My New Life: No Complaining Here

March 27, 2013 By jjraney Leave a Comment

As if I needed to get a life? {I don’t know, that sounded better in my head}. Anyways, as I fail on the opening line of today’s blog post… I’ve been playing ‘house wife’ all morning. It is crazy how a year has changed things and my perspective. Things that I would think, “Yeah, right! I won’t be settling down like that again”. And now, “I can’t wait for my husband to get home”. HA! Crazy still to me too! ”My husband” :).

The problem: I can’t seem to do it all. I know, it happens to the best of us. I want so badly to wrap up these big projects from work, write my business plan, do my taxes, start home projects {like clean out the basement and reorganize so I can get all the awesome gifts from the wedding put away}, keep up on the house/ laundry and do all the above before B comes home so I can cook dinner. Every time I set out to accomplish the above something takes longer than I expect and I get frustrated for not being able to cross off all my ‘to do’s’.

Does anyone else feel this? Or is this the ‘adjustment period’ I keep hearing about? I’m thankful that my husband is willing to help out. That truly helps. Ultimately this is not a blog to rant, just a minor confession of how reality is setting in. And at the end of the day this new life out in PA is a pretty sweet deal… the job, the house, and the dog ;). I’m so proud of my husband for what he has accomplished. {WARNING: CHEESY COMMENT COMING} I’m in awe of him, pretty much every day, for who he is, what he has done and what he is doing.

Ok, enough mushy stuff. Time to work! Later gators :)

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Post Wedding Details

March 7, 2013 By jjraney Leave a Comment

Yup!! We made it! Brian and I were married Saturday, March 2nd at 5pm. The ceremony rocked! The pictures that were posted as of now are great!! I can not wait to share them with you!

Here is a preview… bjwedding3

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More to come and more to the new life of this married woman! :)

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2013 :: Best Year Ever in the Making

January 1, 2013 By jjraney Leave a Comment

Don’t get me wrong, 2012 was great. Really, REALLY, REALLY great!

So lets recap shall we?

1. I started a new job after being with a nonprofit for over 5 years.

2. I adopted the best fur baby ever… Hank.

3. I met my future Husband.

4. I quit the job from #1 and went full time in my business

5. Vacationed to the Outer banks

6. Visited Washington D.C.

7. Was proposed to

8. I adopted the second best fur baby ever… Addison

9. Found my second home in Pennsylvania (because the Hoosier state will always be #1)

10. Celebrated New Year’s for the first time with my Luv and the last time as a single woman :)

… ok #10 was a little cheesy but wanted to round it out to a full ten…

Seriously 2012 was fabulous! A lot of great things happened. A lot of lessons learned {some harder than others} and a lot of memories made. As I look at the New Year I can’t help but to feel like a little kid at Christmas. I’m getting married :) . I work for myself! A new home! And a new family!

2013 was kicked off just right! At home, with lots of food and a marathon of Friday Night Lights. Have you seen this show?!? Seriously can’t believe I missed out on this tv drama when it was on air. LOVE IT! {Clear eyes :: Full heart :: Can’t lose}.

Oh and can’t forget it was spent with our fur babies…

Until tomorrow… hope you had a FABULOUS New Years ;)

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Christmas :: Countdown :: Penn State?

December 1, 2012 By jjraney Leave a Comment

Sheesh… once again I’ve fallen off the blogging bandwagon! I follow several awesome bloggers and I’m amazed how they keep up with posting everyday?! And they even seem like they have pretty awesome lives… so why can’t I keep up with it? Let’s Count the ways (ok these sound like excuses… I get it…)

1. Christmas!! I can’t remember the last time I was excited to decorate. I spent an entire day putting up the tree, setting Santa’s out and putting lights on anything and everything I could twist them around :) .

While on the topic I got these lovely little ornaments in the mail from Jenn over at Squishy Cheeks and Cupcakes. Not only does she rock for having my name but seriously anyone with “cupcakes” in their title has to be awesome! Thanks Jenn for the ornaments. :)

2. Countdown… 91 days…. about to be 90 in t-minus 13 minutes…. Need I say more?

3. Visited Penn State for my first Division 1 football game. It was their Senior night and what a game it was! It was absolutely FREEZING but so worth it!

4. Work work work. Seriously how do these other bloggers do it? Over at Living in Yellow, Erin just launched a consulting add-on to her site…. I might have to check into that since she totally rocks the bloggin’ community.

That’s it for now! Night ya’ll! :)

Jen

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The “B” word

November 15, 2012 By jjraney 1 Comment

Seriously? Get your head outta the gutter! Not what you think it is but the other nasty B word…

Budget.

Boooooo. (that also begins in B).

Budgets are no fun. They are absolutely necessary but they are no fun. Budgets are not sexy and they require work. So once again let’s all say “BOO” together.. “BOOOOO“.

I’ve currently been updating our wedding budget. When doing a wedding budget try to ball park HIGH. Do some research and get estimates. Estimates are just that … estimates. So they might change. Be ready to be flexible! Our wedding is on the lines of “DIY” kinda style so we are trying to SHATTER our budget and come in WAY under. {Obviously, you will have to check back post March 2nd to see those results…}. Another pointer, try to list EVERYTHING. I like to scan www.theknot.com and the weddingwire.com for ideas of what to include. These sites are amazing for any bride! But… if you are like me and need to just keep it simple (MUAH, get it?) Then excel is the way to go. {Thank you B for pointing this out like a month ago, and then sweetly, but firmly reminding me that spreadsheets is the way to go… kisses…}

I created this pretty little spreadsheet here…

{Yes, these are the colors of the wedding.

Yes, I have no idea what that fluffy thing is under my dress is called,

so it will remain in the budget as the “fluffy thing”}

As you can see I’m adopting the KISS {keep it simple stupid} method to not only my business but my wedding planning.

As far as this week goes… where did this week go? I’ve thought it was Thursday all day! Ha, it’s Wednesday! And guess what else? Had a fabulous day! 1:1 meetings, new clients and wrapping up old projects. Now if I could only get on a “routine” that would be the icing on this girl’s cake! Which by the way being just after midnight, cake sounds amazing! And coffee… So before I end this, I have to apologize since I didn’t get to send this to my proofer… he is currently sleeping… please don’t judge my beautiful use of grammar if I royally screwed it up. Ok? ok!

Goodnight! :)