Romantic Sweetheart Neckline Floral Ball Gown Tea Length Wedding Dress
I absolutely love this dress it is amazing. 159.00 on zoom bridals.
ITEM# ZBB01152
http://zoombridal.com/zbb01145.html?___store=english
another one from zoom bridal that is 159.00. I dont like quite as much as the first one, it is more over done.
ITEM# ZBB01145
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
OMGG
WOWW! Matt proposed to me christmas morning 2010!! 5 days before I am 21. I really thought that he would make me wait a long time for the ring, or to propose. I am so excited and happy it is unbelievable.
I think that we are making some progress trying to decide what we want to do. I still want a white dress, and I still want a preecher, and I still want ONE day to celebrate US.. And I think that every part of that is comprimisable to certain things that he wants. I know that he doesnt want to have to wear a suit or rent a tux. the more simple it is, the easier, and more enjoyable that it will end up being for him. I can understand that.
I think that we have agreed that having it at the pond would be a great idea for us. I love the gazabo and i would love to have it right there-- with the beautiful trees and everything. I am excited about having such a nice location and area down at the pond that i have realized that I like so much. it would just need a few decorations to be able to turn it into something out of a magazine. We both want a small ceremony, with just our CLOSEST family and possibly some very close friends like ashleigh and whoever matt would really like to be there. Those are some of the things that we really need to get clairified. After the ceremony at the pond, then I'd like to have the BIG party/reception up at my house and then everyone who wants to come can join us to celebrate!
I still want to send out invitations for the reception party, especially to the family and friends who I really want to have show up.
The dress:: I am thinking not over 100.00 maybe?? I want something that fits great, i dont care where I get it... and I want it to be comfortable to wear all day long.
I am super stoked to be wearing a simple beautiful ring from someone with a beautiful heart who I am looking so much forward to spending the rest of my life with!!
I think that we are making some progress trying to decide what we want to do. I still want a white dress, and I still want a preecher, and I still want ONE day to celebrate US.. And I think that every part of that is comprimisable to certain things that he wants. I know that he doesnt want to have to wear a suit or rent a tux. the more simple it is, the easier, and more enjoyable that it will end up being for him. I can understand that.
I think that we have agreed that having it at the pond would be a great idea for us. I love the gazabo and i would love to have it right there-- with the beautiful trees and everything. I am excited about having such a nice location and area down at the pond that i have realized that I like so much. it would just need a few decorations to be able to turn it into something out of a magazine. We both want a small ceremony, with just our CLOSEST family and possibly some very close friends like ashleigh and whoever matt would really like to be there. Those are some of the things that we really need to get clairified. After the ceremony at the pond, then I'd like to have the BIG party/reception up at my house and then everyone who wants to come can join us to celebrate!
I still want to send out invitations for the reception party, especially to the family and friends who I really want to have show up.
The dress:: I am thinking not over 100.00 maybe?? I want something that fits great, i dont care where I get it... and I want it to be comfortable to wear all day long.
I am super stoked to be wearing a simple beautiful ring from someone with a beautiful heart who I am looking so much forward to spending the rest of my life with!!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Cushion VS Radiant
This is really what I like about the radiant "crushed ice" look. I prefer this look to the well collected looking cut that there is also avail.
I googled "crushed ice" look for a diamond. and Am getting some pictures that come up to show what that means.
I do not like the way that this chart shows the radiant. It looks more like a princess cut to me in this chard. And i would prefer the cushion to the radiant that they are showing on this chart. This is what I am having a hard time understanding. Why and how do the radiant cuts look different when they are the same cut??
I am just having trouble creating a way to compare the radiant and the cushion. This is a pretty clear chart that shows the distinction between the two different cuts. There was also a "chopped ice" look, or the "chunky" look to the diamonds. I prefer more of the "chopped ice" look like in the radiant in this picture.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Almost 21
So, lately I have been thinking a lot about the future, my goals, what I want in the rest of my life. I have decided to start working towards an associates degree in radiography. I will start by doing my general education requirements at FCC and then once I am done, go on to hagerstown community college to do their 2 yr program. I am excited about the oppertunities and doors that this will open for me later on in life. I am hopeing that maybe during the program I will also be able to attain some medical experience at some point and be able to get a good job as soon as I have completed the program.
It is mid december now. Looking forward to my 21st birthday on the 30th. I have looked around at some different jewelry stores and what not. I dont think that white and ivory would be the place to buy. I dont think that colonial is the correct thing that is the LIFETIME piece that I am looking for, no matter how much I did love that ring. I am not going to settle for a fake diamond, that is neither a life time piece that I desire.
