11.11.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:39 pm by paul
All of the blood, sweat, and tears, and we’re finally married! OK, that was a little exaggeration on my part, but the wedding’s over, the honeymoon is progressing nicely (in fact, it’s almost over, too; we’re flying back out of San Francisco tomorrow morning at 10:40 AM).
So, a brief recap (most of which will be out of order chronologically):
We got married! The ceremony started at 2:00 on November 3rd, and while I’m not sure exactly when I said “I do,” the reception lasted until about 5:30 (give or take). After a brief interlude where Heather and I changed back into our street clothes (tuxedoes and wedding dresses are nice for a while, but eventually they’re just heavy and hot clothes that you don’t want to be wearing any more), we escaped to my newly-decorated truck. A quick stop at the Shell station down the road, and we were on our way to the bed & breakfast where we spent the night. If you’re married, I highly recommend the place; Lockheart Gables in fort Worth, TX. I say “If you’re married” because they deal exclusively with married couples; if there’s no ring, there’s no room 
It was a fabulous room, all decorated as a combination of standard Victorian, music, and presidents. The bed was a converted grand piano (steps to get into the bed, because it was so high off of the ground), and very comfortable to boot. The bathroom was wallpapered in old sheet music, and there was a very comfortable heart-shaped jacuzzi. We spent quite some time in that jacuzzi relaxing all of our wedding stress away. There were cookies and fresh lemonade waiting for us when we arrived, and breakfast was amazing; we had ham & cheese omelettes with a heart-shaped cinnamon roll, with fresh coffee and orange juice.
Our flight was very long, but on the midland-to-las vegas leg, we had excellent seats; the plane was mostly empty, so I snagged the seat in the emergency exit row that only had two chairs, and Heather sat behind me next to the window, for the massive extra leg room. When we finally arrived at our hotel, we were surprised at how small the room was; I think we were both expecting something a little bigger, but for the price it was bearable. We actually had a last-minute room change for the first couple of days, because they’d painted the room we were supposed to be in, but the fumes hadn’t cleared yet. We moved into the “right” room on Tuesday morning, and it’s a little bigger, with a MUCH more comfortable mattress (the old one practically broke our backs).
Let’s see. Much fun doing tourist-y things around San Francisco, many tasty meals. We bought “city passes” on Monday morning, which is a full 7 days’ Muni pass (i.e., unlimited rides on the busses, street cars, and cable cars) plus tickets into the two aquariums, the Exploratorium, and some other things we didn’t do. The Exploratorium was excellent; lots of kids that we had to dodge, but still the best science museum that I’ve ever visited.
Hmmm, restaurants, let’s see:
E’Angelo is excellent Italian food, over in the Marina district. Fair prices, and the food is “to die for” (to use that over-worked expression). the owner/manager is from Udine (which is north of Venice), and Heater eavesdropped a bit on the conversations between the waitstaff. It’s not a big restaurant; the tables are pretty close together. But the food totally makes up for it.
We also ate at Bubba Gump’s; we tried pretty hard to avoid chain restaurants for the most part, but we were down on Pier 43 and were both very hungry, so we splurged. Very good food, but I just couldn’t finish my last few fried shrimp.
For breakfast, we ate mostly at small diners near our hotel downtown; Dottie’s is excellent food, but unless you’re one of the first people there when they open their doors at 7:30, you’ll have a bit of a wait ahead. The foor was excellent, but most of the time we were so hungry that it just wasn’t worth the wait. We ate at the Pinecrest diner 2 or 3 times, and at Lori’s diner (which is apparently at least a local chain) a couple of times as well.
Max’s restaurant also provided us with a good bit of food a couple of times; once for lunch/dinner, and once for breakfast. Heather had some tasty Eggs Benedict, and I had a corned beef hash that was passable (but not really as good as I was expecting).
Uncle Vito’s Pizza was a welcome stop near the cable car museum (which we also toured; check out Heather’s gallery, either here once I’ve set it up or on Picasa).
