5 things for a successful weekend.

1. a trip into Boston
2. eating at UBurger
3. fresh tulips
4. seeing the set-up of the Boston Marathon (which obviously means spring is here)
5. spending time at the animal shelter nearby and adopting a new kitten

See? Successful.

Also check out our new tabs (top of the page).
I decided to do some re-vamping.
Here's the new link for "best of" posts.
And for the link to "contact & advertise".

Enjoy!

March Goals.

I can't even believe February is over.

I don't know if the beginning part of the year moves quickly for everyone,

but I feel like it's flying by.

At the end of January, I said that I wasn't making goals for February because it was too cold to do anything.

I can't even believe that was 4 weeks ago.

The temperature was close to 50 degrees today,

so I thought I should probably make some goals for March.

They're broad and achievable. 

Just how I like them.

Some random thoughts:

- I'm so excited and thankful for everybody's suggestions about TV shows that I should watch. I have time coming up and I'm definitely going to invest in a few of them.
- I haven't been sleeping. Which is strange because I'm usually such an amazing sleeper. Last night, I woke up at 2:30, couldn't fall back to sleep so I decided to clean and do the dishes. So annoying but conveniently organized for the morning. :)
- I realized that I still haven't taken pictures of our extra room to show as part of the home tour (from back in January). So, I'll be trying to do that in the next couple days. Here is our kitchen, dining/living room, bedroom, and bathroom if you're interested.
- I'm going back to watch DVR.
- Goodnight!

Weekly Recap.

Sunday: Valentine's Day Week: Our story, part IV.

Monday: Who do you read?

Tuesday: Summer plans.

Wednesday: Valentine's Day Gifts.

Thursday: I dragged my husband to a 90-minute talk.

Friday: Rompers from my husband's perspective.

To talk about the rest of my week, and the part that I didn't blog about,
I'm going to link-up with Stephanie.

This is the one where I tell you some good things & some bad things,
that happened this week.
In an effort to end on a positive note,
I'll start with the negative.

Crappies.

1. Who's gotten a filling without Novocaine? This girl. That's who. Twice. Not because I didn't get the shots. I got plenty of shots, but apparently they hadn't "kicked in" when the drilling began. The best part, was going back 5 days later, after being in constant pain, and having to go through drilling and filing and polishing again... without pain medication. It felt like what I imagine going to the dentist would feel like way back when. I just clenched onto the arms of the chair and hoped for it to be over. The dentist thanked me for not moving or slapping him. So, I guess I did well. And maybe will get a new dentist.

2. National Grid sent us a letter telling us that we use more electricity than more than 100 other units in our building and if we'd like for them to come out and complete an energy audit they'd be happy to do it. They've also told us that we pay about $400 more yearly than anyone else in our building. Awesome.

Happies.

1. Sean got me a necklace for Valentine's Day but shipping took a little bit so I just got it. I'll post a picture soon.

2. This blog has been adding more traffic and gaining new followers in the last couple weeks. That makes me soo happy. So thank you :)

3. We got our tax return back! (had to pay our excise tax... thank you state of Massachusetts) but also got to pay for our summer plans.

And lastly,

4. I got pretty positive news at work that I'll share at a later date. :)

Happy Saturday!

Weekly Recap & hello February.

On the blog:

Monday: Happy Birthday to the first man I ever knew.

Tuesday: Enjoying the present.

Thursday: It's all about the money, honey.

I got a few questions on the blog and facebook regarding Thursday's post about money. 

I find that ironic since I don't necessarily consider myself good with money as much as I am cheap.

But I'm thinking about doing a post in the up-coming week answering said questions.

Should be interesting!

Also this week we said goodbye to January and welcomed February.

It's always exciting to welcome a new year but once January is over it's amazing to notice how quickly and easily we fell into that new year. It happens every time!

So in the first month of 2013 we got a facebook page and made a blogger button.

Revealed my success at last year's resolutions.