Matt said that he got a credit card and activated it and he will be able to go and purchase a diamnd engagement ring. so WOW, I really did NOT expect this-- and I am very suprised and looking forward to it. I am going to just let matt pick it out I believe. I will try to let him know one more time what it is that he should focus on when going into the store. I don't really care about the setting. I would like to have just a plain solitaire setting and then I want him to do the honors of picking out the diamond for me. I think that he will do a great job at that! and I believe that he is the one purchasing the ring, so he should have the honors of making the decisions about it, unless he really doesnt want to. There are a lot of really nice bands that I could put with it, i'd like to find something cheap but something antique looking to pair with whatever solitaire engagement ring that he will get for me. That is the best part about the solitaire... LIKE i have no idea what I REALLY want right now as far as setting goes, so later on down the road in like 5 years I can pick out my semimount and keep my beautiful diamond that matt gets for me. And ANY band will go with the plain solitaire setting. So I think the plain/classic ring styles will suit us the best.
When matt told me that he got the credit card to get the ring, it almost felt like he was asking me to marry him right there on the spot. I got this feeling in my stomach, my face, my hands and legs that I dont think could ever be met by any other feeling. It was as though my brain were fireing impulses, like it were jumping for joy inside. So I can't wait for the moment when he does propose. No matter how many times i may invision it or think it all through, I will not be able to predit that feeling until the time that it comes.
So for now-- Matt and I have talked just briefly about how we would like to get married. I had once thought of having a wedding at Georges Mill bed and breakfast in lovettsville. That would have been perfect, but would have been more costly then I think either one of us would have wanted. I can understand his desire to save money, and to not spend it on a big shindig that is just one day that we will blow a whole bunch of money on. I completely agree. But my parents would be more than willing to help me have a ceremony-- they would probably pay for anything that i asked them to, but what I have come up with seems to have a light budget with it.
The gazabo at the pond would b the most perfect place to have the ceremony. I am thinking like 25-35 people attending the ceremony and then have an after party at my house. I could just buy a nice white dress somewhere for like 100.00 and then matt can wear his nice clothes. NOT make it a HUGE big deal, but make it memorable-- for us and for some of our most closest family or friends.
It is mid december now. Looking forward to my 21st birthday on the 30th. I have looked around at some different jewelry stores and what not. I dont think that white and ivory would be the place to buy. I dont think that colonial is the correct thing that is the LIFETIME piece that I am looking for, no matter how much I did love that ring. I am not going to settle for a fake diamond, that is neither a life time piece that I desire.
Matt said that he got a credit card and activated it and he will be able to go and purchase a diamnd engagement ring. so WOW, I really did NOT expect this-- and I am very suprised and looking forward to it. I am going to just let matt pick it out I believe. I will try to let him know one more time what it is that he should focus on when going into the store. I don't really care about the setting. I would like to have just a plain solitaire setting and then I want him to do the honors of picking out the diamond for me. I think that he will do a great job at that! and I believe that he is the one purchasing the ring, so he should have the honors of making the decisions about it, unless he really doesnt want to. There are a lot of really nice bands that I could put with it, i'd like to find something cheap but something antique looking to pair with whatever solitaire engagement ring that he will get for me. That is the best part about the solitaire... LIKE i have no idea what I REALLY want right now as far as setting goes, so later on down the road in like 5 years I can pick out my semimount and keep my beautiful diamond that matt gets for me. And ANY band will go with the plain solitaire setting. So I think the plain/classic ring styles will suit us the best.
When matt told me that he got the credit card to get the ring, it almost felt like he was asking me to marry him right there on the spot. I got this feeling in my stomach, my face, my hands and legs that I dont think could ever be met by any other feeling. It was as though my brain were fireing impulses, like it were jumping for joy inside. So I can't wait for the moment when he does propose. No matter how many times i may invision it or think it all through, I will not be able to predit that feeling until the time that it comes.
So for now-- Matt and I have talked just briefly about how we would like to get married. I had once thought of having a wedding at Georges Mill bed and breakfast in lovettsville. That would have been perfect, but would have been more costly then I think either one of us would have wanted. I can understand his desire to save money, and to not spend it on a big shindig that is just one day that we will blow a whole bunch of money on. I completely agree. But my parents would be more than willing to help me have a ceremony-- they would probably pay for anything that i asked them to, but what I have come up with seems to have a light budget with it.
