Happy New Year!!!
holy cow its been a long time. So much has happened that I don't know where to start. Lets start with today I suppose. Today was a good day, Jessica and I spent time together after work. She is about ready to pop (have her baby), its so exciting. We had lunch and got caught up on our lives (mostly hers) and saw a movie. I love chick flicks. They make me all gooey inside and remind me how lucky I am to have found my one true love. That feeling will never get old. I love it. Its that warm, cozy feeling where my heart just swells up with joy. Yeah Yeah, call me a dork. I can't help it. Love is such a fantastic feeling. And not just any love, I can't fully explain it but Tony just, completes me. I'm happy. I can't imagine my life without him. We have an amazing friendship, this wonderful foundation that we've built onto. Our love is strong and beautiful. Oh, did I forget to mention we're getting married!! He proposed on December 3rd. It was perfect. We went to the Dearborn Inn for dinner. We ordered wine, for the first time at a restaurant. He had been planning this evening for a couple weeks (almost). We planned on doing a few things at Greenfield Village and then having a nice dinner. Unfortunately I had to get a new car and I didn't want him spending extra money on dinner but he insisted. Dinner was really nice. The food was delicious. He had this goofy look on his face all night. I can't describe it except to say it looked like he wanted to tell me something. We play that game of asking each other what the other is thinking a lot so I said "what?" He responds with, "ask me 10 minutes after dinner." First of all, like I'm gonna remember after dinner that he had a goofy look on his face earlier =) Just after we finished eating he put his hand on mine and looked me in the eyes. He said he couldn't wait any longer. He said, "Amanda, I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will You Marry Me?" Ahhhh!!! of course I'm crying. I never thought I'd be so much in love, I never thought I would find that person who was just right for me. I never thought I'd ever truly be happy. And I certainly never knew that I would find all of that in one person, Tony. We are planning for May 2007, an exact date has not been set, we will wait until we find a church and reception site and make sure we can get them on the same day and such. I know it sounds like a long time but its really not. May is a popular time of year to get married and places book at least a year in advance for that. Its so exciting. The ring is absolutely gorgeous!!
I can't remember the last time I updated so just in case it has been a really really long time we'll jump back to end of July.
1) Tony bought a house in Dearborn. We painted all the rooms ourselves in the middle of the summer with no air conditioning. It was horrible. But it turned out great. We moved in the first weekend of August and had a house warming/labor day party in September. Its an adorable starter home, perfect for the two of us.
2) My car turned to crap and I got a new one (used). Sure does suck having a car payment and higher insurance but it is time to start rebuilding my credit.
3) I finally took the GRE. It wasn't too bad. Once I get all of my scores I'll call UDM to find out how much the GRE weighs on their admission decision and see how my scores compare. They weren't fantastic by any means. I'm terrible at those stupid standardized tests and this test in particular pissed me off. I mean who does ETS think they are charging $115 for a stupid ass test that has nothing to do with what you learned in college. Why should a grad school care about how well I can figure out the area of a circle or do sentence completions. Seriously. The quantitative section is all 8th, 9th and 10th grade math. If grad schools are so concerned about my geometry scores, ask for my damn high school transcripts. And the verbal. What a joke. There are 4 sections. Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence completions and Reading Comprehension. Okay, I forget was it 2nd or 3rd grade that we started reading paragraphs and answering questions about what it said? And sentence completions, come on. What pissed me off the most were those outrageous words from like Aristotle's dictionary of giving someone a headache. Who in the world learns those words in college. This is not a test about what you learned in college or how well you'll do in grad school. I'm not going to practice geometry or antonyms in graduate school. This test is about how much time some yuppy student wants to put into a test that makes them look smart. I know, you're thinking, "well if its so trivial then you must have done great." Wrong! Now, don't get me wrong. I studied, I bought the stupid princeton review book and a set of flash cards and studied over a period of about 6 weeks. I had my ups and downs, some good weeks, some not so good weeks. I could have studied a hell of a lot more. I could have not slept and been an even bigger bitch at work. But I just didn't see the point. The essays were harder than anticipated because I've had this increasingly negatively sarcastic attitude towards everything lately and my practice essays were more of bitch sessions than anything. I had to hold back and try and be smart for these essays. And I'm a terrible writer. I have no organization whatsoever. Hard to believe seeing as how my closet is color coordinated and coordinated by type of shirt (sweatshirt, sweater, long sleeve, short sleeve, tank top) within each color, but I can't organize a paper worth shit. So I tried my very best. I like to believe I can put up a good argument in a paper, so we'll see. Anyways the test is over. Hopefully it will be good enough to get me into UDM. I want to go there more than anything. And if I have to retake the stupid test and learn a crap load of big words for a few days than I will. This program is the one I want.
