What is this?! and Growing Pains

I feel like this summer has been a non-stop
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                                       marathon.

Last week, my friend from Florida, Nicole stayed with my roommate and I. It was so fun to see her (since we rarely have a chance to spend a week with her) but still felt busy. This weekend, my fiance and I went to another friend's wedding and Monday was my birthday--25!

I'm finally feeling like I can have a breather and some free time--something I feel like I have been missing in my "summer off." I have a small vacation planned in a few weeks and school starting up in 4.5 weeks (YIKES!) So I do have some planning/packing coming up in the not so distant future, but today I think I can take a small break and just kick back, relax, and maybe read a magazine.

My birthday was yesterday, I am an 8/8 baby! Making 8 my lucky number. My birthday was not super exciting, partially my own darn fault. Part of me thinks that maybe this is how birthdays will be now that I am getting older and have reached all the milestone birthdays and have friends and family spread world-wide. I slept in (because I was exhausted after the Sunday wedding we attended) and when I got up I did chores (because I had been gone since Friday and the house was a mess). So in between laundry/vacuuming/dishes/dusting/finishing painting the Master Bedroom, I brought lunch to the fiance at work. After he came home from work with flowers and a card we headed to his parents for dinner. Later, we met up with my roommate, Jill, from Life After College http://lifeaftercollege3.blogspot.com/ for cake and presents. The highlight of my day was definitely cake with Jill and just chatting with her and the fiance. BUT...the rest of my day felt a little lack luster. I guess I should have made a point to go shopping or to a movie, but maybe this is just what grown up birthdays are like.

Anyone else have exciting or not so exciting birthdays as you get older or is it just me?

Silly things people say

I was just having this conversations with my friends and thought, "perfect blog post!"

Ever since I got engaged people say the darnedest things. Most are out of a place of love, but still!

Here are some of the comments I've gotten when I've shared the big news:

"Don't have your wedding during (insert month/date/time here) because I'm can't come then"

"Why are you waiting so long to get married?" (We're planning for a summer 2013 wedding)

"I better be in your wedding!"

"Make sure you do a open bar all night!"

"Why are you getting married so soon?"

"I'm invited, of course"

"Don't get married..."


And my favorite, this is one the fiance had said to him, "I thought you were going to wait a few years to "sow your wild oats" before getting married. Why are you in such a rush?"

Do we have to invite that person?!

Truly we've had a lot of really nice comments and a great deal of support.

Anyone else engaged/married with similar experiences and comments? Or just have people that really care about you say crazy things?!