Hello everyone! It's been a long time since an entry and that's because we've been very busy. We've been apt./house hunting for the past couple of weeks and it's slim pickens out there! We were so desperate to find something big enough and nice enough, we were considering moving out to East Brainerd (very far away from our little bubble). But last week on my way to the gym, I passed a For Rent sign and checked it out and it was absolutely perfect! It was a HOUSE number 1, and 2, it was in a great area and had all the amenities we wanted. So today, we signed the lease and move in Feb. 1st!!! It's all very exciting and happening so fast, I don't even want to think about all the work we have to do around here.
To tell you a little about the house since I have no pictures up yet, it's a 2 bedroom 1 bath blue house located in the Rivermont area of Chattanooga (between North Chatt. and Hixson). It's all hardwood floors except for the spare bedroom (we're using it for an office/guitar/gym room) which is carpeted. It has a huge wooden deck that covers the entire back of the house. Perfect for summer cookouts and you bet your ass I'm buying a giant baby pool and sunning it up all summer! The front yard is small, but big enough to plant some pretty flowers and the back yard is pretty big but in desperate need of landscaping. Any landscaping artists out there, PLEASE help me out because I have no expertise in that area. Directly below the deck, there's a pretty good size fenced in area that hopefully Dexter will stay some of the time. Sterling thinks he'll probably get out but it's such a perfect place for a dog to stay. We'll just have to see. Dexter and Ali (our pets) are in for a surprise because they've never lived together or met each other. But according to Sterling they'll be best friends so I guess we have nothing to worry about!
So needless to say we have our hands full but I am so excited to have my own house to decorate and to finally have people over. I love to entertain and with my 2 room apt., not much entertainment has gone on in the past 2 years. Speaking of entertainment, we're going to have a housewarming party as soon as we get things settled and we'll keep you up to date with the details. That's all for now - I'm off to pack!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Our anniversary night..
So Sterling and I celebrated our 1st anniversary last night and had a great time! Our anniversary is Jan. 3rd but we waited to the weekend to officially celebrate. We ate dinner at Canyon Grill on Lookout Mtn. and it was wonderful as usual. That is my favorite restaurant in Chattanooga and if you haven't ever been, I highly recommend it. I've never had a bad meal there and all of the food is fresh and such high quality. I like it up there because it's such a pretty drive there, I mean just the drive up there is a special occasion no matter why you're going to eat there, and it's casual so there's no fuss over what to wear and you can just relax and have some amazing food. Best part of all is it's BYOB with no corking fee! We opted for some Sammy Smith's as I'm still recovering from all the wine I drank over Christmas and New Years. Anyway it was so romantic and fabulous, I can't wait to go back!
We couldn't make our 815 movie in time, so we headed to Northshore to see our favorite bar tender Brian for a drink. It was nice as usual, not crowded. We went to see Juno at the Rave at 10pm and it was a very cute movie. It's kinda girly, but not too girly. Sterling enjoyed it, I think not as much as me though. I cried at the very end when she has the baby cuz I'm such a sucker!
Well that about sums up our anniversary. We came home and went to bed. But Sterling got me the most beautiful bouquet of red roses and a singing card! It was great, and that was the first time he got me flowers too and I just love flowers.
Well, I am now an official student at Covenant College. I got my student e-mail account today and lists of textbooks so it's on baby! This whole thing has really snuck up on me and it's hard to believe that I'm doing this but I'm really excited and glad to be finally finishing school. Well, that's all the time I have now bc my lunch break is ending up at work, but will write back soon!
We couldn't make our 815 movie in time, so we headed to Northshore to see our favorite bar tender Brian for a drink. It was nice as usual, not crowded. We went to see Juno at the Rave at 10pm and it was a very cute movie. It's kinda girly, but not too girly. Sterling enjoyed it, I think not as much as me though. I cried at the very end when she has the baby cuz I'm such a sucker!
Well that about sums up our anniversary. We came home and went to bed. But Sterling got me the most beautiful bouquet of red roses and a singing card! It was great, and that was the first time he got me flowers too and I just love flowers.
Well, I am now an official student at Covenant College. I got my student e-mail account today and lists of textbooks so it's on baby! This whole thing has really snuck up on me and it's hard to believe that I'm doing this but I'm really excited and glad to be finally finishing school. Well, that's all the time I have now bc my lunch break is ending up at work, but will write back soon!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Our first anniversary!
So yeah..this is my first blog. I'm new to this but bored at work and decided to write a blog. I was inspired and somewhat copied my friends on this site after checking theirs out and seeing how neato it looked. I'm creating this for me and my boyfriend, Sterling, on our one year anniversary. I don't know how much Sterling will actually contribute to it but we'll see.
We both unofficially live together in mine, or now our, apartment in downtown Chattanooga. It is way too small for the 2 of us and my cat so we will be getting a bigger place in August when my lease runs out. I'd like to stay downtown, or even in the same building but bigger apartment if we can afford it. There aren't too many affordable downtown apts. left in Chattanooga, this town has gone condo crazy, but I love the convenience and the scenery on my runs that downtown, the "north shore", and the museum district provide so I hope we can stay here come August. Sterling has a border collie named Dexter which will be joining us as well when we get a bigger place but my cat doesn't know about that yet. He is such a sweet dog, I can't wait for him to be a part of our little family and I've never had a dog before so it will be fun.
