The End of 2014

 

Well, 2014 is coming to a close with only two days left.

Last year when you made your New Years resolutions, did you complete them? Did you at least put forth effort towards doing them?

One thing I tried to accomplish was to make a 2014 journal, I would write something down everyday. I tried to make each about a page long but around March I kinda stopped. I guess when I put it away and it wasn't in plain view I would forget about it and not write anything...till around October...I know, I kinda missed a lot of stuff. Since then I've tried to write in it some more and I did, but this year will be different. I will write in it everyday so that at the end of the year or years later I can read what happened to me.

This year I'm a married woman and working towards having a home with my husband, I'll be starting a new job, when I find one and just everything is different than this past year.

This year I plan to post more on my blog, I want more people to see and interact with me and my blog. I want my blog to be something people want to read and to look forward to reading, something interesting. Even though I don't think my life is that interesting, but I hope for a different outcome.

I plan to save up money and buy myself a good camera, not a really big one just a decent size so it can fit in my purse and go everywhere I go so that when the perfect shot arises I can seize the moment.

I want to read more and have a perfect spot to read. One where I have a plush chair with lots of natural lighting and just something that uplifts my spirits.

I plan to meet new people and to gather friends to hang out with on a regular bases when my husband is at work. People who are loyal and truthful with you, people who have your back and I don't mean with a knife...

I know just like everyone else I'm making a resolution to become healthy. I make it every year and I always fail. This year is different, last year we bought a gym membership and we have used it but I plan to use it a lot more, a daily routine. Even if it's just to go for a run.

When we get our home I want it to have a big kitchen so that I can cook big meals with lots of room,  the whole place will smell delicious and there will be bunches of leftovers.

I know I'm rambling about different things, but hey, that's what this is for. It's like an online journal where your can have an audience who just might care about your ramblings.

 

 

                                                                                                             STSL

The Best Day of My Life ie. My Wedding Day

 

Most people say that their wedding day is the best day of their life and well they would be right, it really is the best day of your life, the happiest of them by far!

Because I was busy planning my wedding it hadn't really sunk in that I was getting married until I was waiting at the top of the hill (my isle). It had hit me a little bit while I was getting ready and while I was hugging my mom and we were both crying but on the hill, I could see people being sat, they girls waiting to go before me, the happiness on my daddy's face and the music playing, that's when it really hit me! 

I couldn't see it but we had the groomsman ride down the other hill in my dad's F350 and walk up to the alter.

They had a specific song play for when the girls walked down the isle. ( Wonderful Tonight ) That one song will bring back so many memories because that is when everything started. When everything became real. I was about to walk down the isle with my father into my new life. I was about to say I Do and become the wife of a man I loved with all my heart, a man who would protect me with all he had. I was going to try not to cry and well I didn't succeed in that because I did cry, I struggled not to, but I did.

I will forever wish I could relive that day, over and over again. That I could relish in that feeling and see/do it again. It was so amazing! I almost cry every time I think about it or I hear the song Wonderful Tonight, it just all floods back to me and I relive it, standing on top of that hill. Laughing with my dad down the isle, him trying to help me not to cry, one of the best moments of my life. My dad truly is my hero. I'm about to cry right now as I typed that last part about me dad.

Even though my parents travel a lot and I didn't get to see them a lot in the couple months before my wedding, it's so different knowing I don't live with them anymore, that I'm starting my new life and I won't see them all the time or get to hug their neck when I want, it makes me sad, I miss my parents, they mean the world to me!

(I know that wasn't on the subject of my wedding but it kind of went with it and I felt like putting it in there.)

 

                                                                                                                      STSL

 



Bad Tippers

 

I think the name in itself says it all.

Isn’t it common sense to tip the person who worked their butt off to serve you with a smile even though you were a jerk? I attend to your every need; I’m kind to you even if I feel like I shouldn’t have to be. I just don’t get it. Is it that hard to leave a 20% tip on a meal? My thing is, if you can come into the restaurant I work at and order an expensive meal but you can’t/won’t leave me a tip, whether you think it’s because you don’t have enough money or whatever, but you can spend money here then you can leave me a tip, plain and simple. 

