Piled Higher and Deeper

At 19 I moved into my own apartment. As an apartment dweller, there was very little yard work needed or required- water the potted plants, discard them when dead.

In August 2007, I moved into our current home with Tom. It's a small house with a nice backyard containing 7 trees. What I never considered was the raking. My family with land, has lots of land, so bush-hogging is more of the issue. In south Louisianian most trees loose their leaves in the spring, so they are sucked up with the grass.

That's not the case here. We have been raking all morning, since our lawn was covered in leaves. The bad news is that we still have 3 trees that haven't lost there leaves yet. The good news, is it appears we have our very own Madam Trash Heap. I'll just have to keep an eye out for Fraggles.

The Day After

Today after I have read and listened to McCain's concession  speech and Obama's victory speech, I am proud to have taken part in this election. This morning I heard an interview on NPR with a 109 year-old texas woman, whose father had been a slave, recounting saving money to pay the poll-tax to vote during the great depression and now seeing an African-American president-elect. It's nice to have a president-elect that is inspiring in a time when we need hope. It also doesn't hurt that llamas like him.

Reboot

Tom and I had, what my dad would call a "come to jesus" moment on October 20th. At the thought of paying over 6K just for a reception site and food, that little voice inside my head yelled- are you freaking out of your mind. 

I decided to listen to my inner voice since it rarely yells, expecially when it comes to spending -I am an expert at shoppon math afterall

Example:

Boots cost $100. If you wear boots 6 months out of the year to work, that's less than a dollar a day for the first year of wear and then it's free each subsequesnt wearing of the boots, because 6 months x 4 weeks x 5 days = 120 days of wear.  

Yes, I rocked the word problems in 2nd & 3rd grade. Thank you Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Coker.

So Tom and I talked, and we realized what we really want is something small. we are both so releived. I contacted the reception place and cancelled.

So we are only  inviting 20-30 of our closest friends and family to the wedding. We will then take everyone out to dinner at a restaurant that we both love. We are reserving a private room, so we'll still have plenty of time to mingle and talk with everyone at our wedding. It will just be more us. 

In other news, we both voted today, but not together. Turns out Tom is still registered to vote in Reisterstown, so he had to go to his old polling place. He saw the priest that will marry us while he was voting, so you see it all comes full circle. Big changes to us, and possible big changes for the country.