Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Pintervention?

I try to stay away from Pinterest during school, but lately I can't get away.  Today I saw this super cute sign.....

 I wanted something cute in our kitchen on our boring white walls, so I decided to do this during my break between classes.  I designed the image in Illustrator, went to Kinko's and got it printed, downloaded a coupon from Michael's and bought myself a frame.  You just frame an image then use dry erase markers over the glass of the frame.  I love it!  We'll see if Austin plays along...


Wednesday, October 24, 2012

I'm Gonna Miss This

Ever since Austin and I got married, I've been so excited about our future.  I married somebody with plans, folks.  How did I get so lucky?  I'll never know.  Right now we're both going to the U.  He's studying accounting and I'm studying graphic design.  After he graduates, he just informed me that he wants to find an internship in New York or Chicago and live there for 2 years.  When he asked me if that would be okay even if he was working 60ish hours a week, I somehow didn't have a problem agreeing to that.  After he told me that, I started seeing the timeline of our life starting to form and I was getting so excited.  He has plans about houses and assets and money and schooling and chillins and jobs and everything else that I can't come up with.  
Us at Lagoon...who knows when
Seinfeld and orange julius...our routine.
Mostly I'm just excited about possibly living in New York....  But I didn't know the extent of his plans until we got married and now I get so excited about what's going to happen next that I find myself forgetting to live in the now.  I forget about how funny our apartment is and how many stories we're going to have for our kids because of it.  How many laughs we'll share talking about the crazy family upstairs with that mysterious chirping noise that nobody can fix.  Or the yard that was never green.  Or the air conditioner/plywood contraption my dad made us during the summer.  I'll miss the times that Austin and I were able to go to Lagoon almost every day of the summer.  Or how we would blow up our air mattress in our living room to watch a movie because our couches are so uncomfortable.  I'll miss the nights of homework and Friends every night during school.  I'll miss using gift cards every time we grocery shop.  I'll miss it all, so I'm trying to take in every moment so that when the day comes I realize how much time has passed, I'll know I lived every moment. 
Of course, there's a country song for this dilemma.  

"Before she knows it she's a brand new bride
In a one-bedroom apartment, and her daddy stops by
He tells her it's a nice place
She says it'll do for now
Starts talking about babies and buying a house
Daddy shakes his head and says, 'Baby, just slow down
You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now 
But you're gonna miss this.'"