Haven't really been doing much.  

I did finally figure out what I wanted to do with my life.  I want to go back to school to become an MRI Technician.  I went to Forsyth Tech and got some information on what all I need to do to get ready for the program.  I need to take all of my general classes and get them out of the way.  I also need to take a test and sit in on a lecture for my specific career to hear the in's and out's about it before I can take any classes...apparantly it's non-negotiable and I can't even get into the program without going to this thing.

Tom and I have also been looking for a house.  We're trying to find one in time to get the $8,000 credit, but so far no luck.  I'm hoping within the next few we look at we'll find one that we can definitely call home.  

Other than that, nothing has been happening.  Just work as usual for me.  We have been trying to find Tom another job.  He's been getting completely dumped on by Kohl's and we're both sick of it.  He keeps getting in trouble for stuff his new manager has been doing.  Every time she tells him to change how to do a certain procedure, their score goes down and he gets blamed for it instead of her.  And if he doesn't do it, she'll bitch at him.  He can't win for losing, my poor hubby :(

I just hope that everything works itself out and we can find him something else.  I honestly don't know how much longer he can take working there, especially when they constantly ridicule him and tell him he's not doing his job right when it's not even his fault.  Wish they would wise up to their own bullshit and leave him alone.

Oh well, done ranting.  That's my update.  Hope everyone is doing well.

 So I have been going on to some of my friends pages on facebook and seeing what all they have been doing with themselves over the years.  Majority of the people I've gone to school with have gone to college and have good jobs and have done some amazing things with their lives.  After looking at everything they've done I feel so dull and boring.  I wish I have done more with my life.  I just wish that I could figure out what I want to do so I can go back to school.  I definitely don't want to work for Kinko's for the rest of my life.

I just really started to think about what I've done since high school, and so far I've only done one thing...and that's getting married.  Don't get me wrong, I love being married and wouldn't take it back for anything, but I feel like I've been slacking.  I honestly wish I've already gone back to school to get my degree and start making something of myself.  I'm 26 and honestly haven't really accomplished anything.  I really need to sit down and figure out what I want to do, which is going to be tough.  It's hard to think about what you want to do for the rest of your life, you know.  It's such a monumental decision to make, and I think that's why I haven't made it yet.  I think I'm just so afraid of making the wrong choice and regretting it.

The time for waiting is over.  I'm going to get off my ass and figure this out one way or the other.  Hopefully by the time I write back here I will FINALLY figure out what the hell I want to do and finally start living.

Wish me luck!

Definitely been a while.  I know that sounds familiar :P

I'm so busy with work and looking for a new house that I've been neglecting my poor journal.

First off, no luck on the house front.  We've been looking everywhere and just haven't found anything that really makes us get that feeling that "This is the one!".  I'm really starting to get disappointed.  I know it doesn't happen overnight, but I'm tired of looking at so many bad ones.  I honestly hope that our house is out there, I just wish we would hurry up and find it.
Sometimes I think we're too damn picky.  But it's good to be picky so we do pick the right one.  I mean after all, we're going to be living in it for a long time and I at least want to love coming home instead of regretting it.

Work has been going ok, but not great.  The new manager that we have is really hard to judge.  I really don't know what kind of opinion to form about the guy.  He's completely different from my previous manager, good at points and also having his own faults.  I still have no clue what to think of him, but I do know that a LOT of people can't stand him.  He hasn't done anything to me directly, so I guess that's why I can't really make up my mind about him...oh well.

I'm currently trying to look for a new job.  Probably something in the line of a receptionist.  I hope I can find something about the same pay if not more than what I'm making, or even anything at all.  I'll be surprised if I actually find a job, what with the economy as bad as it as now.  I know I should count my blessings at the fact that I have a job and place to sleep and a car to get around, but you can only take so much abuse from a place when you finally say enough is enough.  I know it's been a long time coming, but damn...I NEED to get OUT!!!

Other than all of that, the usual. OH!  I forgot that I'm reconnecting with a friend of ours from forever ago.  It's the asshole that kicked Tom out of the band and basically disowned us as friends.  Yeah, I know we sound stupid, but I honestly think he was influenced more by his previous girlfriend than anything.  When they started dating, he became a COMPLETELY different person.  Now that they're not together, he's the same old Chris that we've been friends with forever.
I know I'm probably stupid for giving him another chance, but I honestly believe that EVERYONE deserves a second chance.  If I can give my Dad a second chance, I sure as hell can give Chris one.  But if he fucks this one up, no more and we're not going to be friends any more.  I'd want someone to give me a second chance.

