“Yep, she’s a country girl, alright.”

That’s all J had to say after visiting my parents this past weekend.

I did tell him they lived in the middle of a national forest.

We had a great time. BBQ’d, watched movies during the rain — up until the power went out. Yep, you read right - the power went out for SIX HOURS while we were visiting my parents. This happened because of a HUGE storm that blew through while we were there.

Talk about scary!

Anyway, I’m not feeling very well at the moment, but I wanted to mention my awesome holiday weekend. How was yours?

Nature Walk Photos

I mentioned a couple days ago that J & I went on a nature walk through a local wildlife refuge. Although we didn’t see a lot of wildlife (I don’t blame them, they’re awfully close to the big city!), we saw plenty of other beautiful sights. Here are some of the photos.

It’s scenes like this that make me miss living out in the country.

Turtle, turtle! This adorable little painted turtle decided to make an appearance as we were gazing into the water.

Lilacs.. my absolute FAVORITE. They smell so wonderful.

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Inspiration

I’ve been designing websites since I was 11 years old. Crazy, right? I taught myself everything I know. And I’ve always LOVED designing websites. I just can’t afford to go to school for it, and since I don’t have a degree, most people don’t want to hire me. But then J inspired me. She had mentioned that she uses Craigslist to reach out to potential clients for her freelance graphic/web design.

So I’ve decided I’m going to officially open up a design site (hopefully sometime this afternoon) and start trying to get my own freelance web design business going.

The point of this entry? To say THANK YOU, J. You’re an awesome inspiration and I hope I can do as well as you.

This is going to be interesting!

It’s been a few months since I’ve blogged about my weight. Let’s just say, I’m ashamed. I’m chubby. While I’ve grown rather fond of breasts that are larger than a B cup, something has got to be done about my weight. I’ve gone from a size 7 to a size 11.

So I’m going to start watching what I’m eating, and exercising frequently. However, this is where the story gets interesting — Jason is underweight. Yeah, you read that right. Underweight.

I have no idea how, or why, but he’s like.. 20+ pounds lighter than he should be. So we’re going to work on a lifestyle to help him gain weight, while I’m trying to lose weight. Which is going to make cooking dinner quite interesting, to say the least.

If anybody has tips for either of us — how to lose or to gain weight, please comment with them!

Anyway, in other news — it’s been a couple of days since I’ve blogged because the weekend was quite interesting. We partied with a friend on Friday night (partied a little TOO hard, might I add), and spent most of Saturday recovering from it. On Sunday we went for a nature walk through a local wildlife refuge. It was so awesome; I’ll try to upload the pictures sometime soon, but I have to find where I packed my camera cable.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! What are your plans for Memorial Day weekend? We’re going to Wisconsin to visit my parents.

Adventures in MN

Tonight we went to the Mall of America and ate at Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Co. It was fun; the atmosphere was very friendly and our food was quite tasty. I bought a t-shirt and a keychain (okay, so I’m a sucker for souveniers, even though I live here).

We walked around the mall for a while and did a little bit of shopping (not a whole lot, we’ve got important stuff for the apartment we need to save up for). J bought a huge black light, a black light poster, and some incense. He also bought me a Sweeney Todd poster. ♥ I’m starting a collection of movie posters.

I’m SO exhausted. I’m sorry my blog’s been so boring lately; that’s just how life’s been.