Crazy October!

Things have been crazy around here. I've been working alot and the little free time I have has been spending time with hubby, friends and family.
Like I've stated before I'm not the best of balancing my time, I never have been. It's one thing I've been working on for a while now, it's defiantly a process.

October is a busy month for us here at the Hajrizi house:

The 5th was my mom's birthday. So there was a dinner the night of and then the family lunch on Sunday after church.

We are having a CutAThon at work on the 16th, I'm all for supporting BCR, after all my mom is a survivor, but it's on a Sunday which is my family day and I already have plans that day.

Also my friend AW is having a house warming party at her new place on the 15th.

And our church is having a guest speaker about missions on the 14th-16th and I really want to be there but I don't think I can because of work.

I also have two friends who want their hair done soon, which is stressing me out trying to fit that in.

It also has been a really slow month so far at work, and I'm not bringing in as much money as I usually do, it seems like I've been standing around doing nothing, it drives me crazy cause I keep thinking of all the stuff I could be doing instead.

I also have a Girls Night planned with my two bff's, Jess and Hil on the 28th.

I have my two clients that I see at home coming this month, which is really stressing me out cause our apartment is a mess because...

We are also in the middle of moving!
We'll be out of our apartment by the end of the month but we are trying to slowly move stuff into my sisters and my parents house. We will be moving into my parents house for about 6 months to save up the rest of the money we need and start looking for a house! YAY :-) I'm super excited to start taking the steps to have are own place!

We were also planning on revisiting the idea of starting a family after our one year but with the move back to the parents, that will be put on hold til we get our house. I love my parents but how awkward to be pregnant while living in their house!


We'll that's just the main events, I feel think I'm forgetting alot, but I'm hoping there will be alot of positive changes this month with the move and what it means for our future and hopefully a new job for one of us if not both (more to come on that).

Haha, I did forget the most important thing, L would kill me, the 23rd is our One Year Anniversary, and so far nothing is planned! Geesh :-)

10 Days

That's how long it has been since my last post... 10 Days... sorry, it's isn't for the lack of motivation or time, I have both of those. It's for the lack of substence. I can't seem to shake this Negative Nancy feeling and I don't want it to creep into my bloggy world. I have plenty of stories typed up but they never made it to publishing because I don't want to be that whining biotch that everyone talks about but no one wants to read. So to protect my readers (all 4 of you and who ever else drops by but doesn't join) I have stayed away from posting. I'm hoping I can shake this soon and get back to my usual weekly fun postings! I really do miss it and all of you.

Now if you want to read something worthwhile from a person who can always see the positive in things and make you LOL, go check out Brynn from Wicked Sweet Tea. Exciting news: Her and future hubby finally picked a wedding date. So looking forward to what I can only imagine as hilarious wedding planning stories!

Serenity

There has been a lot of drama and bs going on at work and I have grown tired of it so I'm searching for a new job but in the mean time I had a friend mention this prayer so I've been trying to remind myself of it daily. It's always been one of my favorites but sometime I get so caught up that I forget how I should handle things.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

Inspirational Thursdays

Completely set my alarm this morning to go off at 9 but when I woke up I couldn't remember why. I think I have officially lost it, needless to say I missed by bible study again so I'm taking inspiration from a few quotes I've pinned this week.



MIA

Life has taken over this week.

 Between my first week back at work and technology failing me I haven't done that much writing this week!

 (I tried to post a few short post this week via text but they never posted)

This week has proven that I need to go back to planning my day out, I can't just play it my ear anymore.

Monday: first day back was great and I got to spend it with my favorite AW!

Tuesday: supposed to be my day off but I had to go to a color class in downtown, again spent the day with AW. Got home and slept from 4-9, missed my meeting and didn't make dinner for Tuesday's post.

Wednesday: worked a mid-shift and went to bed early. Had some back lash text messages after Wednesday's post. But don't want to talk about that anymore.

Thursday: over slept and didn't go to bible study, closed at work

Friday: worked the Grand Opening of the Marietta Ulta, sat in Friday rush hr traffic on the way home, L went out for the night and I stayed home cause I was exhausted, drank some wine, ate some frozen yogurt, and caught up on my shows.

