For the last week I've been forced to wear glasses. I hate wearing my glasses. Hate. It. So. Much. I was gonna force Ed to drive me to Cedar Grove to pick up my emergency pairs in my backpack, cause I wa sdesperate. But I went to the eye doctor today and got some. So all is well! Though my eyes are getting PRETTY bad. I think legally blind is like -12 or something, while I've got -8.5. So SLOOOOWLY I'm getting there. Which is not a good thing. At all. O.o

I put in two applications/resumes to Lincoln Park Zoo today! So here's hoping! And I just got a message from Brookfield about them finally receiving my application/resume that I sent in over a month ago. But hey, better late than never, right? Right! So now I'll be watching my phone like a hawk! WANT... JOB!!!

So I'm beginning week three of being a college graduate. I've got a shiny new degree, that holds in it my shiny Bachelors of Science. And what do I have to show for it? No job. 

Sadly, my first round of applications was a bust. :( So second round of applications goes out this week. I'll be spending tonight filling those suckers out. All like 7 of them. I never thought getting a job as a zoo keeper would be so hard. I thought I would be a shoe in. Good gawd, was  I wrong.

So for now, I'm still settling into my new place, aka, Ed's condo. It's nice, I like it, though I wish I could move more of my stuff in. Not really enough room. I had to get rid of so much of my things. Gave most of it away to friends or Good WIll. At least it all went somewhere beneficial. All the same, it was hard. Even my adorable little car... who was on the very last leg of her life, had to be donated. Rawhide Boys Ranch, treat her well! She was my baby. :( I promised she'd be pampered by boys if she just lived until the school year. She kept her word, so I hope I kept mine.

I guess I'm just hitting a bit of a depression. I feel useless with no job. Ed says that I should take my time and get a job I enjoy, but I don't think I can. I need to start making money. So I can pay for car insurance, so I can visit my sister and my brother, so I can go and start looking at areas for my wedding. And talking to churches. I need to get moving on this stuff.

Alrighty. I'm gonna finish up this cup of tea and get going on those applications.

Is it weird I don't feel any different? Shouldn't I *FEEL* like a graduate?

I woke up today after an eerie dream about a past-friend who will not be named and realized that sometime, in my sleepy state, I decided not to go to class for the millionth time and sleep instead. 

It was at this point that I started thinking about how many classes I have left of the class that I skipped (Good old Plant Tax!). Well, not counting todays that I happily skipped... I've got 3. Well, 3 lectures at least. That's it. Then I'm done. Then I'm completely done with school. After those 3 lectures, I'll be finished. After finals. But then sweet, sweet freedom. It's almost too hard to grasp!

I'll be moving into a condo in Chicago with my fiance and (hopefully) starting a new job, if the freaking zoo will ever call me back! If not starting with a new job, than continuing to klook for jobs as well as maybe starting to volunteer at the animal shelter or the aquarium. Oooooooh! The options are endless! 

Also, it'll be time to submerge myself into planning my wedding! I've got ideas for dresses, which I will not post, for fear that Ed will see them! But they are lovely! I've got ideas for colors and dresses and the place! But I need actual planning to begin! Angie, my maid of honor and my sister, is already throwing herself completely into this. ;) Gotta love that enthusiasm, I guess! :D

Yasmine will be my flower girl/miniature bride. Dommy will be my ring bearer, I think. Unless Ed would rather one of his cousins to do the job. I'll need to ask. Braydon and Sofia and whatever the heck my brother's kid's name will be will all be too young. Yasmine is excited, cause Angie told her she'd get to be a miniature bride in which she responded "I get to be the bride?!". We explained, no, not exactly the bride, but a little version of the bride. She said "So I'm the bride!" Well, who are we to shoot down her dreams. ;) So long as I''m the one to say 'I do!' ;) 

Hee! So I'm excited for Ed to come up this weekend! It's been forever since I've seen him, almost a month and a half. A girl can only take so much. I'm gonna take him on a tour of the campus, casue I never did before. Along with a possible tour of the Brewery! Cause what's cooler than that? :D 

Hmm. I should get dressed and geared toward actually going to class at 1. Got no choice, really. We get our papers back and will need to start working on corrections.

Bleck.

Alrighty, people! That's all for now!

Alright, so I've been in this thing where I'm buying a bunch of Bridal magazines! In one of them, I got this cool little booklet that says what is all needed for a wedding and gives you places where you get to put the price in and so on and so forth...

There is also a spot that gives the estimated amount for a wedding. 

$19,375.

Now! Subtract $3,000 for the honeymoon and $1,500 for the wedding planner (I'm doing this myself, damnit!) and that leaves me with... 

$14,885.

So, roughly 15K for a wedding. /15K/!!!!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

My girlfriend Rachel is planning her wedding now and will be getting married this May. Her total cost for the wedding, roughly around $3000-$4000 I think. What about other people? Those of you who are married and actually have a ceremony or are going to have one? What's the prices look like, if you don't mind me asking.

I just can't believe how expensive! I mean... I guess I can, but SERIOUSLY! Holy COW!

How it all happened!

I just wanted to give everyone on my LJ the link to my write-up on my proposal. I know a few of you have seen this already, but a bunch haven't! And there are PICTURES! Wheee!!

No pictures of the ring up close yet, sadly. Ed won't let me take my own picture, something about wanting to do it himself. ;) Silly boy. 

Anyway, click on over to http://www.vitriolic.org/viewtopic.php?t=328

That'll give you the entire write-up and everything. It was really awesome!! And now some of my friends are squeeing at me, trying to get me to start looking at dresses already!

I gotta be strong and wait till after graduation. Graduating is key!

Anyway, there you have it! :D Pictures of the ring to come, the next time Ed gets up here. :D 

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Alright! I'll have a complete and full version, with pictures included in a week or so, but for now I just want to let everyone know...

I'm engaged!!!

Ed proposed to me on Monday of this week, with a pack of wolves surrounding us! :D As said, I'll give the entire story in a few days, once we've got the pictures and everything. :D But for now, I just want everyone to know that I'm actually engaged! I have an amazing, wonderful awesome fiance and a  big, beautiful ring!

Pictures to come of both! :D :D

EEEE!!! I'M GONNA GET MARRIED!!!!!!

So the pipes in our apartment froze because it was -25 in Point.

Soooo... now we have to keep at heat at 80 degrees to unfreeze them. Do you have any fucking idea how much this is going to cost me in heating!?!?!  MEgan and I can't afford this shit. We're POOR!

But at least un til I get the bill, I can remember what it feels like to be warm.

Yeah. Hi. UWSP? Uh huh. See, this is supposed to be my last and easiest semester, to y'know... give me ample time to find a job.

I have 14 fucking credits. 14! And one of those credits only goes mid-way through the freaking semester! There is NO reason why I should have as many huge ass projects that I do! This is my SECOND SEMESTER SENIOR YEAR! I have SENIORITIOUS! Got it? STOP MAKING ME STRESSED OUT!!

Seriously. Only. 14. Credits.

GAH!

I'm only supposed to sit around and ice skate this semester, but nooooo. No ice skating time for Amber!

Fuckers!