The gazabo at the pond would b the most perfect place to have the ceremony. I am thinking like 25-35 people attending the ceremony and then have an after party at my house. I could just buy a nice white dress somewhere for like 100.00 and then matt can wear his nice clothes. NOT make it a HUGE big deal, but make it memorable-- for us and for some of our most closest family or friends.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ring at Colonial Jewelers
Wow, georgeous right?!? I am in love with this ring, and all of the benifits except that they do not take care of the ring free of charge after you purchase it there. The price is right, it is actually on sale from 2,800 to 2,400... and possibly if we went in there, that they would drop the price lower?? I almost feel like the psycho girlfriend about this ring, where I want it so bad that I have set it to my sesktop background on my computer and my cell phone.
One thing that I wish that I had was the support from my family and his family that we should get married. I am just not sure-- I know that his sister christi would love to see us married. I dont know about his mom anymore though, because she has seen the way that his drinking and his behavoir have done me wrong. My mom has also seen the same. My mom does not understand how I stay with him, which might explain that I really love him and I pray that he will realize that I am his best friend and treat me accordingly. I can't explain how great it is for me to just be with him and feel content. The past couple of weeks I have been able to deal with a lot of stress and I think that I did so very well. I feel like I have a sort of confidence in our relationship.
I asked him when we were getting married on sat night. He said soon. So.... lol lets go get our rings!!!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ceremony
Matt has said that he doesnt want to have a big wedding or anything. He said that he just wants it to be a casual thing and he just cares if his mom and sister are there, and my mom and dad. I'd like to have more people there than that.
Even though he doesnt want to have a big wedding or anything, I think that I'd still like to have a get together at my house with some food and drinks and set up some tables and decorations and get married infront of the lilac bush or something?? Or out in the dront yard by my grandmas tree that we have planted there. We dont need to have seats for people, and I don't need to have a dress or anything. It could all be casual, but I do want a preecher. I need to start thinking of people who are able to marry us I guess.
I said that we could wait until I am finished with school and get a job and everything, and he says that he wants to be married before all of that. I dont really know what to think, I'd like to have a little bit of time to plan something for myself. I want like close family and friends to come and just have a really good time together. I think that it would be awesome. I don't care what time of the year we have it in or anything. We could also just go to the court house and have the justice of the peacce marry us and that is free of charge, you just have to pay for you marriage liscense. And then we could come back to my house and have the party there, That way I dont really have to even stress about time management or anything like that. we could get married a couple days before we have the get together, or whatever. I dont really care.
I emailed colonial jewlers about the ring so I am waiting to hear back from them about that.
Even though he doesnt want to have a big wedding or anything, I think that I'd still like to have a get together at my house with some food and drinks and set up some tables and decorations and get married infront of the lilac bush or something?? Or out in the dront yard by my grandmas tree that we have planted there. We dont need to have seats for people, and I don't need to have a dress or anything. It could all be casual, but I do want a preecher. I need to start thinking of people who are able to marry us I guess.
I said that we could wait until I am finished with school and get a job and everything, and he says that he wants to be married before all of that. I dont really know what to think, I'd like to have a little bit of time to plan something for myself. I want like close family and friends to come and just have a really good time together. I think that it would be awesome. I don't care what time of the year we have it in or anything. We could also just go to the court house and have the justice of the peacce marry us and that is free of charge, you just have to pay for you marriage liscense. And then we could come back to my house and have the party there, That way I dont really have to even stress about time management or anything like that. we could get married a couple days before we have the get together, or whatever. I dont really care.
I emailed colonial jewlers about the ring so I am waiting to hear back from them about that.
I finally saw a moissanite
So I visited Ultra Diamonds in the outlet mall in Leesburg Virginia today and I saw a moissanite diamond stone. It was visably a more greenish and grayish color than real diamond. The weight for some reason felt like it was much lighter than a traditional ring, and they were set in 14k gold. I did not like the settings that they had there, and they really weren't that much cheaper than the diamond options. I would be able to get a much larger stone, but the color of the moissanite was definiatily enough to make me think twice. I would still consider it, just depending on what Matt would want to do. They said that Moissanite was just as hard as diamond and it would last like a diamond would. I asked them if there were other better options as far as colorless goes available, and they said that they thought that all the moissanite would have that color in it.
So I have been looking around at the different jewelry stores.
The perfect ring that I want right now is at Colonial Jewlers in downtown frederick. I might just email them to make sure that they still have it available and see if they could order if if they do not have it in stock anymore. Also I might ask them about christmas sales and if they could do anything with the price around the winter time? The beauty of this ring surpassed all the other rings of that same style that I had looked at, and the price was less than those not as nice ones that I saw at other jewlry stores at the mall. Price was $2,800 but the woman said that they weer able to work with the price and could go down to $2,500. The only concern that I have with this ring, is that they do not offer free iridum plateing and things like that, like Kettermans does when you purchase the ring from them.
