long time no see!

So after about a two month hiatus, I am back. Just in time for the holidays. Hope everyone has awesome Christmas parties to attend. and yes, that's right CHRISTMAS parties. I am not going to say "holiday' parties. I don't care if it isn't politically correct. It is correct to me and that's all that matters. I have already attended two Christmas parties and had an absolute blast at both. I have one more it is going to be a lot of fun. 10 girlfriends of mine are all getting a limo and going to eat and look at lights. Super excited!
I also have not finished my Christmas shopping and this makes me sad. I hate the mall around this time. It gives me anxiety.
On another note, I recently spent this past weekend with my long lost friend Sabrina. She lives in San Antonio so me and Natasha met her in Dallas. It was so great to catch up. It's weird how it never seems like time had passed when we get together. We got on the subject of jobs, careers, money, etc. We started talking about Dave Ramsey and other budgeting things and I told them how me and Kory do our money. Which is actually like how Dave Ramsey does it but we just don't use ALL cash. Which Dave does. So I tell them that me and Kory put all our money together and we pay our mortgage, bills, gas, and all that. And we both get paid twice a month, (sometimes three) basically every two weeks. And every paycheck we each take out 150 dollars for entertainment. That's it. So for a month he gets 300 and I get 300. Which does seem like a lot, EXCEPT...that is to cover all fast food, eating out, basically anything besides groceries, drinking, clothes, etc! Basically everything you buy that isn't a bill, medicine, shampoo, all that stuff is entertainment. Need a bottle of wine? Comes out of entertainment. Starbucks run? Entertainment. New jacket? you get the gist... So needless to say, it is pretty hard. But the flipside of that is you save a TON of money. If you limit your spending it's amazing what you can save or pay debt off with.I would say me and Kory make good money. I mean, we do. But we were constantly never having anything to show for it. We would spend until we were out. In just ONE month we saved enough for a 54'' inch flat screen and a brand new Xbox. In just one month! We also take whatever is left from our checking when we get paid and automatically put it into savings. If I have 200 and I get paid the next day that 200 is going into savings. Now, Kory has to keep me in check with all this stuff. I haven't always been the best with money. But it works. And I want you all to know that you don't have to make a lot to be able to save money! You just have to limit yourself. And definitely pay off debt. All the extra money you put away could be one less loan you have to pay every month. Or one less car payment. Give it a whirl and try it out! If you think 150 every two weeks is too low than try 250. Try whatever sounds good. I promise it will help you be more aware of the 7 dollar drink you just bought at starbucks.

Now I am not in any way saying we are money experts. Because we aren't. But we did take the Dave Ramsey financial peace class and it really did help. I recommend it to anyone!

Happy holidays! :) get that Christmas shopping done! (not on credit cards!) hehe

Kick the bucket

I was chatting with my Nana last week about random stuff and we got on the subject of bucket lists. I asked her if she ever made a bucket list and she said that she did everything on her bucket list she wanted except one thing, learning to play the piano. I told her it wasn't too late to learn but she just kind of laughed it off. Which it got me thinking about my bucket list. Which I have never actually fully thought about and written down. So today. I have decided to do so. Now some things on my bucket list I have already done. So I guess I will start with the things I have checked off my mental bucket list I had.

1) having the full college experience: me and my bff Natasha moved into the dorms right out of HS and did the whole college thing. The partying, the living on campus, the sporting events,  everything. And we even managed to survive and still come out with degrees. Awesome, right?
2) dressing up to a movie premiere: dorky I know, but when everyone dressed up for Star wars, pirates of the Caribbean and all that I always said I wanted to dress up crazy for a midnight showing. So I did for Harry Potter. It was awesome. Glad I did it!
3) bachelorette party in Vegas: it didn't have to be mine necessarily I just wanted to go for one. But just so happened to be mine. It was a total blast. I'm sure we will go again for someone else's bachelorette!
4) white water rafting: really this isn't that big of a deal to most people so probably wouldn't be on most peoples bucket lists, but I am terrified of water sports and activities. I am not a strong swimmer on top of that. So needless to say it was quite terrifying. But fun at the same time. Doubt I will do it again so just glad to say that I did it.

Now that's all I can think of that I can cross off. So here are the ones that I must do before I did.
WARNING: most are crazy random.

1) be a crazy dressed up NFL fan: I'm not that huge of a football fan. But I have this obsession with dressing like a crazy Oakland raiders fan and going nuts in the stands. I want the whole nine yards like the gear and face paint and weapons and everything. It will be wicked.
2) make it rain: like with money. Not actual rain. This doesn't necessarily mean I have to be super rich where I can make it rain in the clubs with Benjamin's. I just want like maybe 100 ones or something dumb and just walk up in some place and act crazy and make it rain. Just seems so awesome.
3) punch someone in the face: I know I have said this before and I know its just so dumb. But I need that feeling to know what its like. To just punch someone that you really just want to shut the heck up.
4) cruise to Italy, Rome, etc: its pretty expensive but I know it will be worth it. One day I have to see Germany, Italy, etc. Just have to. To lump all trips into one I also must see Hawaii and go to Disneyworld. Those two are musts as well.
5) dreamhouse: which doesn't have to be a mansion by any means, just a brand new nice house that has everything that I want. A house that no one else has lived in and made bad wall paint choices that you have to change when you move in!
6) ride a hot air balloon: this has been a dream of mine for a long time like since I was a kid. I will definitely make this happen. I just have to.
7) do the what happens in Vegas thing : for those of you who don't know what I'm talking bout, I'm talking about when her friend Tipper and that other guy go knock on Cameron Diazs ex and when he opens the door she just punches him in the balls. He looks up and says why? And they just say you know why!!!   Ah. I know a few people who deserve that.
8) run a half Marathon: which is happening in December! As hard as training is I know it will be such a great feeling. Now a full Marathon.  No thanks. I don't want to kick the bucket while trying to complete my bucket list.

