I kept thinking all day, ok, finally things are starting to take off, I can get this in, get the bustle and then get it back in March and I will be ok. WRONG!!! I got there, got my bra and slip on, put the dress on and it wouldn't fit. So, I fling the bra off (nice visual, ha?) and it zipped up fine. Well, I get to the back where alterations are, and one of the seemstresses starts noticing that wire on the bottom of the dress was coming out and then I noticed a HUGE tear in my dress! I started crying right there and then. This is my wedding dress! She was so embaressed because the dresses weren't supposed to be sold like that. So they decided to get me the same size and in the same dress, they start to put it on me, and the zipper doesn't go up at all! And there were two seemstresses trying to get me into this thing. That zipper wouldn't budge. It was my ribcage that wouldn't let the zipper move. I have a barrel ribcage so it made it impossible for me to fit into that dress. I told them, I'll have to thank my ancestors the next time I see them. *grunt* They just couldn't understand how I could fit into my dress PERFECTLY and not be able to fit into one the same size. Well, to make matters worse, it turns out, the wrong size was sewn in my dress. So, I had to get a bigger size. Now the size thing I'm not concerned about, what matters is that it fit into a dress that looks good. What concerned me, is that this was another speed bump. Every inch of the way, there has been a speed bump that satan has put in my way to keep me from getting married or to change my mind. But God always came back and blessed me and Zac 10 times over. He made this situation all better. They decided that they are going to order me a bigger size, that will be in the store in January, and that they will make it a rush order/priority to be ready for me to pick up in March on the original date that was already set for me to pick up my other dress! I mean, how wonderful is that! God you are so awesome! Even in the midst of darkness, he ALWAYS turns on the light so that way I don't run into something. *giggle* But I called my mom last night and I just cried my eyes out. I felt so embaressed. My mom felt so bad because she couldn't be here to help and to comfort me. Oh well. But things are better now. It is a new day and His blessings are new every morning.

Ba Humbug!

Everyone is putting up their Christmas trees and lights, wreaths and National Lampoons Christmas decorations in the front yard for all to see. Seeing all of this festive holiday cheer automatically reminded me of a song I used to hear when I was younger called "The Twelve Pains of Christmas" , and luckily I found it online on YouTube.

Well, just recently my sister was on Good Morning Arkansas promoting her new CD and will be having her concert this coming weekend. I can't believe my sister is getting famous! LOL, she told me she just finished mastering her CD this week and that her CD covers are all done. I am so excited for her. Hopefully she will get a record deal and get out of that hell hole where she lives away from all the people that are sucking her down in her life. She is an incredible woman and she has nothing but people or should I call them "crabs" that want to bring her down into their world. I got out of there as soon as I could and it was the best decision I ever made. If I had stayed I would probably would have been dead or killed myself. YUCK! Anyways, she is so excited about her exciting debut. Way to go baby sis'!

Wedding plans are going ok, it is kind of in a rut at the moment, mainly because I am trying to refrain from buying anything for the wedding. EEEKKK, do you know how bad that feels to a shopaholic? Since I have reached my limit on my credit card, I can't spend anymore money. I am so pissed off and angry at myself for doing that. My fiance is helping me out by paying for some of the wedding stuff I have already purchased. eeekkk! I hate myself, I hate myself, I hate myself. There, now that I have that out into the open. I actually would prefer to bash my head into a brick wall a couple of times and call it a day. But no. I can't, unfortunately. I have been such a sour and bitter person the past 2 days and I have no idea where it came from. I kind of want to scream at a certain STUPID person for being so damn...well you get the hint. And I am ready for the wedding to get here already. I think mainly why I am so dang sour is because of the money thing. I am just so angry at myself. As they say, we are our own worst critic. I am just so thankful that I am marrying a man that is extremely smart with money and learns from others mistakes instead of having to learn himself, especially when it deals with money. I even told him not to give me or trust me with a credit card with we get married. I am extremely irresponsible with it and I don't want the guilt of being an irresponsible steward on my conscience.
Anyways, so I am sitting here listening to Christmas music, not in the Christmas spirit, watching the clock and eagerly anticipating 5pm to get here so that I can bolt out of the doors and head home. I'm tired of sitting here wincing everytime my name is called. Sorry folks, in an extremely sour mood, so hopefully it will be better tomorrow. Hopefully!