Kettermans had one ring, which I think is too large for my likeing, and it was above the price range that I am willing to have anyone spend on me.
There are a lot of other options that are available out there, not which are as nice as the ring that I saw at Colonial Jewlers. I shopped around the mall and the stores have good prices, although quality would be an issue for me. Finks is a beautiful store, although prices are too high, and the settings alone are around 3,000 and the guy said that a half CT would cost around $1,500. It would be a wonderful ring to have, but I think that it is too much money. I'd rather just have the other ring from colonial than have to order a diamond and worry about spending that much money.
So I have been looking around at the different jewelry stores.
The perfect ring that I want right now is at Colonial Jewlers in downtown frederick. I might just email them to make sure that they still have it available and see if they could order if if they do not have it in stock anymore. Also I might ask them about christmas sales and if they could do anything with the price around the winter time? The beauty of this ring surpassed all the other rings of that same style that I had looked at, and the price was less than those not as nice ones that I saw at other jewlry stores at the mall. Price was $2,800 but the woman said that they weer able to work with the price and could go down to $2,500. The only concern that I have with this ring, is that they do not offer free iridum plateing and things like that, like Kettermans does when you purchase the ring from them.
Kettermans had one ring, which I think is too large for my likeing, and it was above the price range that I am willing to have anyone spend on me.
There are a lot of other options that are available out there, not which are as nice as the ring that I saw at Colonial Jewlers. I shopped around the mall and the stores have good prices, although quality would be an issue for me. Finks is a beautiful store, although prices are too high, and the settings alone are around 3,000 and the guy said that a half CT would cost around $1,500. It would be a wonderful ring to have, but I think that it is too much money. I'd rather just have the other ring from colonial than have to order a diamond and worry about spending that much money.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Diamond Substitutions
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This is the ring that I want right now that is a moissanite:
It was listed on Ebay for $1,499.00 with free shipping.
They design custom rings.
Also I could go to a reg jewelry store and pick out a setting that I like that is affordable and then just add in a Moissanite center stone instead of a regular diamond. You can purchase the lifetime warrenty Moissanite from a dealer names CHARLES & Colvard, apparently some kohls stores and jcpenny stores are carrying his line of moissanite gems at this time. There are also some other jewlery stores listed on his site that offer the product.
Wagon Wheel, WV-- 4wheeling trip
Picture of me and Amanda Beall on top of hill climb-- it was so windey up there
The time of my life. Going back in May this year. Can't wait. hope to get 4wheeler by time of next trip otherwise i wont have anything to ride. Id like to get 400ex or something equiv. to that maybe a little quicker but i dnt know.
It was a great time, there are no rules about what you can and can't do. we stayed in motel. My first time ever being in motel. lol. But I had such a great time . we rode total of 240 miles over three days of riding and never hit same trails. All through the mountains. There were some really neat places. I CAN'T wait to go back in the spring!
Some of the trails were just amazing with wonderful views. It was almost romantic if there would have been time to just sit back and relax and look off the side of the trails and gaze at the views, but when riding I really had to watch where I was going. Another place that i'd like to visit is new river gorge. I went there when I was younger but I feel like now that I am older I might be able to enjoy it a little more? I will do some research on it and find out if there any fun things that you can do while you are there. There are all kinds of pics of base jumpers jumping off the gorge bridge, and there are some falls somewhere that you can go to. I think that It would be nice for like me and amanda arboghast and cliff and matt or another couple.
Going Back
This mush is where I like to stop pile everything that I like together. I was almost planning on getting married this comming september, of course it is the month of september now. I was hopeing that maybe last winter my boyfriend would have gotten me a ring, but It still hasn't happened yet.
I have gone through the internet and looked at things that I like and I have visited jewlrey stores, but I dont think that he will get me anything that I like and I don't think that he cares. I don't really even care, but it would be nice, since he's never gotten anything for me to think that he would go out of his way a little bit and he would want to show me how much it means to him. I don't care if he goes to the pawn shop or where he gets something, I just wish that he would give me the chance to tell him what I'd like or not like, and that way I dont end up wearing a ring that I do not like. HA, it is funny to me to even think about this anymore, but logging into this site makes me kinda feel bad about it. This is just like an archive of all the stuff that Ive found that I do like, and when i do shop online and stuff like that I look for inexpencive items that would be do0able.
anyway. Things are about 90% right now with matt. They are much much better then what they used to be. I dont know why. He knows that I've been waiting for a ring and stuff. My mom pointed something out to me the other day, that if he wanted to do something nice for me or get me something nice then he would have to ask his mom for money to do that, because she is in control of all of the money. Also, he is alwayssssss going to have HIS stuff that he WANTS and is WORKING on and buying. His 4wheelers and his trucks... it is a never ending thing. It reminds me of my dad, which has never bothered me, because my mom has always baught everything for me that i've wanted when i was younger, like the cell phones and the computers and the jewelry and the cars she has helped me buy and just a never ending list. My dad helped my buy a dirtbike, but that is in the same category as his woodsplitter and his toys that he uses while working. It is an investment for him and I am glad that he does all of the things that he does for himself to stay busy, but it does remind me of how matt is, a lot of his money goes towards just stuff for themselves.
