wedding plans

Okay so the wedding plans as annoying is they are, are going well. We have a venue we have a guest list and food. We have the dress and a groom. We have my shoes (they are white slippers) and we have the invites (only 60) we even have our d.j. but we are getting there. Rob and I started a wedding fund so we can put money in it and when we need to buy stuff we use the money outta that account so we can still pay bills. We still need a cake, a person to take awesome pictures and a few other things. But we have a year to save and a year to spend. I am trying not to panic. I have only cried 4 times while doing our budget.......I honestly thought this would be fun, it's not. we should have eloped.

He's my Elvis

So one of my favorite authors in the whole wide world came to Capitola California yesterday. He was doing a book signing and a talk. Thanks to authortracker.com I was lucky enough to get a heads up on his book tour. So since Mom and Natalia read his books too we asked my Dad to drive us an hour away to Capitola so I could get my books signed. I finally did something with my summer that was such an amazing experiance that I still am freaking out about it. I can't belive I met Christopher Moore! His talk was hilarious and fasinating. Dad even strted reading his books now because he was so inpressed with Mr. Moore. I borught 5 books for him to sign since the rest of my collection of his books were lent out and never returned. He signed them all and posed for a photo. I was so happy! I am still happy. I think it may be one of my happiest days ever. I just wish the picture looked better. I could swear Natalia and I looked like normal cute chicks but when we looked at the picture after, Natalia looked like she gained 50 pounds and had a gap tooth and I have 9 chins insted of my usual 3. uuughhhh we so photo blew it. Anyway, if you guys would want to read any of his books they are all awesome. But my personal fave is: LAMB. Mom's favorite is: PRACTICAL DEAMON KEEPING and dad is currently reading: A DIRTY JOB. If you get the chance to read any of his work, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
On a wedding note, Rob and I have set a tentative date of October 22, 2011. We still have to look at our budget and a place to have it. The dress has a deposit already, so that has been figured out. Good news is we have a year to slowly pay for things and make changes, Bad news is Rob needs braces and thats crazy expensive. The other cruddy news is, well honestly Rob is a sacurity guard and I am a teacher's aide, so we make about as much as the paper boy combined. Gurrrrr. I found a book about weddings on a budget and read it cover to cover, there is a ton of great hints to help out, but the more I read, the more I despreatly want to take the deposit on the dress back and go to a drive through wedding in vegas. I forgot how much I hated planning the 1st wedding. It's amazing how the prices for wedding crap has gone up in the past 10 years. It seems to me that it's not the wisest thing to start out a marraige in serious debt. I was looking at veils on like and the lowest priced one I found was $37.00! For the love of everything holy and pure, it's a flippin' veil! So apparntly I will be making my own or skipping it all together. I next looked at flowers.....yeah I said flowers. Apparently normal flowers are decently priced, but if you type in the word wedding first, all of a sudden they are tripple the price! uughhhh! Honestly, they just die anyway! So I will ither go fake or someone's garden will be harvested in the middle of the night. After the flowers, I looked at cake. A normal round cake is about $20.00 at the highest. But low and behold you type the word wedding in and BOOM! now it's $450.00 at the lowest. I called and asked why such a high mark up and they said the frosting is more expensive.....really.....thats what they said. I even asked if they mixed crack in it or black market babies but she said no, just a good butter, then hung up on me. So maybe buying a few round cakes and stacking them up maybe the way to go. How hard could it be to decorate a cake? After the cake phone call, I was too scared to look for food people or a hall or anything at all. Eloping isn't an option now that the dress is 1/2 paid for and mom has seen it. What have I gotten us into? Why did Rob have to insist on a non-court room wedding? Why did I agree to putting a deposit on a dress? (the dress is amazing and perfect and it makes me look like I am thin and have a butt) I may have bought the dress just to vacumme in it. Why? why? why am I an idiot?
But I met Christopher Moore! and thats all that matters right now. I have to keep thinking of that so I don't crank call wedding venders in my area.

