Can my hubcaps PLEASE stop flying off my car!  This is the second hubcap I have lost this month!  I am so close to just ripping all four of them --excuse me:  all TWO of them-- off and calling it a "fashion statement."  Stupid hubcaps!!!  I can't afford to keep replacing you!!!

Homeownership = awesome!

Well, our apartment is now officially gorgeous!  After four looooooong days of taping, painting, and putting it all back together, we have a lot to show for it.  Unfortunately, i didn't have my camera with me, so no pictures were taken.  hopefully we will be back in there some time this week when the people from Lowe's come to install the new wood floors and carpet.  

Here are the things Matt and I learned from the whole experience:

1.  Be patient:  Those faux wood blinds will stay on the wall....eventually.

2.  Drink lots of fluids:  Dehydration can strike when you least expect it.  Also, you are quite worthless to the team that way.

3.  Shop hard for a bargain:  There are amazing deals to be had at Lowe's if only you play your cards right.  Also, bring a lot of confusing price checks to the register and then throw in a 10% off coupon half way through the purchase.  Insane savings!

Pictures next week!  Now I am off to a friend's wedding!

Wallpaper is hung by Satan...

Exciting news:  Matt and I got the keys to the condo earlier than we thought.  We got the call around 3:00 on Thursday that the tenants had moved out and it was ready for us to move in.  So, by 3:30 we were on the road and headed to Starkville to see the place.  We stayed up all night cleaning cabinets and bathrooms; patching nail holes in the wall (and the previous owner was like "Oooo-we!  I love poking me some holes in the walls!"); wiping down walls and baseboards; and tearing down wallpaper.  

And let me tell you a thing or two about wallpaper:  First of all, whoever thought wallpaper was ever a good idea for home decor can go take a long walk off a short pier.  The wallpaper in the kitchen was heinous AND it covered all four walls in the kitchen!  We planned to take it all down and paint the kitchen a bright spring green color.  And everyone we talked to was like "Oh, its easy--should come down in SHEETS!"  I call those people liars.  That wallpaper came down in tiny, tiny pieces.  We used wallpaper remover, hot water, and brute force.  It was miserable.  There was a lot of spackling to be done afterwards in the places where we took our aggressions out on the wall.  We still have about a foot wide boarder around the top of the two walls, where they didn't prime underneath and it's welded to the sheet rock.  (...Excellent...)

Tomorrow we get to go back and paint, which is the fun part.  So I will be sure to post some before-and-after shots at the end of the week!

SOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOT!

 So, today was my day for bridal portraits, and being the silly naive bride that I am, I arranged to have my pictures taken outside....in the middle of June...at 3:00 in the afternoon for the "best lighting."  We were in front of Reunion subdivision--the big white antebellum home off 463?  The other portraits that I saw from there were just so breathtaking and so....Southern.  With the lush green landscaping and the massive white columns, who else has this advantage if they don't live in the South?  Anyways, given all my options, it was the one thing I was set on:  I wanted outdoor portraits.  So I had my hair done in a very classic up-do; I wore the pearls Matt gave me; Stacey made me a very elegant white and green bouquet.  I was set.  But, seriously, ten minutes into taking those pictures, I felt like I was going to faint!  I was posing one minute and the next thing I know, my vision is going in and out, blackness was creeping in around the edges, and there were two moms next to me swaying back and forth in the wind.  Scary!  I have NEVER passed out or gotten a weak stomach or anything.  

So now this just confirms my biggest fear:  I totally might pass out on the alter!  EEEK!!!

Problem?

Our first wedding-related problem:  So apparently sometime between last August when the Save-The-Dates went out and today, the Marriot's 1-800 number has been re-routed to the New Orleans central office.  So this means that if people call now to book hotel reservations, they have to specify that they are booking for the Harkins-Williams wedding in JACKSON.  Or else, they get registered in New Orleans.  

This is only a slight problem, now that we have done damage control and contacted most of our out of town guests who might have hotel reservations.

This was a much BIGGER problem this morning when one of our family's friends called me to say that they tried to book their reservations for the wedding and the receptionist's response was "What??....The Harkins-Williams wedding???...no one is booked here under that name!!!  We don't even have an event scheduled for that weekend."

Heart-Attack!  Heart-Attack!  Heart-Attack!

American Justice

You know what I love?  Watching American Justice marathons on A&E.  And the reason is simple:  I love America, and I love Justice.  Also, I love Bill Curtis, who hosts the show in his spooky man-voice.  He could say, "I ate a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich..."  and it would make me shiver.  Other note-worthy shows are Cold Case and City Confidential.  The only thing I don't appreciate:  the episodes that they show at 10 a.m. are the same as those they show at 4 p.m.  Please don't tease me, A&E!!