So due to my husband being extremely cheap and the fact that I'm trying to do things to help the environment. every year we turn our thermostat down a few temperatures and dressing a little warmer. this year we've got it down to the mid 60's. with me being laid off home everyday I have learned to dress a little warmer and use blankets and I'm good. I'm usually moving around a lot anyways so I seem to stay a little warmer. But...at night time bella & lacey I freeze. JC being warm blooded sweats his ass off at night and here I am right next to him shivering. He mentioned that maybe I should get a heating blanket...I don't know if they make them different these days but when I was younger and we had one growing up they were itchy and scratchy and very uncomfortable. Plus he wouldn't use it so it'd be awkward and only on my side and just not what I had in mind. So I was suffering around today and found this. It's PERFECT! You can heat one side of the bed and not the other. That's great! I can stay all snugly and warm and JC's side can just be normal like always...but there are those nites where JC's back or knee is sore and needs the heating pad..well that's okay too because you can decide which part of your side you want on. upper body...lower body...back... so it's very therapeutic. I'm in LOVE. For a King Size it's about $240. While I can't talk my "cheap" husband into buying it for us I'm sure after Christmas I will be able to start saving money and be able to purchase it to use during the rest of the winter. 
Also to help us save money we purchased a wood stove with some of our wedding money. We haven't got it installed yet because we just recently found out there pretty much NO ONE installs them anymore because of the risk of user error and fire. While I have no idea how to use a wood stove my husband does and I don't think it'd really be hard to figure out. So we finally found one place around us that will install it. The only thing is it's the type of place where you call them and they call you back 7 days later. Then JC talks to the guy on Monday and JC says hey we'd like to get this installed this week. The guy says "sure no problem..I'll call you tomorrow." Today is Thursday and still no call. JC even called him two times yesterday and no answer. It's really starting to frustrate us. We really w
ant to get this wood stove installed and ready to go. It's getting colder each day and we want to get it installed before it really starts hitting our wallets. Right now our furnace kicks on a few times a day but like I said we keep it pretty cold in here. Eventually it's going to get so cold outside that the furnace is going to start kicking on more. We don't want that. That's why we bought a wood stove. The frustrating thing is that this guy is the ONLY guy around that will install it. So pretty much were screwed. Hopefully soon it will be installed and will be able to enjoy it. I'm trying to figure out how exactly to set it up also. We've been told by people that we have to have a stove board behind it to protect the wall from the heat. I have searched flicker and seen that in about 90% of the photos no one has a stove board behind it. So I'm hoping that we won't have to do that. I don' t really like the black stove board that has to go under it either. I'd rather have like a stone or brick but I guess it'll do. But I definitely know that I don't want a stove board on the wall behind it if I don't have to. I think it will look much better without it and easier to keep the area clean. I left some messages on the photos that I came across without the stove board behind it asking them how far it had to be away from the wall and why that didn't use a stove board. Hopefully that will help me decide what I'm going to do. I can't wait to get it installed and running. I'm excited to incorporate into my decorating. haha
I'm so excited and upset at the same time. I came across an awesome blog the other nite while blogging. It's Earth Friendly Wedding Blog! It's the official blog of earthlyaffair.com . I was so excited to come across it because anything to do with "earth friendly" I love....but at the same time I was so upset because I would have LOVED to order from this site for my wedding. I did have recycled invitations which I loved...but this site gives you more options and many different designs. They even donate a part of the portions to environmentmental projects. So Cool!
The blog has many earth friendly ideas and creative inspirations, so even if your not an upcoming bride you can get lots of "earth friendly" ideas from the blog. I can't wait to keep up to date with Earth Friendly Wedding Blog and get ideas for lots of stuff around the house. The blog also has tons of resource links that will help you find just about anything you need to know about helping the environment. I really wish I would have came across this blog before my wedding. Even if I couldn't have ordered the invites from the webpage because I had them ordered already, I could have used alot of her resource links to get even more ideas for decorating my wedding. Anyways, even if your not getting married go check out the blog. If your anything like me when it comes to the environment you'll really enjoy it. :o) Tell Jennifer I sent ya!
so last weekend Justin had a softball tournament in avon, indiana. in between games i went shopping at Target and picked up a few things. we don't have a target anywhere close to us here. you can either drive to up to plainfield which is a good hour drive or you can drive south to evansville which is a good hour and a half drive. and perhaps its a good thing that we don't have a target. :o) i tend to go crazy in there...this time i knew i was on a budget considering i have no job and i only had about an hour to shop since i had to get back to the ball diamond. i did pick up this awesome snoopy tote. i absolutely LOVE it! it was the only one left so it was obviously meant to be. i've been a huge snoopy fanatic since the age of 1. hehe my aunt shellie jo (who i got my middle name from) was a huge fan of snoopy so i was introduced to him and the "peanuts gang" at an early age. I actually have a "snoopy" room here at our house. I sold alot of stuff that i had due to having TOO MUCH...but i still have a huge curio cabinet filled of snoopy and peanut memorabilia. i love the fact that snoopy is "going green."
