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Weekend roundup

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May 202013
 

Matt’s parents were up for the weekend. After my hair appt Friday, I came home, met them and the 4 of us headed to meet my parents for dinner at Porters on campus. Matt and I have been several times and we really enjoy it.

Saturday Jill and Steve had plans with friends so Matt and I ran a few errands. We stopped by Lowe’s so I could buy more flowers. Lowe’s had a pretty poor selection so I ended up with a few geraniums. I really wanted more begonias but they didn’t have any :( I did manage to find a hibiscus on clearance. I have no idea if it will make it, the poor thing was soaked through but for $4.00 I thought it was worth tying to save.

We got home and pulled up my pansies and then planted the geraniums. I got about half the pot filled with soil for the hibiscus when I ran out of soil. By this point I was super sweaty and dirty so I didn’t feel like running back to Lowe’s for more soil. I figured we could run by on Sunday.

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Sunday the guys were supposed to play golf but the forecast was rainy so we all ended up going to Southpoint in Durham. After like 6 hours of walking around and shopping we headed back to Raleigh to find dinner. We settled on one of our fave Mexican restaurants Dos Taquitos. As always the food was delicious.

Today I ran to Lowe’s and picked up more soil and finally got my hibiscus in a pot. The roots were soaked through. I hope it will dry out soon and be okay. I’ll post some pics if it doesn’t die. ;)

~k

Good bye vacation! Hello Anniversary!

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May 152013
 

Matt and I arrived home around midnight on Sunday.  It was a long day to say the least.  Thankfully I had taken Monday off so while I slept in he got up and drug himself to work.  Actually  I didn’t really sleep in.  I was up and showered by 9 am so that was pretty good, for me at least.

Once I was up I started on our laundry, then I started working on the pics I had taken.  I ended up with more than 300 pics from our trip.  First I sorted out the ones I actually wanted to edit and then I began.  Mostly they just needed a few minor adjustments and I had to spot remove on a few.  (Not gonna lie, I’m a little pissed off about the spot since I took it to the camera shop and had my sensor cleaned a few days before we left.  Good thing it was free!)

I got about halfway through my editing before I had to stop and run to the store.  Monday was Matt and I’s 2nd Anniversary!  (WHHHHAAATTT WHHAAATTT!!!!)  Like always, we decided to grill steaks.  I ran to Earthfare, grabbed a couple of filets and set out to find some sides.  I was a little annoyed they didn’t have any green beans so I had to stop at another store on my way home.  Anyway, Matt was pretty tired when he got home so he napped for a while and then we started dinner.  The steaks were delicious and the green beans were pretty good considering I googled a recipe and threw it together. :)

It’s hard to believe we’ve already been married 2 years. I love Matte more each day and find myself constantly telling him he is a great husband.  I hear my friends talk and I’m so glad we have the relationship we do. :)

Anyway, I have put some of my Jamaica pics up on my photosite.  The link may change (I’m trying to change a few things around) but they will still be listed under travel.  As for our trip, I will try to start blogging that this week on the travel site. :)

~k

Oh, hello vacay!

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May 072013
 

It’s so nice to see you! YAY! Matt and I set out early tomorrow morning for our 2nd anniversary trip. Oh yeah, our anniversary is next Monday! WHHHHAAAAAAT!?!?!

Thankfully today is over. The morning started off kind of slow but the afternoon picked up and well, didn’t go so great so I decided to head out early. ;) Now I just need to finish packing and a few last minute cleaning touch ups and I will be set.

Till next week!

~k

Marriage is hard

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May 032013
 

You see this phrase often.  Just yesterday I saw this in some article I was reading and I thought to myself, “I don’t feel like being married to Matt is hard.”  I wondered what Matt thought about this so I asked him last night and he said the same thing I did, “being married isn’t hard.”

I feel like I need to say that everyday you have to work at being married but overall I don’t feel like it’s hard.  (We still have our disagreements and the first 2 years hasn’t always been a picnic but overall it’s good.)  I’ve been in relationships that were hard or difficult but for some reason our relationship just seems to fit.  I think a lot of this comes from Matt not being the type to try and piss me off and me understanding and realizing this, therefore I don’t “sweat the small stuff” nearly as much as I used to.  I feel I’m very conscience in my thinking of “is this really worth it”.  Most of the time it’s not worth the extra energy to make something a bigger deal than it really is.

I have a lot of friends that got married around the same time as us and it seems like there are a lot of complaints, from small stuff to large stuff.  I’m honestly so glad that’s not me, not anymore.  We have our routines and things just seem to work.  Sure Matt annoys me from time to time and I know I annoy him and that’s okay.

