I got a Dress! (Finally)

Super yeay! I found a dress... its the wrong size I have never tried it on and I am not quite sure what the back looks like but its mine!

I saw a dress on ebay and jumped on it.  I can't really go into too much detail about what it looks like because my fiance is reading this but as far as i could tell in the picture it has all the elements I am looking for.

The best part is that with shipping and handling the dress only cost $63 so even if I hate it I am sure I can go to a consignment shop or just back on ebay and sell it for a small profit.

Truth be told this is the second wedding dress I bought off of ebay and much like this one I don't know what the other one will look like.

I am almost certain that both dresses are the wrong size but I can have it tailored so that it is a corset back and then i can lose and gain (please god no more gaining weight... blog post coming soon about that) weight.

I WANT BABIES!

 

So yeah my internal womanly clock is tick tick ticking away and loudly these days. I want a baby. I know I am not ready yet financially and Curtis and I aren't even married yes (and I will definitely wait at least till we are married) but damn I am so tired of reading about other people getting pregnant and having babies. Okay so maybe I am not sick of it I am just incredibly envious. I want a little bundle of joy all to myself. I know I say that now and its probably going to stress me out more than anything ever has in my whole life but deep down I feel soooo ready for it!

I don't really think Curtis is in the same boat as me when it comes to that though. He wants to finish school first which is going to take a couple of more years (and yes it makes perfect sense for him to finish up before we have a baby). *sigh* 

I think I am just going to post something on facebook to let me see if I can watch someone's kids for a day and maybe that will sway me from wanting them so bad. OR I could just go hang out in the middle of Wal-mart for an hour and I am pretty sure from watching other people's kids my eggs will shrivel up and die.

 

1 Carat princess cut Diamond Engagement Ring

(yes that is actually my ring)

So first let me just say YEAY someone finally noticed my ring without me having to say, oh look I'm engaged. I know that is probably petty but damn it I'm in love and I'm going to marry the man of my dreams and everybody better freaking notice the fat rock he put on my finger! - that is all...

 

Money - Dentist

So Curtis is not getting as much money back from his loans as I originally thought.

I asked him the other day if he would mind for us not to get married just yet and pay for his teeth out of pocket. I told him I understand that if getting married is the only way we can fix his teeth that I would understand but I really would like a wedding. So right now we are still not getting married and we are trying to come up with around $6,500 to pay for his teeth. Now I think we are well withing our means to be able to do this its just a matter of how much of it do we want to try and finance and through what company.

I think he should go to our bank at Suntrust and see if he can get a decent sized credit card there that has free interest for like the next 12 months so we can pay the whole thing off before interest hits. Right now he has one card but the limit is a whopping $500 (it actually might be less). My big concern is that he won't be able to get a bigger card because of how little he makes every year. I'm worried the credit card company will not consider his loans as a part of his income. I guess we'll just have to wait and see on that one.


The Dentist also gave us the option of having everything with his teeth fixed in one big swoop and wanted to know if we wanted sedation dentistry. I think its a good idea but then we have to pay up front two weeks in advance, and fill out paper work. Another option is that we just give him nitrous but I am sooo worried about all the pain he is going to be in.


We are going to talk about how all to pay for this, one way or another his is going to get it done even if it means paying out more from my own pocket. What I am really hoping is that they give him a good credit card so he can start building credit, pay it off month by month till is next line of student loans come in, pay of the remainder with the student loans and poof we will not have to worry about the card. The only thing at that point we will have to worry about is how we are going to pay for the rest of his school if he does run out of loans over the next year.

Selling Clothes , Transformers, and dealing with Taxes

So the girl who is banging my ex-fiance and is married but in an open marriage came over tonight to go through my closet and see if she wanted to buy any clothes. Granted I did invite her over myself so I shouldn't be too upset but the whole things still felt weird to me. I don't know if she knows that I know about her and Geoff's relationship or not, but whatever. I sold all the clothes at a very low and reasonable price. She only gave me $30 and still owes me another $125 but I know where she lives so I am not too worried about it.

My sales on eBay are doing great I am jut worried because now I can't seem to find the paper with the code on it for the amazon gift card. Curtis is at GameStop working right now so I don't want to bug him. He has been selling Transformers online right now and so far he has sold 3 but all for a very good price. I bought another ring set off of EBay which I am going to see if I can pawn for more then what I paid for it and see if I can sell Geoff's ring while I am at it.

In a strange way I wonder if Geoff is actually who is going to be paying for the clothes and he is just having Nici pick them up, but to be honest I don't think Nici is all that clever. 

No matter what we have a way of income headed towards us.

 I did my taxes today too and oh my god that turned out terrible. I thought I was going to get a ton of money back but it ended up that I only got back $520 bucks. Thank god Curtis got back over $2,000 which is all going towards the wedding which at the rate we are going is actually going to be paid for. I just need to make sure I can keep up the selling and saving and everything else.

Tonight we are supposed to be going to party, I'm not really in the mood but its free and it means we get to go out without spending a bunch of cash. I just want to sleep and not really deal with things but I know right now its not an option.

I just hope we can keep rolling the money in like we have been.

Sweet Thoughtfullness

So yesterday after an absolute nightmare of a day (read blog below this one) I come home do my usual searches online, see how my ebay sales are going, and wait for Curtis to come home from work. He is usually home by 9:30pm sometimes a little later depending on what all has to get done in the store. So I make a quick dinner for the two of us and wait patiently.

When he finally does come home all it takes is one look at his face and I know the day has been just as hard on him as it was for me. I do my usual routine of how was your day yadda yadda and I ask him if he had time to stop by his step-fathers. The reason I ask this is because his step dad is a jeweler and we found a one carat princess cut very clean diamond at his shop, the best part though is that he is selling it to us for ONLY $1,000 which when it comes to diamonds of that quality it is hard to get. My only concern with the ring is that the band is very thin and I worry about damaging it. We have looked at other bands and different settings and there is one setting I absolutely adore but it has more diamonds to it and it means its going to cost more money. So no matter what though I am going to LOVE that ring!

Okay okay so I ask him if he stopped by his step dad's because he needed to tell him to hold the ring for us and me being me I was very scared someone else might pick it up before we got it and he refused to leave a message with his step dad's mother-in-law. So he goes to tell me that YES he did stop by and not only that but he also put a down payment of $100 on the ring. Now at this point I am like HUH?!?!? Where did you get that money?!?!? (I know every dime that comes in and goes out of our house so it go me worried a little). Well he goes on to tell he sold the wedding bands from his prior marriage (which ended 4 and a half years ago).

I was in absolute shock, we are talking mouth open wide. I at no point asked him to get rid of the rings and I know it meant a lot to him to still have it. He actually made those bands himself when he was working with his step dad in the jewelry shop. I asked him why he did it and he said it was time to let go. I told him he didn't have to do that and he said, yes, I did. At this point I had tears in my eyes because yet again he proved to me how much I mean to him and how much he wants our life together to progress.

I am so lucky to have found a man like him. I have to keep in mind every day that no matter what struggles we are going to face in the future and I have no doubt that there will be plenty, we will get through it together.

I still can't believe he actually gave up the rings. I do have to admit it made me very happy in a sort of selfish way but he came to the decision on his own and that's what really makes the act so meaningful to me.