It is time for new goals in my life. Every day seems daunting and such a downer. The routine has become so routine and the spice of life is slowly being lost by the moment. Work is a bummer and with little to no fun spending money the spice of life in my social life is slim to none. So it is time to set some new goals. When we got engaged my goal and focus was on the wedding. I spent hours of endlessly researching details for the wedding. With the wedding and honeymoon over the excited balloon has been popped. I need new goals with new things to look forward to.
So some new goals that I want to accomplish. I want to start scrapbooking again. It is very therapeutic for me and I have all the supplies to do it with the exception of the actual photos that I would like to memorialize. My scrapbook is only done through June 2005 after high school graduation. Now that I am over 5 years behind in my scrapping I am going to go through the events that are in line to scrap and choose only the important big events to add. That way I can catch up faster. I want to be up to date through the year 2005 by the end of August. If I set dates for myself than maybe I will actually get around to doing it.
Troy and I need to decide how we are going to celebrate our first anniversary as a married couple! I am pretty excited about it actually. First I was thinking about recreating our honeymoon. The hotel that we stayed at gives 1 free night if you go back to celebrate your anniversary. Then I thought that that is too expensive and if we travel big again that I want to go on a new adventure somewhere else where we haven’t been.
Then my next idea was to go on a cruise! I have heard mixed reviews on the whole idea since you are “trapped” on a boat and you don’t get to do as much exploring as if you stayed at a resort and the time that you are actually docked is pretty short. Then others say that it is great and it is like a hotel with an awesome view of the water, LOL. So that is still an option.
Then the frugal house-envious me wants to do something even smaller and use all the money to be spent on a vacation toward a down payment for our first house. Now I realize that I can not be so stingy with our money that we do not allow ourselves to go out and have a good time and enjoy life. At the same time I really want to own our own place, whether it is a condo or a house or whatever we can find but I really want to move into a place, plant some roots, start a family, have as many pets as I want and be able to decorate, renovate or destroy as I please without worrying about what anyone else wants.
So I am left between all kinds of options so it is also a goal and an exciting thing to look forward to is the celebration of our 1 year anniversary in 3 months and 5 days!!
Jared and Mallory are getting married in September and I am very excited for them. They are going to be surrounded by family, friends, and love. I can’t wait to celebrate with them and actually have a drink at this wedding. Since I didn’t even drink at my own it will be nice to be out the outside this time and be able to take pictures and enjoy all the festivities without being pulled in a million different directions.
We also are looking forward to the Brad Paisley concert in September. It is on my bucket list to see him in concert and if we are really lucky then he might just sing our wedding song. Now that would just be absolutely awesome and would be a night I would never forget. I still need to find a hotel for that night and scoop out the area since it is all the way down in the San Diego area. It will be a nice weekend away.
After that we have Cassandra and Andrew’s wedding. I’m excited about this one too! I got my dress and shoes and now all I need are some bomb accessories and I will be ready to rock it. Their wedding is going to be very different from Jared and Mallory’s with a totally different feel but I think it is going to be just as pretty and full of love.
I guess I have more to look forward to than I realized now that I actually wrote some of the things down. The daily grind is just really grinding on me these days and the positive, upbeat, and eager Melissa has disappeared. Work used to be fun and interesting and I actually enjoyed myself. These days it is a total drag and I miss the more family oriented, less corporate commercial, office environment that we used to work in. So with that daily grind and then being broke all the time I am starting to just get worn out.
On a positive note, Troy and I are really hitting the grind on paying off debt. We are trying to put as much extra money towards credit card debt as possible to get them paid down and eventually off. That way we can really start putting money into savings. When the stupid Nissan is paid off (last payment on 9/18 whoot whoot!!) then that extra money will go to paying off even more debt faster and eventually will be put into savings. We are used to living “without it” so it won’t be as hard not to spend it on frivolous things.
Adulthood – who would have thought it would be like this? I rushed to grow up and look where I am at? After spending some time with Amy we were talking about how old we are and how her kid is about to go into kindergarten. Where did the time go?
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