Grown Up

I'm married. PTL! The wedding was beautiful. Mostly everything went as planned. It was a perfect day and everything Nate and I wanted. But seriously-- I have two words advice for any future bride: short engagement. That's all.

Love this guy!

My beautiful bridesmaids!

The groomsman in their skinny ties, suspenders, and sweet aviators. Awesome.

For our honeymoon we went to heaven also known as the Excellence Playa Mujeres. Hands down, best week of my life. We're already planning a trip back!

Gorgeous beaches, great pools, delish drinks, incredible restaurants, wonderful people, and a beautiful resort. All in all it was absolutely amazing.

Here's what I have to say about life:

+ LOVE seeing Schnate every day

+Apartment is still awesome

+Love Taking care of Nate/being taken care of

+Got a job--I am now a 6th grade teacher in West Philly! which means...

+NO MORE JOB HUNTING/APPLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS!!!

-Laundry/dishes/grocery shopping/cleaning BLAHHHH

-Bills. Enough said.

In conclusion marriage is awesome (minus all the cleaning. seriously though--how do 2 people make so much laundry/dirty dishes/trash/mess??). 

In other news--my grandparents taught Nate and I how to gamble. We LOVE it. We went to Atlantic City this weekend for my 22nd birthday and made my grandparents proud. We won 200 bucks!! Yeahhhh! Nate saw Fergie, we ate my birthday dinner at The Continental, got some teacher clothes with the winnings, got free drinks from the hotels because they just love our gambling business, and got a diamond neckless from my sweet sweet husband! 

Nate really went above and beyond. Which he reminded me of. And also let me know I have a lot to live up to for his birthday. Ha! What a guy...

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer as much as I am! 

-Chelsea

Can I UNgraduate?

Hello bloggy friends! Since the last time Rach and posted (approximately forever ago), we we're roommates living at college. Since then, Rachael and roommate Allison (who is currently en route to CHINA!!!) have become college graduates. I did that a few months ago, but no one really knows that since I started my masters degree and didn't leave school until two weeks ago. So basically I just graduated.

We moved out of our cutey little apartment and now we're done. That's it. College no more. I had no idea it would feel as weird as it does.

Is anyone else ready to UNgraduate? Because I seriously am. Job hunting succccks, and I've only been doing it for like 2 weeks. Maybe if there we're actual jobs to apply to, it wouldn't be so horrible. Stupid dumb economy, you can suck it! Is anyone else having as much trouble job hunting as I am?!

In other news...I'm getting married in oh...16 days!?! Am I ready...maybe. Does that matter? No. I kid, I kid. But honestly though, I wonder what was going through my mind when we picked June 5 for our wedding date. Maybe it was something like this, "I think it would be a really great idea to put every possible life change into about a 30 day time frame. That way we (meaning really just me) can be as overwhelmed as possible. Maybe I can leave the life I've known for four years, move out of my childhood home, change my last name, find a full time job, learn how to pay rent, and be a wife...all at the same time." Oh dear.

But for real life, I can't wait to be married and know that despite all of this craziness, this is going to be the best time of my life thus far!

In other news...

Nate moved into our apartment and it looks glorious! And yes, we did go with gray in the bedroom. And yes, it was obvi. an awesome choice.

You're probably completely jealous of my kitchen as well, which is understandable. Because it's perfect.

Nate turned 21! Finally. My brother said that it took Nate longer than anyone else he knew to turn 21. I agree, that took for-ev-er.

As you can see, Nate is now an alcoholic.

Annnnd two of my bridesmaids/roommates/friends threw me a scanty panty party! So cute and I love them mucho for putting all that work into such a cute party!

So basically my life has been crazy and probably will be for the next month. What have you been up to since you graduated?

Fish-capades

Like the ice-capades. Get it? Yeah me either.

So I have been a little MIA recently due to a little something I like to call my effing senior thesis. My presentation is over! Now I just have to finish my paper. Don't even bother asking what it's about because it is b-o-r-i-n-g.

I am currently sitting in my living room staring at my 6 darling goldfish playing tag, which is amazing because just yesterday we couldn't see any of them due to the color of the water! More on that in a minute. They are so precious. A few months ago we had 10 darling goldfish. We had to keep them in a candy jar for a whole week before we got a tank. A candy jar is a pretty tight space for 10 fish, and sadly 2 didn't make it. So we were down to 8 fish. A few weeks later 2 suddenly disappeared. It turns out that Chelsea tried to change some of the water, and she may have accidentally dumped them out in the front yard (exhibit B of why she's the dumb one! Refer to previous post for exhibit A) So now we just have our little family of 6 fish. I could talk about them all day. How they get so excited when they know you're about to feed them. How they try to lay on your hand when you put it in the water. How they do back flips and fin stands to show off in front of new people. They are just the greatest pets anyone could ever ask for. We named them after characters of the Jersey Shore and we can tell them all apart. Now I know how parents feel when all they want to do is brag about their children. Are you bored of fish talk yet? These pictures may help.

So we had a fish mystery a few weeks ago. We had just changed half of the water because it was getting cloudy. We went home for spring break for like..2 days, came back, and the water was brown!! We had gone months without cleaning it and it never looked like that. It was truly a mystery. So brown turned to green, which turned to neon green, which was pretty cool because we told people we dyed it for St. Patty's Day, then it turned this disgusting green and we knew it was time to change it. So we did it last night with the help of dear Kathleen. She was promised a Glee episode (which was awesome) and Ben and Jerry's (also awesome)...but instead she got this.
Notice we had to use a ladle and a spaghetti spoon to scoop out the fish! We need to invest in a net


It was so fun trying to catch the fish with the ladle! I suggest everyone try it at least once in their lifetime. It was like one of those really stupid, addicting games online except it was in real life!

