There is work enough to do

I'm wishful thinking but....

What I would do if I didn't work a lot:

• Write in my blog, update it, add all sorts of cute pictures like of our house and what we've been doing....
• Write in my journal... because it barely even knows I'm married
• Scrapbook. I am WAY behind.
• Decorate my house some more. We even have decorations ready, I just need to put them up.
• Clean.... Organize....
• Cook good healthy meals every single night.
• Call all my friends and make sure their lives are going splendidly well.
• Make fun surprises for my husband.
• Do my hair. Ha ha ha, but seriously....
• EXERCISE every day for at least a half hour a day. And love it.
• Plan fun cheap dates and trips.
• Come up with new recipes and try them out.

The list could go on but that's all I can think of during this short lunch break. What would YOU do?

Home Alone

Dustin is Young Men's Secretary... and young men go on campouts. Dustin found out there was a campout on Wednesday... and then decided Thursday that he would go... So here I am, on Friday, home alone for the first time in my married life. Today was a CRAZY day at work. Things were going wrong with the database, lots of work still to do, problems with payments, and a million tickets I received in my inbox. It felt like a Monday more than a Friday. Added on top was the dreaded knowledge that I would see Dustin for maybe 5 mins. today... I'm so much happier when I get to see him. So by 4:45, I was SO ready to leave work, despite the huge workload that awaits me on Monday. I just wanted to see Dustin before he was gone at 5.
I picked Dustin up and dropped him off at the church. Then I came home and cried a litte. That's right, i cried. I missed him already. We've never had to spend a night apart for the past like forever. And Weds and Thursdays we don't see each other much anyway between work, school, and piano... so Fridays are our days to reconnect and see each other, spend quality time together... and here I was alone on a Friday. Really, I was am sad! So I decided I should make a date with myself and go out to dinner to Cafe Rio with a peanut butter chocolate Reeces shake from Iceberg.... yeah, i treat myself right. ;) I came home to watch some high quality TLC and FoodNetwork. I did a little scan prep and wrote a couple wedding thank yous, then back to Say Yes to the Dress and Unwrapped. I got to have a nice chat with Andrea while eating ice cream, and Nicole also came over to visit and bring her new puppy, which, and I DON'T LIKE DOGS, but her puppy is SUPER cute and cuddly. I hear Momma Creer even calls the puppy her grandbaby. Ha ha, maybe she's trying to get used to that title, though I have no announcements. :)
I think I'll go to bed pretty soon because I do have to get up tomorrow morning and teach piano. I don't know how i'll sleep tonight without Dustin. I really do miss him and I might not let him leave again. ha ha ha. Next time I'll just need to have more prep time to get some girls together for a fun-filled girls night instead of one day.
I miss him a lot.

Money

Yesterday we got to celebrate our 6 month anniversary!!! We've been married for SIX MONTHS!!! Can you believe it? Time has gone by super fast... and yet 6 months seems like a long time... We feel as though we've been married forever, but our wedding was like just yesterday. Such different feelings, but so good! We got to celebrate by going out to eat at the Chef's Table. I haven't been there since senior year prom in high school and it was SO GOOD!! Way better than it was at Prom! ha ha ... Pretty sure life now is way better than it was at Prom! It was a fun little splurging trip and now we'll be saving more than ever and cutting back as we get ready for our cruise (which is in 27 days...) and just life in general.

It's crazy how fast money can go... especially when Dustin isn't working very much because he's taking 22 credits... yeah, it's madness I tell you. We decided we'd try to be poor and start eating top ramen and macaroni and cheese and stuff like that. Do you know how much money we could save that way?!? SO MUCH!! That would be nice. We had dinner over at Nathan and Adrienne's house on Sunday and they have a goal to save $50,000 by the time they graduate... holy cow! That has to take major self control to be able to save that much!! I want to be as cool as that and try to really really save lots of money... isnt' that a fabulous idea?! Some day we'll have loads of money, but for now, we'll try to save save save and good things will happen!

Plus, if we start eating crappy food then the cruise food will taste even MORE amazing, right? It's basically a great idea! :)

Take me out to the ballgame!

30 days. The Countdown begins. We are super excited for our Baja Mexico cruise!!! Seriously can't wait.

I've also been able to decorate the house a little more. Wahoo.

And now we must go to the last Owlz game of the season.

Life is good.

I have changed my signature once again... Guess I just like different fonts :) But it's cute, yeah?

Loves,