This morning I saw an article about contracting marriages for 10 years.  This would be to cut down on the divorce rate I guess.  You give it 10 years and at the end decide if you want to renew your contract or leave.  I’m not really sure how I feel about this concept.  On one hand, I would absolutely sign a 10 year agreement with Matt.  But not because I thought it wouldn’t last past that or that one of us would want out but because to me that’s like saying I KNOW we can last 10 years, and 20 and so on.  So if that’s my thought, then would I really need a contract?  I guess not.

Honestly I feel like it’s a pretty silly “solution” if you were.  I feel the biggest problem with the divorce rate is people aren’t willing to fight for their marriages anymore.  I’ve been divorced and 1 person can’t make a marriage.  Both people have to be willing to fight for it.  I think we are a very throw away society now and that is reflected in the divorce rate.  I also feel a lot of this comes from having 2 income households.  Back in the day it was much harder to leave because women weren’t able to provide the way they can now.  I’m not saying I think we need to go back to this it’s merely a thought.

Clearly I have no solution for this problem and I’m going to start rambling soon.

Happy Friday!

~k

Whatever Wednesday

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May 012013
 

This week has been dragging.  Maybe it’s because vacation is next week or maybe it’s because it’s just been slow.  It doesn’t help that the weather has royally sucked this week!  It’s down right cold outside today, the FIRST of MAY!  Are you kidding?!?!!  It’s been cloudy, rainy and cold and it sucks!  I’m ready for spring!  But I know what’s going to happen, the weather is going to finally warm up to summer like temps.  Then everyone will be complaining that it’s too hot, me included.

One thing I’m looking forward to this weekend is my mani-pedi scheduled for Saturday.  Mom and I are going to a place downtown.  Unfortunately it seems to be just one lady so we will have to wait on each other, which means we are going to be there for a while.  Oh well.  I don’t have anything else planned for Saturday.

One week till vacation!  Woo hooo!

~k

Currently

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Apr 302013
 

I’ve seen a few other blogs that do a Currently post. In reality, I hope that this might help give the blog some structure and help me update it more. I think I’ve tried stuff like this before with no success so we’ll see how this goes.

Currently: Waiting to go home. Work has been weird lately. Some times we are really slow and others we are super busy. This can literally change within the span of a few minutes. But for now things are quiet. I’ve been looking at the Nik Collection of photo actions Matt just sent me. I am also still currently working on baby Owen’s pics so I am going to home tonight to download my free trial and edit some pics and see what I think. The whole collection is now 149.00 so I guess we’ll see if I like it and if I think it’s worth the money. Ideally I would prefer to start editing pics on Matt’s Mac (if he will let me touch it!) but all my editing programs are on my Dell. It’s not that is sucks, but the battery is about dead so I have to keep it plugged in and well I’ve gotten spoiled with my iPad.

Loving: My yard! The warmer weather and my husband. I hear lots of girls with lots of complaints about their hubbies and I am super thankful I got a good one!

Reading: Summer Secrets by Barbara Freethy. This is a random book I picked up off Amazon a few months ago. Every now and then I’ll go through and buy a few cheap/free books from the Kindle store. This way when I get the urge to read I don’t have to browse through Amazon. Anyway, this book is about 3 sisters who sail around the world as teens. Like 10 years later, a reporter decides to start digging to get to the real “truth” behind the trip. I haven’t gotten very far yet so this may by on my list for a while. ;)

Thinking about: Other people’s problems and how thankful they aren’t mine.

Looking forward to: Our trip to Jamaica! Holy cow, it’s NEXT week! It didn’t really hit me till the other day that we were a little over a week away! I am excited for some much needed sun, beach and booze! ;) Oddly enough a coworker who got married over the weekend is currently in Jamaica at the same resort. We are getting together for lunch next week to discuss. I’m pretty excited to see how she liked it.

Making me happy: All my flowers. My front yard looks AMAZING! I am so pleased at how well all of my bushes are doing. I even had a neighbor stop by last week to say how nice it looked. I know the flowers will only last a few more weeks but I plan to enjoy them while I can.

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So that is my attempt at a currently post. Hopefully it will get better as time goes on. :)

~k

Another week, another recap (yep I’m a slacker!)

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Apr 292013
 

Matt and I didn’t have any real plans for the weekend besides going to an event one of Patrick’s friends had scheduled for Saturday night.  His friend Mike is the manager at Mellow Mushroom in Wake Forest.  Mike decided to play a few songs as a kick off to the Patrick Edwards Foundation.  (This will be a charitable foundation that will help under privileged youth learn the art of making EDM - electronic dance music.)

I knew about the event but I really had no idea there would be fundraising until Saturday when Matt and I set out to buy supplies, a receipt book and cash box.  I figured we might raise a few hundred dollars which would be great.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would raise over $1200.00.  Like that’s some serious money!  I was blown away by the generosity of Patrick’s friends, several of which, made rather large donations.  It was just an amazing night spent with good people and good music!

