I find it really odd that I don't care about clothes or fashion right now at all. I realize it's summer and since I don't have a job during the summer it doesn't really matter and my top priority is just to stay cool when I go outside in 100 degree heat, but still. Usually I care and usually I go shopping every once in a while. I've bought two pieces of clothing since that s-word let out for the summer (s-word = school, which is a bad word around here during the summer), a pair of shorts and a pair of flip flops and that was only because I had a Groupon that was going to expire from Old Navy.
Guess I'll have to start giving it some sort of thought in a month or my middle schoolers are going to judge me. They're rough, I better watch out!
Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Above the bed sign
Although I haven't used Pinterest for long and I've mostly used it for wedding-inspiration pictures, I was inspired by Young House Love to participate in ---
The lovely leaders of these challenge and their projects can be found here:
I don't know if it's the teacher in me or what but I've always enjoyed cute sayings in poster form and my bestie Lauren seems to love them, too, based on my following of her on Pinterest. She never ceases to amaze me with all of the awesome sayings she scrounges up. I will definitely be making a sign for my classroom with this saying:
But for this particular challenge, I decided to focus on the home. My fiance is out of the country for a week so I'm making over our bedroom While You Were Out-style. Right now we have nothing hanging on our walls so although our comforter is on the way from Target and as soon as that comes, I'll be able to pick out the right shade of gray for the walls, I need something to hang on the walls once they're painted and I thought that painting a canvas with a saying would be perfect to hang over the bed.
Here is our comforter set:
At first I thought I'd use the ever-popular:
... but, fiance and I have never said that to each other, even though we do always follow it! Then I started thinking about what we do say to each other while I dug up these canvases that I painted and used in my old apartment (previously blogged about here):
Which weren't exactly my fiance's style and were hiding out under the bed just begging to be repainted and used again. Since I was reusing canvases, this project cost me a whopping $5 for paint a couple of new brushes. Here is what I came up with:
This started out when I used to tell him, "I love you more than chocolate," which is a huge deal because, c'mon, it's CHOCOLATE! It evolved to, "I love you more than Starbucks," as I kinda sorta got him as addicted to Starbucks as I am and now it's our unofficial motto. Shameless plug for our wedding-planning blog that I just started by the same name: here.
Once I finish the rest of the room makeover, I'll be blogging about our sign's new home over the bed. I am thrilled to be painting another yet another white room in this house. I am officially a real estate agent's worst nightmare.
I don't know if it's the teacher in me or what but I've always enjoyed cute sayings in poster form and my bestie Lauren seems to love them, too, based on my following of her on Pinterest. She never ceases to amaze me with all of the awesome sayings she scrounges up. I will definitely be making a sign for my classroom with this saying:
Here is our comforter set:
Which weren't exactly my fiance's style and were hiding out under the bed just begging to be repainted and used again. Since I was reusing canvases, this project cost me a whopping $5 for paint a couple of new brushes. Here is what I came up with:
This started out when I used to tell him, "I love you more than chocolate," which is a huge deal because, c'mon, it's CHOCOLATE! It evolved to, "I love you more than Starbucks," as I kinda sorta got him as addicted to Starbucks as I am and now it's our unofficial motto. Shameless plug for our wedding-planning blog that I just started by the same name: here.
Once I finish the rest of the room makeover, I'll be blogging about our sign's new home over the bed. I am thrilled to be painting another yet another white room in this house. I am officially a real estate agent's worst nightmare.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Wedding planning, etc.
It's summer, we're more than halfway into summer break. It's kind of boring. I have had a summer job from age 14 until this summer so I haven't had this much free time in quite some time. I'm not sure that I enjoy it. It has been nice for getting "the bones" of the wedding planned, but it doesn't take a whole summer to plan what you need to plan for a wedding a year from now. I'm not planning on talking about that much here, though, there's a whole other blog for that. Check it out: I Love You More Than Starbucks
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm ready to go back to work, but I think summer better end somewhat soon or I might not ever go back. Can you say no motivation? Joel is going to Scotland next week to coach in the International Children's Games (ICG). I kind of hope I can get involved and start traveling with them in the next few years, it's such a great organization. While he's gone, I plan on pulling a While You Were Out ... our bedroom needs a serious makeover. We chose a bedroom set together to put on our registry, so I know that he'll like it, it's just a matter of buying it and painting. Excited! After that, we'll have three rooms made over.
He also just finished fencing in the backyard yesterday so we can let the dogs run free. They love it! The house is definitely coming along, which is good since Joel moved in last August and the people that lived here before either left things as they originally were, aka, builder's-grade white paint or, they tried to DIY things and did a very poor job at it, aka, a fence along either side of the backyard but not a completely fenced in yard. It's kind of nice to be able to make it our own, but not when we have to fix all their crap before we do.
That's all for now, check out our new wedding blog!
-E
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm ready to go back to work, but I think summer better end somewhat soon or I might not ever go back. Can you say no motivation? Joel is going to Scotland next week to coach in the International Children's Games (ICG). I kind of hope I can get involved and start traveling with them in the next few years, it's such a great organization. While he's gone, I plan on pulling a While You Were Out ... our bedroom needs a serious makeover. We chose a bedroom set together to put on our registry, so I know that he'll like it, it's just a matter of buying it and painting. Excited! After that, we'll have three rooms made over.