Summer Vacation

Summer vacation has started. I made so many plans. I wanted to hang out with all my other pals. Natalia and her brother Rodrigo are un-employed so they have lots of time on their hands. However, everytime we make plans somthing comes up and we end up trying another day. Rob and I made plans as well, but he ended up having training on all the days he had off. I have been pretty desprate for somthing to do, besides clean the house and stalk Edward Cullen on the internet. I have managed to read 7 books in about 2 weeks. I hang out with the parents playing scrabble at the coffee shop. We sit out side and play so mom can work on her tan. Apparently the natural light makes it far too easy for my mom to pin point all my grey hairs and my new wrinkles. Sending me into a spiral of self doubt and fear. I end up making an apointment to dye my hair and research the prices of botox. gurrrrr.....
At least I have Jelly-Bean. He doesn't seem to care what I look like. bonus points for him! He has managed to worm his way deeper into our hearts. Honestly I always liked the stupid bird, but now it borders on obsesive. We buy him toys off the internet, the bird gets more mail and packages than we do. He has a place on the couch between us. He has the run of the house, he climbs off his cage and hops to us when he wants to cuddle. He even took over the blanket Auntie Elaine gave me for x-mas! If we try to use it, he hightails it over to the couch and climbs up the blanket and burrows under it! He drinks my orange juice and my coffee when I'm not looking. We even rent him bird movies from discovery channel. When Rob comes home from work, the bird gets kissed first, when I come home from work the bird gets kissed first. It's finally dawned on us, we are parents. I don't know how it happened, he was suposed to be a pet, he was suposed to be something that we just feed and ignore. Now we have a bird car seat, seed on the floor, special blankets for him and extra money spent on ways to entertain him. So even though I will never have to save for a college fund or bail money and I don't need to buy clothing, I will never need to bring cup cakes to his class for his birthday....I have a kid, he just has feathers. I can't even blame my stretch marks on him. On that note, I gotta go, someone needs sunflower seeds and fresh bathwater....

*yawn*

sadly, I have nothing cool to report.....The most exciting thing that Rob and I have done in the past month is ordering fushigi balls off the interwebs due to our massive boredom. We have not recived them yet, but are eagerly awaiting their arrival like a kid waiting for the decoder ring at the bottom of the cereal box.
Summer school will be over next week and I will have 3 weeks off, and I have been told by the parentals that I have to unpack the last 6 boxes from my move into the condo. All the boxes contain "childish" things like sailor moon dolls and kid's toys. Mom forbade me to display such items in my new condo because I am an "adult". so if I am suposed to unpack them, yet can't desplay them.....what do I do with them? How do I make this woman happy? I am at a loss.
So the parents will be heading out your way to Utah on sunday, day after tomorrow. Natalia will watch their house and take care of the cat, since my parrot is a 2 year old with flock behavior and can't be left alone, and Rob can't be left alone cuz all he can cook is rice. I can't bring the bird to my parent's house cuz the cats will just tourture him. So Natalia is way more cat savy than I am. I tend to forget that they are around unless they are meowing and junk. So I would expect my parents to show up around Monday late or Tuesday early.
Anyway, we still haven't bothered even planning a wedding or even a date, we just say Octoberish 20011ish. I am pretty much inclide to just hit up a courthouse and get it done with, no fru fru dress, no going in debt planning anything,no having to scout out some location, no dancing....no drama or headache.....sounds perfect to me. Although I would love a huge halloween costume party shindig.....dangit! what do I do? lol

