The best is yet to come

Learning how to be a wife, to me is the hardest thing I have ever attempted. Those who know me, and know me well, know that I am in no way domestic.  I can’t cook more than hamburger helper (which I don’t even eat beef so a fat lot of good that does me). I am not naturally an organized person and my cleaning skills are the equivalent of a college freshman. So, it’s safe to say that the hubs didn’t marry me for my mad domestic skills. Even more so I am not and have never been “an easy person to live with”, I am VASTLY opinionated, loud, dramatic, emotional and on occasion unbalanced.

I know what you’re thinking, I sound like a total gem- right?

All of my short comings aside, there still is this man who loves me enough to know who I am and want me anyway…. which is of course fabulously romantic and should put my life into this wonderful perspective.  I should be aspiring to take long walks on the beach with him, write him sonnets and dedicate my life to figuring out the mystery of food preparation. Alas, I am still moody, I am still critical and all of my rich blessings and warm gooey feelings haven’t changed my behavior, which is still- struggling.

 What is a little ironic about that is the fact that I am in fact a behavior therapist ….. That’s right, I spend all day correcting others behavior, taking data on behavior, creating intervention plans and yet I can’t stop myself from stomping my feet and saying rude things at the drop of a hat.

I’m still hoping that with some practice, a lot of prayer and a few good books I will get a hold of this bizarre concept: the concept of spending the rest of your life with another person, enduring all the daily mundane tasks, jumping every imaginable hurdle and still loving them ….. Marriage. There is no one else I would ever try this with, and not a doubt in my mind that I am in fact, the lucky one.

 

 

Rainy days and warm cups of tea.

Rainy days and warm cups of tea may just be the best combination of all time, all the better when you are at home on the couch snuggled up with a great book and a fur baby. However even at work in a cold, fluorescent lit classroom …rain + tea = better than average Wednesday. Wednesdays in my line of work are typically the dreaded “worst day of the week” the kids are normally really ramped up from equal parts of mid-week school stress and the ever present promise of the weekend. Today has been a fairly A-typical day with only a few minor melt downs and zero F-bombs so far. Cheers to you mid-day Wednesday, it could be worse!

Did I really just sign up for personal training?

Lord help me, I have signed up for an intensive 6 MONTH personal training regimen....starting tonight. I have always (like most women) been concerned with my weight, that is not to say that I think I am obese but I totally have some problem areas that have bothered me FOREVER. So, what they hay-I'll give it the old college try (and A LOT of money) to see what we can accomplish.

Let me be clear, this isn't a New Years Resolution, but more of a "I married a bean pole who CAN and DOES eat anything he wants and if I don't get on this now I will end up so fat they will have to use a crane to remove me from the house" kind of situation. If I don't die tonight I will be sure to post an update!

Enjoy this all too honest video, which will no doubt be my mindset for the next month or SIX.

New Years Resolutions...and other things.

2012 was an epic year for me as far as big life changes...however it wasn't too epic for blogging.

For this upcoming New Year instead of resolving to go to the gym more often, or to be nicer to everyone (both super good resolution) I am going to commit to blog once a week. A once a week entry, if for no other reason than to keep a solid record of the first year of our marriage...the good, the bad and the ugly.

So what all did I NOT blog about this year, let's recap:

Wedding!

 Fischer Hall, Fischer Texas November 17th, 2012.

Honey moon in New York ! 

Buying a house, renovating and living in it...

Christmas in our new house: 

Wedding planning: Phase 1

This past Saturday my fiancé and I (insert clip of Seinfeld fiancé episode here) went to check out a potential wedding venue, a sweet little garden in Weatherford, Texas. It was fabulously gorgeous, and they sure KNEW it. At some point on the tour I stopped listening to all the great information we were being given and I started thinking why isn’t EVERYONE in the wedding business?!….These people charge upwards of 6 thousand dollars for what…to use a garden that is open to the public?


Wait, what….so why not just charge all the guest admission and call it a day? Oh because it’s a wedding, which basically means shamelessly upping the price because wedding crazed bride-to-be’s are so stressed and high off of love and party planning that they will just open their checkbook right then and there. Where has all the sense gone SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS TO GET MARRIED OUTSIDE?! If I had a dollar for every time Jerrett (the other key player in this party) or I have said…why aren’t we eloping…we might have enough to rent a piece of earth to get married on. Now, this is not to say that we don’t have enough money for a wedding, thankfully we do but it is still the principle of the matter.

I am going to start telling people I need to rent it for a company party or a bar mitzvah or something.

The flip side to that coin is…of course,  if we elope …what will I do with my Pinterest account?

Phase 1: Venue- still searching.

Wedding what knot...

My wonderful fella' surprised the hell out of me and popped the question this past weekend. He's precious, it was precious and I am still in a bit of a fog about the whole deal...but fabulously excited, obviously!
However it seems that planning an actual wedding is not quite as simple as pinning something to precious pinterest.
Venue, menu who and when....what? No wonder why there wasn't a board for all of this mess! Who on earth would want to do that part? Give me eternal wedded bliss, a fabulous ceremony under 5,000 bucks and make it look like an anthro magazine...this should be easy right? waaaayyyy wrong.

So ladies, I need ideas, and connections and great inside information from all of my friends who actually are really great at this stuff (you know who you are). I decided I should try and document this whole shin dig along the way so for the next 4-8 months beware this may actually resemble a wedding blog..


Good ideas, and go....................

Blog land, where for art thou

After months and months of nothing aside from static I decided I would make a point to get back in the game, so to speak and start blogging again!

In the time I have been “away” from the practice of chit chatting to….no one a lot of major life things have happened….I now have a full time job, that is super grown up and very very full time! I enjoy it immensely and have hysterical things happen daily, however as I am now finally adjusting to that new life change I decided that it would be important to “get back” to some things that I enjoyed pre-real world….i.e. Blogging

I am a behavior specialist for an elementary school while I will leave the sensitive details out, to cover my ass and keep my job I think I will use these experiences to share with you all-

Today a kid was sitting in my room crying over the loss of his cheetos, blubbering uncontrollably like someone had died, rather than the actually sad fact that you can’t have chips during class….(which is sad because Cheetos are freaking delish!) He said a series of quotes that Emerson could have written:

“I hate school”

“I hate stupid teachers”

“I hate this dumb ol’ school”

“Teachers are always mean to kids”

“THIS IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO LEARN!!!!”

…………………………Ode de Cheeto?