Happy Friday!

I'm really excited for the weekend because tomorrow, we're heading down to Bethany Beach in DE and spending 3 days!! I've never been to a DE beach, so it should be fun! I have to say that the weather won't be as perfect as it was when we went to OCNJ because summer has really set in now, humidity wise, but it'll still be a good time!

Our dream of buying Alex's grandfather's house when it goes on the market is still alive. We have no idea when it might be happening but we're going to start preparing our house to sell now, just in case. We have to replace a couple windows and a screen door, finish the painting and put down the half rounds. After that we should be in 99% tip top shape to sell if need be. Another thing that's hard is trying to plan without having a price to go by.

I'm going to start taking online real estate pre-licensing courses when we return next week, so maybe that will help me with the buying/selling thing. I really think it's something I would enjoy and i've been thinking about it for a long time. Now that i'm not a shy phone person anymore, it should be a lot easier!

Wishing everyone a happy friday and a fabulous weekend!

The flyby..

Exciting things from the weekend:
- New VS undies!
- New Chelsea handler book to read!
- Saw the new Harry Potter movie!
- Julia came down for the evening!
- Food & Brew fest in Newark with Nick & Laurel!
- Decided if we have a boy (i'm not prego currently) we'll name him Xavier!
- Played with their cute kitties!
- Found some great prospects for OBX 09!
- Finally did some Laundry (what a highlight!)
- Watched Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (to refresh my memory)!
- Enjoyed some Hoss's!!
- Spent time analyzing our potential situation (i will try to elaborate in another post, but in the short of things.. we might be moving soon, eep!)

Ho hum?

So i know i've talked about this before which is probably jinxing it but i just wanted everyone to know (or no one, basically) that i didn't win the powerball last night..... again.

In other news, I'm excited for my half day tomorrow.. taking lunch to the hubster at work and eventually seeing harry potter with julia. After a lovely doctor's appointment of course. I really need to remember to take my dad's camera back to him so hopefully this will help me remember. I don't really have plans for friday night.. i should be returning to lanc around 8 pm so we'll see if Alex has cooked up anything to do.

I really have nothing else interesting going on... hurry up 5 pm!

As I wait..

As i'm waiting for my pictures to upload to snapfish so I can make a wedding album, I figured i'd write a post.

My ear doesn't hurt anymore and I don't have a headache! Last night it was coming on pretty strong when it got close to bedtime. I took a Benadryl Allergy to help me sleep since we didn't have any nyquil or sudafed. Must've been the ticket (plus sleeping in AC instead of fresh air) because I woke up with no pain at all! I'm chalking it up to allergies.. oddly enough. But now i know if it happens again, to take a benadryl!

Something a little less boring.. i'm excited for the weekend. We're going down to Delaware to hit the Newark Food & Brew Fest with Nick and Laurel. It's going to be so much fun, I can already tell!

In food related news, I've been doing pretty well. No meat! Other than a burger last night on the farm. It's hard to say no to other people's home cooking that they worked hard on, ya know? Plus the burger was AWESOME. The good news is, i've lost 4 lbs.. since sunday! It's only wednesday! That's faster than the south beach! Now i just have to keep it going. So much easier when fruit is allowed though!

We're over the hump and hopefully sliding down the rest until Friday! (I'm taking a half day) Woo!

I've come to the conclusion..

That my life probably isn't fascinating enough to blog about? I don't really do anything terribly interesting, really. Oh well, i'll continue.

My ear hurts. Yep, it really does. On the inside. I think it's because I cleaned it last night when I got out of the shower. Needless to say, it's given me a headache and made my jaw hurt so I'm definitely going to have the doctor check it out on Friday.

In other news, I've been working on my wedding pictures during lunch recently. Trying to get them ready to put into photo books. To my surprise they needed a lot of updating.. mostly shadows and highlights to make them a bit brighter. Thinking about photos makes me think of a great website I looked at yesterday. It's a woman who does a lot of portraits and weddings and the photos are fab. Check it out!

This just makes me think of how I want to change my profession. I wish I had a great eye for photography, because wouldn't that be a blast! I love taking pictures and editing pictures and to do that as a job would just be awesome.

On the other hand though I still think about Real Estate. I definitely want to take the licensing courses but now is such a bad time in the housing market. At least I'd be prepared to jump in though when it sparks up again, right?

