My Journal.

I'm Raquel an American girl living in Scotland.
and this is my journal!

love all this!
taken from Amanda W. from www.getmarried.com/bloggerbrides/

relaxing sunday

watching mary poppins
will bake raspberry crumble muffins later

well, as i predicted i haven't had much of a chance to plan our wedding. with school and a new job i've been so busy.

the new job is going well, although it's just training right now, so it's not too hard, but it can get a bit boring. i've worked 5 days this past week and yesterday i spent most of the day sleeping. i'm still in my jammies today and have no intentions of getting out of them. it feels good to just hang around the house with ross and relax.

i miss him so much when i spend 12 hours away from him each day. today we're gonna get a pizza for lunch, and we're gonna watch the x-files movie. then later we're gonna go to the gym. nothing too exciting this weekend, just relaxing. he's watching the football game right now so i've just spent time online and TRIED to do some reading for school but i can't focus.

not too long now until we go to chicago for Christmas. i can't wait, i'm missing my family big time and it'll be nice to just hang out and see everybody.

well, this post is pretty pointless but i just felt like writing.

ok ok.
even though i'm not getting married for another 2 years

i already know what song i want to walk down the aisle to...and it's "2 hearts" by Kylie Minogue.

wedding planning has taken over my life!

i've let it take over, but i can't help it. i'm a 'planner' by nature, and it just feels natural for me to make lists and do research all day. the only problem is that, our wedding isn't for another 2 years and while some people say we're just in time to start planning a few things, other venues etc. look at us like we're crazy because we're already planning (they don't really 'look' at us since it's all via email, but ya know what i mean)

the hard thing is that we're living here in scotland and we're planning a chicago wedding. i thought it would be easy but it's proving to be a lot harder than i imagined.


i'm so picky and i'm looking for just the perfect venue, but a lot of places that are to my taste are not in my budget. which then becomes so discouraging because then ross and i feel like losers, even though we're not and we're more than willing to save as much as we can for the wedding.

then i'm wondering if any family is going to help us pay but i don't want to just come right out and ask. i know my mom and dad are helping a little, and so are his parents..but we want to pay the majority ourselves, but at the same time it'd be nice for an aunt, uncle or SOMEONE to pay for the cake or something. i'm only saying this because i want everything to be nice, and if we pay for everything ourselves it may not be as nice as we want.


ahhhhhh! it's only 10 in the morning and i've already received loads of emails about wedding stuff, this has turned into a JOB. which is kinda fun, but then it takes the goodness out of the reason we're getting married.
i want the wedding to be about us, and not about money and stuff

oh i need a nap, already........and i just woke up

have to have these from etsy!

I've been engaged for a week!

Life is good.

...because i'm sitting on my couch with the window open and i can hear bag pipers outside

i am so stressed with the amount of uni work i have to do!

i feel...egh

the weather has been amazing lately!
i love spring

daisies, fresh fruit and sunshine

*shivers* I just woke up from one of the scariest/weirdest dreams I've had in a looong time.

I hate when I have bizarre dreams, because I wake up and I feel all shaky and...just weird.

So my dream was about me, and my family and some random granny and a rich guy.

So in the dream I looked similar to how I look now, except I was really beautiful..like..GORGEOUS
and all of a sudden my face starts to swell up, and my lips start getting really big. My sister suggests that Im just having an allergic reaction and trys to give me Benedryl (even in my dreams there a brand names haha) anyway it turns out that it's not Benedryl but some pregnancy pills that she took while pregnant (my sister isnt' preggers in real life) and in the dream she had a really young daughter, perhaps around 2 yrs old.
Anyway so in the dream as time goes on my face is getting worse and worse to the point that I'm really frightening to look at. So I go to a department store and there's this old lady who killed her young boyfriend (I know this is where it gets sooo weird) and somehow she was injecting my face and that's what was making it swell up. So she's arrested so my face starts to go back to normal.

Then there's a news crew in the department store,and I wake up.

WEIRD!!

Yesterday was such a great day! I will try my best to put everything into words, but it was one of those days filled with so much that you almost had to be there to understand. First I will begin by saying that it was a beautiful day yesterday, the sun was shining and the wind was mild. Ross and I did our usual weekend morning workout and then headed out to a Farmers Market where we purchased wine, raspberry juice and fresh soup. It was all so wonderful! After leaving the Farmers Market we headed to to visit all the thrift stores in the area.

But we both had a rumbly in our tumbly and we were starving so we decided to grab some food first. We went to Ichiban which is a cute Japanese restaurant and stuffed our faces with noodles and sushi! It was great, after that we went to sooooooo many amazing thrift stores, some really cheap ones and some really expensive ones. He bought some books (but I was allowed to see them because one of them is for my birthday) and I got a cute little bracelet. We were looking for stuff for our apartment, although we saw a lot of stuff nothing was right for us. but it was still absolutely amazing!

