Wedding plans are underway. I haven't gotten anything officially finished, but I have started on tons. I'm nervous some tiny detail will get lost in the shuffle, so I keep making notes. Kashmir tried on the dress today and sent me a photo. I would post it, but I don't know if she would appreciate that or not, but she looks fabulous. I am going to try on dresses this Saturday and I have a wave of emotions. I am excited because it is a pretty big step in the process, but scared of finding the right one and looking nice in it.
My house is still trying to recover from Christmas. Between Mike being home, unloading presents, putting away decorations, and a pretty big spell of laziness my house looks horrendous. I have done a little each day trying to recoup, but I have also been inspire to do some off season "Spring" cleaning. With cleaning out cabinets and such comes even more disorder. I will hopefully finish it all this weekend.
With the onslaught of gift cards from Christmas (and some from way before then) I bought some much needed items for the house, including a very nice set of dishes for company. Mike cleaned out the hutch in our dining room and decoratively displayed them. I am a nerd, but it is things like this that make me feel grown. I also got a shipment of clothes from Old Navy (yay new wardrobe!!) and a television stand from Target for the bedroom.
For Christmas my brother Jason got my parents a new flatscreen tv for their bedroom, so I asked if I could have the old one. It is 36 inchs and humongous. I had planed on putting the monster in the livingroom, until my birthday rolled around and Jason got me a 32in HD flat screen. The flat screen went into the living room leaving the monster to go into the bedroom. We gave the tv from our bedroom to Mike's sister, but we have the original living room tv sitting on the floor in the office. I want to hold on to it, because you never know when you might need an extra tv and it is really nice. I guess eventually I will set it up in the office, but it feels wasted because that room is a bit of a sham.
You see, it is probably one of my favorite rooms in the house. It has the most character anyway, with all of our "fun" stuff including a gigantic bud light shamrock, inflatibles, fun paintings, and road signs. We have a nice loveseat in there, a desk, and all of my books. But we never use it. I don't even do homework in there. I should, but the lightening is bad. The room gets the most use out of it by Mable, whose litter box is in there. Oh, and Mr. Tankles- Mike's friend Jamie's bull mastif when they come to visit.
SO, what I'm trying to say here is- maybe one day when we move and have maybe a guest room or a big kitchen the tv can find an appropriate home.
AND, we needed to buy the above mentioned tv stand from Target for the monster to go into the bedroom. We were going to try to put it on the dresser where the original was, but we both feared it MIGHT not be stable enough to support the tv, AND we were further pursuaded to get a tv stand when Mike and I together were not able to lift the tv high enough to be put on said dresser.
It was an ordeal
to say the least.
BUT, after shifting our bedroom around a bit (moving the dresser next to Mike's side of the bed) I shifted my living around a tad. I have two bookcases in the living room holding DVDS and I used to have one next to the tv and one on the adjacent wall. When I put out the Christmas tree, I moved the bookshelf next to the tv over by it's pair. I liked this arrangement, but after the tree came down I was left with a bare corner. After we put the dresser next to Mike's bed, I had no where to put his night stand. Since his night stand was originally an endtable- bam-a-lam- I had something to put in that bare corner- so now the couch has an endtable on the other side. It looks homeier in here now. ALSO I moved to the recorder player and stand next to the new endtable and put my new trunk (a Christmas gift from Mike's sister to me. I saw some trunks at an auction we went to together and I tried bidding on it. When the bid reached up to $100 Mike's sister LITERALLY forced my hand down and told me I was crazy to pay that much for it so she got me another truck she found at another auction) in it's place and it is displaying a bunch of my favorite things like my yearbooks, some photo albums, and my favorite books.
THEN, I found out yesterday that Mike's mom is giving us one of her old couches and arm chairs. Our couch has recently broken in two spots and neither one of us was too excited to buy a new one, so this worked out perfectly.
I have to say- unless you have previously been into my home AND care about this kind of stuff, that was probably REALLY REALLY boring to read through.
My bad.
I am pretty freaking excited about life right now, because everything just really rules. Mike rules. My family rules. School starting soon rules. New clothes rule. New presents from Christmas rules. New video games I got rule. Wedding planning rules. And reading Breaking Dawn (which I am almost halfway through) rules. And I am apparently 16 again.
25 and 2009 are going great. This is going to be the best year ever.
OH MAN! I forgot to mention- that after much discussion and advice- mike and i have changed our honeymoon plans. Yeah, that's right. We are going to Europe. Suck on that.
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you are so sweet. I thought I looked ridiculous...that color was AWFUL (and wouldn't you know it, it was Pool) and I am standing like a weirdo b/c I was trying to see to take the picture.
2009 is going to be the most exciting year ever, I think.
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