043 - A week later, still nothing to say.

I haven't posted in a week.

Only ten weeks left! Josh and I will be married in seventy days. We'll be married.

Lots of Metroid this week. <3

Also, lots of major wedding-related decisions. FEELS GOOD. Figured out the majority of catering stuff and we're working on getting a photographer that everyone can agree on. (Everyone = my parents. But I mean, I like his pictures too, so it's all good.)

I don't know, still not much to say. I started reading a book about Mary, Queen of Scots today! It's holding my interest pretty well. I'm interested to find out what happens next, so it's succeeding as a novel in my life.

Happy Father's Day :D I've got a great Dad.

036 - Why my abs will be on fire tomorrow.

I haven't updated since Wednesday. I know that's not such a big deal. But I did slip up in my diet on Thursday, and Friday night (though, that one was unintentional. I thought the salad I ordered from Chili's would OK, but turns out I was wrong).

The water heater at the house is busted again, so the water was turned off this morning. >.< HOPEFULLY dad got it figured out today.

Josh got me to work out a little with him today :P I was kind of impressed with myself. For someone who hasn't actually worked out in years, I held my own pretty well. That was encouraging... I'll have to remember how good that felt. I'd like to work out more often, I think. Get back in shape. We'll see how that goes..

This weekend was wonderful. It started with me not having to work on a Friday night, for once. Josh and I dropped off my ring to get it re-sized, then we had dinner with Emily, Barry, and Jared at Chili's. It was a good time. Yesterday, Josh and I did almost nothing. It was wonderful. We checked my oil and realized that my poor car is so old. Discussed buying another one, but Mr. Ray talked some sense in us, but the fact that it's burning oil did unsettle both of us a little. That was pretty much all that happened yesterday, haha. Today was just as relaxing, but we got a good amount done. Shrug. This is sounding like a boring play-by-play, huh. BLAH BLAH BLAH, huh. Well, I guess we found out what's wrong with my car, and we're gonna get it fixed within the next couple of weeks. I get paid on Friday, so I guess after then.

I'm not really looking forward to work tomorrow, but since the weekend was so nice, I don't mind as much as I normally do. I can make it through a short shift.

K BYE.

032 - Not in Kansas Anymore

The big news from today was that the Taylor's house was destroyed by a tree. A few trees, actually. And I'm really really over-exaggerating when I say, "destroyed," but there are trees leaning against and on top of their house. Because of that, they don't have the internet, but Josh said he'll put up a video surveying the damage as soon as he gets access to the internetz. They thought it was a tornado or something when it happened, but it seems like it was just some RIDICULOUSLY INTENSE wind. It looked like a disaster zone, dude.

I love the Twilight series. I know, I know. Sue me. But I love those books. Stephanie Meyer put up a "novella" called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner to stay up for about a month.. It's about one of the minor characters of Eclipse, and I read the whole 178 pages in about two hours this afternoon. I enjoyed it, and I know that makes me so lame in some circles, but I don't really care :P

Food Diary:

no breakfast (i slept in)

lunch - leftover 6-inch veggie sub from Subway, water, two Dove chocolate heart candies

afternoon snack - some trail mix with m&m's and two of Mrs. Laurie's famed almond butter balls

dinner - baked salmon, brown rice, and sweet potato fries YUM, water, and a blueberry muffin for dessert

Alright, time for bed. I'm such an old woman -- I've been getting sleepy around 9 lately. Last night I kicked Josh out and was in bed asleep just before 9 even rolled around. Poor Josh. I can't wait to live together so I don't have to do that anymore; it makes me feel bad cutting our hang-out time short.

G'night.