And then I think, hmm maybe I should go back to school to get a teaching certificate so that I can have summers off with my children later in life. But would I get bored with that after a couple years due to the monotony?

I'll keep thinking and maybe some day it'll actually turn into actions?

It's summer.. so..

So since it's summer and I can't imagine giving up fruit for the SB diet.. i'm going to make my own 'diet'.. It's going to consist of fruits, veggies, beans, nuts, brown rice, fish and dairy products. Basically i'm not going to eat any high calorie meats. Not even chicken which is relatively low calorie. It's wayy too hard not to each fresh and ripe strawberries and blue berries and peaches.

So i'm going to have fruit for breakfast, veggies for lunch and then a complete protein and veggies for dinner. Nuts for snacks.. etc. I'm hoping it will be easy.. which really, it should be when including fruit, because i love fruit! usually I avoid it because of sugar content but i plan on burning lots of calories for the rest of the summer so that shouldn't be a problem.

Thus starts my.. work out once a day routine. Today, Alex and I are going to play tennis! Tomorrow, hopefully we'll either play tennis or basketball and then he can toss me some balls to spike at the park. And i can practice serving.. build up some arm muscle/lose some flab?? On days when we don't have time to do that, i plan on doing pilates or aerobics in the house, somewhere. Since we got our new desk it takes up a lot more space then the one before did. Our bedroom might suffice?

I'm going to try to stick to these plans. Keyword, try. I probably won't beat myself up too much if I skip a day.. it's just not my style.

Happy Monday!

Oooh Wee.. it's friday!

I'm excited for tonight for many reasons..

..I love going out to dinner, and we're doing that!
..We're going to a place called 10,000 villages to spend some gift cards and though I have no clue what it is.. shopping is always fun!
..We're going to Home Depot to get a new Kitchen faucet so that Alex won't have to replace my sprayer thing when he puts in his water filtration system. I simply must have the sprayer.. it makes dish cleaning so much easier!
..We're heading to Nate's to play Rock Band after much anticipation of how 'awesome' the game is.. my hand eye coordination is a little iffy so I'll probably just rock the vocals.
..During the rock band sesh i'll be drinking wine.. yum!

Why Saturday's going to ROCK..

..we might go see The Hangover.. it's supposed to be a hoot!
..we'll probably do some serious outdoor activity.. tennis, basketball.. here we come!
..hopefully we'll hang out with some cool kids later on that evening.. sweeet!
..i'll be looking forward to a nice relaxing, possibly movie, sunday!

Have a good weekend!!!

I'm a wannabe foodie..

So though I claim to be on the South Beach lifestyle a lot.. I really enjoy not living the SB lifestyle. I love pasta and homemade bread. I could eat cereal every morning for goodness sake! Unfortunately, I currently don't get enough exercise to support the non-SB lifestyle.. so until I do, I keep eating veggies.

I really enjoy reading cooking blogs.. people make the best looking recipes and even post pictures! It makes me very hungry while i'm at work during lunchtime.. even if i've just eaten! I really wish I had some spare time to make some of these things.. like a cake everyday, or something like that. If only I had a husband who actually liked cake and ice cream and desserts and pasta!

I did make a tart for the 4th of july which was FAB and I cannot wait to make it again! It was probably the best dessert I ever made / ate! I'd post the recipe on here but this isn't a food blog and I don't have pictures of it, but let me tell you, it was DARN GOOD!

Maybe I should start doing pilates everyday so that I can enjoy this stuff.. who am I kidding, 30 minutes of pilates wouldn't forgive eating a whole pie! ;)

Happy almost friday! :)

Future Vacation Destinations..

Australia
New Zealand
Italy
Greece
Scotland
England
Ireland
Belgium
Spain
Alaska
Portland, OR
Kauai, HI
Fiji
Jamaica
Virgin Islands
Taiwan
Chicago, IL
Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco, CA
New Orleans, LA

Wouldn't mind going again to:
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
Boston, MA
Colorado
Orlando, FL
Nashville, TN

Have you ever.. ?

Have you ever had a mouth ulcer? They're terrible! I currently have one in the back right corner of my mouth, right where my molars clamp down. Everytime I open my teeth too wide (this includes chewing) it scrapes up against it and HURTS! I'm kinda mad about it because these things take a bit of time to go away and I want to eat, hello!