Well, I'm sick of typing. I had thought about looking at my book and trying to organize that a bit and maybe write some more, but not tonight. I have years to complete that thing. Well, good night all. I love you Tony!! And Jess, you'll be a great mom!! You're already a terrific sister and doing a great job taking care of Katie. She'll be thankful for that someday, don't give up. I love you babe!!
I can't remember the last time I updated so just in case it has been a really really long time we'll jump back to end of July.
1) Tony bought a house in Dearborn. We painted all the rooms ourselves in the middle of the summer with no air conditioning. It was horrible. But it turned out great. We moved in the first weekend of August and had a house warming/labor day party in September. Its an adorable starter home, perfect for the two of us.
2) My car turned to crap and I got a new one (used). Sure does suck having a car payment and higher insurance but it is time to start rebuilding my credit.
3) I finally took the GRE. It wasn't too bad. Once I get all of my scores I'll call UDM to find out how much the GRE weighs on their admission decision and see how my scores compare. They weren't fantastic by any means. I'm terrible at those stupid standardized tests and this test in particular pissed me off. I mean who does ETS think they are charging $115 for a stupid ass test that has nothing to do with what you learned in college. Why should a grad school care about how well I can figure out the area of a circle or do sentence completions. Seriously. The quantitative section is all 8th, 9th and 10th grade math. If grad schools are so concerned about my geometry scores, ask for my damn high school transcripts. And the verbal. What a joke. There are 4 sections. Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence completions and Reading Comprehension. Okay, I forget was it 2nd or 3rd grade that we started reading paragraphs and answering questions about what it said? And sentence completions, come on. What pissed me off the most were those outrageous words from like Aristotle's dictionary of giving someone a headache. Who in the world learns those words in college. This is not a test about what you learned in college or how well you'll do in grad school. I'm not going to practice geometry or antonyms in graduate school. This test is about how much time some yuppy student wants to put into a test that makes them look smart. I know, you're thinking, "well if its so trivial then you must have done great." Wrong! Now, don't get me wrong. I studied, I bought the stupid princeton review book and a set of flash cards and studied over a period of about 6 weeks. I had my ups and downs, some good weeks, some not so good weeks. I could have studied a hell of a lot more. I could have not slept and been an even bigger bitch at work. But I just didn't see the point. The essays were harder than anticipated because I've had this increasingly negatively sarcastic attitude towards everything lately and my practice essays were more of bitch sessions than anything. I had to hold back and try and be smart for these essays. And I'm a terrible writer. I have no organization whatsoever. Hard to believe seeing as how my closet is color coordinated and coordinated by type of shirt (sweatshirt, sweater, long sleeve, short sleeve, tank top) within each color, but I can't organize a paper worth shit. So I tried my very best. I like to believe I can put up a good argument in a paper, so we'll see. Anyways the test is over. Hopefully it will be good enough to get me into UDM. I want to go there more than anything. And if I have to retake the stupid test and learn a crap load of big words for a few days than I will. This program is the one I want.
Well, I'm sick of typing. I had thought about looking at my book and trying to organize that a bit and maybe write some more, but not tonight. I have years to complete that thing. Well, good night all. I love you Tony!! And Jess, you'll be a great mom!! You're already a terrific sister and doing a great job taking care of Katie. She'll be thankful for that someday, don't give up. I love you babe!!