Identity crisis?

The future Mr and I crossed things off our "to-do" list like crazy this weekend!!

We worked on wedding center pieces

I made mini apple pies

Yum-O!

We put insulation and an old blanket over the window AC unit in my bedroom. Hopefully it will keep some of the cold air outside this winter!

We got my car and the grill to fit in my garage so that we don't have to put the grill in storage this winter :)

We put the patio set of tables and chairs in the basement. I didn't take a picture of that cuz it's sad.

We put our bicycles in the basement. I didn't take a picture of that cuz it's boring.

I took the storage tubs (full of holiday decorations) out of the front closet and put them in the basement. I didn't take a picture of that because let's be real- it's an empty closet :)

We hung up new signs:

Our new last name. Well it's already his last name, you know what I mean :)

This was a shower/wedding gift from one of the church grandmas from the church I work at.

This is hanging in our living room, above the archway into the computer room.

I got this at Burlington Coat Factory for $9.99! What?!

We hung this in the dining room right next to the door that goes into the kitchen.

I love it.

And I carved a pumpkin for work. The one that actually has a face was for my children's sermon yesterday and the one with the stars is from youth group last week.

But here is where we have the identity crisis.

If you look at the tree behind the pumpkins you will notice...

Christmas lights? Wrapped around the trunk?

Yes, you are right! And they're not just around the trunk, they're on top too. And they're on the tree on the other side of the doorway, and the tree out in the yard.

We hung our Christmas lights already!

Whoop-whoop!!

Ok, I love Christmas, but not that much. The lights did get turned on to make sure they work and they look ok. But they are not plugged in all the time yet.

You see, hanging Christmas lights is a 2 person job.

The next two weekends are deer hunting which means the future Mr won't be here. The weekend after that is the Synod Middle School gathering so I won't be here. Then it's Thanksgiving. Then it's wedding. And it's way nicer to get lights done before the snow comes.

So, for a little while my house will look like it's having an identity crisis but I'm ok with that :)

How was you're weekend?

Love, a future Mrs.

Giveaways

No, I'm not hosting a giveaway but The Vintage Pearl and Scissors and a Whisk both are!

At The Vintage Pearl you can win a necklace of your choice in their new font- so cute! This is the one that I'd pick:

But I would get it with a k and an s for the future Mr and I :)

And at Scissors and a Whisk you can win earrings from Botny



How cute are those?

I'm not sure how I did NOT know about this girl- she is from Fargo which is just 2 hours away from me and these are super cute and only $10!

Anywho, you should go check out both giveaways/shops!

Happy Monday!

Love, a future Mrs.

What a mess!

I feel like my life is a total mess right now! My house is a mess (seriously- the living room, my bedroom, the kitchen, the dining room), my car is a mess (inside & out), my office is a mess (it's a wonder that I can find anything), I feel like I'm a mess- I can't find anything. I was cleaning my house after work today and I found two bills on my table that are due on Nov. 1st, which is in 4 days. Ugh! That is not enough time to mail them a check! I'm so mad at myself that those got lost on my dining room table!! Thank God I was able to pay both bills online/over the phone without having to pay an extra service fee!!

Ugh! I can not wait until the wedding is over and things start to slow down! I'm sure that I will regret saying that! I am enjoying the planning but it's just making my life a little crazy right now.

If I could just get my house clean I think I would feel a lot better. I better go work on that before the future Mr gets here :)

Hope you're having a great day!
Love, a future Mrs

Headache

Sorry I was gone yesterday friends but I had a terrible headache. I kid you not, I laid in my bed all day. I only got up to go to the bathroom. Finally at 6:30 last night I thought I should maybe get out of my bed for a while so I went and sat on the couch. I could only sit up for a while because my head hurt so bad. And I got frustraded being out in my living room because it needs to be cleaned and I just could not make myself clean it. Ugh. I know I've talked about my headaches before in blog land but we had some new symptoms yesterday that made this one worse. My left ear hurt so bad. It was like there was an intense amount of pressure built up in it. The other new symptom was that I didn't want to/couldn't eat. I seriously had 6 cheeze itz crackers for lunch and another small handful with a pack of fruit snacks for dinner.

