My Trip of a Lifetime

What is an intresting fact about you that NO ONE knows about? People are surprised (and sometimes astonished or shocked) by the fact that I cuss sometimes. I don't come across as the type of person that would do that. I am the type that is quite and laid back. Are you a shy person who owns (or owned) a motorcycle?

Patrick and I are still narrowing down a song list. It could possibly change as time goes on, but we want several main songs picked out. Also, he has started on HIS side of the wedding guest list (which makes me proud seeing as how he did this on his own....I didn't have to ask!!!). It mostly consists of people that he works with and coworkers that might be moving away and want to come to see us get married. (Still, I'm proud that he's already started working on this.) I know that people at work will come. I plan on giving an invitation to my job to post in the break room. Also, I plan on sending invitations to certain coworkers that I REALLY want to come. (Understand that I work in a BUSY ER in downtown Birmingham.....not everybody can get off to come see me get married, so individual invitations to certain people will help alot....espically if you already have those certain people in mind.) I figure that if we get some of the smaller details done in advance, then we will ...

Just read a sad story ( www.al.com ) where an 8 year old boy died while swiming at a hotel pool. He was attending a birthday party. The group of children and adults were at the pool at night and decided to head back up to the room for the party. When the group got up there, the mother of the child asked where her son was. That's when police were called in to look for him. They found him at the bottom of the deep-end of the pool. He was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital. I do have a question and I do NOT want a war to start. I want everyone's HONEST opinions about this. Don't put others opinions down. If it gets ugle with the opinions, I WILL take the post down. So, my question is this: Who is to blame in this child's death--the hotel or the parents? REMEMBER THAT POOLS HAVE SIGNS WITH RULES AND A TIME THAT THEY ARE "CLOSED"....also there are NO lifeguards at hotel/motel/beach pools.

So, my fiancee and I are planning on going to Sips'N'Strokes tomorrow (Monday, April 25 2011). Yes, you read that right.....Patrick is taking me there tomorrow night from 7-9 to paint a flower. He's never been before, where I have been several times. What IS Sips'N'Strokes you ask? Well, it is a painting place. You go online and pick a day/picture that you want to paint. You have to pay online or at the store. Then you learn how to paint. The studio provides you with a mini easil, paint, paint brushes, and a cover for your clothes. Its really fun to do!!! So, yes, he is taking me to go paint a flower on a canvas. He wants to enjoy things that I do, like I enjoyu doing things that HE likes to do. Just hope he has fun!!!

So, I'm curious about something. Anaorexia. I think that I'm being blind to the fact that people think that they are "fat" all the time. I think that I'm fat, but I'm happy. Why can't people be HAPPY with how they look? I get that their are models, movie stars (well ALL actors are "skinny and sexy"), beautiful people are skinny. Well, I'm beautiful and I'm no where NEAR skinny. I'm like 100 lbs from being skinny. I'm still beautiful. You should tell yourself 1 thing, "I don't care what ppl think or say, I'm beautiful in MY own way. This is the way I was inteded on looking like." All people are beautiful in their own way, believe it or not. I just don't get the obsession of being SKINNY, of not eating, of only eating x-amount of calories/carbs a day (if any) to lose weight. To be that "perfect" size. There is NO PERFECT SIZE so all I can say is GIVE IT UP. I know it's hard to do. I know that th...

I've decided, that while blogging about my engagement and marriage, that I would do Thoughts For The Day. Today is day 1. (1) The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. (2) Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only shnshine he sees all day.

Engaged life.....it comes with its ups and downs, as does married life. So far, I haven't had a problem with my future in laws yet. It's my mom that has issues with my ideas and where I want the wedding location at. I don't think his family would care if I had it in Birmingham or Huntsville. My mom, on the other hand, does care. (Last time I checked it was MY wedding, not hers.) She'd rather I have it either here in Birmingham or somewhere in the middle of Birmingham and Huntsville. She keeps saying that it wouldn't be fir to make ppl drive 2 and a 1/2 hours to Huntsville. In my mind, if people come, then they come; they don't, then they don't. (Again, last time I checked, it was MY wedding, not hers.) So, what's yalls take on this whole situation? Should I have it in Huntsville, Birmingham, or somewhere in the middle?

Yes, the title is right: Ebay. I've started selling books that I no longer read or want anymore. I just sold my first one today for $0.99. The other book is STAR WARS DARK FORCES: SOLDIER FOR THE EMPIRE. It's selling for $25. If you have a son that's into Star Wars, then this is the book for him. I would put this book into an age range of 8-13 years old. I do plan on editing it and making it BUY IT NOW OR BEST OFFER. I'll take less or more than the offered price. My sellers name is manderin6262010. Feel free to check it out and make an offer!!!!!

Well, it's been slow. Granted my wedding isn't until August of 2012. I've gotten some ideas going and I've made a list of about 50 songs for seating during before the wedding starts, the processional, the rescsional, vows, and for certain dances of the reception. Patrick and I have been going through them and discussing them. We've take a few off and added others in their places. The colors that I like are burgandy and purpels. I like purpels for the flowers (that's what I've been leaning towards). Burgandy for maybe my dress (David's Bridal has 1 dress that has different colored sashes you can choose from). Blue is my favorite color, but with it being around the end of summer, it wouldn't do right (in my mind anyways). Haven't really looked at venues for the wedding/reception yet. I can't decide wether to have the wedding somewhere that can handle both a wedding AND a reception or if I want to have the wedding at one place and then the r...

Hi to everyone!!! I once had a blog on here (Band Nerd Goes Blogging), but eventually I stopped using it. But I have returned!!!!!! I recently got engaged to a man named Patrick. He work's at Cheesecake Factory (so VERY delicious Cheesecake Factory is). He is a WONDERFUL man and I couldn't ask for anyone better. I can, and will, say that I have had my share of guy troubles before I met Patrick. Now, no more. All of my issues with guys before Patrick are in the past, which is where they belong. No more looking back and taking a million steps back. I've learned from my past, now I am in the present, and looking towards the future. That's where the name of my blog came from. This is my trip of a lifetime.