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?

Sisters and Abraham Lincoln

I have a large, involved family composed of Cousins, Aunts and Uncles, Grandparents etc.... My mom's side of the family is pretty big, I have a lot of cousins who all act as siblings that happen tpo live in different parts of Texas.
My mom is one of three girls and one brother, poor uncle Mike. However none of them had more than one girl, enter Cousin-Sisters. I have two Sara and Emily, and Sara is getting married! After the appropriate amount of pouting (being that I HATE change) about how different everything is going to be and how old we are all getting I have snapped out of it and am SO EXCITED for her, which is helpful being that I am the Maid of Honor!

Both Sara and Emily will be bombarding my humble apartment around 6pm today and I can't wait to giggle and vent and be 100% at ease in my surrounding. There is something so refreshing about family, these girls are the best friends I could ever have and I am so thankful for them.

Yay for Friday!

End of the week anecdote: 

Setting: 2nd grade classroom, the gremlin is drawing out of a Halloween book.

(I was in there to observe this little guy who exhibits majorly inappropriate behaviors ....I was lucky enough to be present and an active participant in this conversation. )

He looks around after copying a picture from said book...and cant seem to find someone to talk to so he looks right at me

Gremlin: "Want to see my Abraham Lincoln?"

Me: "...... what?"

Gremlin: shows me his drawing, "my Abraham Lincoln."

Me: "you mean Frankenstein?"

Gremlin: looks at his picture..."oh yeah, I'm always getting those two confused."

I love my job.

Miss Chelsie, is that weed in yo necklace?

Oh yeah, that happened.


So, this week I am on a trial run as a behavior Interventionist in the district I already work for, this would absolutely be a promotion so prayers and finger crossing would be greatly appreciated.

Anyway, the class is a "behavior" classroom or a "transitional" room....basically baby jail for 4th and 5th grades most wanted. The skinny is, these kids are actually awesome...some have Autism others are just classified with ADHD and "emotional disturbances" which basically means....something is weird with them, but we don't really know what and or don't really care to find out....but they are super sweet deep down and really funny to boot.

Today was my first day in the class and it was interesting........these kids act like I do when my dog uses my apartment as the restroom ....on a constant. Angry, swearing, cute little kids.

I smell great blog potential ...in a big way.


Favorite quote of the day: "A brother want to get in a front of a line too, ya know."


Ohhhh shaaaa....

After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F.

Wednesday: Keurig- Green Mountain Coffee, Fruit Bats Pandora station, Blogger = pre-work party.  Today is the 28th of September and the high in lovely ol' Fort Worth, Texas is 96. I am about to crank up my ac, throw on a sweater and brew some apple cider/ lose my marbles if it doesn't cool off soon. I am bursting at the seams to wear scarfs and caps and sweaters.
One thing that has to be said about the terrible drought this past summer is that we actually seem to have fall foliage, I will take what I can get.

In other news, I just finished a book called The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Brief summary, you ask? Sure. A travelling circus only works at night and always strikes its multitude of tents by daybreak. Its shows are truly amazing because real magic plays a large part. But it is also the arena around which two late 19th-century enchanters pitch their protégées against each other, in a contest that has to end in death for one of them.....and they may or may not fall in love with each other. Sounds a little dark and fabulous, well....it is. I recommend that you pick it up.

Unfortunately with the ending of another good book I am left with the age old debacle ....what should I read next? As always I am taking suggestions.....semi okay, mediocre books need not apply. I have a strict 100 pages rule, if I am not sold by the first 100 pages....it goes on the shelf potentially never to see the light of day again.


Happy Wednesday interwebz.

Sabbatical, schmattical ....

The month of self pity is officially ending and with it, my sabbatical from blogging. I feel really sorry for my fabulous boyfriend to have to put up with me, although he always does such a great job cheering me up....but some things you have to do for yourself. For the past month I have been sleeping more than I ever have, feeling stressed, sad, angry... hair turning grey and falling out etc....a general sense of wallowing.

Be gone with you.

After 6 months of a good friend of mine telling me how cool her "non-church", church was ...I finally was trapped and forced to go (being that I bailed on her birthday brunch to get my hair done for free, and because I was broke and had nothing to wear insert pity party here) and being that I could not bail twice on a good friend in one weekend. The long and short of it....she was not kidding, this place was magical.
On top of that, another dear friend of mine came over and we had a much needed heart to heart ....talking about the crappy things in life and working hard to try and remember all the wonderful things in life. 

I think that is the trick, you don't have to hold everything inside and keep all the rotten things to yourself. Pretending everything is fine, is the fastest way to wear yourself out. Sometimes things are shitty. That's okay.....but sometimes things are beautiful, and wonderful and fabulous....very rarely is life just one shade. Accept the junk, embrace the magical and actively seek joy.

ANECDOTAL NOTE: This conversation happened last night on the phone with my mom ...talking about how much we are both working as of late...

Mom: "I'm out there humping my ass all over town."
Me: "hahahhahahaha, I think you mean busting your hump."
Hysterical laughing ensued.