Wishful Wednesday

Kelsey at The Seattle Smith's is hosting a weekly Wishful Wednesday. Each week will have a new topic. Join in on the fun!


Today's wishful Wednesday is:

'I wish' .... I could go back in time and change one decision I made,

and it would be ____!

I wish if I could go back in time and change one decision I made, it would be to change my major in college. I was so interested in the classes I took as a Criminal Justice Major, but really did not think about after graduation. Once I graduated, I had no idea where to go from there. I wanted to be a juvenile probation officer, but everywhere I went they told me I needed experience. If I couldn't get a job, how could I get experience? I was frustrated to say the least! BUT, I guess that ultimately lead to my desire to be a school counselor. I have 1 year of classes and 1 year of practicum left before I will officially be a school counselor! I'm very excited about that, but wished I would have decided to be a teacher while in college, I think I still would have gone on to get my masters in School Counseling, but at least I would have the teaching under my belt already! O well, we live and learn right? :-)

Score!

This weekend when I went shopping with my Mom, I scored these babies for a mere $7.00!! Yes, you heard right! What a score! I'm wearing them today and I love them. They are actually pretty comfortable for flat shoes! They are Steve Madden Adaline sandles.

ABC's of Me

Because I need a break today, I've decided to do the ABC's of Me. I got this from Meredith over at La Buena Vida

A -Age: 24
B- Bed Size: Queen
C- Chore you hate: Dusting!!!
D- Dog's Name: Bear
E- Essential starts to your day: A Shower, I cannot leave the house without a shower
F- Favorite Color: Light pink
G- Gold, Silver, or Platinum: REAL silver. Not sterling. I also likewhite gold. Thanks Meredith!
H- Height: 5'0"
I- Instruments you play: I don't play any currently, but in school I played: (get ready) the piano, viola, Saxophone, and the clarinet. None of which I can still play today... Sorry Mom & Dad for wasting your money!
J- job: Work for Big Brothers Big Sisters
K- Kids: None yet
L-Living Arrangements: Our own house.
M- Moms name: Joleen
N- Nicknames: K, K-LA, KK, Sis, Bert (don't ask), Shorty
O- Overnight stay in the hospital other then Birth: None, thank goodness!
P- Pet Peeve: When people make little noises with their pens, mouths, shoes, you name it... I can't handle little noises like the clicking of a pen, nonstop! I also hate when people don't pay you back.
Q- Quote from a movie: Gosh, that's too hard to choose!
R- Right or Left handed: Right
S- Siblings: One brother & one brother-in-law
T- Time you wake up: Weekdays 7:01 am; Weekends 8:00 or so.
U- Underwear: I prefer American Eagles
V- Vegetable you dislike: Brussel sprouts
W- Ways you run late: I have a million in one reasons... We are usually late, not super late, but defiantly not early!
X- X-rays you've had: back, neck, knees, ankle, teeth
Y- Yummy food you make: Lasagna and french dip subs are the hubby's favorite
Z- Zoo Favorite: Giraffe

PS- I'd love to see the ABC's of YOU!

Dear Plastic Water bottle makers,

I understand you want to be Green. We all strive in someway to help our environment, but is it necessary to make the new water bottles with plastic that is so thin that you always end up having to squeeze the bottle to open the darn thing and water gets everywhere? Really? Could we make it a little bit thicker, my desk, computer, papers & clothes thank you!

Sincerely,

ME

September Goals

It's a good thing I have all of you to remind me to do this each month! I'm terrible at remembering things like that! Seriously, I might as well be 80 with the memory I have sometimes! So, here goes nothing!

September & October are my favorite months. I've decided to post my goals for the next two months instead of just one, that way I have more time to complete them! (yes, that is cheating, I know!)

1) Buy a new (to us) car

2) Continue to buy a few Christmas gifts just to get a head start

3) Celebrate my mom's 50th!!!

4) Celebrate my parents 31st Wedding Anniversary! (How cool is that??)

5) Prepare for my friend, Pammy's visit in Sept!

6) Bake a pie (I have NEVER EVER done this before)- Any suggestions??

7) Get our gutters/downspouts/soffits replaced (which means we'll be poor for the next year because of it)

8) Get plenty of quotes for said gutters/downspouts/soffits so that we aren't ripped off!

9) Keep up on classwork since this is the hardest class of my program. Research & Stats, yuck!

10) Go on a mini-vacation with my Hubby for our 1st Anniversary! We're actually (don't make fun), going to Chicago and we're going to go to 6 Flags when they have their fright fest. Our first official date was to a haunted house, so we thought what a better way to celebrate the last year! We're staying for 3-4 days and on our actual anniversary (Oct. 4th) we're going to have a romantic dinner at some restaurant in Chicago and rent a hotel suite :-) I'm pretty excited!

11) Participate and help at our Big Brothers Big Sisters Annual Bowl For Kids Sake

12) Visit my In-laws and take care of their pets so that they can go up to a bed & breakfast (that we purchased for them as a thank you at our Rehearsal dinner)

13) (Last but not least) Workout 4-5 times a week and take my multivitamins daily!! O, and take time to enjoy the leaves turning in our backyard, buy pumpkins to carve and drink hot apple cider from a local orchard!