That's all for now. I really have more. So maybe I will add more later. Have to go back to work. BARF.
Which I guess the last thing on my bucket list will be to have a job I love!

Laters y'all! Have a good Halloween. Me and Kory are going as Wayne and Garth from Wayne's world. I'm being Garth.

Schwing!!

why can't it always be the weekend?

This weekend was Race for the Cure. Which is a lot of fun! I used to go with cross country in high school a lot then went last year so had to go this time too! Our time was 29 minutes for a 5k which is really good time for us, so we were happy. Next stop, the Dallas White Rock Half Marathon in December. Which Natasha, Nicole, and I are SUPER excited about. Mostly excited about the cute little 13.1 sticker to put on my car. Which I will probably save for a better car since I don't want to put it on my falling apart Honda.

Also, it was my grandpas birthday. 85 years old! We celebrated him and his sisters birthday, which she is 88. It was good to get the family together, even if my mom does make us all take a million pictures.

Those were the only two huge events from this weekend and it still went by at super speed. It is completely impossible to make the weekend last. I don't even mind my job but I still mind the work week. I also mind waking up at 5:30, it really sucks. I still haven't gotten used to it. I need to find someway to make my current yearly salary without having to work. Impossible? Yes, unless I wanna do something illegal. Or unless I can get lucky and sell some brilliant idea. Which doesn't seem likely. Oh well.

Few exciting things:
* I am getting my eyes done in Nov. Finally. It's a very expensive form of LASIK and I can not wait to get it done!
* The Mexico group is planning a ski trip for January or Feb. Super excited. Kory has never skiied and I know he will love it.
* Sabrina and Karis are coming in Dec. and we are planning a Christmas party. Should be about 8 of us girls and I am pretty excited to party plan. Even though there is a chance Sabrina might come earlier than Dec! Hoping she does at least!

that's all folks. boring. sorry. I got on here all motivated for something inspiring and then got tired. Also, I successfully screwed up a recipe from Pinterest. Awesome.

And not spell checking this either!

Stay classy okc.

Uber cray cray

for no reason at all here is a list of things that lately I have thought are strange.

1. That everytime I see a nice little anti-bacterial soap dispenser it's always empty. I'm a huge Purell fan I get let down everytime. The YMCAs is always empty. The one at Hobby Lobby yesterday was empty too. and they always have this cute little message like "we care, sanitize your hands".  Care my butt!

2. That we are a country struggling with obesity but Taco Bell promotes 4th meal. Which I understand they are trying to make money so they don't care. But still shocks me we are acting like a 4th meal is a good thing! Some people def don't need that 4th meal chalupa.

3. The cupcake craze. Don't get me wrong. I sure love a good cupcake. Just weird that in the past year or two gourmet cupcake places have spread like rapid fire. I mean cupcakes have been around forever and all of a sudden there's a new twist to the cupcake and there are cupcake places everywhere you turn. Gigis, Sara Sara, pinkitzel, cupcake queen, etc. Sure do love cupcakes though.

4. That you can actually make a living off blogs. I know I wont be one of those people. But it's cool that you can be interesting enough to get ads and get paid for your internet thoughts and ideas. Thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com is a good one. She gets paid! Lucky girl. Just crazy to me people can have that as their job!

5. That we are still in this NBA lockout. It literally blows my mind that the owners and players that make millions and millions are fighting over more millions and millions. Forget all the money the NBA franchise will lose by cutting a season or all the people that work at the staples arena or cheasapeake arena that you are putting out of work. From what I understand the players get 57% of all revenue and owners want them to only get 43% so why not just do 50/50 and call it day. Thanks. THUNDER up!

6. That everything causes cancer. Literally everything. Just the other day on the news they said how multivitamins can be causing cancer. great! Now we got things that are supposed to be good for you killing us off. What's the world coming to?!

7. That with as much technology as we have and as much money as Cox has we still can only DVR two shows at the same time. And when they two are dvring (that a word?) You can't watch anything else. This drives me nuts. We don't even record that many shows but for some reason our Wednesday night TV is packed. So if you do happen to be home you have to watch one of the shows that's recording. lame! At&t is better but we can't get it in our area. Sad day.

8. That college freshman now look like kids. Its weird when you hit that age that you look at an 18 year old and they just look like a little baby. That's when you know you're old. 18-23 year olds might as well be 12 year olds. And I feel like I was just 21! What happened. *sigh* time flies.

9. That people are still doing door to door sales. I'm not knocking people who do it. Can't knock the hustle. Just weird to me it still goes on in this day and age. We have had people try and sell us magazine subscriptions, carpet cleaning, and vacuums. We didn't buy any, but I did donate to my neighbors kid for her dance team. So she was a good salesman I suppose!

And that's all I got! Can't believe today is Wednesday. Having Monday off for the holiday was awesome. Also me and Natasha tore up hobby lobby and their 50% off sale yesterday and decorated me and korys dining room. Now need to start conquering the living room.

