A Simple Girl in a Complex World

See told yall I would have some downtime and here I am! I’m at work and have an hour left and I’m STARVIN LIKE MARVIN! So I thought I might write a blog to pass some time!

Shew girls I tell ya what I really HATE the Army right now! You cant plan for anything in advance with them! They originally told us that J would only be at Ft. Rucker until Feb. 09′ well guess what in the pure Army fashion they have changed it to sometime next year! They dont know how to schedule anything! J. didnt have to repeat a course that everyone including his roomate is having to do which is 3 weeks, you would think they would let J. go ahead and skip to his next 3 week course but NOOOOOO they are making him sit and wait and do funeral detail of all things! WTF?! I’m sorry but I have such deep respect for our military and veterans and such as, but dang it they should have let him go on and do his next class that is 3 weeks that he could be done with! But nope that 3 week class starts for him on April 15th, his last class ended March 1st! He’s been on hold basically a month and half what the crap!? Why cant they just put you straight through and get it over with? I mean if they think about it they would definately be saving themselves BOOKOOS of moola! He’s getting paid $4000 a month to sit there! Although I wont complain about that, it’s just the him sittin there doing nothing that makes me angry! He was sent down there to learn to fly not sit there! He’s plenty good at that here at home!

This is all stemming from my pent up frusteration that I cannot plan my wedding because I cant set a date until next year jeez everything will be gone by then, all the nice reception halls and photographers will be gone gone gone! So in my pursuit to snag some of the great ones early I’ve been contacting them by email and telling them the situation! This photographer I am in love with is VERY understanding! She said since she only does a certain number of weddings a year she would keep my date no matter when it was open for me! YAY! I may also go ahead and give her the $135 deposit just to keep her to that!

I went to visit with my mom’s family for easter weekend and got to tell them all about the engagement and I knew that if I sat with my aunt for awhile we’d have the entire wedding planned and guess what we did! We basically figured everything out! She’s going to make my cake and we’re all going to help out with the food, we’re going to have a pasta bar with spagetti, fetticini and then alfredo sauce, meatless and meat spagetti sauce then include chicken and shrimp for toppings! We will also possibly have bread and salad and cake will be the dessert! She thinks we can feed around 85 people with beverages (J has to have his beer or he wont be happy) for around $400! YAY aunt Judy saves the day!

I’m also going to make all my invitations, programs, and also make my jewlery and bridesmaids jewlery as a gift. I’m also going to since I have so much time apparently I’m going to make cards for everyone asking them to be in the bridal party (mostly just the girls the guys would look at me like I was crazy) so that will probably be my first project!

I have to go to David’s Bridal Saturday after I get off work to get fitted and order my dress for my best friend’s wedding so I’m gonna try on a few wedding dresses while I was there and if the one I’ve been eyeing turns out to look good on me (if no other dress I like better turns up) I’m probably just going to go ahead and buy it! So that will be exciting!

As I mentioned in the previous post I’m considering making a wedding blog to just tell about my process of achieving a wedding for UNDER $5000 (yeah wish me luck) as I know alot of brides want to keep their costs low so I thought I might be able to be some sort of inspiration and help? Is that a good idea?

Everyone has been asking me where I’m registered and well since I cant give them a date I havent registered yet but in place of full fledged registering I’ve started making wish lists on www.target.com and www.jcpenny.com so if anyone just feels the urge to go ahead and get me and engagement gift or something they can choose from something we want!

See now why I say I hate the Army? Look at all the fun I could be having right now if I had a date! I could actually find out a time to be able to have engagement pictures and all that fun stuff! But nope the Army has snatched that away for now! I’ll keep everyone updated and as soon as we set a date yall will be one of the first to know!

Whee only 30 minutes of work left and I can go home and eat!

Once again I’m sorry I suck so much at posting lately! I’ve been so busy with school its unreal so I’m trying to catch up and try and not plan a wedding since I really cant! DUMB ARMY! I swear I have some downtime this week so I’ll post a few times!

In other news Im considering starting a wedding blog but I’m not sure yet. I’ll let yall know if I do!

I’M ENGAGED I’M ENGAGED!

He asked me Friday March 14th at the Ft. Rucker Army Aviation museum! It was so sweet I totally was not expecting it! He had been kidding me all week about it and therefor hence the not expecting it part. I should have suspected something when his hands had been sweating the entire time we were walking around the museum. He took me to the area where I pinned on his officer rank in Feb. and got down on one knee and said all this really sweet stuff and I at first thought he was joking and smacked him on the shoulder and told him to get up! But he was like “No im’ not joking” and then said more sweet things and then asked me to marry him and I said “of course” YAY! Here are some pictures!

