Wish me luck!!! I've heard some pretty crappy things about DB, so I am 99.9% sure I will not walk out of the store with a dress. Hell, when I realized I was going to be going by myself I just about canceled, but figured I can at least go and see whats out there. See what styles I like best, etc. So, I'll give it a try. I'd be more interested in Fantastic Finds.
Speaking of which-- STEPH!!! Well first of all, Happy Bday! Second of all, what do you think about the 14th when you come up, instead of coming to Grand Rapids, you can meet me at Fantastic Finds, it's in Lansing. I've heard wonderful things about that place and I really want to go. What do you think? I figure you can bring Jason and he, Scott, and Dad if he comes up can take Owen and go to a mall or something, then you, Holly and I can look at dresses, then go out to lunch somewhere, like Panera :) What do you think? I have to call and make an appointment, apparently they get real busy and work mainly on appointments. I guess they have like suites that you are in, and we'd have our own consultant for the appointment. Just a thought!
Nothing big planned for this weekend. Lots of cleaning for sure! We are WAY behind. It will probably be a full apartment cleaning. In other news, we can't find the wonder hanger!!! BB & B is finally carrying it, on their website. The 2 stores we've checked up here do NOT have it.
Thats all, hi ho hi ho it's back to work I go.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Updates updates
-valentines day was good. Scott got me dairy free chocolates from a website i found from oregon. they were delish! he got me some brownies, 2 of the cherry pecan truffles (THE BEST EVER!!) and a chocolate box filled with little chocolates. then he got me flowers and a card. the card is super sweet!! and the flowers were sooo pretty. there were a couple bunches of white daisies, an orange daisy, a pink daisy (he knows thats what I want for wedding flowers) a sunflower, and a red rose. i got him an itunes gift card, he'd been wanting one for awhile, then a bunch of dairy full foods that he hasn't had in awhile, cheetos, doritos, m&ms and hershey's kisses, and a card. On Valentines day we went to a grand valley bball game, then later went to see Twighlight with some friends.
-we booked a dj!!! he doesn't have a website, but he was very highly recommended by a lady at work. Her daughter just got married last august and used him. he charges about $200 less than the price of the other djs we'd gotten quotes from. jane, the lady at work said he's simple, not flashy or obnoxious. he just does the announcements, and other talking that we need him to do and plays music. he said we don't pay a deposit, 1-2 months before the wedding he'll meet with us, we'll talk about what we want to do, our schedule, music choices, etc.
-we went to 2 tastings for a caterer one last friday and one yesterday. Now we just have to decide which one to go with.
-bridesmaid dresses- ladies- let me know if anyone gets a chance to check it out at the store. I'll email dad a link too.
- major stresses at work are begining to calm down. I'm finally starting to get caught up and organized after being moved back and forth during the re-decorating. various different things caused it to be a VERY stressfull few weeks at work, but like i said, luckily it's calming down.
-when i effed up filling out forms when i first started working at kramer, it caused WAY too little taxes to be taken out of my paycheck. I found this out last year, so I fixed it. Or so I thought. Turns out when I talked to the accountant we fixed my federal, but not state or local. So, I owe $$ for state and local again. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. Luckily Scott let me claim our rent, instead of us splitting it, so it helped, a ton! Scott got a good chunk of money back so we are doing pretty well with our savings. however, we did hear a rumor of how much you get back when you have a kid. MAN O MAN I was jealous when I heard the amount.... oh well. Sooner or later I'll get more than a few hundred back.... I heard that with the new stimulus package, you could get up to $8000 in tax credits for buying a home. I soooo want to buy a home now. which takes me right into my next update....
-after a nauseating stink in the hallway of our apartment saturday the 7th and seeing a bunch of cops and guys in suits coming out of our building, we discovered thursday the 12th, via a grand valley student newspaper that Walker city police found the guy that lives above us dead in his apartment. he was a foreign exchange student from Saudi Arabia. they did not release how he died, but judging by the assortment of stenches out in the hallway on a regular basis, and checking out his facebook, I'm pretty sure it was drugs. It's sad. He seemed like a good guy. He didn't bother us, well aside from the stank. we'd talked to him here and there, in passing. it does make me nervous though. i'd heard other people saying things about drugs in the apartments, but we just didn't have the money to move out. so that is the next step. As soon as the wedding is over, we are going to start super saving for a down payment on a house. We just NEED scott to find a full time job. substitute teaching just won't cut it.
