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!

I have come to realize there are so many things I love to do but I dont have enough time to do them in! It really makes me sad!

For instance I love to scrapbook and photography but since I started college I’ve barely been able to touch the stuff. It really is sad! I have so many more things I want to take pictures of and could scrapbook but I have no time to do it in!

 I also love to cook and I’m trying to perfect my skills right now but once again I really dont have the time to make a nice meal. Even on the weekend!  My breakfasts’ consists of cereal or anything quick like pop tarts or maybe sometimes I toaster stroodle (love those things!), lunches are anything once again I can make quick like a sandwich I prepare the night before and throw it in my lunch box before I leave that morning along with some chips a drink a couple of bottles or water and some fruit gummies. Dinner well dont even get me started on it! Tonight my dinner was a bowl of shells and cheese! How unhealthy is that?! I really want to eat healthier and exercise, but once again I dont have time! I’m doing well with water! I drink 3 bottles of water (1.5 liters which is recommended to me for my body weight) and only have one dr.pepper a day! I used to drink like 5! So I give myself kudos for that!

The point I’m trying to make is I have no time to really do the things I REALLY want to do!

There are a few things I (barely) have time for here they are:

1. School

2. Sleep

3. Homework

4. Work (which most of the time I do my homework while at work!)

5. Eat (quickly)

6. Shower

That is my life. I sometimes have to force time just to be able to write J. letters! He loves them so much so I feel bad if I go too long before writing him one! So I try to atleast 1 or 2 times a week.

What are your hobbies that you dont have time for but REALLY wish you did?