In Seven Months...

In seven months from TODAY I will be: ahhhh! I cannot believe it. August seemed soooo far away and now a measly seven months?? :)

this is a list of things I HOPE to accomplish in the next 7 months:

(did i already mention we are getting married in seven months?

Now, I didn't say MUST accomplish or HAVE to accomplish. Simply my list of hopes before August 18th, 2012 :)

PLAN A WEDDING!

My sweet sister made this for me this last weekend. (have I mentioned she is seriously the BEST sister ever?It is so freaking cute! It has what we need to do each month :) like for instance, did you know that a week before your wedding you should call all your vendors and confirm? Like make sure they will indeed be bringing the food and make sure the florists do have the flowers you ordered? I had no idea. but thanks to this, we will have food and flowers :) you can all thank mandy for this when you are eating your delicious food. whatever it may be :)

SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY!

This weekend I went through a bunch of memory boxes and tubs and bins in my room and closet. I am not moving anywhere for quite awhile, but I just wanted to slowly start going through what I really don't need so come August it isn't a huge overwhelming task. I thought this would be easy. This is HARD. I feel like there is some unwritten law or rule that states that you cannot bring too much high school memorabilia with you when you get married and begin a new chapter of your life.

Like seriously, I have saved shoe boxes and shoe boxes of notes from middle school. I thought it would be a piece o'cake to just recycle them. I literally CANNOT do it. Is something wrong with me? Our like pictures from all my high school sports! I probably don't need them anymore (aka I KNOW I don't need them anymore) but I literally felt like my heart was bursting at the seams when I put them in the garbage pile... :/ So I backed out. I got rid of like 123,000 pairs of sunglasses but just couldn't deal with my memory boxes. So that is one of my goals. Work on how I want to handle those tubs and tubs of memories :)

COOK DINNER FOR MY PARENTS ONCE A WEEK!
yes. perhaps I should have been doing this the whole time I have been living in their beautiful house rent-free, but whatev. hasn't happened :) Not only will it be fun to all sit down and eat at the same time at least once a week (and be a break for my momma) but if will ALSO give me a chance to at least practice cooking SOMETHING I would be able to cook for Drew.

I mean, I can make egg mcmuffins, enchiladas and baked potatoes (deliciously, I might add) but I want to work a few more "fancy" dishes. And by fancy I mean not using the microwave as the only source of cooking. :) (and yes, you can make enchiladas in the microwave.) case in point: he went to his parents house in Eastern WA last weekend, and said "my mom got us some corningware!" I had no idea what that was. :)

Give myself a break! aka NOT BUY SELF HELP BOOKS! ummm. By the looks of my nightstand do I look like a psycho-path or what? I need to cool it on the self-help books. Which probably stems into a greater thing on my to-do list. such as; stop worrying so much about "calming my anxious heart" and "what women fear." this is one of the most exciting times of my life, and i need to enjoy it. not be spending the next seven months trying to rid myself of every last insecurity.

another one from this pile of books? I NEED TO PUT AWAY THE TECHNOLOGY (have you tried Family Feud on your iphone yet? Kailee introduced me to it and I am obsessed.) and read! I have never had this many un-finished books at one time in my life. Plus, I enjoy reading and it makes me less cranky which will be a win-win for everyone in my life :)

so yeah. here goes nothing. :)