Friday, October 3

commit this to memory

Today, I finally figured out something thats been bugging me since I moved into this apartment. Turns out, if I put my "stereo" in the bathroom, I can hear it in every single room :) This really has been driving me nuts since day one. I hope its loud enough to bug my upstairs neighbors as much as their kids constant running around bugs me.

Wednesday, October 1

Okay, so I finally have the internets again, the least I could do is give you an update of the last month or two :)

HEALTH
Back in early July I noticed I was losing a TON of hair. Huge handfuls every time I showered, did my hair, loose pieces throughout the day. I was ready to chalk this up to needing a haircut and wedding stress, but the sheer amount of it made me worried. I finally made a doctors appointment and they agreed, it sounded like stress but they ran some blood work just to be sure. When the results came back my thyroid numbers were through the roof. Turns out I have something called hashimoto's disease, which is an autoimmune disease that causes hypothyroidism, usually brought on by stress. Lovely. I got put on meds to treat the hypothyroidism and was sent on my way. I went back for a follow up mid-August. My hair was still falling out and I was exhausted every day. The doctor ran more bloodwork and ordered me in for a thyroid ultrasound since he couldn't see anything wrong on the surface. The ultrasound showed I have a nodule, which are usually benign, but the doctor wanted me to have a scan done just to be sure. Down side is, I can't have the scan until I've been off the meds for a month which were finally making me feel better! I made the appointment Monday and the earliest I can have it done is October 20. I haven't been feeling too bad, just tired much more than normal. I've been letting myself sleep in and nap if I need to, but I can't wait to get everything regulated and back to normal!

HOME
Nick and I moved into a two bedroom apartment at 19 & Hayes the week before the wedding. That week sucked :P We love it here. We are completely out of boxes, but we haven't put a lot of finishing touches up yet. Our back room needs a futon for teevee watching and the living room is nearly barren, but its home :) If you go to Lakeside, come say hello

WEDDING
After wasting the entire summer planning, its over!! Yahoo! The weather was gorgeous, the ceremony was beautiful and we had so much fun! The hall looked great, we looked great, the food was delicious, we danced all night long. A few guests were cranky, but I sort of expected it from them anyway. I have pictures all over facebook so you can look over there if you like. Nick's Aunt got us a suite at Caesers Windsor and it was the most beautiful room I have ever seen. We were on the 11th floor overlooking the Detroit river. King size bed, 2 flat screen teevees, jacuzee tub, gorgeous! We didn't actually leave the hotel until around 6 on Monday, we just slept in and laid around in our hotel robes relaxing. It was awesome. On Tuesday we drove to Niagra Falls and stayed in a really crumby room, but we were only in there to sleep so its okay. The Falls were amazing. We did the Maid of the Mist boat tour which was the coolest thing I've done in a long time. Then we walked along the strip and indulged in the sights. Beer, pizza, icecream, ferris wheel, window shopping, we had so much fun. 3 days was exactly the right amount of time too, we were so ready to come home and just do nothing but be home and relax.

Currently, we are loving married life but having a hard time adjusting to our very opposite work schedules. I see a lot more sleeping husband than I spend time with husband, but its nice just to know hes there. I have to close the bedroom door most days after hes worked the night shift because all I want to do is go in a bother him awake :) What a bratty wife.

So what have you been up to, Internet? I've missed you.

Monday, September 22

Wee, the internets are back!

We got this new computer with a big ass monitor and I hate it because all the websites are all janky now. Gay.

Real post when I have more time, just wanted to say hello :)

Monday, August 11

So a lot of very cool and important things happened today. 1.) The new IKEA catalog came in the mail and 2.) Nick and I applied for an apartment! (What? You know I can't resist them swedes)

So we applied at Lakeside Village today, and if everything goes well, we move in as early as Tuesday! I'm totally excited. I will be 1 mile from my work!

My boss worked my regular days off into my vacation time to make it even longer, so now the 17th is my last day until at least September 1st! I'm so excited, I haven't had 2 weeks off since the summer vacation of 11th grade. After we move in, Nick and I are doing a lot of nothing ^_^


Friday, July 18

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Yay Im not crazy! I have a thyroid condition!

