in an attempt...

... to keep my stress level down, i revamped this and am trying to update as frequently as i can remember to. maybe some wedding ideas will be thrown around, maybe some business ideas will be thrown around too, but like i usually do, random thoughts will be what this is mostly about.

today- today is all about getting ready for this coming weekend trip home! to kansas! the boy and i are pumped because our future will pretty much be decided this weekend which is exciting! we have a business meeting on friday, dinner with my future in laws that evening, saturday we're going to check out the wedding site and then celebrate with all our friends that evening at an informal engagement party! yay! sunday night is when we leave so hopefully we can have a few more fun things completed before then.

but before that happens i need to: go to the store, do four loads/$12 worth of laundry, clean roux, clean oaduss' cage, do some yoga, finish some save the date cards, get my planning book together, stay sane, clean house, go to school, finish homework, much more i'm sure.

picture for your thoughts:



this is what i want to look like on our big day...

new site. new girl

while i've wanted to blog often, it never really stuck. i decided that i needed to employ some will-power and make it happen. i like fresh new things, so what better than to have a new place to blog.

chicago weather has proven itself just as bizarre as kansas weather. i kid you not, in the last week we've had hot, humid 80 degrees, chilly- scarf weather 40s, some rain, a tornado watch and then today= shiny happy weather. so strange. i'm sure its not just this are of the country, or world for that matter. global warming is among us my friends. anyways, at least it hasn't snowed yet (wait, its still may, i think it snowed at the beginning of the month).

currently, i've been attempting to define myself and who i want to be. just a little task i've embarked on! ha! i've decided that i chose how i live my life, with anything that's thrown at me, its up to me to decide how i feel about it and how i am going to let it effect me. be positive.

i've had a crazy last few years and i'm sure many more are ahead but one things for sure, i am going to take control of my life and be happy no matter what. after all, i have so many wonderful blessings that i take for granted everyday. my goal is to recognize all of the good things in anything as often as i can. why be negative? being negative in my mind, is being lazy. yes, so many bad things happen often but in reality moving past those things makes one stronger.

well, anyways...

summer school has started and two things are for sure. one= math at columbia is a huge joke. and two= i love art history, i love it. never have i felt so engaged in a lecture class. i think this is going to be the major for me. despite the overwhelming sense of insecurity, i can't wait.

working at a coffee shop again is great. its a bike ride away (on a free bike, might i add) and always leaves me with some great stories.

simon and i went to ikea with bret. what an adventure. it was followed by the realization, while sitting at joe's crab shack, that schaumberg, il is just like topeka.

last night, alea and i braved the hoards of girls and manolo's to see SATC, it was great despite alea and i realizing that we had to pee halfway through the movie and having to wait it out.

next friday i'm off to kansas for jenny and franks wedding with a wonderfully beautiful date by the name of margo. perhaps i'll meet up with some of my wonderful peeps.

the following friday i'm off to new york city. yep, first timer and i couldn't be more excited. second row center for young frankenstein, staying in the upper east side and shopping galore, oh yeah and a trip to the metropolitan museum of art. holy cow.

anyways... homework awaits. off to read about ancient egypt, mesopotamia and who knows what else the wonderful history of art textbook has in store for me.

later.