Mission..almost accomplished

Well, after spending most of the weekend trying to re-decorate my downstairs, I'm mostly finished! I just have to buy a few more things to put on the walls and the big picture hung and it will be finished!

Here are a few pictures.....

Before...

After.....

I think it turned out pretty good, and once I put a few more things on the walls, it will be perfect :)

Today, I spent most of the day trying to get our boat out of storage and onto the lake. My dad usually does this but is in Japan until the end of June, so we decided to attempt getting it out by ourselves this year. It just kills me every nice day that goes by that we don't get to be on the water..such a waste! So we got it home, cleaned out and ready to go and sometime this week we'll get it charged up and out to the slip where it will stay all summer. We only had one slight mishap, but with a little creative thinking, we were up and running again!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Off to bed, I'm exhausted, not only from such a busy wedding, but my allergies were acting up so I took some Claritin, and I'm pretty sure that even though it said non-drowsy, it was drowsy..whoops!

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. "

Just a little road block...

Woohoo, I went out and bought the paint today as well as some new decorations from IKEA for my mini revamp re-decoration of my lower level on my condo. I really wanted to brighten up the place so I decided to get a couple colors to cover my very plain jane walls. Well, it's very hard to know what color is going to look like when all you get to see is a tiny swatch.

Abbey came over after work today, and we made another meal from the biggest loser cookbook, it was really good actually! We had gone yesterday, on our lunch break, to the farmers market downtown and I had bought some fresh asparagus, so I boiled some of that and we had that with our curry chicken pita sandwiches...yummy! Anyways, we deemed this creative project night, so while she scrapbooked, I painted. First try of paint, did not go so well. The color was NOT AT ALL what I had wanted. I'm not kidding it was hideous. Of course Abbey kept telling me to just keep painting and maybe once the whole wall was done it would look better...not the case, probably looked 10 times worse. So Abbey being the creative genius that she is, found some other paint in my storage that I had used when I moved in and we combined it with the paint I had to come up with a new color and wala......a great new color!!! So after doing 2 coats, it's about time for me to go to bed. I have 2 more walls I want to get done this weekend, in between Tuck's vet appointment tomorrow, a wedding I have to work, and getting the boat out of storage and on the water on Sunday...busy weekend ahead!

You'll all get to see the colors I picked when I get it finished :)

Have a great weekend!

P.S. Tucker learned to sit yesterday, I'm working on stay now, but we're not doing so good on that one :(

Man....I mean Woman of the house

Today, I did some very manly things, well things at least I think the man of the house would do. Being as though I am a pretty independent single girl, I have to do and learn how to do a lot of things by myself. Sometime I can con the men in my life into doing a few things for me, but with my Dad being out of the country a lot and my brother being well....a tad lathargic (and basically being raised by 3 women, he's not always the one to come to my resuce), I have to rely on myself for a lot of things.

So, I decided that my house needed a bit of a makeover (I can be very indecisive at times and need change probably more often than not). So I headed to Menards (otherwise known as the nail store), to check out some different paint swatches. As I was walking through the isles, I realized obviously, that it was mostly men there. There were the ones ooing and awwing over all the different tools and nails, (I don't get it, I'd much rather look at shoes and jewelry any day, but whatever floats your boat guys!), and then there were the ones that you could tell had to leave in the middle of their "project" to run to Menards to either a) get that item they forgot or b) find something to fix the the mistake they made while trying to fix the original problem (trust me, I've witnessed this first hand many times in my life).

Anyways, I decided that I needed a few other things while I was there, a ladder, some paint brushes, and even some nails. I could tell all the workers thought I was out of my element as I strode down the nail and ladder isle wearing my hot pink nike tennis shoes, and my hot pink t-shirt that said "bride's entourage". I ended up getting a little overwhelmed when the nice gentleman that worked there, came up and started speaking to me, in a completely foreign language, when he asked me about what types of "primer, and ladders, and even types of nails", I needed. So I decided, I would take my swatches home and come back another day, when I knew how to handle these questions (which, trust me, could be never)!

