Operation: THE DRESS

This story begins some eight or so years ago in a widely overlooked city known as Omaha Nebraska. There, lived this nice young boy and he met this nice young girl...

...wait...

No

This isn't right.

I am telling the wrong story.

This story is supposed to be about me. Riiiiiiiiight...

So flash forward about seven and a half years. Meet said boy.

His name is Nate. He is a nice boy. He met a nice girl in previously said city. Meet girl.

Her name is Erica. She is a nice girl.

They met, dated, broke up, got back together, decided they were inseparable, moved a few times, got engaged...

ya dee, ya dee, ya.

Add a dog. Meet said dog.

Her name is Juno. She is a sweet dog.

Here is my part of the story. (no stick figures required...you know me) I was asked by previously said girl to be a bridesmaid. I was very excited! I, thankfully, wasn't asked to be the maid of honor (I mean why would I, she has a sister) because it is a lot of responsibility that I dont want. Moving forward about 6 months to the present. The wedding is 4 months from now. It is the new year where new years resolutions are generally made. I made a few. One of them...

OPERATION: THE DRESS

I have this beautiful dress (that i havent tried on yet, its still being made) that I am going to be wearing. I have met the bride-to-be of course (so have you, see above, lol) and the maid of honor, her sister. They are both tall and thin and beautiful. I have not met the other bridesmaids but I am sure they will follow suit. I, however am not tall. There is not much I can do about that except for buy some great heels. But thin, I am not, and can do something about. or at least partially before the wedding. So this is where my operation has come in. I am by no means going to be thin like them by the wedding, but a lot of money is going into this wedding and i want to look my best for it. So we are in full effect. The year has started with me being sick, which admittedly is not fun, but has left me with no appetite, and therefore a good thing. Check. Step two, a 5k that I did a week ago. Awesome. Check. Step three, the gym, when i regain full use of my lungs, that treadmill and I will be best friends once again. and heeeeeeeello spinning class. Yeah, there I am. Dont you even worry. Its going down. you just wait. we are all going to look magical in our dresses!

Don't you just love stick figures? haha,me too!

A few suggestions

For those of you who know me very well, you know that reading a book is not my first form of entertainment. It never has been, but on occasion I come across a book suggestion from someone and I take them up on it.

In this first case, 'The Hunger Games', I saw a preview for the movie that comes out in March and was intrigued. I had heard good things about it, so I asked for the first book of the trilogy for Christmas. I was not disappointed. I started on this booked a few days ago and couldn't put it down, even though I have been sick, and have needed my sleep more than I wished for. It really is heart pumping and always on the verge of climax. I highly recommend. I wondered if when I finished this one, if I would rush out and buy the second to get started. But when the book was over all I could think was that I was exhausted. Mentally drained from the ever up-beat tempo. I will read book 2 and 3, but I am going to give it a minute. They leave a small cliffhanger to grasp your attention for the next one, but not one I am quite ready for yet. I have no doubt it will be just as action packed as the first. I will say that it can be a little bit graphic in terms of violence. Nothing too bad, but I mean the premise of the book is 24 kids go into an arena as a fight to the death and only one can survive. It was bound to have something a little violent in it. Just a warning.

This is another book I have been reading recently. 2 books in one month? I know, thats really a lot for me. And both were decent sized books. 400+ pages. Nothing to scoff at. Anyways, this book was really quite magical for me. It was recommended to me by my roommate's mom, Debby aka 'my Texas mom'. She has raved about it since I have lived here and I always thought i would pick it up sometime. So finally i did. I was ordering something from amazon.com and i needed it to be at least $25 to get free shipping, so i figured it was a perfect time to get the book. If i hated the book, I could just give it to Debby (who i later learned already has 3 copies) or give it away or something.

So this book was pretty magical for me. Why? Well I love love stories. You know I do. I wont pretend like they don't suck me in at first glance. Hence the reason I love Twilight so. And why from that series the first (Twilight) is my fav. I love watching them fall in love all over again. It is also the reason I am writing my own book...about two people falling in love. So this book 'Redeeming Love' tells you right in the title that its about love. We are already off to a good start. This book tells a fictional version that loosely tells the story of the book of Hosea from the Bible. This book was a little harder for me to get into at first. The beginning tells of this girl whose life is nothing short of miserable. And it made me kind of miserable too. But it definitely has its own redeeming qualities. It is one of those books that I wanted to scream at a few of the characters because they were simply either just pure evil, or so stupid they kept getting in their own way. And the book made me cry a few times. Nothing like at the end. The last paragraph of the book...yeah, i lost it. haha. I highly recommend you not reading the last paragraph before you get there (Amy, i know about you!!) But do as you please.

Happy Reading!!