The event was great, and Mike did a wonderful job performing!  Hopefully we will be able to be apart of numerous fundraisers for this cause.

After a wonderful Saturday night, we spent Sunday doing a whole lot of nothing.  It was rainy and gross out and a perfect veg day.  We slept in (which we always do), ate lunch, Matt worked out and I threw some clothes in the wash, then we both took naps.  :)  Good lazy day!

~k

Weekend recap

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Apr 222013
 

Friday was pretty crazy.  I spent most of my day watching the news as the Boston PD searched for the Boston Marathon bomber.  For some reason, I was weirdly fascinated by the whole thing.  The search part I should say.  After waking up and hearing the news that one was dead, I figured the police would find the second one pretty quickly but that didn’t happen.

That afternoon around 6 while I was lying on the couch, I heard a loud gust of wind.  With that, the bottom fell out.  I quickly scrambled to close the windows and then the power went out.  Thankfully it was only out for a few minutes but then I noticed a puddle of water in dining room by the door.  Our back door is a huge piece of crap and needs to be replaced.  It doesn’t fit very well in the frame so when the wind blows right rain can comes through.  I finally got the mess cleaned up when Matt announced  shots were fired via twitter.  I quickly turned the news back on and became glued to the TV.  Finally we were both starving so we grabbed some fast food and returned home.  Just in time to see reports that the bomber had been caught.

Around mid-night the power went off again and woke us up.  Unfortunately it stayed off for the better part of an hour.  I tossed and turned waiting for it to cut back on.  I was hot and it was waaaaaayyy too quiet.  It finally cut back on and I was able to sleep.  I remember it cutting off again at some point but I guess I slept through that.

Saturday Matt met one of Patrick’s friends for a round of golf.  I headed back to Old Navy to exchange a few more items and then ran to Target to get food for dinner.  Around 6:30 Matt texted to say they were only on #13 and it would be a while.  He also asked if I would be up for meeting them out for dinner.  I got dressed and met everyone at Maru.  MMMMM sushi! :)

Sunday we slept in and went to Costco.  Then I came home and re-potted my hostas and planted the hyacinth mom gave me for Easter.  The temperature also dropped this weekend.  Matt finally got cold and turned the heat back on.  It’s almost May, seriously, could it just warm up already!

~k

The day Mr. Julio almost got a kitten

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Apr 182013
 

Yesterday morning started off  just like any other day until I got to work.  A coworker was in the elevator with me and as soon as we were on our floor she asked if I wanted a kitten.  Duh!  Of COURSE I want a kitten!  She proceeded to tell me her boyfriend found the kitten in the back of a tractor trailer at his work.  She had accidentally been shipped from South Carolina and had been in the truck for 3 days without food or water.  As my heart is breaking, I tell her to email me a few pics.  I will need to talk to my husband.

I immediately forward the emails with pics to Matt.  He never responds, but I also know he is busy, so I don’t push.  Around lunch time we are chatting and I mention the cat again.  He finally responds with “fine you can get the kitten but there is no more ‘fun’ money until her vet bills are paid.”  WHAT!?!?  He actually said Yes!  Woo hoo!

Thankfully I’d heard from another coworker that the kitten had found a good home so I knew she wasn’t available when I asked Matt again.  I finally told him she’d found a good home, which made me happy.  I mean if it came down to it, she would now be living at our house.  I just couldn’t stand the idea of her going without food or water for days and then not finding a good home.

I do have a feeling that Mr. Julio is going to end up with a kitten sooner rather than later.  I want him to have a friend before he gets too old.  He is so social I don’t know what he’ll do once Hal is gone.  So the next “free” kitten might just end up at our house. ;)

~k

Overhaul

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Apr 172013
 

I posted a few pics from my dad’s photo shoot on Sunday, well he was having website issues so I decided to play around with my photo site. You know, that thing I haven’t touched in about a year? Poor Matt and ripped down and reinstalled numerous platforms and operating systems for me to try. It all started when I asked him to install Piwigo which is what dad’s site is currently using. I was trying to add something and didn’t want to experiment on his page so I tore my site down and started over. Then I wanted to try another one to see if I liked it and might move dad’s. Finally I settled on a WordPress site.

I feel like the current options were available when I first started trying to build my photo site because I feel like I am finding tons of options now. The gallery features are much cooler, there are cart options. It really does have it all. My main complaint the first go round were the gallery features. They were boring, boxy and kind of sucky. Now they slide, glide, fade. You name it you can find it. I must say I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It’s also given me something to do at work when I have some downtime.

I still have a lot more to do, like actually adding good pics but so far I’m happy with the direction my site is going.

Feedback is welcome. Kelly Suzanne photography

~k

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