Our Married Life

Boss man says we can leave but I think I’ll stick around at least 15 more minutes in case something comes up. I had a whole cup of coffee this morning and a whole bottle of diet pepsi. Now I’m all jittery from the caffeine. That’s more caffeine I’ve had in awhile.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about what trips we should take on our first honeymoon. I think we’re going to rule out Cabo for any trips in September since we don’t want to be caught in the same situation. Both of us really want to go to San Diego, since we’ve heard nothing but good things about them. My idea was to fly up to San Diego, stay a couple days, then take a road trip up the coast to San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. I’m not sure how long the drive is, but I’ve always wanted to take a road trip on the west coast. Who knows…

We finally have ice. Not that it’s a good thing, but at least the meteorologists are happy about it. By request, Brian went out this morning and decided to be useful. He defrosted my windows. What a sweet man I have. Although he complained about his fingers going numb, I told him he had gloves and he couldve worn them. I slipped twice walking to my car and then once getting out of my car. Luckily I didn’t fall. Stupid shoes, at least their flat and not heels.

I could have worked from home, unfortunately I couldn’t VPN in and my laptop is STILL being repaired! IT’S BEEN OVER TWO MONTHS. Arggg…

I’m so bored being cooped up at home all weekend. Stupid weatherman is wrong!! There has been no ice all weekend. I’ve done absolutely nothing but watch tv, and there’s not much on tv. I guess I can start on one of my unread books, but that seems like way too much effort. I’ve been wearing my PJs since yesterday morning and haven’t changed.

I’ve been addicted to HGTV lately, particularly the shows on homebuying.

Anyway, maybe I should brave the wet weather and drive across the street to Barnes and Nobles and hang out.

They said this morning that it would ice over, but it’s been raining nonstop. I don’t think it’s ever going sleet, maybe tonight. I was hoping for some cold weather, but this rain is making me miserable. It’s cold, it’s wet, and I’m bored. What do you do on a weekend that’s cold and miserable?? I guess I can keep on organizing, but I have no place to put my stuff. Dinner is already in the crockpot.

So in looking at some of the houses out there, why do homeowners insist on putting tacky wallpaper in their houses. It’s just so ick. Too bad for them I skip over houses with wallpapers anywhere. Anyway, so the houses in the area we’re looking at (north dallas, south of plano, between addison and richardson area) either are way to old and need lots of work, or are half a million dollars or more. It seems that Allen has most of the houses that fit our tastes better. Unfortunately Allen fits the mold of cookie cutter homes. We’re looking for an updated kitchen, hardwood floors, nice bathroom with no wallpapering, good sized yards, TREES, and at least 2500 sq ft., and of course not in the ghetto and a good distance from work. Maybe we should look into getting a realtor if we’re really serious…

So my sister keeps asking when we’re going to have kids. Her first child, Melody was born NINE months after she was married. I told her life doesn’t exactly have to work out that way. You know, get married, have kids right away, etc. I guess she didn’t understand my views on family planning. So needless to say she thought 3 years was a long time to wait. But the more I think about it, I’m leaning towards 5 years. I’ll be 30 and Brian will be 31. In these days that’s still young, but I don’t want to be too old. My parents were in their 40s when I was born, and people always thought my dad was my grandpa. Anyway, I actually don’t think it’s fair to have kids that old. Besides, that I want us to be able to retired earlier than normal versus slaving away to support a college student. Speaking of retirement, I think we both need to invest more.

In a related story, Brian and I were at Target, and we walked by the baby section. I stopped and looked and some fuzzy teddy bear and thought it was cute. I think Brian was a bit freaked out. Hehe.

Anyway, I guess our goals are like any other couples. We need us time, time to travel, time to save, time for careers etc. I want to at least end up in a director level at work before having kids. That’s a pretty aggressive goal, since most directors are in their mid 30’s, but we’ll see. I guess I’ll be ok with senior level.

Ok, so I found this house listing and thought it was cute. It’s in E. Plano though, so I think that’s a bit far from work. But seriously, do we even plan on working here forever? I would assume so at this point, but life changes. I think it’s close enough. The only downside about this house is that Brian doesn’t want a two-story. At least for our first house. Oh well. It’s cute though, I think.

Despite putting in a good workout yesterday and eating a decent dinner and the temperature being cooler, I still did not sleep well. I woke up this morning exhausted from all the tossing and turning. I can’t blame Reesey for sleeping in the bed as well, bc she doesn’t really bother me. Maybe I need to switch sides again, or maybe we need to completely rearrange the furniture. Brian says I need to go see a doctor, but what good would that do? They’ll probably just prescribe me some Ambien or something. I’m just not comfortable. I think this weekend I’m going to go out and buy new pillows. Brian likes to buy the cheapos from Wal-mart that goes flat in about 2 weeks, and for some reason I always manage to pick out the really firm pillows. And maybe I should get rid of the clock. It’s the first thing I look at when I wake up in the middle of the night. Maybe that’s distracting me. Anyway, I’m hoping this coffee will at least week me up for the day, I’ve got two meetings in the afternoon.

I am trying to drink more water, like 100 ounces a day. First step is to get myself a water bottle, you know like Ozarka or Dasani or something. That way I can refill straight into the bottle. Anyway, I was walking with my cup to the water cooler, but of course it’s empty. Either I attempt to replace that myself and hurt my fingers in the process like I did last time, or just come back. That was two hours ago, and I never went back. So much for that 100 ounce… I guess I still have half a day left, but drinking all my days worth of water in one sitting doesn’t count does it??

We actually didn’t do much this weekend. Went to see the Pursuit of Happyness on Friday. The movie was good. Brian said it wasn’t as heart wrenching as he thought it would be, but I thought certain parts of it was sad. Maybe it was just seeing good ole Will Smith cry that made me cry. Note: I do not cry in movies, but I did with this one.

Then on Saturday, we went up to Willowbend to exchange a belt for Brian and walked around the mall. It’s kinda sad to see the place so dead. Then again, how many upscale retail malls do you need in this town. I wish we lived closer to Northpark, I heart Northpark. We came out with a belt and that was it. Although there wasn’t anything we both needed. We also stopped at Target because we wanted to organize our coat/shoe closet. We bought a shoe shelf but it was too big, so now I have to take it back.

On Sunday, I went to Walmart because I decided I’d rather get a hanging shoe organizer instead of a shelf. I then realized how much I hated Walmart. Everytime I go in that store, I feel like I have to shower when I get home. This was a nice Walmart too, the one on Bush and Coit. But seriously, people were all over the place, it was crowded and loud. There’s crap of boxes everywhere. And I went into the self checkout lane, but the lady behind me was all over my personal space, like literally standing next to me. I just wanted to tell her to back off. Ugh. The other time I tried to go to Walmart (I needed some sponge and cleaning supplies) the parking lot was just crazy busy, I just decided to go to Walgreens instead. I’d rather pay 2 dollars more for something than mess with that.

Anyway, before my Walmart trip, Brian and I went to an open house. There’s a house for sale that’s right across from our complex. I could easily be a 5 minute walk. It was a such a nice house. All it needed was an update on the appliances and fixtures. However the price was about 30K more than what it should be. The only thing nice about it was the hardwood floors and plantation shutters. The yard was TINY and the bedrooms and kitchen was small. I know we want to live closer to work, but it just seems like all the houses in this area just doesn’t fit what I’m looking for and it would take a lot of work and money to renovate something, particularly since neither of us are that useful. Oh well, we’ll keep looking. I want to be out of the apt by the time our lease ends.