Notably Positive

It's time for another one!

-This one is mostly positive: I bought gas for $2.39 on Friday. :) I realize that the high gas prices have conditioned me to think that any price under $2.50 is a good gas price but still... I was so excited to buy gas for under $2.40 that I hummed the whole time I was filling up. I thought that I had surely managed to buy gas at the low for once... And then I noticed on Saturday that gas was down to $2.37 at a gas station that was not CostCo meaning that I STILL didn't manage to get gas at the lowest price. Oh, well, such is my luck. :P

-We finished and printed our wedding invitations. We went through so many different designs that the final product isn't at all what we were planning and, unfortunately, we didn't even end up using the picture that I needed Mindy to photoshop... Though we did use some others that she touched up. Due to a long story, Branden's mom is sending out invitations for the MN reception and there is now no mention of it whatsoever on our wedding invites. Although they are not what I originally wanted them to be, we paid a grand total of $30 to get them printed and cut and they will do the job so I'm not going to bother with a lot of complaining. Now to get them in envelopes and sent off!

-The Nasties moved out! After an entire year of listening to them fight, move furniture, build stuff and/or clean in the middle of the night, yell at children and just be awful people in general, they are gone! I will admit that we'll miss the Jerry Springer entertainment factor but I won't miss having my sleep interrupted by their lack of consideration for others. No longer will their (not-apt-approved) dog howl for hours on end when nobody is home, no longer will I hear the children cry but never laugh, no longer will I spend time trying to decide if what is happening below constitutes as abuse or just very loud, ineffective attempts at parenting. I have a hard time believing that the next people to move in could be worse so I'm hoping for the best.

-Last year, Branden's friend invited us to spend July 4th with his family. They were kind enough to invite us back again this year. We had a great time eating food off the grill and lighting off fireworks. I even got to hold a baby and he fell asleep in my arms... I want a sweet baby!