Well hello there 2012

I honestly wasn't sure I was going to get back to this. I'm obviously not good at posting with any regularity but that's cool since I don't think anybody reads it anyway. :)

I've been married almost 7 months now. I thought the boy was bizarre before marriage. Turns out he seems to have been waiting until I was legally tied to him before unleashing the really annoying stuff.

Last night I got home from work and the whole house smelled like gasoline. Apparently he forgot to turn the gas off on his motorcycle (not entirely sure what this means, and no, I don't want someone to tell me. I don't care) and it peed all over the garage. I'm surprised the cat is still alive. I spent a couple hours getting high before he got home. I tried to work out but almost fell over 20 minutes in because I was dizzy. Awesome. I would like to know how someone who's been riding motorcyles for 15 or so years forgets to turn off something like that.

My other recent favorite is him coming home at midnight-ish after dirt biking in his friend's field. He left his clothes halfway into the dining room. I've realized he thinks that room doubles as a mud room, literally.

I am, of course, perfect and give him no cause to wonder if I'm a crazy person. I wonder what stories he tells about me. I know he has fuzzy feelings about my general lack of PMS. I don't think I do anything anywhere near as amusing and story worthy as the things he does. I'm pretty sure my life goes like this: wake up, go to work, go home, workout, make dinner, do laundry, go to bed. Weekends are exactly the same except remove work.

I can't wait until summer. I need to get out of the house and do stuff.

Hitched

So here's my question. How long does it take to feel married? It may be because we lived together before the wedding but everything still feels the same. I've heard that marriage changes everything...no..no it doesn't. Just my name. That's enough of a pain in my ass to be everything but it's not. It's been almost a month and I think I just said husband for the first time a couple days ago. Can I still call him my boyfriend? That'd probably be weird.

120 Days

I really don't want to get super specific here because I have no idea who reads this...

I'm understanding how one becomes a bridezilla and why people elope. I'm wishing I had taken about 10 people to the beach and was getting married there tomorrow. I'm done.

General message - this is mine and Dave's wedding and the choices are mine not yours.

Dave and I are considering moving to Palm Springs where his parents live and I'm trying really hard to find reasons to stay here. I'm not finding many. My parents and the amount of $ I make are about it. Not even my job, just the money. Not a way I like to feel about things.

Get this party started!

The wedding is 139 days away. I know this because I am on weddingchannel.com roughly 14 times a day reviewing my planning checklist. I swear I'm not a bridezilla, nor will I be. It's just OCD. Today I ordered invitations, my shoes, bridesmaids gifts, some favors, scouted out rings, and bullied my bridesmaids into ordering their shoes. This week, my mom and I will go check out cakes and then her next assignment is flowers. Once those two things are ordered I can take another couple months off. :)
I kinda wish it was closer. I'm the type of person who likes to get all my to-do's taken care of without waiting. It's driving me nuts that there's stuff I need to do, and I know I need to do it, but it's just not time to do it yet. Don't be surprised if invitations go out in May.....

Masochist

Sunday I got what is to be my final tattoo. I love it. However, in the process of getting it, the phrase "too old for this shit" came to mind. It didn't help that the guy doing it had a pretty heavy hand and it was the most painful one I've ever gotten. It's also interfered with my life. I haven't been able to work out all week because of the discomfort.
I don't find tattoos immature or something professional people shouldn't have. I do kind of think there's a stage of life you can get them in though. That's different ages for everybody and can sometimes happen more than once or twice in a lifetime but I don't think I'm at that stage now and I sort of hope I'm never at that stage again.

New Year

Holy Crap it's 2011! How'd that happen? Whatever. This year is going to be fantastic. I turn 31 this year, in a little over a month. We're going to Palm Springs to visit the boys parents right after. And in August we're getting MARRIED! Honestly, a couple years ago I really didn't think I would ever get married. I never thought I'd find someone who made me happy again. The truth is though, he doesn't just make me happy, he shows me how unhappy I was before. I think this will be the year I finally start really living instead of going through the motions. I think I've already started some.

Here's to the BEST YEAR EVER!!!

Moving on up

Oh moving. I hate you so much.

We are (still) in the process of moving from a tiny one bedroom apartment to a 3 bedroom duplex. I absolutely love the new place (even it is midly in the ghetto) but this has been one of the most difficult moves I've ever had. The worst part so far is that we were without hot water for about 5 days. I love showers. This was not good times for me.

I'm also undecided on whether it's better to have a long time to move or just a day or two. We have the apartment until the end of the month and got the duplex keys on the 10th. It's kind of nice to have 20 days but I also feel like it's dragging on FOREVER. There is still a few things in the apartment and quite a few things in the garage. I'm really looking forward to getting everything out of the apartment so I no longer have to carry stuff down 3 flights of stairs.

On to the new place. It's on a short street ending in a cul-de-sac. The entire street is duplexes and the people are....interesting. Most of these people show no interest in staying inside. They also seem to like having music blasting wars. It's fun.

The house is really nice. There's been a few things we (Dave) have had to fix ourselves, but, for the most part, it's super nice inside. And it's amazing having that much space. I've gotten most stuff put away. There are some decoration type things hanging out on the dining room table still but that's mainly because I have way to many candle holders and shot glasses.

I just can't wait to be completely done.