Pros and Cons of Married Life

It is the best feeling to wake up and go asleep to the person you love.  However, it is not a good feeling when they are tossing and turning all night and you wake up at 4:45 AM and cannot go back to sleep.

Let me just share something about myself.  I LOVE SLEEP!  I have always been attached to the amount of sleep I get ever since I was a baby.  I pretty much slept the first two years of my life.  In fact the doctor yelled at my mom because she would let me sleep through meals...which is not a good thing for babies.  I prefer 11 hours of sleep but can get by on 9 hours of sleep a day.  I  probably get too much sleep but it is my escape from all stress....I loooove it!  If I could sleep as much as I wanted to, then I would probably be the skinniest person in the world because I would rather sleep than eat, if given the option to choose one.

Anyways, so with all that said, it is very hard for me to function the entire week when I only get 5 hours of sleep one night, such as last night.  I would like to think I am not being a baby.  I would like to believe that this is just how God made me....but I suppose it is a little bit of both.  Even though I am tired and I could let this affect my mood, I think this is a good day to "strengthen my character" and force myself to be positive, even if I am daydreaming about sleeping in the mean time :)

Old Age

Well I turn 25 in December, which is half-way to 50...1/4 way to 100!!!  Man, I am getting OLD!  i thought it might be time to create a bucket list and start checking thing off.  

1. Make a wreath for my front door

2. Visit Rome

3. Eat a meal from a food truck in Washington, D.C.

4. Go to the symphony

5. Go 1 week without watching TV 

6. Finally buy wedding pictures.

7. Hang wedding pictures

8. Go to the ballet with Josh...or a friend

9. Watch a Broadway show with Josh

10. Finish Josh's T-shirt quilt I started a year ago 

11. Go to the Olympic Game Farm Zoo in Washington to see the Kodiak Waving Bears

12. Lose 10 pounds!! 

13. Buy a video camera

14. Go snorkeling again 

15. Go to a shooting range 

16. Eat vegetarian for a month 

17. Become a die hard fan for a NFL team

18. Go bungee jumping 

19. Write in my journal every day for 1 month

20. Go rock climbing again

21. Finish my masters 

22. Take a picture each day for a 1 month 

23. Ride on a real train 

24. Read the Bible every day for a year

25. Go sky diving

26. Make a family Christmas card

27. Run a marathon

28. Get a yellow lab

29. Teach my new dog tricks

30. Personal scripture study every day for 1 month 

31. Visit friends in Los Angeles

32. Join the church choir 

33. Cook new meals

34. Go white water rafting again

35. Start playing the piano again

36. Go to an air show again

37. Buy cowboy boots  

38. See a concert with Josh

39. Spend time with grandparents once every two weeks

40. Get a marketing job

41. Stretch enough, so that I can do the splits again!

42. Fly a kite

43. Go to a haunted house 

44. Ride a mechanical bull 

45. Participate in triathlon

46. Have a second honeymoon in Hawaii

47. Go a cruise with Josh

48. Help the community

49. Have a forever implact on someone's life

50. Make Mom's beef stroganoff

51. Buy a homeless person lunch

52. Have a baby or two

53. Pay off all loans

54.  Buy, flip, and rent 25 houses/mobile homes

55. Go fishing with Josh 

56. Learn how to land a plane (in case of emergencies)

57. Ride a horse 

58. Go to an Aquarium  

59. Go to Ripley's Believe It or Not

60. Take a dancing lesson

61. Take a cooking class

62. Learn photography

63. Visit Williamsburg again

64. Go to Six Flags with Josh

65.  Make a hole-in-one

66. Take a hot-air balloon ride

67.  Change my own oil

68. Take a pottery class

69.  Visit my brother, Chris in CA or where he is stationed

70.  Buy a motorcycle

71.  Get my carrying permit for my gun

72.  Get my motorcycle license

73.  Build our dream home

74.  Do a juice fast again

75.  Do a lemon cleanse again

76.  Go camping

77. Float on the lazy river in VA

78.  Donate blood again

79.  Watch a comets show

80. Go to the Grand Canyon

81. Do 50 push - ups in a row

82.  Don't eat out for 1 month

83.  Go on a Riverwalk boat in Italy

84.  Go to a drive-in movie again

85. Provide insightful wisdom for my younger siblings
86. Speak French and Spanish fluently 
87. Buy a new car
88. See Florence & the machine in concert
89. See Kings of Leon in concert
90. See Mumford and Sons in concert
91. See Adele in concert
92. To be continued.......

Weekend disaster

Well even though it is half way through the week, better late than never.

I had high hopes for my weekend, but I should have known that things do not always go as planned.

Friday started out wonderful!  After work, Josh and I planned to have a double date with my parents (we do this often).  My parents were raving about how the commercials for The Grey looked so good.