My ring   Us

 I have also already bought a few things which I found fantastic deals on and couldnt pass up on so here are some pictures of that stuff too! But as many of you know how are affiliated with the military you cant plan for anything advance with the Army so we do not have a date so yeah!

Centerpeice Vases  Bouquet Vases Card Box Frames Signature Frame Ribbon Invitation Decor Placecards

 To see the pictures of the stuff just click the link! YAY!

 Sorry I havent wrote in so long but school has come crashing down all around me since we only have 6 weeks in the semester left I’ll try to write more!

Ok so I wrote earlier in the week that I applied to be off on Saturday so I could leave a day early, well guess what I got it off, but now they are calling for a MAJOR winter storm here in KY,TN, and parts of AL! WTF!? It’s March people! Spring break means sun, sand and warm not freakin winter! SO this could potentially not only put me out of a day’s pay but prevent me from leaving until Sunday after all!

I have been praying that it doesnt happen at all, the last time they said something like this was going to happen the entire state freaked out and closed EVERYTHING and I do mean Everything down! AND wouldnt ya know I’ve seen worse ice in my refridgerator than I did on the roads that entire day! So Bill Meck I’m really praying you are WRONG WRONG WRONG! If I wake up in the morning to go to work and see 6 inches of snow on the ground I will curse the ground anyone who ever said they wanted it to snow tomorrow and Saturday!

*sigh* I really hate the weather, it always seems to ruin something for me! After working so hard to convince my parents to let me go and then paying a large amount of money to get my car ready for the trip THIS comes up! How freakin great is that?! Just my luck! In the words of Rachel Green from Friends “Isnt that just kick you in the crotch, spit on your neck fantastic?!”

Ok guys I’m sorry I’m done just PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Pray for me and that there will NOT be a BLIZZARD or any bad weather for that matter for the next 3 days!

*side note: if there is bad weather I’ll be sure to take a picture of it to show you guys, you’ll probably hear me bawling all the way from where you loverly people are*

Good lord have mercy girls I swear my teachers ALWAYS know when I have a big trip coming up! I have so much stuff to do this week before I leave on HOPEFULLY Saturday if I can get off work! Everyone cross your fingers my boss can pull something out of his sleeve!

Lets see I got my 12 essay (Luckily not 16 like last time!) exam done just a few minutes ago and it’s turned in, now I just have to wait on the grade I got a 105 out of 100 points possible last time, so hopefully I do just the same this time! I have a perfect grade in that class right now! YAY ME!

I have to finish my 50 question communications midterm and decide on a topic for my informative speech, by the way what person in his right mind gives an exam over speeches!? Owell hopefully I’ll be able to pull my grade up in there because well it’s not as good as the other.

I have 2 chapters of study guides to do for my anatomy test on thursday and probably have things to do for the lab on Tuesday. Ugg this list is getting longer!

I have to get my FAFSA for financial aid done before I leave and gotta get a package returned tomorrow and hopefully my roomate’s boyfriend can fix my cigarette lighter so I can use my GPS (or else I’ll never get to AL without it I dont trust Mapquest to save my life!)

On a sadder note J. is getting sick, which makes me sad, he’s doing so well with classes though and he’s supposed to go to his “dunker” class tomorrow but if he’s sick he wont be able to do it because of the pressure it could mess him up pretty bad, so they’ll probably push that back and which will delay his last class before “contact” with the “little bird”

OH OH and to answer your question Megan, he’s not “commissioned” yet, he’s a Warrant Officer which is still an officer which take their orders from the El Presidente’ and all that jazz but they get “commissioned” once they reach Cheif Warrant Officer 2 which he should get by the time he comes home from flight school, in the next year or so! I hope that answers your question! I’m not real sure about it exactly maybe I’ll make him explain it to me again while I’m down there! Oh I got so excited though the other day I was on the phone with him when he was going through the gate and the woman who let him though said “goodmorning officer how are you today” I got so excited and giggly because that was the first time I’d ever heard anyone call him officer! LOL ok I’m definately rambling! I’ll stop now!

As you can see I’ll be pretty busy all week with school and work but I’ll keep writing leading up to my trip! Everyone keep your fingers crossed I get Saturday off!