happenings

I haven't written lately! I know. I'm horrible! And so much has happened!
We booked the venue AND a photographer!
His name is John Shim, and this is his website: http://www.johnshim.com/
He's very talented and we are so happy that he is going to be shooting our wedding!

I have been super falling more and more in love with my fiance! It still feels amazing and awesome to say that! We have had crazy days lately. Just a lot of going and going and not much time for relaxing! We went crafting and got supplies to make bunting and went antiquing some more and he found some real cool suspenders this weekend that he is going to wear to the wedding!

We went to North Carolina to see his Poppy (mine too now I guess!) this weekend. Friday we went and finalized some stuff with our venue, which we were pleasantly surprised that it had been expanded for the same price that we paid for when it was smaller, then Saturday we drove up and spent the day walking and holding hands and spending time with family and eating way too much food. We went antiquing in Greensboro and got some delicious chai tea at a cool coffee shop where Santa was drawing pictures, found some cool stuff for Nathan, but not so much for me, but it's ok :) Today we went to church and ate more tons of good food and I am stuffed! We stopped at another antique store in Lavonia that was incredible, but we didn't have enough time to look at everything in there! It was humongous! Then we went and ate pizza and talked about married life and what we want and got some scratch off lotto tickets (I won 2 free tickets!) and laughed a lot :) We also locked my keys in the car this morning after church... but all ended up well with only a few bad words said. (Just kidding)

I started a new job at the school! It doesn't pay awesome, but the schedule is great and anything is better than nothing! Most of that money is going to go towards the wedding! I just want to get married right now. I love Nathan so much. He's the sweetest! The other day I was having a bad day (it happens...I'm a girl) and he kept calling me his cinnanom bun. Yes, cinnanom. So when he came over to see me he brought me some cinnamon doughnuts from Krispy Kreme :) He's wonderful! And I need to snatch him up quick and for forever!

I need to start working on my nursing stuff since I go back in less than a month... Oh man. Am I looking forward to it? Yes... and no. It was stressful and wonderful and I learned a lot, but it strained a lot. I lost social time, free time, fiance (then boyfriend!) time, and sleep. I lost a lot of sleep. But, I am looking forward to learning more and edging closer and closer to my degree. I need prayers!

G'night!

pretty walk at Poppy's house

venue!

suspenders!

expanded venue!

it's almost the end...

of my first semester of nursing school! After much stressing (there's still a lot of that to come, I'm sure), I can safely and confidently say that I am going into my finals with all B's and I hope that I'll be able to keep them :) I owe it all to God and the thoughts and prayers from my friends.

My new job is going pretty good, although I wish they would give me less hours, but again, I should be thankful that I have one in the first place.

I have found my perfect engagement ring. Nathan says it's too much money. I don't think so, but I guess I'm not the one buying it eh?
It looks like this:

Plain and simple and beautiful.

, except for the stone isn't that big and it's like $3,000. Yes Puh-leeze.

Also, I'm sick. Fever, chills, runny nose, stuffy nose, sore nose ;(

I can't wait for Thanksgiving.

I should be studying, but that's no fun.

I might have a job! I took a drug test today for a pharmaceutical company that will work with me around school. Hopefully it's a done deal and I'll be making money.
Boyfriend is gone on business and this makes me sad and I miss him a lot. I can't wait for him to come back on Wednesday :) It will be sweet.
I don't know why I haven't been shopping at Goodwill. I got some cute stuff there today for like 20 bucks.
I'm exhausted, but I can't sleep because I have to ultimately study for things that I don't want to study for.
I got to take some pictures on Friday with Nate downtown, so I got my photo itch scratched a little bit. I want to take more pictures of people! I want to make this happen.

Sweet Progress.

Well, life has been going pretty swimmingly lately. I feel immensely blessed!

In an update from last month, I will probably go to the nursing school that accepted me, but I have an interview at another one on Thursday! Choices are always better than being forced to go one way without a say, so I'm still excited. :)

My dad is sober now and doing well. I'll continue to pray about that! My mom loves her job and her boss treats her wonderfully and with respect, which is something she wasn't used to having worked for huge corporations. My brother is still my brother and doing brotherly things.

My love life has take a good turn. I am still dating the hipsterjack guy, which is going extremely well. I met his family last night for his birthday. :) I am in puppy love for sure. OH! He is not going to Chicago! My prayers were answered, and it seems that I am doing something right because God wanted him to stay for some reason or another. This guy... he is just the best. We get along amazingly, he's sweet, smart, and super talented. I can't wait to see where this takes me. :)

School is... school. I am getting burnt out again. I guess 2 years straight of school will do that to you. Just 2 more and I'll be done and making money and living on my own! (Unless the world implodes in 2012, in which case my degree won't matter and all of my stress would have been for naught.) Algebra is kicking my butt, and it's so hard to make it to my 9:00 class in the morning.Work is decent. I have to work a lot lately which cuts into study time at school (which drives me insane) and date time (which helps me keep my sanity), so I will have to see. This week though I have 4 days off after Monday! Tuesday I have to meet Hipsterjack's best friends and their wives. We aren't "officially" boyfriend/girlfriend yet, but I like where it's going. :)

All in all, things are going really well besides the fact that I am physically and mentally drained.