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Transformers 3 is filming outside of my office today on Michigan Avenue. It has bee way too distracting for my simple mind, as Shia and whats-her-name keep running around downstairs.

Ah, Scoot Scoot

In a decision that was on our minds for a while, Jonathan and I have decided to sell my car and buy a scooter. We figured out that we could even buy the scooter before we sold the car, so last weeked we did just that!
Pictures of our real scooter are coming soon, but this is an image of the same type:

Ours is blue, but the pink picture shows the model better.

We have already ventured around Oak Park with it and I am already plotting different excuses to ride it around!

Jonathan already has a car, and with living in a city that makes it expensive to own one, we decided it would just be better to minimize. Another adventure has been learning to drive manual, as that was something I didn't know how to do.

Even though I don't have pictures to share of our actual scooter, I went trolling around Etsy and found some awesome scooter gear that might be great Christmas/Birthday/Because You Love Me gifts!

An Open Letter to Lindsay Lohan

If you haven’t heard yet, Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in an in-patient rehab center for violating her probation and failing to complete routine drug tests. As a few of you might know, I have been a fan of her, mainly fueled by people’s reactions to how outrageous it is that I would like her in the first place.

I think what has always kept me aware of her though, is that we are very close in age and it is interesting to me what people my age choose to do with their lives and especially what they do when they acquire wealth at such a young age. So, instead of writing her a letter in jail, as I half-jokingly said to Jonathan last night, I am going to keep it here on this blog:


Dearest Lindsay,

Crack is whack.

Sincerely,
Heather


P.S. No more stripper/porn star movie roles, leave it to the imagination.

Song to Share

"hmm....it is really beautiful...and thoughtful...but without saying what you should be thinking about"- Jonathan




This came up on my Pandora today and I can't help but share. It makes me want to cry when I hear it, but I don't know why.

Husband and Wife bonding session: Naked Bike Ride

One of the fun things we did this weekend was go on the Annual Naked Bike Ride in Chicago. Yes, most people were naked, no, we were not!

I decided to go in my 'newlywed' bathing suit and Jonathan took the boxer brief route.

I also got to bring out the blond wig, as it hasn't made an appearance in a while!

The ride was to promote human-powered transportation and loving the beauty of your body. As you can guess, there were a lot of hippies there, but it made it really fun and entertaining for most of the ride.

Don't Worry about me, I'm just being lazy!

I had decided to take a mental and physical break during the month of may to recuperate from all of the craziness leading up to the wedding, but it has followed me into June and I'm not that sorry about it!
We did get our wedding pictures back and I am more than thrilled with them! The sweetest part is that we have the rights to them, so we have disks of all the photos and can order at will.
Here are a few of my favorites from the preparation:

I will share more from the ceremony and reception later!

From Miss to Mrs.: Part 1 of many

The aftermath of the wedding has been a bit of a process to filter out of our apartment, but it is nice to start seeing our kitchen floor again! One of the stories that I didn't get a chance to share, due to the excess amount of things to do the two weeks before the wedding, was our table charger dilemma. For those of you that are unaware of what chargers are, they are the pretty platters you put under your plates that you don't even eat off of.

(These aren't mine, but they look like them)

My mother and I had determined that the table scape would look so much better with gold chargers, so I had planned on ordering them from the rental company when it came time to place the order. So, a week and a half before the wedding I start placing my order for all of the rental items we need. I had gone through this company before with work, so I knew what everything else roughly cost to rent. All except the chargers. Turns out, they wanted $7 PER CHARGER! That would have been an extra $700 for chargers! I panicked for a moment and then started trolling the Internet, I knew that there had to be some way around that price.

Luckily, after a few days of searching, I came across a classified add on a wedding website that a woman in the Chicago area had posted, stating that she was renting out her chargers for $.75/ piece. WooHoo!

I dropped off these rented chargers last night and learned that the woman I rented from co-bought the set with another woman from the bride that originally bought them, then she has already sold them to a girl in Texas after her wedding AND has found ANOTHER bride that is buying them from that girl. These platters are traveling all over the US in protest of a $7 rental fee!

If it is one thing I have learned from wedding planning, it is that there is a way around every absurd price you come across.

I never advertised this blog as a fanatical budget wedding, as there are many blogs that people keep with "$10,000 budget wedding" as the title, but I will say that we stayed under that number in our budget.

I can't wait to share pictures with everyone! We saw our photographer yesterday, who reminded us that we will be getting a disk of all photos in the upcoming weeks, so then this blog will have something to show for the past 8 months of work!

More stories to come...