Where Art Thou My Wednesday?

So here I am at the eve of "Moving Day" and I can barely contain myself! Shawn is set to leave Florida at 8 A.M. and arrive here at 10 A.M. and until then I am literally sitting around doing nothing. I actually have a lot to do because I leave Thursday for a wedding in Virginia and I still haven't packed but I just can't find the strength to do anything but constantly check his flight status and make sure dumb things like ice, wind and snow don't delay him. Some of you may not fully understand the magnitude of this move but it's huge! We have been dating for 3 months now (Such a loooooong time) and we have seen each other 6 times! Every time we have been able to be together has been absolutely beautiful but some of the things you want to do as a couple like movies, concerts, shows, dinners, etc. sometimes don't happen for us because we use every moment to just sit and drink each other in. So I am so excited that starting tomorrow at 10 we can do real couple things. Ya know? I'm already planning movies, and dinners, and surfing Ticketmaster for interesting shows. And I'm not the only one who's excited. Julianna just came in room and said "Ally I'm sooo excited! Can tomorrow hurry up and come? I can't take it!" I swear that's what she said. She's excited because she finally gets to meet little Shawn (who's her age) and she is already talking about all the things they can do together...UGH!!! Wednesday where are you? Where oh, where has my Wednesday gone? Where oh where can it be?!!!!!!!!!

Mary Poppins-Until August at least

A few post back I posted about quitting my job and coming home to work for my dad. Well that started this week Monday and without going through all the sorted details...I am no longer working for my dad :-) So this week I've just had a kick back, watch Oprah and sleep week. I wasn't stressiong too much over finding a job because Shawn will be here Wednesday. (YAY!) but yesterday afternoon my mom told me about a family in our neighborhood with a set of twins (girl and boy) who were looking for a nanny until August. So I went down and met with her today and she seems very nice and the kids are beautiful so I start on the 6th. It's perfect because they only need me until August anyway. I work from now until June off for two weeks and then the month of July. The are planning on hiring an Au pair come August, however I did say that if the Au pair didn't work out that I could continue you to do it with them September, stopping October and then starting November until they found someone else. I don't have to, but I figure after I get married with little Shawn in school and Shawn working, I may just be a tad bit bored. But then again who knows. We'll see how it goes. I love having all these options.

Wedding Update

Time for a wedding post!! The last time I posted I posted with a fall theme, but after getting my dress I have decided to do more of an art deco/old Hollywood glamour feel. That required changing the colors of course. My original vision was to do all black & white, black dresses, black table clothes and all white flowers. But after I thought about it I decided to make the girls dresses Cranberry. The dresses will be the only red used (if I can help it) but the reception will be completely black and white. The following collection of pictures are some are my favorite ideas

Wedding invitation ribbon will be darker. Invite is custom made.

The pictures up top will be ours of course ;-)

Ceremony aisle decoration. A MUST

Church Door Decorations/Reception Door Decorations

Dance floor monogram. Centerpieces, but white flowers and the marbles will be clear. Table clothes will be black

Flower Girl Dress

Flower Girl Dress

Flower Girl Dress

Bridesmaid Dresses in Cranberry

Open Letter to Britney Spears

A few months ago I wrote about Britney Spears on MySpace blog after watching her interview with Matt Laurer. In the interview that I'm sure all of you saw. Britney genuinely expressed sadness over the way the paparazzi and the rest of the world was scrutinizing her and her behavior. After wathcing it I have to admit that I felt bad for her. She really was (or did seem) like a normal person trying to make her marriage work, raise her 1.5 kids, and revive her career. But as of late Britney has seriously hit rock bottom again and this time we can't blame it on Kevin Federline. My understanding of her after she married Kevin was that she married into serious trash and he was dragging her down, but I don' t think that was the case. I remember when I was younger and sharing a room with my sister that my parents always used to get on us about how our room was always messy. My sister always blamed it on me, and I of course always blamed it on her. But after awhile my parents finally separated us and the culprit of the messy room was finally found out. I hate to admit it, but it was me. So that has got me thinking. Maybe Kevin wasn't Britney's problem. Maybe she's always been crazy, but we chose to ignore it. After the split I was elated! Finally old Britney would be back, I'll even admit I was holding out for a Justin reunion. In the beginning things looked promising, but things are starting to fall again and guess what? Kevin is nowhere around! What could possibly be the explanation of her down fall? The stress of raising two kids? But we hardly ever see her with them. The criticism of the press? But if she just stopped acting crazy they wouldn't be as extreme. The lack of love in her life? Again on her, that underwear model she was with Isaac Something had an interview in a celebrity weekly like two weeks ago saying how needy she was. So what is it? Maybe she's just plain Crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzy, like her song "Crazy, I just can't sleep..." Wait! I got it maybe she should just sleep...Sleeping solves everything.

Open letter to Britney Spears:

Dear Ms. Spears,

After evaluating you current behavior antics I have decided that the best form of treatment would be to take one Xanax and take a long nap, maybe for about a week. Hand your two little babies off to one of you 20 nannies and when you awake on February 24th, go to your nearest wig store and fix your hair. By then you should be as good as new.

