House Wife

There was no lasagna the other night. I realized that it was an over night recipe and I had about 4 hours so that wasn't going to work. I went to the store instead and got stuff for tacos and Spanish rice, which turned out pretty good. I just had some for lunch. Yum. That was just a little update for you if you read the last blog. :)

I have finally finished unpacking!! The only thing that I haven't done is hang stuff up. I have a lot of pictures and frames that I need to fill. I want to order pictures from the wedding to frame but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I get to see them whenever on my phone or computer so I haven't felt the need until now. I'm kind of excited about it.

I have realized that I am a house wife. Now that we are all moved in I cleaned today. I am still in pajamas and I smell like pledge (orange scent, so it's not that bad). Yesterday I went around to places to look for some furniture for the apartment and will go looking again today. Things are too expensive but little things here and there that are affordable still make the place a little homier. I have a part time job for my parents but I do the work from the house. I always wanted to do this, especially while I was sitting in boring business classes talking about how to behave in the corporate world. This is the life and living it with Dom by my side is heavenly. I love being his house wife, in a non-possessive way. :)

Home Sweet Home

Well, we finally moved into our own place. We have been here a week yesterday. :) I can not even express how happy I am or how much I am enjoying having a place of our own! We just got internet today which is really nice. I have been dying to update this blog but didn't feel like doing it with someone else's wireless. I have so much to tell but I don't even know where to start.....

We have been unpacking the entire week. That is what I do during the day while Dom is at work and then he helps me at night. I wish I could say it has been a smooth experience but I would be lying. I doesn't help that I am an indecisive, pack rat with a slight case of OCD. I have so much stuff and no storage since we are just starting out and don't have a lot of furniture, so my stuff has been sitting around on the floor until we could get some storage. I finally put it away in the nice, neat way that I wanted it but that took forever because I couldn't decide what I wanted where. Uh, I hate moving, but I wouldn't trade it for the world because it means that I am finally living with Dominic. :)

It now feels like our marriage has officially started. I absolutely love it!!!! It is so much fun. We don't have to worry about saying goodbye in the middle of the night or sharing the TV with someone else or making people feel uncomfortable while we cuddle. No doors have to be closed and everything is ours. It sucks being without him all day but once he calls to say he is on his way home from work I get so giddy and the second he walks through the door I greet him with a huge kiss! I haven't been the best wife yet in the sense of cooking but we are still getting our bearings, or at least I am. I think I am going to try lasagna tonight. This will be my first time and we'll see how it goes, my title for tomorrows blog could be "Yummy Homemade Lasagna" or "Crap On A Plate" who knows. I hope it's the former. :)

Hopefully I will be posting some pictures of the new place soon but that will probably be on facebook and I have to get the apartment all set up before that happens and we still have a few more purchases before it's complete. Oh how I wish money did grow on trees. Honestly, this new chapter of my life has been the greatest blessing ever and I can't wait to spend another wonderful night with my husband in our Home Sweet Home. :)

Old Woman

Sometimes I feel like I'm an old woman in a 22 year old's body. I creak, crack, and feel achy most of the time but most of all I love old woman hobbies. Knitting, quilting, baking, etc. I bet you I would love water aerobics if I ever tried it. I brought this up because this morning my mother-in-law showed me some baby stuff that she has quilted but mostly knitted. They were so cute! A soft fuzzy baby quilt, booties, beanies, and sweaters. Not going to lie, it made me think about children. Neither Dom or me want children for a very long time and are both very adamant about that but looking at these adorable little things made me think, aww, babies........don't worry, it didn't last.

It is nice to know though, that our kids will have two grandmas that are going to spoil them uncontrollably. Doting upon them with home made goods and name brand clothing. :) I feel very blessed to have such an amazing family.

Housing update

Here is the update: we lost the house. I had mentioned earlier that we were having a little trouble with the loan well, it turned into a lot of trouble. What happened this time is that our broker made mistake number 978. If I ever meet this man it won't be pretty. He didn't give us proper, or any, warning about some documents we were supposed to provide and by the time he did it was too late. This little mistake put us back about 2 to 3 weeks and that's even if he could still come through......turns out he couldn't, I'm not surprised. We can no longer ask for extensions and because of the loan situation and it creating the downfall of our economy they are no longer easy to come by, especially if you own your own company.

Now we are looking for an apartment, which is completely fine with me. I am just so excited to be done with it all and finally moving into our own place away from family. Again, I love them but it's time to go. Loosing the house was a bummer but it's not the end of the world, we will look again when the time is write which is looking like next year and we won't be as rushed and will know never to work with this broker ever, ever again.

