Life Update

Ken and I have a lot to update you on! :-)

First of all, he's leaving his full-time job in exchange for a part-time job and fuller course load. This works out great for two reasons: One, he can leave the job that makes him so cranky, and two, he can finish school a semester early! :-)

Second, in a couple months, we're going to starting renovating the entire upstairs of his parents house so that in mid-October I can move into it. We're so excited to decorate our "apartment." :-)

Life is so good right now!

Apartments, rent, utilities... OH MY!

So, Ken and I are getting an apartment in a few months. Probably around the end of the year. We are definitely excited, but also sort of nervous for this step in our lives.

Neither of us have ever paid rent or utilities or anything like that. We've always just lived off the fat of the land. Or rather, off the fat of our parents' wallets. Now, we'll be responsible for everything and that is slightly terrifying. Despite that, there's no one else I'd rather take this journey with than Ken!

He always cheers me up when I'm sad, and always believes in me no matter what. I love you, Ken!

Plans.

Young people should just enjoy being young. That's the conclusion I've come to. Now that I'm the age where I'm getting married in a matter of months, and thinking about buying a house in the next couple years, I'm left with only one thought: Youth seems so long ago.

I don't mean I'm old. I'm only 23, and in the physical prime of my life. I've never looked or felt better. Still, I feel youth slipping from my fingers as I worry about rent, down payments, loan repayments, and savings accounts. Ten-year-olds don't have to worry about those things. I envy all ten-year-olds.

Don't get me wrong, I love being on the verge of independence and having responsibilities. It's just not as exciting as I thought it would be. The only exciting thing is the whole having a sexy husband thing. :-]

I want to live in Stars Hollow

I love the show "Gilmore Girls." It's my favorite show. I want nothing more than to live in the small town inhabited by Lorelai, Rory, Luke, Sookie, Kirk, Taylor, and Miss Patty.

I love the streets with the cutesy names. I'd love to live on Peach Street next door to Dean.

I love the small town heros that make it a worthwhile place to live. I want to get breakfast at Luke's Diner, and shop at Andrew's bookstore, and take dance lessons at Miss Patty's.

I'm jealous of the people who created this town.

Series review.

This is first of many future book reviews. I love to read, and I love recommending books to people, so what better place than here? :-)

Title: Series--- Stephanie Plum novels

Author: Janet Evanovich

*I've read:

• One For the Money
• Two For the Dough
• Three to Get Deadly
• Four to Score
• High Five
• Hot Six
• Seven Up
• Hard Eight
• To the Nines
• Ten Big Ones
• Eleven on Top
• Plum Lovin'
• Twelve Sharp
• Lean Mean Thirteen (currently)

I've never before read a series that had it all. This one truly does. With a ballsy female protagonist, this series crackles with wit, charm, romance, and action. Stephanie Plum is a woman that all women can look up to. She's the perfect combination of femininity and masculinity: beauty meets beast. She's been absolutely thrilling to read about for fourteen novels. Not only does the reader want to emulate her by the end of each novel, but the reader wants to know the most intimate details of her life. Will she end up with Ranger or Morelli? Will she catch her latest crook? Evanovich leaves the reader gasping for more with every turn of the page.

4 1/2 out of 5 stars

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New job.

I really need a new job. I love the hours of my job. I love the weekends and holidays off. I love the benefits. It's just the pay sucks so much. I need to be making more than $1000 a month. It's awful.

Trying to get married on only that much is pretty much impossible. So, today I begin my great quest. A quest for new employment. $25,000 a year, here I come!