things. 9/8/2010
I am happy with our recent trip to SLC and so happy that everyone got along! Congrats to my awesome nephew Hunter on getting baptized and thank you for letting James and I come and watch!
Working steadily on Taylor Made. I have the website finished up (taymadeweddings.com) and have a few goals set to try and reach. I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed but James has really helped me see that I won't let anyone down and I work best if I work at my own pace. The pressure of having to know everything right away was definitely getting me.

Other than that, things are going great. James and I are doing well and I can hardly wait for the end of October. I'll get to go to SLC and see my newest nephew and pick up my pride and Joy.. My dog Owen. :) And we will be moving into a new house. (well new to us) not sure if it'll be new or not. lol.

Anyways theres the quick update on things!

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd

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Aug- 17th- One Week
Its one week until Astoria opens. I have my DBA and am waiting on zoning to get my Business license. We finished up James' office and it looks and feels great! I'll post pictures soon. I have finished my website but I'm waiting to unveil it until a little closer to The Grand Opening. And thats about all I really have going on. Trying to get everything together for my business and for Astoria. Wish me Luck!
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July 22- Work!
Sorry for the long delays between posts, I blame the concept of working for a living. Things are incredibly busy with all things work related right now. I love how busy things are and money is always good but a lot of it is "start up" right now. Astoria is coming along great, and check out the website to see how the construction is really taking shape. The courtyard is now landscaped and it looks awesome. Taylor-Made finally has a logo, Which will be posted soon on the Tay-Made FB and Blog. And James got an office for Knowledgeable Nonsense! So the last two weeks have been spent re-modeling, re-painting, and getting office furniture. I'll post before and after pics once its all complete.. Its gonna look amazing. :)

The Salt Lake trip was short, but it was nice to see my family, my dogs and my home town again. I have missed real mountains and actual green (instead of brown/red) landscape. My niece and nephews are so cute and I've missed them so much! It was great to play with, sit with and talk with them.

Thats about all thats been going on.

Quote for today: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."- Aristotle



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July 8th Random update.
Just realized my blog doesn't write the date that I write the blog.. hmm. I need to remember to put it in the title.

In other news... Things are just going as usual. Work, work and more work.

James brought me home some flowers and a cute card the other day. :) It was for just because. I love little surprises like that. He is such a sweetheart! Sigh, I love him so much. I won't get too mushy on you, so simply put, I love him!

I am dying for school. Granted, when it starts, my life will be work (three jobs), school, sleep and thats about it. But I feel like my brain is melting. (Maybe its the 100+ degree heat here)
I need and I am craving (a formal) education. I am registering next week on Monday.

Now on the flip side, I am learning loads(!)(so much its overwhelming at times) with the Astoria project and from the wonderful planners I am working and becoming friends with. My wedding planning is and has become an education in itself. I love learning new things and just taking it all in.

I got one hell of a deal down here the other day.. a haircut, a manicure, a massage and a microdermabrasion treatment all for $40!!! Pretty sweet. So I cut four inches off my hair. I'll post pics soon.. probably. LOL.

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."- Unknown

Grateful for!:
1) Learning. I try to learn from everything that happens. I love the thought of constant education, formal or just life learned. I am grateful so much for all the learning opportunities I've been given lately. Live has been so busy for me lately, but learning and growing everyday has been so worth it.

2) Working internet. I know this one is pretty random but yesterday I had one hell of a time trying to work with my internet not working. It made my job SO freaking slow and frustrating. Today, I have working internet and I am back in my actually functioning work mode. YAY!

3) James. (gonna get mushy on you for a sec) He works so hard for us and takes such good care of me. Everything is always taken care of and he is just so incredibly good and always trying to do the right thing. We face a lot of opposition from people who should be close to us and it makes things hard... But he always keeps his chin up and reminds me that things will work out for the best and that we are Us and happy, and thats all that matters. I am also constantly grateful for his support of all my projects. I love that he calls me in the middle of the day just to talk. And I am so grateful that he always makes sure to tell me he loves me before he hurries out the door. I am happy in life and that is due greatly to his love, support and presence in my life.

Anyways, Thats about everything I can think of to write. I'm waiting on an install of Microsoft office 10 so I can work on style boards and things and then there will more posts on the Taylor-Made blog as well. (http://tay-madeweddings.blogspot.com/)
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Weekend finds and joys

This weekend was a trip to Vegas with James and our new friend Natalie. We went to promote the car rally and after party at the Palms. And in all that "work" we went shopping at the forum shops. Love those stores.. Found two stores that are my new favorites.
Fresh. This is the best smelling store in the world and I left with a scent that had me about to eat my arm off the rest of the day. I won't say what the scent was because I can't wait to buy it offline and have you ask me what that wonderful smell is!! But wow.. IT SMELLS SOOOO GOOD! Can't wait to get it.

