Holy Blog, Batman! Two Whole Months!

Ok, so I'm a couple days late posting this - but, whatever. Tim and I have been married two whole months - and it will be two whole decades before we know it! I am happy to say that I am as ecstatic to be married as I was the day I said "I do" :)

It has just been a crazy, fun-filled week!

I've been cleaning and organizing and cooking up a storm.

I bought a cube storage from Target (put together all by myself - aaaand it is still standing thank you). 

 My computer won't let me rotate the image....

I finally tackled the garbage bags full of clothing that were taking over the bedroom floor (sorry, no picture for that)

I made no-bake energy balls (thanks Pinterest),

 meringues, 

 These are a great way to use leftover egg whites!

and I improved my creme brulee recipe! 

Sorry, I'm not posting my super fabulous recipe online...yet...

So, that was pretty much my week in a nutshell. Tim is back in the swing of things at school - and very excited to have a student teacher so he has more time to write :) and Sabrina is just causing trouble as usual.

I'm also reading some fiery books at the moment

Well, until next time....

Putting Our Life in Order

So, there are a few of you devoted readers who may know that neither Tim nor I are very organized... Ok, that may be an understatement - our apartment is about as chaotic as you could imagine.  I like to think it is because we have our priorities straight - we would rather spend time with each other than clean :).

Unfortunately, this strategy is beginning to wear on my sanity. Maybe it is because I grew up with a notorious neat freak (sorry, Mom), but I'm just not used to living in the wake of a tornado.

So, I have come up with a plan, and that plan is to clean and organize the apartment and keep it that way.

Simple, right?  Apparently not.

The more I think about it, the more daunting this task is. So, I'm going to try to tackle it room by room.

Step One: The Bedroom

• Purge the closets - we have more clothes than any two twenty somethings should ever have.
• Put away all of the dirty and clean clothes and get them off the floor (and keep them off!)
• Finish my new DIY jewelry organizer
• Decorate the walls - we have a few posters we want to get and frame
• Put up a couple shelves for odds and ends
• Get the floor cleared off enough to vaccuum...
• ...Vaccuum the floor

Step Two:  The Bathroom

• Find an old CD tower to repurpose and hang on the wall for organizing skin care products, etc.
• Get some shelves for the wall nook by the shower for spare towels
• Paint the bathroom (we have to get permission from the super first...)

Step Three:  The Kitchen

• Finish unpacking the new china from the wedding
• Wash all of the new china
• Clean out the spice cabinet
• Get a binder with plastic sleeves for all of my recipes
• Reorganize the tops of the cabinets

Step Four:  The Living Room

• Get another end table
• Get a silk plant for atop the end table
• Sort through and throw away the stuff behind the couches
• Clean out the entryway closets and make use of our storage locker
• Clean out the desk
• Get all the stuff off of the dining chairs

Whew... That is the master list. I suppose we will have to tackle it one weekend at a time - my goal being to finish it all before Speech season starts. We have until the second weekend in November then.

I'll start with the bedroom this weekend :)

Hopefully each time I post I will have finished  a new task and will have found some fun tip or DIY project to post as well.

Whats in a Name...Change

That which we call a rose would still smell as sweet, yeah yeah yeah. Romeo's last name may not have mattered to Juliet, but it does matter to my husband.  Originally I was just going to hyphenate my name (idea planted by my husband's sister :)) but Tim wanted us to have the same last name so we really felt like a family. He was even ready to take my last name. It turns out my last name was more important to him than it was to me, so I decided to change it (but only if he agreed to wear his wedding band - compromise is a beautiful thing).

So, as of yesterday, everything is official. I finally have all my new cards and IDs (not my passport - I'll deal with that when I need to).  I thought that to change everything was going to be much more complicated than it actually was, but it ended up being relatively simple. Just follow these simple steps.


How to Change Your Name - the Five Step Process
Step One:  get your marriage license - the original, not the certified copy (Social Security Office only takes the original, and order a couple certified copies for posterity's sake
Step Two:  make a list of all the institutions/companies you need to change your name with (for example: Social Security Office, DMV, Bank, Credit Card Company, Student Loans, Netflix, HR at work, etc.) and find out what you will need to provide to each to make the change.
Step Three:  Go to the Social Security Office first then the DMV, you will probably need the new license for the bank and HR at work.
Step Four:  Get to the Social Security Office and the DMV EARLY, unless you want to wait until Death Do You Part.
Step Five:  Once everyone is notified of all the changes you are set :) You can order new checks and cards and all that fun stuff.

So I would, were I not Greenlee call'd,
Retain that dear perfection (Shakespeare said it - not me) which I owe
Without that title.