Yesterday was so great and I know this journal entry doesn't do it any justice, especially since i'm not exactly very good at writing this afternoon (too tired to make sense)
After all the thrift stores we stumbled upon this place ( i <3 candy )
it was gorgeous and full of amazing candy!

We bought apples at a fruit stand and we even looked for fresh bread to buy.

it was just sooooo great!!!

*sigh*

i love spending time with my boyfriend, we always have so much fun together.
the other pics i took are on his phone, as soon as i get them i'll post them =)

I just need to vent.

Today being Monday means it's my day off of school, therefore I decided it'd be nice to go around the local thrift stores and cute little shops in my town.
The sun is out (which doesn't happen often here in Scotland) so I put my new boots on in search of a thrifty adventure. I found some lovely things (I didn't buy anything just looking) and I decided to go down a street I had never been down before, only to find the greatest book store EVER. Now, I, like most people love big books stores like Borders and Barnes and Noble, but I have a real soft spot for those old book stores that look like they fell out of a movie. The kind that have the old man behind the counter listening to classical music and it has book shelves that seem to go up to the ceiling.
That's exactly what I found, BUT due to the fact that some part of my body has to torment me on a daily basis all of a sudden something about the size of texas flew into my eyeball and I was paralyzed. I tried to ignore the pain in my eye caused by this foreign object + contact lenses but I couldn't do it, I had to leave the bookstore and get home asap to get this thing out!

As I'm waiting for the light to change so I can cross the street the pain becomes unbearable and I'm forced to dig into my eye with dirty fingers and take out this contact lens only to find a HAIR stuck onto my contact. I was upset and tried desperately to get it back into my eye after removing to the hair so I could carry on with my adventure. But it wasn't that easy and it wouldn't go back in, resulting in me having to come back home...
I'm completely and utterly annoyed and perhaps I should consider laser eye surgery.

On my way home there were two police officers on horse back escorting some delinquents away from trouble.

Well now I'm on my way back out, let's hope the wind doesn't blow a semi-truck into my contact lens again.

Juno has finnnnally come out in the UK

and yours truly went to see it with Ross

and i love love love love loved it

it was great.

Ok, so our local library also lends out movies, and since its literally a 2 minute walk from our flat, once in a while Ross and I like to go in there to take out some movies. (We go in more often for books)
anyway so today I realized that our movies were due back today so on our way home from getting food I had Ross run into our flat to get the movies and I ran into the library.
Upon walking in I notice everyone who's working there stare at me. I turn to walk and look at some books while Ross is getting the movies and I hear "excuse me, we're closing" so I say "oh yes I know I'm just waiting for my boyfriend to come with some movies that we're returning today" and she says "what"? and I say "we're just returning movies" and the librarian says "well then if you could just bring them here so you can return them" and I said in a stern loud voice "I AM WAITING FOR MY BOYFRIEND TO COME WITH THE MOVIES SO WE CAN RETURN THEM" to this she just replies with a pout. oh that bitch!
so I go stand outside to wait for Ross because I could feel her burning a hole in my back with her stare. I see Ross crossing the street with the movies and I tell him that the people are being rude to me. So I go, give her the movies and stomp out saying "bitch" under my breath.

The reason I got so pissed off was because the library was NOT closed when I walked in, I still had about ten minutes before it closed and it's a library, meaning it's a PUBLIC building which I'm allowed to enter until it has closed. She had no right to be so rude to me, she could have politely said "oh just so you know we're closing soon" to which I would have replied nicely, and everything would have been ok.

Oh that stupid twat! now I'm all flustered.

received a packaged today from my momma!
it's a big box! I'm so excited, i know it's my Christmas presents, but I"m not sure if they're wrapped or just in the box
so i dont want to open the box until i find out

our house looks very happy
and tomorrow i'm going to the ballet
yay
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current fascination: 1893 Chicago World's Fair

you know what i like?

i like mangoes and clementines (the good ones from spain) and apple juice and really really cold water, and hot cups of cocoa.

i also like our beautiful Christmas tree, even though it's crooked and will NOT stand up straight no matter what we do.

i like warm cozy sweaters, and big blankets and clean sheets and fireplaces.

I also like when Ross picks me up from work and I feel so happy to be away from this place

I like waking up on Sunday mornings and making out and cuddling and then falling fast asleep again in his arms

I like snow
oh I like snow and snow angels
and puppies jumping in the snow (my doggie Oscar does that, oh how I miss him)
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