The second store I fell in love with was Anne Fontaine. We went in and I was pampered in trying on an outfit that was just incredible. So wanted it. Price: unattainable. LOL But it was fun to try it on, pretend to be rich and set my goals all at the same time. Great looking business clothes... one day, one day.

Although Monday wasn't a weekend day, I do have to write how much joy I took from the first ever evening walk. James and I went for a short walk around the condo complex and it was nice to walk and tell each other about our days. I'm hoping it becomes a nightly routine.

Astoria opens August 24th, so open your calendars and plan to make the trip to come. :) (astoriaweddings.com)

The NK2K10 (nonsense car rally 2010) is still pushing forward, and is gonna be huge! (nkwine.com)

And my personal baby, Taylor-Made Weddings and Events, has a new blog and Facebook. I've been working on a few style boards and am getting my DBA in July. (tay-madeweddings.blogspot.com) (facebook- Taylor-Made Weddings and Events)

Everything is coming together and with starting school in the fall.. things are going and are busy but very good.

"Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can."- Danny Kaye

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Lake Board
My future "sister-in-law" is getting married and wants a lake wedding with yellow in the fall. I felt inspired and threw this together.

I have to laugh at that "sister-in-law" part. It always sounds so complicated to say my boyfriend's brother's fiancé.

Thats about everything going on.. Just been busy with James' Rally, Astoria and Taylor-Made.
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Motivation
I am seriously lacking it right now.

I had a rough, cockroach night. And along with totally grossing me out, its started my day off with a sleepy, unmotivated attitude. What is a rough cockroach night, you may ask? Well... Lets start with the rough part. James and I currently are couch-less. (They are coming in the next week or two) In the meantime, When We watch movies, we bring our bed down stairs and lay on it to watch movies. Last night we brought the bed down and decided we would just sleep down stairs after we finished our movie. It seemed like every hour we were getting woken up by people (roommate/ and roommates friends) coming down stairs and fiddling around in the kitchen or going outside and coming back in. So after a few times of this, we decide to just give in and haul everything back upstairs. Now sleeping in our quiet room. Sigh, peace, quiet no more interrupted sleep... so I thought. I have no clue how long I was asleep but I was woken up by something in my ear! (finger in ear to scratch and squish) After screaming and freaking the F(!) out, I run to the bath room and pull a now very dead (from me trying to pull it out), cockroach out of my ear. EEEWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I washed my ear out and then pored a TON of hydrogen peroxide in my ear. (Its all I had and I could think of that would clean it out and get bug germs and guts out of my ear) Then back to bed. James trying to calm me down.. I keep freaking out and getting creepy hebey gebies. I finally fell asleep (hands over ears) and all the rest of the night went well. (had a good dream about sleeping in a bubble so no bugs could climb into my head or anywhere else) Now to waking up.. I come down stairs, turn on my work computer, grab the hoodie that was on the back of that chair that had fallen to the floor, and put it on. ( 5 seconds later.. ) Get that feeling like your hair is tickling you... go to scratch.. grab a (larger than the ear one) cockroach off my neck. (minor Quiet(4:30AM) Freak-out and smashing ensues) EEEWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell???!!!? They were out to get me these last few hours. :( Now I would like to point out that I am a neat freak. I clean my home every other day, this is vacuuming, sweeping mopping, dishes, laundry, etc.. and We have had the house sprayed for bugs.. Therefore This should not have happened to me!! I keep getting that feeling like stuff is crawling all over me now. (shutter) I am so freaked out and disgusted now. I'm going to have to call to get the house sprayed again. :( So due to a sucky night and being grossed out, I am kinda focusing on not wigging out over every little itch I get.. So not motivated right now, just grossed out. Bleh.

On a happier note, James and I went to the movies for free yesterday. We went and Saw the new Kathrine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher movie, Killers. It was pretty funny and We liked it. It was cute. And then James dumped a whole thing of popcorn on my head. LOL. It was just a fun and playful date. :) And for the record, I was completely blameless in the popcorn massacre.. Ask anyone. :P

We also went to Vegas this weekend to hand out flyers for the Rally and to take our roommate to his daughters birthday. It ended up raining so that axed the flyers, So James and I just walked around looking at shops and things. It was nice and I love Vegas with James, Walking around holding hands the whole time is the only reason I would like Vegas at all really. LOL But I also did get some good ideas for wedding stuff because of all the cool design aspects Vegas has going on so that was a plus too.

Well thats all I have for an update. I'm feeling a little more motivated now that I've had a chance to write out everything. :)



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