I guess thats all for now.
-we booked a dj!!! he doesn't have a website, but he was very highly recommended by a lady at work. Her daughter just got married last august and used him. he charges about $200 less than the price of the other djs we'd gotten quotes from. jane, the lady at work said he's simple, not flashy or obnoxious. he just does the announcements, and other talking that we need him to do and plays music. he said we don't pay a deposit, 1-2 months before the wedding he'll meet with us, we'll talk about what we want to do, our schedule, music choices, etc.
-we went to 2 tastings for a caterer one last friday and one yesterday. Now we just have to decide which one to go with.
-bridesmaid dresses- ladies- let me know if anyone gets a chance to check it out at the store. I'll email dad a link too.
- major stresses at work are begining to calm down. I'm finally starting to get caught up and organized after being moved back and forth during the re-decorating. various different things caused it to be a VERY stressfull few weeks at work, but like i said, luckily it's calming down.
-when i effed up filling out forms when i first started working at kramer, it caused WAY too little taxes to be taken out of my paycheck. I found this out last year, so I fixed it. Or so I thought. Turns out when I talked to the accountant we fixed my federal, but not state or local. So, I owe $$ for state and local again. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. Luckily Scott let me claim our rent, instead of us splitting it, so it helped, a ton! Scott got a good chunk of money back so we are doing pretty well with our savings. however, we did hear a rumor of how much you get back when you have a kid. MAN O MAN I was jealous when I heard the amount.... oh well. Sooner or later I'll get more than a few hundred back.... I heard that with the new stimulus package, you could get up to $8000 in tax credits for buying a home. I soooo want to buy a home now. which takes me right into my next update....
-after a nauseating stink in the hallway of our apartment saturday the 7th and seeing a bunch of cops and guys in suits coming out of our building, we discovered thursday the 12th, via a grand valley student newspaper that Walker city police found the guy that lives above us dead in his apartment. he was a foreign exchange student from Saudi Arabia. they did not release how he died, but judging by the assortment of stenches out in the hallway on a regular basis, and checking out his facebook, I'm pretty sure it was drugs. It's sad. He seemed like a good guy. He didn't bother us, well aside from the stank. we'd talked to him here and there, in passing. it does make me nervous though. i'd heard other people saying things about drugs in the apartments, but we just didn't have the money to move out. so that is the next step. As soon as the wedding is over, we are going to start super saving for a down payment on a house. We just NEED scott to find a full time job. substitute teaching just won't cut it.
I guess thats all for now.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Winter at the beach
Last weekend Scott and I decided to head out to Grand Haven. A good chunk of the lake was frozen. It was cool. A little scary, but I got some good pictures. Hey, at least we didn't end up like the Lake Erie fishermen!
Oh there are lots of people out there. We should be fine...
Uh... is that a crack? Yep, there were lots of them, not deep though, just surface cracks.
View of the beach, from where we were standing on the lake
Pretty high ice waves
Preparing to climb
What we saw when we made it to the top
Yeah, we decided NOT to climb to the other side of the waves, like that dad and 2 kids did. There was nothing visible to tell you where it wasn't frozen.
On the other side of the waves, it was just flat, as far as we could see.
a BIG crack
Uh, yeah so we saw this on our way back to the beach. It's a hole, there was no ice, you could see the water moving beneath it....It is highly unlikely we would've gone out as far out into the lake as we did had we seen this on the way there.
Oh there are lots of people out there. We should be fine...
Uh... is that a crack? Yep, there were lots of them, not deep though, just surface cracks.
View of the beach, from where we were standing on the lake
Pretty high ice waves
Preparing to climb
What we saw when we made it to the top
Yeah, we decided NOT to climb to the other side of the waves, like that dad and 2 kids did. There was nothing visible to tell you where it wasn't frozen.
On the other side of the waves, it was just flat, as far as we could see.
a BIG crack
Uh, yeah so we saw this on our way back to the beach. It's a hole, there was no ice, you could see the water moving beneath it....It is highly unlikely we would've gone out as far out into the lake as we did had we seen this on the way there.
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