Finale

The time has come for "It Just Is" to end. anniegardner.blogspot.com has taken 4.5 years of my life and I need a change.  But I feel like the blog needs closure.

So I'm going to post something I've been thinking about for a while now. 

Its been over a year since my first date with Travis.

It was hands down the best first date of my life. And while I've been reminiscing about it lately I've become well aware of how lucky and blessed I was to have met him. Not only because of how great he is but because of how weird all "gentleman suitors" prior to him were.

Lets recap:

The guy who said "and for that I am grateful." at the end of every other sentence. That wasn't the weird part, him stalking me was the weird part.

When my dad left my phone number for the waiter at Olive Garden on the receipt. And he used it, a lot, and he was so whiny about his life that I could never make myself see him in person again?

The guy (age 25) who asked the question (more than once) "How many guys have you kissed? I'm just wondering what number I will be." *shudder* I thought that question was stupid even when I was young enough for it to be a normal thing to hear.

The PFDB. He has plenty of stories, but my favorite is the time there was two feet of snow on both of our cars, I helped him clean his off and then he watched me clean mine off.

The bro who would invite me to parties and then leave them?

The fellow that jokingly asked me to marry him after I had my mission call, when I didn't joke back and just said "No" he told me that I wasn't fulfilling my responsibility as a woman. Her first responsibility is to get married, and if no one will marry her... then she should go on a mission and try again when she gets back... :}

The kid who wanted to "kick-it" all the time. With lots of girls out of his league. Everyone who is reading this who he wanted to kick it with (and I know there are more than one) you are out of his league.

The mechanic who got my number from a family member but I never met him. He called me high maintenance because I wouldn't meet him and I was wearing bigstar jeans in a facebook picture that he had obviously studied a little too much. My jeans were 50% off at downeast thank you very much.

The dude that made the same corny jokes you expect to hear from your uncle at a family reunion...


This list really doesn't remind me that much of how blessed I am to have Travis as my husband. He reminds me of that daily.

And with the end of this list of db's comes the end of this blog.

Hopefully if I keep this motivation to keep blogging you can visit me at
http://www.somedulaney.blogspot.com

Best $2.50 We Have Spent

I guess I got bored after day 1 of posting odd things about our house. Oh well...

We got a couple Bed Bath and Beyond gift cards for our wedding, on our last visit to St Gee we went on a BBB spree...

We found a gem for only $2.50 and made thisThe set came with a net, two paddles and some ping pong balls. Naturally, we had to tape off the table to make it more official.

And I couldn't pass up the chance to cut some vinyl to get our paddles personalized.

I can not believe how fun homemade ping pong can be, even if it takes four games to 21 for me to come close to winning.

Just getting fit.

Tiny House

Two nights ago was the first night we slept in our tiny house. It is huuuuge compared to the apartment we've been in for the last few weeks. This place has more than one room!! And the bathroom isn't in the kitchen. Its amazing.

There are some strange things about this place though, and every day until I get bored I'll share one of those things with you.

So, the first gem.

The view from the toilet.

I may have somehow dramatized this picture, but really the toilet paper is so high up on the wall.

I like it.

Thankful Thursday

Even though it is Sunday, I'm writing a Thankful Thursday. Because I haven't done it in a while. But I thought about it on Thursday and am currently still thankful.

My husband-to-be and I have a cute cute ghetto cute little house to live in for a while but there is currently someone living in it who said she would move out December 1st.... long story short, she is still there and can not be asked to leave for another month or so.

So we were on a hunt to find someone or somewhere who would rent to us on a month to month basis since we are not exactly sure when we will be moving into our place, but we know it will be soon-ish.

My dear friend Brittni with the assistance of Anne D found a studio apartment for me to look into while I stuffed my face with breakfast leftovers after the b-shower. And by "for me to look into" I mean, Brittni called on it. And they said we could month to month it if we wanted, NoBigDeal.

Well the fi and I weren't too excited about cooking and eating dinner, hanging out, and sleeping all in the same room. So we tried to find somewhere else.

After Travis called roughly a million places around town and not one was willing to go month to month with us, we came to the conclusion that the stude was basically our only option other than the Gardner's basement. :]

The studio it is.

So what I am thankful for is the kindness of our new landlady... she was so easy going and understanding of our situation. And we have the opportunity to be adults who dont live with my parents. Wahoo.

Get excited, there will be pictures to come.

$33.13

I dont want to be poor.

So with the help of my dear sister and encouragement from my fee-own-say I have started into the couponing game. I'm an amateur, but I am addicted.

So I'm going to show off due to I have already talked to everyone who I talk to about this and I need to tell someone else about it...

In the past few weeks I have bought these items to start our stock pile. It's my wedding gift to us.

It includes: 2 boxes of golden grahams, 6 ten packs of chinet paper plates, 6 packs of trident, 3 boxes of 12ct taco shells, an airwick freshmatic, 2 boxes of theraflu cold reliever, 2 pur protein bars, 2 travel size aquafresh toothpaste, 2 full size colgate total, 2 full size crest prohealth toothpaste, 1 15oz shampoo, 1 13oz shampoo, 1 13oz conditioner, 2 containers of comet cleaner, 2 arm and hammer 25 load laundry detergents, 2 carmex sticks, and 10 cans of cream of chicken soup.

Total before sales and coupons: $114.49

My grand total was $33.13

To say the least, I am proud of myself.

What I Did This Weekend.

• Went to the temple Friday
• Had some cabin time
• Some family time
• Got some Conference upliftment
  
• Got Engaged
• Ate a lot of food
• Napped a lot

Wait... Whaaaat?

Yep, most importantly on that list, I am engaged

To this guy

And some other time when I am in the mushy mood I'll tell you all the great things about him.

But for now you can just settle with knowing that he is perfect for me in every way.

China Kitchen

See this?

The naked eye might look at this box and think... "Wow what a sloppy job, there is food poking out of it!"

But that's the naked eye...


There is just SO MUCH FOOD in there that the box doesn't shut.

For only 5 bucks.

I'll go taste it and let you know if its good or not.

China Kitchen: its on 200 north in Cedar. Check it out.