Wednesday, July 16

The flavor of your lips is enough to keep me pressin'

Computer is broken again, but whats new? I've had quite a lot to blog about too.

So I worked at JoAnn's a total of 3 days. Woo! It wasn't hard work really, but very physical, more than I could do with another 8 hour shift looming and 4 hours of sleep. So I tried but I couldn't cut it.

My hair has been falling out for the last 2 weeks or so. Lots of it, big handfuls after every shower. I went to the doctor last Friday to have it checked on. He said it sounded like it was just stress but he did a full physical and a bunch of blood work just to be sure. I have to call tomorrow about the results. The nice thing is since my hair is so thin right now, it curls very nicely because its not weighed down. The bad thing is you can really see my scalp in front :P Ginger is supposed to bring me some hair vitamin on Sunday, hopefully that will help everything get back to normal.

Nick and I had our shower with his family last Saturday and it was so much better than I expected. We didn't play a single stupid game, we just ate lunch, chatted and opened presents. You wouldn't believe how much stuff we got too! It was really, really nice. The shower with my side of the family is this Sunday and I'm a little less optimistic. My sister insisted on throwing it, but doesn't seem to have organized much. Its Wednesday night and I'm pretty sure she hasn't even figured out the food. Ah! Hopefully it all comes together and I won't be upset.

The nicest thing about the shower last weekend was I got to spend the entire day with Nick. We went to his house after to write out our thank you notes and eat pizza and just chill. It was nice. Tomorrow we are going to sample cake and put our order in. Yum! After that its just my veil and flowers! I can't wait to be done with all this crap, lol.

Monday, June 30

Ring ring ring, Banana Phone!

I've been living on the phone lately. I hate using the phone too, normally my minutes never peak 100 for the month cause I never use the dang thing unless I'm trying to figure out where Nick is.

I called the local Chevy dealer this morning to find out about fixing my door. They have the part in stock and its only $73 so I'm going to swing by tomorrow morning and get it. I'm going to ask them how much it will cost if they install it, but I think I'll just wait for my Dad to come home and do it. Boy, will that be a relief to have fixed. Then I won't feel like such a jackass when I take my car to have everything else fixed. Uhh, yes, I can see you are 6'5" but could you please climb over the passenger seat? Yes, thank you. lol, mechanics hate that.

I made a hair appointment on friday for a trim and to try out bridal styles. It was only after I made the appointment that I realized my cousin Tony is going to beauty school and does a really good job styling hair. I'll see him on Saturday at a family party so I think I might corner him with the idea. What else is family for?

Tastefest (now called CityFest) starts Wednesday! I want to go! I have Thursday off, anybody else?

Saturday, June 28

I am slowly going crazy 1-2-3-4-5

Well, my computer has some weirdo virus and I thought it was effecting the internets too, but it turns out my sister just unplugged the ethernet cable when she took her router -_- duh. I've been on the phone all morning with the entire world and drank most of a pot of coffee. I feel crazier than usual. Oh, where to start...

Well, my parents on on vacation in Florida until the 5th or so. My grandma is in the hospital and my two Uncle's aren't considerate enough to keep my sister and I updated. We thought she was going home yesterday and when I tried calling her at home this morning, no one answered. So on a whim I call the hospital, and lo and behold, there she is with breathing problems and everything. Imagine my surprise since I assumed no calls from the Uncles would have meant everything was ok. My sister and I are ready to strangle them. They didn't even think to call us. It makes to want to holler.

Then, my sister and I were supposed to watch my cousins dog this week, and my dog here at home. We were going to split it up based on what was easier when. Apparently my cousin has been trying to email the two of us all week and since I thought my computer was broken and Amy hasn't gotten connected to the internets yet, we had no idea. Amy managed to check her personal email at work the other day and we find out that since she couldn't get a hold of us, her mom is watching the dog now. Really? C'mon. Does she not have a phone? I know she does. Hopefully my aunt doesn't mind too much, because I feel like a real jerk.

