My absolute favorite morning show ever is on vacation right now so they are just running "Best Of..." clips. Because of this I was forced to listen to Mix 94.7, The JB & Sandy Morning Show, which honestly isn't really that bad either. I mainly don't like them as much because 1) it is primarily ran by two guys so it has a more manly vibe, 2) they are generally more conservative and judgmental, 3) the two guys are a little bit older (not that i don't LOVE older guys, but their age annoyingly shows) and 4) i just really like (LOVE) the Bobby Bones Morning Show.
So anyways, I had to drive to Lockhart today for a work-related errand and was in the car to listen. They did a list over the air about things that a woman should do or accomplish before she gets married. I thought it was neat and I was later able to find it on one of hosts' blogs. So here is what that list had to say as well as some of my commentary as well (where appropriate because my mother reads this!) ;o).
1. Live by herself for at least a year.
Nope, and no thank you.
2. Live with someone else for at least a year.
I've had 3 roommates before D and I started shacking up.
3. Recover from a broken heart.
Check.
4. Have a vacation fling.
I kinda dated a boy I traveled to Mexico with, if that counts. I wasn't technically on vacation.
5. Take a road-trip with a group of girlfriends.
Check! South Padre '06 13 of us convoyed there andd stayed at a rental house.
6. Relish sleeping in a queen-sized bed by herself.
I've relished sleeping in a full-sized bed by myself.
7. Get her finances in order.
Working on it.
8. Learn to love her body.
Check. Luckily, I've never had major body issues. It has always been my wonderland (per John Mayer).
9. Have a relationship with at least one person she’d never want to marry (or introduce to mom).
Um...not really.
10. Find reliable birth control.
It has worked so far! (knock on wood.)
11. Pay off as much credit card debt and student loans as possible.
Monthly.
12. Spend way too much on a something frivolous.
Does a pet count? Lol. I have too much buyers remorse to splurge too much.
13. Exorcise all past relationship demons.
For the most part, yes.
14. Travel somewhere exotic.
Tampico & Hawaii, lots of non-exotic travels elsewhere too.
15. Establish a strong circle of friends.
Yes, I feel like I have a few forever-friends and then my family also.
16. Forgive her parents for not being perfect.
My parents weren't perfect?? I don't really have any mommy or daddy issues, so: check.
17. Have at least one night she can’t quite remember.
Check.
18. Experience some really bad first dates.
I never really dated like that. Relationships just tended to evolve.
19. Find hobbies that fulfill her.
Running, shopping, hiking, outdoors stuff.
20. Celebrate her 25th birthday.
That's stupid.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
wedding on my brain
seems like everything i think about and focus on, and get distracted by pertains to the wedding. whew....i admire those who have long engagements, there is no way i could be this distracted for that long. 180 days more. that still feels like a long time, however we have a couple events coming up that will provide a little break from the wedding planning.
Saturday and Sunday coming up Dave and I are going to go to Oklahoma City and meet my parents there for a mini weekend getaway. we are planning on watching a USA Women's Softball Tourney and doing some sightseeing, possibly having dinner with some of Dave's college buddies and swimming. it's Monday and I'm already looking forward to the weekend. (story of my life).
this past weekend was very productive and exhausting as always. early Saturday morning Dave i loaded up Thor and headed to San Antonio. we had an appointment with our possible photographer at our wedding ceremony location and then we had an appointment at our reception site venue to show my mom and grandmother (and aunt and uncle and 4 cousins, and sister).
the thing about my family, which i would never trade for the world, is we have a habit of making most events a "Mexican field trip". my grandmothers house is usually bursting at the seams on the weekends and when going places almost always everyone tags along. it is so much fun! one of the great things about this weekend was we were able to show one of our ring bearers, Adan, and flower girl, Kelsi, where they would be walking in the church. i think it helped to easy a little of their anxiety about my wedding. that and i have had to bribe both Adan and Kelsi with 5 bucks :o). later after we dropped off the guys we went and did a little shopping for the flower girls dresses...and found them! perfect. check.
Saturday evening about 16 of us went for dinner at little red barn in San Antonio. we took both sets of grandparents and it was good to see everyone. Dave and i didn't plan to stay the night in San Antonio, but it got late after we got back from dinner. it was a better idea to get some sleep rather than face driving through Austin on a Saturday night.