I then went to Walmart to grab a few items to clean my house with. P.S. the Swiffer jet thing is awesome, no more scrubbing on my hands and knees!! I decided to take a detour down the electronic isle (I've been needing a new TV in my bedroom, because every time I turn on my TV a high pitched noise drowns out everything else going on). They were having a sale, so I ended up buying a 26" LCD TV. Let's be serious, do you think I know anything about TV's? Of course not. So instead of figureing out what gadgets were necessary, the quality of the picture, the wave length, blah blah, I did the girly thing to do and picked out the one that was the shineist and looked the coolest. Good idea? I hope so!

So I took my purchase home, and put it together, took my old tv to storage and fired up the new one. Of course, it took me probably twice as long to figure out what cable thingy went where, and what kind of cable I had (Air, Digital, Antenna, etc). I'm still not sure which one I have, I just started pushing buttons and finally got something! Let's just say it took a few tries before the screen was more than just fuzz. But, yet again, I'm proud to say I've assembled another item in my house (the coffee table was a big feat for me)! Next item on the list, a long cabinet from IKEA, that I have to assemble (once I purchase it). That may not work out so well.

I'll post some pictures when I finish my re-decorating!

"Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own." -Anjelina Jolie

New Profession

As stated in a previous post, I wear many hats at my job. Well, this weekend that list of skills that I have increased by one. I am now a professional "human lawn mower", yes that's right, a lawn mower. I got an e-mail on Friday night around 9pm from my bride that was having her wedding at the Boat Club that following Saturday evening (why I was checking my work e-mail at 9pm on a Friday night, is beyond me...I guess it's the curse of having a blackberry, you are in the know at all times), that said the ceremony site was looking pretty rough for their wedding that next day. This should have been taken care of by some other staff, days before, but I showed up on Saturday morning and she was right. The grass hadn't been mowed, there were branches/sticks everywhere, weeds all down the where the isle was and weeds that had grown up in between the bricks where the ceremony was to take place, and my favorite, 3 dead birds. So what's an Event Planner to do? I spent the next 3 hours on my hands and knees, literally "mowing" aka me pulling the grass and weeds with my hands to make it look better. Around 5:30pm when the ceremony started, it looked a lot better, and no one would have known it was a breeding ground for weeds and dead birds 3 hours prior. It was a gorgeous night on the river, and everything turned out great. This is why I have to be ready for everything at the drop of a hat!

My memorial weekend was great and very relaxing! Gorgeous weather (I wish I had been on the boat but we didn't make it around to getting it out of storage). It was my sister's bday so we went out to Punch pizza for dinner and then we went to Nelson's Ice Cream Shop in stillwater for some AMAZING ice cream (not on the biggest loser diet, whoops), and then to the movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (it was pretty good). All in all, I would say it was a successful weekend! Nic and I are going to take Tuck to the dog park today, maybe he'll make some new friends and run off a little energy. Whenever I come back to my parents house, Tucker and Shasta (our family dog who is 11), play Tug of War, literally the entire time with their toys. I think they've ruined about 3 toys, this weekend alone. So I bought them both matching platypus toys, but of course they still wanted the one each other had!

On a serious note, I want to give a shout out to all the men and women that have or are serving our country! Being from a Military family, gives you an entirely different perspective on the things that our servicemen and women go through. And although I always joke around and say I won't ever date a man in the service (I know it's a tough life, I've lived it), I have the utmost respect for anyone willing to fight for all of us to make this world a better place, because as well all know, this world needs all the help it can get! So even though my dad isn't here this weekend, he's actually off serving our country right now in Japan, I'd like to say thank you to him, even though I may not say it enough, I am very proud of you, you are my own personal hero :) My grandpa also served, and if he were here now, I'd run up and give him a kiss for making the world a little bit better (before I was even born). I hope you all take a moment to realize the sacrafice some make in order to give us the opportunity to be celebrating this day the way we would like!! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!!!