We ate at Fog City Diner one afternoon for lunch, although I didn’t realize how far away it was, and we walked instead of taking the street car; a decision I would definitely make differently if I were to have the chance again. It’s a long way from Pier 43 to that place. The food was good, if not on the pricy side, and the mac & cheese that Heather got was apparently the best she’d ever eaten.
We also ate at the luxurious Bisto Boudin down on Fisherman’s Wharf; the food was overpriced (17 bucks for a hamburger?) but still very tasty, and both of our sandwiches were served on delicious Boudin Bakery bread products. We went on the bakery tour after lunch, and saw the history of the Boudin Bakery, how they actually saved their business during the 1906 earthquake by scooping up the sourdough mother dough into a bucket as the building burned down around them. And then we learned about how bread works (specifically sourdough, but it extends to just about any other yeast-leavened bread as well). And then we got to the bread tasting room; yum! I highly recommend this tour, if only so you can taste the yummy products at the end. If they have it, I recommend the pecan pumpkin butter.
This afternoon, we ate at Kishi Tsuru, a nice Japanese restaurant in Japan Town. I had some delicious Tekka Maki (that’s tuna rolls) and some beef udon soup, and heather had a combination platter that included rice, miso soup, chicken terriyaki, and some kind of beef that I can’t remember other than it being very tasty. The complimentary green tea was also very good, and hot at the table right after we sat down.
On Tuesday morning, right after switching hotel rooms (and off of that horrible mattress in room 204), we headed uptown and got a pair of “serious back and neck” massages. I’ve never had a massage before, but after that 30 minutes was over, I was extremely relaxed, and my back and neck felt better than they had in a long time.
We also visited the Cannery and Ghirardelli square. There is a product that they sell at the Ghirardelli cafe called “drinking chocolate” (which is richer and thicker than regular hot chocolate) which Heather describes as “nom nom nom,” and “very endorphin-releasing”.
Hmmm, let’s see, what else?
We walked around the Ferry Building, which is between Piers 2 and 1 (but not between Piers 1 and 3; look at a map of the Bay and you’ll see what I mean); there’s lots of gourmet food-eries there, including a Sharfen-Berger chocolate store (which we walked past but did not enter), a cheese shop, at least two different olive oil merchants, and lots of other fun foods.
We walked through the Embarcadero Center mall (which, strangely, was not mentioned at all in our guidebook). Not much to say there; it’s pretty much a mall.
We did walk around Chinatown and Japantown (see lunch today, above), and we both pretty much agree that Japantown was our favorite of the two. It’s much quieter than Chinatown, and while there are fewer merchants lining the streets, it was just more our style somehow. We did get some fun stuff in the stores in Japantown, and I bought a messenger bag to hold my stuff in Chinatown (which was towards the beginning of the trip; my pockets were simply inadequate).
On Saturday, we took the Bart out to the end of the Blue line, and visited with Heather’s aunt Debbie and uncle Ron. It’s always nice to see the “other” side of a state; all of the travel shows and things only really show you the big cities, like San Francisco or Los Angeles, and you never really know that there’s parts of the state that aren’t city. I think we were technically in Winton, but their house was pretty far away from the city center. We had a very tasty lunch with meatball soup and the best preparation of tuna fish salad that I’ve ever had: tuna mixed with mayonnaise and cream cheese. It’s excellent, you have to try it if you’re not lactose-intolerant. After a failed attempt to exchange Heather’s leather jacket at Penney’s (they didn’t have the exact same jacket, only without a busted zipper), Ron drove us around the almond orchard that he runs, and I learned all about almond harvesting, which really is a lot more interesting than it sounds at first.
Um, not much else to talk about. At least, not much more that I can (a) remember and (b) want to talk about. I’m sure Heather will have a post of her own up here in the next day or two, so look for that to see any details that I may have missed. And we’ll also have a photo gallery up some time soon (if it’s not already online).
