OH hi everyone. It’s been a very busy month for Chris and I. We figured once January hit we’d be swamped with ideas and things to do. So here are some random weird things we’ve been up to.
St Cloud Wedding Expo. (wasn’t worth it.) Honestly what we needed from there was A. travel agents, B. hotel accommodations for guests, C. jewelers for Chris’ ring, D. hair and beauty stuff for moi and entourage. (speaking like Miss Piggy makes me feel goofy and classy at the same time) Luckily I got our tickets from the newspaper at half off. So I spent 12 bucks getting us in. Which now that I think of it I forgot to take out of the savings for. Oooops oh well. Overall there were two hotels actually talking about accommodations, two jewelers (one of which we’ve been to), one hair salon and one travel agent. Pretty underwhelming. But Chris is a trooper and came with me. Awwww…
Invitations. Ugh. One of the two banes of my existence right now. I keep changing my mind about how I want them to look. Chris is awesome and at each turn says something like “whatever you want, you know my tastes.” Because in reality he does give a hoot. And that’s why I love him. Pocketfold? Belly band? All in one? Yes, yes, yes and no, no, no. Make up your mind woman! And then when I do and I get out my silhouette and it just doesn’t work or can’t do what I want it to. I can’t just draw and have that drawing transfer to the program. Irritating.
Apartments. Double ugh. The other of the two banes of my current existence. I wonder just how many there are in the st cloud area. I’m guessing a few hundred. No kidding. At least 200 and that’s not counting every building, that’s counting one name per complex. In a perfect world I’d just love to stay where we’re at. It feels like home and not much moving required. However I emailed someone about how much it would be and they haven’t gotten back to me. Needless to say we are paying 100-150 more than we would like if we stayed there. So far I’m loving Anchor Pointe down the road a bit but we must look at a first floor before anything else. (We looked at a vacant 3rd floor) We’ve been looking at so many online and three so far as of today in person. Saturday will be number 4 and Monday number 5. I got spoiled by only looking at one the last time Amy and I moved in together.
Little to no hours at my part time job. So instead I’ve been cleaning, going thru my stuff and donating what I can. Although now the hours are starting to pick up. So I’ll be right back at that extra hundred to two hundred bucks in the wedding fund per month. It’s better than nothing and I’m glad for it.
Bridesmaid dresses are now bought and on their way (from some place in China where underpaid workers put them together). The girls got them at David’s Bridal which I kept saying was like the walmart of wedding stores. I’ve been changing my mind since a lot of the bridal salons do not carry anything over a 16 (which fits like a 10 or 12). I think this is a bit unrealistic and a pain in the arse. Also they had a fairly good selection of different dresses. I want each girl to wear a different dress to fit their personality. It was only my fault for picking a true purple that was limited in selection. So David’s Bridal unless you screw something up big time I’m happy we got the dresses with you. (Oh and now my friend Shanda works at one in Iowa so I’m happy for her.)
And that in a nutshell is the big things going on right now. I’m overly stressed about this apartment hunting only because of all the decision making. As you can tell I’m terrible at making up my mind. And adding to that is all the specials going on out there. Most apartments have some sort of special going on. Only a couple I’ve talked to don’t. And they aren’t used to having vacancies so I can see why. Two particular specials are: One month free and 199 moves you in. The first is many times implemented as money off per month so the monthly rent looks small. This can be a bit deceiving if they word it wrong. Also the 199 moves you in seems to be your 1st month’s rent, deposit and sometimes application fee. This is nice and I can see why they did this. Generally they must give you interest with your deposit back. However if they state that the deposit is non-refundable OR the deposit is free instead of the first month’s rent being free they aren’t responsible for giving you back your deposit and any interest. Sneaky, huh? I’ve gotten pretty good at asking the right questions to get to the bottom of it. And it helps my mom has been a property manager for a while and taught me some of the things she knows.
