Cha-CHING!

It's done! Finally... 2.5 years later. I realize why it took me so long... it is twice the width of a normal blanket. All the better to cuddle under! Take a look-see...

Good night!

Spring and everything that it entails...

Well folks, it is so sad that I am tired enough for bed at 10. What happend? Oh yes, it is called the real world...

Today was a very very long day. The kind of day where I look at the clock and I am sure an hour has past, yet it has only been 3 min. The kind of day where I accidently hang up on people, book the wrong kind of appointment, sneeze when there are no tissues around... you get the idea. On the plus side, I do like my job. Also, I found a park 2 min from my job and I drove there on my lunch and just sat with the windowns down. Tomorrow I am going to take a blanket and get a little sun.

On other news.... We put our down payment down at the house!!!! Yes, the awesome one that is 1400 square feet. When we looked at it tonight, it reminded me how nice it is. What the heck are we going to do with all those kitchen cupboards and bedrooms? I think we'll figure it out.

The Iron and Wine concert was very good. We had so much fun and we found a lot of cool/cheap things. We got two end tables and some decorations. Do you want to see what we got? Here is it:

Look it is a wall thing to put mail in. I realize that this post is pretty materialistic but... I am just excited to decorate our new place.

Brian has been a hockey fool lately and had the bug for some roller blades. Happy early birthday to him. He is getting up early to do some drills and things. Here are his new blades.

whoa whoa whoa!

Happy 1000 visitors!!

It is so beautiful and I am stuck in my cubicle. Enjoy it for me. I just walked around the parking lot on my lunch break.

Crafts again...

I have been feeling extremely crafty the last few days but unsure of what I wanted to make. I took my calendar from last year and decided that I wanted to hang the pictures in our bedroom. I took the framed picture of the girl reading the book (that was hung in K-8, I had painted some on it) and painted the frame a brown color. I then wiped off some of the paint so that the gold color shines through. I then mod podged a picture from the calender onto it. I think it turned out pretty good. Here it is:
The colors match our bedroom very nicely and it took out some of my need to craft. I also watched to put some more on canvas to hang on our walls. I brush the same brown paint on the canvas and then mod podged the pictures onto them. They turned out pretty well, a tiny bit bubbley. Here they are:

I felt like I was on an HGTV show with crafts. I also thought I would post a picture of the twine balls I made for our table. I took styrofoam balls and hot glued twine around them. (I made these a while ago).
I have also vowed to myself that I will finish my blanket before we move into our new place. I have been working on it for over two years now. I usually get so sick of it before I get close to finishing it. It is pretty long now, I just have around 15-20 more rows. I can do it. Here is a pretty bad picture of it. I think it will look so awesome on our red couches. I started knitting it with scraps and then had to buy lots and lots more yarn.
Ok, well I should go b/c my lunch break is almost over. It is so weird taking a lunch break from 3:45-4:45... but I work late on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Brian and I are getting excited for our Iron and Wine concert on Friday!! We both are getting out of work early to go antiquing/thrifting before we leave for the concert. OH! Also, I just found a crate and barrel giftcard we had gotten from our wedding. It was a like a whole new present, so I ordered two awesome vases. later.

What I would call a pretty good weekend...

It began with a relaxing Friday, and then a birthday party for Libby.
Brian and our friend Abbott like to talk.
My old RA Janna and me at Smokebeak, Ann Arbor, MI

On Sunday we drove to Spring Arbor for Allyson's birthday party. We stopped to take a picture of K-8. It is the house I lived in my junior year. I miss it and always being surrounded by the 7 other girls that lived there too.
Annika and I cuddling at Ally's birthday party.
Ally (who is soooo old now, can you believe she is 11?), Anni and me.
"Take a picture of me doing the splits!" -Anni, so I took a picture of her doing the splits.
Brian and Owen (BFF's)
Julie and me... she kept reminding me about how I used to clean her house.
Brian driving home, he is tired and not feeling so great.
This had to be safe, right?
Oh the memories at the 145. Many late nights, cups of coffee and much greasy food.
This is my "how is it already Sunday night" face. Why do the weeks go so slow and the weekends so fast? Anyways... Thanks for reading. I like comments.

Andrea's Birthday...

I just realized that I forgot to post pictures from Andrea's birthday last weekend. Isn't she a cute birthday girl?

Yummy banana cake with the super sweet frosting.
Jim, being Jim, sitting in Jim's chair.Oh look, it's my birthday buddy (Sue) and Bri.
I like cake!
Potter likes cake, but she didn't get any. Another reason I'm glad I am not a dog.