Signed with love,
A concerned Ex-Fan

More Pictures

Our Story

It’s a tale as old as time, true as can be…Boy meets girl, boy falls head over heels in love, girl swoons every time she hears his name. Boy proposes marriage…And they live happily ever-after. Our story goes a little something like that but there are a few more details to be added. We live in a world that is operated by a little website called MySpace. One day in October 2006, Shawn got a little bored and decided to search MySpace’s vast memberships to find old friends. Shawn stumbled on his old private schools member list after searching page after page he found my picture. According to Shawn my picture caught his attention and he decided to email me. At first he was not certain who was. But as soon as I received his email I remembered who he was. You see Shawn and I used to go the same private school way back when. We didn’t interact much and probably never even spoke, but I knew who he was and once I told him my name and who my parents were he remembered me. We quickly became friends and talked every day on instant message for hour and hours. After a few IM exchanges and emails we decided that the next time Shawn had to go to NY he would stop in Maryland and we would hang out, but it was strictly just a friend’s thing. Wink. Wink. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to be more then friends with him, but he made it very clear from the beginning that a relationship was not something he was interested in. We had scheduled our first weekend together for the weekend of his birthday (November 17th) that trip was cancelled because he got called to Atlanta for work. I was disappointed but he promised that we would get together. Things again progressed with our 7 hour phone “dates” and by the end of November we both knew that we had been kidding ourselves and that this was more then just a friendship, we had something and it was worth exploring. Shawn and I finally saw each other for the first time December 3, 2006 at 12:30 AM. When I first saw him I knew it was love and there was no going back no matter how hard I wanted to fight it, I couldn’t. He was the one, plain and simple. It’s been a quick and wild ride for the two of us but we know that God’s hand is on our lives and that He ordained this. Only God can reunite two people after 13 + years and make it feel like only minutes have gone by.

NY & Proposal Pictures

My Lover
On our way home...Tired & And in Love

After he proposed in Studio D

Studio D

The set-up

He's soooo cute

He's ALL mine :-D

$60 Breakfast

Flexing his muscles and trying to get the wireless internet hooked up

Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes

$18 Milk

My Favorite

Times Square

View from room 1

View from room 2

View 3

Lovely and soft bed

At Virgils

My ring exactly.

1 carat round diamond in white gold.

I'm trying to get a clear picture to come out.

As soon as I do (which will be later today) I'll post it.

I'm engaged

I'm engaged!!!! Yes, Yes...Shawn official proposed in NYC on Valentines Day....It's was amazing!!! Some of you may be little perplexed because you thought I already was engaged, and I kinda sorta was. But, Shawn and I started dating in November and sometime around Christmas we decided we wanted to get married, so we set the date (October 12th) and began to plan. But there are so many details leading up to the BIG day so I want to tell you all of them

So we decided that we would go to NYC for Valentines Day. For two reasons: 1. In all the silly boys I have entertained in the past I have never been with anyone who cared much about V-day. So Shawn wanted to make my first special. And 2. Shawn wanted me to see his NY life. In case you don't know. Shawn is 1/2 of the music production team called Arkitects. They are just breaking into the big scene and working with major artists. Chris Brown, Xhibit, Beyonce, Usher, Jeannie Ortega, Neyo, Omarion, Movies-Take the Lead, Gridiron Gang, and TV (MTV, WB *Beauty & The Geek, BET). The also have a publishing contract with EMI and a room at Sony. The vice-president of Sony, Brian McKenna, is one of their managers. So Shawn really wanted me to see the way his "work" operated.





Our First Day


So we left for NY Tuesday AM. When we got there of course it was freezing cold, but I was so excited. We checked into our hotel. The Millennium Broadway (Smack dab in the middle of Times Square), which was a 4 star and really nice. Our room was on the 47th floor and had an amazing view of Times Square. After we checked in and laid around we went across the street to Virgil's were we had the most AMAZING Pulled Pork BBQ sandwich, mmmmm....Then came the fun part, we hailed a cab and headed over to Sony. When we went in everyone was so excited to see Shawn. The security guard and receptionist let us go right in without searching our bags (which they normally do). Then we headed up to his managers office. Brian McKenna who like I said is V.P. (his wife does something over at Virgin). Very nice guy. He was telling us insider stories of the Grammies and some other big things Sony is about to do (which I can't mention). And throwing around big amount of money that will be coming to the Arkitects this year. Then we went down to Shawn's room. His partner Marshall and him share a room in Sony. Sony does not normally allow producers to use studios and rooms free of charge (especially if the producer is not signed to Sony, Which the Arkitects are not, they are with EMI) but Sony so believes in them they have their own room to do whatever they like, all they have to do is get the artists to record at Sony which is no hard to task. I heard when I got there that Usher, LL Cool J, and Cassie were all there recording. I actually got to preview one of Usher's new songs, which is going to be awesome! So after we left Sony we went down to Magnolia's Bakery (Featured in US weekly and episodes of Sex & The City) They have awesome cupcakes after we got our cupcakes we went down to ground zero to try and see some of the stuff down there. I didn't get to see much, but there is a massively deep hole. After leaving the Upper East Side, we went back to TS where we walked around a little bit before going back to our room to order $18 milk to go with our cupcakes. Yeah when the bell boy brought our milk and I signed the receipt I almost passed out! $18 for milk!?!?!

