Homemaker

My groom-to-be has been busy with his tool-set lately, making me a home! It's so nice to finally have a place to call our home. For the past few years both of us have been moving quite a bit, I kept moving because of grad school or new work projects, he moved a lil bit too-- and we are both just so tired of it and happy to finally settle down in one place for awhile.

Anyway, I love our place but there are a few crucial things that made it difficult to sleep. Heat, noise and light. This summer has been reallllly HOT here in Hawaii and there have been many a sleepless night tossing around and (ugh) sweating. Since it's so hot, we have to keep all the windows open. Open windows means letting in air, and NOISE. Contrary to popular belief we don't live in little grass huts in the country, Honolulu is a big (loud) city. Lastly, even if you could fall asleep with the heat and the noise, you'd wake up early because of the happy tropical sun beaming in at 6am. Without any curtains, it's just BRIGHT. Anyhow, we endured it for long enough-- Alex solved all three problems after a trip to good ol' Home Depot. He installed a big curtain and a portable AC so now our apartment is like a dark, cold and luxurious CAVE. I've been late to work every day since his home improvements ;) Sleeping has vastly improved. Oh! and to make it even better, he also put in this little grill outside. So in the evenings he grills us dinner and we eat outside on our lanai(patio)... Life is good :)

OVER it!

Lately Alex and I have been looking at each other and asking- wait, why aren't we married already again? I'm sure it will be worth the wait, but sometimes I wish we didn't go the big wedding route and had a small ceremony on a lavender farm in Maui (*not that I thought about this or anything), got MAUI'd and lived happily ever after. Instead, this year of planning is... a year of planning! Hard to believe, but I really don't care for a big wedding, I really don't. I had a super sweet 16 with the big puffy white dress, cake and 250+ guest list, been there DONE that with the big party! In fact I've had two. My 18th bday was equally huge (what can I say, my parents love me). Nobody believes me when I say this, but I actually pushed for the small wedding/ border-line elopement. It's the groom who asked we have a "proper" wedding. And I thought well, I guess he didn't have a sweet 16. He deserves a party too, so a party is what we're going to have. (Not to mention the fact that my parents l.o.v.e. big parties).

So some people might think I'm full of it and ask- if I'm not into the big wedding thing, why do I obsess and plan like I do? Simply put, I'm a "go big or go home" kinda girl. I attacked our wedding planning like I would any major work project. If I do anything, I do it WELL. If my name is on any project, it has to be done right. And don't get me wrong, I am happy we're getting married, excited for our wedding and enjoying all the self-inflicted obsession of planning. I'm just more looking forward to planning our 25th wedding anniversary party :) Any two idiots can get married, like any.two.idiots. I've seen it. Wedding's just don't really strike me as that big of a deal. You didn't DO anything yet worth all the hoop-la. Wedding's are just promises and hope. The marriage itself is more important, and often times has nothing to do with whether you have a big wedding or elope. Stay together for 25 years... now THAT is worth REALLY celebrating... :)