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.
Friday, April 2, 2010
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.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Winter 2008
It isn't even to the end of December yet and we have already had one snow before this that didn't accumulate to much. It is now two weeks later and we are having blizzardous weather. I didnt' have to go to work today because when I woke up there was already 6 inches of snow on the ground. It is falling heavy and fast. There is now about a foot maybe more on the ground and it is still hammering down. It is about one o clock in the afternoon.
I was excited at first, but now I am just getting kinda bored being stuck at the house. I am getting a lot done, although I wish that I could be spending time with Matt. He is out plowing in the skid loader, and I am unable to go with him.... It would be quite the uncomfortable ride, as well as he is very busy, and I'd probably be more bored with him, but at least I wouldn't be missing him. He came in last night at about 11 o clock and he got about three hours of sleep, before waking up at two in the morning to go out and plow. I heard him start his truck up and it must have taken him a while to get the snow off his truck, because it seemed to take forever before he began to pull out of the driveway. I slept in till around 8 this morning almost. I have prepared some rice a roni and some alredo noodles ahead of time incase the power goes out soon, which is expected to happen. I am also charging up the camera and cell phone.
It is so hard just sitting at the house and waiting for the chance to see Matt. The last time that I called him he picked up and hung up. I know that he is really busy, and I felt bad calling, but I guess I was just trying to find a way to bribe him into coming to my house when he is done plowing. I know that easier thing for him to do would be to go to his house because it is right in leesburg, when he is finished plowing for madigan... And he has to wake up and go to work for the county in the morning at 8 o clock. So it would be really out of his way to come out here to be with me. I wish that it were simple, but it's not on snowy days like today.
I wish that my car were able to move, and that the roads were cleared. Haha, but then I guess that I'd be at work today then. I just wish that I had a way to get to Matt's house somehow, but that's just another one of those things that isn't really possile right now either. I brushed the snow off mine and my mom's car. They are already covered again probably. I went out a few minutes ago to the car to see if I could find the rest of Katie's holiday present, but no such luck with that, I did however find a dollar bill laying by the passenger seat. I am pondering over whose doller it might be, and as to how mad they would be if they knew that I found it and were keeping it. O well, it is only a doller.
Sport doesn't seem too happy about the snow, he has just been sitting on the back of his chair in the living room, hastily looking out in a mopey way. Poor guy can't walk around that good in the snow, so he can't really have that much fun outside in these conditions. He probably also wishes that Matt were here spending some time with us. He loves Matt too. I think that sport and I feel the same way right now.
Mom and I have just been cleaning and cleaning away and trying to get things done before the snow gets too too bad. But I think that I am about to run out of things to do. Thank goodness Matt just called me. He is getting off with madigan now. He worked ten hourd with them. Now he is going to his house to get some sleep, he said that he might wake up and come out to my house after he gets a couple hours of rest... but I don't imagine that happening. I'm going to be lonely for the next day or two.
I was excited at first, but now I am just getting kinda bored being stuck at the house. I am getting a lot done, although I wish that I could be spending time with Matt. He is out plowing in the skid loader, and I am unable to go with him.... It would be quite the uncomfortable ride, as well as he is very busy, and I'd probably be more bored with him, but at least I wouldn't be missing him. He came in last night at about 11 o clock and he got about three hours of sleep, before waking up at two in the morning to go out and plow. I heard him start his truck up and it must have taken him a while to get the snow off his truck, because it seemed to take forever before he began to pull out of the driveway. I slept in till around 8 this morning almost. I have prepared some rice a roni and some alredo noodles ahead of time incase the power goes out soon, which is expected to happen. I am also charging up the camera and cell phone.
It is so hard just sitting at the house and waiting for the chance to see Matt. The last time that I called him he picked up and hung up. I know that he is really busy, and I felt bad calling, but I guess I was just trying to find a way to bribe him into coming to my house when he is done plowing. I know that easier thing for him to do would be to go to his house because it is right in leesburg, when he is finished plowing for madigan... And he has to wake up and go to work for the county in the morning at 8 o clock. So it would be really out of his way to come out here to be with me. I wish that it were simple, but it's not on snowy days like today.
I wish that my car were able to move, and that the roads were cleared. Haha, but then I guess that I'd be at work today then. I just wish that I had a way to get to Matt's house somehow, but that's just another one of those things that isn't really possile right now either. I brushed the snow off mine and my mom's car. They are already covered again probably. I went out a few minutes ago to the car to see if I could find the rest of Katie's holiday present, but no such luck with that, I did however find a dollar bill laying by the passenger seat. I am pondering over whose doller it might be, and as to how mad they would be if they knew that I found it and were keeping it. O well, it is only a doller.
Sport doesn't seem too happy about the snow, he has just been sitting on the back of his chair in the living room, hastily looking out in a mopey way. Poor guy can't walk around that good in the snow, so he can't really have that much fun outside in these conditions. He probably also wishes that Matt were here spending some time with us. He loves Matt too. I think that sport and I feel the same way right now.
Mom and I have just been cleaning and cleaning away and trying to get things done before the snow gets too too bad. But I think that I am about to run out of things to do. Thank goodness Matt just called me. He is getting off with madigan now. He worked ten hourd with them. Now he is going to his house to get some sleep, he said that he might wake up and come out to my house after he gets a couple hours of rest... but I don't imagine that happening. I'm going to be lonely for the next day or two.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Love is forever
My mother inherited my grandmothers jewlrey and I was entitled to have some of whatever she had. Granny had the bare minimun when it came to jewlry. Not even a diamond ring existed in her jewlry box. It was a shock, as well as an eye opener for me. I do have my heart set on one day recieving a diamond from the man that I love, as the symbol of our committment and our lasting love for eachother. I just never imagined my grandmother accepting less for herself. Their marriage lasted 53 years, and a diamond ring didn't keep it together. It was based on something that was completely natural and true. The love didn't need a symbol to be seen by both partners, nor by anyone else. I admire that of the both my grandmother and grandfather. I hope that I will have the same strength in my relationship with my husband one day.
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