Here are some pictures from the weekend....

"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go." -Bernard Malamud

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

Has anyone seen the movie the Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConehay (I'm sure I spelled that wrong)? There is a great line in there when Jennifer Lopez (the wedding planner) says "those who don't wed, plan!" I am beginning to feel just like her in that movie. I am in constant 24/7 couple bliss all the time! Being as though I chose this profession, I shouldn't complain, but recently it feels like all I do is eat, sleep and breathe weddings. I guess it's just this age, I went to 4 weddings last year (was a bridesmaid in 2), and am attending 4 this year. Plus with planning weddings, I've decided I know all you can possibly know about weddings. The poor guy that marries me, he has no chance, I already have the whole thing planned. That's the joys of seeing different ideas every weekend!

So anyways, it seems like if the people around me aren't getting married then they are living in harmoney with their significant other, that I had a part in setting them up! I guess I'm just really good at other people's love lives, just not my own (refer to the pervious posts about my recent dates and relationships...I hope that saying 3rd times a charm isn't true, hopefully it's morem like 8th times a charm). It's the curse of the wedding planner! Maybe that's what I should do, become like that Million dollar Matchmaker lady thats got her own TV show on Bravo. At least I'd be making some money doing it!

I'm heading out to have dinner with some of my girlfriends tonight in Stillwater. It's a great night here, very beautiful out! I'm ready to kick back and have a glass of wine with the girls! Tucker and I went for a walk when I got home so he's pretty tired and will hopefully sleep the night away until I get home! I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend :)

And.....Another one bites the dust.

This potentially could be another rant on dating, so if you are a guy reading this, I apologize.

I was supposed to go on another date tonight, yes I had to psych myself up for the last few days to go on it, well let's just say, another one bites the dust. Why you ask? Well, we didn't even make it to the date!!!! This guy actually seemed pretty cool too, we had a lot of the same interests, he loved sports, had a good job, things were finally looking up with these boys! He called me on Monday to see if I wanted to grab a drink this week and I had mentioned Thursday as my only free day, so we decided on that. He said he would call later and we would set up time and place. Well he didn't call, but we e-mailed each other while we were at work the next day, just making small talk, and he again said we'd talk later to figure out a time and place for Thursday. So the week all of a sudden gets away from me and last night, I realize that Thursday is tomorrow and we still haven't figured things out. So I text him and ask if we're still on for drinks and........I never get anything back...no email, no call, no text. Seriously, I'm not sure what it is, but I'm really getting sick of men. We go from everything being great, we both seem interested, to just nothing. I should give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe something happened, but with the track record and luck I've had with men lately, I'm gonna go with he's just a schmuk. My filing cabinet is starting to get full, as I've got another one to add to the "guys that suck" folder. Decided I've had enough with all this for a while, I'm going to enjoy the summer that's here and forget about boys, maybe in a few months I'll go on match again, but for now...hello summer, goodbye boys. :) I think Jillian from the bachelorette has the right idea...30 men all wanting her attention, and she's the one at the end of the day making all the decisions!

Roommate Search

It has been a busy week! I fele like tonight is the first day I've actually been able to sit down and breathe. I worked until about 8:30pm every night this week, which made for a long day for Tucker to be in his kennel :( I felt so bad. Luckily my good friend Robyn, volunteered to go to my house yesterday and pick Tucker up to play with her boyfriend's new puppy, Dixie! It was great, they had a great time playing, and when I went to pick him up, he was exhausted! So we both got a much needed good night's sleep.

My roommate e-mailed me that she will be moving out come July, she decided to move in with her boyfriend, so I am on the hunt for another roommate! I made a few postings on craigslist and this website my friend told me about, roommates.com, and am hoping I'll get some bites...otherwise, I may not be eating for a while (haha to pay the mortgage)! So if anyone knows of anyone needing a place...send them my way!

