Nightmares

I had dreams last night that I had forgotten to do important things for the wedding, like go bridesmaid dress shopping, and left the wedding dress at home and had to wear a  bridesmaids dress instead. As if.

We're poor... for now. Trying to cut spending, and we've been doing a good  job. I shouldn't have bought new boots last weekend. Damn me. But other than that, rent's paid, bills are paid, and Hann has Xmess presents. So worse comes to worse, we'll be fine. And we can always get food from my rent's if need be. We're not quite there yet.

I want to put my bangs back and grow my hair out I think. I've been growing out my bangs for over a year, but I'm not digging my hair as much as I thought I would, and I really feel much cuter with bangs. What if I cut them  back and regret it though? The way I'm regretting cutting my hair off in September. Oh well. I called Mom to see if she'd ask Stacy to do it. I don't want to risk Great Clips again, and I'd rather not pay for a haircut considering the state of financial affairs. I'm sure she gets requests like that all the time though. I'd do it myself but I think I'm avoiding cutting my own hair (or letting Great Clips do it - as I'd argue who could do a better job) until after the nupts. after that - screw it.

Another week of work awaits. Only 13 days left til a WHOLE week off of work though. I'm going to try to sleep til noon as many times as possible :)

Gobble Gobble

Thanksgiving is done! And it was delicious! Mom did a stand up job, as always, and Mike and I were both fully food coma'd. He's on the phone now with LeAnne, who had a crazy experience at the cemetery today visiting Michael. I'm thankful it turned out okay.

I'm starting to think about registering and I'm getting bugged out over plates. I though for sure Crate and Barrel would have cute stuff, but I just looked online and honestly, nothing was really thrilling. I found these rad insulated glasses, but I don't think they'd last very long in our care. Then I found these cool Jason Miller plates that you can only find online, and are  $430 for 4 place settings. Ummmm, no.

I do think Mom makes a good point about people wanting the registry before Xmas so I might end up dragging Mike out before New Years. Also a plus, they'll be up for post Xmas clearance.... so that might be a good thing too.

I'm thinking of having a bbq/fire thing tomorrow in the back yard to see our friends we've not seen in a long time. I was hoping to go out tonight and go dancing but we're really trying to save money and the drive is SO far. Both of us were too full to think about 40 minutes in the car and drinking beers. Ahhhh the suburbs and their ability to suck out one's social life. Oh well. Unsocial life is very bueno too. I luv hanging out with my snuggle bunnies.

Back to internet browsing.

Centerpieces?

I'm realizing that I think the centerpieces might scare me the most. is that lame? What if they're dumb? Does anyone really even care? And is it dumb that I don't want cliche red roses? I mean with ALL the flowers in the world, I'm SURE I can find something more unique and prettier than dumb roses. I mean, roses are okay, but I feel like they feel so matronly.

I had panics driving in today about flying up to Pittsburgh in January for Kate's baby shower. What if my plane crashes? Mike would be left without me. At least when we go to Chicago in April we'll be together if the plane crashes. 2 years ago, Mike's cousin and her fiance were in a car accident and the fiance died. That poor girl thought she'd found her one, and he was taken from her before they even had a chance to start. So not fair, and I don't want to do that to Mike. He says he'd be less worried about me flying, but I've driven to Pittsburgh several times, and I'd take a friend, and probably a dog... I think it'd be fine and FUN. Plus save us $200 we don't have on a plane ticket...

Just avoiding the work... I should work though.

2 days til TURKEY PIG OUT and 80S DANCING WITH MY LORDS!!!

I'm busted

Mike found out about my "Secret Blog" last night, so I'm busted. I guess that means I don't have to stop writing when he comes in the room now!

We have our wedding location SEALED! It's the Whitlock Inn, just off the Square, in Marietta. It's an old southern home that was made into a 5 room B&B, and they have weddings there. It's got a cute garden/yard in the back where we'll have the ceremony (weather permitting - Hmmmm do we have a tent ready to go in case of rain?) and a big dining room with a dance floor inside.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roxyrazor/sets/72157622673981907/

I'm really excited that we have that part settled. I guess at some point we'll have to look at which food we'll have but I'm sure Mom and Dad will want a large say in that. They're foodies.