At 11 I took a healthy dose of nyquill and said went back to bed. I remember seeing the end of game 6 (holy crap- did you see that?!) but nothing after that. I was out cold. I still have a little bit of lingering pain that pops up now and then but for the most part I feel better today. I'm back at work and I'm getting things done.

I hope you're having a great day!
Love, a future Mrs

Wedding Wednesday!

Only 45 days to go!!!!

Ahhhh!!!

This past weekend the future Mr and I had our pre marriage retreat. It was a Friday night, all day Saturday event. The general lay out was that we had "large group" time where we listened to the Pastor that runs the retreat (not the Pastor marrying us- he wasn't there), the Pastor running the whole thing has his son and another gal that help him. So we would listen to them talk about different topics then we broke off into Sunday school rooms where we got to talk just us two.

Friday night our topics were communication and our family of origin.

Then we went to stay with our friends Tasha and Mark which was fun. We didn't get to talk a whole lot because is was well after 9 by the time we got to their house and they had to work at 6:30 and 7:30 the next morning so they wanted to go to bed early.

Since they had to leave early and they live in an apartment that you need to either deadbolt from the inside or lock with a key from the outside, we had to leave when they did. Ugh. So we went to Denny's for breakfast- it was the 1st time I had ever been there. Then I showed the future Mr where my sister's new apartment is and where her boyfriend lives. Then we went to Starbucks and finally it was 9 o'clock and we could go back to the church.

Our topics on Saturday included: money/finances, sex/intimacy, religion, & commitment. (There were others but I can't remember them all right now.) The only one that we had issues with or that we didn't see eye to eye on was/is money. We just have to figure out how we'll combine our finances, how much we'll give to the church, how much "fun" money we'll each get every month. It's a lot to figure out. Expecially when we've both gotten use to our financial independence, and we're both pretty comfortable with how things are now.

We meet with the Pastor who is marrying us, Pastor Wade next Friday to go over what we talked about at the retreat and how we feel about things.

Last week I cleaned out and took the labels off of 105 wine bottles.

This is what my bathtub looked like last Wednesday, and this is only 1/2 of them...

Now they need to be decorated. Last night I told the future Mr that he'll have to help with that this weekend. He said "What if I don't want to help? Guys don't normally have to help with wedding crafts." I told him that I didn't care if he didn't want to. He was going to get to help anyway. I don't think he was very happy with me. Oh well- that's a lot of work to do. And we have to work on place cards too. But I think those are the only things we have left, well the only crafty things.

I still have to call the photographer and the wedding planner to touch base with them, the future Mr needs to touch base with the DJ.

I had my first dress fitting on Sunday night :) But I forgot my puffy skirt to go under my dress and I found out that I will indeed need to wear a strapless bra. So I have to go back next weekend and bring those two things with me.

We picked our cake flavors on Sunday (the cake lady and the dress lady are the same lady- I love her). We decided on cupcake so we can have more flavors. We are having: funfetti cake with white frosting, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, peanut butter chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting, white cake with strawberry filling and white frosting, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, and (my favorite) spice cake with apple pie filling, cream cheese frosting and a caramel drizel. Yumm-O!! The we will do a small two tier cake on the head table that we will cut, take pictures with and possibly smoosh in each other's faces. That cake will have a 10" tier and a 6" tier, it will just be white cake with white frosting. I don't want to take any chances and get something icky on my dress.

This weekend the plan is to work on wine bottles for centerpieces (someone please remind me why I thought this was a good idea!), pick scripture readings and songs for the ceremony, make a list of what we want pictures of, decide what we want the programs to look like, and look through the big bridal binder that I bought back in Feb to see if theres anything else that we're missing. Uff-da. That's a lot.

I might be freaking out a little.

Love, a future Mrs

So What Wednesday!

Where did Wednesday come from this week??

I'm hooking up with the hostess with the mostest Mrs. Dew

from Life After I "Dew" for another edition of So What Wednesday!

Here's what I'm saying So What to this week:

*if it didn't dawn on me that empty wine bottles would float when I tried to soak a bunch of them in my bathtub last week to get the lables off?

*if I was the only one that took notes during our large group time during our pre marriage retreat this past weekend? During our first break out session when it was just the future Mr and I, I asked him if he was embarassed by me. He said no. Good answer hunny, good answer :)

*if I always check my phone when I hear a ring tone or a text tone that sounds remotely like mine? Even if it was the same guy/phone over and over at dinner the other night?

