Painting?

The past week has been interesting. I ended up having to spend an unexpected $140 on books and painting supplies, which basically broke my bank account for the month *gumble grumble* plus I have to worry about the new car payment next month.
But no worries, I've been trying much harder to be optomistic about things and really make the best of each day.

Brian and I have gotten a good amount done on wedding plans. It looks like we will be ordering our cake topper soon, and we aare seriously considering having the espresso/tea bar again. It seems like my dress is coming along nicely (hopefully) and I should have a fitting within the next 2 or 3 weeks. :-D I'm very excited about that. We also figured out our menu, which is basically considered an "Afternoon Tea" reception. So lots of tea sandwiches, tarts, fruit, etc. It's going to be cool :) And the Kocher's offered to help out in more ways than we could have possibly imagined! We are so excited about that. :-D Now I just need to start getting everything together, and put finishing touches on everything in a few months. I'm getting so excited :-) I'm also excited for our engagement pictures to be done within the next month.

Other than wedding plans, work and school have been good. I'm in a World Religion class, which is VERY interesting to me. It would deffinatly have to be to keep me awake, since I have it 3 times a week at 8am! But so far so good :) I've been enjoying my Advanced Visual Communications class, as usual; but what else would you expect with such a fun professor. Painting as been a little emotionally tough on me, only because I'm really reaching out and trying something new. I stepped WAY out of my comfort zone with that one. After my last class though, I really feel like it was a good choice to take it and expand my horizons. My professor is very encouraging, and really pushes me to strive for the best I can possibly do. That's what I love about college. Especially art in college; it's not how good it is compared to everyone else; it's for you---how far you can push yourself to become better. It's so challenging, which I've discovered over the past 3 years is what I really enjoy about life. I get sad when life is too boring, I love being pushed and challenged. Anyway, after the first class I felt like I could get a hang of the painting thing, but then after the third class, I felt like a complete failure. But the end of class on monday, I felt totally re-inspired, mostly thanks to my professor. :) You can see the transformation of my painting below. (It basically had to be an abstract piece which shows 9 different painting techniques.) Yes, this is all the same painting, just transformed over about a week. It goes from left to right (start--->finish).



I've been tired a whole lot for the past weekend too, not too sure what's going on with that. :-\ But other than that things are quite good. I've been spending a whole lot of quality time with my girls. Which has been fantastic. And Brian has been more than wonderful. :-} As much as I'm going to miss living with my lovely girls, I am SO excited to be Brian's wife. Even from as many horror stories as I've seen and heard about marriage, I just feel so lucky that he would want to spend his life with me.

Oh! Of Course! I've been watching a good number of movies over the past few days, and I feel like all of them were worth seeing. My favorites were Haunting in Connecticut, Bolt, and Marley and Me. Bolt was SO funny! I also watched Monsters vs. Aliens, which was decent by not fantastic. It was super predicatable...so I didn't feel it a whole lot. But Bolt was awesome! Loved it. Haunting in Connecticut was one of the best scarry movies I've seen in a while. And Marley and Me made me cry like a baby, because it was so good. Which rarely happens. I'm also in process of watching Yes Man, which started out good. We'll see if it keeps it's current rank. :)

That's all I've got currently, hope everyone is doing well!

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