So I failed...

Sorry about that. Let's see I'm sick currently. Last week I had the city come to inspect the hell hole we pay $700 a month to rent to try and fight our landlord to fix it. Now we just play the waiting game. I'm going to be honest, I've never been happy to hear someone is getting divorced, but I cannot wait until my landlords' is final and someone decides to do something to help their tenants not the pocketbook they are fighting each other for. Plus they have 4 kids who are constantly stuck in the middle and that's not cool at all. Here's a 3 picture teaser (there's over 40 pics and a complete notice to the Landlord on facebook if you're interested).

The awesome yellow stains that cover ALL my linoleum on the ground floor. Former tenants' had 3 dogs and were 3 single young men... I can only guess what I'm stepping on.

We're pretty sure a small child died in our living room... we were told to put our couch over it.. no thanks!

We have two doors like this... It's awesome NOT!

Courtney asked about weight loss. It's sort of plateaued. Once I switched to night shifts I've started living on chocolate and caffeine, but I only seem to eat a meal a day. I ordered my dress and can only lose 10 lbs or I'll need alterations. I'm weening myself off regular Mt. Dew slowly but surely and will get back on track. I just want to look good in honeymoon pics and not feel like a whale. I've lost more size wise than on the scale. I'm starting to realize that I'll never be happy with what the 3 little digital numbers say, I never have been and just need to feel happy with what I see. My "girls" however seem to have picked up all that was lost in the waist area so I had to order a bigger dress no matter what. Call me a late bloomer I suppose!

Shane has started his new job at For Bare Feet in Helmsburg. We'll be part of the Brown County scene now and hope to run into Mrs. Clowers soon! I'm over at BC HS for anatomy classes twice a week. He's a Network Administrator and gets to wear jeans to work, I think that's a favorite part! Well besides mandatory week off between Christmas and New Year's. That's an amazing feature for any employer to do and impossible to see these days. Everyone I've met over in Brown County talks about what a wonderful company it is and how much they care about their workers and so far so good. I get a discount on super cool socks and am now considered a "local" discount when shopping over there, I love it :)

I work Tues-Sat 10:30p-7a in Medical Records at Bloomington Hospital now. It's been an adjustment to say the least. I feel myself learning more medical concepts though and was proud of myself recognizing cholesterol clusters in a photo last week ha! I get to wear scrubs so I'm always comfy. I hated to leave my job in the lab. I absolutely loved that job, but wanted full-time benefits. I feel like I never get to do anything fun though because I sleep during the day and am stuck there at night on the weekends. I knew this going into it and was willing to make the sacrifice. It'll get better once all the other new people are trained and can cover alone so I can ask off. I'll be working on Halloween AND Thanksgiving this year. Probably the night of Christmas too.

And just because everyone loves pics of kids, I'll finish with my sisters!

3 months... oops

I really didn't mean to let 3 months slip by sorry folks. We've just had so much going on that perhaps I'll promise to do a topic a day and journal over the next week. I'll go ahead and give you a list of the highlights so you can see what's coming in the days ahead.

• We moved
• I've been dress shopping a few times
• Shane got a promotion
• School started for the both of us
• I switched departments at the hospital and now work full-time
• I've created a wedding website, still working on it.

That's all I can think of for now. We also had a little wedding party drama, but I don't think I need to write about that :( For the record, I've been logging in and keeping up on everyone else's lives though!

Whoops!

So I'm went missing sorry. I'm back I promise!

First off before you get bored and leave, I'm giving all you ladies a challenge in my weight loss journal. www.whatsmyweightagain.blogspot.com if you've not checked it out. I've also been slacking on there too.

Second, why I've been slacking. We've been everywhere looking at wedding venues and I'm pretty sure we've found the one. I just need to meet with the banquet coordinator. Shane's mom went into the hospital last week. She had to have a pacemaker put in, but is home and doing well. Probably bored not driving, but doing well! Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts, they were appreciated. I've also been working extra hours at the hospital and CB so I really just have no free time sometimes. I swear I'm reading everyone's stories though, just not having anything to say myself!

Third, I dropped my summer class. It was going to be awkward going to class on Monday & Wednesday 2-5 to where I couldn't pick up more work at either job. Plus trying to schedule appointments to plan the wedding, and hit the gym. I'm just going to take it in the fall.

