WEDDINGS

Say Yes to the Dress

Bridezillas

Who's Wedding Is It Anyway?

True Life: I'm Getting Married

I LOVE THEM ALL.

I'm not engaged and I'm not getting married anytime soon, but I love weddings. I'm that girl who gushes over wedding pictures of friends (and even strangers!) on facebook. I even have a folder on my computer entitled WEDDING. It's where I copy & past wedding ideas, dresses, or photos I like. Creepy I know.

Last week a girl that I work with became engaged. We've become close over the last few months (which we should be, because she's marrying my cousin) and when she told me the news the first thing that came to mind was, "YES! I GET TO HELP YOU PLAN YOUR WEDDING!" Yesterday and today her and I have been looking up churches online, wedding photographers, invitations, and going through her In Style Wedding Book. I love it all. Maybe wedding-planner should have been my calling in life.

For their honeymoon they're going to Greece. I'm super jealous. A couple that Fred and I know are getting married IN Greece next Spring. I wish we were invited. I tell Fred all the time I'm jealous.

I can't wait to plan my wedding in a few years. I'll be even more financially stable and will be able to have the wedding of my dreams.

A WEEKEND AT THE LAKE

((this is a picture of Rachel and I from last summer, you can tell we LOVE the water))

OUR WEEKEND!

This past weekend I went to one of my favorite places, Lake Gaston!

My grandparents have a house right on the water and I've been going there every summer since I was a little girl. My whole family (great uncles & aunts ,friends, cousins, and in-laws) is usually down there most weekends.

My bestfriend from high school, Rachel was able to come with me. I really enjoyed spending quality time with her, since we're both busy with work + boyfriends. Her and I are so freakishly similar that people even ask if we're cousins. Even if we don't see each other very often, when we're together we're always having a good time and laughing (and planning our future weddings).

We even left the lake early Sunday morning and heading down to my other favorite place, The Prime Outlets in Williamsburg! We had a fun time shopping and goofing off.

I was not looking forward to Monday.

I wish the week-end could last forever.

BODY PILLOW

Christmas puppy, Dino, Duke and Polar Bear.

I use to sleep with all 4 of these guys growing up.

Christmas puppy when I was a baby,

Dino the dinosaur elementary school years,

Duke going into middle school

&

Polar bear throughout college.

I couldn't go to sleep if they weren't with me. My parents would have to turn the car around if I left one of them at a hotel,grandparents house, or in some bizzare place. I don't know what it was about stuffed animals but they made me feel so safe. I had to be holding onto them so tightly when I would curl up in bed at night.

I'm 24 now about to turn 25 and I don't have a stuffed animal anymore. I know my big Polar Bear is somewhere in my house, but I don't need him like I use to.

Now I just grab onto my make-shift body pillow even though I have a pink felt body pillow that I ignore on the end of my bed.

The only reason I bought the pink body pillow is because when I was a freshman going into college my roommate and I decided to decorate our room PINK & GREEN. I saw the body pillow at Target and threw it in the basket only because it was pink.

I never once slept with it.

It was big and awkward and it would usually end up on the floor when I would toss and turn at night. I still took the body pillow with me to school all 4 years of college. When I didn't use, someone else would.

When my boyfriend was in middle school he was on vacation with his entire family. Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and cousins. They had stopped in this little country store to take a bathroom break, eat, and get back on the road. With all those people in 3 different cars it wasn't hard to leave someone behind. That someone was Fred. Fred had lagged behind and didn't realize his entire family had left him. His parents assumed he was in the other car and the other 2 cars assumed he was with his parents. After about 15minutes they realized Fred was not in the car and turned around. When they pulled up Fred was sitting outside the store crying. His parents felt TERRIBLE. Everyone else was laughing at him. To make up for "forgetting Fred" his mom went inside the store and bought him a COCA-COLA BODY PILLOW.

Fred has slept with the Coca-Cola body pillow every night since then. It's his "stuffed animal."

I liked his body pillow better than my pink body pillow. His was actually a pillow that felt cool on my skin when I would sleep at night. Mine was felt material and annoying. Our sleeping routine is that I'm lucky to get body pillow for a few minutes. Somehow Fred will weasle the pillow out of my arms, roll over, and fall into a deep slumber. He has to have it. If his house was on fire, his body pillow would be the first thing he'd grab.