Ahh blogger won't let me add any more pictures right now...I'm angry. I'll have to show you the final product later because it looks soo much better! It was hilar trying to get the fish out. We made sure to wash the ladles realllly well. We don't want anybody's soup tasting like fish crap.

-Rachael

Biggie.

...as in THE Biggie Smalls. Like RIP-Biggie-on-baggie-T-shirts-because-he's-awesome Biggie. Anyways, today one of my students was singing at his desk. I walked by and heard him say "Biggie Biggie Biggie." So obviously I said, "Can't you see, sometimes your words just hypnotize me." His jaw dropped to the floor and he said something like "Miss, How you know that song?" And I'm all like "Duhhh I know that song, I'm older than you! How do YOU know that song?" Then I said "Get to work." Ha. I love my school.

What third grader knows the lyrics of a Biggie Smalls song? Don't they listen to like, Jo Bros and J.Bieb? 

Anyways...

RIP Christopher George Latore Wallace AKA Biggie Smalls AKA Biggie AKA Frank White AKA Notroious B.I.G.

Your memory lives on in Room 302, Grade 3. You are greatly missed. 

-Chelsea

Bridal Shower Fun

Last-last weekend I had my bridal shower! It was thrown by my mom, future mother-in-law, and bridesmaids. It was beautiful and fun and delicious and I wish I was still there eating the chocolate covered pretzel sticks my sister made! Nate and I got some much needed apartment stuff which is great because between the two of us I think we owned a blender and a frying pan. Awesome. 

We move into our apartment in less than 2 weeks so now I'm SUPER excited because we actually have things to put in it! Nate and I are deciding on paint colors for our new casa and for some reason I'm stuck on gray for the bedroom. Is that cute or just boring? We have black furniture and a lime green bed spread (can you guess who picked the bedspread?? HINT: Nate is color blind and can only differentiate between bright colors).  

Outside of planning my wedding and going out for drinks basically every day, I actually have to do things. Ugh. Like go to school every day. I'm currently student teaching in Philadelphia in the 3rd grade. I have less than 2 weeks left in the program and its making me sad (everything makes me sad nowadays) because I'm really going to miss it! The kids are seriously the best. For example: Today, we were working on vocab words. One of the students was asked to use the word memory in a sentence. This was their response: "A memory is a cake." Umm what? Sometimes all you can do is laugh. 

Want to know something that makes me cry? I'll tell you. It's the Temple Nurses strike. Seriously, every day. I drive past them and I see them all out there, holding their signs, working as a team, and it makes me cry. I love teamwork; it gets me every time. Stick it to the man Temple Nurses! 

Do you ever catch yourself crying at something absolutely ridiculous??

-Chelsea

p.s. Rachaelious is currently writing her senior thesis so she may be a little MIA for the next few days. I'm ready for this stupid thesis to be over because I get really boredy when she is in the library. For example, right now.

Bahama Breeze

Rachael, her boyfriend/DD Austin, his friend Ben, our good friend Kathleen, and myself went out for delicious drinks at Bahama Breeze tonight. We have only three more weeks left of our senior year of collegio so I'm getty pretttty nostalgic. I'm trying to do as many fun things as possible before school ends for-ev-er. If you ever go to Bahama Breeze, I recommend getting a Mythical Island

 or Caribbean Magic. The Mythical Island is a glass full of orange sherberty goodness. The Caribbean Magic has amaretto, sweet and sour, rum, vodka, and some other tasty treats. Muy bueno. While we were there we saw a friend from school who was eating dinner with her family. Her parents prob thought we were alchoholics considering what our table looked like... But we're not. So no worries.

UPDATE: 47 days until I'm no longer single! 12 days until my future husband moves into our new apartment! I'll post pictures once we paint! Speaking of painting...anyone from school interested in helping us paint? I'll buy you pizzzza!

Anyone else getting nostalgic about school/anything else coming to a close?

-Chelsea

Get to know Chelsea....it doesn't get much better than this

1. First and most importantly, Chelsea is getting married on June 5th! Ahh! Sadly, we will no longer be roommates after that...which is actually ok with me because I really don't want to hear her and nate doing it allll night longgg.

2. Chelsea's car broke down on 76, philly's busiest/most dangerous highway a couple days ago. Wanna know why? She ran out of oil. Want to know how she knew? Her oil light was on for a few weeks. Now we know who the dumb one is out of the 2 of us!


3. She HATES being left out, bugs, sharks, and small talk

4. Her favorite color is PURPLE, which works out great for me because she has a lot of purple clothing, and that happens to be my fav color also!

5. She's the cheerleading captain of our school! And she used to be a crazy gymnast. She was 1st in the state on the balance beam. I was star struck when I met her freshman year.

6. Chels has a brother and a sister, and a brand new baby niece, Julia. She's so precious

7. She is currently student teaching in the ghetto of Philly. Everyday she comes home with crazy stories about the corner stores and how people keep ponies in their back yard

8. She loves to wear dresses and her favorite place to shop is bloomingdales

9. She lovess Kanye West. Even though he's a d-bag. She went to his concert last summer. And I bought her a Kanye shirt for Christmas freshman year. She still sleeps in it every night.

10. Chelsea puts the letter "y" on the end of most things. Like the word "weird." She says "weirdy" and now has everyone else saying it too. It's so addicting and slightly embarrassing when you're talking to someone important and it accidentally slips out. (that's what she said)


I feel like I made this supposed-to-be-about-Chelsea-post a lot about me. Whoops.

-Rachael