I hope that good karma will finally start coming my way.  We'll just have to see.

As you can see that it has definitely been a while.  I've been so consumed by so much stuff that I've barely had a chance to get on here.  But yeah, there are some definite things that have happened over the past couple of months.

First off, I finally tied the knot with my fiance of 6 years on October 31st 2008.  That's honestly the only huge update that I have.  The Holidays wasn't too bad.  Just had a quiet Christmas and New Year's at home. 

I'm so freaking happy that all the Wedding stuff is finally over!!!  It really takes over your life and it was really driving me nuts!  I didn't even do a HUGE Wedding like some people and it still took a long time for all the damn planning.  I thought I was saving myself a lot a stress and headaches, but not by much.  It still was very stressful, especially at the end.  My cousin was supposed to make my cake for the reception, and the week before the reception she leaves a message on my phone saying she can't come!!!  I was absolutely infuriated...actually there really isn't a word for how pissed off I was at her.  I even called her a month earlier to make sure that she was going to be able to still do it and she assured me that everything was still going to be ok and running as scheduled.  In the phone call she said something to the extent that she had been trying to figure out how to tell me the bad news, so I'm just curious how long she's known she wasn't going to do it until she finally called me.  So yeah, pretty fucking pissed when I got that message.  So we made our own cakes.  Oh well, onto other things...I'm getting too pissed off.

In other news, I've recently taken up crochet and I have to say that I absolutely love it!  I'm so excited to really get into the whole craft.  There are so many projects I've already got lined up, I've just got to get good at it first.  I just had my first class this past Saturday and am ready for my next one this coming Saturday.  I never knew how many interesting things you could do.  I'm definitely NOT going to do doilies or anything like that, I'm going to be doing more dolls and toys than anything but I will occasionally do a blanket, scarf or hat.  No sweaters or freaking doilies here.

I can't wait to start posting pictures of finished projects.  Keep your eyes peeled.  I will definitely be posting once projects get finished.  It might take me a little while to get into the swing, but once I get more comfortable pics will follow :D

Well, I had my eye doctor appointment today and I had good news and bad news today.

I was able to get checked up and have a better prescription on my glasses and ordered some really cute ones for cheap.  Including my copay and a special coating for the frames, the total came to $49 which is freaking sweet!  I definitely wasn't expecting it to so cheap.

That was the good news.  The bad news is that I have to wait 7-10 business days in order to get my glasses!  Which sucks so much!  I talked to the people at the eye doctor to see if they could do anything with my glasses, seeing how my only pair of "eyes" are broken and I have to go over a week without being able to see, and one of the girls actually glued my broken pair back together with superglue.  I can't clean them because it's just a temporary fix and I might break them again, which sucks.

So now I'm waiting for my new pair to get here.  I just hope it doesn't take the entire time they say it will for them to arrive.  I just hope my old glasses will hold out.  I'm afraid of touching them for fear of them falling apart again.

This is going to be a long week.

Today totally fucking sucked!

My one pair of glasses that I have just broke today while I was cleaning them!  That's what I get for buying the on sale glasses from Wal-Mart, never again!  Why did this have to happen just a few weeks before getting married?  This totally blows!  Luckily I was able to call an eye doctor and get an appointment for tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll have glasses before work since I'm going to the doctor at 11:00am.

I just hope nothing else happens to go wrong.

Oh yeah, and Tom has had poison oak for the past week and a half now.  Hope it clears up by the time we head down to Key West.  I'd hate to have his legs looking all red and gross in our Wedding photos and for him to have a horrible time from the pain and itching.  I hope things start looking up.

At least there's only a few more weeks until we finally get married!  I'm so excited I can't wait until it finally happens.  I'm just sick and tired of the waiting.

Well, I definitely have a little update on the Wedding front.  I've basically got everything finished.  I only have a few more tasks to take care of and I'll be all set and ready to go for next month.

I got a call this past Friday saying that my dress finally came in!!!  I'm so excited and can't wait to see it and try it on.  I can't do that until this weekend though, which sucks.  But  at least I'll be able to pay it off and get it altered this weekend and have that taken care of.

Now the only things I have left to do are:

-Make the final payment on Tom's ring
-Pay the Officiant
-Finalize the food for the Reception
-Pick my bouquet
-Finish my vows
-Pay for my dress and get it altered (if it needs it)
-Finish sending out invitations
-Show my Stylist the hairstyle I want and do a test run with photos (to take to Key West)

Looks like a lot but not really.  I'll pay off the ring,my dress and the officiant this weekend, so that is three all ready.  Everything else will come shortly.  I'm just so glad I have everything else finished. 