Tonight I received a terrible text from Fred:

"Cooley ate my body pillow."

((Cooley is his room mate's dog))

I replied with,

"Oh my god, are you going to be okay?"

He said,

"I don't know yet, I'm still in a state of shock."

Have you had something that you've held onto for a long time?

R.I.P. Coca-Cola Body Pillow

REALITY TV

I'm 24 years old and I'm still obsessed with reality television. Last night I found myself watching repeats of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and Kourtney&Khloe. Even though I've already watched the repeats before I can't seem to pull myself away. I think Kourtney is gorgeous and when I'm watching the show I'm admiring her outfits, her hair, her makeup and her post-baby body. I am jealous of her life. I want to be a Kardashian - not a HALL. Khloe's funny and I like her a lot, but I think I relate to Kourtney the most on the show. She's in a relationship with Scott Disick that is both good and bad. I've been in a relationship like that before. She's also keeps to herself like me. Khloe is very outspoken and not afraid to express her opinion - most of my friends are like this. When Khloe yells at Kourtney about Scott I know exactly how Kourtney feels. Not that people yell at me about my boyfriend. I know how it is to have someone loudly express their opinion to me and my reaction is to shut it out or walk away.

My friend asked me yesterday on g-chat to pick who I would want to Fuck, Kill, or Marry out of the Kardashians. I responded with: Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney. It got me to thinking why do we care so much about this family? Bruce is actually the only STAR in the family (he was an Olympic athlete). Kim is known for her sex tape and nobody else in the family has done anything spectacular (except marrying celebs) or being the children of the father who was one of the attorney's who represented O. J. Simpson.

Eitherway, I'm still obsessed with Kourtney. She makes being a mother look easy (compared to the teenagers over on TEEN MOM) and she's motivation to stay in shape after having a baby! I'm nowhere near ready to start a family but I'm always telling my boyfriend, "Ew, I'm not letting myself go. I want to look good for you forever!" We're coming up on our 3 year anniversary in October and I'm still concerned about staying in shape and looking good for him. Yes, he loves me for me. He doesn't care if I'm in a t-shirt and no makeup, but I do. Him and I were both very active throughout HS and College. Now that we're working 40+ hours a week we don't have time to stay as active. Even though I go to the gym and he has softball once a week - it's hard work. I guess my motivation is watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians (minus using the Quick Trim).

Even though I know reality telivsion isn't reality - then why do I try to conform to what I'm watching?

HELLO BLOG, I'VE MISSED YOU

Wow! The last time I blogged was May 11? It's been over 3 months but Sunday night I had an overwhelming feeling come over me and I just wanted to write. My friend Denise has helped me out with my blog because I am not HTML savy. I promised her I'd start blogging again. I've always been nervous about what to write or how to explain what I feel. Especially when I read Denise's blog and others. They can easily open up and their lives seem so much more exciting...more mature than mine. That's why I'm just going to write what I know and how I feel and I'm not going to worry about what other people think of me.

With that said,

Today at work I started thinking about how fast summer has gone by. Before long it's going to be September.My social calendar is booked until the beginning of November! Between weddings, visiting friends, concerts, and Fred's birthday I am never in Richmond anymore. I'm going to the lake this weekend and hopefully next weekend. It feels weird because I haven't been at all this summer. I use to go all the time, but now that I'm working or spending most of my time with Fred in Arlington, I just haven't had time. I remember the days when I didn't have a job and all I would do is layout at the pool or go to the beach most weekends. The only beach I experienced this summer was Florida. My parents were in OBX at least 4 different times this summer. Man, I am growing up.

Even though I'm not looking forward to the warm weather leaving, I am looking forward to: the holidays, comfy sweaters, starbucks (Pumpkin Spice!), and 2010 wrapping up. I'm also looking forward to some upcoming Bridgewater reunions. Fred and I are going to visit The Holman's the end of September. Then in October a few Bridgewater girls and I are flying down to Atlanta to visit Jessica and the end of October Marianne is hosting a halloween party! I can't wait! Just thinking about fall makes me remember all of my favorite Bridgewater memories. College was the best time of my life. I have great memories and I made the best friends. I'm looking forward to making many more memories with these people. Everyone is growing up so fast! It's crazy to think that people are getting married AND have babies right now!

I wonder when all of that is going to fall into place for me...