I don't like to crituque things like that, it doesnt really bother me that much that my dad is like that, i am glad that he has the money to do things for himself. and he is the one who is doing the work so he deserves everything that he has.
I just wish that matt could be like okay, I will get you a diamond ring and we can be engaged and then When you finish with your schooling and we both are set up with full time jobs then we can get married. I don't see whats wrong with that. I hate thinking that he says he wants me to be the mother of his kids and then I feel like the only real way that he will be alright with giving up his childhish ways and his iresponsibilities is if i accidentially get knocked up. It wouldnt just be a choice that he'd like to make, and be like okay I AM READY and i'd like to have kids now. I wish that he did a little more of living life like that, but i don't think it is really in his nature to do things that way.
So I don't know, I will keep in mind some rings that I have seen. I think that my FAVORITE one that i've seen was at the jewelry store in down town frederick md called capital jewelers. It was a three stone ring, which i always had said that I didnt like and then what do u know, I see a ring that I LOVE which is already set up with real diamonds and everything in it. 14k white gold but i dont really care. It looked like the picture off the the right hand side that I have copied and pasted. I forget where I found this picture, But I will continue looking for rings that look like this. Some of the sites call them "halo" rings, so I guess I could use that when I do my searches. I like the "antique halo" style.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Simon G Jewelry Designer Engagement Rings & Fashion Jewelry - MR1677
Simon G Jewelry Designer Engagement Rings & Fashion Jewelry - MR1677
MY FAVORITE but i might want something a little larger
MY FAVORITE but i might want something a little larger
Simon G Jewelry Designer Engagement Rings & Fashion Jewelry - TR387
Simon G Jewelry Designer Engagement Rings & Fashion Jewelry - TR387
a little bit different of a style than what I had liked before. The original one that I liked by simon is still my favorite though but I actually am not as perticular anymore.
a little bit different of a style than what I had liked before. The original one that I liked by simon is still my favorite though but I actually am not as perticular anymore.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
1827 by Casablanca Bridal - Casablanca Bridal Wedding Dresses - Casablanca Bridal Wedding Dress
1827 by Casablanca Bridal - Casablanca Bridal Wedding Dresses - Casablanca Bridal Wedding Dress
I really like this dress bc of the lace and the figure. I think that the lace pattern as well as the color would really adhear to the rustic theme.
I really like this dress bc of the lace and the figure. I think that the lace pattern as well as the color would really adhear to the rustic theme.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Raegan - by Maggie Sottero
Raegan - by Maggie Sottero
Like this one a lot. Love the fabric and the way that it looks flowing. second favorite out of all
Like this one a lot. Love the fabric and the way that it looks flowing. second favorite out of all
Poppy - by Maggie Sottero
Poppy - by Maggie Sottero
love the lace fabric here as well as the straps. the entire dress says vintage and old fashioned at its best for the occasion.
I want to have a Rustic Country themed reception. So these top few dresses would fit that the best.
love the lace fabric here as well as the straps. the entire dress says vintage and old fashioned at its best for the occasion.
I want to have a Rustic Country themed reception. So these top few dresses would fit that the best.
Hampton - by Maggie Sottero
Hampton - by Maggie Sottero
like this one more than the previous post. like the way the embellishment is scattered more through out the dress and like the neckline and straps more.
like this one more than the previous post. like the way the embellishment is scattered more through out the dress and like the neckline and straps more.
Emery - by Maggie Sottero
Emery - by Maggie Sottero
Matt and I have planned to have our wedding Sept. 2011. I think that we will both be ready by then. I have a lot of planning to do later on, but for now I think that I have the most important things lined up.
I want to have the wedding at Georges Mill bed and breakfast. ceremony under the tree by the pond.
Going to have bbq theme, and cook pig and have relaxed feel at the receptionist
thinking of having the colors dark purple and a burnt orange
Matt and I have planned to have our wedding Sept. 2011. I think that we will both be ready by then. I have a lot of planning to do later on, but for now I think that I have the most important things lined up.
I want to have the wedding at Georges Mill bed and breakfast. ceremony under the tree by the pond.
