I Hate Flowers

They're pointless

They die

They're not that pretty

They're expensive

.....and I'm getting married, meaning I'm forced to buy flowers

Blaargh!!!

I had my first meeting with a florist this Tuesday and I felt like I didn't make sense to her:

"I don't know the names of most flowers"

"I don't really like flowers"

"I loathe roses"

"That flower's very 'petal heavy', I'm not into that'"

"These look too.... flowery"

"Too big"

"Don't get anything out of season - I don't care enough about that"

"If it's expensive, I don't want it"

"Don't make it look so perfect - I don't do perfect"

I know that makes me sound incredibly picky and kind of a pain - like the opposite end of the spectrum from picky brides who know a ton about flowers probably - awesome :(

Here's a non-annoying flower that I guess I enjoy:

Baby's Breath is small, not offensive, white but mostly green and looks like 

it could grow in the woods [which is why roses suck, cause they can't!]

Ending the meeting with a "This will end up being about $1,000" left me thinking

[after throwing up from shock]:

"I can do this myself - and for cheapies"

I'm not going to do anything out of character for this wedding - it's mine and Doug's

It should look like us..... flowers don't look like me at all, and probably not Doug either

I don't want to spend a majority of our budget on something I don't like - 

cause it should all be going towards the food :)

So get ready to be a guest at my wedding with NOT that many flowers

also feel free to leave with a handful cause God knows I'll ask the clean up crew to 

kindly throw them in the trash afterwards.....

Dear Birthday Gods and/or Santa,

For said dog....

[i'm from Chicago - this is allowed]

[should say "Lu" on the name and "13" for the number :)]

[in no particular order - unless I can only have one..... in which case: DOG!!]

Get It Together POSSUMS!!!

I had not one - but THREE close calls with possums on the road tonight

People say they're kinda cute.... are they???

The second one was the worst:

He did that stupid possum thing where he just stood there staring at my car coming towards him

then at the last second he BOLTED towards my front wheel like a moron....

Finally he realized how stupid that idea was, turned around and ran into the forest

While I'm busy looking for possums to kill - Doug is mingling 

with the rich and famous of St. Louis at a Gala [ooooooo :P] in Nordstroms

Let's hope his night's going better than mine :)

[speaking about getting it together - how 'bout them Sox? ........... :( ]

Look What I Found!

OLD-ish PICTURES! YAY!!!

These are from Doug and I's two year this year - or at least the celebration of it

[cause as some of you know I was in Boston on that particular day

so I took myself out to the North End for some smashing Italian food -

three courses.... I had a Groupon :P]

When I came back to Stl we set aside a night to celebrate US :)

So we got snazzy, Cheesecake Factoried it up and Doug got me this present

He gave it to me under the strict stipulation that I pick any cupcake I wanted
and we'd go out, get the ingredients and bake them that night!

Husband-In-Training did GOOD - I love him :)

Also how good did we do?!?! 

Compare:

Aaaaand:

[apparently this picture wanted to be in High-Def]

It was a wicked fun night - playing music - baking with my betrothed ;P ha

At the end we were left with a pound of oreo crumbs that we did NOT 

know what to do with - so GeniusDoug made shakes

Yum...

Yum....

YUMMM!!!!

We ended the night watching Sophia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette"

for wedding research - he's gottu know the feel I'm going for - you know?

If you couldn't tell ---> this was one of the funnest nights of my summer........

That is sooo like Doug - being all awesome and thoughtful, sheesh

I love finding old images!

[sorry for the quality of the photos - the camera's from Australia.... 'nuff said ;)]

[oooo i'm so getting beat up for that!]

Crazy Cute!

I just can't get over this song tonight - it's so fun!

Lucia "Early" Rooker

That's right - Early is my middle name

....at least it was this morning

.....and by total fluke accident

I woke up with no alarm

sat in my bed writing up some stuff for homework

looked at the clock reading "10:20"

SHOOT!!!

in fear of being late for church I got dressed and did my hair in a mad rush

only to double check the start time and it is in fact 10:45

[cause we college students suck at waking up any earlier]

So at 10:32 I was not late but READY for church

chilled for a little in my room with music

Then strolled over to chapel in the rain to sit and see 
what hymns we'd be singing today

[good ones :)]

[since there's no exciting picture to go with this 
[are they ever really actually exciting???]
 and i've already changed out of my church clothes and
began eating my delicious nutritious breakfast.... 

I'll make this post look kinda like my shirt I wore today...kinda]

Turning This Frown Upside Down

Lucia needs to make a gratitude list....

Why? You may ask?

Because I'm sitting in my room on Saturday with no car and I just texted Doug this:

"BOOOOORED!!!"

Not cool, me, not cool :/

I'm gonnu write down what I'm grateful for so I can see how much it is:

[also listen to this]

- Going to college

- to go off that --> almost being DONE with college

- Having a single

- Getting the chance to change my academic/capstone advisor

- Which in turn allows me to change my capstone topic [getting excited!]