Sweet tooth addict

People tell you, "don't gain any weight before your wedding", and "as soon as you buy your wedding dress, you will gain a lot of weight!" Oh, THANKS FOR THAT HELPFUL INFORMATION! My only problem is, I am a sweet tooth junky. I love sugar. I always have and it is an incredibly bad habit. Because I gain weight so quickly. I have a big butt, big hips, and a chubby tummy, and thunder thighs (result of being in soccer for so long, and which I have had my entire life *giggle*). So this short-fat-chubby-ugly-blonde that I am, has gained weight again. You would think that I would learn. But NOOOOOOOO, I keep shoving it in my mouth handfuls at a time. Ewwww....bad image. But I can't stand being fat, or chubby, etc. I am extremely self-conscious. Zac doesn't mind me being chubby or whatever. We were talking about this last night. I told him, I had gained 10 pounds and to not be surprised if I looked weird or fatter. He told me it doesn't matter what I look like, he loves me the way I am. But I kept telling him, I want to be desireable to him, I want him to think I am beautiful, or gorgeous, sexy, etc. I want to be desired by him. Every woman wants that, and don't say you don't because you are lying to yourself. Zac just told me that I am sexy, beautiful, gorgeous, pretty, and that he does desire me. He said, "Sweetpea, I love you no matter what, and that includes everything about you, even your body. I will always think you are beautiful." I almost broke down and cried. I am marrying the most incredible man. How did I get so lucky?!?!?!?
Red has strep throat. I woke up this morning and she was crying and moaning. I was like what is going on?!?! I walked to the bathroom and asked her if she was ok. She told me that she was hurting, and felt rechid, and her throat hurt so badly she couldn't swallow anything. Poor thing. I felt so bad. So I made her some tea, and got munchkin ready for school, etc. I made her stay home today. Her mom made her go to the doctor and diagnosed that it was strep throat. YUCK! I hate strep throat. I thought she had the flu, she had all the symptoms. Poor Red. I hope she gets better soon. But on the brighter side, she gets to stay home and sleep, hopefully, and I get to miss the board meeting tonight! YEE HAW! I mean...darn....*giggle*. Oh well, I'm hungry, need to eat real food, so later.

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Bad mood

I don't know why, but I have been a total pain in the butt all day. I am cranky, I just want to smack a couple of people, I want to rip my hair out, and I want to go back to bed. Stupid people just suck! I can't stand people that have no common sense. Unfortunately, I have to be really careful not to say something I really want to say out of sheer spur of the moment to those that are just abnoxious and dumb. If you haven't gotten the hint, I am really negative today. It doesn't happen often, at least I don't think, but when it does come out, it is in full force.
I am holding a Silpada party this Thursday, and I sent my contact list and everything, but the demonstrator probably didn't send out the invitations until Sunday. That is four days! I'll probably have like 2 people at my party, if I am lucky! I love hosting parties, I just come naturally to it and I really shine when I do. But I don't get to do it very often.
This is me at the moment:

Red and I decorated the house this weekend, and it looks beautiful! We added both of our stuff together and it turned out great. I love Christmas, have I mentioned that. I could do Christmas all year around. Zac I think would let me if I wanted. He doesn't care what I do, as long as I am with him. I love him so much and I miss him too. But I have 9 days until I see him. YEAH! It isn't coming fast enough though. But I will have time to get down to Corpus Christi before he does. I'll surprise him at the airport and POUNCE on him! tee hee. He won't know what hit him. *giggle* As Zac would say, "Sweetpea, you are a turkey!" Well.....

GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!

Strike a pose

Today Red asked me to be a model for her new bridal ad. I said of course I would! YEAH! Red is really good at photography, so she is doing my bridal portraits for me. I get to get dressed up in all my stuff, test out hair styles, etc. *giggle* I love getting in my dress, I do feel like a princess when I get into it. (said jokingly...) "All bow to Princess Kristen". *giggle* Whatever!
Two weeks before Thanksgiving and until I get to see Zac! YEAH! I can't wait. The time we spend away from each other is getting harder and harder. It is two months since the last time I saw him, and it will be another month before I see him again. He is coming down for Christmas. I am so excited. But it will be another 4 months before I see him again. That will be 2 weeks before our wedding. This sucks! Officially!
Zac called me this morning at 4:30am (2:30am his time) and he was just leaving work. I was like, "WHAT!?!?!?!" He said he had fallen asleep in his chair at work. Poor thing, works so hard and just crashes. I asked him, "are you going to do this when we get married?" He said, "No!!! I will be coming home to you!" I told him I would make sure he came home. *giggle*
Anyways, enough for now. This little girl is tired and going home. Take it easy!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