Everyone have a great Wednesday!

I'm on the pursuit of happiness

Lately I have been trying really hard to not be negative. Granted it doesn't always work out like I want, but either way I have REALLY been trying. I feel like it has gotten better because all I have seemed to notice lately is how negative everyone else is. I'm not saying I am perfect now and always optimistic, just saying that it's crazy how many times throughout a day we are all ungrateful about something or just mad in general. It also surprises me how the weirdest things that don't matter at all can ruin a persons day. The FB statuses and blogs that people post about things that are actually pissing them off blows my mind. Seriously, if the running trend makes you mad you need help. How can people running actually make you mad? I don't like yoga but I couldn't care less if the whole world started doing yoga everyday. Take a deep breath people, it's not a big deal what everyone else is doing. You don't have to do it!
Also, the work situation. Don't get me wrong. We have ALL complained about work at some point in our life. It's not human to be completely happy with every aspect of your job every single minute of every work day. But it drives me crazy when people who are terrible workers sit around and think they deserve something. It is always the employees who don't help a single person out or even finish their own work that get mad when someone else gets a promotion. They always think they deserve it even though they actually haven't even been on time in a year. Put more pride in your job. I know I haven't always but I am really trying because we are ALL grateful to even have jobs. Especially good paying ones with benefits, sick and vacation leave, and normal work schedules. There are so many people that deserve a good job so if you think America owes you something and you hate the government so much, then please stop working for the government because you are driving me crazy. Thanks. I know it's hard to come into work sometimes and be in a good mood. Believe me. But I promise if you give it a positive outlook and just put a smile on your face it will be much better!
:-)
Everyone have a great Columbus Day! I know I will because we have it off for work!

the monster mash.

Lately I have had Halloween on the brain. I know that it is like a month away and also I have zero plans, but either way it's on the brain. I have been thinking about possible costume ideas and looking online at Halloween Express (even though I prefer to make mine). I got to thinking about all the things I think will be popular this year, all the costumes I am sick of seeing, and all the ones that I think would be fun. So just for kicks here are some of my costume likes, dislikes, ideas, etc. etc.

ok. Let's start with a small list of the costumes that I feel are extremely outplayed and I am frankly just tired of seeing them.
*Playboy bunny and Hugh Hefner. It's just annoying. Sorry.
*School girl. REAL ORIGINAL!
*Marilyn Monroe. I mean I get it, I really do...just *yawn*
*Referees. So 2005.
*Lady Gaga. I understand doing that a couple years ago or last year. But everyone has done it a million times.
*Policeman, Policewoman, CSI person, etc. Unless you are going to be a hired stripper that night, then NO.

Now. Here are a couple pictures of the most ridiculous costumes I have seen so far. I really would punch one of my friends if they showed up in one. They make me laugh.

So as if the thong isn't bad enough..this outfit you could make is 50 bucks!

Some girl put this on her blog. Lol. Idk but I can't help but laugh.

I somewhat dig this. But ridiculous nonetheless. I sure as heck know that I would not be able to go in public in that.

And...last but not least...this thing. Can you believe this? Douchebag city! Yes, I did laugh, but I didn't want to!
So. Ideas I like!

*Pattie Mayonnaise and Quailman..or could just do Doug. I feel like I could do a Patti Mayonnaise...
*Nicki Minaj..If I was black I would so try it. I tried painting myself black once...it was a failure.
*Olive Oyl and Popeye. I saw a REALLY cute Olive Oyl costume that you could make yourself. Wouldn't let me save the picture though...bummer.
*Mormons. I know it's be done before but it never gets old to me for someone to wear the bike helmet, tie, white shirt, etc. Not making fun of them, just like the costume!

I will be the first to admit this is a little creepy. but how can you not love lamb chop and sherry!? plus its original!

I don't care if this has been outdone or not. But something about this being the whole family is wicked awesome.

anyways. I was bored. Found a lot of cool ones on Pinterest and Flickr of homemade ones. But a lot of them wouldn't let me save. I also remember in college a group of people doing the old show Legends of the Hidden Temple and spray painting bike helmets gold and doing the colored shirts with the different teams like Barracudas and Monkeys and crap. It was really cool. So be creative! I expect a lot of people to still be Alice and Wonderland, Pirates, Captain America, Thor, etc. Which is fine. But please don't spend 60 dollars on a skanky version of the mad hatter. Make something! or buy cheap..whichever.
And last but not least friends, drag your friends or significant other into you costumes. Makes it more fun! Like these girls!

Rock, paper, scissors baby!

so long sweet summer.

Man am I glad that the 100 degree days are gone? Which I am pretty sure everyone is! What a crap summer! The summer was fun don't get me wrong..but it was so miserably hot! Definitely not sad to see it go.

Just to throw this out there: I am applying for my masters in a couple weeks. Everyone wish me luck! I would be starting classes in January. Definitely something that makes me nervous because for those of you who know me well, school was never my forte. But I feel like I have matured so much since college that I would take it really seriously. (Especially since some of it will be out of my pocketbook!) Which the rest would be out of my jobs pocketbook. YAY!
In the end if all goes well and I get in and finish I will have a masters in Aerospace Administration and Logistics. Makes me sound smarter than I really am right? Good. I hoped for that.