Lastly, I start my second job next Sunday evening so Nick and I are trying to finish up all the wedding stuff in this next week because I won't be able to do anything besides sleep and Nick just won't do anything unless I make him. We bought our wedding bands last week, they are very pretty, I can't wait until we can wear them ^_^ Tuesday we will hopefully eat and order cake. We also get to go to the hall and taste and order food for the reception Tuesday night. I need to make a hair appointment this week to try out styles. I'm going to try and put my mom in charge of flowers and leave the hootch up to Nick and his Aunt, but I don't know if either of those are really good ideas at all. My mom asked for a job a month ago and I told her I needed help with the cake, told her what I needed, what I wanted, and she never did a thing. Very helpful, but exactly what I expected from her.

Tomorrow Nick and I are going to see Johnny Lang play at the festival in Mt. Clemens. It should be pretty cool. I think I'm going to bring a water bottle filled with vodka and forget today. Very mature, I know.

EDIT:
I forgot to tell you about Jamie's birthday party! Jamie had a lovely birthday party with a lot of lovely people at a lovely pottery studio in Royal Oak. I made a mug with an alligator inside. I'm going to pick it up in a few days, I hope it didn't come out too ugly, I'm not very artistic. Lia came and I was super excited since I haven't seen her since 11th grade or so. I miss my friends. Why did we all move so far away from each other? We are all retarded.

Thursday, June 26

esta roto

My computer at home is broken (again) so I'm using the one at the library for a few minutes. So far I cannot check Livejournal, MySpace of Facebook. Lame. My dog and I are home by ourselves until the 5th most likely. Come visit us, or do my chores at least. There are a lot more chores when its just me.

I took the night job at JoAnn's. Its starts July 6th and lasts about 5 weeks, 9pm to 5am. I'm keeping my job at Barnes & Noble 7am-3:30 so If you don't hear from me in the next month, this is why. Nick and I ordered our wedding bands last night and will hopefully be able to order our cake next week. I need to get as much of the wedding done in the next 2 weeks because it will be waay too late by the time I have time again.

Blegh, okay, I have to leave and feed me and my dog dinner. Send me a text message, I can't read any lovely comments you leave me ^_^
My computer is broken and i have so much to blog about! Thank god for cell phones

Wednesday, June 18

I feel like I blog about wedding stuff a lot. There's more to my life than that I swear :)

In the next two weeks there will be a massive shifting of family members. My sister is moving into a new apartment, my parents are going on vacation so my sister will be back house sitting, my cousin is going up north so I will be house sitting her house the same week my parents are gone, right when all these family members go back to normal, family is flying in from California and the Grandparents are driving up from Florida with my parents. Ack, I'm so confused. Hopefully, everyone will get to where they are supposed to be, and I get to see all of my cousins.

I've been looking around for a second job. Not as seriously as I should be, because c'mon, who really wants to work more than they already do? But Nick and I seriously need the extra income so we aren't eating desperation soup (read: hot water) for the first three months living together. We'll see where I end up.

P.S. Have you seen my registry? Some one bought me a drill! Yahoo!

Tuesday, June 10

Shoot me now

I really hate the fact that there is even a "Wedding Industry." It makes me angry, all this fuss around YOUR SPECIAL DAY (like you'll never have a special day ever again), where you must have the perfect hair with the perfect makeup and the perfect matching favors to match your perfect blah blah blah or everything will be terrible. When did this begin? When did women start falling for it? I have had more women than I care to admit to come up to me gushing about MY DAY and the dress and the hair and the everything they seem to think is important. Why is it important?? Shouldn't this event be focused on the marriage? Our new life together? Thats what I'm concerned with, not matching anything. Whats worse to me, is I can't quite assert this viewpoint to the women around me without being terribly rude. They're so excited for the matching favors, tablecloth and flowers. The other day I got an Oriental Trading wedding magazine, and in it you could order special wedding toilet paper. No lie. Go ahead, wipe you ass with this symbol of my union.