so i finally took some pics of my new tattoos that i got. they aren't real clear because they were only like 2 or 3 days old in the picture and they're still healing. but atleast you get an idea of what they look like. i want to make it a tradition to get a tattoo on every birthday...but i'd rather have them sooner. hehe we'll see how that goes...jc says he'll divorce me if i get anymore..haha but i doubt it.
so anyways..this weekend jc's playing in a softball tournament this weekend...it starts tonight and all day tomorrow... so that'll be something to do this weekend.. and then i think sunday if the weather is warm were gonna try and swim all day. okay well i'm gonna get some laundry and dishes done and i'm off to lay out in the pool...
so i am officially Mrs. Justin Copeland. :o) YAY!!! the wedding went perfect and the reception was beautiful... it was actually more perfect than i could have imagined. i loved the way everything worked out... for the past month or two before the wedding i almost wished that we had instead went and eloped instead of having the big wedding and reception due to all the drama and stress....but it was SO WORTH IT!!!! every second of stress and drama was worth every bit of that day.. and if i had to go thru all the stress and drama again...i would if i knew it would turn out as perfect as that day did. from the mom and dad drama to the bridesmaid getting mad on who was the maid of honor and who wasn't and the bridesmaid drama from the bachlorette party.. it was all worth it and really i didn't care about one bit of it at that wedding.... all i cared about is having the time of my life with my husband...and that's exactly what i did. i don't have any of my professional pictures back of course but i do have alot of pictures that i took from the reception...and hopefully in the next few days the friends and family members that took pictures of the wedding will email me some so i can see them all... i am so thankful for all the people that made that day perfect for me.
This is my THANK YOU list.
Sullivan Elks....at first i wasn't sure everything was going to work in there because i wasn't sure if they knew exactly what i wanted...but they trusted me and let me do whatever i wanted and it turns out they said "it was the most beautiful decorations we have ever had here for a wedding." well THANK YOU!!! ;o)
Jackie http://www.jackiescakesandcookies.net/ The cake looked awesome... Unfortunately I didn't get but just the bite jc fed to me...but what i can remember of that small bite it tasted awesome. I'm definately looking forward to our one year anniversary of eating that whole top by myself. hehe
Sam http://www.theroxystudio.com/ oh my gosh i can't even put into words how excited i am to see those wedding pictures... i had SO MANY people come up to me and say "oh my gosh...she is just the nicest person... and those pictures, at north central, she took of you guys were awesome..." everyone is just as excited to see the wedding pics as i am. i can't wait for the other big things in my life to happen so you can photograph all those.... i definately consider you a good friend...and i hope you feel the same way.
Danny Wayne http://www.djdannywayne.com/index.htm Danny, thanks so much for being a part of our big party. I know the wedding is where you become husband & wife but i always feel like the reception is the time you get to show off how much you love eachother...not only with eachother but with your family and friends. everyone had a great time dancing and really enjoyed you work. Thanks so much!!
Earth Friendly Home http://www.earth-friendlyhome.com/ This is where i purchased all my bio-degradable products. My forks were made from potatoes and soy, my plates were made of sugarcane, & my cups were made of corn. Without ya'll my "go green" wedding just wouldn't have been so great. I plan on spreading the word of how easy it is to have a "green" wedding & i plan on promoting ya'll to the fulliest extent. Thank you soooo much!!
Kustom Koozies http://www.kustomkoozies.com When i first came up with the "green" wedding i wanted to make sure i could give out a favor that could be used over and over again.... these were perfect. They were a huge hit...i can't get over how many people grabbed these up as soon as they got to their seat... i know that justin and i will use our koozies for ever and will always remember our special day...
Also, thank you to all my friends & family who helped us out in any and all ways of making that day so perfect...thanks to Nancy for doing my hair & make-up, without you i would have looked terrible.. haha you made me look beautiful that day....
As soon as i get pics of everything I'll be sure to post them.. If you don't have me added on myspace, add me. You can see all my pictures as I get them....i upload daily. http://www.myspace.com/adiqshun
but to share my view on the environment and to show people all you have to do is just change a few things that you do and it makes a HUGE difference. and i know alot of people are like.."i'm only one person.." yeah..but if everyone who is just "one person" does it that is a huge change... so i'm excited for people to see that perspective of the wedding too.. and if i get thru to just one person...that's one person...it's a start. and the whole "green" wedding has even opened my eyes some too.. compared to before.. i didn't realize how cheap it was to be environmentally friendly.. i thought you had to spend alot of extra money for the "green stuff" but you don't. 
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