- Being able to study the subject that I love and adore so much: Art History

- All the help that I've received financially either from Mum, or grants and loans,
in order to go to school

- Spending the summer in Boston - my second home [1st is Doug :)]

- Meeting Doug

- How our parents seemed to raise us to be completely perfect for each other
[i hope readers don't totally yak from that!]

- That Doug admitted to loving me more even after a fight [wowza, right?!]

- Discovering how amazing grilled cheeses can be by using
provolone cheese and sourdough bread

- How cupcake shops became all the rage a few years ago

- Milk [yep, thats it]

- My racquetball gym class at 9am.... its actually really fun

- My majorly hardcore, sweat-inducing, advanced-feeling circuit training
gym class at 8am [thats right - two gyms a day in one quarter -
thank you graduation requirements???]
- Art
- Cute, funny things Doug does when we're just hangin' out
making me smile about them for days, even weeks, after :)

- Color
- How good Doug looks in a suit [insert whatever "sexy noise"
 you want here --> it can be a whistle, cat call, purr noise,
spanish tongue rolly thing, anything]

- Movies

- J.Crew

- My newly discovered twisty, easy, no-straightening-required hairstyle

- My school's C-store [convenience store] thats open from 12pm to 2am -
my persistent missing of meal times makes this place a lifesaver

- Tortilla Jack Chicken night at school - this last one Doug came for a visit
it's that good

- Luna Bars

- NOT throwing up during circuit training

- Collages

- String Cheese

- The dvd's Natalie left me when she moved to Australia

- .... Natalie moving back to the states after our wedding [I gottu have her back!]

- Our Wedding :) [coming soon]

- Getting better at saying scary words like: Marriage, Engaged,
Wedding, Children, Babies, etc

- Doug being a wonderful fiance and taking care of a lot of wedding stuff
while I'm hitting the books

- My Mum

- Doug's Mum

- Doug's funny Dad

- All of my Dad that's left in me

- My beautiful sisters

- My awesome future brother-in-law

- The Red Sox winning the 2011 World Series [its gonna happen]
- The knowledge that I could benefit from GAINING weight in order to
fit better in my wedding dress, making me the ONLY future bride in the
WORLD who can say that
- With that being said --> animal crackers and chocolate frosting

- Finding that little book in a little shop in Maine titled something like
"Everything a Father Should Teach his Daughter", and seeing that
my Dad had done ALL of those things - years and years
before the copyright year :)

- Snail Mail

- Dates with Doug

- Knowing I get to date Doug, my best friend in the whole wide world
for the rest of my life :)

...... I think you get the picture..... I could go on forever! I feel a lot better about my day, I think I'll continue working on my capstone - but this time it'll be with a smile on my face rather than a 4-year-old-esque pout

PS: Engagement Photo Sesh happening next weekend - get ready to see!!

So I'm sitting in my room all day....

Doing homework

being boring

I decide to go to the pub to change up the atmosphere - lo and behold the atmosphere is that of a sleezy club..... playing music like this:

It was not conducive to paper writing - I was hoping more for something cafe-ey like this:

So after about 15 minutes I left

visited the library [cause thats the kind of cool stuff you do as a college student....]

continued writing my paper in our dorm living room

was politely kicked out for a meeting

went to my RC's apartment for some much needed "dog time"

...."dog time" turned into "dog hour"

So I came up to my room to continue doing homework

Until I started looking at wedding stuff

and then was distracted by pictures of tree houses...... I mean come on!!

{source}

ahhh, and now I'm writing a post about how distracted I've let myself get tonight - whatever my priorities are - I have no idea of their existence..... 

I may be close with the whole tree houses thing though

...... I gotta get me one of those

Sooooo about August.....

"A month passed - winter changed into spring, spring changed into summer, summer changed back into winter, and winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight on into autumn....."

Thanks to the words of Monty Python - that is essentially what I did to the month of August

I "gave it a miss" - apologies readers - you did miss a bunch-a-dates :).... which led Doug and I to have a serious discussion about our very real "poor-kid" status and decided to take it easy on the essssspensive datey-dates.... from now on its just Taco Bell and the fumes of DQ as we drive by - scratch that, walk by - we're trying to save money here!!

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Lucia - college student fiancee - is back at college... and it is busSAY to say the least, no one is really taking this whole switch into semester schedule thing very well - teachers and students alike [freshman don't count... they don't start counting until week 7 of Spring quart.... semester, argghhh!!!]

Doug - worker-man fiance - has begun his new job - selling fancy clothes to fancy people at fancy Nordstroms. I'm kinda stoked to see this new version of Doug that includes a measuring tape draped effortlessly over his button-down shirted shoulders......mmm, mmhmmm :)

Pictures hopefully to follow.... unless we keep sucking like this:

[ps: i DID use the enhance button - this is actually an improvement....]