Lessons learned

Michael and I have been married for nearly a year now and over the course of this last year I have learned some important lessons... (Don't worry you will get a detailed post about our anniversary, whatever we end up doing.)

1. Toilet paper does not automatically replenish itself like it did at Mom's house, someone actually has to go out and buy it.

2. Coupons are a girl's best friend.

3. I finally understand the importance of making the bed every morning, and get quite agitated when it isn't made, and mom thought I'd never learn.

4. Who knew running the A/C (we have a wall unit) could possibly cost so much money.

5. Icemakers, automatic coffee machines, and dishwashers are luxury items.

6. Men aren't very good at remembering to put fabric softener in the wash. "Michael, why are my clothes so rough?"

7. You really cannot force your husband to eat cheese pizza for every meal, they tend to find it a little inhumane.

8. Planting Forget me not flower seeds behind your apartment building, and then actually forgetting about them, doesn't produce flowers, it also doesn't help if you don't plant them deep enough and chimpmunks eat them...

9. A clean house lasts for about 25 minutes.

10. When baking something that requires butter it is always prudent to double check that you got all of the wax paper wrapping off of the stick before, say baking the entire batch of brownies only to bite into the first one and get a big bite of wax paper, yum.

11. Speaking of baking, one should always make sure she has all of the required ingredients before beginning the process. It is hard to make molasses cookies without molasses, or bread without flour.

12. In a one bedroom apartment alone time is golden.

13. Stray cats do not liked to be chased by strangers, nor do they enjoy the words KITTY! being yelled at the.

14. Guys do not understand frilly decorations, or decorations that aren't "useful," but hopefully he will soon stop trying to.

15. U-Scans at grocery stores might be the reason for increased divorce rates. We seriously cannot go through a U-Scan without arguing. We have taken to going through a normal line even if it is long for the sake of our marriage.

16. Everything that Mom made me do at home that I thought was stupid, and she was just trying to give me a hard time about, actually has a purpose. Who knew?

FINALLY...

17. On Augest 2nd of last year I was in love with Michael, and everyone said just wait until you've been married awhile. Well everyone was right, I couldn't imagine loving anyone more a year ago, but now I feel like we have grown, we operate as a team, and the love I had for Michael last year is NOTHING compared to the love that I feel for him now.

Weekend with Luke & family and a political rant

This weekend Michael and I made a visit to Charlestown. We had a great time visiting (and shopping) with our parents. I'll let you guess who went shopping and who didn't :-).

The most wonderful part of the weekend was getting to spend soo much time with Luke! I miss my mom dad, nick and christy like crazy too, but not seeing luke for a month has been tough! I cannot believe how much he has grown! I saw him friday, and then he spent the night at my mom's house on Saturday night, so I got to play with him all night and starting at 4 the next morning! I can't say that I minded being up that early too much though, it is rare that I have the oppurtunity to see Luke so I feel like I really "drank it up" this weekend!

I also got to spend some time with aunt Deb! I miss her so much, and that is a little strage because I didn't really see her all that often to begin with!

Church on sunday was great! I was sad that I didn't get to see Brian, Maria, and Brooklyn but Josh delivered a great sermon! My mom and I both let Megan Birke know that I was going to be in that sunday and would love to see her (my mom and I didn't know that we both had said something to her). Megan and Chris did come to CIC, and it was so great to see her pregnant and adorable self! I have really been missing her! Even seeing her for the 10 minutes that I did was uplifting!

Now...on to another topic completely. This election makes me nervous. It has never been so important that we get someone in the oval office that really knows what is going on. I have been trying and failing thus far to get a job. We are praying dilligently and so are both of our parents. I don't think that my lack of job has much to do me, but more with the fact that the economy is in a really bad way right now. But I would also like to point out that it CANNOT ALL BE GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT!!!!! From the year of his innauguration on, he has had to make decisions that other presidents have not! 9/11/01!!

I also am having a very hard time with Barack Obama. Some of you might remember that I got to meet Obama. Well take it from someone who met the guy, I don't think that he is honest. I feel like he made SEVERAL promises that he had given little to no thought about. I don't like to be patronized, and that is how I feel every time he speaks. He has a better than you attitude that I do not appreciate.

However John McCain and Sarah Palin do not make me feel that way. Governor Palin is definitely the most down to earth politician that I have ever encountered. I also really don't think that now is the time to throw a young LIBERAL into office. Yeah, that is just what our country needs during a crisis, to elect a president who seemingly doesn't have strong moral standards! If people think the country is in trouble with a person of morals in charge, I can only imagine the country with Senator Obama in charge.