Rich baby, kept me from the cold

 

I was looking back on this blog and realized I had captured so many amazing moments that I would have otherwise forgotten.

 

 I don't want to not remember this year.

 

 This crazy first year of marriage.

 

 So, here is what you missed while I have been gone...

 

1. Marriage is interesting. Interesting good and Interesting tough.

 

2. Rich still remains the nicest man I have ever met. I never forget how lucky I am to have such a nice guy. He opens the car door for me and calls me "sexy" when I haven't showered in two days and my hair is literally standing on end.

 

3. I always sleep better when he is there. He leaves every morning at 4:30 and I am always kind of restless until I get up at 6:30.  

 

4. We are kind of a bad combination in that he has been a bachelor for a long time and I am a youngest child. So we kind of enable each other in things like eating popcorn for dinner and not doing laundry. I keep telling him that one of us has to be the adult. :)

 

5. We have memories that are just ours. For example: the lobster claw, the cat sleigh business, the Trump kidnapping, the "when I am dying you leave work immediately!" memory, the ice cream foot incident and so many others. I don't ever want to forget them.

 

6. He calls me 'the LAW" because those are my initials. Lori Ann Walker.

(and because I scare him!)

 

7. I still sign my name Hinsdale half the time. Then I cross it out and write Walker. People must think I am nuts.

 

8. When I am mad he tries to get Sugar to make me happy..."Go to mommy, Sugar".

 

9. We text or email throughout the day. Him with stories of his adorable school children and me with stories of my crazy inmate clients. Our jobs are so different.

 

10. I am realizing more and more how different our families are. In good ways and bad.

 

11. Once he sets his mind on something, he can't stop thinking about it. Like "Where is my screwdriver?" or "I should take out the trash". I have learned its just better to let him deal with whatever is on his mind than try to change his mind or make him wait.

 

12. We have opposite taste in just about everything. Music, movies, food, candy, books, hobbies. But we can watch "the fugitive" and "national treasure" together and do puzzles. So that is a start :)

 

So, it's been 2 months of adjustment, compromise, and fun.

 

 It will be fun to see where we are this time next year.

 

Lori Ann Walker

You just might find who you are supposed to be

 

It's still hard for me to process how much my life has changed in such a short time.

 

Some of it is amazing, some of it is so so hard.

 

Marriage has been interesting.

 

I will say that I got very lucky in who I married.

 

Rich is the nicest guy.

 

He is patient, forgiving, and supportive.

 

He just wants me to be happy.

 

If I can make it a lifetime with anyone, I think it will be him.

 

Wish me luck.

 

Love always,

 

Lori Ann Walker

Leave tonight or live and die this way

The day the Spinster Chronicles died.

 

 I need to write a few  (like 200) posts about my wedding day.

 

Like how I didn't take EVERY married woman's advice on just enjoy the day but ran around literally all day until I wanted to scream.

 

Or how I finally got "wear fake eyelashes" off my bucket list.

 

 Sadly, they didn't make it all the way to the wedding.

 

 I can't have nice things, people.

 

I also had to run into the Walmart in dress on the way to the wedding.

 

And THEN my sister Erin made me hide in the back of field were parked.(I was lurking around back there for half and hour- like a pedophile :/... then she undid the corset lacing in the back and relaced  until I could barely breath.

 

Then I walked down the aisle to this!
 

  

So, let the thrilling knowledge that EVERY single one of the details will be pored over, analyzed and shared.

 

Right here on the brand new

 

"The (slightly scandalous) Diary of Mrs Walker"!!

 

After exhaustively documenting the wedding, we can move on to my rage umm...thoughts, about married life.

 

 I have SO many things I didn't really listen to but now they are echoing back into my head...for example. several married women told me that your husband will follow you from room to room, that men don't really understand things like cleaning, and  that sleeping in the same bed will make you scream by night 2 "Stop stealing all my covers, you bastard!"

 

So much more to come, people.

 

Enjoy the pics- I have yet to find a single one in which I don't look angry or crazy! :)

 

 

Talk to you soon, people!

 

Lori Ann Walker

Today and every day

The Spinster Chronicles is officially no more. 

I am not sure what to call this thing. 

I am having a hard time remembering what to call myself! 

Love always, 

Lori Ann Walker

Maybe together we can get somewhere

Less than 3 weeks until my wedding. 

I am not stressed really. 

I am NOT looking forward to being the center of attention. 

Which is why I am making the reception more of a fall festival feel than a "my big day" thing with endless traditions and spotlights, etc. 

I think I am more excited to just get my life started with Rich. 

I am going to get a giant white board and write our goals and our chores and our menu on it and I am looking forward to being a team. 

I don't self motivate easily. 

My new job is really cool. 

If I havent' mentioned it before I am working in mental health at Lehigh County Jail. 

It's the place they send people who are newly arrested and can't make bail or who are awaiting trial or who have a shorter sentence to serve. 

IT'S FASCINATING. 

I am also going to be working every saturday with the elderly a nursing care facility. 

My goal is to be out of debt by the end of 2017. 

Rich likes old stone PA houses too and I want us to be able to buy a run down one and fix it up, preserve the history, and have a place for our kids to think of as home. 

Anyway, I just wanted to update you. Because my one goal for this year on here is to blog more.

Lori Ann Hinsdale (for 20 more days!)

And still I dream

It's been seven years since I started this blog. 

Weird. 

I usually make a whole list of birthday goals for every new year and post them here but really, my only goal is to blog more. 

Its so fun being able to look back on memories that I had forgotten and days long past here on this blog. 

It's my nephew Jack's 14th birthday today! 

The first birthday I recorded of him on this blog was his 7th. 

Holy hannah, time flies by. 

I don't see my nieces and nephews often these days but when I do see Jack-Jack he is always making me laugh. 

He told me recently he was into cosplay but quickly clarified that "cosplay is NOT larp'ing!" 

He is probably going to be in the band next year when he starts HIGH SCHOOL....holy hannah. 

He loves to tell puns and jokes and his most recent one that I love was "The police reported that a psychic midget escaped from a mental hospital. They stated "There is a small meduim at large" :) 

I told him today that he remains, to this day, the most beautiful baby I have ever seen. 

I love Jack-Jack so much. 

He has such a good heart and is genuinely so funny and smart. 

I hope he has the best year of his life! 

(Because 14 tends to be pretty epic for most of us, eh?) 

When (or if) you read this one day, Jack-Jack...

You are incredible. 

You are unique in the best way.

You have always brought so much love and happiness to our family.

My life has been so much brighter since that beautiful October day you were born. 

I am soooo blessed to know you and be your aunt. 

Now...stop growing and getting older, thanks! 

Love always, 

Aunt Lori

She took all I ever had

This post is dedicated to my father. 

(and is being written as a stress outlet...sorry you are my target, old man!)

They say a lot of men, when their daughters marry, look at that daughter and see their little girl. 

My father sees this. 

As he watched me make my LITERALLY dollar store invitations by hand, he indicated that he felt I was too caught up in the party and the fussing and wanted way too much.

I needed to focus on the purpose of all of this. 

The marriage. 

For just one day I wish I could give that man ANY other daughter than the three he has. 

I think I will likely be able to bring this wedding in under 500 dollars total. 

My dress was 25, most of the food will be potluck, my cousins are helping with decor, the cake is a gift, and we are borrowing tables and chairs. 

Some people's invitations are more than my whole wedding will be. 

And I just wish he could live in that reality for a day. 

Back to your regularly scheduling blogging about cats and centerpieces later this week. 

Sincerely,

Lori

A father's worst nightmare aka bridezilla of the year!