I just love Friday Confessionals

And since I'm trying to get back into the habit of blogging

I feel this particular link up was worthy of a second post for the day.

So head over to A Blonde Ambition and join in on the fun!

Also, I love that this week's Friday Confessional is a Q&A!

1. My worst fashion offense of all time is probably a fanny pack. My mom always wore one so for a brief moment there I thought they were cool. 

Note: nothing is cool about anything that has the word "fanny" in it.

2. The most embarrassing song on my iPod is probably the entire Aaron Carter Album. 

Doesn't mean I don't still know all the words.

3. The last white lie I told was "I only spent like 40 bucks" on two shirts a pair of pants and a sweater. Ha!

4. The celebrity I most wish would disappear is... Snooki. Actually the entire Jersey Shore cast. Being famous for being stupid is ridiculous. 

5. Sometimes I wish that I could skip grad school and join the rest of my friends with their real lives (and new homes and new cars and a decent checking account).

6. My childhood crush was- pretty much any cute boy. Aaron Carter (obviously), Orlando Bloom (circa Lord of the Rings), Shawn from Boy Meets World, Leonardo DiCaprio (like any other normal person who saw Titanic)...

7. I've never turned down a free dinner from my parents. Probably only will when (if) I ever graduate and make more money than them.

8. Tests make me a nervous wreck. I am an awful test taker. Why am I in grad school, you might ask? I am a glutton for punishment I guess. Oh and I love my major so its worth it. Sometimes. 

9. I'd rather watch paint dry than try to explain something complex to my mom. Especially if it involves electronics. God Bless her. It's more difficult than herding cats in a swimming pool.

10. Much like a train wreck, I can't turn away from watching Honey Boo Boo. I really don't like this show. But you can't turn away from the shenanigans. That family is cray town. What will they do next? And every minute I watch, I hate myself a little more. So I keep watching.

There comes a time in your life

When you have to just decide you don't really care.

Not about life or about other people

But that you don't care about things not being perfect.

Without revealing too much of the wedding details

I will explain myself.

Robert hurt himself on his bachelor party. 

As discussed in more detail here

Lanterns never got put out for the wedding

Cats never got put away

Oh and the weather went from 0% chance of rain to 75% 

In the period of a 2 minute window that I didn't check

In some sort of stealth move by the weather channel

ON MY WEDDING DAY.

Actually like 20 minutes before it was supposed to start.

Wedding was outside.

Then Robert's step-dad

(who for all intensive purposes, raised him like a dad too)

Shows up to our wedding in a t-shirt.

Now we've told him numerous times this was the only thing he COULDN'T wear.

HA! He showed us.

Then right in the middle of our first dance

He comes driving by on a tractor in said T-shirt...

Then it hit me... And I told Robert:

"This is our life"

And we smiled

And none of it mattered. We were married.

Then there was an incident where a drunken Robbie

(have I mentioned he's Robbie when he does dumb things?)

Proceeds to try to pee in front of our guests at the end of the sparkler send off...

Not before I tried to get him to dip me at the end and he thought I meant to dip him

Not cool.

We go on our honeymoon and life was grand!

THEN we returned...

Robert gets sick

All snotty and feverish and whiny

We refer to it as "Man Flu"

Because you'd think he was dying from a sore throat.

 

And that has been our marriage in the states thus far.

But we really like our new motto:

This is our life.

And I wouldn't trade a minute of it.

Then we took a stroll around  resort:

I got to drink out of a coconut for the first time!

We collapsed into bed at around 8PM that night- Jamaican time (9PM EST)

Tuesday:

Tuesday was the day I met "Mr. Peacock" (seen below)

He became a staple in our everyday activities as you will see.

There were also a few other peacocks that all roamed free on the property

I was ECSTATIC!

Wednesday, we took the opportunity to do one excursion: zip lining.

The facility was on an old sugar cane plantation turned orange grove and adventure spot

Pretty neat.

That night while we were getting ready Mr. Peacock came to visit us...

Who you lookin' at?

We went to the Italian restaurant this night. Not good.

The only place on the whole resort I DO NOT recommend. 

Then on the way back our friend was waiting outside our building (for me of course):

There was a "White Party' that night where they served chocolate everything

and you wear white- not a racist party, no worries.

Robert and I went out to enjoy some drinks

They were so strong they weren't even tasty...

We went back to the room to watch HGTV. 

Why? What do you watch on your honeymoon?

Thursday

Well you know I saw my friend again.

 I enjoyed his daily visits at breakfast.

I'm just going to go ahead and call it

This is the last countdown post EVER for my wedding.

I can almost promise that the day before we will be too busy to post a 1 day...

Theres honestly not much left to do.

I'm finishing up some of my "chalkboard" signs.

You know we could never find plain white chalk anywhere

So we used this machine that cuts out letters instead.

I have to re do part of my bouquet.

Literally an hours worth of work max.

And then most of everything else is something some one else is doing

(setting up the tent, cooking the food)

Or something I can't do until the day of.

It feels like this has been such a long journey on one hand

But on the other, the last ~13 months has flown by.

I'm not nervous at all.

I knew a very long time ago I had found a good match for me

Some one who was willing to work on things and try

And some one who (when they aren't too mad)

Has the ability to calm me down from any situation.

He's my very best friend.

The kind of person I'd be glad if I had a son just like him.

The kind of person who "isn't a cat person"

And loves my cats as if they were his own dog.

(He didn't have to try too hard).

Now my toughest decision is

To wear my lace dress for the rehearsal dinner

and wear my Lilly to the bridal luncheon

OR 

To wear Lilly to the rehearsal dinner

And the white dress to the bridal luncheon.

Whatever shall I do?

Until next time

(probably the time when I'm married)

It's the 4th of July!

Happy Birthday America!

And happy blog link up with The Life Of Bon!

First order of business...

I have terrible organization skills for my photos taken previous to college.

All I found was pictures of fireworks for several years worth of 4th of Julys:

From the Neuse of course.

Then I FINALLY found some with people...

These are my friends y'all... 

And then the ONE picture of me is with an ex boyfriend.

Hard to imagine a time without Robert

Much less post it for the world to see!

This 4th was pretty interesting.

We got pulled over for the lack of having a light on the front of the boat

The court date was on September 11th.

Always creeped me out.

But anyways... this year I did nothing to remedy the lack of people/ 4th shots

I didn't go out on the river 

because we've been more preoccupied with weddings.

So its just a bunch of iPhone quality pictures of fireworks

and one video (thats completely black)

Of the boys shooting off a cannon.

No need to post that.