"It was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...." unless it is munchkin. lol
I am so thankful for this time of year. The weather is cool, well in Texas you would be lucky if it got cold, most people are a hospitable, homes are decorated in christmas lights, Snowmen, Santa Clause's all over the place, the Salvation Army with their bells at every store, hanging of Christmas Trees and decorations, Christmas plays, and of course every store being bombarded by people looking for that right gift for their loved ones. *giggle* It always makes me laugh when I see sales at like Dillards, or JCPenney, where there are lines to get into the front door to get that early bird special. Wow, has Christmas really come down to this. Christmas used to be about Love, Compassion, Joy, Hope, Peace, Rejoicing the birth of our Savior. Now it has been resulted to jammed stores and rude attitudes. But you know what, I am am Christmas finatic! Meaning, when it is October, I want to put up my Christmas decorations. *giggle* Is that so bad? Well to Red, it is ludacris. lol. What can I say, I'm nuts. Anyways, Christmas is my favorite time of year because, it is the happiest time of year to me.

This weekend Red and I are going to be putting up Christmas decorations, YEAH! I am so excited I can't contain myself. *grin* eeeekk, we'll get the guys to come over and put decorations on the house, like christmas lights. Let the guys get on the roof and try not to fall off, not us girls. I'm so mean. *giggle* The one thing I hate doing, is putting on the christmas tree lights. I absolutely hate it. It always scratches my hands, and then it hurts for a couple of days. That is not my idea of fun. So I will be letting someone else do that this year. At least the house won't look like National Lampoons Christmas. Believe it or not, my aunt and uncle actually do that stuff. That is just crazy. Why inrease your electric bill and possibly blow up your house to make it look like the Grizwalds. YUCK! No thank you! Who ever said that our relatives were sane. lol. Anyways, 48 days until Christmas! Bring on the Eggnog!

Family Pictures

Why is it necessary to have family pictures everytime the family gets together. The first weekend in November is my grandparents anniversary...so you know what that means...PICTURES!!!! EEEEHHHHH! So of course, I get calls from the family stating, 'don't forget we have pictures....wear a long sleeve solid shirt and a black skirt...if you don't have one, go out and buy one...' Um..hello..I AM PLANNING A WEDDING DANG IT! I don't have the means to go out and buy a stupid new outfit just for a dumb picture. Thanks, but no thanks. I mean, don't get me wrong any excuse for me to go shopping is fine by me. But to satisfy their need to tell me what to do, is not ok with me. So, you know what I will be wearing? A 3/4 sleeve shirt and pants. HA! How's that?! *lol* I'm feeling ornery today, hahaha. It is such a great day today though. It is raining today, which is always good, because of course, Texas doesn't get very much of it. But this rain is bringing actual fall weather. Thank you God for supplying this rain. I woke up around 6:30 this morning and it was raining like crazy and lightning and thundering.
What a perfect way to start each day. Red said it is a perfect way to crawl back into bed and sleep. LOL. I would rather it rain and storm all day, than be blazing hot. YUCK! Oh well, Red said she felt like a drowned rat this morning because she got wet. I don't blame her. She was soaked. Me..I woke up, and of course, since it was raining I kept thinking, "oooooooohhh, fall weather is coming, bring on the sweaters!" I walk out of my room in a long sleeve button down shirt with a black sweater vest, black pencil skirt and my black knee high boots. tee hee. Red just laughed. She said something, which of course I can't remember, but it was funny. I can't wait for rainy days in Seattle! Bring on the Umbrellas!!!!

Now that is a good question....

In reply to Fridaynightgirl's post on monday here is the question at hand:

If money and time were no object, where would you go on vacation? For how long? What would you do?

My answer:

I would go where no one could find me. I would go to Fiji and lay on a beach with Zac and bask in the sunlight. I would run away to Italy and be swept away in the romance of the city, the lights, the sounds, the gondollas, the food, the feel of Zac next to my side.

Does that sound like a good answer to you?