Ok I think that's it. Told you all I'm boring!!! In all seriousness, I'm going to be doing this challenge even if I'm alone so please check it out!

So sorry for the hiatus...

I've been so busy it's crazy. I thought I was suppose to enjoy my time between classes but apparently not. I'm still not sure where I want my wedding to be. I have two places I like, but it's not like when you find a dress or something and say oh that's the one and just know it. In the end I think it'll be a lot of DIY stuff to make it how I want it to look or feel. Anyone want to volunteer to make lots of tissue paper decorations lol?

Lauren had her 3rd dance recital. I forgot my camera in the other car. Mom's camera wouldn't work (that happens when you drop it!) and my cell phone pics were crappy so I'll post a pic from her professional ones when they are back. The outfits were flipping adorable! Black and hot pink whick I love together! She tapped to Zippidy Doo Da! and was the tallest in the back row of her class just like her old sister ha!

I've been considering for awhile applying for overnight jobs at the hospital just to either get more hours or get more money. Plus I've been told you can do homework at most of them. I use to be more of a night owl than I've become (could be 7:30 work helping that) and I'm still struggling to want to get out of bed that early. I don't know. I guess that leads me to my next and final point since I'm starting to ramble....

Does anyone else ever feel like something is missing? I don't neccessarily feel unhappy because I like where I'm heading. I've been doing the jazzercise and weight watchers for the weight. I've cut and highlighted my hair recently. I've bought a few summer outfits that are a lil more dressy in an attempt to dress up a bit more. I just feel like something isn't there that I need to be but I can't figure out what it is that I'm searching for or what I think I need to feel. But in all seriousness it's not that I'm unhappy so I can't figure out what my deal is. Am I just a weirdo?

Summer Vacation?!?!

In the words of Shane, this isn't a vacation at all! He took 3 days off this week so we could go to Evansville and all we've done is go, go, & go! Joni Jetta is racking up the miles this week! We went to Indy and up to Ft. Wayne for a wedding Saturday. Wednesday we headed to a concert in Evansville and back up through Washington to see Amber & the kids in Plainville yesterday. Today we're heading down to Lake Monroe and over to Brown County to look at wedding venues and then back to Bloomington for dinner with both our families. Tomorrow we have his mother's graduation in Ft. Wayne at 11a.m. and I'm leaving from there to come down for the Relay for Life benefit for Team Andrea in Washington.

Oh and if you haven't looked on facebook, I chopped all my hair off and put some subtle highlights. I figure I have this summer to be carefree and then I'll grow it out starting in the fall. Lord knows this thick mop will grow back in a month or two easily!

Weight Watchers...

I'm starting a Weight Watchers blog if anyone is interested in following it. It probably won't be that exciting until later. Being as I'm on week 1 and not to my 2nd weigh in yet, I cannot promise you'll be waiting on a twitter update anytime soon!

Catching up....

Greetings! We've officially decided on June 26, 2010 for our wedding date. We want to be able to honor the memory of Shane's father and that would be his birthday weekend. Plus we're hoping for amazing weather. Now we're deciding on what kind of wedding we want to have, church or not church wedding. I'm torn but we don't have a "home church" up here and I don't want to use a church just have one.

I'm going into Finals week next week. I'm going to be so glad to have this semester over with! I'm going to use my extra time between now and summer classes to start sorting through our mass of belongings and hopefully have a moving sale in June. So much to do and not a lot of time to do it seems to be my problem. We seriously have something to do every weekend between now and July and it's usually out of town.

Tonight I'm starting Weight Watcher meetings in person. I've tried online before with some success, but my goal is high and I need someone to hold me accountable. I know Shane loves me no matter what, but I feel like I need to be in love with myself when I look in the mirror. I've had 2 people ask me if I'm having a baby in the past 2 weeks (granted an older man and a 3 yr old child but still!) and it irritates me! Plus we're doing the Indy Mini Marathon this weekend so it'll help my activities points! We're walking but still. I hate when I tell people and they are like oh you're just walking? Really?!?! You get up and walk 13.2 miles and tell me how easy it is!

Ok hope everyone has a great week! Unless I have something super fantastic to report, I doubt I'm back until after finals to post myself!