My Worst Habit - TADBJ

Oh my!  Hubby would have all kinds of answers for this one!  Funny that I would have answers for HIM to.  ;-) I guess that's what happens when you've been married for seven years.

But to spare you all the drama I'll tell you what I think my number one worst habit is.  Watching TV.  Now granted, there is nothing inherently wrong with watching television, but when you seem to do it all day, to the point that it consumes your day and you get nothing (or very little) else accomplished, well... "you might be an addict if..."

As a matter of fact I was just thinking the other day about doing a TV fast.  I'm going to try to do a TV fast one day this week.  I haven't decided what day yet, but I'll let you know how it goes.  If it's very successful I may try a longer fast next.  If it isn't very successful, I'll try again soon.

My Bucket List - TADBJ

The top five items on my bucket list excluding things like seeing my children become Christians, graduate, marry, and have children are:

1. Own my own home - Free and clear with no mortgage.

2. Have a daughter.  Seriously.  I'll adopt if I have to although I'd really prefer have one biologically.

3. Get completely out of debt and never go back.

4. Have enough money to give generously.

5. Visit NYC.  I've always wanted to go.

My Ideal Age - TADBJ

What do I think is the ideal age to be?  This one is also a toughie. For one I'm pretty happy with the age I am now (27).  However, I also look forward to being in my 40's and 50's.  Kids grown (more or less) and things (I hope) start to settle down.  But then there were the awesome teenage years - just innocent enough to have little responsibility and just grown up enough to get some of those perks too (think: driving).  I think two must be pretty awful considering how most two year olds behave.  I guess 5 would be my ideal age.  Young, innocent and not usually in too much of a hurry to grow up.  5 year olds get to have fun and play most of the time and even school is fun at that age.  So there you have it.  5 is my ideal age. :-)

If I could change one thing... TADBJ

I know, I know.  I'm a little late on this one.  All I can say is that life happens and I wouldn't have it any other way.  Now, on to the meat of this post...

The question for today (or yesterday actually) is "If you could change one thing about how you have lived your life thus far, what would it be?"

This is a tough question.  It's easier to tell you what I wouldn't change.  I wouldn't change getting married.  I wouldn't change having my children.  I wouldn't change going to college, although I might change quitting and not going back.  Truth be told though, I really didn't have a clue what I wanted to do or who I wanted to be back then and had I finished school then it probably wouldn't be helping me much now.

So what would I change?  Spending my husband's inheritance-that he got after his grandmothers death-on groceries.  That's really not all we spent it on.  We bought a computer that Hubby really needed, and a car that he really needed.  And we "nickeled and dimed" the rest of it away.  Money was scarce except for that inheritance money, but neither of us had much of a job, nor the motivation to go get one.  So the convenient money to buy groceries with was the money Hubby's grandma left him.  It didn't take very long for it to be whittled all away.  It wasn't a ton of money, but it would have been a nice down payment on a house.

But, you know... you live and learn.  If we ever get a sizable amount of money like that again, we will for sure be trying to spend it more wisely.  Speaking of which, I think PCH.com is calling my name. :-P

Where I Live - TADBJ

We live in a cozy two bedroom, one bathroom apartment in Nashville, TN.  We have a ton of friends living in our complex which works out great when we need a babysitter, or just someone to talk to or "chill" with.  There is a school next door.  I can see it from my window.  Baby one likes to watch out the window while the children are playing on the playground.  It really is a nice apartment, even if it is small.  I could see us living in this complex, if not this apartment until we're ready to buy a house.  I'm so looking forward to that day.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to put up.  My camera died.  It's very sad.

Meanwhile, I'm very excited about tomorrow's TADBJ project!  The question is "if you could change something about how you have lived your life so far, what would it be?"  This will take some thought, but I'm psyched!  Visit Toddler Awesome if you are interested in joining the fun!

What I Am Afraid Of - TADBJ

A few of the things I'm afraid of:

1. Bugs (including spiders)
2. Animals or people that are dying.
3. One of the boys getting hurt.
4. People not liking me
5. People who speed
6. Car accidents (see number 5)
7. Getting in trouble (Yes, I'm kind of a goody two-shoes... what does that even mean?)
8. Diseases
9. House fires and floods.
10. Robbers

I actually had a really hard time coming up with this list.  I thought about stopping at three, then at seven.  I finally came up with ten.  It's funny - I could have written ten things Hubby is afraid of very quickly.  For example:

1. Spiders
2. Bathtubs
3. Losing control
4. A family member getting hurt
5. Getting hurt
6. Death
7. Someone not liking him
8. Hurting someone
9. Being a push-over
10. Being a jerk

See? That was much easier.  ;-)

My Wedding - TADBJ

Writing this makes me a little sad.  No, my wedding wasn't sad, and yes, I'm still happily married.  I'm sad because all of my wedding pictures got lost in a move a few years back.  The only one I have left is a picture I took of one of the pictures on my cell phone.  The quality is horrible because it's a picture of a picture (and because it's a cell phone picture).  I've included that lonely picture at the end of this post.

Our wedding was beautiful.  Our colors were purple and pink (no, not at all "Barbie-ish").  My grandfather performed the ceremony.  We each had three attendants.  Mine were my sister, my best friend, and Hubby's sister.  Hubby's were his college roommate, a friend from church, and my brother.  He had a lot more people that he wanted to be in the wedding, so we made them all ushers.  We had a TON of ushers.

Neither one of us were very nervous before, during, or after the ceremony.  I had a bet going with one of my guy friends that Ryan would cry during the ceremony.  He didn't.  Right after the ceremony when we walked out we went into my changing room and he shut the door, put his head down on my shoulder and started bawling.

At our reception, I had my youth minister MC as the attendants and parents came in.  Each person came out to their own song.  We did this in lieu of a receiving line.  I don't remember what everyone walked out to.  I remember that my mom walked out to, "Pretty Woman."  Hubby's dad came out to a song called, "Tightwad" that was written by a friend of ours.  Later we found out he was a little hurt by it.  One of Ryan's groomsmen walked out to the song "Kokomo."  Ryan's old college roommate walked out to the James Bond theme and my sister was introduced to the same song.  They did a quick dance before he "dropped" her and walked off as if he was hoping no one noticed.  We had great food and a TON of cake!

After the reception we changed.  I don't remember what Hubby wore, but I wore the same going away dress my mom wore after her wedding.  It is pale blue and covered with white eyelet lace.  I was so proud that I fit in it.  I'm not sure that I still could.