Day One

today happiness is realizing that i can't possibly paint the whole house in the time i allotted myself. happiness is realizing that i am only one person and worrying about what is and isnt painted isnt the most horrible thing in the world to have to worry about.

happiness is finally making myself enjoy my sitting room. its a good glass of spotted dog wine, a new book, and my own spotted dog at my feet :)

its also not caring that im typing this on my blackberry and for some reason it won't let me capitalize letters.. let go!

xoxo,

mrs zupi

The Happiness Project

It seems like everyday we strive to do more, be more, and feel more. All I've ever wanted is to be happy, and that has sometimes been a challenge for me the past year. On the outside how could it be anything but happy? I got engaged, obtained a 'big girl' job, and eloped with my best friend. But certain losses in life have held me down. The introduction of planning a wedding along with going through other momentous life events was a struggle, looking back now. The inability to relax seems almost hereditary, but I can change that!



I have finally been feeling like myself again... happy, optimistic, ambitious, gratuitous, etc.



I know it might sound materialistic, but pulling into the driveway of our new house makes me grin from ear to ear. It's not that there's a house in front of me, rather a reflection of the hard work the past year or so I put in to be able to obtain it.



Being able to settle in to a space that really is just 'ours' has been wonderful. No landlord, no one teling us our dog is barking or that we can't paint the walls, and so on. I love hearing the people around me mow their yards and the birds chirping. I think the season of spring is allowing me to mentally, emotionally, and physically turn over a new leaf.



When I went to go check my email this morning, I saw the following link:

gretchenrubin.com/happiness/happiness.html

Gretchen Rubin spent a year striving for happiness, doing different things everyday in order to reach the level of happiness she desired. It definitely inspired me to start down my own path to hapiness project, which I will be documenting here from now on:)




On a different note, we are finally in our house and everything is slowly coming together! I will also be posting updates on that soo, too! :)


xoxo
mrs zupi

A Long Time Gone

Wow, it's been a while!

Mr. Zupi and I have had so much going on...

With school and work, we're always busy, but we added on the task of searching for a home!

The homebuying process was confusing, overwhelming and aggrivating... We found a house in our hometown in a cute little neighborhood, but due to a dealine we didn't know until the day we closed if we could actually close on it.

The house also came with tenants that did not move out when they were supposed to... so we've been in limbo since closing... two weeks ago. And on top of that, we have to figure out how to sub lease our apartment. We've come close a few times, but things seem to fall through at the last second. Crossing our fingers it will be someone else's this week!!

Unfortunately, we lost our lovely cat, DeMayo. It breaks my heart to think about him and his untimely death. He was only 4 years old and a virus presented itself all of a sudden, a problem that was out of our control. We brought him to the vet thinking he had an obstruction in his bowel and we could have him go for surgery to remove it, but it turns out he was going into kidney failure and had no obstuction. The vet told us that even is she had put him on fluids and a feeding tube and kept him in the clinic for a week, he still would have only had a 10% of survival. We had to do what waas best for him, but it has been really hard to process since he was so young and there was truly nothing I could have done to make it better. I miss him so much still.

DeMayo and our previously adopted cat, Angelo

I'm excited to move into our house- we get to move on St. Partick's Day, which is also the day of my cousin's bridal shower, so it'll be a very busy weekend! I can't wait to feel like my house is actually my house! After we are settled in, there will definitely be a trip to the Humane Society in our future. I would love to give an older cat a loving home, just as long as they can tolerate Remington!

More updates and pictures coming soon, promise!

-Mrs. Zupi