He also just finished fencing in the backyard yesterday so we can let the dogs run free. They love it! The house is definitely coming along, which is good since Joel moved in last August and the people that lived here before either left things as they originally were, aka, builder's-grade white paint or, they tried to DIY things and did a very poor job at it, aka, a fence along either side of the backyard but not a completely fenced in yard. It's kind of nice to be able to make it our own, but not when we have to fix all their crap before we do.
That's all for now, check out our new wedding blog!
-E
Sunday, April 24, 2011
He put a ring on it
So, I'm engaged. Let's talk about how it happened.
Joel had pretty much been talking about going on a trip to Las Vegas since our second date. I laughed it off for a while -- who the heck starts talking about going on vacation with someone they've just barely started dating?? But somewhere along the way, the idea came to fruition and when our tax refunds came along, we booked a spring break trip to Vegas, along with two Cirque shows. He had been several times and I was excited to go on a trip with my own built-in tour guide.
I will admit that I picked out the ring and knew it had been purchased but wasn't expecting a proposal on this trip. Our coworkers teased us mercilessly about going to Vegas just to elope and we laughed them off, but we pointed out every wedding chapel in Vegas to each other, talking about the jokes we could play by taking pictures in front of them. When I posted a picture of me wearing a simple white dress on Facebook, I got the comment about wearing a white dress... it would have been a fun prank, although it's way past April Fool's Day now.
We were there from Monday - Friday and on Wednesday we had spent the day walking around, doing some window shopping, etc. and we'd come back in the afternoon to get ready for dinner and to go to the Cirque show "O" at the Bellagio. I promptly fell asleep and little did I know that Joel took this opportunity to call my parents and ask permission to ask me to marry him. He wanted to ask before we left for the trip but he never really got the chance to talk to my parents without my being there. It's probably a good thing because my mom would have been DYING if he had asked several days before, she already went crazy trying to keep that secret for the couple of hours that she had to.
After he woke me up and we got spiffied up (I just thought we were looking nice to go to the show!!), we headed to Margaritaville for the second night in row. He says he was worried about the time that it was taking us to get our dinner and get out of there, but he certainly didn't appear nervous or anything. Once we finished at dinner, we headed to the Bellagio and to see the fountain show as we had plenty of time before "O" was to begin at 10. We found a good spot and watched a fountain show and stood around and talked. After the second fountain show ... there's about 15 minutes between each show, he turned to me and said, "I think I have a way to make this night even better." I'm pretty sure he said some other things but the next thing I knew, he was down on his knee opening the ring box. My reply was basically, "Are you going to put the ring on or are you going to make me??" That's when he pointed out that I hadn't said yes yet. I told him yes and he put the ring on my finger and I pulled him up and promptly started smiling and crying like an idiot. I didn't get too long before he had to make sure that I called my parents since it was nearly midnight back home by that point. I was also able to get in touch with my brother since it was spring break and so teacher bed time was not in effect.
The only hard part was that it was late and a week night so that was pretty much the extent of who we could tell that night. The next morning Joel's friends started calling at about 6:30. We tried to go back to sleep, telling each other that we'd call them once we woke up. Well... I was way too excited and insisted that we start calling people. It was 10 AM at home, it was totally legit!
By that afternoon, my mom decided she had enough of not telling the Facebook world so she called her sister to tell her so she wouldn't find out via Facebook and we went on our merry Facebook-official way. So excited to start planning!!!
Joel had pretty much been talking about going on a trip to Las Vegas since our second date. I laughed it off for a while -- who the heck starts talking about going on vacation with someone they've just barely started dating?? But somewhere along the way, the idea came to fruition and when our tax refunds came along, we booked a spring break trip to Vegas, along with two Cirque shows. He had been several times and I was excited to go on a trip with my own built-in tour guide.
I will admit that I picked out the ring and knew it had been purchased but wasn't expecting a proposal on this trip. Our coworkers teased us mercilessly about going to Vegas just to elope and we laughed them off, but we pointed out every wedding chapel in Vegas to each other, talking about the jokes we could play by taking pictures in front of them. When I posted a picture of me wearing a simple white dress on Facebook, I got the comment about wearing a white dress... it would have been a fun prank, although it's way past April Fool's Day now.
We were there from Monday - Friday and on Wednesday we had spent the day walking around, doing some window shopping, etc. and we'd come back in the afternoon to get ready for dinner and to go to the Cirque show "O" at the Bellagio. I promptly fell asleep and little did I know that Joel took this opportunity to call my parents and ask permission to ask me to marry him. He wanted to ask before we left for the trip but he never really got the chance to talk to my parents without my being there. It's probably a good thing because my mom would have been DYING if he had asked several days before, she already went crazy trying to keep that secret for the couple of hours that she had to.
