Today was a good day.

most of my friends know i have a slight obsession with weddingbee

it's a wonderful blog.

(we will ignore the fact that i read it almost a year and a half before i was engaged.)

they have some great contest from time to time and 

today i won their biggest contest yet. 

ladies and gentlemen i give you my new mattress

that's right--it's a vera wang/serta. plus i get her snazzy new book SIGNED.

i did a wonderful happy dance.

and then called jordan. who promptly asked me who vera wang was.

hung up and called me mum. who knew who vera wang was.

it was a good day.

march is women's history month. i'm going to try to come up with a list of women each week who i admire for one reason or another, starting with my favorite women authors, whom i love for their works or personality

1. Jane Austen- love love love her. currently reading northanger abbey. 
2. Ayn Rand- the fountainhead is one of my favorite books. trying to read atlas shrugged.
3. Meg Cabot- great author with a great personality. i read her blog a a lot. she's very real and i can relate to a lot of what she writes (minus being a teen pop star, saving the president, and becoming a princess)
4. Emily Dickinson- one of my favorites poets in the world. read "heart we will forget him". beautiful
5. Charlotte Gilman- wrote my favorite short story ever, the yellow wallpaper, it's very good. active feminist, with women's mental health in mind. 
6. Maureen Johnson- i have read more than one book by her, but i have mentioned her in my blog before. loving the jk rowling references, hating the fact she was banned in my town's mid-high, on my list of my million books to read at the library
7. Margaret Mitchell- gone. with. the. wind. 
8. Elizabeth Kostova- awaiting a new novel from her. loved the historian. one of the best books. pausing now to check amazon for new works. please hold.....nothin'

it's one am! i am going to sleep. more lists later.