Sterling and I work a lot. I work part time at Memorial Hospital's pharmacy, part time at a restaurant, and I babysit for a family. Sterling is an intern in the IS dept. at Life Care Centers of America in Cleveland, TN and works there 4 days a week. I've been trying to get into Dental Hygiene school at Chatt State for forever now and finished all my pre reqs and have been pretty much just waiting to apply again come March. I actually have to take 1 more class for the hygiene program (starts in less than 2 weeks) that my advisor failed to mention to me until a couple of months ago. Sterling is also going to be at Chatt State next semester taking some gen eds he still needs to complete and then he will be transferring to UTC in the summer or fall if all goes according to plan. He will finish his major in Computer Science that he started on at GA Tech in ATL and possibly double major or minor in something businessey.
Being restless from no school, not wanting to put my life on hold for a year again, and feeling the pains of guilt from never finishing college, I applied to Covenant College's Quest Program (a degree finishing program that meets 1 night a week, 4 hours per night, for 18 months in downtown) and found out today that I got in! So I have further complicated my life but I am at least guaranteed to be in 1 program this year! I am going to move forward with it if my good ole dad will go along with the financial side of it and will start Feb. 5th. I work 2nd shift at the hospital so it will be interesting to try and work around my 2 night classes but I will hopefully be able to move to 1st shift, or find another 1st shift rx job somewheres else because needless to say, I am ready for a change ;)
So our lives are pretty busy with work and school but we find plenty of time to relax. We're pretty big homebodies and enjoy being at home together with Ali (our cat) watching tv and being nerds the most. We also love to go out to eat and to the movies. I don't care how expensive the movies are I will ALWAYS go to the movies in the theater. Sterling doesn't drink very much so needless to say my party girl days are over. That is totally cool with me and still find time to party with my crazy but awesome girlfriends. They always get me way too drunk! Sterling and I also love, love, love Atlanta, GA and we go on weekend getaways there often as well as other getaways as we can afford them. We would like to someday relocate to Atlanta through our jobs but we also love our home here in Chattanooga. I love traveling and hope to some day be able to travel the world. But for now it's just around the south which is ok because there are definitely plenty of beautiful places around here. I like spending time outdoors when the weather is nice too, probably a little more than Sterling does but he goes along with it and enjoys it.
Well that's a good update or whatever on our lives and my lunch break is almost over so I will end it here. Will write back soon!
We both unofficially live together in mine, or now our, apartment in downtown Chattanooga. It is way too small for the 2 of us and my cat so we will be getting a bigger place in August when my lease runs out. I'd like to stay downtown, or even in the same building but bigger apartment if we can afford it. There aren't too many affordable downtown apts. left in Chattanooga, this town has gone condo crazy, but I love the convenience and the scenery on my runs that downtown, the "north shore", and the museum district provide so I hope we can stay here come August. Sterling has a border collie named Dexter which will be joining us as well when we get a bigger place but my cat doesn't know about that yet. He is such a sweet dog, I can't wait for him to be a part of our little family and I've never had a dog before so it will be fun.
Sterling and I work a lot. I work part time at Memorial Hospital's pharmacy, part time at a restaurant, and I babysit for a family. Sterling is an intern in the IS dept. at Life Care Centers of America in Cleveland, TN and works there 4 days a week. I've been trying to get into Dental Hygiene school at Chatt State for forever now and finished all my pre reqs and have been pretty much just waiting to apply again come March. I actually have to take 1 more class for the hygiene program (starts in less than 2 weeks) that my advisor failed to mention to me until a couple of months ago. Sterling is also going to be at Chatt State next semester taking some gen eds he still needs to complete and then he will be transferring to UTC in the summer or fall if all goes according to plan. He will finish his major in Computer Science that he started on at GA Tech in ATL and possibly double major or minor in something businessey.
Being restless from no school, not wanting to put my life on hold for a year again, and feeling the pains of guilt from never finishing college, I applied to Covenant College's Quest Program (a degree finishing program that meets 1 night a week, 4 hours per night, for 18 months in downtown) and found out today that I got in! So I have further complicated my life but I am at least guaranteed to be in 1 program this year! I am going to move forward with it if my good ole dad will go along with the financial side of it and will start Feb. 5th. I work 2nd shift at the hospital so it will be interesting to try and work around my 2 night classes but I will hopefully be able to move to 1st shift, or find another 1st shift rx job somewheres else because needless to say, I am ready for a change ;)
So our lives are pretty busy with work and school but we find plenty of time to relax. We're pretty big homebodies and enjoy being at home together with Ali (our cat) watching tv and being nerds the most. We also love to go out to eat and to the movies. I don't care how expensive the movies are I will ALWAYS go to the movies in the theater. Sterling doesn't drink very much so needless to say my party girl days are over. That is totally cool with me and still find time to party with my crazy but awesome girlfriends. They always get me way too drunk! Sterling and I also love, love, love Atlanta, GA and we go on weekend getaways there often as well as other getaways as we can afford them. We would like to someday relocate to Atlanta through our jobs but we also love our home here in Chattanooga. I love traveling and hope to some day be able to travel the world. But for now it's just around the south which is ok because there are definitely plenty of beautiful places around here. I like spending time outdoors when the weather is nice too, probably a little more than Sterling does but he goes along with it and enjoys it.
Well that's a good update or whatever on our lives and my lunch break is almost over so I will end it here. Will write back soon!
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