Going to have bbq theme, and cook pig and have relaxed feel at the receptionist
thinking of having the colors dark purple and a burnt orange
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Short Time
Matt and I have been together, like in a relationship together for just about two years. Things are great in our relationship at this point; I am not going to lie, we have been through our share of struggles.
Marriage has been on my mind for quite a while now, and it's not like I want to get married tomorrow or anything, which he acuses me of "being like". My mom simply just wants me to find out if he wants to get married, and if so then when and how.... are we going to have a wedding or what? Like I told my mom, if he isn't willing to have a wedding, and have one day of celebration then it's not even worth me spending the rest of my life with that person. I mean that.... So I am just trying to get an answer out of him before I keep wasteing my time being miss housewife and secret wedding planner. I feel like I am hopeing for something that will never happen, and making out all these different plans and getting myself all excited for no reason because I dont think that it is a matter of when it may happen but if ever. By the way that matt acts whenever I try to talk to him he makes it seem like that I have a knife to his neck and are threatning him. He jumps to the gun and gets all irriatable and pissy, which I REALLY dont see as a good sign at all. So I mean, I feel as though things are still up in the air, and I would like to bring them back down. I need to try to talk to him again, but maybe try a different approach. I dont care, nor really want to get married REALLY soon, or have a wedding any time SOON. I would like it to be maybe Next Sept. which is over a year and a half away, almost two years. He's not excited about any of this at all, and we don't talk about us spending the rest of our lives together anymore. He kinda just assumes by him telling me that he loves me and spending every night with me is enough, well that certainly is wonderful, but it is getting old bc I was expecting for us to move a lot faster with this relationship thing. I feel like we have been stuck in the same spot for quite a long time, and I am really getting tired of just waiting around for him to make the next move, and it is a really bad sign for me when I try to talk to him about things that he just like blows up about it. I am at a loss for things to do... I am afraid to talk to him about this anymore, even though I really would like to have some closure to the topic. He said last night that he "thinks about it all the time"... and i told him that "I just wished that he would talk to me and tell me what he is thinking"
Marriage has been on my mind for quite a while now, and it's not like I want to get married tomorrow or anything, which he acuses me of "being like". My mom simply just wants me to find out if he wants to get married, and if so then when and how.... are we going to have a wedding or what? Like I told my mom, if he isn't willing to have a wedding, and have one day of celebration then it's not even worth me spending the rest of my life with that person. I mean that.... So I am just trying to get an answer out of him before I keep wasteing my time being miss housewife and secret wedding planner. I feel like I am hopeing for something that will never happen, and making out all these different plans and getting myself all excited for no reason because I dont think that it is a matter of when it may happen but if ever. By the way that matt acts whenever I try to talk to him he makes it seem like that I have a knife to his neck and are threatning him. He jumps to the gun and gets all irriatable and pissy, which I REALLY dont see as a good sign at all. So I mean, I feel as though things are still up in the air, and I would like to bring them back down. I need to try to talk to him again, but maybe try a different approach. I dont care, nor really want to get married REALLY soon, or have a wedding any time SOON. I would like it to be maybe Next Sept. which is over a year and a half away, almost two years. He's not excited about any of this at all, and we don't talk about us spending the rest of our lives together anymore. He kinda just assumes by him telling me that he loves me and spending every night with me is enough, well that certainly is wonderful, but it is getting old bc I was expecting for us to move a lot faster with this relationship thing. I feel like we have been stuck in the same spot for quite a long time, and I am really getting tired of just waiting around for him to make the next move, and it is a really bad sign for me when I try to talk to him about things that he just like blows up about it. I am at a loss for things to do... I am afraid to talk to him about this anymore, even though I really would like to have some closure to the topic. He said last night that he "thinks about it all the time"... and i told him that "I just wished that he would talk to me and tell me what he is thinking"
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Slow Snow Days
Right now I am planning out all of the little things that I need to get done before the snow gets too bad. Although during the last storm this past weekend, my house didn't lose power, and I was out plowing in Leesburg with Matt through the later part of the storm which laid down two and a half foot of snow. It has been only a couple days after that storm, which caused most of leesburg to lose power, as well as both of my neighbors haven't had power since friday night, and it is now Tues.
The fitzgeralds who live behind me are going to go stay in a hotel. They had to go out to home depot last night to purchase a generator which only would power two of their heaters, which would make it so that their pipes in their house wouldnt freeze. I looked out the window and saw their whole family going out and getting in their cars to go to the hotel about an hour ago. I felt sorry for them, but at least they are all going to go out and take a shower. They haven't had the best of luck since they have lived here with certain things like that.