Monday the 13th

I am trying to remember back to high school when you would look forward to the weekend after a long week in school but I am having a little trouble. My thought is that, yes the weekends were great and anticipated, but the week wasn't that bad (of course I didn't think that at the time but in retrospect). You spent the whole time with friends and got out fairly early in the day so the week wasn't a total loss. Then you moved on up to college, which was like a field day. The times you did have class and went were only for a few hours and then you had the rest of the day to do whatever you wanted. The weekend was just an extension of that freedom. Now it's a little different.

Weekends are my oasis after a week in the desert. OK, maybe it's not that bad but it's not like high school or college anymore that's for sure. Dom has a 9-5 job Mon. - Fri. and I miss him. I go with him about half the time just so that I can be around him and have internet but there is no ditching or socializing with friends. After work we have an hour long commute home and then we just unwind. By the time we have shook off the day of work, it's time for bed. I guess I just need to get used to the adult life but I now see why people have the Monday blues and look forward to the weekend so much.

Doughnuts

As some know, I have an extremely unhealthy obsession with doughnuts. This is what happens in the mornings when I go to work with Dom, we get up and eat cereal together around 8 a.m. and then get to work around 9:30 a.m. and then I am hungry again. Sometimes one of his workers brings in doughnuts and somehow my stomach has now interpreted that to mean that every morning around this time it should be getting a doughnut.

Today was a no show with the doughnuts and so I want to walk to the nearest shop to get some. It is about a mile away but this is in Sacramento. My husband doesn't like the idea of me running around alone in this neighborhood and doesn't think I should go. Now how sad is it that I want a doughnut so bad that I may disregard my husbands concern for me and walk the one mile in Sac. just to satisfy my craving, on our one month of marriage anniversary nonetheless.....I'm sick. If anyone knows how to treat this problem or reads this in the next few minutes and wants to talk some sense into me, please post your comments.

............... 30 Minutes later..........

You're too late.

Ohana means family

Alright, here goes a little venting. We are living with the in-laws right now.....enough said? Don't get me wrong, I love my in-laws. They are amazing people who have opened their home to us once again but when you are newlyweds living with your parents, free rent doesn't bring as big of a smile to your face.

Here's what happened. We have a house but technically it's not officially ours. We are in contract to buy it but we are just waiting on the loan. Our broker promised us that we would be in on the 23rd of March, which in the day after we got back from our honeymoon but what happened was that a few days before we got back we got an email (not even a phone call) to tell us that he had to drop our loan from the lender he was going through because there were complications and has to start the process over with a different lender, meaning we would have to ask for an extension and get into our house even later than the original closing date.

Well, since this was dropped on us a little too late to look for an apartment and we don't have the money to stay in a hotel for a few weeks we ended up back at the folks. Now to be fair I should let you know that they are extremely considerate. They always give us our privacy and offer to go out to give us more time at home alone but somehow it's just never enough.

I love learning about a strong Christian family foundation from them and seeing how they interact with each other. I also love the many home baked goods that his mom makes but how we both view it is that our marriage hasn't officially started yet. I mean duh, we are married but we have yet to live on our own and take care of each other and ourselves independently. I really do believe that this was orchestrated by God and that I am supposed to gain something from this time which I feel I already have but I am ready to appreciate the new house and the alone time with my husband. In other words, I am ready to say goodbye to the "Ohana."

My Happy List

This is pretty much tradition for each blogger I know or at least friend. It was started by my Mini and seemed to really catch on. I started mine but haven't gotten too far. You are supposed to come up with 100 things that make you happy but most only blog their first 25 and I have at least 25 so here they are in no particular order:

1. A smooth lane sweep on the freeway.
2. My brother's laugh.
3. The sound of my mom's voice.
4. Surprises.
5. When the butter spreads really easily on the bread.
6. Feeling comfy (the weight of blankets on top of you or soft sweats).
7. New clothes.
8. Dom (In particular his laugh, smell, jokes, thoughts, and personality).
9. Feeling competent.
10. Finding the right song for the moment.
11. Fresh shaved legs.
12. When you don't want to put down a book.
13. When my hair does what I want it to.
14. Being married to Dominic!!!!!!
15. Showing off anything Dom did.
16. Big coffee mugs...I don't know why, I don't even like coffee.
17. When my nails are painted.
18. Movies.
19. Real accents.
20. A clear picture.
21. Candle light.
22. Seeing someone you actually want to see unexpectedly.
23. Making things.
24. Staring at my rings......Made by Dom.
25. Clean laundry.