What I'm Loving Wednesday

I've seen tons 'o bloggers doing the What I'm Loving Wednesday posts and I decided to link up and do one of my own.  Because I always love a good bandwagon.  Even if I don't always stay on...

I'm Loving Taylor Swift's new album.  I got it less than a month ago and I pretty much know every single song by heart already.  Probably because it plays on repeat on my iPod nonstop.

I'm loving that a week from today I will be celebrating the fact that I don't have to go to work for FOUR whole days.  I really hate to wish my life way, but I live for days off work.

I'm loving that the holidays are right around the corner!  Usually, I'm stressed about the holidays, but this year I am beyond thrilled.  Probably because after the first of the year a new life will be starting for me.  (No, it's not a baby!!)

I'm loving adding to my Amazon Wish list.  Everything I see I just want to hit "add to Wish List".  It's an addiction.

I'm loving the fact that my husband and I finally went to the grocery store.  I am embarrassed to say that it looked like a couple of college kids lived in our house if you looked at our pantry.  Luckily this is no more!

I'm loving books by Elin Hilderbrand.  I may or may not have read about 5 of them in two weeks time.  They're so good!  They are all set on the island of Nantucket and now it's my life's mission to visit there.  At least once!

What are you all loving?

Hopping Right On

In my effort to become a more diligent blogger, I have decided to take on a 30 Day Challenge via: Katie's Journey.  If you want to join it, head over there and let her know!  I think this is going to be fun and I am very excited about it.

The first challenge is to post a picture of yourself and give 15 interesting facts about moi.  Well I can give you 15 facts, but I can't claim that they'll all be interesting per se. 

Me!

Now on to those facts:

1. I got married three years ago on 07.07.07.  Everyone said I was crazy for getting married on "the most popular wedding day ever" but I really didn't have an issue with it.
2. Yes, I have been married for three years and no, I don't have any children.  I am what you would call reproductively challenged.  We are working on it albeit at a snail's pace.
3. I went to school for elementary education, but I don't teach.  And I learn a little bit more everyday that it was the best decision for me.
4. And in the next breath I'm going to tell you that I do actually teach CCD one night a week.  These are Catholic education classes for public school children.
5. I worry.  A lot.  About random things that no one should ever worry about.  Once something has resolved itself I move on to something else to worry about.  It can be quite stressful. 
6. I have an intense fear of vomit.  Enough said.
7. I love pop culture.  LOVE it.  I think this is why I quote movie/TV shows every chance I get. 
8. I am a trivia FREAK.  I know the most random things and I couldn't tell you where I pick it up. 
   Sometimes I think the random information takes up too much information in my brain.  
9. By nature I am shy, until I get comfortable and know you.  Then I don't shut up.  I'm just really bad at the whole small talk thing.  Being in a sorority really helped to bring me out of that shell though.  Who knows how socially awkward I might be otherwise. :-)
10. I spend WAY too much money on purses.  I should really learn to save my money and not buy a million cheap ones and buy one really nice one. 
11. I take a lot of things personally.  Like things that shouldn't be taken personally at all.  I guess I'm just sensitive and have a lot of feelings and emotions.
12. I really enjoy reading blogs - especially Kentucky bloggers, sorority bloggers and others struggling with infertility  (I cringe at how cliche I sound.)
13. I love reading.  There is just something about getting lost in a good book.
14. I met my now husband when I was a sophomore in high school.  We started dating right before our senior year and have been together ever since (let's just ignore that three week period we were broken up in college).
15. I work hard everyday to be just a little bit better of a person than I was the day before.

So there you have it, day one of the challenge is complete!

Thirty Before Thirty

In just a little over three years, I will be... 30 years old.  Boy is that hard to type.  Or even think about for that matter.  I remember when I was younger and thinking 30 was old (I know, I know, cliche).  Of course now that I'm knock, knock, knocking at 30 years old, I think that's not that old.  Except that I kinda do.  I thought that by the time I was 30, I would be married and have a child.  Actually 2.  Actually I wanted to be done, having children.  Oh boy, what was I thinking?  In truth, I have a husband, but no babies yet.  Nature is making that a bit more difficult than it should be.  So in looking at my goals and realizing I might not make it, I decided to re-write some goals.  Thus the 30 Before 30 Project.  It's pretty easy.  30 things I wish to accomplish before October 25, 2013.  In order to make myself accountable - I'm putting my list out there for all the world to see:

1. Make a full dinner - all components, no help (yes, in my three years of being a wife, I have not made a total dinner by myself.  This is the Undomestic Goddess, remember??)
2. Start and maintain a blog.  (Clearly I have started, but the goal is to keep it going)
3. Travel to Washington D.C.
4. Travel to New York City again.
5. Teach a full year of PREP
6. Go to a fertility specialist.
7. Finish our basement.
8. Get a new job.
9. Got to Gatlinburg on a family trip.
10. Buy a really expensive purse (by really expensive I mean over $200 - that's expensive to me)
11. Organize the entire house
12. Read a "classic" novel I didn't read in high school.
13. Research adoption options.
14. Get another dog.
15. Keep and maintain a coupon system.
16. Payoff both credit cards.
17. Visit the Florida Panhandle again.
18. Get my wisdom teeth pulled (yeah still haven't done that).
19. Refinish our bedroom furniture.
20. Make and meet a blog friend (won't you be my friend??)
21. Have a specialty party at my house.
22. Walk three nights a week for a month.
23. Clean and dust every Saturday for a month.
24. Make my bed everyday for a month.
25. Pack lunch everyday for a month.
26. Go to the doctor for a physical.
27. Start and maintain a Flickr account.
28. Start and maintain a journal full of thoughts, quotes, etc.
29. Vote in the next presidential election.
30.  Read two books a month for a year.

So that's the list!  There are some things on there that will hopefully help to domesticate me a bit more.  There are things that I hope will make me a better person. There are things that can be done in conjunction with one another.  There are things that will cost lots' o money.

But I'm willing to give it all a shot and I'm planning on documenting my progress here.

What are your 30 before 30?