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I had a beautiful alone lunch today.  I love going to lunch with my friends and being social, but for the first time in a long time, everyone else was busy, so I had lunch alone.  I wrote down my thoughts while I ate and will share them very soon.  I was planning on doing it now, but my evening didn’t go quite as planned.  See Twitter logs below.

WinterBauval Yay! I’m off! I’m actually going to go to the gym. I think I will do the elliptical for 15 or 20 minutes.

WinterBauval Had to really fight through the last 5 minutes of my workout, but I made it for 20 minutes. Yay me!!

WinterBauval Got on what I thought was the 0 north. Yeah it was the 10 going east. Damnit!! Shit!! Oh well. At least I got more exercise.

WinterBauval Made it home. Finally. I don’t want to do that again. I’m exhausted and starving. And out of shape

WinterBauval My husband is awesome. He brought me Chipotle. Ah, I love my husband.

So yeah, that’s right.  I got on the wrong bus after I left the gym.  I got off as soon as I realized but I had to walk half a mile to get back on the right route.  This was after working out for 20 minutes.  I haven’t worked out in weeks and I have never had a regular exercise routine.  I am out. of. shape.  So my whole body is sore.  The chipotle helped with the hunger, but now the aches and pains are catching up.  The evening ended well because I got dinner taken care of.  Ugh.  My body hurts typing this.  Time for bed.

So this past weekend was awesome and I have more than just weddings to talk about. Unfortunately, that’s what is in the forefront of my mind, so that’s what I’m going to talk about.  I promise that I will talk about how funny the MythBusters were (I twittered the whole thing, which was a new experience for me).

Over the past couple of weeks two of my friends have gotten engaged.  I was not surprised about either one of them and I am super happy for both.  I spent Sunday with C (it’s not official in public/at work so I won’t say who she is) at the Phoenix Bridal Show which was great.  It was the first time the two of us really spent time together outside of work and the more time I spend with her the more time I want to spend with her.  We’ve got that thing going on where we click really well and can’t stop gabbing about this and that whenever we’re together.  I feel really honored that she valued my opinion enough to invite me to a bridal show and help her plan for something so important and personal.

I think the most fun thing that we did at the bridal show (besides eat tons of cake samples…man I am a fatty fat, but put cake in front of me and I just can’t control myself) was watch C try on veils.  Her mom is making her dress and her veil so we stopped at a booth that had TONS of veils and she tried on about 10 or 15.  She looked so pretty in all of them.  The lady who was working at the booth was being really helpful and doing a good job of selling the veils (ha-ha, we were just scoping out ideas to STEAL!!! *laughs evilly and rubs hands together*) but she was really not listening to what C wanted.  I think I managed to help her find good ideas and figure out what she wants.  I hope it helps her out.  Whenever she looked in the mirror and she had on a veil that she liked, she just looked so beautiful it’s something that is so hard to describe.  Your whole chest just feels like it’s being lifted by a golden rope.  It’s amazing how something so simple can bring so much joy to so many people.  

I know that she and her future husband will be very happy together and C will make a BEAUTIFUL bride.  She showed me some pictures of her location and all I can say is “DAMN SISTER!”  It is going to be so classy and awesomely huge.   I can’t wait to be there.  Her event is just barely a year away so there is a lot of planning to do and it’s looking like she values my opinion for now.  We have all kinds of parties coming up that she said she wants me to go to.  I’m excited to be doing this from the other side.  It makes me remember my wedding.  How much fun it was and the things that went wrong.  I want to help her make her day perfect.

My other newly engaged friend is getting married in a much different way.  Her fiancé is at basic training right now to join the army (she writes the “Stars, Stripes and Lattes” blog linked to the right) so they are going to have what I consider a “traditional” military wedding.  Things move fast for those of us associated with the armed forces so things like weddings often do too.  She is getting married in December.  That’s right, December.  But this is going to be a small, intimate affair.  This is exactly what they want and I couldn’t be more excited!  I have never met two people who are so determined and so in line with what they want, it’s a joy to watch.