Colgate used to have this amazing product that would cover the sore.. you'd just paint on the cover, it would dry and voila! no pain.. plus it protected the sore from bacteria that feeds it, so it starved to death and went away. Then the worst thing happend.... they discontinued this product! WHAT!! I emailed them to find out why and they said they just took it out of their retail line up and would probably put it back in sometime in the future. Too bad that was the ONLY product that actually worked! So now i'm stuck with a pain in the mouth ulcer. I'm hungryyy and it upsets me. (Not too upsetting but I like to make it sound dramatic).

On a positive note, at least my wrist is feeling better!

Just Beachy..

What a fabulous weekend!

Friday, Alex and I headed down to Delaware to see Nick and Laurel. Cousin Nate had already planned to hang with them too so we went to dinner on the Main Street and then did some dancing at another spot. Fun times! Delaware is fun in the summer.. I'm sure when all the Undergrads return though it gets a little crazy!
Saturday morning we woke up, caught the kittens.. Alex, Nick and Nate played video games for roughly two hours (super interesting to watch.. yep that's sarcasm!) and then Laurel's friend Andrea came down, we played a game of Phase 10.. but really Phase 8 because we wanted to go to lunch. We went to Saigon because of the Pho and I got chicken with broccoli because Pho is not my Pho-rte (forte.. get it?).

Immediately after lunch, Alex and I drove 2 hours-ish.. in some crazy direction to get to OCNJ. We made it there around 5? We were supposed to arrive around 2! But all of our other activities pushed that back.. Oops! We spent the evening playing rummy and apples to apples, ate some yummy pizza and headed up to the boardwalk. We walked around a bit and headed back home to hit the hay.

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Sunday morning we went for a bike ride on the boardwalk. Alex and I rode tandem.. and it went pretty well I have to say. Tandem bikes is much easier than tandem kayaks... more on that in a few paragraphs! The bike ride was nice but I think it contributed to my sprained wrist. Home we headed and got ready for the beach. Alex went kayaking with my parents/mr lerch and my sisters and I/mrs lerch & rachel went to the beach. It was such a great day to be on the beach.. not humid but hot. The water wasn't freezing it was refreshing.. we were there from 12 to 5 pm.. long day on the beach but time flew by! Miss Makayla and I made sand castles until she wasn't afraid of the water anymore. She loves jumping waves and posing for pictures! lol. We eventually went home and got ready to go to dinner. I dont know the name of the place we went but the Salmon was bland.. in a place that's so close to the ocean, I kind of expect seafood to be above par.. especially when a Salmon dinner costs $25!


Yesterday we kayaked to a beach at a state park near Sea Isle City and spent the day there.... that's where Alex and I tried the tandem kayak.. luckily we didn't have to kayak too far because I am awful at tandem kayaks apparently. Overall it was a good time though, nice relaxing day. When we returned we showered and got ready for dinner and packed our bags for our trip home. Dinner was yummy and the drive home pretty quick.. all in all it was a very nice long weekend and I can't wait to do it again in 3 weeks at Bethany Beach!


In the mean time, Alex and I are going back on the South Beach :)

Happy Tuesday!

MMmm.. Friday

Friday is BY FAR the best day of the week. Despite working all day you just know that the weekend is on it's way..

We just went from having no plans (other than hanging out with each other) to many plans!! We're now going to going Cousin Nate in his trek to good ol' Delware to visit the Dr.'s. I'm pumped that Miss Laurel invited us! I really like Newark. Although their address is technically Newark.. it's bordering MD. You could be 3 places at once if you wanted.

I'm excited for this adventure for numerous reasons..
ONE: I finally get to pet a kitten that i've been thinking about for 3 months now.. I've seen them, yes, but touch them? no!
TWO: We've never 'gone out' in DE before.. so this should be fun!
THREE: I love Laurel and Nick.. they're my brother and future sister in law for goodness sake! And they're awesome!
FOUR: I love road trips!
FIVE: Because when we wake up tomorrow afternoon, we'll be heading to OCNJ until Monday evening!! YESSS!

I have a lot of prep to do in the meantime since I now do not have tomorrow to think about packing and what we want to bring in our cooler. We can do it though.. grocery shopping at lunch.. packing/showering when I get home. We should be able to leave the house by 6!

What a wonderful Friday this is turning out to be!