Since I've been home today, Tucker and I went on a walk around the neighborhood and I made another recipe from my biggest loser cookbook, the meals actually aren't that bad! I had a portobello wrap with sweet potato fries for dinner and I'm making some frozen hot chocolate for a late night snack :) I just can't give up dessert.

Apparently I haven't been paying Tuck enough attention, because as I type this he's drug my front door's rug out 3 times and started chewing it and now has made his way to the cords behind the TV. Guess I should go play with him!


With it being a busy, stressful week, I had a bit of a short fuse, I guess you could say, at points. One thing that really irritates me is drivers. There are so many people on the road that just think they own the road and cutting people off isn't a big deal. So when I was driving yesterday, there was man that needed to merge, so I decided to let him in and he actually waved at me. I can't tell you how many people just budge right in and think it's their right. It actually made my day that he waved (lame I know), but there still are some decent people out there!Looking forward to the weekend, I work a wedding on Saturday, but then I have Monday off...maybe my brother and I can attempt to get the boat out of storage and on the water :)



"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. "

Fantastic Weekend

This weekend was great! On Friday, Abbey and I figured out our meal plan for every night this week. We're going to get together and figure that out each week, so that we have a good idea of what to have to keep in our calorie count. So far this is working out well, I just have to make sure that I stick to it and work out!

Amy and Deren's wedding was great! I had a wedding for work that day as well, that my co-worker was going to cover, and unfortunately she woke up with a viral infection in her eye and one was swollen shut, so she called me and said she couldn't be at my wedding. I went into a minor panic mode, trying to figure out what to do, so I just pushed up my plan a bit. Got ready early in my wedding attire, went out to the Boat Club for the wedding, stayed there until 2pm, drove back to Woodbury for Amy and Deren's Ceremony, then drove back out to the Boat Club to check on the wedding and finally made my way to Amy and Deren's reception, which luckly was only a few blocks away from the Boat Club. It was eventful!

The reception was great, for Amy and Deren's first dance they had choreographed a dance to all sorts of songs (grease lightening, thriller, etc.), it was great!! Now they are on their way to their honeymoon in Vegas! Congrats to them both :)

Here are some pictures from the night.....

Name Change

Well today was a busy day! I worked a 12 hour day so needless to say, I'm tired.

Matt came over and watched Tucker for a while because I had a Awards/Dinner ceremony for the City of St. Paul Riverfront Group (basically organizations and buisnesses that surround the Mississippi River), that went for about 4 hours. My company was one of the sponsors of the event so when we got there we had to check in and get our names. Now it's one of my biggest pet peeves, when people spell my name wrong. Everyone assumes it's spelled J-E-N-N-Y, but tonight I saw a whole new one. I've worked at this company for almost 2 years and I get registered under the name Ginni Ellson, well they got the "i" part right but totally screwed up the first part. So I had to walk around the whole night with a name tag that said Ginni. So I had to explain to everyone I talked to that it wasn't actually my name, we had a good laugh. Especially when it became the joke that Ginni sounded like Ginni Pig....haha I hope that nickname doesn't catch on!


"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor." - Max Eastman

All in a days work.....

***Warning, this story is 100% true****

So this is going to be random, but weird things always happen to me, and I have plenty of people to vouch for me....crazy follows me. Anyways, I finally get into the office today and I get a call back from a client of mine who wants me to come and meet him to check out the site that my event is at next week (it's a corporate luncheon). Now the reason that I say weird things happen to me is about to be explanined. The event is not at someone's office or one of our venues, it's at a Hmong Funeral Home. Now that really should say it all, but I'm not finished. So he proceeds to tell me that he can't make it but he'll give me the lock box code and I can just let myself in and look at the site where the lunch will happen.

