So, I'm kind of worried at this point. Mitch just put in his 2 week notice at work so that he can come down here and look for work. I will be moving into the summer dorm until we find a place to live. We don't have much money right now and I'm not sure how things are going to work out. We applied for the university's off campus apartments, but that doesn't mean we will get into them right away. The lady in charge of them said that there wasn't much of a chance that they would have a spot for us any time soon. I hate not being sure of where we are going to live. It makes me so uneasy about the whole situation.
Right now I'm trying to fight off a cold. My throat is scratchy and soar, and I have a runny nose. I feel like crap. I took some decongestant this morning, but I don't think it did anything. The only thing I felt was my heart rate go up. I'm not sure how that helped my cold.
I posted up a video on facebook and youtube, so go check it out.
Oh, and if any of you readers live in San Diego and have a couch Mitch can sleep on, let me know. Thanks!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Bridal Shower Time!
I don't have much to say today, so I thought I would let the pictures do the talking. Here are some of my favorite images from Saturday.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
To Do List
I feel like God is telling me that I am on the right track. He has just been taking care of me so much! It seems that when ever I need help, he is there for me. There are days when I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to eat, because I've run out of meals at the cafeteria or I'm out of money; then someone brings in pumpkin bread, or buys me lunch, and I'm not hungry or worried anymore. There are days when I'm not sure how I'm going to pay my bills; then Mitch gets more money than he was expecting, or I get a notice in the mail that I can skip one month on my car loan. It's been wonderful! He's put people in my life who are always there to take care of me. For the wedding people have really stepped up to help. One of my friends paid for my wedding dress. A couple of my mom's friends want to help out with photography, the cake, and catering... all for free. We found a beautiful location for the ceremony and reception, all for under $200, and I've been finding multiple ways to save money by making things myself or buying things cheaper online. I think we've only spent $400 on the wedding so far. What a blessing!
There really isn't much left to do at this point. All we need are to pick up the chairs and tables from my church and other churches in town, buy the food from Costco, buy the flowers from Costco, purchase the decorations from a local party surplus store, purchase the arch for the altar, purchase the items for the vows, make the cake, decorate the site, make the bouquets, reserve the hotel for our short honeymoon, put a down payment on an apartment in San Diego, get my hair done, loose 50 pounds (just kidding)....
Well, I hope I can get that all done in 2 months... I'm sure I will. Maybe not the loosing 50 pounds, which would be ideal, but not really practical at this point.
There are other things that I need to be doing in this short time as well. I'm starting to work on my music for the upcoming production of the opera Cendrillon, Jules Massanet's version of Cinderella. I have the role of La Fee, or the Fairy Godmother. It's a wonderful opera and I'm getting more excited for it by the minute. Oh course I need to learn how to pronounce French and well as becoming a coloratura soprano. On top of that I am going to be working full time this summer as office assistant for the web design team on campus. I don't know what that's going to be like or how much mental work that is going to take up, but here's hoping it's pretty easy. By far it will be the easiest summer job I've had yet. So far I've always had to be on my feet because I worked with food services in the past, but this job with the web team is a desk job.. thank God.
I will also, hopefully, be getting a graphic design internship over the summer. I have an interview set up for this coming Tuesday with a local business who needs a graphic designer to make their pamphlets and brochures for their company. I hope I can fit the bill! The man I've been talking to seems to really like my stuff. Hopefully this will turn into a career or at least put my foot in the door.
I was really excited last semester because I had had contact with a web design firm who asked me to do some logo design work for their clients. I thought that this was an actual job, but they haven't emailed or called me in three months! 3 MONTHS! I've emailed them several times about it. I did a few logos for them, which they never commented on. If they use those logos without paying me for them I hope I can sue. I mean, we never had any legal document written up, which is my fault, but still. There are emails talking about asking me to come in, and I talked with the directer in person. He gave me the assignments and I did them. I sent them in for approval and I didn't hear back at all for weeks. It was only after I inquired about how he liked the logo that he emailed me back, and all he said was that he would take a look at it and tell me how the client liked it after their meeting. I didn't hear from him for weeks so I emailed him again. After another couple of weeks and a few more emails later he finally got back to me saying he had been busy traveling around and hadn't been able to take a look at the logos I had sent him for his own company or tell me what had happened with the meeting with his client. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!?! I mean, you can't take a few minutes and check your messages and email me back? FOR 3 MONTHS?
I just dropped the company. It was no use to waste my time waiting for them to email me when I could go out and talk with other companies who are willing to PAY for my work. Anyway, that's all I have for now. Until next time!
There really isn't much left to do at this point. All we need are to pick up the chairs and tables from my church and other churches in town, buy the food from Costco, buy the flowers from Costco, purchase the decorations from a local party surplus store, purchase the arch for the altar, purchase the items for the vows, make the cake, decorate the site, make the bouquets, reserve the hotel for our short honeymoon, put a down payment on an apartment in San Diego, get my hair done, loose 50 pounds (just kidding)....
Well, I hope I can get that all done in 2 months... I'm sure I will. Maybe not the loosing 50 pounds, which would be ideal, but not really practical at this point.
There are other things that I need to be doing in this short time as well. I'm starting to work on my music for the upcoming production of the opera Cendrillon, Jules Massanet's version of Cinderella. I have the role of La Fee, or the Fairy Godmother. It's a wonderful opera and I'm getting more excited for it by the minute. Oh course I need to learn how to pronounce French and well as becoming a coloratura soprano. On top of that I am going to be working full time this summer as office assistant for the web design team on campus. I don't know what that's going to be like or how much mental work that is going to take up, but here's hoping it's pretty easy. By far it will be the easiest summer job I've had yet. So far I've always had to be on my feet because I worked with food services in the past, but this job with the web team is a desk job.. thank God.