The other day I put my status as "Sometimes being in your 20's is hard." Which followed by numerous people asking me what I meant by that or if something was wrong. But really, nothing was wrong. Mostly just had a lot on my mind with my job and potential masters that I just started thinking about it all. So much happens in your 20's. I feel like for most people the bulk of BIG life changes and steps happens in your 20's. Let's see, in just my 5 years into my 20's I have been in college and graduated, lived with my best friends for numerous years, met Kory, got engaged, got married, bought a house, got a job that's starting a career, got my first dog, etc. etc! And TONS of people my age already have kids. So look at all those milestones all in a couple years? And what I think can be hard about all of it is that most of the 20's are spent being immature. Then I just woke up one day and was like "crap. i have a mortgage and things i have to pay for, and this doesn't just affect me anymore it affects Kory too!" I feel like so many responsibilities and things in life and trying to establish yourself and career and wants and needs comes out of nowhere. And sometimes you stand around being this adult that doesn't yet quite feel like an adult. Anyways-nothing crazy. I'm not unhappy or anything! Just thinking about how crazy life is.

Fair is starting up and I am super happy. White trash America united for 11 days of crappy rides, toothless carnies, and amazing heart attack filled fried food. CANNOT WAIT! Which coincidentally I have always found it weird that so many poor people are always out there because the fair is freaking expensive! And I don't mean that in a bad way at all. Just wonder how some of them afford it for so many days! I can only go about 1 or 2 times max. I drop too much money on fried oreos and corn dogs.

and I am going to close this post with a few random thing that I have noticed lately:
1) The high sock thing is back. If it was ever even in. Why are all these HS boys and freshman college kids wearing skinny jeans, tank tops, and high socks? You look like morons.
2) Everyone in their dog took up cycling. The legit kind of cycling where you have the spandex matching top and shorts with the helmet that matches the bike type of cycling. Edmond streets are FULL of them! day end and day out. Sun or rain, sleet or shine! They are out everywhere. I feel like this is a new thing. But maybe I haven't been paying attention until now cause they are always slowing me down when I wanna speed down Covell Rd.
3) All mainstream songs suck now. Ok, not all. But I feel like besides country most new music is awful! Everything is SOOO dirty or techno sounding or bleeped out of whatever that you can't even find a beat to the song. There are only a handful of the songs on the radio I like and then they get played out so bad that I end up not liking those anymore as well.
4) Lady Gaga is beyond insane. If you saw the music awards or even just a little of it then this needs no explanation.
5) Every 16 year old in Edmond drives a car at least 20x nicer than mine. They would cry and run into their room and never come out if they had to drive mine for just one day. They are too used to their Lexus, Cadillac, and BMWs. Brats.


Bridesmaids comes out to rent next week! Least I am pretty sure it does. Watch it if you haven't seen it!
Excuse the run on sentences and fragments and all that crap. I am not going to re-read this over. Sorry grammar police!
Hasta Luego suckas.

this is a lesson in procrastination.

I am the QUEEN of putting things off. I mean everything. I put everything off until the last minute or it just doesn't get done.
If it is an errand to run for someone or it has something to do with plans or things I need to do for someone else it will always get done in a timely manner. If it happens to be something that only involves me, it never gets done.
Example 1: Me and Kory's house. I understand that it is both of our houses, but I really can't expect him to care about how the house looks. He doesn't even care how he looks half the time. (love ya babe but it's true). I am a girl! I am supposed to enjoy crap like this!It's not like I'm one of those girls who doesn't care about clothes or makeup. I feel like I am pretty girly in those aspects. But in decorating and buying things for the house..nope. I am going to literally bring myself and a my debit card to Hobby Lobby with Natasha and Nicole and just let them pick everything out and then come to my house and put it all together. I keep putting it off.
Example 2: Running. Natasha, Nicole, and I are doing a half marathon coming up to raise money for Africa, (donate when the time comes, thanks!) :) and I haven't started running at all. I have been going to the gym and doing weights but running I have maybe done once this whole month. I keep writing in my planner these certain days that I am going to start just to be prepared, even though I really don't need to hardcore train for a while, and the days comes and pass. I scratch them out and say "I'll do it tomorrow". Tomorrow never comes.
Example 3: I get these little ideas of things to make or buy or just do for people all the time. Random people. Family, spouse, friends, co-workers, etc. I will get a little idea to surprise someone with or something to get someone for their bday or even just to show I care and then I never do it! It's lame. I need a way of making myself do these things.
I started praying a lot lately about motivation to do all these things I want to do. Because I really WANT to do them. I guess I just never want to do them enough to go through the pain, money, and time to get them. Sad story, huh? ha.

Also. My brain keeps wandering around to the idea of going back to school. This is something that me and Kory and me and my friends bring up from time to time. I feel like a bachelors is about to be old news, especially a bachelors like mine that was never any news. I know a masters or something more specific to a job would be a good idea and I need to decide now or never if I want to do it. I like the idea of it but the time and money are what keeps me back. Once again some from of procrastination. There is actually a couple master degrees I could get that would really help me move around to higher up jobs on Tinker so maybe I should. UGH!

Through all this indecisive thinking I have had lately I have decided that there are a couple things I want to do before I am old. And I want to do these things BAD!
1. Be on Wipeout. It'd be hilarious. I think I would be a fan-fave.
2. Be in a Flash Mob. Please someone organize this!!! It's a must.
3. Go to Harry Potter World. Shut it haters, you know it'd be fun.
4. Punch someone in the face. This is random. But I really want to one time. To really give it my all and see how successful it is. Preferably someone who deserves it. I can think of a few people.

catch ya on the flip side...