Wow...now if anyone knows me, and many of you know me all too well, I'm scared of EVERYTHING. Yes, everything, I'm a 24 year old scardy cat. Well, at the top of my list of things that scare me, that's right, dead people. I know it's an irrational fear, but ever since I've been little going to funerals and seeing dead people (even in movies), freaks me out. For some reason I think they are going to come alive and jump right out of the casket. I even have nightmares when I see them. (side note-when the Pope died, I dreamt about him for a week straight, where he was in my room haunting me or my family and I were at his "viewing" and all of a sudden he jumped out of the glass box he was in and started yelling things at my mom). Weird and pathetic....I know!

So anyways, I finally get the nerve to let myself in (mind you it's completely dark in there), and I can't find the lights so I stumble around thinking I'm going to walk into the wrong room and see all these dead people, when I finally find the room I need and get the floor plan drawn for the event. Right when I'm about to leave my client shows up and asks if I found everything I need. I told him I did, and he then decides to ask if I would like a tour of the entire facility (I believe you all know what that means).....

Heck no, I don't want to take a tour of the facility, I will really never sleep if I do that. So I politely told him I had another meeting to go to and left. :)

The things that make life interesting!

Oh yea and as I was driving back to work I drove by a small restaurant that had a sign posted out front that said "Lunch Buffet today" in big bold letters, then under it, it said "No Vomiting"....haha what!?! I'm thinking they should invest in some new marketing pieces.

Early start to the day!

Well, today was an early start. I had to be at the Boat Club by 6am today for a meeting that I booked at the Boat Club, except every part of this was pro bono. It's a group that gives away large grants to developing projects around the city of St. Paul and the Boat Club received the grant a few years ago to restore it....(yes this elegant building used to be a biker bar called the Serpent) haha, imagine having your wedding there. Anyways, the board members wanted to see what the space looked like so I was here early helping to move tables, set linens and re-configure the room to look more like a meeting space rather than a wedding reception. Oh the many hats I wear! It's a great program though, so I was glad I could help!

I have a wedding this weekend at the Boat Club and one of my good friend's wedding just a block down the street. So in between my friends ceremony and reception (there is a few hours), I'm going to run to the Boat Club to check on my wedding...it's going to be busy! One of my good friends at work said she would help with my wedding as well, so I'm not worried. Plus, I love the couple, they are so laid back and just happy to finally be getting married, as they've been together for 10 years!

I decided it's time to get in shape (I decide this a lot, probably every week I say I'll start on Monday and then of course something gets in the way and I have to wait until the following Monday....endless cycle of laziness really). Well no more, I have an incentive now. Abbey and I came up with a plan, we both have goals we want to reach, and if we meet our goals (which mostly consist of eating healthier, working out more, and shedding a few pounds), then we get to treat ourselves to a small vacation in the fall (when I get more days off and work slows down). We were thinking a winery somewhere or visiting a friend...either way, keep your fingers crossed, I really hope I can make it! Time to start giving 110%...too bad Tucker still won't walk with me but a few steps and then sits down. Maybe when he's bigger :) In the meantime, it's time to start using my 2 gym memberships I have (not by choice, trust me!).

I did realize last night that there are a few people that just don't know what the word respect is. It's really sad that some people just think that the world owes them, just for being born, and stepping on people in the process doesn't even phase them. I know that sometimes I enable this as I do let people walk all over me, but I'm working on changing that. As time goes on and you grow up, sometimes you realize some things just aren't worth it and some things are worth standing up for and giving your opinion. Anyways, that was my rant for the day....in other words I've learned to just be respectful to the people around you, even if they don't know how to show it in return, you never know when karma might show it's face!


"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all." -Rita Mae Brown

Moody Monday :(

So I'm not sure what was in the air today, but I was crabby and had the worst headache. Probably just a case of the Mondays! Tucker went a little crazy today, so that could have something to do with it! Besides wanting to chew everything in sight, he decided to that my carpet looked pretty tasty today and started ripping that up. The mischevious things puppies decide to do! It really is a good thing God made puppies so cute, makes it a little easier to get past all the crazy things they do!! As I type this he's managed to crawl under my bed and bring out all my scrapbooking supplies.

