Magazine Fiasco

Yayyyy, tomorrow is Friday!! I am pumped and ready for the weekend! Do you have any fun plans? We have a housewarming party and a cook-out to attend, but other than that we plan on relaxing! I'm really looking forward to it.

I mentioned a few times in my previous posts about a "magazine fiasco" that I wanted to share with you. Here's the story!

I traveled A LOT with my previous job, all around the country. It was such an awesome experience and I am so grateful for it! When we decided it was time to move closer to my husband's territory for work, I wasn't that sad about leaving my job. I was ready to be home more and ready for the next big adventure. I gained a TON of airline miles the year of 2007-2008. I was traveling from the East Coast to Arizona, California and Vegas on a semi-regular basis which allowed me to strike up a bundle-load of miles. After I left my job and we moved, I completely forgot about my miles. Two weeks ago when we were visiting my parent's house my dad gave me a stack of mail that had been sent to me at their house (I feel like my parent's will still be getting my mail even when I'm fifty, poor things). I had about five letters all geared towards redeeming my airline miles before they expired. Unfortunately, by the time I read the letters, I had TWO days left. None of the rewards really seemed too exciting at that point, I think we missed the boat on the big ones. One of the letters was about turning in my points for magazine subscriptions, some of them were up to four year subscriptions! My husband got really excited about this, and I did too, at first.

I really try my hardest to keep our new house uncluttered. I love the feeling of having "less" and having a place for everything. I know this will all change once we have kids, of course hoping God blesses us with children, but for now, "clutter-free" is my motto. All I could think about was a house FILLED with magazines, EVERY WHERE. If you even have, for example, six magazine subscriptions per year, that is six magazines per month, times tweleve...and, well, all I can picture is a house filled to the brim with magazines.

We were sitting on the couch considering our options and he said, "I think it would be fun!" And he's right. They had some great magazines options, and for a few years we will have ample reading material for ourselves and our house guests. Yet, I still laugh nervously at the thought of what is to come. I do have a plan though, to get a decorative (large) basket to leave in the living room, and that will forever now be our designated magazine holder.

Ladies, behold what will be coming to our house on a monthly basis from now on.

ELEVEN magazine subscriptions!! I can't help but laugh! Luckily, there are some really good ones. We picked them out together making sure we were pretty even with our choices and the ones we knew we would both read. I was a little surprised they didn't have an ESPN option for the hubs, but luckily they had golf. I'm really excited about Bon Appetit and Martha Stewart Living; I'll let you know if I get some great recipes! Looks like we have some major reading cut out for us!! Too funny.

Happy Thursday! Enjoy your weekends!!