Went to dinner with family, celebrated Three Kings Day and my dad's birthday.  

Showed our home on the blog here, here, here, and here. 

Had date nights with Sean and received flowers at work.

Got really sick, almost died, and fell hard. 

I revealed facts about me and Sean launched his new band.

We also booked our first summer vacation (details to come), 

spent every Sunday night with family,

celebrated Sean's brother's birthday,

hung out with friends,

saw many, many movies,

and spent all our spare time with our favorite feline.

Happy February!

I'd make goals, but it's too cold to do anything extra.

Maybe once spring comes, I'll be more up for accomplishing things. 

:)

Recapping 2011!

It's that time of year again -- and honestly, I feel like I just wrote a recap of 2010? But apparently, 2011 is over, too!

So here we go...

January

The first of January meant that it was a big year for us because it was the year of our wedding! I bought my wedding shoes and reserved the boys tuxes. In non-wedding related news, we moved into Sean's parents house to save money for a house the wedding, it snowed an awful lot, and we celebrated my dad's birthday!

February

In February, I received something in the mail that was so special, Sean's band had their first show at the Palladium, we started our dance classes, went to our cake tasting & our food tasting, and spent a weekend in New York City.    

March

In March, I had my first hair trial, finally made some decisions and booked our honeymoon, had my amazing bridal shower & was featured on Jacin's Lovely Little Details blog, our invitations arrived in the mail, and we celebrated Sean's birthday. 

 April

In April, I realized I didn't love our wedding invitations, made our table numbers & love banner, traveled to Maine for Easter, took a countless amount of pictures with our table numbers in Maine for our seating cards, went away to New Hampshire for scrapbook weekend, and celebrated my cousin, Lizzie's, birthday.    

May

In May, I revealed what I did during my scrapbook weekend in April, continued having wedding nightmares, "ran" my first 5K and assembled my wedding invitations, mailed out those invitations, received some RSVPs, created my 101 in 1001 list and accomplished the first thing: hiking a mountain.  

June

In June, I found my something old, was obsessed with these socks, attended the Bruins parade, had so many to-do lists, got my something blue, tried not to get tan lines, did so many DIY projects, celebrated our anniversary, started my Montessori training and filed for our marriage license!  

 

July

In July, all the work and planning and time fell exactly into place and our wedding day arrived, I spent weeks recapping the wedding on this here blog, we bought our first large purchase together - a new car, celebrated my mom's birthday, my garden produced many zucchinis, spent a weekend in Maine, spent time with friends, and I finally started thinking about things other than the wedding.

 August

In August, we traveled to Ireland for our honeymoon, threw a ladies luncheon for my cousin Lindsey, celebrated our one month anniversary, I went back to work, Hurricane Irene took away our electricity for 3 days, and I spent the entire month recapping the wedding & the honeymoon. 

 September

In September, I recapped our summer, turned 25, saw my cousin Lindsey get married, got an acoustic guitar, was very excited about new Fall t.v. & clothes, saw Sean's friend get married, and spent lots of time with the dachshunds. 

October

In October, I was a bad blogger, went to the Cape for a girls weekend, carved pumpkins & finished my wedding album, got the new iPhone, got really excited for the new Twilight movie, started grad school, mother nature gave us our first Halloween blizzard (we had a snow day!) and gave out candy with the dachshunds.    

 November

In November, I was a realllly bad blogger, my husband surprised me with something terrific on a day that wasn't so terrific, I realized I don't take enough pictures, saw the new Twilight movie (twice!), Sean grew out his beard and was in the newspaper, celebrated Thanksgiving as a wife and had a marathon shopping event on Black Friday. 

 December

In December, we took pictures for our first Christmas card ever, had weekends filled with Taco Bell and gossip magazines, saw my friend get married, participated in my first ever blog link-up, hosted our annual cookie exchange, saw the Patriots play on Christmas Eve, spent lots of time with friends and family, and put a deposit down for a new apartment!  

I guess we had a busy year! How about you?