Guess who has two thumbs and, starting July 11th, will be working "summer hours" at her job which means working four 10hr days and getting Friday off?? This girl! I had no idea that this option was open to us, but it absolutely is and it means my life gets that much easier!
My job is boring. This is the downside of the above excitement.
So, if you boil whole wheat rotini and mix in melted butter, minced garlic, peas, salt and pepper you get basically the most amazing dinner ever. I would post a picture of it but it's really tasty and kind of gone...
Is there anyone else here who is stressed? Anyone? What's weird is that I feel stressed but I'm not entirely sure why... probably because my wedding to Johnny is in just over two months and there's still so much to be done. Yeah. That's why.
Now I get to spend my evening (before I do a hardcore workout) organizing and compiling addresses for my shower/wedding guests. Get excited... :-)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
At the End of the Day...
This past weekend was an adventure. Let's just put it that way. It began normally enough, with me driving for what feels like forever through ridiculous weekend traffic heading straight for Byesville, OH, to attend the Friday night service at Shalom Baptist, the church of one of my best friends. This friend also happens to be a photographer as well as one of my bridesmaids. On Memorial Day weekend she took Johnny's and my engagement photos and, as this past Saturday was my family reunion, I was hoping to pick up the photos when I visited church. She promised to have them ready. And now Facebook has an entire album of nothing but pictures of me and my boy and I love it!
Anyway, I decided to stay for service (well, actually, I kind of had to since I was a little late and my friend was helping with children's church, but I also really enjoy listening to her dad's lessons because they're always super interesting) and it went a lot longer than I had thought and I had to bail in the middle in order to get to Canton in decent time.
Saturday begins as normal. We're both up by 9 since he had to be at work by 11 and I had the reunion at noon (he couldn't come because of work. More on that later) and he showers first. Then, when I'm in the shower and my hair is all lathered up and I'm soaping up the rest of me the water pressure suddenly begins to dwindle until, before long, there's nothing. At all. And I'm standing there freezing with my hair full of suds. So I'm given a gallon jug of water (COLD water) with which I rinse myself off, get dry, get presentable, and then Johnny gets to come and dump the cold water over my head repeatedly until all the suds are gone. Then we repeat, as I also needed to condition. I must say I was very thankful that Saturday was a fairly chilly day and required jeans since I didn't have a chance to shave... However, the upside is that this was a small glimpse into married life and depending on one another. It also reminded me strongly of being a little kid and my mom washing my hair in the bathtub and rinsing it by pouring a cup of water over my head. It always got soap in my eyes, and Saturday was no exception.
This little problem turned out to be the water pump. Johnny's house runs on well water and the pump decided to fail. Johnny and his dad (jokingly) blamed it all on me because I was in the shower when it happened. But then I (also jokingly) blamed it on Johnny, who turned on water somewhere else in the house while I was in the shower. Nothing was ever decided on this front.
Anywho, this meant that immediately following church on Sunday Johnny and I took a little trip to Sears to buy a new pump, which then Johnny spent the entire rest of the day installing. There was problem after problem. Something was leaking, and when he tightened it to stop the leakage the thing broke and we had to take a trip to Lowe's and Home Depot to buy a new one and then something else stripped the screw on some tube that lets air into the pump and so they just plugged the hole for now. So they still don't have water and Johnny gets to work on it again tomorrow before he goes to work. It's all so ridiculous, and I ended up spending quality time with Johnny's dad, whose bad back kept him from being able to help as much as he would have liked. My only job was to read my book when I wasn't running up and down the basement stairs to unplug and plug in the pump. Quite the adventure, and definitely one I don't want to relive. I think I can safely speak for Johnny and say he feels the same.
So that was my adventure. And the reunion was great fun and the engagement pictures turned out beautifully and now I just have to put in all the info to the various newspapers to announce it! And then in just over two months we'll be married. So insane!! Everything is going so fast!
Hope everyone's weekend was a little less eventful than mine!
UPDATE: I realized I never came back to Johnny not coming to the reunion! He DID come! When I arrived, after going to Walmart to print off all of the pictures so I came a little late, I parked the car and saw Johnny walking toward me! Apparently his boss at work gave him a very extended lunch break during which he was able to come eat with us. :D That's all!
Anyway, I decided to stay for service (well, actually, I kind of had to since I was a little late and my friend was helping with children's church, but I also really enjoy listening to her dad's lessons because they're always super interesting) and it went a lot longer than I had thought and I had to bail in the middle in order to get to Canton in decent time.
Saturday begins as normal. We're both up by 9 since he had to be at work by 11 and I had the reunion at noon (he couldn't come because of work. More on that later) and he showers first. Then, when I'm in the shower and my hair is all lathered up and I'm soaping up the rest of me the water pressure suddenly begins to dwindle until, before long, there's nothing. At all. And I'm standing there freezing with my hair full of suds. So I'm given a gallon jug of water (COLD water) with which I rinse myself off, get dry, get presentable, and then Johnny gets to come and dump the cold water over my head repeatedly until all the suds are gone. Then we repeat, as I also needed to condition. I must say I was very thankful that Saturday was a fairly chilly day and required jeans since I didn't have a chance to shave... However, the upside is that this was a small glimpse into married life and depending on one another. It also reminded me strongly of being a little kid and my mom washing my hair in the bathtub and rinsing it by pouring a cup of water over my head. It always got soap in my eyes, and Saturday was no exception.
This little problem turned out to be the water pump. Johnny's house runs on well water and the pump decided to fail. Johnny and his dad (jokingly) blamed it all on me because I was in the shower when it happened. But then I (also jokingly) blamed it on Johnny, who turned on water somewhere else in the house while I was in the shower. Nothing was ever decided on this front.
Anywho, this meant that immediately following church on Sunday Johnny and I took a little trip to Sears to buy a new pump, which then Johnny spent the entire rest of the day installing. There was problem after problem. Something was leaking, and when he tightened it to stop the leakage the thing broke and we had to take a trip to Lowe's and Home Depot to buy a new one and then something else stripped the screw on some tube that lets air into the pump and so they just plugged the hole for now. So they still don't have water and Johnny gets to work on it again tomorrow before he goes to work. It's all so ridiculous, and I ended up spending quality time with Johnny's dad, whose bad back kept him from being able to help as much as he would have liked. My only job was to read my book when I wasn't running up and down the basement stairs to unplug and plug in the pump. Quite the adventure, and definitely one I don't want to relive. I think I can safely speak for Johnny and say he feels the same.
So that was my adventure. And the reunion was great fun and the engagement pictures turned out beautifully and now I just have to put in all the info to the various newspapers to announce it! And then in just over two months we'll be married. So insane!! Everything is going so fast!
Hope everyone's weekend was a little less eventful than mine!
UPDATE: I realized I never came back to Johnny not coming to the reunion! He DID come! When I arrived, after going to Walmart to print off all of the pictures so I came a little late, I parked the car and saw Johnny walking toward me! Apparently his boss at work gave him a very extended lunch break during which he was able to come eat with us. :D That's all!
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