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10.10.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:51 pm by paul
One shower down, one to go (not that I was invited to either). The guest list is filling in nicely, although it looks like we’ve still got a lot of phone calls to make next week to people who haven’t R’d (svp). Incidentally, if you haven’t sent in your response card yet, please do so before we have to call you
So. 24 days to go. I’m not nervous quite yet, but the reality of the situation has started to set in. We picked the final design for the programs earlier (you can’t tell the bride from the groom without a program!), we’ve finalized arrangements with the baker and photographer, we’ll let our caterer know next week what the final head count is (after we call everyone who hasn’t sent in a response card yet), and we even bought an initial batch of “thank you” cards.
We still need to get a marriage license (that’s next Wednesday at lunch), we need to let our “of honor” attendants know what their duties are (that’s as soon as we get to The Knot and print ‘em out, or forward ‘em via email to Paul and Christina), and we need to break in our walking shoes because we’re not getting a rental car in San Francisco. Other than that, everything else is handled except for the flowers, which we’ll be doing the weekend of; no formal florist, just the skills of Shirley and anyone else who happens to be good with flowers.
And with that, I should probably get back to work.
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08.29.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:51 pm by heather
We’ve started getting response cards back in the mail. Yay! I think we’ve got something like 22 confirmed so far (out of roughly 140ish guests, so there’s still a lot to wait for).
I won a bid for a bunwrap on Ebay for my headpiece and it came in the mail yesterday. It’s perfect and works with the veil. Hooray! I think I’ve got all my wedding accoutrements. I finished my keepsake garter last weekend and it turned out well.
FYI, we’re registered at Bed Bath and Beyond and Macy’s. You can search for the registries from their websites by typing in either of our names.
I’ve been reading about all the terrific restaurants in San Francisco and I’m getting even more excited about going there. There is such a range of options that Austin simply doesn’t have. Paul is excited because there’s so many seafood places and oysters will be in season (blech…I’ll have the fried shrimp, please). He loves the fishies! I found out that there’s an awesome Farmer’s Market down by Fisherman’s Wharf and I really want to check it out. We’ve got lots of Farmer’s Markets here, but I haven’t been to one yet. Maybe we can go this weekend.
Ok, we are down to 65 days, 22 hours, and 8 minutes.
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08.22.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:48 pm by heather
So you know that old movie gag where some poor dude opens up a closet that stuffed with crap and all the stuff comes tumbling down on him/her unexpectedly? That’s what I felt like earlier this week, except the closet was full of WEDDING STUFF MUST BE DONE NOW errands and I promptly had a panic attack instead of standing there looking bewildered while buried up to my waist in junk and a pair of boxer shorts hanging from one shoulder. You see on top of the wedding errands, classes start this week and one of them is lining up to be a doozy, plus there’s the everyday stuff in my personal life (laundry, housework, garden, etc). I had no time to get anything done because of working full time, so I furloughed myself a little early so that I can have a week or so to destress and catch up with everything. It’s been two days and I already feel a lot more relaxed and able to handle everything without breaking down in tears, like I did on Monday.
My bridal portraits are on Sept. 16 and apparently it takes a million years to alter a wedding gown. I had to “bring it in NOW” in order for it to be done on time. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any of the underpinnings or shoes and the place I wanted to go was closed on Sundays (grrrr), but I managed to get everything at other bridal stores. The search for shoes was a three-day ordeal in which Heather (and Paul on Sunday) drove around to 12, count ‘em, TWELVE shoe stores (not to mention searching online, even though I didn’t have time to have shoes delivered) trying to find a pair of simple, white, three inch heels. Right, I could have bought some from the bridal store but I really don’t want to pay $60 for a pair of frou-frou shoes that I’m going to wear for like 2 hours (am changing into slippers at the reception). I will spare you the agonizing details, but Sears was my life saver and they are pretty comfy.