They were wrong!..

I have to say.. to the people who said "Everything changes when you get married." I have to disagree. Not much has changed! Other than the fact that we're a tad closer after sharing our vows publicly.. nothing has changed.

Maybe the fact that we lived together for a year ahead of time helped those matters.. because I know you learn a lot about each other when buying a house and moving in together.. however, maybe we're weird because our relationship has been a breeze this whole time.

I just wanted everyone to know that nothing has to change :)

Poor Little Guy..

So this weekend I was totally bragging about how I kept alive my mini cactus that my parents brought home as a gift from AZ back in.... i don't know, six months ago?? And I just saw it yesterday all shriveled up in it's tiny planter. I was so sad that I killed it. I didn't water it very often, but that was the best part, they don't need water very often. Maybe it's due to the warmer climate that it passed away. I mean.. when it gets hot outside, things get thirsty.. I just didn't keep up. I'm so sorry baby cactus.

RIP

Well.. I'm not a Millionaire

Sad News: I didn't win with my Millionaire Raffle ticket. And to be honest, I was kind of upset. I did have a lot of plans.. but this always happens to me. Every time I buy a lottery ticket, I convince myself i'm going to win. But I figure, if i didn't do that.. it wouldn't be as fun when I do win.. right? Who am I kidding.. yes it would!

The weekend was fun-filled in spite of my loss. The wedding on friday was lovely.. I love outdoor weddings! We danced our butts off! Saturday the picnic went well.. always too much food! but i didn't know what to expect plus people brought tons! but left overs are really yummy. I made a Berry Tart which turned out awesome.. I probably ate 3 large pieces myself over the course of the day.

Sunday we delivered some Hawaiian gifts to the Farm and chased the kitten (trying to catch it) but we weren't fast enough. It was cute though. Then we eventually made it home to write Thank You notes.. took a break for some Hoss's and wrote some more. I have 10 more to go and I think Alex has about 15.. not bad. We'll finish them up tonight.

Today I'm going to change my name at lunch time. Hopefully the line won't be too long so I don't have to spend a lot of time there. Then I'll start the process of changing all of my accounts.. this is the annoying part! However once I do that, I can apply for a job that I've been waiting to apply for. When you google my new name, nothing about me comes up. There are other people in the world with my first and last name now.. so I won't have to worry about it. My old name had a bunch of things come up.

I've also decided to write some childrens books.. mostly about bugs. I hate bugs but cartoon ones are cute.

Happy Monday!

AKA Friday

So happy it's the weekend.. at 5 pm that is! I love long weekends.. I know i've said that before.

There are no 35 people coming over to our house on Saturday for our picnic. That's more people than have ever been over before. Also.. have you seen my house. Not that big. It's in the city for pete's sake! So I hope people bring lots of chairs!

I'm definitely going to target tonight to get a couple things. 2 chairs.. something to hold the plates/napkins/plastic-ware.. then probably grocery shopping for some items, also at target. how convenient!

Tomorrow is going to be so exciting. I get to prepare for the party and then go to a wedding! It's going to be a great wedding, I already know this!

Happy AKA Friday!

Up and over the hump..

It was hump day alright.. i don't think i'll be over the work hump until tomorrow. So much to do right now!

I don't really have much to post about.. my mind is not relaxed so I can't think of anything fun. Oopsies!

I will tell you that yesterday I drove through the worst rain storm of my life on the road.. it was almost impossible to see.. visibility was at 1% I almost pulled over several times but thought.. if other people can drive in it, shouldn't I be able to? Of course that was the day I had to drive to the burg for a Dentist appointment. When I change my name (tomorrow hopefully) I'm going to start looking for doctor's in this area. I've gotten some good names so far. It will just be so much easier! Then I can go to my appointment at 3:00 pm and be done for the day (because we get 2 hours for appointments). That's cheating I realize but it's nice!

I'm really looking forward to this weekend. The guest count is now at 35! We've never had this many people at our house, thank goodness it's outside, mostly.. and hopefully people bring chairs! I'm also worried about parking.. since most people haven't been here before and it's street parking! I'm sure other people will be having picnics and i'm betting that my neighbors will be jamming loudly to their music.. which is fine when you aren't having a family picnic.

Tomorrow's basically friday.. and i'm excited for 5 pm tomorrow! Freedom!