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and I still can't believe that January is almost over! Crazy!

Um...

Where did January go? I swear the month just started a week ago! It seems like this year is going to fly by. I would actually prefer that it didn't go so quickly as we still have a TON of stuff to get done for the wedding.

Healthy foods

Why are they so much more expensive that the unhealthy ones? I really want to change my diet and lifestyle so that Jake and I can eat healthier and feel better, but it's just so dang expensive to do it! I wish that stores offered some sort of money-saving incentive for the customers that buy the healthy foods. That would be awesome!

The doldrums

doldrums (definition)

 

1.

a. A period of stagnation or slump.

b. A period of depression or unhappy listlessness.

 

I feel like over the last week, I have hit a slump. I feel like I'm in the doldrums. I can't really say why I'm feeling this way, but I can say that I'm tired of it and would like to find some way to escape it. I tried to start a workout DVD today, but found that I can't do that when I haven't eaten anything yet that day. So that was a no-go. But there are plans for weight-loss in the near future. I'm tired of carrying around this extra weight and it's about time that something was done about it. So Jake and I will be starting to eat healthier and we're going to do more cardio exercise (outside if the weather permits). We got a Bowflex from a friend and I'm going to look up some different exercises online (since the thing didn't come with a workout book or anything). We have a plan to change our lives and lifestyles. I just hope that we stick to this plan so that we can escape our doldrums.

I think I need a 2nd job...

to pay for all of this wedding stuff! Why is everything so EXPENSIVE?! I don't want the fanciest stuff out there but I want my things to be nice. I'd really rather not pay an arm and a leg for everything!

Venue...CHECK!

We signed the contract for the ceremony/reception venue on Saturday & paid the deposit. We didn't get to do the food/cake tasting, but we will be scheduling that sometime in the next month or so. I'm so glad to have this taken care of! Now I feel like the only major thing we need to do is get the guest list finished and then (hopefully) everything should fall into place! Only 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days (from tomorrow) to go!

Food tasting!

We're set up to meet with a possible venue on Saturday and hopefully we'll get to taste test the food and the cake! I'm so excited! What's even better is that I can actually taste things now!

Bride video

"Sh*t Brides Say"
This is HILARIOUS! It had me cracking up the whole time!

281 days to go...?!?!?!

Wow, I never thought that number would get under 300! Now it's dwindling so fast! We still have so much to do before the "Big Day" but it seems like we'll never have enough time or money to get it all done! I don't understand how people can afford to drop tens of thousands of dollars on their weddings. I mean, it would be great to have thousands of dollars to spend on things, but at the end of the day, you are married and that's all that really matters to me. Oh, and the PARTY afterwards! That's where most of our budget is going. Food and drinks! I'm really looking forward to it!

Adding a goal for the New Year

I would really like to get our apartment cleaned and organized this year! We'll be having more and more wedding stuff coming into our tiny home this year and none of it will be going anywhere until October, so I really need to be on top of organization so that it doesn't take over our place! I'm not really sure what I'll need in order to achieve this goal, but I have more motivation to do it than just finding a spot for the wedding stuff. We bought a Bowflex machine off of a friend and now have to clean/reorganize our spare bedroom in order to accommodate it. I'm hoping that that will kick of the (early) Spring Cleaning mode and get me into the habit of keeping things picked up when I bring new stuff in!

It's a New Year

It's hard to believe that 2011 went by as quickly as it did. I would say that, overall, it was a good year, but I'm hoping that 2012 will be a GREAT year! I have a lot to look forward to this year.

I'm not really setting any resolutions for this year, but I do have some goals that I would like to accomplish:

• lose 25+ lbs
• plan my wedding while maintaining my sanity ;p
• organize my closet
• cook more/eat out less
• cut way back on pop consumption

Some of my goals are related, so hopefully if I start working on/towards one, it'll make the others a little easier to accomplish.