I Wanna Be a BLOGGER!

So I know I've mentioned it a few times before but I love reading blogs and even get kind of obsessed. These "every day" 20 something's that are just "ordinary girls" are fricken gorgeous, always have the perfect makeup and hair, and have a talent for self portraits in their mirrors. It's like their super power or something! And I am thru the roof jealous of them and their adorable and yet witty little blogs. I want to write like them!! I mean, I wouldn't hate LOOKING like them either, but definitely like their writing personalities, their wit, and all the creative/entertaining things they do. 

For example, yesterday before I posted my blog post I read some my favorites. The Reader's Digest version is that one of them went out wining and dining every night this weekend and looked gorgeous doing it (I'd turn in to a double wide if I ate out that much and pry would have to upgrade into the next size of jeans), leaving a picture trail of everything she ate---wowza! Then I flip to the next blog and see that she just spent her weekend at Disney world or somewhere with Mickey ears in her picture and drinking fruity drinks in the warm weather...also looking disgustingly adorable. Hello?!

Moral of this story? I'm wondering if that can possibly be real life. Where do they get the time to do all this? Or the energy? Or the money?! How did I spend MY day you ask? Well I spent 8 hours in a room learning crisis prevention and what to do when patients pull my hair, or try to choke me out, or bite me (other than knock them upside the head...because they hit me first!! But that's assault...ugh).  Let me tell you--not exciting. This was followed by wing and beer night after work with Derek's coworker (let's be honest--wings and beer is delish), then nursing my fat full tummy while watching new episodes of The Voice and New Girl, and finally hiding in the bedroom writing this blog while Derek and Oswald have a fart-off in the living room (woofta). It's no Disney--this is #reallife. Is it weird that I think my life is pretty fantastic?! Ha!

Oh-I think my self portraits are pretty fantastic too! What do you think?! Be jealous.

Peace and blessings :)

Livin' La Vida Procrastination

      I am currently on my 5th day off from work in a row and I must say it feels FANTASTIC! I could totally get used to this life! I feel completely 100% rested for the first time in I don't know how long and I had been looking forward to this time off for a few weeks now because I had big plans to be uber productive during this 5 days off. How productive have I been? NOT AT ALL. As expected I slept way late on Thursday and sat around pinning and facebooking until Derek got home. This was capped off by supper and catching up on our shows we missed from the beginning of the week. 

     Since productivity wasn't in the cards on Thursday I made a list of everything I wanted to get done for Friday. Oswald had a dog grooming appointment at 9:00. After that I found myself wandering the aisles of Hobby Lobby (not productive). Then when I came home I figured I'd do a little blogging. Did you see a blog posted here on Friday? me either. Instead, I turned the TV on to CMT and found myself reading up on the blogs that I follow ---->

when all of a sudden the music videos switched to Extreme Makeover Home Edition reruns (which I HATE). However, this particular episode featured special guests Michael Oher and Leigh Anne Tuohy....so I was intrigued...and within the first 5 minutes I was sitting there crying like a damn baby. I'm not talking about a few tears streaming down my face either. I'm talking full fledged red eyes, ugly faced bawling in the middle of my living room. It was utterly pathetic--but an amazing episode--I recommend you look it up if you're in the mood for a tear jerker.

By the time I got my composure back it was time to pick up the Oz man. After picking up my new little furry black wiener dog I thought a nice little road trip around town sounded delightful because it was such a beautiful sunny day (don't kid yourself-it was still WAY too cold for spring)---and I ended up driving around looking for houses for sale and grabbing the little pamphlets for 3+ hours! Once again--not productive. 

Once I got home I continued the house search online for a few more hours and when I finely decided to  get up and get some house cleaning done, I looked over to see my adorable puppy curled up on the bed taking a nap--so I did the SAME THING...until Derek came home from work. Can we say lazy pile of dog doo?!

On a bright- semi productive note-- I found a handful of houses that I love and are in our price range. So next step--meet with a realtor later this week. I'll keep you updated on the happenings!

SOOOO....what did we learn from this post of ramblings?? Well how about that if procrastination were in the Olympics I would be a gold medalist..or at the very LEAST a silver or bronze...and also---my new furry black wiener dog is adorable!

Before the new 'do

After-- my furry wiener dog

Peace and Blessings :)

Busy Bee

This week has been a very productive, exciting, scary, slightly stressful week = BUSY! First off I've been engaged for 2 weeks now and all I had accomplished was buying a wedding planning book (of course I'd only got as far as the first 5 pages), so I figured it was about time I sat down and did something productive. Oh my gosh was my ADD brain just rollin'!

I only have a couple hundred ideas as too how I see this wedding being put together and I must say its all falling together pretty close to perfectly! Most of you know that I'm not a real fancy person by nature. Now don't get me wrong, I like nice things but I'm not in to real extravagant things. So it may come as no surprise to some when I announce that Derek and I will officially tie the knot August 9, 2014 in a BARN!! It is a gorgeous barn located in the Amana Colonies, which is easily my favorite place on the face of this earth!

As a kid growing up, my sisters and I spent many summers there with our great Aunt Fern and Uncle Carl visiting all the historic shops and restaurants and getting little lessons on our German heritage. I am beyond excited to share this sweet sweet town with friends and family (new and old) that have never been before !! It'll be amazing :)

It's also a pretty incredible feeling to see how many people you know who have talents and ideas they are willing to share to help you put your special day together. Between decorations, photography, flowers, and even officiating our wedding, are amongst the many things friends and family are offering/willing to help with and I couldn't feel more blessed!

