Good news and a tiny confession

 

As of today I have four more work days at the Children’s Hospital and I am done. I love the work I do there, and feel that it is important BUT I need to get paid. I can’t just keep working for free.

Also, as of today I only have 5 more class periods to sit through, one more exam to take before I can start apply to grad schools and take a year off. And as of right now, I’m so schooled out that I don’t even know if I’ll go back in the next year or so. I think it’s the Misters turn to go back to school, since he’s had a nice long break!

And for the BIG news… I have an interview on Monday!!!!! I am not going to say where just so I don’t jinx it, but I will tell you that it is in a field that I am very interested in and would love to stay in. So wish me luck and keep your fingers crossed that I get it. It would be ideal!!!! Once I know one way or the other I will tell you the story!

Now for the confession.

When the Mister and I got engaged he had bought me a ring which was beautiful but not really my style. So we went and exchanged it for what I have now. Much more me. It’s simple, beautiful and blah blah blah. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my ring, and what is signifies. I will always wear it and keep it around because it’s a representation of who we were and where we were when we got married. All that being said… I confess that I’ve had my eye on another ring that at the time we couldn’t afford.

This is my current ring

Well… the Mister caught me staring at it last night, and said that when I get a job, and we have the extra cash I can get the ring, with the condition that I wear my now wedding ring on my right hand… and we have to have all of our credit card debt paid off (that was my condition).

Here is the ring that will be mine hopefully around our anniversary.

What are your thoughts on getting a new wedding set? Upgrades? Would you keep your original diamond? Do you think I’m selfish?

Our Little Story… Part I

 

I’ve really been thinking about writing our story up. I’ve meant to do it for a long time but have been putting it off, just because I’m a procrastinator. So I figured today I’ll get it done, at least a part of it, since it’s Friday and I really should be studying for that Chemistry Exam on Monday.

The Mister and I didn’t start out dating right away, and to this day I am still finding out little things that were all pre-planned in his head but I never had a clue about.

We met when I was just 16, a junior in high school with no plans other then the desire to drive fast cars. At the stage in my life I was looking to VR-4s, the turbo Mitsubishi 3000GTs which were a dream. Mitsubishi has stopped producing them in ‘99 and I badly wanted one.

The Car that Brought Us Together!

This is not a picture of our car… for some reason I don’t have a single one on the computer I am working off right now, and don’t feel like driving to storage to take a photo of it. So deal with it. It is a ‘92 VR4 with Twin Turbos (15s) on it. The color is a bit faded on our since the previous owner had it in Hawaii sitting out in the sun, but it wont be red for long.

We met online, on a car forum specifically for VR-4s, and became internet buddies. Back in the day, AIM was the thing to do, so we talked… A LOT… mostly about cars. We also chatted about movies, school and I did a fair share of complaining in the relationship department.

I dated my share of boys while the Mister and I were friends, I bought my first car which happened to be the furthest thing from a VR-4, but it was all I could afford at the time. I turned 18, I graduated high school, I got into college, and my to be husband at the time was there to support me through all of it. He even edited my Extended Essay (for IB and graduation) as well as my college entrance essay which happened to be about cars and racing.

  

I just recently found out that the Mister was always interested in me, however the almost 5 year age difference between us wouldn’t allow him to ask me out until I tuned 18. But when I turned 18 I was in a relationship with a boy in Boston, who’d be moving back to Denver soon. I thought I was in love, and we planned on getting married. Of course I revealed all this to the Mister since we were just friends and I was a dumb teenager who thought she found her prince charming.

After graduation I left for a trip to Europe for my older brother’s wedding. I would be gone for a little over a month. The Mister would write me emails while he was down in Texas visiting his family, and we made plans to meet up and share pictures. D (this is how we’ll refer to my now ex then boyfriend) didn’t even call me during the month I was gone.

My two brothers, beautiful sister in law and I at my their 7.7.7 wedding in Yerevan, Armenia. One of the best and most beautiful weddings I have ever been too.

Shortly after I returned from my trip, D and I broke up in a dramatic, tear filled, ring throwing type way. I walked away and he never followed me. I was heart broken and spend a good day crying my eyes out on my best friend’s shoulder.

David, on the left, and Johnny, his younger brother, at my graduation party 5 years ago. David has been one of my closest and dearest friends since I met him his freshman year of high school.

The breakup was sometime at the end of July, and I moved on. D and I didn’t talk at all for months after, and I started spending more time with friends, including the Mister. I had blown the Mister off several times because of D or family or what not. However, when 300 came out, the Mister insisted that we go see it. So we did.

That was our first unofficial date. 

The Mister and I stayed friends for a few more weeks. He helped me transfer from the University of Denver to the University of Colorado Denver. He helped me sign up for last minute classes, walked me all over campus, helped me buy my books and figure out what else to do. We started spending a lot more time together, and when I got my job at Wells Fargo, he came with me downtown to do my paperwork, and asked me out on our first official date that evening.

On August 13th we went out to Mt. Fuji in Castle Rock, one of the best sushi restaurants in Denver. In our opinion. The night was fantastic, filled with great conversation and even better food.

This was shortly after our first date, and our first “official picture as a couple.

Another one of those “first” pictures.

So we dated, starting August 13th, 2007…

Next part will be up soon!

My Wedding Shoes … I feel cheated by DSW !!!

 

These shoes are one of my most praised pair of shoes. I bought them for our wedding, as my something blue! Since I had a short dress, and being a shoe freak, I had to have statement shoes that really spoke to me.

When I saw these, about two years ago, I knew I had to have them! So I spent weeks trying to find a pair in my size, and they were probably the hardest pair of shoes to track down. I finally found them in California, two days before our wedding and had them overnighted. Aside from the stupid expensive overnight fee, I paid $192.97 plus tax for them.

NOWWWW… a year and a half after the wedding, DSW decides to carry Martinez Valero for less then half the price of what the shoes originally cost! They have my beautiful wedding shoes for $79,95!!! WHYY did they not have them when I was bending over backwards to get my hands on a pair?! I would have paid three times what they are selling them for if I could have just walked into my local DSW and picked them up off the shelf!!! 

So, to make myself feel better, I went back and looked at all my wedding photos to see how worth the search for these shoes was. And they are worth every penny I’ve paid for them. I’m kind of tempted to get them in the white as well now, maybe even the black … since you know… they are less then half of what I’ve paid for them. BUT I still think the blue is the most beautiful and an eye catcher for sure!