I am LONG overdue for a worthwhile journal entry. It just seems I am always so gosh darn busy. This has been a truly eventful summer and I've taken a great deal of photographs which I will now share with you all. This summer, we finally got into our house, although, we aren't 100% yet. We need to put lots of molding up still. At least it's painted and ready to go. My kingdom for some blinds and curtains! Right now we have framed posters blocking out the sunshine in our room - not very effective I might add.
Besides our move and the big open house/housewarming that followed, we had our niece Ava's christening and Jay's Aunt Jean's wedding. It seemed like every weekend was something going on, but at least it was all good. Time spent with family and friends is the best time of all.
We didn't have any sort of vacation this summer but we are taking off this week to relax and take a few day trips - the Bronx Zoo, Jay, his dad, and his brother are going deep-sea fishing and I HOPE Jay and I make it to the Cloisters ( http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_art/introduction.asp?dep=7 ) I went here in high school and really enjoyed it. I went with the choir and we sang there. It is a beautiful place and I know that Jay would appreciate it. He's into medieval sort of stuff and the place is like an old castle with authentic medieval style garden and famous tapestries.
In a few weeks I will be having a garage sale. Kristine is going to help me because Jay wants no part of it, haha. It should be fun and we have lots of junk we truly don't need. I hope we get some donations too, to pad our inventory. I hope to make enough money to pay for invitations : )
Which brings me to my next subject - our wedding plans. Since I last wrote on this topic we have booked our honeymoon! We will be staying 7 nights at Ti Kaye in St. Lucia - www.tikaye.com . The place looks gorgeous and we will have our own oceanfront cottage with our own little pool. I cannot wait! We've also begun our registries with Macy*s and Bed, Bath, & Beyond. We need to add things to them but it's still early yet. It was fun although the woman at BB&B was not very nice. I could definitely write an entertaining entry about her. I plan on writing a letter of complaint to the company if I actually ever get around to it.
So, I've really been hating my job lately I'm sad to report. I've just been so overwhelmed that I start to feel completely stressed and depressed. I have so much on my shoulders and when I can't get everything done in a timely manner, I can't help but feel like a bad employee. I haven't even been able to take my lunch break or go to the gym there for weeks because of it. New Jersey is looking more and more appealing as I hate coming home around 8:15 on nights I get stuck there late.
GRANDPA update: After being in the hospital for a couple weeks with bilateral pneumonia, he is now in a rehabilition center for 2 more weeks to regain his strength and mobility. You can do it grandpa!
Well I've rambled on and on long enough. Sit back and enjoy the plentiful pics and be sure to "view larger" for best results!
Here is our living room right now! The 2 chairs are only temporary, and yes I know we need molding around the windows!