Commercials are deceiving...but I will get to that later.  When we got to the Regal movie theater, we found out that the theater was closed because of sewage flooding.  Did I mention that Josh and I had free tickets/gift certificate to the Regal....poo, guess we will use them another time.  So we changed our plans and went to dinner first and decided to catch the movie at a later time in the theater near Memorial Ave (in the ghetto of Lynchburg, where a lot of people get mugged).

Dinner was really nice: good service at Logans, free peanuts, full belly, etc.  Well after dinner, I was so sleepy from my meal and the long day at work...I was at work at 6:30 AM that morning...enough said.  I did not feel like sitting through a 2 hour movie to begin with, but then....the worst happened.  We go see The Grey and it turns out to be the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life.  Not a dramatization, it literally was the worst thing I have ever seen/heard, mainly because the movie submitted a curse word every 2.75 seconds.  I have never heard the "F" word so many times in my life. I am convinced that the movie used the cursing for Morse Code, because the language did not serve a purpose.  It was almost as if they randomly through in a curse word here and there.

After a certain point, of hearing such filth, a rage inside me began to build.  Keep in mind, I am sitting in the movie with my parents....AWKWARD!.  So we debate walking out, which we should have.  But instead we were persuaded into thinking that the end must be great....WRONG.  It gets worse.  Liam Neeson because angrily accusing God that He is at fault for all the crud he went through in life (which probably relates to his real life).  And the movie pretty much portrayed God as a God puts people through "hell" on earth and then abandons them.  It made my heart hurt because some people actually believe that.  To rap this up, the ending was awful,  just like the movie.  Spoiler alert: Liam Neeson does not kill the alfa-male wolf.  It does not even show a fight...waste of 10 dollars.

On a lighter note, the rest of my weekend was great!  It was very relaxing, should have been more productive, but everyone deserves a couple days to just rest :)

Interactions with "Geeks"

I would like to take a moment to explain my normal work day in Information Technology Development:

My coworkers are all computer geeks who are much smarter than I am.  They talk about Agile and CSS codes.  Development talk might as well be considered a foreign language.  

They play Magic card games.  It is a mixture between Dragonball / Pokemon and Harry Potter.  I have never seen men get so into a card game, as if they were playing Command and Conquer.  

Even though I do not fit the mold of an IT Dev person, I enjoy the quirky things that go on in my work place.

In a way, I can relate to the other nerds, because I have my dorky tendencies.  I am sometimes out of the box, but I love that side of me.  The bad thing is when I say something dorky and I get weird looks from  those tech people....that's when you know it's bad haha.  

Sometimes when I think about well known "business people", like Steve Jobs,  I wonder if they ever have guilty pleasures of watching Jersey Shore, the Bachelor, or Teen Mom....probably not.  

Well I am still addicted to Teen Mom and all of those shows.  It is amazing how crazy some people's lives are.  Josh was passing through the living room when I was watching an episode and said "Isn't it sad that people, not only live like that, but are willing to air it all out on Television?"  It is kind of true, but it is kind of a nice reminder of how normal my life is and it is those moments that I am so glad I only have to worry about Josh and myself.  I cannot imagine how hectic it would be to have a child at such a young age.  Cudos to those who are that responsible.

One of my cousins is only 12ish years older than me and she is about to have her 6th child!  So crazy!  I  went to a baby shower a few months ago and the women were talking about all the aweful stuff your body and emotions go through....NO THANK YOU!  I am emotional enough as it is, so I think I will wait on all that baby stuff.  :)

Extreme Juicing

My Juicing Fast:

About 18 months ago, I lived with a family in North Carolina who juiced all the time.  I noticed they were much more energetic and they hardly ever got sick.  I would juice from time to time, but I was not as dedicated.  I would maybe juice one day a week, so I did feel a little bit healthier, but I did not notice a huge difference.  I ended up watching a documentary a while back called, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (If you ever want to feel motivated to juice, watch this video).

Even though, I still consider myself to be healthy, it does make sense that the body needs to be cleansed every now and then.  So this is my progress so far: I am on day 4 of my juice fast.  I am feeling healthy and energetic (a little hungry) and I have lost 4 pounds so far.  My goal is to juice for at least 11 more days....hmmm...this might get tough!

On a more interesting note:

I would like to put a disclaimer stating that I am not one of those girls who watches the show and becomes so attached to the characters or, even worse, the bachelor.  I enjoy watching the show to reassure myself how wonderful my life is: 

I am not on a show publicly humiliating myself.  If I do anything embarrassing, normally it is only infront of my husband and he has to take me at my worst (poor Josh).  I am not airing out my baggage on national TV.  I am not a desperate girl who will date a guy who is currently dating 15 other women.  I am not hysterically crying to the whole world that I am in love with a guy (who in my opinion is very boring) after only 4-5 weeks....  

My life is wonderful and simple!  Just the way I like it!