I just read through my complete weekly schedule for my math class this semester...
Does anyone else think it's weird that my midterm is on my birthday (March 3) and our final exam is on my Adoption Day (April 29)?
Strange!
Maybe means good luck? I hope!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Weight is lifted
I feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. It's three fifteen in the morning and I am STILL awake and feeling completely awake. I've worked out a budget for Roddy and myself that is going to work perfectly, and I wrote a long e-mail to my parents admitting to them that I had got two credit cards while Roddy was out to sea and I totally learned my lesson and don't intent to hide ANYTHING from them from this day forward.
I feel like I'm growing up even more lately. I am more organized, more energized, more creative, more ambitious, and it feels great! Obviously.
It doesn't feel great is that I still have to pay off these two credit cards, but I definitely deserve this penalty, that's for sure. I know a lot of people make the whole credit card mistake, but still, that doesn't mean it doesn't royally blow big time.
I want NO secrets from here on out, even if it means my parents have to help me and take $2,000 off of my wedding day, haha. I am figuring all this out on my own and I am not even scared about it. I feel like an idiot for what I did, but I definitely learned my lesson.
I also got ahead in my school work while I was sitting up procrastinating on writing the e-mail. I'm two weeks ahead, I think. Now I can sit back and focus on the wedding some more! Hooray!
Guess I better try to get some sleep so I can go to Tidewater tomorrow morning before work, choose my major, become an in-state student (which apparently saves $2,000 right there) and ask them why they haven't yet refunded the money for the class I dropped before the deadline.
Night.
I feel like I'm growing up even more lately. I am more organized, more energized, more creative, more ambitious, and it feels great! Obviously.
It doesn't feel great is that I still have to pay off these two credit cards, but I definitely deserve this penalty, that's for sure. I know a lot of people make the whole credit card mistake, but still, that doesn't mean it doesn't royally blow big time.
I want NO secrets from here on out, even if it means my parents have to help me and take $2,000 off of my wedding day, haha. I am figuring all this out on my own and I am not even scared about it. I feel like an idiot for what I did, but I definitely learned my lesson.
I also got ahead in my school work while I was sitting up procrastinating on writing the e-mail. I'm two weeks ahead, I think. Now I can sit back and focus on the wedding some more! Hooray!
Guess I better try to get some sleep so I can go to Tidewater tomorrow morning before work, choose my major, become an in-state student (which apparently saves $2,000 right there) and ask them why they haven't yet refunded the money for the class I dropped before the deadline.
Night.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Date night
On Roddy's way home from work tonight, he asked me what I wanted to do for dinner, and I could tell in his voice that he already had an idea. So, I asked him and he suggested he take me on a date.
We haven't gone on a real date in what feels like forever, so I was really excited. We got kinda dressed up and went to Olive Garden and ordered VERY yummy food, and there was all sorts of door-holding and hand-holding, all things that we do all the time but don't seem old when we're on a date.
It was so nice. I told him I appreciated having a man like him because even though we're engaged and he knows he has me forever, he still wants to do nice things for me like this. And of course, he said, "It will always be this way."
Then, we came home and watched "Meet the Robinsons" which Rod has been excited about for a while, haha. It was cute, and kinda hit home to me, not only because of the adoption thing, but because the kid had all these confusions and dreams and nothing in the movie was politics, it was all faith and lessons, which has been new and big for me lately.
All in all a special night. (:
We haven't gone on a real date in what feels like forever, so I was really excited. We got kinda dressed up and went to Olive Garden and ordered VERY yummy food, and there was all sorts of door-holding and hand-holding, all things that we do all the time but don't seem old when we're on a date.
It was so nice. I told him I appreciated having a man like him because even though we're engaged and he knows he has me forever, he still wants to do nice things for me like this. And of course, he said, "It will always be this way."
Then, we came home and watched "Meet the Robinsons" which Rod has been excited about for a while, haha. It was cute, and kinda hit home to me, not only because of the adoption thing, but because the kid had all these confusions and dreams and nothing in the movie was politics, it was all faith and lessons, which has been new and big for me lately.
All in all a special night. (:
Wedding singers/bands
I'm pretty excited right now. Things are coming along and constantly changing with wedding plans, as I'm sure you all expected... right now I'm thinking the wedding is going to be on Martha's Vineyard, meaning it will be slightly smaller, but who knows?
