New year: new posts

I forgot I had a blog.  College will do that to you.  Now that I've graduated, I'm going to start dedicating some time to posting more often.


Some things about me and my life right now:
I'm newly engaged, moved in with my fiance, and am frantically planning my wedding.  Not that I'm doing it shotgun style, or anything.  In fact, it's a fairly long engagement.  I just do everything frantically.

I'm not teaching right now and it kills me.  I'm actually a nanny, now that I've graduated.  Most boring job I've ever had.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THAT CHILD.  He's 5 and incredible.  With a bit of structure, he's the most behaved kid ever.  However, he has no special needs and is actually REALLY smart for his age.  It's not exactly a challenge.

I've decided to volunteer as an adult literacy tutor.  My brain is far too bored to keep going on this way.   I'm very excited to start this endeavor and am sure it will lead to many posts.

I'm also absolutely, positively, addicted to pinterest.  It's ridiculous.  It's done interesting things for my sleep and anxiety levels.  Oddly enough, when I'm on pinterest, I have NO wedding anxiety.  It's when I get off that I have anxiety.  I think that's actually a legitimate addiction.

Needless to say, the reaction my sleep is having is not favorable.  Added anxiety+a fun alternative to sleep=lauren on pinterest for hours while her fiance whines about her incessant clicking.

He'll survive.  I might not, but I'll enjoy being brought down by the internet!

I'll leave you with my new mantra (which is the cover of my planning binder).

A wedding is a celebration, not a performance.  If, at the end of the day, you are married to the one you love, everything went perfectly. 

Talk about anxiety: plan a wedding!

The dress is bought.  I'd post it, but I don't want my FH to see it.  It desperately needs a sash.  Since I found this giveaway, I've been having trouble sleeping just thinking about winning it.  A teacher salary does not make for an extravagant wedding, so my once-wed dress and a free sash would make me look as fortunate as I feel.  I can't wait for the giveaway to end so that I can know if I won it or not! Otherwise, it's off the the change jar to start saving pennies that aren't budgeted to buy this sash!!