Show me the money!

So, I am quite certain that my favorite pastime nowadays is fantasizing about winning the powerball. I pass the powerball sign no less than twice a day. I see the nice shiny big numbers smiling at me, taunting me, telling me to go waste a couple dollars on a snowballs chance in hell. But no matter what the number is at I always think of the things I would do with the money. Me and Kory LOVE this conversation. We have had it a million times and it really never gets old. Even though it is kind of a tease to always plan it out because the chances are slim, it's still fun.
This past week the powerball was up to 220 million. 220 million!! So we were basing our whole entire "what would we do if we won" conversation off winning that. So if you won the 220 million and you were the only winner and you took the lump sum you would end up with 70 million. Because they take the 40% off the 220 because you took the lump sum, but lump sum is smarter than the getting paid every month BS. Then, after you take the lump sum they take about another 40% or so for taxes. Leaving you with around 70 million that you would never have to pay taxes on again. EVER! 70 million to just do whatever you want with. Nuts, right? I mean let's put it this way...me and Kory only make 1 million in about 12 years of us both working. And that's a million before taxes. And that's twelve years that you have to live on and pay bills so you of course will never see that one million dollars. I can't even wrap my head around 70 million. We of course decided step 1 is to quit our jobs. We both don't love our jobs and in fact Kory almost despises his. So see ya later jobs! Then from there is where the fun begins. Here's the list of things we would do with our money that we will never win:
1) Jobs...DUNZO.
2) Trips. Before I would even wanna think about the other stuff I would need a trip to celebrate. Me and Kory would take one alone to have our alone time. Then, I would take a big family trip wherever everyone wanted to go...of course all expense paid by me and Kory. Then a friend trip. Cause that would be the best way to go out with a bang. I would tell my friends wherever in the world they wanted to go we would go and they wouldn't have to pay a dime. Also, good thing I don't have a lot of friends...ha. jk...
3) Split up the money with the family. Me and Kory would decide on a number to give to his family and likewise for mine. Not sure what we came up with, but it was enough for them to retire and more. We both would tell our family to split the money between the rest of the family. That's where things get messy. Do you give your cousins and aunts and everybody the same amount across the board? Or do you not give money at all and just pay off houses and cars? Really not sure how to go about this one. Same with friends. I know I would want to care of my family and friends for sure, and so would Kory. Just not sure what way is best. I can say that I know the friends that I could give money to and it'd be fine and the ones that I would just be best buying them a house and calling it a day. But they all would most definitely be taken care of the max!
4) Build a house. Not some over the top mansion or anything crazy. Just a nice big house with an awesome pool and movie theater room and wine cellar...that's on a nice golf course to make Kory happy. And also an interior decorator. So it can look exactly how I want it without me having to do it. Cause I'm what we call LAZY when it comes to that kind of stuff.
5) Cars, boat, beach house. I mean even after all the money we would have spent, we would invest a lot. So we would be making money off our money, which would be a lot because so much is being invested. Therefore, nice cars, nice boat, and beach house are a must. Got to have a place to have awesome parties. So why not have an awesome party on our awesome yacht?
6) Giving back. Now here is where I would be torn. As important as tithing to the church is, I would want to do something bigger. I'm not sure if tossing 7 or so million at a church is satisfying enough. I would almost want to start my own charity or something. Just having that much money to be able to help people I would want to make sure I did it in the most impactful way. (impactful even a word?)
I would just really want to change peoples lives for the better. There's just something about helping people that truly need it that is far more satisfying than how you feel in your mercedes. (even though mercedes rock).
The best part would also be to continue to be able to help people. Charities, non-profits, people on the street, kids in Africa...anything. Cause we forever would have money to be able to do that.

That's just part of our list. We have all kinds of things mapped out. It's kind of crazy. I think the most exciting part is just that us, our family, and closest friends would also never have to worry about money again. And we sure as heck would all be debt free and looking oh-so-fly.

I am honestly not one of those people who think money buys happiness. Because you are sadly mistaken if you think that's the case. I just think that money is something you need whether you like it or not and not having to worry about it is something that can be very freeing. Doors are open that weren't open before. I would love to open a wedding venue/event place. It would be fun. But the risk of me getting a loan from a bank and the place possibly tanking and me being bankrupt doesn't sound fun. For me the risk of failing and owing a million dollars to the bank isn't worth it to me. But having that much money from a lottery you really have nothing to lose trying out a business venture!

But, sadly. Chances are slim of winning the powerball. Even slimmer of winning the powerball that high up in the triple digits. Still fun to pretend!

This is the song that never ends...yes it goes on and on my friends...