I went in for my alteration appointment this morning. I have gained a little bit of weight since the dress was purchased 13 months ago. Fortunately, there is ample seam allowance so the seamstress thinks it will be ok. She’s going to let everything out all the way and I have an appointment on Sept. 5 to see how it fits. Fortunately, my heels are high enough so it doesn’t need to be hemmed and the train hooks on, so I don’t have to worry about a bustle. In the meantime, it’s Pilates time for me to try and tone up my back and waist a little so that it fits better.
Besides dress craziness, we have ordered lots of other wedding-related shtuff which I won’t bore you with. We’ve also got the majority of the invitations out.
By the way, we found out that there is a huge honkin’ NASCAR event that weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway. Traffic is going to be terrible, so plan accordingly. Espevia called me yesterday and informed me that all of the hotel rooms in Denton and Lewisville are booked up. If you’re not staying out at Briarwood with us (and you still can, just call us and we’ll reserve a room for you!!!), you might want to try searching in the Grapevine/Irving/Hurst-Euless-Bedford area. Those cities are near the airport and Briarwood and there are tons of hotels around there.
That’s about it for now. We will post when more stuff happens. 72 days to go!
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08.13.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:15 pm by heather
So Paul and I went up to D/FW this past weekend on yet another “taking care of wedding business” trip. I got up at 5:00 am on Friday and hauled my tired butt up there for a 10 am appointment with the baker. Paul had to work, so he caught a 3:30 flight and I picked him up later that day. The appointment lasted about 8 minutes and I found myself with nothing to do until 3, when I could check into the hotel. I amused myself by puttering around Irving and shopping, eating lunch at a favorite restaurant of mine, and driving by some of my high school/college haunts. Our old house that my parents sold in 1999 is on the market again. I did some research later that day and found out that it’s been on the market since at least early May and the price has been dropped twice by almost $40,000. In fact, it’s almost back down the price that my parents sold it for…8 years ago! The housing market is just so bad right now. Anyway, I got a coffee at Starbuck’s and then checked into the hotel, then picked up Paul. We had dinner at Red Hot and Blue (tasty Memphis-style barbeque) and then relaxed at the motel and enjoyed the pool and hot tub.
Saturday, we met with the florist at Tom Thumb and worked out boutonnières and corsages for the wedding party. The whole area around Briarwood is being built up at a ridiculous rate. It used to be a rural, agricultural area but now it’s all homes and shops. We blew some time at the new JC Penny’s and wound up getting some new outfits for great prices. We also found some pretty gold platters to use for the groomsman cakes for super cheap. Paul looked at rings at the Zale’s Outlet because I’m going to have to order his ring soon, but I think we’re going to get it up here. There’s a Zale’s Outlet in Austin that’s not too far from our apartment. Anyway, we had lunch at Briarwood and chatted with Kathy and Crystal. While we were waiting for Norman (the chef) to finish cleaning up lunch so we could discuss catering for the reception, Kathy noticed a couple of loose pigs that had escaped from Briarwood’s new petting zoo. I drove her back across camp and we discovered that most of the animals had escaped. I spent a good 20 minutes chasing barn animals around and herding them into a big pen. The goats weren’t a problem because all you had to do was shake a bucket of feed at them and they followed you. The pigs didn’t want to listen at all and pretty much ignored the food and poking and prodding. One of the baby goats had gotten its head stuck in the fence and panicked whenever we tried to free it. We couldn’t get the poor thing’s head free and Kathy was worried that it might break its neck. Crystal left to get some wire cutters to cut the goat out and I I had to leave to go talk to Norman. When I got back to the dining hall, Paul was already talking to him. We worked out the table arrangements and talked about food and made some final plans. It’s all pretty much finalized and I’m very happy (and yes, they did get the goat free).
After that, Paul and I went and walked around Grapevine Mills Mall. I think the heat had gotten to me because I didn’t feel very good, so we went back to the hotel to rest. We met my friends, Kate and her husband JR, for dinner at Crystals. A wonderful magician entertained us and Paul and I spent 10 bucks playing Skee Ball and other silly games to win tickets. We walked away with a lovely set of fake handcuffs…heh heh. After that, Paul and I got gelato and went back to the hotel and went to bed.