Sunday once we got back to the apartment we were beat so we did some of our obligatory running around. dog food, groceries, best buy. and then went home to get some down time in before the week start. laundry, dishes and tidying up got done and then we were able to watch the 2ND disc of True Blood.
once Dave and I get back from Oklahoma city we must start packing and getting ready for the move into our new house. new to us, and not quite ours, but nonetheless exciting. the thing about the house that many people may not understand is the relief it will be for us as owners of a huge puppy dog. Thor requires a lot of work, a lot more work than i have ever had to do for the poodles that i have owned. i also think that i am very determined on raising him to the best of my ability because of his breed and for the reason that eventually Dave and i would like to introduce babies to our household. a rottweiler is such a wonderful animal, if raised responsibly. i am very lucky that Dave knows how to discipline him and train him, however, i am the one who tends to his exercising needs. once we have that fenced in yard in a couple of weeks my life will become 20times easier. i won't have to wake up at 5:30 am any more to take him for walks and runs. i can just throw him in the backyard! we also won't have to go to the dog park nearly as much because of the yard. i still would like to go to the dog park at least once a week to continue to socialize him.
Dave and i recently joined a recreational softball league and tonight is our first game! I'm beyond excited! i played rec league for 3 seasons while in college, but i did not play my senior year and did not play while i was in grad school. i looked around for leagues, but nothing would ever work with my schedule. we have just fallen into a routine because we are both done with school, and with our jobs and a friend asked us to join. it seemed perfect and tonight is the first game. our season is 10 weeks long and we play 8 games during this time, every Monday. i think i may be playing second base which should be fun! i am usually on the left side of the field somewhere, however i get hesitant to play there when playing coed. (this fear originates from getting popped in the collarbone by Ryan when i was pitching to him in high school). i think our team's name is Austin Heat....wish us luck!
Saturday and Sunday coming up Dave and I are going to go to Oklahoma City and meet my parents there for a mini weekend getaway. we are planning on watching a USA Women's Softball Tourney and doing some sightseeing, possibly having dinner with some of Dave's college buddies and swimming. it's Monday and I'm already looking forward to the weekend. (story of my life).
this past weekend was very productive and exhausting as always. early Saturday morning Dave i loaded up Thor and headed to San Antonio. we had an appointment with our possible photographer at our wedding ceremony location and then we had an appointment at our reception site venue to show my mom and grandmother (and aunt and uncle and 4 cousins, and sister).
the thing about my family, which i would never trade for the world, is we have a habit of making most events a "Mexican field trip". my grandmothers house is usually bursting at the seams on the weekends and when going places almost always everyone tags along. it is so much fun! one of the great things about this weekend was we were able to show one of our ring bearers, Adan, and flower girl, Kelsi, where they would be walking in the church. i think it helped to easy a little of their anxiety about my wedding. that and i have had to bribe both Adan and Kelsi with 5 bucks :o). later after we dropped off the guys we went and did a little shopping for the flower girls dresses...and found them! perfect. check.
Saturday evening about 16 of us went for dinner at little red barn in San Antonio. we took both sets of grandparents and it was good to see everyone. Dave and i didn't plan to stay the night in San Antonio, but it got late after we got back from dinner. it was a better idea to get some sleep rather than face driving through Austin on a Saturday night.
Sunday once we got back to the apartment we were beat so we did some of our obligatory running around. dog food, groceries, best buy. and then went home to get some down time in before the week start. laundry, dishes and tidying up got done and then we were able to watch the 2ND disc of True Blood.
once Dave and I get back from Oklahoma city we must start packing and getting ready for the move into our new house. new to us, and not quite ours, but nonetheless exciting. the thing about the house that many people may not understand is the relief it will be for us as owners of a huge puppy dog. Thor requires a lot of work, a lot more work than i have ever had to do for the poodles that i have owned. i also think that i am very determined on raising him to the best of my ability because of his breed and for the reason that eventually Dave and i would like to introduce babies to our household. a rottweiler is such a wonderful animal, if raised responsibly. i am very lucky that Dave knows how to discipline him and train him, however, i am the one who tends to his exercising needs. once we have that fenced in yard in a couple of weeks my life will become 20times easier. i won't have to wake up at 5:30 am any more to take him for walks and runs. i can just throw him in the backyard! we also won't have to go to the dog park nearly as much because of the yard. i still would like to go to the dog park at least once a week to continue to socialize him.
Dave and i recently joined a recreational softball league and tonight is our first game! I'm beyond excited! i played rec league for 3 seasons while in college, but i did not play my senior year and did not play while i was in grad school. i looked around for leagues, but nothing would ever work with my schedule. we have just fallen into a routine because we are both done with school, and with our jobs and a friend asked us to join. it seemed perfect and tonight is the first game. our season is 10 weeks long and we play 8 games during this time, every Monday. i think i may be playing second base which should be fun! i am usually on the left side of the field somewhere, however i get hesitant to play there when playing coed. (this fear originates from getting popped in the collarbone by Ryan when i was pitching to him in high school). i think our team's name is Austin Heat....wish us luck!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
12:34.56 7/8/9....10!!!
