Just Keep Swimming

I've been feeling a little stressed lately because the house I grew up in is going to be forclosed soon.  Everyone except my dad moved out of the house a few years ago and he decided that the best solution to getting out of the house payment was to just quit paying it.  Now the bank has told him that he has maybe a week left.  I've been going over to the house to try to clean it out but it's a never ending battle!  There is just so much crap there that I alone have no idea what to do with.  My dad has the most stuff there now but since he moved in with his girlfriend maybe a month ago, he's just not really working on getting it out.  He keeps telling my mom that she needs to do it.  I am trying to help but I really don't have anything left there so I've been filling up trash bags and hauling them out.  Part of me wishes that I would have bought the house off my dad because it's my house, the house I grew up in but there is no way I was going to pay the price he was asking.  There is way too much work that needs to be done since it was not maintained really at all in the last 20 years plus it is just so small.  Now that it is going to be forclosed I just have to watch it go and it bothers me a little.  Everything works out the way it should though.

            Today Rob went out and bought a Dori fish from Finding Nemo!  He is so small and cute.  We already had a Nemo so now we are set.  :)  Salt water fish are a lot of fun (as much fun as a fish can be..)  They actually follow you around and come up to the glass when you are there like other pets would.  Right now we have a 40 gallon tank and a 20 gallon tank set up which is a lot but when we get a house it won't be so bad.  The fish are pretty cool.

Let's Begin

I'm not really sure what I will blog about, or who (if anyone) will read it, but it's something I've wanted to start doing for a while.  I suppose that I will start this blog with telling you a little about myself.  Well, my name is Stephanie.  I'm a newly wed!  I just got married in August and my wedding was amazing in my opinion.  I put a lot of work and effort into it with the help of other bloggers and I was so excited that everything turned out alright.  I am a socially awkward person which sucks sometimes but in the end it really doesn't matter.  I have some friends and I married my best friend so I always have at least him to talk to.  Rob loves to drive me nuts and say or do things he knows I will get worked up about, but for the most-part we get along just fine.  Together we have an apartment and somehow we ended up with 4 cats.  4 cats!!  I'm a sucker for baby animals and Rob likes fish so he always wants to go to Petsmart or other animal stores.  He looks at the fish while I go pet the cats.  I never asked for a cat but he would see me with them and would ask me if I wanted them and of course I would say yes!  Well now we have 4 cats and I don't want any more!!!  :)  I think that when we move into a house it won't be so bad.. hopefully.  It just means that we won't be getting a dog anytime soon or maybe ever.  But if we do then we could invite people over to see our zoo and at least make a little profit off of them. 
            I love to cook.  I used to watch the cooking channel all the time when I had cable.  More than cooking though, I love to bake.  With baking you can be really creative if you want.  I watch Cake Boss and it is just so amazing what those people can do with a cake!  I would love to have a little bakery or coffee shop or something of that sort but I don't have the experience or the money to start something like that.  I have been going to Metro for the past 5 or so years to study Culinary Arts.  I have maybe 4 classes left at this point but I've been putting off going back.  I took a year off and I used my wedding as the excuse but now it's really hard to go back.  I think I'm just scared because my last classes will be with a bunch of people who have experience and know what they are doing  and I don't.  After new years I will talk to an advisor so that they can help me get back on track, but once I finish I probably won't do anything with my knowledge.  I don't even work in the industry now so it's really pointless to even study culinary, but I want to finish anyway.  Who knows, maybe something will come up and I'll change careers.  Hopefully but I think I have to make it happen instead of waiting for someone to do it for me and I don't know how.