Welcome to goldiestereo.com!

It’s a new day! It’s the 4th of July, a day to celebrate freedom, life and  liberty and I can definitely say we are all about that around here. Welcome to my new blog! For the past several years I’ve had a little blog called Word On The Street Is and before that it was called Non Sequitor. It represents many seasons in my life from a single girl living in an apartment downtown working in the music business industry to finding the love of my life and getting married getting out of the music biz and settling down into the 9-5 world. Somewhere along the way during those seasons a little spark of a dream started for a new blog. You are looking at the reality of that dream! After years of day dreaming about it I can finally say…..welcome to Goldiestereo.com.

So let me tell you a little bit about me and how I hope this blog will be different and what I’d like to do with it. First of all I’m Meridith. I’m 36 and married to the hillarious, sweet and wonderful Nathan Smart. We live in a small apartment near OSU in Columbus, OH and we are expecting our first baby any day now! I’m 39 weeks pregnant as of today! Nathan works a full time job and goes to school full time. I am now officially on Maternity Leave from my job as an Executive Assistant at a Marketing Agency. We are on the precipice of so much change and a whole new life so what better time to start a brand new site?? Right?

So, I wanted to start goldiestereo.com for a couple reasons. I have a huge desire to find the beauty in every day life and I firmly believe that it’s possible to live a full rich life of beauty, art, music and so much more without spending a ton of money. With a husband full time in school and a baby on the way we are certainly going to have to pinch our pennies. It will be an adventure to say the least and not to mention challenging but I’m up for it and I’m inviting you to come on this journey with me and hopefully we can all learn and grow as we go along. I’m no stranger to saving money! We planned our own wedding with a budget of less than $3,000 and it was the wedding of our dreams. You can do it too! I’ll be talking alot about that here as I share my wedding with you and the weddings of other friends who had budgets of $3,000 or less. Our apartment is decorated from Craigslist finds and Ikea furniture and I could not be happier with how it turned out. Our nursery was the latest project and it was alot of fun. I’ll be sharing pictures and showing you great deals I find on Craigslist and around the web. There are a ton of Mommy blogs out there that can tell you the best way to save with coupons, I’m just learning about that and I don’t want to create another site like that but I’ll be trying it out and I’ll let you know how it goes. I have alot more ideas too but that’s enough to give you an idea of where we are headed in the months to come! I hope to make alot of new friends here, find old friends and basically make this site a friendly place where new ideas are shared, beauty and love are celebrated and life is lived to it’s fullest. It’s a little scary putting yourself out there like this to share your life and ideas but my sincere hope is that it will be an encouragement to others and that my experiences can be of use to someone else.

Let’s raise a glass and toast to new beginnings today! Thanks for stopping by!!!