I know the dumb saying, "if I had a dime for every time ___ happens I'd be rich!" is out played...but it's so TRUE! Because if I had a dime for every time I have been asked "when are you and Kory gonna start having kids?" I'D BE RICH! Now, don't take this the wrong way, it doesn't make me mad that people ask. It just surprised me how many times I have actually be asked! It hasn't even been a year yet...it's not a year till August 28th, which I know is coming up, but I have been asked since a few months after we got married.  But really that's not necessarily the thing that I thought was weird, what I think is weird is how many people say i'm too old to not be popping out kids. I mean 25? That's too old? I beg to differ. I actually have got told twice in a week that I need to hurry up and start popping them out...their words, not mine.
But, I noticed one thing about all the people telling me I need to hurry up and have them..they already have kids themselves. People who have kids think everyone else should have kids. That's just the way the world turns. It's not just the kid having people who play this game, it's everyone. We can't help it. We are wired to want people to do, think, and act like us. If you are single, all the people who aren't want you to have a boyfriend. They start trying to set you up with their friends or tell you when they think a certain guy is cute, cause they want you to be dating like they are. (and before we go on, im not pointing fingers cause i am guilty of all these things we do to people). Once you are dating, your engaged and married friends wanna know when you are going to get engaged and married. We do this thing were we start putting time frames on things. "Oh, you guys have been dating a year...you should be engaged by now!" Everything has a time limit. Some people date too long before getting engaged and some date not long enough, just however we are viewing it at the time. Once you are married it's the famous, "when you guys gonna start having kids" questions. Believe me, you will get them daily. BUT, the people who don't have kids, they let you breathe. They don't care that you aren't having kids yet, because they aren't! It's great. Love hanging out with the non-kid having people. (but i love the kid having people too). I mean, it's just the way we are. We want people to be on the same page as us. If I'm gonna have kids you better believe I'm gonna talk my friends into it.
Now, I do this with everything. Just out of habit. I know I hassle my friend Nicole about getting engaged and her and her boyfriend probably get sick of people asking! (love ya nic) Us humans just can't help this!
I've noticed also that since I am out of my going out a lot phase I expect everyone else to be. I can't tell you how many times I say "they need to grow up, they are 25 years old and going out all the time!" But truth is that they just aren't on the same page as me, and I want them to be! Even people that we aren't friends with we feel the need to convince them to do what we do. The people who always tell me to start popping out kids aren't really even my friends! People at work that I BARELY talk to. Don't even know Kory and heck, probably don't even know his name! Basically we are all screwed because the cycle never ends. Goes from wondering why you arent dating, married, having kids..and then once you have a kid people wait about a year before the "do you think you guys will have another kid?" "when you guys going to have another kid?". So just sit back and get ready for it. And Lord FORBID you decide to not have kids. That's when you really get the weird questions or looks. Sex and the City 2, WHICH IS TERRIBLE, portrays it perfect when this couple talks to Carrie and Big and asked about kids and they replied by saying they decided kids weren't for them. The look on the other couples face was priceless. Because everyone else has kids, we just can't even believe it or understand why when people choose not to. We are all crazy.

Also, when we aren't doing something or can't afford it, we wanna talk the ones doing it out of it. Did that even make sense? Example: My friend Joey wants to buy a new car. He can afford it, and he seems to have it pretty planned out how much he would spend and stuff. But yet when he asks me about it I always try and talk him out of it. I tell him to save more so he can put a significant amount down...because that's what I am doing! I want people to suffer and save and not get cars cause i'm not. If I was getting a car, I would have text him back and said, YEAH! GET ONE!
We are all crazy.

On another note, Tasha and Karis made it back from Ethiopia safe and sound! YAY! the stories were awesome, sad, and inspiring. I might have to go with all them next year. You hear that God? I need a raise so I can go! (jk)

lack of motivation

So for over a year now I have went back and forth on the idea of running my first half-marathon. I know TONS of people who at the OKC bombing memorial marathon in May did the half and the full marathon..and they were people who were never necessarily runners before, so I know it can be done. But for some reason everytime I get super motivated to train for one, I never can fully do it. I will half-ass it for about a month and then completely give up all together. By the grace of God Himself I was somehow able to show up on May 1st and run the 6.2 mile leg for my relay team..cause I didn't train at all. Because I am LAZY!
There has to be a secret. Because in my head I really want to do this half marathon in November in Tulsa. I really honestly want to do it. But then I guess my heart isn't really in it, because I can't muster the energy to start running.
What's really sad is I was so pumped and so happy after I ran that leg in the relay and it was only 6 miles and it was freezing rain...and I was still so happy. (reminds me of when my friend Sabrina cried after running a 3 mile race). Because you just get so overwhelmed and excited that you did something you had never done before. I know that's why Sabrina cried. She had never ran a 5k before..so it was an accomplishment. I know that's how I would feel if I ran the half. I just don't know how to get to that state of mind that people get into where they have their eye on the prize and will do anything to get to it. People who body build and can be so strict on their workouts and food for months deserve a lifetime achievement award in my book, because I would NEVER be able to do such a  thing.
I know that it would be easier to train and get pumped up and all that if I ran with someone, but seems that everyone I know interested in running is on complete opposite schedules.
Maybe in the meantime someone will discover a way to bottle motivation into pill form.



On a side note...my car is on it's last leg. I mean, it's been a good car..since 1999! It's old. It has 225,000 miles on it. It needs to be put to rest. But I have never had a car payment and I know me and Kory can definitely afford one, but that's not the plan we were on. (dave ramsey baby steps). Dave Ramsey also says to pay for your car in cash...to save enough to buy it without having to take a loan.Which sounds CRAZY. But, if me and Kory would start putting money away every month that would equal a car payment it would be do-able. I just need the MOTIVATION once again to stick to my guns and be more cautious of how I spend and save my money. I totaled up some numbers at work today, and let's just say that if I stopped eating out so much in a month I would have a car payment. UGH. money...always find a way to blow it.