During the movie (Waiting for Guffman) Potter jumped up and cuddled next to the birthday girl. It was super cute and could have possibly been caused by the banana cake that Potter sniffed next to Andrea.

The End.

The meanderings of a boredomful brain...

Um, so I pretty much have the best husband ever. Do you want to know why?

*Well, he lets me drive his Focus and takes my junky grand am.
*When he makes my lunch, he adds a little note.
*When I got out of work on Wednesday, there was a note on my car from him (a sidenote, he has his master’s class a block down from where I work)
*He takes Potter outside most of the time (which is nice, especially when it rains/snows),
*I mentioned that I would like a relaxing mixed cd to listen to on my way home from work and when I got into the card there was a mixed cd in the cd player.
*He is pretty funny and makes me laugh even when I don’t want to.

Enough of that mushiness. And onto more mushiness, I pretty much have the best dog ever. Do you want to know why?

*She always gets so excited when I come in the door, even if I go out to take the garbage.
*We have a pattern of her waiting for me to get into bed before she jumps up for her goodnight snuggle.
*She is a good listener (better than most people)
* She loves me unconditionally, even when I don’t pet her.
*She likes to be cuddled and pet just as much if not more than me
*We are eerily similar (that is funny to say about me and a dog) but it is true.

Ok, well I really should go. My break at work is ending and I need to read over some notes. Have a great weekend. Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend!

And since my mom says I am photogenic...

There! Told you so... I am not. I just like taking pictures of myself alot. I am joking, really. I actually don't know why I am putting this picture on the internet. What I was thinking while taking it is, "Amy, show how you feel when you get home from work."

So, now I am going to go to bed before I post more embarassing pictures of myself.

Ok, well, I think that I will just post a picture in rememberance of my long hair, oh how I miss you...

And now a picture of long hair that I do not miss.... Thank you for cutting your hair Brian. Here is my favorite picture of Brian and Potter. Ok, I am really going to go to bed now. I apoligize for this worthless post.

Ding DIng...

I love the office. I've missed the office.

Anyways... I am liking my job and I think that I am pretty good at it. I guess I will find out at my first review how I really am. My days go pretty fast but sometimes listening to people tell me all about their financial situation makes me feel like screaming. Not at them (well sometimes at them, if they are jerks), just at the injustice.

In other news, all of a sudden Bri and I realized that our lease is up in a month and we have no where to move. We looked at a house on Tuesday. It was the smallest place I have ever been it. It was listed as a two bedroom. The first floor bedroom was the size of our current bathroom (which is teeny tiny), and "master" bedroom was in the basement which is not finished and has exposed ceilings. It had a tiny stove and normal fridge which couldn't even open all the way. In other words, we are not moving there.

Where we are moving is a house on Farmer's street right downtown Plymouth. It is around 1,400 sq ft., and has 3 bedrooms, 1.5 car garage, a fenced yard, fireplace, lawn service, and deck. There is a hair salon on the front and the owner is very nice. We are so excited! I will post pictures as soon as I take some.

Well, about time for bed. I would say this early job thing is turning my life upside down. Goodnight!

A new bedtime...

Am I really going to bed at 9:45? Affirmative.

Anyone who knows me well would probably assume I have a strange sickness but really work is just super draining. I know that once I learn everything I need to know it will be a piece of cake... but right now. My ears/cheeks get red and my heart beats fast everytime I hear the phone ring and I have to answer it and talk to people about things I can barely wrap my head around. Ai Ai Ai! I will survive. Really it isn't bad and I have someone mentoring me to make sure I am ok. Plus, we have a pizza party tommorrow. And anyone who knows me... knows that I could probably eat pizza for every meal.

Brian has another interview at Ann Arbor Library! Please pray for his interview on Monday and please pray that I get the hang of things at work (and not stress out so much).

Whoa, it is getting late. I have to go to bed now.

Tuesday...Tuesday...

My mind feels like mush. I have learned so much about bankruptcy, credit counseling, credit ratings, etc. I think that I really like it? But I will probably get tired of sitting and answering phones. Potter does NOT like me working. She gets so sad in the morning when I wake up the same time as Brian. She follows us around and sits in the bathroom with me when I do my makeup/hair. One thing that I do not like about my job is driving on 275. It is so slow and what should take me 15-20 min, takes me 30-45...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREA! HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY WORLD!

I guess there is nothing too happy about it being April Fools Day. (Besides that I won oreos at work, who doesn't like oreos?)