Valentines Day/Proposal

Wednesday was Valentines Day and also the day he proposed and according to him everything that happened was designed to throw me off even to going to NY and calling proposals on V-Day cheesy. So at like 6 AM Shawn gets up and says he needs to go to the front desk to make sure my present will be delivered. According to him, my present was so big he had to have it shipped from Florida. So while he was gone I ordered us breakfast, and when he got back we ate it watched the Today show and just hung out. At like 10 we finally got up and started getting ready. While we were getting ready I get a text message from this guy I used to talk to wishing me happiness on V-Day. So Shawn thought it was really retarded that this guy texts me on V-Day knowing I had a boyfriend. So Shawn picks this fake fight with me to throw me off his trail. All I'm thinking the whole time is, "Oh my gosh! I can't believe he is acting like this" So finally after about a half hour we make up and move on. Then he says to me that he really hopes I like my present because he's not sure if it will go with my style and how he had asked all these women to try it on and such and really hopes I like it. At this point, I'm thinking it's a purse or Manolo's. When we finally get outside it's like 2 degrees with inches and inches of snow and in the cab he says "Your present is really good for a day like today" So I'm thinking, Rubber boots, an umbrella, or coat, And I can't lie that I was a little disappointed at that. Then we headed over to Sony again passing all the studios where LL, Usher, and Cassie were recording and went down to his office. He leaves me in there saying he need to go talk to Brian and he would be back. After like 10 minutes he called and says he went to pick up my present. After about 45 minutes he comes back and we go across the street to get lunch. I was just thinking everything was normal and rambling on and on, and he kept saying "I love you so much" And that's when I thought something was up because he kept saying it, but I quickly dismissed that because I knew he said it wouldn't happen until after V-Day. So he hurries me through lunch because he wanted to give me a tour of the studios but had to do it before 5 because Usher had booked 3 more rooms. So we walk back through the huge maze that is Sony to Studio D. Little did I know that I sat upstairs all that time waiting for Katharine McPhee to finish a session so he could go in and set up. So we get down stairs and he makes me wait outside. Then he brings me in the vocal booth and sits me down at the baby grand. He goes into the other room (forgot the name) where the mixing board, and all the equipment was. In between the vocal booth and the sound room is long glass windows. And in the other room I can see candles and flowers. So I say "Aww..Can I go in?" and he's like "Not yet" So I sit down and wait all the while just thinking he's finishing setting up some elaborate set up to give me my coat. After about 10 minutes he comes and gets me and makes me close my eyes, so I guides me in the room and I can tell it was dark and makes me push a button. When I push the button Ciara's song "Promise" starts playing (which has history with us) and I open my eyes and I'm in front of the huge $1.8 million board of buttons and lights, then I turn around and there are two pictures of us and candles and flowers set up with a card. At this point I was a little suspicious because I didn't see a big box. So I read the card and the first thing I saw on the left side was this heart that said "Marry me?" but I didn't think anything of is because he says that all the time, so I start reading the card and when I was finished I turn around to hug him and he's like "So will you marry me?" And he takes my right hand to put the ring on and I was like "Uh, wrong hand...Oh my gosh! Are you serious!" I was completely and utterly in shock! I just keep saying oh my gosh, oh my gosh, then one of Usher's writers came down and we had to get ready to go because we needed to head home because his flight back to FL left early Thursday AM.

All in all it was exactly what I wanted and waaaaaaaay more then imagined! Engaged life, actually does feel different. I knew we were getting married I even knew when but now it's like. "Ok. It's on!" Also while he was here we decided that he was going to move here to MD. I am so happy about that because if you have ever been in a long distance relationship you now how hard it can be. So Shawn will send Little Shawn up here in about 2 weeks and then he will follow. It's a really good move because then after we get married I can still be close to my family, and it will allow Shawn to go back and forth to NY more frequently for work. Also it provides us with built in babysitters for his son (who has full custody of) Shawn, so I can travel with him for work. Probably with in the next two years we will go to NY. We talked about going now but if we do I would have to work, Arkitects is doing so good that after we are married I won't have to work, unless I'm bored. What we may do is buy or rent a small apartment up there for him to have when he goes (which is about 2 weeks out of the month) So if your faced with having to work and not having to work, which one are you going to choose? Speaking of work I quit my job Monday!!! I've been thinking about it for a few months now and finally decided to do it. My boss got to be more stress then he was worth. I've been so excited planning the wedding (and the future of being job-less) that I was antsy and couldn't sit still anymore. So now I will be working from home for my dad which is great because it will allow me to go back and forth to FL until Shawn gets here and I will even be able to go with him for work to Miami, NY, and LA.

Very excited!!!!!

This is the future Mrs. Campbell signing off....

October 12th~~~