Very random thoughts today..but hope everyone finds the motivation to get through the rest of the work week!
xoxo

Man-Candy Monday!

Today has been such a drag and work was so awful to get through. I was bored so here are some guys in Hollywood right now that I am totally in love with. Some cause they are just hot, (sorry Kory) and some just cause I like their movies/personalities.
Enjoy!

if you can't tell, the last one is just cause i think he's funny!
AND...to not leave the guys out...here's all the girls in Hollywood I think are super hot right now.

All of the above for the obvious reasons...but Emma Stone cause I think shes hilarious. If you haven't seen Easy A...you must!


Happy Monday people!

I solemnly swear I am up to no good!

For those of you living under a rock, this thursday was the midnight premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. The end of Harry Potter! so sad and bittersweet. I have been a fan of the books and movies for so long it seems like and I can't believe its all over. I know its kind of dorky to dress up, but it was SO much fun and so many people dressed up. Every theater was sold out and on the first weekend HP was out it made 178 million dollars. Thats just from friday and saturday night! NUTS! Holds the record now!
I will say that me and Natasha and my cousins are a little too old for those midnight showings. We were all SO tired. Just can't hang like we used to! But, that was probably my last midnight premiere EVER!

Saturday we went to brunch at Nova. Which was SOOOOO good. 15 dollars for all you can drink mimosas and any item on the brunch menu! pretty good deal! The bartenders were bored and kept making us yummy drinks. Pretty nice.
My mom left for Vegas today and Natasha leaves for Ethiopia Tuesday...two completely different types of trips lol. I hope they are both safe on their trips! :( Sad i will be here without them two! this will be the longest I have went without talking to Natasha, cause not sure if will be able to use a phone or computer or what-not. Im quite the texter for people who know me so I am sure I will text her forgetting that if she wrote me back it would cost an arm and a leg.
The girls are coming over tonight for a pot luck kind of as a farewell dinner for Tasha on her trip and I am really hoping that my enchiladas will turn out ok. I am really glad that they are coming so they can all see my house and give me tips on what to do next! I have no decorations because I am on a standstill on what I want to do. I need a rug, which cheapest one I can find that I like is 280 dollars so I guess I just need to go buy it!
Anyways- Happy Sunday! and Go USA! I really hope we win!!!!!!!!
AMERICA F* YEAH!

Chivalry is dead

So lately I've been thinking about how chivalry is indeed, dead. Very dead. Now I'm not saying all guys aren't chivalrous but I feel like most aren't.  It really amazes me the little things guys do and don't do on a daily basis to us women. First of all, my cousins status yesterday said she waited at the door for a couple minutes while all these men cut in front of her and also not one opened the door for her. I mean hell,  I open the door or leave the door open for someone to grab all the time. For men, women, and children I leave the door open. And we can't get a guy to hold the door open for a young lady? Unacceptable. 
Now I'm not one of those women who needs to have my order at a restaurant ordered for me, or be dropped off at the door everytime, or have the car door opened for me..but it'd be a nice gesture. I think it says a lot about a guy if he does those things. Single guys take note! Hell, married guys take note.
Also it shocks me the way some girls let guys treat them. There are always guys at my work on the phone with their girlfriends or spouses just talking to them like dirt! Not to mention always cheating on them! And the girls know they cheat. And they stay! That just lets them think its ok. They know they can get away with it. Give yourself some respect and leave them! Or least cheat on them back! (Kidding) :-) but seriously, all you boys need to grow up.
One guy at my work constantly cheats. But when I asked him what if she cheated on him and he responded with "hell no I'd leave her". Like wtf? Double standard crap is on my nerves..
Anyways. Enough with that.

You know what I want? To not have to work. Theres something about not having to set an alarm everyday and HAVE to be working 7-3:30am that I'm craving. I need Kory to make a ton of money so I can stay home. Wouldn't that be great? Yeah I'd probably get bored after a while. But I can find something to do

Also I look totally stupid in this picture but I put a little purple in my hair and wanted to show it off.

Back on the grind

Nothing like a four day weekend to really make you not wanna be at work. Today is miserable! Not to mention we live in Edmond but its deer creek county or something dumb where you can pop the big mama fireworks out there. So people were setting off the extremely loud and huge fireworks all night. It was 12:30 and they were setting them off right outside our house. I tried to get Kory to go tell them to stop that some people had to go to work the next day but he wasn't having it. So I didn't sleep AT ALL!
Also, I don't know what's wrong with me but for the past week and a half I have gotten up in the middle of the night to pee like 5-7 times. Literally almost every hour. Its stressing me out cause its making it to where I can't sleep. So I'm going to the doctor today to try and figure all this crap out. Whatever you do though...never try and diagnose yourself through google. You will scare the living crap out of yourself. I looked up something along the lines of frequently having to use the restroom at night and I got all kinds of scary things. Bout thirty minutes into looking I had convinced myself I have to have diabetes and that's the only explanation. So, never doing that again.

I hope everyone had a great fourth of July. I spent mine at Lake Texoma with Natasha and Sarah and Natasha's family..it was soooo hot but so much fun. My nose and shoulders will be peeling anytime now. We went to the casino one night and I was almost sure I would walk out a couple thousand dollars richer..but that just wasn't the case unfortunately. 
Hope everyone has a good Tuesday that's feels like Monday and if you have never seen the honey badger YouTube video then you need to. Its hilarious. YouTube honey badger and it should be the first one that shows up.