031 - The foods I eat, the premarital I counsel, the training I give, the hang out I do

Last night, I decided that I need to do a better job of not "cheating" with my food. I don't mean that I'm on a diet to lose weight or anything, my body is just very sensitive to what I eat. I haven't done the best job lately of monitoring this, so I'm gonna try to write down everything I eat each day, to help me stay accountable, and so I can visualize all the times I cheat. (Italics indicate an item I shouldn't have consumed.) A lot of the problem is that, when I'm presented with the opportunity to eat some yummy treat that isn't necessarily good for me, I think, "Oh, I've done pretty good lately, I can afford to cheat just once," but these little cheats add up fast! SO here's my food diary for today: (a pretty good first day, I'd say)

breakfast - a small bit of leftover rice, half an apple

break @ 10 - Panera's Asian Sesame Chicken Salad YUM, raspberry lemonade

after-work snack - a piece of candy, a few handfuls of dry Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal, water

dinner - a 6-inch veggie sub from Subway, water.

Tonight, Josh and I went to our (probably) last pre-marital counseling session. Mr. Dale said that as far as he's concerned, we're done, but to call him if anything big comes up and we feel like we need some help. That feels good. The whole experience was really helpful for me--I have learned a lot about myself and the way that I try to do things apart from God. It was cool for us as a couple, too. We got to read Sacred Marriage (which was AWESOME), we learned some little things about each other that will help in our relating with each other, and we walked away from each session with smiles (usually) and good conversations. But I'm glad we're done--we were both ready to stop driving out there and giving up an evening each month for that.

Today I trained a new kid at work, and it was the first time I've ever enjoyed training someone. His older sister had worked there before him, so I guess she gave him some pointers.

Anyway. That's it. Josh has patiently been waiting for me to finish this post since I decided to write it in the middle of our hang-out time. He's the best. I'm gonna go hang out with him now.

029 - Chill Day

Chick-fil-A officially has 11 meals instead of 7. Whoohoo... I had to go to a meeting on my guaranteed day off to learn about that? Just hand me a packet next time...

Ok, ok, so I know that's a bad attitude to have. It was an extra hour or so on my paycheck for doing virtually nothing. And I learned all my co-workers' favorite treats, so. Super useful info. I wasn't really feeling that well, though, so I just didn't want to be there. I took an awesome nap after that, so all was not lost.

That's... honestly been the extent of my day. Since I woke up from my nap, I've just hung out with Josh and his family <3

TWELVE WEEKS EXACTLY WOOOOOOO

028 - A Fun Day.

Today was definitely fun.

We hung out with Emily all day! It was a blast! Bowling, organizing the mess of wires behind the MacDonald's TV, Anne of Green Gables (the third one--whatta joke. It was NOTHING like the first two!), and good conversation. It was a fun day. We like Emily ;)

Ahhhh and I'm tired, so that's it. GOODNIGHT.

027 -"Just do your best and the rest will come, and we'll see you soon."

Josh already wrote about the town house, and I'm sure if you're reading my blog, you've probably already read his. It fell into our laps on Wednesday, we fell in love with it on Thursday, and today we cut off ties with Laurel Valley. It was so fast; it was so good. And such a blessing. God keeps doing this really cool thing where he messes up our original plans with a surprise blessing. He's like, "You just have to trust me. I can take care of you better than you can, and I can give you the things that you didn't even know you wanted." It's humbling, and it's beautiful.

I've got Needle & Thread by Sleeping At Last stuck in my head. I highly recommend checking them out! SO GOOD.

G'night, webzones.

025 - Home Home Home

Iiii'm ready to move out. August 29th needs to just get here already. I mean, I'll make it. I'm not upset or anything. I'm just anxious to have my own house and not have to kick Josh out of it at the end of the night.

I'm itching to experiment with flower arrangements and play around with making my own bouquet. I may work on that a little tomorrow. I just keep thinking about it, haha. Which kind of surprises me! I thought that I'd be overwhelmed by flower / decoration type things, and for a while I was, but things are clicking in a way they refused to earlier. I'm enjoying it.

I feel like all I ever talk about is wedding-related, haha. Like I've become almost this one-dimensional character. I know I haven't, but I also know that 90% of the time, I'm thinking about wedding stuffs. So 90% of the time, I'm talking about wedding stuffs as well. I'm sorry if it gets old! Just hang with me till August 29th, after that I'll stop. I'll become the girl who always talks about her new home or something, haha.

024 - TUESDAY.

Today was kinda rough.

I'm doing better now.

I'm super looking forward to this evening.