Sunday, we planned on going to the 11 o’clock service at my old church, but Paul kicked me out of bed early (and I was extremely grumpy about it). We had breakfast and packed and it was only 8:45. We checked out of the hotel early and went to the 9:30 service instead. We hit the road after that and Paul I discussed the possibility of me going to seminary someday and how we might swing it with kids and his career (this would be at least 5 years in the future, mind you). I don’t know if I will ever go, but I still feel the call. It’s just not the right time and I’ve got other things to do before I even think about becoming a pastor. I’ve walked down that road to the seminary door before and I know what to expect, so it’s all good. We stopped for lunch in Waco and then came home and that’s all!
I will let you know when more stuff happens, but we’re getting down to the finish! Invitations will go out this week as the stamps have arrived, so yay! 82 days left!
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05.17.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:52 pm by heather
I’m starting to see this wedding as a great picture puzzle that we’re slowly putting together, one piece at a time. I don’t know about you, but I tend to put the outside edges of the puzzle together first. Now that we’ve secured the last vendor, our baker, I feel that the frame of the wedding picture puzzle is finally in place. We’re starting to fill in all the smaller details that will make the picture complete. We have been very busy the last few weeks with wedding preparations. I don’t know if I can remember everything that we’ve done, but I will do my best.
I’ve decided to use artificial flowers for the wedding. Some people don’t seem to like that idea because “they look fake” but the truth is that a lot of brides these days choose to use artificial flowers and they look very real. I’ve got a couple of good reasons. For one, I’m coming from out of town and I feel like it’s not worth the time or the effort to choose a local florist for only five bouquets. If I were getting married inside a church, then I’d make the effort. I don’t need any other flowers because nature is my florist for an outside wedding. Second, the bouquet I’ve chosen has tiny little apples in it and I may not be able to get those in November. I’d also like to save my bouquet and the apples won’t preserve well. The apples also make the bouquet very heavy. By using artificial apples, I never have to worry about them going bad and the bouquet will be much lighter. Garden Ridge Pottery has everything we need. I will be making the bouquets later this summer or in the fall. We will still do the boutonnières and corsages through Tom Thumb.
Paul and I are still deciding on invitations. That’s kind of a long story in itself and I won’t go into it here, but we’ve got them narrowed down to two. I’m waiting for a free sample that I ordered from an online website before we make the final decision, but we should be ordering invitations soon.
We’ve scouted the local jewelry stores to choose a wedding ring for Paul, which I will be purchasing at the end of August or in early September. We will have to special order a ring for him because he has large fingers and the kind of rings that he likes cannot be resized. We saw a lovely one at the Zale’s Outlet yesterday. Personally, I think it’s the best one I’ve seen him try on and he’s tried on several.
I ordered the Bridesmaids’ and Trainbearers’ gifts and they arrived today! I can’t tell you what they are, of course, but I will say that choosing gifts for six very different people was difficult and little frustrating. However, I found things that will work for everyone. It was hard not to get one for myself! 
Our gifts to our parents are also taken care of. Paul is still making decisions regarding the groomsmens’ gifts, but I think he has a pretty good idea of what he wants to do.
As I mentioned before, we sent in a deposit to our baker. I am still deciding how the cake will look, but I’ve chosen strawberry with butter cream frosting to complement Paul’s chocolate cheesecakes. It will be four tiers, I believe.
There has been some talk of the honeymoon, but we haven’t done too much planning yet (besides choosing what we want to do and see and picking out a place to stay). I will say my future father-in-law is awesome as he very graciously offered to cover our plane fares to San Francisco. Future Dad-in-Law, you are super!
We’ve chosen program covers for the wedding. My brother-in-law, Eric, who is also officiating the ceremony, has offered to do the programs for us. We’ve also made some preliminary decisions regarding the ceremony music. We still need a good processional, but we’ve chosen a terrific piece for the recessional. My cousin, Jennifer, is going to do one of the readings and Abbie will do the other.