Personally I haven’t had anyone say anything bad to me when they tip me bad or stiff me, but I’ve seen pictures of receipts that waitresses/waiters post of the crazy rude customers.

I’m outraged by them!

These are all comments on receipts with a $0.00 tip.

“I give God 10%, why do you get 18%?” and that was by a pastor!!!!!

“P.S. you could stand to lose a couple pounds.”

I make more than you do, my time is worth more than yours.” Like really???

“Get a real job.” Could you do my job?!?

“BOO, you fail.”

“F--- you.” Like is that really appropriate??

 

Like do you think this is right? Do you think I or any of us deserve this?

I don’t! It’s not fair!

Do you realize I make $2.13 an hour? I have to live off tips. When you decide to not tip me or to give me a dollar for your forty dollar meal that I struggle more? That you made life slightly more difficult for me? Maybe the seven dollars you didn’t leave me could have finished paying my bills? But because you didn’t, I now have a late fee charge that I have to work harder to get?

Just please from now on, tip me, tip us! Be kind to us because we are being kind to you.

You may not want to but please see it from our point of view!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       STSL

My Man

 

 

So I have the best man in the world!

 

The other night Derick and I were watching The Fault In Our Stars for the first time.

I was quite tired so I fell asleep half way into the movie and didn't wake up till he was lifting me up to put me in bed so that I slept comfortably. It was so sweet and he is so kind.

The next morning he sleepily asked if I had read his "note" and I was like no, what note? He told me he had typed a not on my phone, so I opened it up and it was the sweetest thing I had ever read. A couple lines in and I was already crying with how amazing and heartfelt it was. 

I love him so much and I can't wait to marry him!

 

 

 



Engagement Photos...Check!

After work I drove down to Georgia to meet my fiancé to get ready to take our engagement photos which I think went really well and I can't wait to get them back next week to see all of them!

We each had casual clothes and then we had dressier clothes for two different styles of photographs and he also took some close ups of my ring which I thought were beautiful!

But it was so hot outside we were sweating and my hair wasn't being its usually flowy, pretty self. It was being a slightly pretty but sorta sweaty style which was not making me happy in the least bit! But what can you do about mother nature?

 

Anyways...

 

My allergy nose issue had now been joined by a deep cough, I think it's from drainage. :/



I Think I'm A Zombie!

Have you ever woken up in the morning and just felt like complete crap? Cause I sure did this morning!

I think it was from the crazy storm that came out of nowhere, raining so hard with the wind blowing crazy you would have thought you were in a hurricane...but you're in Tennessee. I think all the rain stirred up something in the plants and the air cause I woke up this morning with my sinuses all screwed up! I couldn't breathe, then I had to use a tissue every second. Not to mention I had to go to work and be there all day! So I wasn't to thrilled about that...I'm a waitress and do nothing but talk to people all day when I just feel like sneezing and sniffling. But I got through the day eventually only to end it with being a ZOMBIE cause my body was so drained of energy and I was starting to feel loopy. 0.o not a good thing when I still had to drive home in the dark.

 

On other news lol

 

I need to pack, not just to go to Georgia to see my fiancé but also pack up my bedroom for when I get married. I got a few boxes from work and tape from the store, now to pack all my boxes, junk and other stuff that's in my closet and under my bed. It's sad I think I know more of what's under my bed than I do if what's in my other closet. I just used it to store stuff in so my room wouldn't be too cluttered.

I even have a box in my room with a lamp and other presents I got for Christmas last year...I've always had a problem with finding a place for everything I get, so I usually leave it in the biggest box till, well I don't know lol.  

I think I might go pack up the books that are in my window seat/bookshelf that my dad and I made.

 

                                                                                                                   STSL

 



Planning A Wedding.

Another day has past and brought me closer to the day of my wedding, yet it seems like I'm so much closer and I still have a lot to do! I know I have everyone to help me plan it; my fiancé, my maid of honor, my parents, his parents but I'm me and I like to have things a certain way. I'm not OCD but I guess I feel that if I don't do it then I don't know if it will get done soon enough.

I need to just hand things off to people so I don't get stressed, and it's not like there is big stuff to be done, it's just a bunch of little things.

Either way I can't wait till the BIG day where I say 'I do' and get announced as Mrs. Derick Miller. The future is so close yet so far away!