So...I got a cool idea from Jason Mraz's blog (click here). Today is July 8, 2009...also 7-8-9. So some MATH dork realized that today at 12:34 pm and 56 seconds that the time and date together would be 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9...actually very very very cool. Right? Well, on his blog he was inspired to jot down 10 things "grateful for today, for summer, for love, and for reasons that don’t need explaining." He also inspired me to do the same.
1. coffee and hazelnut flavored splenda
2. carpooling with my fiance every morning and evening even though we usually want to kill each other over the radio and each other's driving
3. the bobbybones show and their podcast (click here to check 'em out)
4. lunch date with Sam. i just found out that she is temping not even 1 mile away from my office! we had our first lunch date, and she ends that position in three weeks. must squeeze more in.
5. Jimmy John's Salt and Vinegar chips.
6. gas going down a little bit
7. Pandora (dot) com...best streaming radio station without commercials. can be tailored to meet your listening needs (click it)
8. my mom and sister texting me throughout the day
9. being healthy
and
10. being greeted by Thor & Hardin at home at the end of the day. their unconditional love usually makes them forget&forgive being locked up for 10 hours m-f.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Summertime Thor
This is what Thor looks like in the summer, or anytime it is hotter than 85 degrees or so:
Today was 103 degrees. GOD Bless Texas :o)....
I feel like a YEEEHAW would sound right after a sentence like that.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Fools Rush In
Dave and I are not fools, nor are we rushing in into anything...However, if you have ever seen that movie sometimes that is how I feel as Dave and I begin the real process of merging our lives together. Although this process started about two years ago it has made itself more apparent in the past couple of months as we have planned our wedding. We come from different cultural backgrounds and it's so much fun learning how Dave's family does stuff differently than mine, and deciding between the two of us how we want our household to do things. It's neat that his background and my background are coming together to pretty much make up us and how our family will eventually be. Hopefully we can take the best from each side and make it even better :o). This may hold true for any couple that gets married, but I think because of our cultural differences our families are very different, and in a good way. I also never realized how Mexican my family secretly is until I started planning our wedding....I mean, c'mon...Mariachis will be there....Ole!
So watch Fools Rush In, if you haven't already and if you have already, watch it again. Even before Dave it has always been one of my favorite movies of all time. Dave and I actually like to quote a particular part of the movie that really makes me laugh all of the time! It's the part of the movie where Alex Whitman and Isabel Fuentes parent's are meeting for the first time on a boat in Nevada and Alex's dad and mom can't take the heat and he says something like, "how do you people stand this heat...the white people are melting out here! "
So yes, just a little random weekday blog...I'm really looking forward to the 4th of July weekend (even though I do not get a single day off this week). We are going up my parent's house and lots of family will be there from San Antonio, as well as the Copelands and possibly even an Aunt and Uncle and family from Germany.
Last 4th of July I went up to Harker Heights to barbeque with my family while Dave was working all day. I left HH as soon as Dave got off so that we could spend the evening together, and we just ended up going to see a movie and i did not get to see any fireworks. However, since D has the weekends off this year we will be able to stay and watch fireworks! the only problem is, they may possibly be banned because everywhere in central texas is experiencing a serious drought! We will see.
So watch Fools Rush In, if you haven't already and if you have already, watch it again. Even before Dave it has always been one of my favorite movies of all time. Dave and I actually like to quote a particular part of the movie that really makes me laugh all of the time! It's the part of the movie where Alex Whitman and Isabel Fuentes parent's are meeting for the first time on a boat in Nevada and Alex's dad and mom can't take the heat and he says something like, "how do you people stand this heat...the white people are melting out here! "
So yes, just a little random weekday blog...I'm really looking forward to the 4th of July weekend (even though I do not get a single day off this week). We are going up my parent's house and lots of family will be there from San Antonio, as well as the Copelands and possibly even an Aunt and Uncle and family from Germany.
Last 4th of July I went up to Harker Heights to barbeque with my family while Dave was working all day. I left HH as soon as Dave got off so that we could spend the evening together, and we just ended up going to see a movie and i did not get to see any fireworks. However, since D has the weekends off this year we will be able to stay and watch fireworks! the only problem is, they may possibly be banned because everywhere in central texas is experiencing a serious drought! We will see.
