We're Married, We Have a House, We Have a Cat!

Well shame on me!... It's been A LONGGGGG time since I've posted!
But a LOT has happened since I last spoke! So give me a break OK! :)
- New Job April 2012
- New Job August 2012
- New Job August 2012 for the Mr.
- New Job February 2013
- New House March 2013
- Married April 2013
- Ruby Sue May 2013
- New Job August 2013 for the Mr.

In April 2012 - I left Medieval Times to go work for a hotel. I was hired by a great boss and GM and I must admit I am lucky to have been able to work for such a wonderful team of management. In August 2012, both my boss and GM were offered a position at another hotel property, they moved me there with them and I spent another 6 months working with them and making a life-long mentor/friendship with my boss. Stupidly, I decided that the position wasn’t something that I enjoyed and I looked for a job and accepted one with Little Caesars. (I loved the hotel, the staff, and the event hosting/booking/busy work of the position, but hated the sales calls/driving and the feeling of accomplishment).

Which brings me to February 2013 - I started a marketing position with Little Caesars. Almost here for a year, I will admit that I have had some awesome experiences including, trips to California, Detroit and Vegas, growth in my career and skill set, but overall; its a position that I despise and cannot wait to leave. I drive 600+ miles a week and I really don’t see what the point in me doing this is?! It's not "my home yet". I don’t know what I want to do for the rest of my life and I really don’t know what position/company will be my "home" I feel like I missed the boat on what I should have really done with my life, but that's ANOTHER story for Another day!

March 25, 2013 - after about 4 months of HEAVY searching, 10 offers, many heartbreaks and stressful moments - Ryan and I finally became homeowners of our DREAMHOUSE! This house made every NO worth it. Our home is everything we want and more and we've had an absolute blast making our house - home. Painting, furnishing and decorating our home together has been so much fun, and a new hobby and relationship building experience for us! We've done a ton of work on the house and still have more (always will have more) to do. I would have to say that we love being homeowners!

One of the best days of my life to this date was April 5, 2013. That day, I married my best friend and my partner in life and in crime ;). It truly was the most perfect day! Everything was exactly as I had planned it and I wouldn’t have changed a single thing. It was amazing to have our closest friends and most importantly our family there with us as we tied the knot. My pastor (since I was 5) was the efficient of the
service and he provided the most meaningful sermon and service. We are blessed by God to have such an amazing pastor in our lives. As much as this was a wonderful day, it was also a really hard day. For the first time in my life I was "leaving" my parents. My dad and I had a really special walk down the aisle, followed by a surprise speech when he gave me away, a tear-filled dance at the reception and another speech which brought the room to tears. I think I realized on that day how much I’ve grown up, how much my parents have done for me, and how quickly life passes us by. I sobbed during our slideshow (both making it and watching it) because you literally watch your life flash before your eyes. The song for our slideshow and theme for my dad during the wedding process was "Don’t Blink" by Kenny Chesney (look for another post on this in the coming days) but I truly think that song captured that day and our lives past, present and future perfectly.

After getting home from our amazing Cruise Honeymoon it was time to settle into our home and begin our lives as the Norman family. It didn’t take long for us to realize that we needed to make our home a family of "3" and it May we adopted our first furry baby - Ruby Sue. She’s out kitten and I love, adore and cherish her to pieces! One of the things I REALLY missed from my parents house was my dog Dixie and I knew that I needed to fill that void in my heart with a pet of our own. Not being much of a cat person, I was hesitant to adopt a cat, but I can honestly say at this point in my life, I AM SO HAPPY WE HAVE HER! Ryan and I often talk about what a pleasure it is to come home every day to somebody that is waiting for you to get there. I cant keep my hands off of her (which I’m sure drives her crazy) but for now she’s my baby and I want to love her as much as I can! She has really made our home happier place :)

In August Ryan was offered a position that will change our lives FOREVER! I am so grateful that this opportunity was given to him/us. I have made no secret of the fact that I hope and plan to be a stay-at-home mom someday in our soon future and with this new role that Ryan took on, I think that dream is really a possibility for us. I am so proud of him because he took this position for us. In order for this to happen he had to take a test to become licensed and he studied his butt off and passed that test! Since then he has been working just as hard to increase sales. My unhappiness with my current position hasn’t made things easy - there have been many a days that I cry and complain about how much I hate my job and I want to quit and the person that hears this the most is Ryan. I know this puts some added pressure on him because he knows my goal is to work at home as a mom and then the main source of income would be through him. I am a lucky lucky lucky girl to have a man like him that is willing to work to support our someday family.

Ok - Well I think that is something of a caught up version of our lives! I am hoping to get on here to post more often so things are much more current and up-to-date! Thanks for reading and stick around for more.

