Oh heyyyyyy there Grad School......

 

BIG NEWS 

Big news on the Lyday front, this Thursday around 4pm I received an email notifying me that I had been accepted into the Master's of School Counseling program at Dallas Baptist University (holla!)..and that my first class was that same night and at 5:30. I was and am ecstatic, I had just enough time that I did a giddy squeal and ran to brush my teeth then practically FLEW out the door. I managed to find the campus, make it to class on time with nothing to even take notes with aside from my barely charged iPad (and thank the Lord I even had that!). I sat there studiously taking notes, smiling a giddy grin and trying my hardest to not starve to death in the process....I have three papers due by next week and another class I haven't been to yet....I am almost certain I can swing this.....sure? 

I have NO IDEA how we are going to pay for classes and even less of an idea how it is going to fit into my already super busy schedule but I know that I want this, more than I have ever wanted any part of my education....so that will have to be enough for now.

In hopes that a cup of tea can save this day...

   Today is the dreaded Wednesday.....and it feels every bit of it here at school today. The children have lost their minds, and in turn I am grasping at NEARLY anything not to lose mine as well. It's my off period and so I am turning off the awful florescent lights, opening the blinds, brewing a cup of tea and going to take a moment to remember to breathe and desperately try to reset and salvage today.

Wedding pic-a-palooza

I have heard a lot of girls say that they hardly remember anything about their wedding, or just that they only recall the BIG catastrophe and almost all brides say that they didn't even get to EAT! I was SOOOOOO not that bride! I ate so much, drank just enough and even managed to dance gangnam style...ALL because of some truly amazing women who came to the rescue and made sure that I had the best time ever, and I really did!

Major jumbo thank you to Danielle (Her awesome blog here) and a great friend of hers who is SUCH an amazing woman, Laurel..who planned and orchestrated our nuptials ON THE FLY (Here is her amazing website )! These ladies took everything that was in my brain and made it into reality, they are so amazing and potentially witches to have come up with this stuff so damn fast!
We seriously couldn't have done it without the whole family...so thanks to all of our aunts, cousins, uncles, MOM, dad, grandparents and brothers we got hitched without a HITCH!
EXCITING NEWS: Our wedding pics came in the mail today, holy freaking toledo they are precious....My Aunt Aubry was our photographer and SHE IS AMAZING! (be sure to check out her FB page! )

Now is the time to brag the pants off about our super excellent wedding.......

Wedding pic-a-palooza COMMENCE:

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

For whatever reason, every spring since I have been a college graduate I decide that I really need to go to grad school....This year's bug has come a bit early. I am at a crossroad with my career, and not that I think that I truly need my masters to do the work that I am inspired to do,  more so I truly hate knowing that other people have a Master's and I don't. That sounds an awful lot like I want to get a Master's for my prides sake...which isn't true but is still a little bit true.

Long Term Goals vs. Short Term Bliss 

My ultimate goal in the next 5 years is to own and operate my very own behavioral consulting business. Having a Masters would open a lot of doors in that area, but there is so much work involved.....being a wife, having a career AND being a student sounds more than a little exhausting. Of course there is always the option of becoming a professional blogger, that would be the ticket there!

Anyway it's Wednesday and feels like Tuesday so that's awesome...However, I go back to personal training today after a week's absence ...which is distinctively NOT awesome.

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda happy TuesWednesday !

Wanderlust

As promised I am home sick today, what JOY! Being home alone and not being able to do ANYTHING not even the lower totem pole activities i.e., clean, do laundry, organize or do anything worthwhile has left me stranded on the couch. As my body attempts to melt into the couch while watching my DVR collection of The Big Bang Theory and reliving the past 8 years of my life on Facebook I am reminded that I have lived a really exciting life! (I have little proof of that today as I am now a half couch half girl humanoid.)

 So I decided to think on the adventures that I have already had, and plan for the ones to come. I spent a summer in Mexico, I have traveled to Europe, I have gone on epic road trips all over the country. Jerrett and I visited Bean town, Hogwarts, the ocean and The Big Apple all within the last year and a half! Not a list to "pooh pooh" at by any means however, I haven't tackled even 1/8 of my "must see"destinations!

Rather than spend the whole day wanderlusting and getting crazy angsty over ALL the travels that are yet to be, I decided to make a list of where I would like to go in 2013- a top 5 list. In the name of patience, and indecisiveness I am not going to create the list all at once rather, I will submit my top 5 places that I need to visit this year once a month for the next five months. Shall we start with #5.......
                         

5. The Grand Canyon



I have always been awed and inspired and a little terrified by this beautiful monster but have never been able to take a gander over the edge. (which I will probably have an anxiety attack about so I'm not sure why I'm all excited about this.).  I think part of the allure is that it brings to mind some seriously nostalgic feelings about classic American family vacations. So why not have our little family's first vacation be an awesomely bad Americana road trip to the Grand Canyon? Bring it. Look out Grand Canyon, this B is coming to visit circa March 2013!


Like a lot of things, adventure is one of those wonderful things in life you know is healing while you are "in it", but when you come back home it is easy to forget how alive you felt while you were out there, actually living your life. That's not to say that you cant epically live your life in your typical 40 hour workweek, but it is prone to the more mundane. Days like this I am tempted to quit my job, sell the house and empty our our retirement funds and go SEE THE WORLD together in a really dramatic and romantic fashion! Alas, that plan is just a bit too rash and hipster for me, and there are so many things that I actually really love about my little mundane life. So I will keep my job, put my nose to the grindstone and purposely make time for adventure in my life!

Here's looking at you spring break.

J'ai la nausée

Of all the ways to be home on a weekday, sick at home is for sure the worst. Tomorrow will certainly be a day of sleep, doctors, tea, TV, pinterest and blogging.

Thank you kindergartener who threw up next to me yesterday.

Reading club

I happen to adore a great YA book, yes that’s right- I said it…to hell with Kafka give me J.K. Rowling. Don’t get me wrong, I also tend to adore anything magical, mystical and other worldly! I basically married all of the Outlander books & the A Discovery of Witches series- which happen to be fabulous and written AND for grownups. like most readers, I tend to be very hot and cold with literature, either loving it; eat, sleep, and drinking it….or It takes me one million years to read fifty pages.

 As a connoisseur of all things fabulous I would love to hear what you are reading, is it to die for?