I’ve already been plotting with some of our friends to throw a bachelorette party and whatever we decide on I know it will be a blast.  This is going to be so. much. fun.

I am so excited about this.  I have excuses to spend time with two women who I admire, love and want to spend time with. I’m getting out of the apartment more which I love/hate.  I love that I feel like I have things to do and that I know I won’t be sitting on the couch waiting for Matthew to get home.  I just feel bad because I’m starting to do more things without him and I’m spending more time away from the cats.  Oh well, they’re cats.  We got them because they can deal and I have my whole life to spend with my husband.  It’s about time that we started doing our own thing more often – he’s been doing it for a while.  It was getting really unhealthy the way I was doing nothing.  This is something good for me!

Okay, so I feel like that was the most rambling post.  Weddings make me emotional.

Well, I promised an update on the weekend which I did not do.  Too bad, so sad.  My new TV is distracting.

I’m at work now and I’ve already finished my normal morning stuff and it’s not even 9 yet, so I think that I can spare a few minutes to write.

So, we’re getting more and more settled into the new apartment every day.  I think I only emptied like a box and a half last night, but every little bit makes a difference.  We’re kind of to that point where we have unpacked all of the necessary things and the things that we really like and now we’re to the junk.  I kind of have to realize a place for some things and for others I really have to decide if I really want it.  There is also a lot of paper junk left.  All of that needs to be boxed up for a weekend marathon of paperwork filing.  I would like to get the dining room table first, but I know that if I set that as my deadline, it will never happen.  I think I can safely say that it should be the last thing we do though. There’s a lot of crap there and it’s going to take some dedication.  And some cleanliness.  I don’t think we’ll be successful if there’s still other crap that will distract us.

Both of the cats are doing fine.  Mango is so funny.  He doesn’t even care that we’ve moved.  In the car ride over he and Phoebe went over with Matthew while I ran a quick errand and picked up dinner.  Mango is normally pretty quiet in the car, but Phoebe is always a screamer.  Matt said that Mango joined in with the chorus.  We think he just thought that’s what you do in the car since Phoebe is his only feline role model. When we got to the new place, Phoebe was absolutely pissed.  She didn’t want to be there and she was ready to go.  Mango just got out and looked around and just started having fun exploring.  He’s just like “Oh, so this is different now.  That’s cool!” He’s the most resilient laid back cat I’ve ever seen.

Mango’s chillax nature is a really good thing because he just got…well he got neutered the other day.  I’m sorry Mango’s balls, but you had to go.  He was just a little wobbly when he got home.  He ate dinner and drank water and then settled into his normal routine.  He explored the apartment, ran around, jumped around; it was a normal day for him. It didn’t even take him a day to get back to being totally normal Mango.

So I am just really excited about our new location.  We are so close to so many different things – we’ll even be able to walk to our favourite comic book shop.  It’s awesome.  Matt and I had thought about walking around this weekend, but when we finally got out on Saturday, there was this strange wet stuff coming out of the sky.  It was frightening, so we drove (yeah, that’s rain people; we don’t get a lot of it here in Arizona).  I am hoping that this week or this weekend we’ll have a chance to walk around.  I feel so hip and cool living in Downtown Phoenix.  I love the idea that I’ll be able to walk, bus or light rail wherever I feel the need to go (for the most part).  I haven’t taken the bus to work yet – I’m a little scared to be honest! – but Samuel keeps encouraging me to do it, so if I don’t do it this week, I am determined to do it next week. Here’s hoping!

So I’ve been really busy moving.  We’ve been up to 11 p.m. and later (that’s late for me people; get over it) every night moving/packing/unpacking so I have not updated.  Just sending out a quick note because I haven’t forgotten about you, beautiful blog.  I have notes for posts that I want to make.  Expect a rush of new posts this weekend.  If I don’t spend the whole time unpacking.