My other neighbors are really nice people, and my mom said that Polly, the lady called, and she just needed someone to bitch to, because they are so stressed out since their power has been out for the same amount of time. Unfortunately there is only so much that you can do to help your neighbors out in this situation.
So my sched at work has been cut back. I am only working three days a week now instead of four, and of course I get to work shitty days, such as Monday, Friday, and Sat... I dont understand what is going on. I am irritated about it, becuase I quit my other job at beekeepers so that I could put in more hours at Advance, and then we lost our store manager... Now we finally get a new one after months of waiting, and he's nice and everything, but.... I don't know, I guess I don't feel as appreciated as I did before when I was working there. I guess my importance in the workplace makes me want to work harder to prove my place. I need to motivate myself to be really cheerful and stuff like I had been for a while. I have had quite a lot of compliments from customers and from management at Advance, But I dont know why I haven't been as happy and satisfied lately working there. I have been looking for other jobs, and it seems like that since I told tower that I used him for a refrence things haven't been going so well. He tries to encourage me to work hard now and then it will pay off later, but when I already had been let down from dropping my other job when he told me to, and then that NOT paying off like I had thought that it would, even after all of my patience with everything, I am just not happy anymore, and yes, I would LOVE to find another job, even though I love everyone that I work with at Advance, I just don't really like working there all that much to want to work there a WHOLE heck of a lot... I am almost glad that my hours got cut, now i am able to think about doing things that I have been wanting to do for a while. I've been wanting to lease a horse and get some riding in.... and haven't been able to even like go see any horses becuase i have been so busy with work. Now i have found something That i thnk will really work out well for me and it is close by my house. it is a lease of a Warmblood horse, and it is very affordable for me. So maybe I will have the time that i need to be able to enjoy myself..... and that would also help me get some excersize, which it seems like i desperately need.
Not much else has really been going on. I am not looking forward to Valentines day, becuase I know that my boyfriend matt will forget about me again.
The fitzgeralds who live behind me are going to go stay in a hotel. They had to go out to home depot last night to purchase a generator which only would power two of their heaters, which would make it so that their pipes in their house wouldnt freeze. I looked out the window and saw their whole family going out and getting in their cars to go to the hotel about an hour ago. I felt sorry for them, but at least they are all going to go out and take a shower. They haven't had the best of luck since they have lived here with certain things like that.
My other neighbors are really nice people, and my mom said that Polly, the lady called, and she just needed someone to bitch to, because they are so stressed out since their power has been out for the same amount of time. Unfortunately there is only so much that you can do to help your neighbors out in this situation.
So my sched at work has been cut back. I am only working three days a week now instead of four, and of course I get to work shitty days, such as Monday, Friday, and Sat... I dont understand what is going on. I am irritated about it, becuase I quit my other job at beekeepers so that I could put in more hours at Advance, and then we lost our store manager... Now we finally get a new one after months of waiting, and he's nice and everything, but.... I don't know, I guess I don't feel as appreciated as I did before when I was working there. I guess my importance in the workplace makes me want to work harder to prove my place. I need to motivate myself to be really cheerful and stuff like I had been for a while. I have had quite a lot of compliments from customers and from management at Advance, But I dont know why I haven't been as happy and satisfied lately working there. I have been looking for other jobs, and it seems like that since I told tower that I used him for a refrence things haven't been going so well. He tries to encourage me to work hard now and then it will pay off later, but when I already had been let down from dropping my other job when he told me to, and then that NOT paying off like I had thought that it would, even after all of my patience with everything, I am just not happy anymore, and yes, I would LOVE to find another job, even though I love everyone that I work with at Advance, I just don't really like working there all that much to want to work there a WHOLE heck of a lot... I am almost glad that my hours got cut, now i am able to think about doing things that I have been wanting to do for a while. I've been wanting to lease a horse and get some riding in.... and haven't been able to even like go see any horses becuase i have been so busy with work. Now i have found something That i thnk will really work out well for me and it is close by my house. it is a lease of a Warmblood horse, and it is very affordable for me. So maybe I will have the time that i need to be able to enjoy myself..... and that would also help me get some excersize, which it seems like i desperately need.