Holler back!

Rain is a good thing

Happy Tuesday!  Its been really hard to wake up today with as gloomy as it is outside. There just isn't enough coffee to get me going today!
Luckily its only a four day work week and then four days off. Hallelujah!!

This weekend was home improvement weekend and I still didn't get much done. Our house has been on a standstill since we moved in and it drives me crazy yet I'm too lazy to do it. We finally fixed our flowerbeds where we don't look like white trash America and got a lot of painting done. These are the times I wish we had enough money where I could just pay a painter, gardener, and interior decorater!! But oh well. It'll all get done eventually. Probably just in enough time to send our kids off to college.

Speaking of kids has anyone actually sat and watched supernanny? Talk about birth control! Ive never seen such hellians!! I was drinking a glass of wine when the show was on and I still couldn't sit through the show! And I really don't see myself being much of a disciplinarian so Kory will have to take on that role or you guys will all see me on the show one day. Lets hope not though.

Random thought but I cannot believe it is 4th of July weekend. Where has the time gone?? This time last year we were doing wedding stuff and close to going to Vegas for my bachelorette party! I swear we are all gonna blink and be 50 years old. BARF!  (No offense to 50 year olds)

Everyone have a great fourth of July weekend!! And watch true blood now that its back on! Its sooooo good!
And don't watch the bachelorette cause Ashley is a retard!
Sorry my blog was lame today!

Laters.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood....

Choices. We make them everyday. Some are small like where we are going to have lunch or if we are going to go the gym or not. Some are big like are we going to switch careers, or buy this house and not this one, and so on and so on. Every now and then I find myself thinking that if I could go back and re-do college I would have done something different. Do something that I actually liked and would have had a promising career attached to it. And believe me I am very thankful for my job and I actually do like it, but I didn't need a degree for it. I feel like sometimes I wasted my time when I could have got a degree worth while. Wasted my time on my degree, not going to college, cause college was so much fun!
 Me and Kory constantly have the talks about if we went back to college what would we do and blah blah blah. Honestly I don't think I have it in me to go back to school, therefore we all need to invent time travel so I can just go back and get something different. And don't get me wrong, college was a BLAST but I really don't care to re-live all that stuff as much as I just wish I would't have gotten a degree in General Studies. Yep, that's right General Studies...aka I'm Not Really Smart Enough to Be In College but What the Hell degree.
But hey, least I got a bachelors I guess.
On a side note of the time travel thing, I constantly get told by people at work that they wish they could go back to high school. I'm like really? You wanna go back to high school? That thought never crosses my mind. I really feel like just one time through high school was good enough. I was a dork in high school who didn't know how to dress or put on make up. Luckily tasha was there to help me out in that category haha. I have a theory on the people that want to go back to high school. It isn't scientific or proven but im pretty sure im right...the people who want to go back to high school are either:
a) Completely miserable with their spouse. You know the couples that are mostly married for their children. They have been married twenty something years or so but they really don't want to be with their spouse. They long to be in high school for the getting with whoever they want thing and maybe to go back so they didn't get married. (even though they would but it would just maybe be to someone else)
b) They peaked in high school. They were the super cool popular guy or girl that everyone worshipped and loved and blah blah blah BUT now they are losers. No one cares about them now and they wanna go back to being the Big Man on Campus...or Woman on campus. think of the guy on Just Friends still wearing the letter jacket drunk at the bar every night. That guy.
c) I was hoping to have a C point but I really don't and I'm kinda disappointed.

Happy Friday Eve YALL! :-)

Feels like the first time.

Well. First things first I can honestly say I never thought I would ever have a blog. But something about it just seemed so appealing and freeing that I had to see what all the buzz was about. I also am surprised at how hard it is to start a blog. I thought I would be a natural and the words would just flow, but I stared at this blank screen for quite some time. I will start by saying that if you are reading this, (which I really don't expect many readers) then I must lay down the guidelines. I guess more like a disclaimer..

Things NOT to expect in my blog:
1) Perfect grammar or punctuation or anything of that manner. I like to think I am a decent speller...but anything after that is pretty much a failure.
2) Anything about politics. I just really don't know much about it so talking about it just stresses me out.
3) Anything with rhyme or reason. This blog is for the heck of it so it's going to be random. Probably just about what's going on in my life. So it's not going to be one thing in particular. No Julie and Julia up in here.
4) And last but not least I won't harp on the same thing over and over. You won't see a rant or anything like that being said over and over and over. I plan to keep it fresh.
5) I won't make it private. I am smart enough to know that no one cares enough to ask my permission to read my mediocre blog.

Things to expect in my blog:
1) Randomness. I am pretty random, and have pretty random friends and family so do expect funny stories, pictures, rants, etc.
2) No comments. Just expect for me to have no followers or comments. This blog isn't going to be the next big thing.
3) Gossip. Without names of course. Things piss us all off. It's human nature to get mad at people or things and want to get it off our chest. So I'm not going to pretend that there won't be times that I get on here and do that. I'm not going to kid myself by thinking this whole blog is going to be nothing but positive stuff.

That being said I have read a lot of blogs on here today just trying to get the feel of things and I must say some people are really funny. I hope that my blog gets funnier as it goes on. Cause I like to think that I am funny in real life so I should be online as well. If my blog sucks, I'm sorry. Just comment on it and tell me to take a hike.

Happy Friday tomorrow everyone! :)