I tell you, it's a pain in the ass to get addresses from people.  ESPECIALLY when they won't get back in touch with you for days on end!  I swear it really sucks.  It's been a real challenge just getting that information from people.  Oh well, I'm close to getting addresses from everyone I'm inviting.  Hopefully get all the invites out by the end of this month or at the latest by the first week of October.  We'll see what happens with how soon I can get everyone's information.

Well, it finally happened.  My manager that I can't stand at FedEx Kinko's is leaving!  I don't care if it's a transfer or if he's fired, he's finally out of my hair!!!  It was weird though because he was being all lovey dovey and crap and hugged me and said it was a pleasure working with me and stuff, whatever.  I'm totally happy that he is finally gone, but I'm just wondering who is going to take his place...totally hope we don't get stuck with a huge douche bag, but knowing our luck that is probably what's going to happen.
Today was his final day and I'm so glad I don't have to work with him.  Maybe having off Thursday and Friday instead of a weekend day is not so bad.

The only reason I even came by the store on my day off was to pass out invitations to my Wedding Reception.  We finally finished them!!!  And I've got to say that I'm really excited about them.  We didn't do a traditional invitation by any means, it's not even really paper. 

Tom and I didn't want to have the same boring thing like everyone else, it's just been done too many millions of times.  So we wanted a theme and for our invitations to be unique and hopefully something no one has seen or heard of before.  What we were going to do, before we actually sat down and calculated the cost, was going to be a Message in a Bottle invites.  They're really cool but only if you have a lot of money or just a huge amount of empty bottles with corks.  The shipping alone would be freaking nuts.

So after we scratched that idea we started thinking about other interesting options.  So since we're getting married on the beach we started thinking about themes that would tie into the beach.  The first thing that popped into Tom's head was Gilligan's Island, which I thought was extremely funny.  So we decided to re-write the lyrics of the Gilligan's Island theme song to make our invitation.  And it actually turned out pretty darn funny and interesting.  After we got it all wrote out the way we wanted we were going to print them up on paper with a beach scene or deserted island on it to go with the whole beach/Gilligan's Island theme.  But then one of my co-workers gave me the idea to put it on CD.  So now what we did was sing our "lyrics" and burned them to discs.

Now our invitations are us singing our invitation to the tune or rhythm of the Gilligan's Island theme song!!!  I thought it was extremely clever and funny and it just suits us to a "T" because we're goofy people and this isn't a stuffy extremely serious affair.  Only thing that sucks is that we're singing with no music.  I could not find just the music without singing on it, so we improvised.  I will say that I'm proud of it.  I don't have the best voice in the world, but I think I held my own.  And some of the people we've all ready given invitations too say that we harmonized a few times in the "song", lol.

Yeah, just wanted to give you guys an update on things.  I will post up the song clip of our singing invitation shortly and tell me what you guys think.

You would not believe where I went to this past Sunday.  I went with Kristen to see American Idol Tour in Charlotte.

Now granted I'm not really an American Idol fan, but the winner this year is fine as hell!!!  David Cook is so gorgeous and his voice makes me happy :D

When we went I had no idea who the other idols were except for him.  And I got to say that that man is even more scrumptious in person!  He was so cute, wearing a ball cap and argyle sweater when they first arrived, I totally wanted to hug him :D

I also have another crush on one of them, his name is Michael Johns and he's Australian!!!  We actually got to meet and talk to him, he was really nice and very funny.  Kristen gave him her Thunder from Down Under temp tattoos and he got a kick out of them.  He totally blew me away when he sang, his voice is absolutely amazing! 

I took some pictures while we were there.  They're good for where we were sitting, we were in the nosebleed section.  We were up so high we got to see the entire stage but couldn't really make out the people so we had to watch the jumbo-tron thing they had set up.

I will be posting the photos up once I clean them up and yadda yadda.  I must say that for not really liking American Idol, I had a really good time at the show.  It was really fun and wouldn't mind doing it again.

So I'm sure that you can guess what this post is about?  We just freaking saw Hellboy tonight and it was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG, it was so good!  I absolutely loved it to pieces!  I think I honestly like it better than the first, and there are very few times if any that I can actually say that.  Usually sequels suck, but this one was absolutely amazing!  Totally worth watching, you have to totally check it out!!!