No Mans Land

Sorry I have been MIA. Lots of stuff going on in the personal and business realms. I'm not sure where even to begin.

I got kicked out of the kettlebell challenge it seems, I didn't have a chance to post my end of the week picture that is mandatory on Sunday, and by Monday night I got the boot. I suppose that is fine though. I have the time to do my workouts but I didn't really have the time and focus to be in that group and to maintain the whole photo thing and all. So I am still doing the kettlebell, but not in the challenge group. I also am now a member of Gold's Gym. Yup I caved. But I am enjoying it thus far. I am only doing my cardio stuff there at the moment, but my friend Alayna does some of the classes so I might be adding that as well. I won't be using the weight machines until I can get my love to go with me to explain how to use them all correctly!

Work has been crazy busy, October is set to be even busier. We just finished a event to promote the Prohibition documentary just last night, it was a great success. Photography is going well also, although I don't take as many sessions as I use to. I am determined to finish school and the clock is ticking on getting it accomplished by the expiration date. I hope to do it pretty much most of the weekend while the Mr. is working!

We scheduled a "engagement party" of sorts but really its just our family and a few close friends to get together towards the end of October, which is kind of nerve racking cause the families haven't met yet. Which after 4 years it is long over due. Yes, Devin and I will be celebrating our FOUR YEAR anniversary on October 31st.It is hard to believe that time has gone by so quickly. I have to say it's been the best damn years of my life thus far, even with all the hills and valleys - there isn't a single thing that I would change. ANYWAYS back to this little family get together, I found the cutest little simple white dress and I am making a sash for it currently. I will post pictures at some point, but with how much I have going on it won't be until after October before I put it up on here.

So there's the cliff note version of the last couple of weeks, short and sweet. I promise I won't be such a slacker with my blog in the future!

A Sigh of Relief [[269]]

I woke up this morning in an exceptional mood, which has been a rarity for the 2 months. Why? Stress... I knew that the whole "getting married" business meant $$$ but to what degree I had no idea until I stepped into the wedding planning arena. Well, not so much the wedding planning as much as the local reception arena. As many know we are getting married in Jamaica (9 more months!) and were planning to have a reception here when we returned. Well, a thousand dollars here, a thousand dollars there, and I saw my budget becoming a distant memory and welcomed stress and worry into my life. Devin & I aren't big fans of credit, we have a pretty wise idea in my opinion, to pay for everything up front and without credit so that we don't start out our married life together in a tremendous amount of debt. But with that decision comes a great deal of strain.

Well this weekend, I sat down to look at our budget and I discovered that our budget had literally doubled with the add of the reception. So we spoke about it in depth and decided that until further notice the reception is on hold. After we get all the trip bought and done, and all the little extras we will readdress it. I was really bummed initially, but it didn't take long to feel like a burden was off of my shoulders and our engagement period is going to be what I had intended it to be in the first place, which was stress free and a happy carefree time for us.

In other news, Tiffany and I found the bridesmaid dresses and groomsmen attire. && my dress should be in within 1 month, I am SO excited - its a shame I will have to wait 8 more months to wear it though!!!! I've decided, especially with the ease of financial burdens of the reception, that I need to start considering getting some new clothes for the trip, and for all the little parties we will be having.

I got kind of lazy last week on our first week of the kettlebell challenge, awful I know, but I was extremely stressed out. This week I am attacking it with a fierceness.