Lately, I’ve been busy, but not really. I don’t know how to explain it. I work about 3-4 hours a day and then pretty much have the whole day free. But I get home and don’t want to do anything. It’s horrible. This week I am going to pick times to just be studious and work on school related things. I might have to do it in the school library because home is way too distracting. Damn home.

So, so far so good on the graduate school front. I’m already late on one assignment. yeh, bad me. I know. D=

I’ve been frantic over my wedding plans. If you’re on lavish you might know the brunt of it but otherwise, I’ll painfully go through everything again (dramatic sigh)

Last year, Marcus and I planned on having a reception, where we paid for everything. In September, my parents agreed to shell out the whole reception. Which was great, only $1,500. All we had to do was cover our ceremony and other incidentals. Gotcha. Great. Okay, so this year began and a whole host of problems occurred. First, my parents couldn’t help us anymore. Oops. Next, Marcus quit his job (it really was the best and either way he might have not had a job anymore). Uh Oh. So, imagine my horror and shock when I had to figure out how to come up with $1,500 in two months! D=

Solution? What solution was there? I had to do what I didn’t want to: Ask my guests to pay their way. I didn’t want to do, and I still don’t like doing it but there is honestly no other way if I want to have a reception and not make my guests feel that they only made it out to Las Vegas for a ceremony that will be probably 15 minutes long. If this were somewhere, like in my hometown, where I have connections and could get people to help cook or have a BBQ or whatever, I would, but this is in Las Vegas, being in the works for over a year. Invitations went out, people have already booked flights and hotels. I can’t change the destination. So alas, I am asking my guests to pay their way in lieu of gifts. I feel this is at least fair. I am also planning on paying for my attendants because, well, they are my attendants.

Before anyone says it I KNOW this isn’t etiquette. I’ve fought with my mom, Marcus and others on this. But I have to do it, even though I really don’t want to do it this way.

I’ve gotten feedback and a lot of tears later, this is the best thing that can happen. I am still suppling wedding favors, a wedding cake and bottles of champagne. But we’ll see, maybe that many people won’t come and I might be able to pay for them anyway. We’ll see.

Ah, Life. I hate you!

Can I just say, that I might be jinxing everyone, but I am so happy gas prices have fallen. I filled up my tank today with $23.83. I am thrilled considering a  month and half ago it took almost 40 bucks to fill it. Yay for having low gas prices and a really awesome mpg. =D

This weekend was uneventful. We spent most of it preparing for our move this coming December 1 (wow we’re crazy….) and I am quite excited. We’ll still have cash for Black Friday and be able to move and I’ll get paid that Friday after we do move. It’ll be awesoooooooooooooooooooooome. I’m so excited. I really can’t wait to buy all our new furniture and stuff too!

Well, I am going to go a la list tonight and put down my “to-do” list for this week.

1. Finish my Graduate Assistantship application. Since I am not going to have a job come December 28, I really need to figure out how I am going to make some extra income. I’ve got my tutoring but I can only do so much of that (according to their policies) so I need some sort of extra money coming in. I really don’t want to invest in a job that expects me to be there for a long time, because I plan on doing a lot of things that will make me be at the job for 9-12 months tops. I hate leaving jobs though. I like to commit to a job if I have a choice or say in it.
2. Finish my application for “top secret” sorority business. HAHA I just had to say it. No, I am applying for national position in my sorority’s national hq and I really need to get on my application for it because I really want to be considered for this next term. Other than that, I really want to be able to be focused on something else besides school and Marcus j.k about the Marcus thing.
3. Get my things together for moving. I really need to make sure I get everything in order so the move can be as smooth as possible. It’ll be nice to not stress about this move, because I really need to not be stressed out right now, since I am doing very well so far

Well that’s all for this week so far. I might think of more, but these are really big main ones I want to focus on for this week.

Ta-Ta

You know you are addicted to Family Guy when you make your post title a line from the Show…

But today has been slow!!!! EEEHHH!!! I thought it would go by faster but I feel like I will rip my eyes out if time moves any slower.

I finally heard back from the Graduate Program…and…I…

GOT IN!

Unofficially, I got in at least. I haven’t got the letter, but a sort of verbal confirmation was given to me. She told me that the acceptance letter would be in the mail. Har har. I’m SO very excited. This also means my money woes are *kinda* over. I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t mind taking out student loans. Since we are moving about the time I start school, I can use my refund from the financial aid to help us move. This really extrememly lifts a burden off of us. I can now really enjoy planning my wedding! Speaking of which I’ve got two ideas I’d like you to let me know how they sound. Kthnx

Another sort of good news is that I got into the tutor.com position. I am so freaking excited. I did some sessions on Wednesday and I enjoyed doing the sessions. I think with a little more practice, I can get better, but tutoring in Social Studies is really hard! Does anyone have any good social studies websites for kids? I completely forgot all the possible questions that could asked. Ancient Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia??! Sheesh, guess I will be doing some reading tonight.

Other than that, nothing exciting nor jaw dropping has happened this week. Oh, well I cut my finger on a razor, but that’s not exciting. Hmmm.. I guess I am quite boring! Speaking of which, I watched Baby Mama again, and that movie was hilarious for sure the second time around. I recommend you see it if you haven’t. Well I am going to stop rambling but maybe something cool will happen to me this weekend so I can have cool things to write about….We’ll see!

Can I say, before I start that I am EXHAUSTED. Last week was sooooo busy and I didn’t get to be sometimes until midnight or later. Then Friday night was sooo long and I had to wake up at 4:45AM on Sunday and didn’t go back to bed until 11:30 or so. I only slept for about 2.5 hours. Then last night I went to bed at about 1AM. But that was Marcus’ fault. Sometimes we mess with each other while sleeping and I was laying on Marcus and was being silly and all. Then all of a sudden, he just began to have a laughing fit! Of course it was contagious and I had to laugh too. It was a good ten minutes of pure laughing. Then finally, we stopped but he said something and I was like

“oh man I’ve never heard you laugh so much in all your life”

“You’ve been stalking me my whole life?”… O_O

*silence…then cue more laughter*

So needless to say, even though we were in bed by midnight we didn’t get to bed till 1. I love my man He definitely keeps things entertaining.

I also last Friday applied for the graduate program I want to get into and I found out I’ll have to wait a bit until I get it all processed and decision made. Phooey. I wanna know noooooooow! But my backup is the University of Phoenix and they offer a M.A. in secondary education with certification, which is niiicceee. So I feel a bit confident going into the new year starting somewhere in a graduate program. Yay, one step closer to starting a career! Schweeeeeeeeeet. It’s really nice and assuring to know you didn’t waste you’re whole life on something that may not work out. I know that no matter what I do, education will play a big role. Other than that, I’m just still so exhausted from this weekend and past week. Onward to a new week! yay!

This week I am hoping to get back on track with my diet. Last week and some of the week before was spent slacking. bah Luckily it doesn’t seem I gained any noticeable weight back so that is always good. I just need to get back on the horse and make results happen. w00t results go! I’m only 35 pounds from my goal before March! We’ll see if I can do it! ::crosses fingers::