We have some ideas about our invitations and save the dates, but I don't think we need to start on that, or the rest of it until after New Years. However, those bridal websites say we're behind. They don't know. I hope?

Hann started Thanksgiving break yesterday, so we took her to spend a week in Nashville. The house is quiet without her, and Zorak slept by my feet last night cuz he misses his girl. It's a rainy Sunday, and I think we're going to have the lazies. Maybe some cleaning involved, and for sure a short supply run, and maybe brunch from Taco Bell? Gonna ask the Hunny, as he is now awake.

Ohh but if we had bacon I could totally go for pancakes and eggs. NOMz.

Newest Update - Nutty

I haven't been here to update the blog in over a week, I know. Things have been crazy.

We DID finally pick a location for the wedding, and the date is OFFICIALLY July 10th, 2010! No to pick what kind of Save the Dates we'll send out! We're having it at the Whitlock Inn in Marietta. It's super cute. I'm now waiting for them to call back and tell me we've been penciled in until the head girl comes back Wednesday, when we hope to sign the contract. YAY.


The Engagement party from Mom in December is off. She canceled it because Ed and Sue can't manage to come up for it in December, so yeh, we're not having it. Would've been fun but oh well. We kinda have more than enough things on our plate, and I'm sure New Years will be here before we know it.

We've had the weird situation with the neighbors up the street. I still don't know how that's going to shake out but whatever it is that happens, I hope the girls are okay. It's not fair what they've been put through so far, and it'd be nice if they could have some sort of normalcy moving forward.

Forrest Hills, pt. 2

Okay, so the visit went really well. I like the mountains, and it's just beautiful up there. They don't have the 10th available though, and we were hoping for that day. We could do the 31st, but we're scared that school might start the week after and that's just too much chaos right before school.

So on the way back home, we drove by the River Landing to take a peek... but there was a wedding going on! Imagine that! On a Saturday! Whoops... Going to try to swing by again tomorrow.

So for now, I try to look for more possible venues. I wish that Forrest Hills would work out, but if it's not meant to be, so be it.

My ring was done being resized today, so we picked it up, and I'm now typing with my forever left ring finger :) :) :) Oh, happy day

Forrest Hills!

We're getting ready to head off to our first venue visit! It's about 1.5 hours north of here in the mountains. I went up a few years back for Melissa and Russ's wedding, and remember thinking the drive up was GORGEOUS. I can't wait to get back up there! I bet the leaves changing colors right now are beautiful.

Slight drama on the parental front, but I'm beginning to think it's why they're here, right? I wish I could afford to just pay it all myself so that any unsolicited advice or suggestions could be ignored, but it's not the case. I told Mike today it's still not too late to elope, and he reminded me there are 35 weeks left.

I still don't have my ring back, I've got my fingers x'd that they'll call today. We'll likely not be back by 4p to pick it up, so I think I'm still ringless until Tuesday. Oh well. I have the remainder of the rest of my life to wear it. So this naked finger won't be so much longer!!

Paper shopping!

We had our first night out last night as an engaged couple! We went to see Mastodon and Dethklok, and it was awesome. Trey went with us, and it was awesome to hang out with him too. I wish I had my ring back, but maybe by tomorrow. I'd like to have it back before we go look at the Mountain place tomorrow, but I know it's really not a big deal.
But it's awesome:

And I miss it :)


Today we go paper shopping! Mike's going to screenprint our paper items for the wedding, which I think will be super rad, and unique. So we're going to go checkout/price what the paper's going to run. I'm sure it'll save us TONS, cuz I know there's a premium on these sorts of things. And don't get me wrong, the pros do a great job, but with as artist as my Hunny is, I think we'll be able to do something equally as rad.