After he woke me up and we got spiffied up (I just thought we were looking nice to go to the show!!), we headed to Margaritaville for the second night in row. He says he was worried about the time that it was taking us to get our dinner and get out of there, but he certainly didn't appear nervous or anything. Once we finished at dinner, we headed to the Bellagio and to see the fountain show as we had plenty of time before "O" was to begin at 10. We found a good spot and watched a fountain show and stood around and talked. After the second fountain show ... there's about 15 minutes between each show, he turned to me and said, "I think I have a way to make this night even better." I'm pretty sure he said some other things but the next thing I knew, he was down on his knee opening the ring box. My reply was basically, "Are you going to put the ring on or are you going to make me??" That's when he pointed out that I hadn't said yes yet. I told him yes and he put the ring on my finger and I pulled him up and promptly started smiling and crying like an idiot. I didn't get too long before he had to make sure that I called my parents since it was nearly midnight back home by that point. I was also able to get in touch with my brother since it was spring break and so teacher bed time was not in effect.
The only hard part was that it was late and a week night so that was pretty much the extent of who we could tell that night. The next morning Joel's friends started calling at about 6:30. We tried to go back to sleep, telling each other that we'd call them once we woke up. Well... I was way too excited and insisted that we start calling people. It was 10 AM at home, it was totally legit!
By that afternoon, my mom decided she had enough of not telling the Facebook world so she called her sister to tell her so she wouldn't find out via Facebook and we went on our merry Facebook-official way. So excited to start planning!!!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Meme?? Am I back in 8th grade??
I'm really not feeling well and totally avoiding grading papers, sooo...
A. Age: 25.
B. Bed size: Queen.
C. Chore you hate: DISHES!
D. Dogs: 2 - Nico is a Scottie/Lab mix and Trina is a Husky/ Shepard mix. Oh, we have such cute mutts :)
E. Essential start to your day: If I could just skip straight from wake-up to after I've consumed caffeine. Basically being left alone is the essential start to the day.
F. Favorite Color: Dark purple
G. Gold or silver: silver
H. Height: 5' 9''
I. Instruments you play: I probably COULD play the clarinet still, ya know if some twisted criminal held a gun to my head. Hey, never know when a music-loving criminal will come along.
J. Job title: Science teacher
K. Kids: Someday. Not any time soon.
L. Live: I'm between places at the moment. Haha. I'm in the 'burbs of Richmond, VA
M. Mom's name: Debbie
N. Nicknames: I seem to be called "babe" a lot lately, but only by one person thankfully.
O. Overnight hospital stays: Just at birth
P. Pet peeve: Students who think they should be given better grades without doing the work!
Q. Quote from a movie: "What we need is some rope." -Boondock Saints
R. Right or left handed: Right.
S. Siblings: One, brother, Matt
T. Time you wake up: 6. Reluctantly every morning.
U. Underwear: Lots?
V. Vegetables you dislike: cooked carrots. I love raw carrots.
W. What makes you run late: thinking I have time for a Starbucks run :)
X. X-rays you've had: umm...I'm Dr. House's dream and an insurance company's nightmare. I can't even keep track.
Y. Yummy food you make: Not to toot my own horn, but *toot toot!* I'm a pretty good cook at just about anything. I think I'd say my chocolate chip cookies are the best, though. I've been told that they're almost better than sex.
Z. Zoo animal: Giraffes, monkeys, flamingos, etc. I kind of love the zoo in general.
A. Age: 25.
B. Bed size: Queen.
C. Chore you hate: DISHES!
D. Dogs: 2 - Nico is a Scottie/Lab mix and Trina is a Husky/ Shepard mix. Oh, we have such cute mutts :)
E. Essential start to your day: If I could just skip straight from wake-up to after I've consumed caffeine. Basically being left alone is the essential start to the day.
F. Favorite Color: Dark purple
G. Gold or silver: silver
H. Height: 5' 9''
I. Instruments you play: I probably COULD play the clarinet still, ya know if some twisted criminal held a gun to my head. Hey, never know when a music-loving criminal will come along.
J. Job title: Science teacher
K. Kids: Someday. Not any time soon.
L. Live: I'm between places at the moment. Haha. I'm in the 'burbs of Richmond, VA
M. Mom's name: Debbie
N. Nicknames: I seem to be called "babe" a lot lately, but only by one person thankfully.
O. Overnight hospital stays: Just at birth
P. Pet peeve: Students who think they should be given better grades without doing the work!
Q. Quote from a movie: "What we need is some rope." -Boondock Saints
R. Right or left handed: Right.
S. Siblings: One, brother, Matt
T. Time you wake up: 6. Reluctantly every morning.
U. Underwear: Lots?
V. Vegetables you dislike: cooked carrots. I love raw carrots.
W. What makes you run late: thinking I have time for a Starbucks run :)
X. X-rays you've had: umm...I'm Dr. House's dream and an insurance company's nightmare. I can't even keep track.
Y. Yummy food you make: Not to toot my own horn, but *toot toot!* I'm a pretty good cook at just about anything. I think I'd say my chocolate chip cookies are the best, though. I've been told that they're almost better than sex.
Z. Zoo animal: Giraffes, monkeys, flamingos, etc. I kind of love the zoo in general.
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