I love my Mechanic!

Josh is a mechanic a.k.a. auto service technician, greasemonkey, wrencher....ect. I never know what Josh likes his "title" to be. :)

Anyway I do love my mechanic but let me tell you why I don't love him....

- My rug at our back door that I refuse to pay more than $5.00 for has a black grease stain on it from his boots. We have a boot tray that they sit in when he is not wearing them, but the simple walking in the door and taking them off leaves a huge black mark on my rug that will not come out! I only buy brown rugs from TJ max for this reason.

- There are hand prints everywhere! I usually know where he has been and sometimes wonder how or why he touched something like the baseboards.... but I know he did from the black smudges that are left behind. I am condsidering buying Mr. Clean Magic Eraser stock because I use them so much! I don't know what I would do without them.

- We have an industrial size tub of Goop in our shower because regular soap won't get the grease off. He also has permenatley stained forearms and hands/fingernails. I've only seen them clean when we go up north for the weekend and he is in the water everyday. Our wedding pictures should be interesting! :)

- Even though Josh showers and scrubs every night before he goes to bed, you can still tell which side of the bed he sleeps on if you pulled back the covers. There is a "haze" of grey on his side of the bed. I have a new understanding for the word "clean". I also have decided that we will never own white sheets, or any other light color for that matter.

- If I have to wash Josh's work clothes because he forgot to take them to work to be cleaned, I then have to clean my washer out. Who would have thought you'd clean your washer after you just cleaned your clothes?! When we own a home I think I will buy a used washer and put it in the garage for his work clothes only. I can also see this coming in handy if we have children that also like to be dirty.

Yes I love my mechanic very much and can't imagine life without him. He can fix anything, and I mean anything....he is just mechanically inclined. I have however learned why his mother got so annoyed when he came in the house after working in the garage. She now laughs at my cleaning stories.

Gotta love my mechanic!

My Wedding Pet Peeves

I'm not married yet, but it's getting close! 43 more days!!! Although that doesn't mean that there are not a ton of things that haven't annoyed me already.

I've been busy perusing wedding pictures and envisioning my own wedding day/night. I couldn't help being nit picky and decided I'd write a post about it.

Megan's Wedding Pet Peeves:
1. People who think they are invited and tell you "don't forget to send my invitation!" Wedding's aren't cheap people, and if I haven't talked to you since high school, don't expect an invitation.

2. People who don't rsvp - ok this one may not be a good pet peeve, since my rsvp deadline isn't until May 8, but if they haven't rsvp'd by then, i'm going to be annoyed!

3. People who think my wedding is a great place for free alcohol and a way to get drunk. Again...this isn't cheap and you can drink and still be polite and respectful without potentially ruining my day or embarrasing yourself.

4. Out of control guest lists......don't let it happen to you!

5. Weddings are supposed to be sentimental, but i'm really not overly sentimental so please don't get upset when I don't care if we have a videographer or when I don't think we need actual champagne for the toast. (although, I did loose the champagne arguement lol) or that we are not having a recieving line.... I probably won't save my bouquet either....

6. I HATE the phrase "It's your day, you can do what you want!" While this is in part true, it really does matter to me what people think and planning a wedding is super stressful.

7. When wedding planning takes over your lives and you forget to do the little things that made you want to marry each other to begin with....
**While Josh and I are very set on getting married I can't say that wedding planning hasn't put strains on our relationship. As much as we are excited for the event and being married, part of me will be happy when it's over.

8. I swear that the prices of things go up because it's "for a wedding" Why do people seriously pay upwards of 10 thousand dollars on one day? Or maybe i'm just cheap....?

9. Offering to help with the wedding today, when i've been working, stressing and planning this for the last 7 months......don't bother, i've got it!
**while I really haven't needed much help, I have to laugh a the people who recieved our invitation and then e-mailed or called and said "Wow I had no idea how quick this was coming up - do you need any help"....I mailed out save the dates, did you not know when our wedding date was?

10. People who wear jeans to a wedding. I better not see any at mine! I believe that weddings are an honor to attend and should be treated that way. Please give the bride and groom some respect and dress nicely like you might for church...


Don't let me fool you, I'm super excited. But for all the Brides to Be or already married women out there, you must be able to relate to some of these :)

Speak no Evil....

Josh and I haven't been talking for almost 3 days now. I can't even remember what either of us got mad about in the first place but it appears that we are both so freakin stubborn that neither of us will give in. We are so stubborn that you would think one of us might go sleep on the couch...nope, we just sleep in our bed with our backs to each other (which by the way my shoulder is killing me from sleeping on the same side!) We have conveniently avoided each other in the bathroom in the morning, and we go on as if everything was fine. Example: I always pack Josh's lunch in the morning after I feed the dogs, and I have continued to do so while we are living in "silence".

Today we did the cordial hello, how was your day after work and that was about it.....hmmmm. Probably not the greatest thing since we are supposed to get married in 45 DAYS!

I will not loose my cool though, I honestly can't remember what we were mad about and now it just feels silly. Plus, I really miss my best friend....

So I decided that I'll break the silence, even though I somewhat pride myself on being the most stubborn (twisted right?) I just can't stand not talking anymore especially when I can't remember what the reason was to begin with.

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. - Bill Cosby

I have BRACES!

I've had braces for a few months now - since october 2009. I will admit I was really really disgusted with them at first and for about a month every time I looked in the mirror the thoughts of "why did I choose this?" crossed my mind. Yes, getting braces was a choice. I really didn't have a bad smile - just a few crooked teeth and horrible TMJ that was getting worse.

Ok so I wasn't being entirely vain, but mostly. I had TMJ and I hated my slightly crooked teeth. I found an orthodontist who said he could fix my tmj and my slightly crooked teeth. (I've been wanting braces since I was in highschool mind you). Low and behold after 7 months of wearing an expander I no longer have TMJ, and after 6 months of braces my teeth are almost done! I went to the orthodontist today and I am going to have them off for my wedding and they will be close to being done shortly after my wedding! I am crossing my fingers that by the end of the summer I will have beautiful smile again and perfect teeth. The best part is the "preview" to my new smile at my wedding.

So the experience has been different. For awhile I didn't feel like a 23 year old and felt more like I looked like someone who was 23 who reverted back to highschool. Although, I keep meeting more and more adults that have or have had braces into adulthood. I'm glad that I choose this, and am really happy with the way my teeth are coming along. I know I'll really be happy when these are off and I have an amazingly perfect smile!

I hate....

I hate my brothers girlfriend! Ok so hate is a very strong word, but I really really dislike her.

My brother sent his rsvp to our wedding and her name was on it!!! I really didn't think she'd have enough guts to actually sit in a room with both sides of my family and Josh's family who also dislike her too (long story).

So new dilemma - do I let her come to my rehersal dinner? Do I actually sit her with my entire family at a table next to the head table? (that is where my brother will be sitting). I realize I'll be busy at our wedding and probably won't even notice her, but it is the principal of the thing. I mean seriously, how disrespectful do you need to be?

I'm trying and I mean i'm really trying (because letting go is probably the hardest thing for me to do) to forget about her. My mom told me bitterness was a very unattractive trait, and I have a tendency to be very bitter..... I take after my grandmother, who I am missing very much right now but that's a whole other post.....at least she'd understand where i'm coming from