Saturday: slowest and worst day at work. L went to Helen with some friends and bought me back my favorite wine, White Muscadine! Got home at 9, drank a glass bottle of wine, watched "Just Go With It" (supper cute and funny). Got a foot rub since my puppies were killing me after a week back on my feet.

Sunday: Slept in, hung out just Hubby and I all day. Fabulous dinner of steak, mushrooms, and mash potatoes that L made!

It was a great but busy week, I look forward to this next week and getting back into the swing of things again.

Hope Y'all had a great week/weekend also!

DRAMAAAA!

They drain every ounce of energy out of my body, I feel more exhausted after a hour with them than 48 hours of no sleep. You know the type, the ones who feed off of drama. They live for it, they like to cause it, they like to stick their nose in others people's and they love stirring the pot!

I've had my fair share this past weekend and I'm over it, over them! I've never been afraid of writing people out of my life for a good reason and I won;t be thinking twice this time. I'm 25 years old, I don't need these types of "friends" in my life. I have enough going on right now I don't need their added stress and drama. A professor of mine told me this once and I've always remembered it: "People are either wind in your sails our anchors on your tail"

This whole drama was something that was building between my husband and BIL, it's along story but the gist of it is: BIL was mad at hubby for something that happened 2 weeks ago outside of work, so he tried to get hubby in trouble at work on Thursday which almost cost hubby a week off work without pay. And then M blew up on me Sunday cause I said something to my parents about it (only because my mom wanted L to do something for her this week and I said he might be wide open and they wanted details).   I'm not claiming to know the whole story but messing with someones income is just messed up! And  9 out of 10 times I'm going to take my husbands back, even if he's wrong! (which he wasn't in this case)

During the mist of the drama unfolding it is brought to light that L's boss that he trusted with his secret of joining the Navy told my sister and BIL (the three of them work together). We have been very careful of the people we have told this news to 1) because we still aren't sure about all the details and 2) because it's still in the beginning stages we only want positive people who will encourage this decision to know.

So that's where we are now, neither one of us talking to each other and as sad as that is I'm okay with it for now. Hopefully things get worked out and we can all tolerate to be in the same room as each other and maybe even go back to hanging out since we do have alot of the same friends but for now family functions/ church might be a little awkward.

Weekend Whereabouts!

Friday:

Shopping with K, new dress for $15, "last day of summer break" swim party at D's, hanging with my extended family, asleep by 10!

Saturday:

Up at 10, showered, dressed, packed and out the door by 11, in Athens by 12, doing updo's for 3.5 hrs.

I had about 2.5 hrs to waste and still needed to touch up my makeup and change clothes, so I meet up with M who was already at the venue with BIL/groomsman.

So we: sat in the car, did our makeup, I changed and fixed my hair. then we sat around the chapel and watched the bridal party take pictures and I was blowing up L's phone because he was running late and not answering. And then finally the wedding started.

It was a beautiful and amazing wedding. I don't know two people more meant for each other than Beau and Nikki. It was only the second wedding Hubby and I have gone to since our own so even though I was mad a L for being late it was still very surreal to sit there with my husband. And it was very nice not to have to get on the dance floor and pretend like I cared to catch the bouquet!

The reception was really nice as well. The food was delicious even if I did eat something that I thought was spinach artichoke dip but then turned out to be bacon blue cheese dip (barffff) and L went home early cause he wasn't feeling good.

 I didn't get home til after 12 and went straight to bed. It was a long and exhausting day but all in all it was wonderful.

The one picture I have of the happy couple taken back in Oct 2010

Sunday:

L still not feeling good, I went to church and lunch with K and my parents. Went back to parents to do K's hair, caught up with Mom, got back home at 4:30 and soon after drama unfolded (more on that later), dinner, L went to bed at 10 and I'm sitting here watching tv and blogging and getting excited about my first day back at work tomorrow.

This weekend was full of ups and downs. Filled with family, friends, and the joining of two lives forever and I'm so glad I was a part of it!

Hope Y'all had an equally great and blessed weekend!