This weekend was really good, we went out on Friday night to nice restaurant in downtown Minneapolis called Zelo's....of course we were running late, and I forgot my phone at home, so I didn't get the 2 messages from the host of the restaurant asking if we were still coming...luckily, it wasn't too busy so we still got to enjoy a great dinner....and dessert (obviously the best part). The funny part is that Abbey and I venture out to that restaurant a lot during our lunch breaks at work, and we just happened to have the same waiter we've had a few times and he recognized us (i'm not sure what that says about us...either we're friendly, unforgettable people, or we eat out too much...I'm gonna go with the first one). Then we went to a bar in downtown for a few drinks and met up with our good friends Amy and Deren, who are in town for their wedding this weekend :) I was going to post a few pictures from the night, but unfortunately my camera broke :( Time to go shopping for a new one....or hopefully getting that one fixed, cross your fingers! All in all, it was a success, minus a few mishaps!

Sunday was a great day for Mother's day, Matt, Nic, my Mom and I all went to Red Robin for dinner and it was awesome! I hope that all the mom's out there had a great mother's day :) That's all for now...maybe tomorrow will be a little better!

"Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius.And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring" -Marilyn Monroe

Dating

Alright, so this post may be a bit of a rant...just bare with me. When did dating become such a chore? Seriously, maybe it's just me, but I hate going out on dates. That said, the dating pool I've been picking from lately....not the best. So some of you know that I'm on match.com, dated a guy on there for a while, it went pretty well, then got broken up with by an e-mail, at work, over the noon hour. Haha, makes me laugh now. So my friends and family tell me to get back out there, blah blah blah. So I did, but I'm not sure when the word "sucker" got stamped on my forehead, but I think it's written in permanent marker.

The last date I went on, we'll call this Date #1, we met for drinks downtown after work. Pretty neutral place, sounded like a pretty good first date. We had good coversation (which really isn't hard, if you know me I can pretty much talk about anything, which sometimes gets me into trouble when I need to just shut up), anyways, he walks me to my car (scored some points for that), then I'm about to go in to hug him and I get the HAND SHAKE...really!?! Did we just have a friendly business meeting? I've always had a hug at the end of the night. So I pretty much figured at that point, it was mutual that there was no chemistry.....Not the case, I get a text later that night saying he had a great time and wanted to get together again! haha what??

Date #2, we met and went to a Twins game, (great idea, love going to the Twins games). Well we "just happen" to sit one row behind a few of his friends...coincidence, I think not. He then proceeds to go sit by these guys for about 20 min while I sit there staring around akwardly, hoping people are not watching this scene unfold (I did however get to see my lover Joe Mauer from afar, so it wasn't all bad). Just wait...gets worse. He then comes back and we start having a great conversation, and I thought to myself, ok he's redeeming himself here, and then he says, and I quote "look at that girl over there, her tits are about to hit her face". Really!?! Maybe I'm a bit over sensitive, but I'm pretty sure at no point in the date did I ever lead on that I would like to talk about another girls boobs, let alone have a comment like that on a first date. Needless to say, that went nowhere (I did get a hug after the date though, haha).

So, I've come to think that the recent Carrie Underwood song sums it up the best... "The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog" :)

One thing I have learned- dating is an adventure all in itself.

Long day

Today was a really, really long day. It's days like these, right when my first wedding is about to begin of the summer that I start to feel overwhelmed! I had so much to do at work today and didn't get any of it done due to meetings, so I sit here now at 8pm doing all the things I needed to get done earlier, now...the joys of being a salaried employee! Then I spent the majority of the afternoon at a networking event on Lake Minnetonka (drinks, appetizers, sun shining, beautiful lake...sometimes I love my job)!

I'm so proud of my Tucky.....He went the whole day without whining in his kennel and he went to the door when he needed to go out! He's soooooo good and he's only 8 weeks old :) I'm a proud mamma!

