It's Okay Friday!

It’s Okay…

*To use the crock pot for a meal. It isn’t cheating, it is awesome.

*To spend an entire evening reading a novel without once turning the TV on. Even if your husband thinks it is an insane idea.

*To shower twice in one day. As long as I don’t make it a habit out of it, I probably won’t kill too many whales.

*To eat cottage cheese on my salad in place of dressing, even though my husband looks at it and says, “That’s so gross, why don’t you just pee on your salad, too?”

*To eat leftovers for 4 days, it is cost efficient AND time efficient!

* To LOATHE exercise, as long as I just keeping doing it.

*To be a bargain shopper, even if it means it takes you 3 hours to grocery shop.

Sleeping Hot

Ok, here’s the deal. I am the first to say that I am the biggest cuddle person in the history of the world. I communicate via touch. I hug every person I care about as often as I can, I snuggle my husband on the couch, and I hold babies endlessly…and I love it. I love to cuddle. So, why, now that I am married and legally allowed to sleep in the same bed with another human being is cuddling turning into the devil????

Don’t get me wrong, I am totally the girl you want to vomit all over when you learn about my sleeping rituals. I brush my teeth, change my clothes, and DEMAND my husband lie in bed with me until I fall peacefully asleep. Poor Doug, he is such a night owl and I am so not, he promptly gets out of bed to go to the living room and do whatever it is that he does between the hours of 9:30 pm and midnight. PS3, TV, Super Nintendo, something….

Herein lays the problem. Eventually, Doug joins me in bed. I subconsciously slide over to him and shimmy up into his nook while he puts one arm around me and we do the classic spoon. For ten minutes. Before one of us is shoving at the other to move over or get off or throwing a blanket off. Only when you throw the blanket off, you quickly replace it because it is freaking freezing in the air of the bedroom. So then you’re mumble yelling at your significant other that you are cold because they are ditching covers. Flash 5 minutes into the future: QUIT TOUCHING ME IT’S HOT!!!!

It just seems to be that space between spoon one’s back and spoon two’s stomach harnesses enough heat to melt metal! Doug even said once that if he could figure out a way to turn that heat into energy we’d be millionaires.

So where the heck do we find some sort of happy medium? If you don’t spoon and you just touch arms or something, when you pull your arms apart they do that yucky skin peeling thing when two arms are cemented together by sweat! AND don’t you even act like you don’t know what I am talking about! If you have shared a bed, you know this problem! So we decided we don’t need to cuddle ALL night long. I told my Mom cuddling is overrated anyway. She just said, “Well, wait till you add a kid trying to get in there.”

Yeah….maybe hot spooning isn’t so bad in the scheme of things.

It's Okay Friday!

Have you ever noticed that on Fridays, everything that normally bothers you seems to suddenly be okay? I was reading a magazine and they had this section called “It’s okay” in which they listed all the things they thought you should come to terms with in your life as acceptable instead of stressing about things being the picture of perfection. SO - I thought it was such a neat thing and decided to combine it with the carefree feelings of a Friday and write all the things that I need to be okay with this week….so here goes!

It’s Okay…

*To like the word neat when it so often gets me made fun of.

*To cry when I am watching the Biggest Loser. Come on people that crap gets emotional!

*To be a chunky monkey because I am working on fixing it EVERY DAY.

*To be grateful that I don’t have to travel this weekend. It doesn’t mean I don’t love and miss you; it just means I am tired and broke.

*To listen to my husband when he says he wants to take the trash out in the morning. Even when it means I am going to bed with a kitchen that isn’t in a perfect state.

*To have spent $16.94 on Anita Blake novels this month. Yeah, they are gory and otherworldly and smutty and supernatural but they entertain my brain on the days it is just too worn out for intellectual thought. I am not ashamed.

*To be utterly in love with babies, but not want to have my own - YET.

*To miss my husband when he is at work. Yeah, I said it. It’s cheesy and silly to most, but I miss his face when it’s gone.

Happy Weekend!!!

Don't Wedding Plan and Blog. Just, Don't.

Well, I started this thing with super, duper good intentions but I learned an extremely valuable lesson instead: Don’t blog and wedding plan. It is impossible. I mean by the time you deal with dress fittings, centerpiece discussions, menu choices, music choices, cranky family members, wedding party, hair, make-up, hotels, repeat….you start to get pretty stinking busy and incredibly exhausted!!!! So as a result, the blog sort of fell by the way side – not for lack of desire, but for true lack of TIME – and when planning the biggest day of your life, time is of the essence! Luckily, I was blessed with a mother who is a ninja event planner. I’m not kidding here either. Everyone thinks their Mom is awesome, but this is a real situation where she truly has skills I can’t even comprehend. We are talking a genius of epic proportions. In fact, I don’t know how other brides do it because I had it “easy” as a result of my Mom’s ninja-ness and I was still stressed out!

If I spent the time my life deserves on each of the events that have happened in the past 3 months, this blog would be so long no one would have any interest in reading it. So I think I will nut shell it for you. I had an amazing bridal shower in November. It was classy and fun and complete with white linens, good food, games and tons of love. I have amazing family (by blood, DNA, law and love) that traveled long distances to be able to share this special day with me. There were many people there in spirit that couldn’t be there and I felt their love just as much that day.

In the beginning of December, I had an amazing bachelorette party thrown by some really awesome BFF’s and it was everything I could have asked for! We had a slumber party and an intimate Italian dinner at B’s house followed by a night out on the town at Sing, Sing. Best. Dueling. Piano. Bar. Ever. It was soooo much fun that I seriously want to go back at least twice a year. We stayed in a hotel downtown (Thank you name your price on priceline.com!) and ate a wonderful breakfast at “Snooze” the next morning before heading back to Laramie. It was a great girl weekend complete with shopping and gossip, I couldn’t have asked for a better time! Doug stayed in Laramie and had his bachelor party at what was soon to be OUR home. They watched UFC and ate man food and while I thought it sounded completely unexciting, it was his idea of a perfect evening. To each his own….

Then, after much anticipation, the big day arrived marking the most monumental occasion of my life thus far. We were sealed in the Denver temple and returned to Laramie for a ring ceremony and reception the next day. Things went off without any major disasters and it was a perfect combination of days and events that lead to the most beautiful memories I never dreamt we could have made. We had an astounding amount of support from our friends and family and the reception hall was bursting with the love we felt from all of our supporters. It was a beautiful winter wedding and couldn’t have been more perfect for either of us. We had so much fun and we so appreciated the show of support we received from everyone near and far. The thank you cards we wrote will never suffice for the gratitude we felt.

Post wedding; we have done a lot of settling down into a life together, combining our households, our belongings, our schedules, our passions, our lives….we spent out very first Christmas together at our own home in Laramie. We didn’t travel anywhere because we didn’t want the stress of deciding whose family should get to have us for the Holidays. So we stayed home and began our own Holiday traditions for our own brand new family. It was, quite possibly, the best Christmas I have had yet. Our Christmas was followed by real life and returning to work, school and the real world. We have been adjusting well and just celebrated a perfectly lovely Valentine’s Day as a married couple. There have been many challenges of molding two 26-yearold’s established lives together, but every step of the way has been an adventure. Stay tuned for the post-marriage blogging which I am certain will be filled with entertainment galore as I continue to live this every day fairytale with the most amazing and hilarious man I have ever had the privilege of knowing.