Weekend Whereabouts!

A weekend full of my 4 favorite F's: Fun, Family, Food, and Friends!

L headed to Athens Friday afternoon for our friend's Bachelor party weekend, so I headed to sis M's house for a girls night, since BIL would be in Athens too.  M and J just moved in last weekend so they are still trying to get the house order and K, M, and I love to decorate so after dinner we spend 3 hours between Target and Walmart shopping.

Saturday we got up, did some decorating and headed to meet our parents for lunch. After lunch they all headed to the mall to do some more house shopping and I headed back to the house to do some baking. I had my units Cadillac Cookout at my Director's house later that night and was making a special cake for her.

M is not much of a cook like me (even though she has every small appliance you need thanks to wedding gifts) so trying to bake a cake at her house and not having all my gadgets was difficult to say the least. But I think it turned out ok.

Pink Cadillac



My first attempt at Cake Pops, they were a hit!

At 6 I headed to C's house for the cookout, L was meeting me there cause he came from the lake. We had a great night eating, playing volleyball and hanging out with great friends celebrating C and her amazing accomplishment of earning her first Pink Cadillac. (with our help of course)! I stayed an hour after the party helping clean up and chatting. We had so much fun I didn't get any picture but I know someone did so I'll post some later (I use to be so good a taking pictures, I need to get back in the habit)

Saturday also happened to be me and L's 6 year dating anniversary and 9 month wedding anniversary. So after I finally got home at 11 we laid on the couch to watch Little Fockers but the dvd kept skipping so we ended up watching Medea Goes to Jail, and headed to bed.

Sunday we got up and meet the family at church and then went to dinner at our normal Sunday lunch place, Smokin' Poboys! Usually we go to my parents and hang out after lunch but it was a busy weekend so L and I headed home for our old married couple day: nap, tv, dinner, more tv, L heading to bed early and I stay up watch more tv and blog! 

I'm still working on these weekend whereabouts post, cause sometimes they get a little boring and long!

We got another hectic week ahead of us but it all going to come to a great conclusion at our great couple friends' wedding!

What is Normal?

I saw this the other day and at first I was confused but by the end I total got it!



I'm proud to say I am not normal... I am WEIRD!

I believe in Jesus Christ the son of God;

I believe that Faith and Family come before anything else especially my career;

I believe in commitment and that families do stay together;

I believe that I will be rich in life/love, married for the rest of my life and spiritual filled;

I believe that I am loving, giving and open minded;

I believe that I can change the world!

So... are you normal or weird?

At a Crossroads

Do you ever have doubts running through your head at night that you can't sleep. This is a reacquiring thing that is happening to be lately. I think alot has to do with the situation we are in financially. Doubts of whether you made the right decision.

I have recently took a leap of faith my quiting my job to be a full time housewife and MK consultant. It's nice to be home and spend time with the hubby but we have definitely hit a rough patch with fiances since that happened. I wasn't making a lot of money at my previous job, I never thought my paycheck was making a big difference with bills.

One of the main reasons I quite my job was because the hours I was working and the hour L works are completely opposite. We hardly ever saw each other and I was never home at night to cook dinner and I was always so tired that it was a huge chore for me to clean and do the laundry. My marriage isn't stuck in the caveman days were the wife stays home and cleans and cooks all day but both L and I were raised with our moms being home most of the time and we definitely want that for our (future) family.

So I'm at a crossroads... our future is on hold for now until hubby does all the paper work, tests, training, etc he needs to do and we don't know how long it's going to take, so I really mean on hold.   We are hopefully going to be renting a house from my aunt, (she has to buy it first) it really is the best option in case L has to leave before our new lease would be up, I won't have to worry about covering bills all by myself. So for now I start back my old job in about a week even though I really don't want to. I'm also trying to come to the realization that going back is not a failure of my leap that I took, it's just something that has to happen at this point and that I'm not giving up on my dreams. And I just have to try to put everything in God's hands and know that he will lead us where we need to go in his own time. That's the hardest part for this control freak who wants to be in charge of everything when it comes to her life/future. I just need to remember one thing...

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