Adventures in Wedding Dress Shopping

It is official! I have my dress! YEAH! Red came with me last night to try on the dress, and get this... I GAINED WEIGHT!!! YUCK!!! I was so upset with myself, but 1) it's because of stress and 2) I have been eating a lot of sweets lately (oops!). But Red assures me that it will all come off quick when I stop consuming all of that crap. :o( But I would rather be able to fit into my wedding dress and look gorgeous on my wedding day more than anything. *giggle* It was so funny actually. I had the dress on, and Red was literally trying to force the zipper up. LOL. We even had one of the girls that worked at the store helping. It was embaressing, but now that I think about it, it was funny. It was one of those things you only see in movies. LOL. Next thing you know you see the girl putting her foot on the lower part of your back and pulling those strings to make that corset tighter, basically cutting off air supply. I told red if I get a corset, I'm gonna have to learn to breathe through my ears. lol. But anyways, I bought a size 12 the size I tried on the first time I went dress shopping. Because I am determined to lose all that weight and even more. 'I resolve, not to be so chubby...' lol. Well, I left the dress there so they could fix the hook that was broken (no I didn't break it, trying to squeeze into the dress, lol). Anyways, I had to call them back today and tell them I had to reschedule my fitting appointment next month to a couple of days earlier because of the stupid banner run through I have to do. AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!! *stitch grunt* Well the woman in alterations was like, so you have the dress with you? I told her no, they said to keep it at the store so they could fix the hook and clean the smudges. She told me, you should have taken it home because we fix that stuff when you come in for our fitting. So now, I have to go all the way back up to the store, which is a 30 minute drive (talk about a waste of gas) and pick up my dress. Suck a monkey! AAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!! *stitch grunt again* Believe me, you'll be seeing a lot more of that grunting. lol
Oh well, the adventures of wedding dress shopping is always exhausting, I think I slept really well last night, b/c I didn't wake up once. LOL. And on with another day....

STOP CALLING ME!!!

Ok, I know I am getting married and all and I know I had to register at David's Bridal to try on dresses. Ok, now answer me this....why am I receiving calls from Tuxedo rental places?!?!?! Umm...it's great and all that if 6 or more guys rent a tuxedo from After Hours Rentals, the groom's tux is free....but, AM I THE GROOM???? HELLO! I am the bride, why in the heck would I be wearing a tux in the first place. Wow, seriously. The next time I see that number on my phone, I am not answering. lol.
Anyways, today has been good, in the process of find a photographer. Having to pay for my wedding is going to suck. My parents unfortunately can't pay for anything with the wedding, so I am on my own. The church is paid for, now all I need to pay for is my dress, the flowers, the cakes, the desserts for the reception, the reception hall, the candles, some decorations, my gifts for my bridal party, and the list goes on. I have 7 months. Which I think I have enough time, but how am I going to pay for all of that? I can't save that much money. I'm just the wrong person to save, PERIOD! I have a major spending problem anyways. Hey, what can I say, I'm a girl!! lol. But here is what I have so far:

My Cake:
My Flowers: Caketopper:


My ring:


My bridesmaids dresses will be red, of course. *giggle* But I think things will turn out ok, or at least I hope....*nervous laugh*

This weekend Red and I had a great weekend. We had a day of relaxing on saturday and did nothing but watch movies and SCRAPBOOK! It was awesome. Munchkin was at Nana's and so Red and I just talked and bonded in a way we haven't really been able to do in a long while. It was absolutely wonderful and I had a great time! Anyways, we were scrapbooking, watching Lord of the Rings, one of my favorite movies, and all of a sudden I started to think about the honeymoon. Of all things, the honeymoon and what happens on the honeymoon popped into my head. And silly me, I actually asked Red about honeymoon I guess you could say etiquette. LOL. That sounds like a major oximoron. (is that how you spell it). But I felt so stupid, Red got a good laugh out of it, which is great. But seriously, most people don't know what the answer is to some of the questions I asked. Or at least it is not something you really think about. lol. Ok, enough of honeymoons, it is starting to make me queesy. lol, j/k, more like embarassed.

Wedding Crisis!

Yesterday, was an absolute mess. My church, God bless them, forgot that they had planned a military event that was taking up the entire church, ON MY WEDDING DAY!!! They had it scheduled like a year in advance and they didn't realize that my wedding day was on the same day!! GOOD GRIEF!!!! So I freaked out of course...See!

So we changed the wedding to May 5th instead. That sucks, one of the holidays that everyone loves to get drunk on. YUCK! Oh well, I don't care, as long as I get married to the man I am completely in love with, it doesn't matter to me. But my wedding coordinator is such a wonderful person. She came by my work today and had a huge surprise for me. But she told me not to tell. All I can say is that she is am amazing woman and GOD IS AWESOME!!!! He answered my prayer tenfold! Thank you God for your amazing blessing! I spent a good while crying because I didn't expect what I was told. Thank you God!

Today we have Arts in Education going on today, tomorrow and Friday. It is such a great little show for K - 2nd grade. It is times like these where I wish I was still a little kid, but I am a kid at heart. I get to attend all of these shows anyways. Lucky me! *giggle*

Gotta get back to work...Later Gators!