*Wedding Planning update....We finally landed a wedding reception venue!!!! ahhhhhh (that was a sigh of serious relief). Last weekend Dave, Annette, Reese and I went to San Antonio with the main mission of trying out and looking at a couple of the rehearsal dinner locations that Annette was looking at. We also planned to do a couple of venue visits while in San Antonio. Luckily, a couple turned into only one, and we decided on the Republic Golf Club. I loved it and it has a great texas style to it and very nice at the same time. Also, it is in the same area as the Mission San Jose, only about 6 miles away! The only thing that we are trying to work on is the time gap between the wedding and the reception. The ceremony is going to be a 1p.m. and we can't decide what time to hold the reception. Ideally, I would like it to be at 5-10 so that people can be ready for dinner and party on a Saturday night, but it feels like from 2 until 5 would be too much time for there to be nothing going on (except taking pictures/getting pictures done). Oh well. Slowly it's all coming together.
A portion of the Republic Golf Club - I'm getting really excited about decorating!!!
Here is the link to our wedding website just incase: http://www.mywedding.com/amandandaveswedding/
Here is the link to our wedding website just incase: http://www.mywedding.com/amandandaveswedding/
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thor's Birthday Pictures
HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY THOR BOAR!!!!
Thor's very homemade birthday cake!!!
Thor patiently waiting while I took a picture of his cake.
Thor showing incredible restraint while I sang Happy Birthday to him.
Oh, the first bites of his cake!
Dave and I just watched as he devoured his first birthday cake.
Thor looking up to take a break.
Licking up the last bites.
HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY THOR BOAR!!!!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thor's Birthday, Broken Camera, New home, and Gym Membership
Thor's first birthday was on June 17, 2009! My baby is growing up and this last year has really flown by. I took lots of pictures of him and the little homemade doggie cake that I made and then my camera broke. :o( It won't allow my pictures to be transferred onto my memory card and so I have no way of getting the pictures on the compute because I have no clue where the cord is. (Note to self: look harder tonight.)
Last week was a whirlwind of a week and weekend. D & I went to San Antonio and viewed several reception venue possibilities. Went to a cake shop to look at cakes, crashed a wedding to hear a DJ we may have and signed the church papers for our ceremony stuff. We still have not decided on a reception place yet, but we have all been diligently working towards making a decision. I think on Sunday we have to make another trip down to San Antonio to view some more possible places. SOON hopefully. I have decided that we will buy the invitations this weekend and we are DIYing it. I was soooo opposed to this at first but then I found the perfect invitations for us and I think it will actually be fun to do. I may even recruit my mom & sister and have her do up half or even make a weekend event of it once the time comes.
I feel like we are much closer to deciding on a reception venue. We are looking at two more venues this weekend, possibly 3. Hopefully, this weekend a decision will be made! We are going down to San Antonio with my in-laws to be and also going to see some of the restaurants Annette has been to for the rehearsal! ***Oh I completely forgot to mention. One of the most disappointing things that I have found out while planning this wedding is that we really chose an unfortunate date. On January 2, 2010 San Antonio turns off the Christmas lights for the season and from January 3-12 the river is drained for yearly maintenance!!! How stinky! We found a great venue at a great price right over the river and then I found out all of this stuff. Now I'm not so concerned about being on the river or downtown anymore. It is okay though, because I really like our wedding date: 01/09/10 which will always be easy to remember because 01+09=10!!! Yea, dorky I know...I must be a math teacher's daughter (I am).
Amidst all of the wedding planning, Dave & I need to find a new place to live. We had been looking around to buy for awhile and then realized we weren't quite ready so now we are looking for a house to lease in the Pflugerville Area. I'm not quite sure what it is about Pflugerville, but I really like it. Living outside of Austin and commuting everyday to work sometimes feels like a big pain in the butt, but I like coming home to our little community. It is also a nice location because we are close to my parents and Daves. Anyway, we tried to do a lot of the leg work ourselves at first, but realized that the clock was ticking so now we have been working with a really nice real estate agent. We are in the process of applying to to rent one of the homes that we liked and that will take Thor (that is the biggest obstacle, finding a home to lease that will allow Thor). Hopefully, it all works out and as early as Monday we may have an idea of where we are going to live for the next 12 months (then hopefully BUY! :o) ).
Oh, and as far as the new gym goes. I joined the gym that Dave has been a member at for sometime, it is the Tech Ridge Gold's Gym. This is the first gym that I have ever had to actually pay for and join! Growing up there was always a free gym or 2 or 3 on the military base that I lived on, and then all through college it was just a part of the students fees, and even the apartment we live in now has a SMALL gym that we could use. Well with our time at the apartment coming to an end and I want to get back in shape I figured it was a good idea to join. We've been during well going regularly even with Dave starting the new job! Proud of us.
Only one more hour till the weekend!
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