Finally, a chance to relax.

Today is my day off, and really the first chance I have had to relax in few weeks. So I am going to take full advantage of it. It's not really that I have been all that busy. I've just had some stressful things come up that have been weighing heavily on my mind. Recently they have started to resolve themselves, and I now feel like I can relax a bit.
First thing that was stressing me out was that I was trying to refinance my house. I had tried to last year, but everything seemed to go VERY wrong when I tried last year. Long story short (VERY long story made short). I had tried to refinance through the people I had my current mortgage through, which was Bank of America, which is a huge, sucky company. Anyway, they keep needing more and more stuff, and money, from me. Dragged the process out for 8 months, and then it ended up not going through in the end. Part of the problem last year what that our appraisal had come back very low, and thus we needed to bring a lot of money to closing. So I had been very worried about the appraisal with this refinance. Luckily it came back on Wednesday, and came back higher than when we had bought the house in 2006. Which means I don't have to bring any money to closing (which I had planned on bringing $2000 - $4000 to close), and there really is NO reason for the loan not to go through. All that stress I was feeling has lifted and it feels great!

Another sucky thing that stressed me out is that I was in a car accident last week... which was my fault. So that sucked even more. I've been driving around with my front bumper in the back of my car. Dealing with insurance, and getting estimates, and all that crap was no fun. But I think I'm taken care of now. I drop my car off on Monday morning, and my rental car will be waiting there for me. So, I feel like that stress has been lifted too. Thankfully my insurance is pretty good at taking care of things without being dicks about it (I have Progressive and would recommend them to anyone).

Work has been going ok, but it is summer now. So our busy season has begun, and there is much less time for me to sit and think about how much I don't like my job. I am planning on enrolling in my online course here soon for Travel and Tourism... super excited about that. I've also been looking beginner jobs in the field, to kind of get my foot in the door before I finish my course.

Other nice things going on. Last weekend was Kelly and Todd's wedding, which was tons of fun. Sunny came up (which always makes me happy), got to hang out with lots of fun people, drink and dance a lot. It was a great time.

That's pretty much all that's been going on. Don't really have anything to exciting on the horizon. I'm thinking about booking a vacation soon. We've got some money saved, and now that it doesn't all have to go to the refinance, why not put it toward a much needed get away. Right? Anyway, I'll leave you with some fun pictures from the wedding. :)

Me and my best lady, Robin.

I love how Jason's face is the only thing in focus in this shot. It makes me laugh.

My favorite shot of the bride and groom. :)

Ooops! Sorry.

Not that I really believe that I have too many loyal readers out there, but I do apologise for the LONG lapse in time between blog entries. Life happened, and this got pushed to the back burner. Plus, there really hasn't been anything all to interesting to report on.

My other blog continues to gather more readers, but even it hasn't been getting the attention I would like it to have. I think maybe the nice warm weather makes it very hard to sit inside and tell the tale of delicious food. Anyway. If you still haven't check out the other blog, please do... it's much more interesting that this one. http://www.hungryinomaha.blogspot.com/

I'm trying to think of what all happened in the last month and a half... I finally decided to stop thinking about it and take the online corse for my Travel and Tourism Certificate. I haven't enrolled just yet, because I needed to get a new computer first (apparently all the stuff is for PC, and I've been an avid MAC user for the last 10 years). However, the new computer has been purchased! Also, just this week I started the process of trying to refinance my house. Since my house dropped so much in value when the economy crashed, I am going to have to bring quite a bit of money to the table when we close. So, that has put a halt on all unnessisary spending. Once we're all refinanced, then I will get enrolled and start down a new career path. I just hope it's a good decision. I already know that it's not a career that I'll get stinking rich off of, but I think it's something I could enjoy... and if I could like what I do a little bit better, than I think that's a good life choice.

I did get to take a mini vacation with the girls last month, and that was a ton of fun! We went to Branson, MO. Deep down I think we all thought it was going to be SUPER lame. However, we ended up having a blast. We really didn't do anything all that special either. We just hung out, had a spa day, and then went to bars with silly names (ie: The Rowdy Beaver and The Hill Billy Inn). There was a good time had by all and was super fun. We've discussed the possability of making this an annual girls get away.

Let's see, let's see. Nothing else really too exciting happening on my end. Got to go to my first drag show a couple weeks ago. That was lots of fun. Last night I went to my first Omaha Royals baseball game. That wasn't all that exciting for me. I just ate a lot of junk and drank a bunch of $1 beers. We left before the 7th inning.

Well, I guess my life just isn't all that exciting at the moment. Kelly's wedding is next weekend. That should be lots of fun... Can't wait!! Now I think I'll leave with with some fun photos from Branson...

Our super sweet cabin we stayed.

Fun with fake mustasces!!

Getting down with old people!

All of us in the car together... ah memories :)

and finally... Us with Rowdy the break dancing cowboy from the Hill Billy Inn.