yeahhhhhhh

sorry, I haven't posted in forever. the blogger stopped letting me post pictures so I kinda gave up. I'm always on facebook though and I have tons of pictures up there. Today was the last day of school, then I have a week offf before I have to start summer school. I hate teaching summer school, no one wants to be there, most of all me. But apparently the morgage needs to be paid so yeah.... Both mom and dad's birthdays past and they had a great time. dad got old dorky movies with giant ants in black and white and fake monsters and didn't force us to watch them so it was a win win. Mom ended up getting a new cat because punkin up and walked out on her one day and didn't come home. After 4 weeks she wrote him off. oddly enough when we went to the shelter on her birthday to get a new cat, we found one named punkin pie. So we got it for her, it's a girl cat this time, she always wanted a girl, and now she has one. So she is pretty happy about it. It just seemed like a good sign since her name was the same as the last one.
Rob and I got engaged in April, but are waiting to get married for a few years since we both have been divorced. I will let you know the details when the ball gets rolling. I did get one heck of a ring though. lol But since it's so far away we haven't even started planning or have a date, so don't get too excited. All we know is we would like October as close to halloween as we can. Just because it would be fun to have a dorky halloween wedding and not get all formal, just costumes and good times. :)

How to tame your dragon

So today we took my class to see how to tame your dragon. Since where the wild things are was such a let down, I was kind of worried. I was super happy when the movie started and the kids all seemed to enjoy it. There was enough action scenes to hold their interest and it was full of adorable dragons that start out kinda scary, but quickly turn into cuddly dragons. I also enjoyed it a lot. I happen to own bearded dragons so maybe I am a bit biased, but it turned out to be a great movie. So unlike where the wild things are, I actually recommend this movie to you guys. It's not too scary for the little ones and the big kids will like it too.
Spring break starts Friday and I can't wait. Honestly it seems like forever since we had vacation time. Rob has Wed and Thurs off so I can finally take him to Pier 39 and fisherman's wharf. He has been waiting a while to go there, our schedules never seem to work out to have days off together. He really wants to have clam chowder in a sough dough bread bowel.
As for me, I kinda just wanna sleep in and play with Jelly-Bean. This bird and I apparently have Bonded to the point that I can't even feed Nauhal's 5 month old son a bottle with out Jelly-Bean getting jealous. Rob has bonded well to the bird as well. The bird "love vomits" on him. lol! When a parrot loves you a lot, it tends to share it's food with you by regurgitating it between your fingers...like it's feeding it's young. So I get the kisses and cuddles and all the good stuff and Rob gets puked on...seems like a fair deal to me. LOL We have managed to teach him 3 words. He says Hi! Night night and really. Of course he only says things when he wants too, leading my parents to believe we are crazy. But finally he said hi in front of my mom. I also trained him to poop when I tell him too, so less laundry for a change. I adore this dumb bird. He cracks me up and I find myself rushing home so we can play together and cuddle. Rob pointed out that I kiss the bird before him when I get home....oops. I would post pictures, but for some reason the blogger wont let me do it. Oh well. love you guys!

Spirit week at work

So this week was spirit week at the school I work at. Usually I don't participate because it requires us to wear various goofy things and I usually have some other place to go after work but I managed to do a few things. Monday was wear your school t-shirt day...I missed that mainly because I got a really cute dress over the weekend and wanted to wear that instead. Tuesday was crazy hat day....I missed that regardless of the fact that I happen to have an over abundance of dorky hats that would have worked just fine. Wednesday was Dr. Suess day so we were supposed to wear something striped....yeah big girls don't usually have striped clothing, it adds pounds. Thursday was crazy hair day...that I did, I own several nut ball wigs, if you open my closet you would think that I rob banks and have a ton of drag queen friends. I wore a wig and scared one of my students to the point he wouldn't even sit next to me....i should wear it more often. Friday was pajama day....I wore what I slept in, it's light blue jammie pants with polka-dots and a solid navy blue t-shirt. I had to gas up before work so I stopped by the gas station to fill up, as I was filling up, a lady came to me and asked me about a mole on her lower back...apparently my pajamas look like nurse's scrubs. I saw her butt crack. Never again will I do pajama day at school. Any way, I am on facebook and if you guys wanna find me, I tend to be on that more so than the e blogger I am under the user name Alison pandora or go by my e-mail squawpandora@yahoo.com.