Brain dump

I have a lot going on in my head. I gotta get it out!

So wedding planning is going well. We are trying so hard to keep it on the cheap side and still make it look expensive. So far, so good. We have a phone interview with the dj that we want tonight. Me and my mom went to a bridal show this past weekend and met with all the dj's there and the only one that held more than a 5 minute normal conversation with us was DJ Connection. The guy we talked with, Josh, had a very upbeat and great personality to him and assured us that we will have fun at our wedding. He's offered a great deal, only $700 for the whole wedding, no limitations, offering lights at no extra cost and also emceeing the event. Perfect! We plan on putting the down payment on Friday.

The apartment we are living in is too small. For real! We are bursting at the seams in the 1 bedroom apartment. I hate the kitchen. I don't even want to get in there and clean it, but i know I have to. I want to cook and bake more, but the kitchen is so small and claustrophobic, I don't have the room to prepare a big meal easily. So what are we going to do? We are now searching, for a rental HOUSE!! Surprisingly there are some pretty good deals out there for 3 bedroom homes. Renting is one option we have, probably our only option due to our credit. But I am still curious, I still want to make an appointment with a realtor to see what our options would be if we were to take a mortgage and buy a home. This is out of curiosity, probably not going to qualify for a good deal for a loan, so renting a home would be fine with me... we just need a home with a backyard, I need a bigger kitchen, we need an office, and a garage, and a guestroom. These aren't wants, they are needs. The question is, do we move after the wedding when our lease is up? Or do we break lease early and move now? Well, that really depends on if we find a perfect house for a perfect deal, this could take a while, I am going to be really picky.

I can't wait till David gets his raise. Then I can quit Blockbuster. I'm so sick of not having a full weekend to do things with family anymore. He should be getting that done in a couple months... hopefully.

Catching Up: Engagement

So I haven't been blogging on this as much as I should probably do. I really enjoy typing my thoughts out. I don't care if nobody reads it. At least I have a history of what i did.

Since the last time I blogged. I got engaged!!! March 6th was the official day we made the decision. I remember the night before we had talked about it on the phone. He was out of town because of work in Austin that week. We talked for at least an hour about where we were going in our relationship and somehow it ended up talking about going ring shopping that weekend. I called him on the morning of March 6th and made sure... "So, are we like, engaged?" I tried not to sound too over-excited, i didn't want to freak anyone out as I got on the train for work. He says, "yeah, I guess we kinda are." And thats when I told him to call one of my parents, you know, to make it really official to get my parents permission and all. He called my mom at work and got her blessing. Later on my dad called about the news and he was super excited! When I showed up to work, i bragged to 1 person, then 2... then talked to my boss, Kalie, about it, she yelled it across the whole floor, just to make sure everyone heard. I'm surprised she didn't send an email company-wide!

That weekend, we did go ring shopping. And with both of us on a tight budget, we went to the pawn shops! I remember it being incredibly frustrating because I have a size 10.5 ring size. And the silly "standard size" is 8. Boo! But after about 4 different pawn shops and getting almost laughed at when we went to Zales, we finally found a beautiful ring in our price range that ALMOST fit, it was really close. So we got it resized for just about the same price as we spent on the ring, which was ridiculous. But it was fine.
We are getting married February 14th, 2010.

The whole point of this blog is to get my thoughts out on "paper", which will hopefully in the end help me out. I used to be a journal person. But now it is blogs.

I had the past 2 days off from work, and I really wish that it didn't go by as fast as it did. It was an eventful vacation. I took my boyfriend, David to San Antonio for the weekend and he LOVED it! I mean, wants to move down there, kind of loving it. Which made me a little nervous. He was serious. I was not. I have no job down there. While it would be great to just get up and move down there, its not as easy as it is for him. The only thing thats stopping me from agreeing with him is lack of job down there for me. But thats not that big of an issue. I have a couple years til that really starts to come to reality if it does.

My grandmother broke her hip over the weekend. I can't believe it. She was just getting better from her heart attack. She was just pulling through. But BAM! She's back to square one. She had surgery yesterday and I heard it went well. I'm praying hard for her. She's a strong woman. So i know she will pull through.
I will write more tomorrow.

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Start of a new beginning with this blog. Its almost 2009, I'm ready for what God has in store for me.