Yeah, it's a long list, but I think it's pretty doable for these next two months. Maybe I'll make November & December a bit harder! What are your fall goals??

Weekend Recap

This weekend was so great!

Friday night we sold my hubby's car private party for much more than that stupid dealership wanted to give us... I'm talking almost double...

We then decided to celebrate by first going to Old Navy's Stuff & Save event where we scored some great finds! We then went to Las Margarita's and I had a huge margarita and some delicious food!
While we were eating this conversation took place:

Hubby- (At 7:02pm) O shoot, we were suppose to be eating with my co-workers at 7 tonight! It's Jochen's last day. We'll just meet up after dinner for a drink or two

Me- Sounds great (while sipping my margarita that is only 1/4 gone)

Hubby- (5 minutes later)- Are you ready to go yet?

Me- Uh.... I don't think I'll be having a drink at the next stop as I have to chug 1/2 of my 16oz margarita!!

Hubby- Well good, by the time we're ready to leave the bar, you'll be good to drive.

Me- Jee, thanks!

After dinner, we headed to the bar for a few drinks with friends. We ended up staying out way too late (that's actually only 11:00) because my friend from work, Katie, headed out to meet us.

We were able to sleep in on Saturday, until 8:00am! haha yeah yeah, I know... Not much sleeping in. We woke up, made breakfast and I set out to start cleaning the house. I met up for lunch with my friend, Jill, and then headed home to finish cleaning. I got the entire house cleaned, FINALLY! It needed it so bad. We stayed home Friday night and had one of Jesse's friends over for a cookout and to play some Call of Duty. Yes, I know what you're thinking. I actually like the game only because I'm not half bad at it! Don't judge me!

Sunday we slept in a bit later, hubby got up to mow the grass and I finished some laundry and made breakfast for the two of us. My mom came to visit for the day and we went for lunch with Jesse. Afterwards, we hit up the mall and TJ Max. I actually got some great finds there! I also scored a pair of Steve Maden sandles from Younkers for $7.50! (reg. $52.00) I was pumped! After shopping, my mom wanted to get back on the road. I cooked dinner and hubby washed & detailed my car. Which was so nice of him, it looks great! I then settled in to watch a bit of TV and catch up on my google reader!

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend! We'll be traveling again this weekend, but only part of it so that's good! I also have to share with you the great ETSY finds that were delivered to my door today! Maybe tomorrow!

All About Us!

I got this from Miss Honey Dew

♥ What are your middle names?
Kayla Jo
Jesse Adam

♥ How long have you been together?
2 years 11 months

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
a week or so

♥ Who asked whom out?
It was both of us, he wasn't really good at talking to women (about dating) so I had to step it up, but he actually officially asked me on a date first

♥ How old are each of you?
me- 24
him- 27

♥ Whose siblings do/did you see the most?
Mine, because my brother is closer, but we try to see his brother as often as possible

♥ Do you have any children together?
Not yet!

♥ What about pets?
Bear(dog)- He'll be 6 in September and he is the biggest baby! Josie & Allie are our cats and they complete our little family for now. Our life would be so boring with out pets, I don't know how people do it!

♥ Did you go to the same school?
Nope. I went to Loras College, J went to The University of Wisconsin Platteville

♥ Who is the smartest?
When it comes to technical things, cars, how things work, etc... It's him, but we are both common sense smart :)

♥ Who is more sensitive?
O, me for sure!

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
We like to change it up ever now and then. We love Chinese though!

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Mexico for our honeymoon

♥ Who has the craziest exes?
hmmmm that's probably a toss up

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Him, for sure. Though I can crack every once in awhile

♥ Who does the cooking?
Me. He cooks every now and then and he does all of our grilling

♥ Who is more social?
Probably me. But we both like to stay home quite often.

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
probably more so me.

♥ Who is more stubborn?
Him. Though, once again, I can be pretty stubborn.

♥ Who hogs the bed?
Me. I usually wake up with Bear on the right side of me in the middle of the bed and J is almost falling off.

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
Him. He wakes up about 30 minutes earlier than I do on most days. Except for the weekends, we always get up together.

♥ Where was your first date?
On a motorcycle ride. yes, I know... What.was.I.Thinking.... haha

♥ Who has the bigger family?
Immediate family, we have the same size family. Extended family, mine is huge compared to his.

♥ Do you get flowers often?
No. I get them on very very very rare occasions. (I'm talking, almost two years ago was the last time I got flowers) but, being the engineer that he is, he feels that they are not practical because they die so quickly.

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Hitting every place possible. His parents life 4 hours from us and mine live 1.5 hours away. we always try to spend time with both sides of our families because it's what we feel we should do. (And we want to do it too)

♥ Who is more jealous?
I'd say neither. Maybe me a bit more.

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
For me it was almost immediately, but for him it took a couple months. being burned in a past relationship made him leery, but I sure proved him wrong and I even told him I would :-)

♥ Who eats more?
Him. But I can eat my fair share.

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
Me. If I ask for help folding, he will pitch in, but I'm stuck doing 98% of it.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Him. He has more patients with the computer than I do.

♥ Who drives when you are together?
Him. Ever since we started dating he's been the driver. I'm not a huge fan of driving, and he loves it.

You can tell we're actually not traveling this weekend because I have time to post! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!