Not much else has really been going on. I am not looking forward to Valentines day, becuase I know that my boyfriend matt will forget about me again.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
I have been looking at homes, mainly online. Matt and I have gone to look at two with a realator now, and one we just drove out to see for ourselves. We haven't found anything perfect yet. The one was 99K and it was WAY WAY too small!! Matt pointed out that there wouldnt even be a way for him to pull any one of his vehicles into the so called garrage. It had an overhang that was no more than 11 feet high and the overhang was held up by a metel pole. The inside of the home wasn't in that bad of condidion, considering that it was about 60 years old, if I am remembering correctly. The property needed a lot of fixing up, but the realator did say that we could get that house for a steal most likely. Once we were inside of the home, we knew that it wouldn't work for us. Matt is 6 foot and almost 4 inches tall, and his poor head was hitting the ceiling in most places in the house. The ceiling in the upper level was high, because there was a tiny loft. The hallway was the tightest squeeze you could imagine to get through, I guess either of us would be gaining any weight, and now I somehow understand how really fat people do get trapped in their homes. Just kidding. So we were off to the next house, which had a WONDERFUL location. I truely loved this home, but it wasn't in the best condition either. It was a Circa home, which I've always dreamed of living in. Located in Summit Point, on Hawthorne Rd. It was the last house all the way at the end of the street, and it was right next to hundreds of acres of open fields with a lil driveway cutting through it and on the edge of the property line were a row of apple trees. From the outside this entire thing looked too good to be true. We got into the house, and the rooms were GREAT BIG. I love older homes for this reason. My favotite things about the home were the double staircases and the "sleeping porch" they call it. It was off of one of the bed rooms, you walk through the bathroom which was off of the bedroom, and there was the little sleeping porch. Matt said that I can have those things put into a new home if we decide to go that route. The wall paper in all of the rooms of that house was peeling off. I didnt think that much of that set back, but there was only one tiny fireplace in the one living room/libary. Which that little thing definiately wouldnt have been enough heat or even leave a dent on the huge old house. It was gas heated, and gas is just too expencive. We would have to invest in some other heat source. The big fireplace in the kitchen was blocked off with cement. Which that was a major set back. I guess in the older homes it is hard to find them with the working fireplaces. I am not sure what the deal is about that, but I guess I could do some reasearch and find out? Maybe my grandfather would know. The other major set back was that matt said he went through the house and tried to flick on some of the lights here and there and he said that most of them didnt even work. Which hinted to him that there must be some really significant wireing and electrical problem, which I could also learn more about if I were to talk to someone who knows more than I do. I really loved the location of the home, and its lay out. The four bedrooms were just amazing. The back yard was fenced so that we could have big dogs. There were those draw backs though, which we had to say for now at least that its going to be a NO for that house. I am really hopeing to be able to find a home that offers the same things that I like, minus some of the things that we didn't so much like. And I am just going to believe that with a little patience and a lot of research and looking around, the perfect home will be found for us.
This whole process has made me kinda consider making some kind of investment business out of homes like this. Just think if we were able to do all that work ourselves, and we knew what to do. Then we could fix the problems that we didnt really like about the home and then turn it around and sell it for a LOT MORE than what we paid for it. I am not sure how all that works, but again, with some research I might really be able to make something like that work.
I also understand that Matt and I prob. wont be buying the house which we will live in forever. Hopefull if we buy at the right time, and then sell at the right time, we would have made enough money out of the home to be able to pu towards something better. I am not really looking for my dream home at this point. I am mainly looking for the bargin houses, that with a lot of time and work and some small investment money that we put into it that we could turn around then end up with a really cute home to live in, as well as hopefully make a little when we go to sell it.
Sounds to me like the home owners dream. But I do know a lot of people in my family, as well as friends of mine who were able to do this. I know that the market isnt that good right now for selling, but it sure is for buying. So with that in mind, and the fact that Matt and I aren't married and we don't have kids yet, we are able to live in conditions that wouldn't work if we did. We can also afford to be flexible and move and choose different areas, instead of just trying to stay in a certain school zone or something.
This whole process has made me kinda consider making some kind of investment business out of homes like this. Just think if we were able to do all that work ourselves, and we knew what to do. Then we could fix the problems that we didnt really like about the home and then turn it around and sell it for a LOT MORE than what we paid for it. I am not sure how all that works, but again, with some research I might really be able to make something like that work.
I also understand that Matt and I prob. wont be buying the house which we will live in forever. Hopefull if we buy at the right time, and then sell at the right time, we would have made enough money out of the home to be able to pu towards something better. I am not really looking for my dream home at this point. I am mainly looking for the bargin houses, that with a lot of time and work and some small investment money that we put into it that we could turn around then end up with a really cute home to live in, as well as hopefully make a little when we go to sell it.
Sounds to me like the home owners dream. But I do know a lot of people in my family, as well as friends of mine who were able to do this. I know that the market isnt that good right now for selling, but it sure is for buying. So with that in mind, and the fact that Matt and I aren't married and we don't have kids yet, we are able to live in conditions that wouldn't work if we did. We can also afford to be flexible and move and choose different areas, instead of just trying to stay in a certain school zone or something.
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