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries- DIVORCE

Let me clarify- I am writing about this because I am DISGUSTED- not because I am interested. This post is going to be a bit of a rant, so I apologize early!

DISCLAIMER: I do watch the Kardashian's on a weekly basis, as a loyal fan; I find their lives fascinating, but I DO NOT what-so-ever admire them or look up to them... I just wanted to get that out there!

It has been released today, that Kim Kardashian and husband Kris Humphries have filed for a divorce after 3 SHORT months of marriage.

This irritates me for 2 MAJOR reasons, which you will read below:

1. Money, MONEY, Money!---The wedding has been surrounded in money from the HIDEOUS and over sized $2 million engagement ring, the $50,000 his-and-her Vegas bachelor/ette party, the overpriced shower, the expensive engagement party, rehearsal dinner and the $10 MILLION dollar wedding!!!!! Plus they are rumored to have received a whopping $1.5 million dollar check for selling their wedding pictures to the smut magazines!

Dont get me wrong, every girl should have the wedding of her dreams, but come'on folks- there's a limit here and this Kardashian-Humphries wedding went WAY WAY WAY beyond that limit!

Arent weddings supposed to be about first and foremost, the joining of two lives into one! It's all about the bride and the groom, love and celebrating that love with their loved ones!

It's not about money and how much we can put into throwing an extravaganza!

This wedding was a complete and udder waste of money! Isnt our country in a recession? Arent major corporations filing for bankruptcy? Arent people loosing thier homes, cars, jobs and more due to financial strain?... YES YES YES! and here you have the Kardashian's who have made their fame and fortune- by acting crude and inappropriate, like imbeciles- on TV making millions of dollars, to never life a finger or put in a 9-5 day of hard work! I'm sorry but I work for my money, I put in my time sitting at a desk- doing WORK! Not "playing" on TV. There are thousands of American's out there whom are either 1. Willing, able and looking for work  and 2. Working their butts off just to try to keep milk and bread on the tables!

To see a wedding which in the end when all is said and done, cost $15 MILLION dollars upward wasted and over in 3 months is horrible, shameful, and a disgrace. Ms Kim Kardashian ex Humpries should be ashamed of herself for this! What a childish, selfish and self absorbed brat she is! Isn't there something ELSE that she could have done with that money? Like built a new homeless shelter, donate to struggling families, donate to the working class, hospitals, fire departments, police departments- ANYBODY other than thrown out the window into a wedding that she couldn't even make the marriage last a year?! UGH DISGUSTING!!!!

2. Weddings aren't just for the party they are there to celebrate LOVE, UNITY and MARRIAGE!!!!!! This whole situation made it very apparent that Ms. Kardashian/Humphries was in it just for the big princess wedding. If she were in if for the marriage, she would have realized that her and Kris were a BAD pair- which was obvious multiple times throughout the latest season of Keeping up with the Kardashians. There were so many times on the show that as a viewer looking from the outside in, you just knew that things were wrong. There were so many signs that things were wrong, the biggest sign- if your family whom you are the closest with do not like you boyfriend/fiance, then maybe they know something more than you do. If you FIGHT (everybody fights in the weeks leading up to a wedding) and argue constantly- up until the night of you rehearsal dinner- then you are in TROUBLE! If you say, "I hate him" at your rehearsal dinner, about your husband to be, then you are in TROUBLE! 

I dont know it yet, but I ASSUME that weddings are pretty stressful and I'm sure that the weeks and days leading up to the big day have to be among the most stressful...I'm sure its natural to be nervous, to argue and to just be scared- but to be mad at each other the way that Kim and Kris were the days before their wedding= BAD NEWS!!!

Then we have the issue of Ms. Kardashian NOT wanting to change her last name and Kris 1. not knowing about this and 2. not agreeing with this.... UMMMMMM isnt this something that you two should discuss before your wedding is like 2 days away?! Isnt marriage supposed to be the merging of 2 lives into 1. I know that the one thing that I look forward to when getting married would have to be taking the last name of my husband. THATS MARRIAGE! You start a new life together, you become one, a family, a unity- you take on the last name!

Sorry for the long rant, but this Kardashian situation just really pisses me off! It's not right! I seriously hope that she goes to bed thinking about the horrible choices that she's made. I think she's and idiot and hopefully the rest of the world will too....

You can bet that when I get married someday, its going to be for the RIGHT reasons, wedding or no wedding, I just want a day with my family to celebrate the unity and the sacrament of our MARRIAGE! No matter what life throws at us, we're going to work on things. I'm not a quitter, marriage is the long haul and I'm ready to take it on head first!