Nailing down a wedding date at an amazing venue was the most exciting. Then yesterday Derek and I took another leap into full fledged adulthood when we went to the bank to get pre approved for a house loan (the scary)!! AAAHhh!! I just sat there with nervous sweats feeling like Lily from How I Met Your Mother waiting for the loan officer to spill the beans that my credit score is crap and we wouldn't get a loan because of me...anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone? Good news though! I'm no Lily and aside from living in the shadows of my student loans I'm not doing too bad. So on to the house hunting! We have our reality check and our price range. All that's left is the stressful job of finding our future home... No pressure right??!! Life here is full of BIG but EXCITInG changes!! Woofta...beer me!

Peace and blessin's

It Ain't Curin'

Me+Honkin' Nose+Big {nerd} glasses= Amy Farrah Fowler?!

There are several things as of late that have me feeling a little butt hurt. The first being told a few days ago that I "look like somebody-but don't be offended".  The thing is- if you have to say "but don't be offended" then you probably shouldn't have even brought it up and you definitely shouldn't say it! Is that not true?! Are you wondering who I look like? Well, apparently I look like non other than Sheldon's (think Big Bang Theory) girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler. Aka BLOSSOM!

Amy Farrah Fowler= Me?!

Really? Do I really deserve to be compared to Blossom?! I understand that my nose is a little larger than the norms and that I choose to where big rimmed glasses that can come across on the nerdier side but I'd rather be compared to Zoey Deschanel from New Girl rather than Sheldon's girlfriend!! Count me officially offended. 

I have also become a little sore from the slow realization that I'm getting old. What makes me think that? Aside from the birthday I just celebrated a few weeks ago that blatantly signifies I'm getting older, I just haven't been feeling like my young self lately. For starters, I haven't been able to hold down my liquor like I used to. Case in point- several weeks ago I had a really long busy week and when 5:00 rolled around on Friday I was ready for a drink! So, I made a little mixed drink (or two) for myself (which were delicious), and then all I heard in my head was a good southern friend's advice-"It'll cure what ails ya!" and decided to mix some cherry moonshine with coke. The next thing I knew, it wasn't curin' nothin'....but it sure was ailin'! I was puking my guts out... what's that about?! It took well into Sunday morning to manage any bit of normalcy and I can't even remember the last time I threw up! Remember when you could go out drinking on Thirsty Thursday, wake up and go to 8AM class, then work, and STILL go out again Friday night and probably Saturday? That wasn't THAT long ago....was it?! 

Or how about this Saturday my sister came over with a bottle of wine after I got off work at 7:30 and after 2 SIPS of wine I was stuffed up and ready for my pajamas and bed time! But I powered through to two glasses of wine though before it was lights out for me. I used to drink an entire bottle of wine by myself...this time I barely finished a GLASS!! I am far unimpressed with this thing called aging...

I'm pretty sure there was another example of me turning old and shriveling up but now I can't remember......UGH SEE!! I'm losing my memory now to!! Er, wait....I've always been forgetful so who am I kidding.

In unrelated news- I've spent a total of 2 days now planning wedding stuff and am having a FANTASTIC time!! No joke! I'm still living in the early blissful FUN part of planning--reality hasn't backhanded me yet. But even when it does (I'm no fool, I know it will), I refuse to be stressed! I'll just keep chanting {Too Blessed to Be Stressed}

No official date yet- still trying to pin down the venue and other little details but I'll be sure to post more details as I have them (but not TOO many-- I still want most of the details to remain a mystery until the day of!) Anyway- happy Hump day all! Celebrate accordingly :)

Pigs Really Do Fly

So the big news--hell has frozen over and pigs are flying because I'M ENGAGED people!!

Here's the skinny:

This weekend we were back in town to celebrate some high school classmates of ours' marriage. It was a beatiful wedding and so much fun! In true Sarah fashion I drank my weight in beer and was feeling less than stellar when I woke up Sunday morning. However, we had plans to go to Derek's parents' for breakfast/brunch so I threw my yoga pants, target T, and scarf on. Brushed my hair and covered up the ugly on my face and hit the road. After brunch and a couple games of pool with his dad and brothers, Derek started freaking out that he had accidentally left his brother's watch that he was wearing at the wedding reception and we needed to go look for it before we headed home. Side note: Still had no idea anything was going on-why? because I forget/lose things at weddings ALL THE TIME! For example there is still a pair of black dress sandals I have yet to collect from a wedding almost two years ago. Heck-- I can't even remember to BRING things to a wedding that I need....like my bridesmaid dress, amirite?!

Anyway- once we got to the event center Derek asked me to come in and help him look for it because "it could be anywhere". So I rolled my eyes and went in with him. The place definitely looked like an abandoned party with the canopy of lights from the ceiling still on and tables filled with empty beer cups. As we walked to the table we had sat at the night before I noticed a bunch of glass votives on the floor with candles lit. First thought: why would Jade (the wedding planner) leave candles lit on the floor?! How stupid! Until I turned around to Derek asking me to sit down--in a chair conveniently located in the middle of all the lit candles, something I had yet to notice. As I did that he sat right down on my lap and recreated the infamous moment by "confessing" his love and proposing we leave for Vegas and get married! Then he got off my lap and on his knee, pulled out a gorgeous ring and said "or we could just do it the normal way"(or something like that ;) weird how the details fade once they get down on a knee huh? This was proceeded by huge smiles and kisses and yada yada. 

So that's it! That's how it happpened- there is no plans made yet for this exciting event we like to call a "wedding". However since so many friends and family members are at that stage in life where they are trying to build their little families I would just like to throw Fall 2014 out there. So....plan accordingly ;)

Sorry I wasn't able to tell everyone in person-- the engagement has been shadowed with a phone with a smashed screen (I get glass shards in my fingers from texting--neato), and a crazy 60+ hour work week. Being a grown up is so over rated sometimes. Peace and blessings ;)