Weddings! Could it mean sacrificing so much for such a short time? I mean seriously! Let’s face it, it shouldn’t be this complicated. I guess the fact that my fiancée and I are doing most of the work ourselves isn’t helping in some respects. The good news is that we will be able to get married in the temple and that our reception is going to look amazing. I’ll definitely have to post pictures when we get them from the photographer. It is going to be a fantastic day though! I can barely contain myself. We only have 17 days to go! Can we say “Stressful”!

On a bit of a different note I finished my final classes at the community college I was attending and got 2 “B’s” and an “A”. All in all it was a good semester, definitely better than the one before that. I must say that I am exceptionally happy to be finished with community college. It seemed more like high school with ashtrays more than anything else. The school I will be attending in the fall is going to be amazing. I am excited to enjoy new opportunities for growth and learning. Most importantly I finally get to be a “real college student.”

Amazing and exciting news! My fiancée and I are officially accepted to the University that we were both applied for, we are very excited. What makes it all that much more amazing is that the day after I was accepted I got a phone call from the University housing saying that an apartment opened up and they would like to know if we would like it. So our lives went from not knowing what we are doing to knowing exactly what we are doing. I spent Friday night and Saturday morning drawing up an education plan. It was exciting to not only get the news but also to make a plan that I know will lead me to an amazing degree. I’ll blog more later but I just wanted to share the exciting news.

Have you ever noticed that when life is action packed and drama filled all you can do is hold on and wait for it to be over? Yet when it is boring you somehow miss the exciting times and wax nostalgia about having so much to do. Am I alone in this? I don’t know just a thought. Right now my life is fairly hectic. I am going to school part time, working part time, planning a wedding, and working on getting into a 4 year University. I have precious little time to enjoy life (at least not the kind of enjoyment I would prefer). I am not complaining. I wouldn’t trade this time for anything. I would just like the opportunity to breathe once in a while. I know that getting married won’t necessarily solve the time problem but at least we won’t have a wedding to plan. At least I may get more sleep than I currently do, it seems like we never have enough time together. Just when we start enjoying each other’s company it is time for me to go or her to go. If nothing else when we are married she and I can fall into bed together and at least have some rest. We have less than four months until the wedding, I am excited and nervous all at the same time. We have virtually nothing done, which adds a bit of stress to us (just a bit I know). We barely have time to sleep, eat, and to do homework much less plan a wedding. I was trying to explain this to my fiancée’s family but they don’t listen to me. I’m not sure they are accepting me as of yet. It is kind of frustrating. I want them to accept me but it isn’t a deal breaker. At least they don’t hate me, which is a nice alternative to past experiences. You know the interesting thing about my life is this that when I was younger I wasn’t very accepted by my peers but adults usually loved me. Now I am not accepted by people that are my senior either (perhaps it has something to do with now most of them are my contemporaries and or peers as well). I know I am rambling, I didn’t say the post was going to be riveting. It’s just a title, I couldn’t think of anything else.

On a happy note though I am finished moving, which is so incredibly nice. I am living in a bedroom of a very nice lady that has two daughters that are in high school and middle school. My room is on the complete other end of the house from theirs and I have my own private bathroom. Although the money situation was nice when it came to living in my parents mobile home the autonomy that goes with being in a stranger’s home is quite nice. I am actually looking forward the most to being in an apartment with just my fiancée and I. No more annoying personalities to deal with and most importantly, it will be our home and we can keep it clean and pretty (I should post pictures of what I use to live in and what it looked like when I left but that will have to be for another post completely). We won’t have much starting out but alas, as I have come to learn not having is almost a blessing sometimes. It means you learn to live without the things that aren’t necessarily important anyway; especially in today’s society there are too many people that can’t distinguish the difference between “wants” and “needs”. You need a place to live (even “homeless” have some where to live even if it is a cardboard box or under a bridge or wherever), you need food, you need air, and fairly important is clothing. Everything else is nice to have but definitely not necessities. I think the world as a whole would be a lot happier if they learned to live within their means and stick to what is important. Cell phones, iPods, cars (luxury), etc are just wants for the most part. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t want better or more than what you have but that you shouldn’t sacrifice your life to buy more “things” that aren’t needed. That’s just my opinion. I’ll get off my soap box now.

Well I suppose I should find something do besides blogging, I certainly have plenty to do, you know with the wedding and what not.

In Hebrews 12:6 it says “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” A funny yet meaningful retort to this was in the movie Evan Almighty where Evan is being “chastened” and he looks to the Heavens and says “Could you love me a little less?” Well I have to say at points sometimes I wish he would “love me a little less.” I am not really serious of course but there have been so many things that have happened in my life. Things that I can’t talk about, more to the point things I don’t have time to talk about. I want to share them with you but it would just take incredibly too much time. I will be sharing with you as much as possible from now on of course but the last few months are just going to have to live on in my memory. I will share with you one important detail though, I got engaged last year and I will be getting married this year. So I hope to be able to share with you all of the happenings of my pending nuptials. I will also be sharing with you my happenings at college, something I feel is important to share as, an education is priceless.