What craziness is

Wow it's been over a month since I wrote in here! My apologies to all.

Things have been crazy. You all know I work a low paying job so I have been picking up tons of extra hours to help get a little extra money. Dave's promotion finally went through...yay Chef Assistant!

Also, we have been house hunting. This generally has been consuming my days off. Driving around and looking at houses. Trying to decide if we really need this or that in a house. Meeting with our real estate agent and the bank. Buying a house is no cake walk friends! Especially if it is a starter home. I want it to be perfect, but I realize that is a far dream.

Between all of that, Dave and I took two trips. The first was at the end of September. We went up north to visit our families in PA. It was a surprise to my dad, who turned 50, and to my Grandmom, who was getting an award. We spent some time with Dave's mom and took a day to go see something I have been waiting years to see. That's right folks! Dave and I went to see The Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ.


I first fell in love with the Newsies in college. A good friend of mine suggested it as a "snow day" movie. Within the first few minutes, it was instant love. The music, the actors, the story...I loved it all! Finally, I would see it on stage!!

All in all, it was a great show. I studied theater in college and I was picking about a few things here and there. I excepted it to be a tad more energetic as well.

After the show we were able to meet Ben F. who played Davey. He is a good friend of one of my co-workers and he was great! We took a picture for proof that we met each other in case Emily, my friend, needed it.
The second trip was a camping trip. This trip was a blast! It was cheap and we had so much fun with some good friends. Dave and I really deserved the quiet time. I'll be writing more about that in a blog post later.

So that leaves us to today. It's my Friday! Tomorrow is our 2nd anniversary together! We are celebrating by going to Food and Wine (where we met) and staying one night at the Animal Kingdom Lodge! Again, that will be a post for another time!

It's Almost October!?!

So time has clearly gotten away from me.

I'm going to say it's because I started picking up lots more hours at work. I have been feeling better and I have had to make up for the money I didn't make while I was sick. Sometimes I really hate that my job pays so little. Most times I just forget how much I am getting paid all together! ( I think that's a good thing) Until the bills come in and I'm seeing negatives! Blech.

So I decided that I am going to work on a ETSY shop. I am going to sell my baked goods and some handmade things...like coasters and possibly coin purses. The hardest part is using a lot of product to get pictures and everything because all of that costs money. Also, everything is going to be made to order (except the coasters and such). So hopefully I can handle this.

I am also selling my famous pumpkin bread and already have a few orders! It's not going to help much, but it makes me excited to have my name associated with it! Here is a picture of my first batch of the season! Well...maybe just a loaf of my first batch!

YUMMY!

Dave and I are totally diving head first into this house buying business. I know it is a little crazy. I barely make over minimum wage and he makes about $6 more than I do. But we have to start somewhere. Renting is not helping us, and it's causing us a ton of stress! I just want a place of my own. One that I can be creative in and paint walls and have a big kitchen!!! It's time... lol We have a meeting with the mortgage people on Tuesday to get pre-approved and then we will go from there. We already have our relator set up too!

Finally, it's that time of year again! We may not get the weather of fall or the changing leaves like up north, but we do get PUMPKINS!!! Ones that are shaped like Mickey Mouse!


As much as I am longing to go to Mickey's Not So Scary, I don't think we are going to be able to this year. It makes me really sad. They only discounted tickets for CMs for September and Dave and I's schedules are not working with the dates. It's depressing because I heard they changed some things around. Maybe they will open dates in October and if they do, I'll be the first to line up!

Hope you all are getting ready for a beautiful fall! All of you lovelies up north, I am really jealous. Fall/Winter are my favorite times of year!!