Ashlee-I love Jason Mraz!!! We saw him last September, only a few rows from the stage! "I'm Yours" is our song. DW even bought me an ipod nano that was engraved with "I'm Yours" on the back and had a recording of her singing the song. For our wedding we did "I'm Yours" walking in, Bruno Mars "I think I wanna marry you" on the way out and our first dance was Jason Mraz "I won't give up". "I fucking did it" is one of my favorites from the last album!
I Won't Give Up is going to be our wedding song as well
I thought about using the Vitamin String Quartet version of his song Lucky for the processional but haven't completely decided.
Waves, sorry you're beat! How is everything else?
Thanks for asking. Everything else is "ugh" to be honest haha. Still haven't told our parents/public that we're expecting. I'm just dreading it but don't know how much longer I can put it off. OH started working again after being unemployed since December (he works with me now, just different hours.) It's a blessing for the financial reasons but sucks because we have 1 car and sometimes our hours overlap. For example, I just got home from work tonight at 11pm, have to wake up to drive him in at 3:45am, come home and fall back asleep so I can wake up for work at 7am myself. Add that to pregnancy exhaustion and I'm just spent.
Plus living with my parents is a total nightmare. I envy anyone who can make it work living with theirs. Because my 7 year old lived with them until she came to stay with me 2 months ago, having her living here with them again, everything is back to the old way - them spoiling her, not enforcing things like bedtime, no snacks before dinner, etc. They make us look like awful mean parents when we make her stay at the dinner table until her plate is empty because my Mom decided to let her have 2 huge slices of banana bread right before dinner. My Mom is constantly complaining about 1 of our cats because apparently her 2 cats are terrified of it (even though she swore they'd put our cat in her place from the get-go) and won't leave her room now and her dog won't stop chasing our cat all over the house. Her dog is her "son" and he can do no wrong so when he chases our cat and makes a ton of noise (he's a huge 150+lbs Mastiff), it's my cats fault for antagonizing him even though she was just laying on the floor, not moving. But because I said the cat used to be obnoxious when we first got her, she's taking that as an excuse to blame my cat for her animals' behaviors and that her animals are perfect. I'm just so over it all.
I'm actually looking into going back to school even though I really can't afford it because I need to do something more than 40 hours a week at Target making barely over min wage, not qualifying for full-time benefits (even though I almost always work 40 hours.) I can't get student loans because I defaulted on a few that I haven't repaid yet but someone said I should still qualify for grants, so I filled out a FAFSA tonight & we shall see what happens. I'm not getting my hopes up but I desperately need out of Target. I need to make more than $8.95/hour after being there as long as I have. I'd like to qualify for maternity leave at almost 30-years old and not be living at my parent's house to boot. I just feel stuck between a rock and a giant hard place and am not quite sure which way to go.
I know we'll be okay regardless. There's plenty we can do/sacrifice to stay afloat and provide for our kids. They definitely won't go without but I just wish circumstances were a little easier or I had a better plan/opportunity right now.
And really... ignore my rant. I've just had a crappy long day at work after a crappy long morning home with my mother.