I've been focusing on bands for the wedding, and e-mailed a few different MV local bands, along with Paula Cole and Carly Simon. In case you were unaware, Paula Cole is the artist who sang the theme song to Dawson's Creek ("I Don't Wanna Wait") along with "Sunny Came Home" and "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone." Carly Simon is James Taylor's ex-wife, and she sings "You're So Vain," "Blackbird," and "Nobody Does It Better." I also e-mailed Carly Simon's son, James Taylor's brother who sings on MV all the time, and the Rembrandts, who sang the theme song to F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
I've recently received responses from the Rembrandts and Paula Cole. If I can make prices come down on all the other parts of the wedding, like if we have the ceremony and reception at the cottage or South Beach, we can definitely afford one of these bands! (:
I've been focusing on bands for the wedding, and e-mailed a few different MV local bands, along with Paula Cole and Carly Simon. In case you were unaware, Paula Cole is the artist who sang the theme song to Dawson's Creek ("I Don't Wanna Wait") along with "Sunny Came Home" and "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone." Carly Simon is James Taylor's ex-wife, and she sings "You're So Vain," "Blackbird," and "Nobody Does It Better." I also e-mailed Carly Simon's son, James Taylor's brother who sings on MV all the time, and the Rembrandts, who sang the theme song to F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
I've recently received responses from the Rembrandts and Paula Cole. If I can make prices come down on all the other parts of the wedding, like if we have the ceremony and reception at the cottage or South Beach, we can definitely afford one of these bands! (:
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Heath Ledger
One of my celebrity crushes has died. ):
Photo by Bruce Weber for Vanity Fair Magazine.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Actor Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday of a possible drug overdose in a Lower Manhattan apartment, the New York Police Department said.
I adored him in high school that friends gave me a huge poster collage they made of him for my birthday, and I had every line of "10 Things I Hate About You" memorized because of him.
I don't understand... I mean, I'm not altogether surprised he may have done drugs, but I'm surprised that it was THAT bad. The whole story and details aren't out yet, but believe me, I will be updating you all.
Heath Ledger
Photo by Bruce Weber for Vanity Fair Magazine.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Actor Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday of a possible drug overdose in a Lower Manhattan apartment, the New York Police Department said.
I adored him in high school that friends gave me a huge poster collage they made of him for my birthday, and I had every line of "10 Things I Hate About You" memorized because of him.
I don't understand... I mean, I'm not altogether surprised he may have done drugs, but I'm surprised that it was THAT bad. The whole story and details aren't out yet, but believe me, I will be updating you all.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
More wedding plans
So now we're thinking we'd like to have big engagement parties in Virginia Beach and Connecticut, and then a super small ceremony in Martha's Vineyard at either Lambert's Cove or South Beach, across the West Tisbury Great Pond where our family has a cottage. Either that, or a ceremony in Maine at Southwest Harbor where our family has another cottage, on the rocks in front of the house.
Both places are BEAUTIFUL and mean a lot to both of us. Roddy would wear a very nice button-down white shirt and very nice khaki pants with his Birkenstocks, and I would wear a nice (but beachy) wedding dress and white flip flops. (: We'd still have a wedding cake and a photographer and florist and all that... but no big ceremony or reception fees, unless we decided to have a big reception at a restaurant or an inn or something.
WHO KNOWS?! These are just new ideas, though. Thought you might all be interested. xo
Both places are BEAUTIFUL and mean a lot to both of us. Roddy would wear a very nice button-down white shirt and very nice khaki pants with his Birkenstocks, and I would wear a nice (but beachy) wedding dress and white flip flops. (: We'd still have a wedding cake and a photographer and florist and all that... but no big ceremony or reception fees, unless we decided to have a big reception at a restaurant or an inn or something.
WHO KNOWS?! These are just new ideas, though. Thought you might all be interested. xo
Monday, January 21, 2008
I want out of this city!
We just got home from Connecticut. We had a tiring weekend... getting there yesterday at three o'clock in the morning (dropping Isabella off at my parents' house to catch a plane back to Austria because she did come stay with us for a few days - it was so nice and fun to see her!), waking up a few hours later to get ready for the memorial service for Rod's Grammie, going to different ceremonies and spending time with family, having appointments with and checking out wedding locations, then passing out and getting up this morning to drive back here since I have to work tomorrow.
To top it all off, about fifty miles before we got to the apartment, Roddy had to pee REALLY, REALLY BADLY... but refused to stop because he figured he could hold it in for an hour... and of course, we ended up stopping two streets away from Runaway Bay because of what looked like an accident up ahead. Turned out to be a road block with several police officers checking licenses and registration. Apparently, they were looking for someone... checking EVERYONE going down Virginia Beach Blvd.
Drives me crazy.
Not only that, but as soon as we got off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, we saw lights from ambulances and police cars and fire trucks because there was something going on at some gas station off of Independence Blvd. Geez... I can't wait to move back to New England!
But I'm happy to be here with people I love and a job I am SO thrilled about, and can definitely make the best of it for the next year and a half. Or at least, try. (:
The job is at our State Farm agent's office as a part-time secretary. I feel very comfortable there, so it will be good.
To top it all off, about fifty miles before we got to the apartment, Roddy had to pee REALLY, REALLY BADLY... but refused to stop because he figured he could hold it in for an hour... and of course, we ended up stopping two streets away from Runaway Bay because of what looked like an accident up ahead. Turned out to be a road block with several police officers checking licenses and registration. Apparently, they were looking for someone... checking EVERYONE going down Virginia Beach Blvd.
Drives me crazy.
Not only that, but as soon as we got off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, we saw lights from ambulances and police cars and fire trucks because there was something going on at some gas station off of Independence Blvd. Geez... I can't wait to move back to New England!
But I'm happy to be here with people I love and a job I am SO thrilled about, and can definitely make the best of it for the next year and a half. Or at least, try. (:
The job is at our State Farm agent's office as a part-time secretary. I feel very comfortable there, so it will be good.
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