I'm getting really excited for the weekend, we're going out for my best friend, Abbey's, birthday on Friday. I made reservations for a great restaurant in downtown Minnepolis and then we are going out for drinks afterwards. There's about 15 people coming over to my house before dinner for a few appetizers...so I need to come up with a few good recipies...anyone got any good ideas??? You'd think working for a catering company I'd have all the great ideas...not the case!

By the way...apparently I don't have a green thumb...the single lonely plant I have in my house died today. RIP aloe vera plant, we had a good run. I think I'll stick to fake plants from now on.


"You have to stand for what you believe in. And sometimes you have to stand alone " -Queen Latifah

7 hours...

Tucker slept for 7 hours straight in his kennel during the night...this is quite the feat! This means I actually got to sleep, for the most part, the entire night :) Woohoo!!


I have the day off from work today, and it's beautiful outside, makes me want summer to be here so I can be out on the lake. I think that if I could choose to do one thing for the rest of my life, it would be laying in the sun out on the lake.....Heaven. That is until I remember that there are fish swimming around with me. For those of you that don't know...besides flying, fish are one of my biggest fears. Why you ask? I really don't know...most fears are irrational I think. But the thought of some slimy creature just swimming up next to me and taking a big bite out of my toe....not the most enchanting of thoughts. It's actually more common than you think, I've read a few stories of fish biting people. Word to the wise, look out for the Muskies...they are the meanest of the underwater creatures that lurk in lakes. Eventually I get over it and can spend hours swimming in the lake. If you just give me a few minutes to sit on the side of the boat and psych myself up (which my Dad never lets me do, but I think he learned his lesson many years back when not letting me have my time, resulted in one "ripping" catastrophy, which ended in me bawling, my sister crying, and my brand new suit ruined)...but that's a story for another time! Watch out White Bear Lake, I won't be fish food this Summer!

P.S. The picture below...precisely why swimming with the fish terrifies me...please find me one person that would like to be swimming and this thing brushes up next to them.







Anyways, I don't know how I got on the tanget of fish! Now onto the rest of my day...a few errands, maybe taking Tuck for a walk with my brother...aww the many relaxing possibilities. I have to enjoy it now because in 2 weeks my wedding season starts and I will be working far too much!


"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." ~Mignon McLaughlin

New Beginnings :)

Well, I finally joined the world of blogging thanks to my best friend Abbey! It's kind of a miracle I figured out how to do this on my own actually (as I usually need her technological help for most everything involving computers). I tend to have some crazy/weird/wonderful experiences that go on in my life, so I thought I would use this as outlet to let all the people I love and care about know what's going on, as I can never tell the story as good twice :) So if this completely bores you, makes you want to gauge your eyes out (I apologize if this every happens, I hope my life is never that boring), makes you laugh, or makes you smile, at least I added some part of "something" to your day! So this is the story of my life...every crazy, emotional, hilarious, dramatic, inspirational and real part of my every day world :)

Ok, enough of the intro. So I've been told many a times that I'm crazy (mostly for just getting my 7 week old golden retriever puppy, and mostly by my parents, haha), but I think that being a little crazy adds a little spice to life. So far the adventure with Tucker has been, well let's say...energetic! He's definitely got some spunk, especially when wanting to chew my shoes. But so far he's been a really good dog (thanks to the help of my Mom for keeping him the last week and helping to train him while I was at work). Now he's finally made it to his permanent home at my place and he's slowly adjusting. I did however wake up to him humping his toy skunk in his kennel this morning....oh boy the hormones of a boy are kicking in...how am I ever going to have a son???

Anyways, I hope everyone has a blessed Sunday, Tuck and I are off to his first vet appointment :)


"life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances, you just have to live life to the fullest. laugh as much as you can, spend all your money, tell someone what they mean to you, tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someones hand, comfort a friend, pig out, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, smile till your face hurts, dont be afraid to take chances or fall in love...& most of all live in the moment cause when you look back someday knowing you have no regrets it's gonna be what makes you smile"