oh boy

So this week has drug on for me. For some reason i thought Tuesday was Thursday even though i knew it wasn't..... it was weird. Well i have been really busy doing the last few things. before the wedding and honeymoon. Packing for three different events was a challenge but i think i have kept Target in business as of late.....

Well tomorrow morning we have a meeting at the corporate office and the news is not going to be good. The rumors are out that they will be cutting a lot of benefits, salaries, bonuses, and other incentives. That is just great news right before i am about to take on another person that is a full time student that make $300 a month. Not really happy about that. If all the rumors are true is going to be about $15,000 pay cut and when you don't make a lot and they are taking that much away it really hurts. So if you all could pray that God takes care of us and helps us get through the wedding expenses that we have and the adjustment phase of getting Elizabeth moved in.

Well i am off to the gym and another trip to Wal Mart (i hope it is the last trip to wal*mart)...


See yall soon

less than a week....

So it is sunday morning and we are less than a week away from being married. so that is pretty crazy and really exciting.... 

last night mom, dad, elizabeth and myself all went to adam travis' wedding. talk about a high school reunion. It was great to see some of my old friends that i haven't seen in a few years. ...

Well i better get back to finishing up the last little details and errands. Have a great week and cant wait to see yall this weekend

Love,

Steve 

going to the court and i am going to get married....

We got our marriage license today from the lovely court house with all the classy/smelly/underage kids trying to get married with their mom there with no ID and no money on them. Lets just say they will really let anyone get married as long as you have $41 in cash and a photo ID. (high divorce rate anyone???) So by the state of Texas i guess that means we are married.... well we have to wait 3 business days and have to get married with in 30 days of today to really be officially married but hey we are getting close.

I have been working in my new subdivision full time now and so far it has been going pretty well. I am trying to get all my houses under control just in time to take 6 1/2 days off. Oh well. . . you only get married once. . .

LAYOFFS =(

Well today started off with another Lay off from Highland Homes. I again survived the layoff. This is the 3rd layoff since February 2007. God has truly blessed me by keeping me safe and i very grateful for that.

With layoffs comes reorganizing. At 4pm today I found out that i am moving out of Mckinney and moving to a fairly new and very high end neighborhood in the town of Carrolton. (20-30 mins closer to our apartment)

This is going to be a great chance for me to prove to the higher ups that i am ready for my own neighborhood and the next promotion. I will be the only builder in this addition and I will have a boss that is building in a different area. So i will have a lot of responsibility ahead of me. So wish me luck as i start my journey of building houses that start off at $650,000 and go up to $800,000. check them at http://www.austinwaters.com/index.asp or http://www.highlandhomes.com/Website.nsf/HI/src=astn-wtrs-website.html


So much for a stress free last two weeks before i start a marriage................

Bachelor Party

So this past weekend Elizabeth and I both had our separate bachelor and bachelorete parties.

I dont really know any of her details but I have a good story from mine.

So here it goes....

The night starts off great, my friends decided to all meet up at our new apartment and have a few drinks before we head off to the Texas Rangers Baseball game. We all load up into 2 cars and head down to the game. Since Liz is from Arlington I am the "Arlington expert" so i have the bright idea to park at a wal mart that is about 3/4 mile to the stadium. Liz and I have parked there a few times before to save some money.

So the boys and I start the trek over to the stadium and get to the ticket window to buy tickets. We wait for about 20 mins to get tickets. The guy at the window was acting like the game was almost sold out and we were lucky to get tickets so he sold us some $10 tickets in the upper deck on the complete opposite side of the stadium. So the next forever walk begins. We get to our seats and they are directly in the sun and it was a million degrees. We sat there for ummmm about one min and then we went on the next walk to get better seats that were in the SHADE!!!

....watching baseball.....making fun of our med school friend that had to check an old mans prostate......more baseball............


The game is over and we start the trek back to the car. We leave the stadium and this really attractive girl comes up to me and was like "hey can we buy your tickets" and i say ma'am the game is over.... "she goes well we want tickets to get into the post game concert, how much will you take for them?" me being the master negotiator that i am say ummm like 2 bucks....well she goes ill give you $40 for your 8 tickets and my buddies all say DEAL!!!!!

We are now on cloud 9 heading back to the car and $40 richer to buy some dinner after the game......

We get back to Wal Mart thinking a great night is ahead of us and.............. The cars are gone..... Oh Great!!

We go into walmart and Miss Personality at customer service holds up a piece of paper that has a number on it for the towing company.... we call it and find out that the place is about 2 miles from wal mart....

So the walk to get our cars back begins..... everyone is in such a great mood at this point....


We finally make it to the place and survive the GHETTO!!! We go in and talk to the really classy lady behind the triple thick bulletproof glass that has a sign saying "treat people the way you want to be treated, Nicely" We found out the cost of the towing charge is $244.10 a car...... They really are living by their sign aren't they???.... So after our almost $500 get of tow yard bill....we all want to get the HELL out of Arlington and not spend anymore money in that town. We end up at Whataburger in Grapevine at midnight. which capped off the great night...

At least we have a good story to tell.....

I guess i have a blog now.