Banana spent the night with Mom last night, and I think she's staying with her friend Rachel tonight. It's so quiet without my favorite fruity around. I still hope we get to go out for our Friday Night Mexis though.

AND she was super bummed about not going to the show last night, BUT - we're going to take her to see MC Chris next Thursday. I think that will make up for it. I hope. She's a good girl, and I LOVE that we all have common musical interests and such. It's so much more awesome than if she liked country music, or the Disney-branded faux bands. That'd be super hard to swallow.

I'm so torn about what to do with our hair too. We both got really bad 'trims' last weekend at Great Clips. I totally had more faith in them to do a better job than they did. I should've just done it for us... it'd have been a better outcome, i'm sure. SO, i'm going to make appointments for us to get REAL haircuts in a couple of weeks from Kim Stacy. She's out in Alpharetta, and since Creepy moved, we need to find someone new to go to. Then, we both need color updates, and Hann wants to go blonder, but I don't feel I could get it the color she wants at this point without bleach. And I don't want to KILL her hair so she doesn't have to be in the position to cut it all off. No one likes to be forced to chop their hair. Then, i'm having the same dilemma with my own. I've been trying to gradually go lighter, with bleach, knowing full well i'm totally destroying my hair, but since we both have stuff to look forward to in the next year that we should have AWESOME hair for, i'm contemplating just getting the color done professionally. Which will cost us like $300, that we don't really have right now to throw around.

OOOOOH the decisions to make! I'm sure it'll all figure itself out.

First appointment!

We set our first appointment today for viewing a wedding venue! I'm excited. The Forrest Hills Mountain Lodge is rad. Melissa and Russ were married there, and it was SO much fun. Plus it's absolutely beautiful up in the mountains. The hard part is that I don't exactly how much to budget for. But hopefully that will get squared away soon. Mike and I have an appointment to go look Saturday afternoon. I can't wait to see it again. However, I did crunch some numbers from the information that they sent, and keep sending, over and over again - I think there's some sort of bug - and it's SO expensive. Especially for all the people we're inviting.

There's a back-up option at the Roswell River Landing, and it's a fraction of the expense of the Mountain one, but not as much is included. And I have no clue how much it costs to cater something.

35 weeks...



Also, I got a new computer today. Still getting used to the keyboard but so far, it's way less a pain in the arse.

Election Day?

Hann's out of school today, and on the drive in, I realized it's for voting! However, I've spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out if my district has voting today, and if so, then for what roles. I can't figure it out. City of Marietta has School Board elections, but I think we're Cobb County, and NOT City of Marietta Schools. Oh civil responsibility, how burdensome you've become.

Mike keeps reminding me we have at LEAST 35 weeks left to plan for the nuptials, but I can't help but do SOMETHING. I mean, there's SO MUCH TO DO, right??

So today, I will listen to Pandora (because my iPod sh!t the bed), and start keeping a list. I know Mike has songs in mind too, but I get to do mine first. He has all his on iTunes.

ENGAGED!

I figure since i started this blog thing, I should probably use it. And this being the "official" very beginning to our life together, despite the almost 2 years leading us up to this point, I should do something to document it. I know what people always say about being engaged/wedding: "Cherish it, because you'll blink and it'll be over." I think this should be my little way of being able to remember and not lose the tiniest little nugget of this experience.

So at this point, we're ENGAGED! YAY!

Thursday night, Mike met me outside when I pulled in from work. He does this often, so I didn't think anything of it until I noticed he was carrying roses! When I asked why I got roses, he dropped down on one knee and asked if I'd be his wife! OF COURSE!

He gave me absolutely the most beautiful ring I've ever seen. If I can figure out how to, I'll post my pictures. I was totally shocked but have known for some time that Mike's the only guy for me, forever.

We're starting the preliminary plans for the ceremony and WOW there are tons of details!

Blog #1

We have a life together. Sometimes it's exciting, and sometimes not!

I want to remember all of it, though, so I started this.