Points I am trying to make:
  • I don't want this to be MY SPECIAL DAY, I just want to be Katie, marrying Nick, with as many family and friends as they could afford to attend. This isn't about me in a white dress being the center of attention. Its about me publicly announcing my commitment to this man, while I happen to be wearing a white dress.
  • Who cares about all the matching and personalized everything? Yes, parties do look fabulous with great decorations. Parties are also fabulous with nothing more than good food, good music and lots of friends and family.
  • Why does there have to be a terrible industry that makes me wish we eloped? I want my family and friends there, I just want them to leave all those "wedding expectations" the style network shoved down their throats at home.

That being said, if we get any personalized crap from Things Remembered, I hope its at the wedding and not the shower because there is no way I will be able to accept the gift with a straight face. Oh, the horror of personalized bullshit. Shoot me now :)

Thursday, June 5

Oy vey

I finally put my very expensive Nike running shoes to their intended purpose today. I walked the 6 mile track around Stoney Creek. Oy, it took me two hours! But it was nice, I really enjoyed myself. It would not have been possible without my iPod though. That thing saves my live over and over. Hopefully I'll keep up with this exercise thing. I've really been wanting to join a gym lately but I can't quite commit to the membership fee and I know that as soon as I sign a contract at one, our house will be on the opposite end of the universe. So we shall wait and see.

Monday, May 19

Best shopping trip ever! I got a dress for suzzs wedding two new work shirts work pants and a bra for less than $100

Save me from myself

Blech, I have the day off so I trapped myself inside and have been doing wedding stuff all afternoon. I've been in my glory making lists, lol. I didn't get as much done as I hoped though. I need to nail down a date for the rehearsal, but I can't get a hold of the wedding coordinator at the hall. Hopefully she'll call back soon and I can pass along all the official dates and times to the billion people who need them. We have a bunch of little things to get done, some of which are sort of being worked on, but need to start coming together pretty soon here. I feel crazy ^_^ Here's my list if you have any great tips/advice/want to plan the rest of it for me

-Pick cake and find topper I like
-Figure out thank you gifts for all the wonderful billion people involved
-Shop for and purchase wedding bands
-Figure out honeymoon plans
-Finalize invite wording and pass it all along to Ken for printing
-Find a good deal on renting a Town Car for us girls
-Plan rehearsal dinner, or hope someone says they would love to host it ^_^
-Choose song
-Learn to dance nicely to said song
-Flowers
-Liquor, pricing and aquistion
-Find shoes
-Set up hair and makeup appointment

I finally figured out how the marriage license works and it seems pretty easy as long as we file it within the time frame. Nick will be excited because as far as I can tell, there is no blood work required, haha.

I also made a list a mile long of all the places I'll need to change my name and address. I am not looking forward to that one bit.

I think I will go eat lunch now and shop for a dress for Suzzette's wedding. Finally, something fun!

Wednesday, May 14

Can you tell I learned how to add pictures?

Its 4A.M. Why am I still awake? I have absolutely no idea. Inventory finished around 1, and I was home by 2. I got on her to "check my email" but two hours later I'm still sitting here looking at random bullshit and listening to music. Pretty retarded.

I miss my boyfriend. We've been working exact opposite hours the last two weeks and it sucks. He gives the best hugs I've ever gotten and I could use a few. I cannot cannot cannot wait until we have a home together and I can spend every spare moment glued to his side. People keep asking me if I'm excited for the wedding, and I am, but I'm a million times more excited to be married to this wonderful man and enjoy my life with him. The wedding doesn't mean much compared to that.


I also would like one of these:

This is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and just about the cutest thing in the whole world.

Monday, May 12

I love lists

Ack, I haven't updated in a long damn time. Bullets will solve this.

  • Nick started at Burger King and seems to like it
  • Walgreens is (are?) still being d-bags about his last paycheck
  • My mom and I went and bought my wedding dress two weeks ago
  • I picked it up last week
  • Its beautiful :)
  • Nick's roommate pulled a Dr. Jeckyll and became unbearable a few weeks back
  • He now lives with his wonderful friend Andy and his two awesome dogs.
  • The old roommate Jon won't leave me alone because he is a tool.
  • I had a birthday and turned 24
  • We tried to eat Royal Oak in celebration (it was delicious, every bit)
  • Tomorrow I have to work until 3 a.m.
  • I opened my big mouth and made Ginger mad at me forever, probably.
Thats all I can think of for now.