I will also, hopefully, be getting a graphic design internship over the summer. I have an interview set up for this coming Tuesday with a local business who needs a graphic designer to make their pamphlets and brochures for their company. I hope I can fit the bill! The man I've been talking to seems to really like my stuff. Hopefully this will turn into a career or at least put my foot in the door.
I was really excited last semester because I had had contact with a web design firm who asked me to do some logo design work for their clients. I thought that this was an actual job, but they haven't emailed or called me in three months! 3 MONTHS! I've emailed them several times about it. I did a few logos for them, which they never commented on. If they use those logos without paying me for them I hope I can sue. I mean, we never had any legal document written up, which is my fault, but still. There are emails talking about asking me to come in, and I talked with the directer in person. He gave me the assignments and I did them. I sent them in for approval and I didn't hear back at all for weeks. It was only after I inquired about how he liked the logo that he emailed me back, and all he said was that he would take a look at it and tell me how the client liked it after their meeting. I didn't hear from him for weeks so I emailed him again. After another couple of weeks and a few more emails later he finally got back to me saying he had been busy traveling around and hadn't been able to take a look at the logos I had sent him for his own company or tell me what had happened with the meeting with his client. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!?! I mean, you can't take a few minutes and check your messages and email me back? FOR 3 MONTHS?
I just dropped the company. It was no use to waste my time waiting for them to email me when I could go out and talk with other companies who are willing to PAY for my work. Anyway, that's all I have for now. Until next time!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
We're in the 60's!!!
There are 68 days until the wedding and things are starting to become clearer as well as more nerve racking! I'm worried about money, people actually showing up, where Mitch and I are going to live next year... etc. I wish that I wasn't so worried but I guess this comes with the territory of being a bride. I want so bad to be certain about what is going to happen next, but I know that the future is unknown, no matter how close it is.
Recently I've been stressed about my bridal shower. My maid of honor (MOH) is working on it very hard, and I trust her judgements. It's just that there's this lady at my church who has decided that my best friend doesn't know what she's talking about, and that she (the old lady), who has planned so many other apparently wonderful and successful bridal showers, should take over. She by-passed my MOH/best friend, and took her own initiative by buying plates, utensils, and cups, and by delegating jobs to other women in the church. She is not respecting my wishes as the bride, the girl this party is all about, and she is being pushing and demanding. Also, the church invited all of the women of my church, which I don't really have a problem with, but no one ever asked me! I thought this was going to be a party for my close friends! Not a whole bunch of elderly women that I don't really know that well.
I don't want to be rude or sound ungrateful for all the work that these ladies are doing, but seriously, this is not what I wanted at all, and it's making it much more difficult than it needs to be. And most of all it really undermines my MOH, who has been working and planning this day for months now! She has everything planned and worked out. She got and send out the invitations weeks ago, and has planned games, and all sorts of goodies. She has food to prepare, decorations to put up, and other great ideas! I don't know all the details, mostly because I asked her not to tell me, but I know that whatever she has planned will be wonderful! It hurts me to think that an elderly woman would want to see all that hard work go down the drain just because she wants control.
I talked with my mom about it, and told her the things that the elderly woman wanted to do for my shower. She wanted to only serve nuts, mints and punch, where as my MOH has other things planned to serve. My mom so elegantly stated that the mints, nuts and punch would work for a bridal shower in the 1950's, but not these days. Now that's like saying you don't really want to put the party on, and that you just bought the bare minimum! My MOH said that "this is my Cara Bell's one and only bridal shower! I want it to be the best!"... and that is exactly why I chose her to be my MOH... Whitney, I love you!
Anyway, enough of the Bridezilla rant. I'll post more when I have some happy news...
Recently I've been stressed about my bridal shower. My maid of honor (MOH) is working on it very hard, and I trust her judgements. It's just that there's this lady at my church who has decided that my best friend doesn't know what she's talking about, and that she (the old lady), who has planned so many other apparently wonderful and successful bridal showers, should take over. She by-passed my MOH/best friend, and took her own initiative by buying plates, utensils, and cups, and by delegating jobs to other women in the church. She is not respecting my wishes as the bride, the girl this party is all about, and she is being pushing and demanding. Also, the church invited all of the women of my church, which I don't really have a problem with, but no one ever asked me! I thought this was going to be a party for my close friends! Not a whole bunch of elderly women that I don't really know that well.
I don't want to be rude or sound ungrateful for all the work that these ladies are doing, but seriously, this is not what I wanted at all, and it's making it much more difficult than it needs to be. And most of all it really undermines my MOH, who has been working and planning this day for months now! She has everything planned and worked out. She got and send out the invitations weeks ago, and has planned games, and all sorts of goodies. She has food to prepare, decorations to put up, and other great ideas! I don't know all the details, mostly because I asked her not to tell me, but I know that whatever she has planned will be wonderful! It hurts me to think that an elderly woman would want to see all that hard work go down the drain just because she wants control.
I talked with my mom about it, and told her the things that the elderly woman wanted to do for my shower. She wanted to only serve nuts, mints and punch, where as my MOH has other things planned to serve. My mom so elegantly stated that the mints, nuts and punch would work for a bridal shower in the 1950's, but not these days. Now that's like saying you don't really want to put the party on, and that you just bought the bare minimum! My MOH said that "this is my Cara Bell's one and only bridal shower! I want it to be the best!"... and that is exactly why I chose her to be my MOH... Whitney, I love you!
Anyway, enough of the Bridezilla rant. I'll post more when I have some happy news...
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