Christmas Projects 2011

This one was for Alex. Her favorite hymn is 'Near My God to Thee'. The letters on the frame are hand painted. I learned on Pinterest how to do it. It still takes a lot of time and its not perfect. But she liked it (she cried! yes!!!). I dyed the paper with coffee so that it would look old (yellow/brown, and wrinkled). I briefly thought it might be a little sacrilegious to dip a church hymn in coffee (it was just printed from the internet), but i didnt drink the coffee and i got the coffee from work. it was old by then. so i wasnt too concerned. :)

This one was for my mom. Got the idea from Pinterest. You have probably seen it. She is a teacher so i thought it would be fun to put up at school.

This one was for my dad. He works at two different wineries. I bought the corks online. I had to cut the corks and it took soooooo long. I tore up my hands on many occasions trying to cut those corks. So i would quit for a fews days/weeks and let my hands take a break, then resume. It is glued to the back of a shadow box.

Home

I went home for Christmas this year. I was gone for about 10 days or so. It was a pretty great vacation and nice to get away from work and Texas for a minute. My brother and I went to a Colts game. They won. Second game they won all season against a playoff ranked team. It was a great game from start to finish.

Sam thoroughly enjoyed being under the Christmas tree. Its his favorite time of year too!

Meet Juno. She is Golden Retriever. She lives in Covington KY. She is my brother and his fiancé's. She was named after the beach that they got engaged on. When she is being bad they call her by her full name "Juno Beach." Its pretty cute actually. She loves loves loves new people. Therefore, she and I became instant friends. In this picture she is playing camera shy because Nate and Erica were not there and I was the only one home to take care of her for a few hours. She was not pleased.

Im feeling inspired lately

He had that look in his eyes. She knew the look well. He smiled making wrinkles at the edges of his light brown eyes and around his mouth. Those were always her favorite features of his face. He took a deep breath and knelt to the ground on one knee. He looked up at her.

She had always imagined this moment. It was perfect. Her breath caught as she looked down at the man she loved with all her heart. He extended his slightly shaky hand. There was a small black velvet box sitting in his palm. A ring sat tucked in its soft fabric. The perfectly cut stone centered on the ring sparkled off the lights of the nearby Christmas tree.

He remembered. It was the ring she had once told him she had always wanted. It was beautiful. There was a large diamond in the center with smaller diamonds on each side set into the band of the ring. The sparkly clear diamonds accented the white gold flawlessly.
“Lucy, I love you. Will you marry me?”

Her eyes moved from the ring to the eyes she knew so well. “I…I…I can’t,” she whispered. She looked up from those disappointed eyes to catch the warm tears before they spilled over. A quiet sob rumbled in her throat.

Lucy’s eyes flashed open. Her breathing came in hammered gasps as she lay in her small bed. She reached up to feel the all too real tears that ran down her face. Not again, she thought.

This is the preface to the story I am writing. I would really love it to be book length by the end, but who knows what will happen. I am about 50 pages in so far. I have had a lot of boy drama over the last year and i am finally turning it into inspiring me to write again. I started this story when I lived in Maine 6 1/2 years ago. I put it down for about 4 years. But I have been slowly making progress over the last 2 years. I hope the beginning catches your attention at least a little. :) maybe it will end up being a good little book. (not that i will every publish it or anything, lol)

blogging

i wish that i remembered how to blog. i really cant think of anything to blog about. plenty (PLENTY!!) has been going on, but not really anything i want to put out there in blogger-land. or anything that is really fun and exciting. Mostly stressful and unfun things have been happening. maybe some of which is my own fault. haha

Anywho, i am going to start blogging again some day, i think. that is the goal anyways. i have lots of goals. lots of which dont ever get done...hmmmm...

well, here's hoping for the best.

Love, Me

oh, and since no good post goes without a pic, here is one of me before a first date i went on that i was super excited about. the date went AMAZING!

too bad it was really just a show he was putting on. and the real him...not amazing. or great. or nice. or respectful. or patient...crap...this is why i dont blog. no one wants to hear all this.

either way, i looked amazing!! :))

Remember that time...

...when I used to blog? Yeah. Me too. Its been almost two months now. I kind of forgot about blogging with all the craziness that has been going on in my life. Which I guess is okay because none of the things going on in my life, that have made it crazy, are things i really wanna blog about.

So...I here is what I will tell you about.

I did P90X today for the first time! Chest and Back. And I totally rocked it. I mean I was totally sweating and working hard. I think over the hour workout I did 200 pushups, 30 pull ups (with help) and lots of other various arm stuff. ANNNNNNDDDD...that was my second workout for today. I worked out with my PT this morning. We did squats and other leg machines. You know that point when you are working out that your legs (arms, or whatever you are working) feel like jello? well, I passed that point this morning. At one point I told him that I couldn't feel them anymore. I looked down to make sure they were still there. and they were. but i couldn't feel them at all. He just smiled. I think he gets enjoyment out of my suffering. lol

but seriously!

And on another note, I am writing more of my story. I wrote a pretty amazing first kiss scene. haha Get excited!!