Monday, May 5

Testing 123

Tuesday, April 22

Flying High

Well, as predicted, Nick (along with all the other senior techs) lost his job yesterday. I'm pretty bummed because he just switched to this store, was really excited about it, and was making great money with a lot of benefits. He saw it coming though and had already started applying other places, just in case. Lucky us. This Friday he's starting at Burger King as assistant manager. Pay isn't as great, but its a better position. I really hope this all works out and he is happy. Thats what really matters, and I'm afraid the long shifts are going to be like the factory days -_- Cross your fingers and send us good thoughts.


Thursday, April 17

High Tech

I made us a wedding webpage. Its pretty gay, but kind of fun. What ev.

http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/KateKnowles&NickMann

Tuesday, April 15

Retro-grade post

I meant to post this last Friday, but you know, things happen. I'm still going to blag about it because its still funny.

Nick and I went and registered at Target last Friday. It was super fun. They gave us a coupon for two free pops and popcorns! This really was the best part. I was so excited because Nick really didn't want to be there, so this was a nice little distraction (sometimes, its like shopping with a toddler, you need to bring treats). We (mostly me) had fun putzing around, shooting things with the gun. Just when we were getting ready to ring up our free candy bar (club wedd coupons rule), the tornado sirens went off and we got herded into Targets storm tunnel. It was exciting for all of five minutes, but we had to wait about thirty :P Makes for a good story though.

Now you can buy us presents

Two weeks of school left! Two weeks! This actually shouldn't be good news, because it means I need to go look for a second job. Super gay.


Thursday, April 10

The weird thing about weddings is, as soon as you mention to someone you are having one, they want to discuss every single aspect in minute detail. This was sort of fun at first but now I'm sort of sick of repeating the same thing over and over to people who aren't actually helping me. Funny enough though, I could talk wedding to Ginger all day long. This is probably because shes awesome, and I don't have to relist everything, she already knows it. So we get to move on to bigger and better wedding things.

Nick and I decided on pink and green for the wedding colors, and Ginger and I decided that would be a cool theme for the shower (for my side, not his side :P isn't that stupid? I'm still bitching about it). Our to-do list is dwindling rapidly and I couldn't be happier! His Aunt Holly and Uncle Pat gifted us the minister, his god mother Sherry gifted us a cake (yum!). I'm about 90% sold on this dress, wedding invites have been worded, now they just need to be designed by Amy's BF Ken. We need to decide on transportation, pick a song, figure out flowers, buy hootch, get thank you gifts, and buy our wedding bands. Thats it! Almost done! Wahoo!


Tuesday, April 8

Freak

I like to be in control. I don't know if I would call myself a "control freak", but I definitely like to have a say in most things that involve me. My sister, as the maid-of-honor, had been planning on throwing me a bridal shower. This was cool, because I could give opinions and vetos. Then last night I find out that Nick's Aunt would also like to throw me a shower, but only for his side of the family, not both. This totally threw me for a loop since a.) I didn't know people split the familys up and did two showers and b.) I never realized she was remotely interested in throwing one and c.) she is crazy. Plus I have no control, which freaks the hell out of me. What if I don't like it? What if the food is bad? What if its really long? What if they play awful games? What if they don't play games? What is going to happen?!? Aghh! I suppose it all boils down to me getting over it, showing up and being gracious no matter what happens. It is very nice that they would like to do this for me, but it still strikes me as odd.

I was very excited to find out today that over sized bath sheets are available for order on Target.com. Now I can register there without hesitation ^_^ I climbed into the attic today to take stock of what was up there from the apartment. Not much, lol. I think I passed a lot along to Nick when we parted ways and he left it wherever. Some things I think I gave back to his mom. Oh well, hopefully our friends and family will be very generous and the thrift store will have everything else we want!