*if I love watching unsloved mysteries but I had to stop watching them cuz I let myself get freaked out?

*if I think Elliot Stabler from Law & Order:Special Vitcims Unit is hott??

And so does my mom?

*if I went to both groceries stores in town yesterday because they had different things on sale? And then I ended up spending $100 between the 2 stores?

*if I had spaghettios for lunch yesterday? See above post- I spent $100 at the grocery store, I obviously had NO food at my house!

*if I'm starting to freak out about the wedding? It's only 45 days away...

What are you saying So What to this week?

Head on over to LIfe After I "Dew" to see what

everyone else is saying So What to this week!

Love, a future Mrs.

pet peevs & a creepy story

This is going to sound a little bit like a SWW post but it's not. These are some of my biggest pet peevs:

It drives me bananas when people use the automatic openers on doors that they are fully capeable of opening with their hands and arms. The kids at church think it is so funny/cool to open doors this way. I hate it because the door stays open forever and cold air comes rushing in. I also hate it because things get broken and worn out when they are used that often, and I would hate for the door to be broken when someone actually needed it (an older person, a mom with a baby, me when I have to buy groceries for the pancake breakfast).

I get so annoyed when people are walking in front of me and they just stop. Maybe their phone rang, maybe they saw someone they know, maybe they forgot something. If you're stopping to talk to someone please move over to the side of the hallway/walkway. If you forgot something and you need to go back the other way please say excuse me. Don't just stop and rummage through your bag.

I don't like when store put their racks so close together that you can't get inbetween them. Don't you want me to buy things in your store?

I get a little road ragey when people aren't paying attention while they're driving and they miss an enitre cycle of the stop light. This seriously happened to me! The light turned green, she didn't move, it turned yellow, still sitting there, turned red, still didn't move. I waited patiently, I'm not a horn honker, I just sit in my car with my windows up and say things when people can't hear me :) She then got out of her car and told me that she was having car issues and she couldn't move. Ok. I felt bad that I had assumed she wasn't paying attention. My ragey-ness then switched to the big truck behind me that was right up on the back of my car and honking like there was no tomorrow. I have him the evil eye as he drove around me but I don't think he saw me.

I've worked in customer service in a few different capacities during my working life. I have been a bank teller, a waitress (at 2 different resturants), and I worked at The Children's Place. But I still get annoyed when people work in those jobs and they aren't good at them. I understand that it gets busy and you have htings to take care of, but you should never ignor or neglect a table when you are a waitress, and you should always at least try to force a smile when you work in retail. Come on!!

Sorry! I know I sound like a whiner & a complainer, I promise I'm not!!

*****

In other news: when I got back to my house yesterday from my parents I had a weird feeling that someone had been in my house. I looked around and all of the big things were there, it didn't seem like anything had been moved, and both doors were locked so I brushed off my feeling and came back to work after lunch. Then after work I went to the volleyball game at the high school. After that I looked for jobs for the future mr read the newspaper. Then I was going to get ready for bed. As I was walking for the living room into my bedroom I looked to my left, into the hallway area and I noticed that the closet door was shut. I never shut the closet door. Then I went into my bedroom and noticed that the pea coat I bought to wear with my dress for the wedding was laying on my bed and not hanging in the closet in the hallway. Creepy! I hung it back up and noticed that all of the other hangers in the closet (there were empty before this weekend) were backwards on the closet rod, like the top part that goes over the rod was facing the wrong way. I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and the toilet seat was up like a boy had gone potty!! The future Mr hasn't been at my house in weeks, in face no boy has been to my house in weeks. At this point I was really creeped out.

As I was brushing my teeth in dawned on me that the electrican had called me on Friday morning to see if the could come fix the light in the closet in the hallway. I told them that I was out of town but they could call my landlady to see if she would let them in. I check that light as soon as I was done brushing my teeth and sure enough- the light works. Thank God! I was so relieved that a stranger wasn't in my house for no apparent reason.

And to think, I don't even like Halloween or scary stories :)

Thanks for your kind comments yesterday- I really appreciate it!
Hope you're having a great day!
Love, a future Mrs