Sunday, April 6

Be good to you Mother-In-Law

Today was Nick's Grandpa's birthday party thing in Croswell. I bowled a whopping 74, ate a BLT, ran across the swinging bridge TWICE, shopped for candy at the general store, and ate cake. It was a pretty good day. I also got to save a bit more postage by handing out some of my save-the-date cards. What a lazy fuck, huh? More like cheap.

Nick's family seems to be excited for the wedding. Its nice to finally be hearing some encouraging words. When we first started going through with all of this officially, no one was excited and I got a lot of 'Really? Are you sure? Why?' You know, things you don't really want to hear when you're super excited to be marrying the love of your life. What 'ev, fuck em. (This post is vulgar and full of bad grammar. oops)



Friday, April 4

Forgetful as Usual

Do you ever get an album, listen to it, not think much of it, and then when you hear it again months later its suddenly your favorite album? I do that a lot. It just happened recently with the latest New Found Glory. I put everything on my iPod regardless for this exact reason. When it shuffles past on of those songs ages later and hits the right chord, I'll go back and realize how wonderful the album actually is. Its like a surprise present, getting something new that I've actually had for a year without knowing what I had.

We've booked a hall for the wedding, and now everything seems so much easier. Save the Dates are in the process of getting addressed and mailed, invites are purchased, they just need to be worded and printed. I have a dress picked out, I just need to talk myself into paying for it. Nick's cousin is going to DJ for us and a family friend is going to take pictures. Now we just need to get the details in place, little things like colors, transportation, minister. I can't wait!

Friday, March 21

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Welcome spring
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Ah, sweet freedom. My parents just left to go up north for the weekend, my sister is at work. Its just me and my dog with the stereo up loud. I'm going to try and do homework like planned, but I think I might make a billion cookies too. Chocolate and coffee cookies! Mmmm.

My poor dog is getting so old. She can't hear anymore, you have to shout to get her to notice anything. She used to be really jumpy and would move if you needed to walk past her, now she doesn't even twitch. Granted, she was the worst dog ever when she was young so its sort of nice now that shes calm, but the contrast makes me sad.




Wednesday, March 19

Just another rainy Wednesday

Nick has car keys again, yahoo! They just cost him (us) $110, boo! I'm alright with that though, because now he can drive to work and that is a good thing.

I stayed over his house yesterday and watched I am Legend. It was pretty sweet, but I was a big baby about it like usual. I had a pillow in my lap the whole time so I could cover my face and I made Nick change the screensaver to white so I could have a nightlight, lol. Now I want to read the book more than I did before. I picked up a copy at work to see if the ending was different, and just from flipping through, it seems totally different. There are a bunch of short stories after it too, and I'm wondering if those got incorporated into the movie too, or if they're unrelated. Sometimes I have trouble reading scary books though. They give me nightmares just as bad as a movie ^_^ I once read only half a zombie novel
even though the story was really good, because I wasn't getting any sleep . Oops.

I have to go read spanish things now. gay.

Sunday, March 16

Second to last day of spring break, and I still haven't finished anything. Oops. Semesters nearly over though. But that means I need to start looking for a high paying, low hour second job and get seriously cracking on this wedding. Yuck.

Yesterday, Nick and I went and got new phones after an apocalyptic meltdown with Sprint 10 days before our contract ended. So now we have new phones and new numbers. Mine is pink! I'm hoping AT&T will be smooth sailing because a cell phone is the last thing I need to worry about right now. I never realized how much I used my phone until I didn't have it. It was really bad when Nick and I were at his house without a land line anywhere nearby. I felt like I was on a desert Island. Maybe we should have tried coconuts?

Last night was Catherine Torrento's (now Trapp) wedding celebration. I had a lot of fun, especially because I don't see much of Nick's family anymore. The only downfall was the seating, we were all split up around the room.

So, in wedding news, we have nothing planned, and less than five months until the day. -Insert break down here- Ginger and I looked at a dress I really loved, but it was more expensive than planned. A bunch of people have given us leads on possible locations too, we just never have time together to see them. Can someone else do this for me?