That’s about it, for as much as I can recall. The pieces are starting to fall into place and I’m excited. I have a list of things that need to be done over the summer while I’m not otherwise occupied with graduate school and I’ve been able to cross a few things off. Hooray! I’m started to get excited and a little nervous after all this hooplah.
The countdown clock sayeth 169 days until the wedding!
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04.22.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:03 pm by heather
I think that Engagement Airlines is starting to break from its holding pattern and start its slow descent towards Matrimony Airport. I apologize for lack of updating, but it’s the last few weeks of the semester, not to mention the beginning of tax season at the IRS, and we both have been insanely busy. However, several wonderful developments have occurred and I will happily report them to you. I should be working on my poster for my Research course, but it seems that rubber cement will not bond craft foam to the glossy surface of a trifold display board. Since I don’t feel like summarizing research articles either for my Special Ed class, I thought I’d bring everyone up to speed.
Last weekend, Paul and I traveled up to D/FW to meet with the baker and talk to Norman (Briarwood’s Chef) about the menu. We really liked the baker and she’s pretty reasonable as bakers go. She can do Paul’s groom’s cake just the way he wants (c’mon, I’m not going to tell you EVERYTHING, hee hee!). I haven’t decided yet what flavor I want for the cake, but we liked her and we’re probably going to book her. We had lunch at Briarwood and met with Norman. It was the first time he and Paul had ever met and it went well. We decided to do an appetizer-style meal for the reception since it falls between lunch and dinner time. We chose seven types of appetizers, but I’m not going to tell you those, either. We have to have some surprises, after all! Don’t worry, it will be vegetarian-friendly for our no-meat-please friends but will also satisfy our more-meat-please guests. I will tell you that there will be a chocolate fountain in addition to the cakes, with pound cake, strawberries, pineapple, and bananas to dip.
I’m looking into the Tom Thumb down the road from the camp to do the boutonnières and corsages for the wedding party and participants. It will save us a lot of time. This wedding is not heavy on flowers since it’s an outdoor wedding. I still need to meet with a florist, but there’s a chance I may take a page from Abbie and my cousin, Brenda’s, weddings and hit up the local Sam’s, Target, Wal-Mart, and grocery stores for flowers. It sounds awful, I know, but you honestly can’t tell the difference. I only need five bouquets, anyway.
Lots of other little things have been accomplished this past weekend as well, despite the massive amounts of homework I’ve had. Paul and I put together a playlist for the pre-ceremony and ceremony music. The music is definitely a big secret, but you will not be disappointed, I promise! Today we got a Sam’s Club membership and priced utensils and other sundry items for the reception. Yesterday, we went to Hobby Lobby to purchase stuff for my display board and discovered that wedding stuff was half off! We wound up buying our guest book, pen, bubbles, ribbon for the trees, throwaway bouquet (I’m not reusing the one I caught at Jay’s wedding at Briarwood because it’s special to me, now), basket for the bubbles, and probably some other stuff I forgot about for about $65! Not too bad.
Today we’ve been looking into sites for the rehearsal meal and gifts for the wedding party. That’s another I can’t tell you, even if I knew what we were getting everyone! We haven’t decided yet. This wedding is turning out to be a bit more expensive that we originally planned, but still manageable. All we really need to figure out is flowers and decorations for the Shalom Center.
I feel like things are really starting to come together. 194 days until the wedding. Please place your tray tables and seatbacks in the upright position, ladies and gentlemen…. 
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03.25.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:53 pm by heather
The official countdown clock sayeth 222 days until the wedding!
Yesterday, Paul and I went to Bed Bath and Beyond to register for everything else that we didn’t get at Macy’s (that would be everything but the fine china, hee hee). We had a great time running around the store with the scanner and the clipboard they gave us with a checklist. Since we’ve already combined two households and we’ve already got quite a bit of stuff already, we didn’t register for as much as most couples probably do. I was able to cut out most of the checklist. It was still fun to choose color themes for our future kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The only downside is that the comforter we both loved only came in Queen and King sizes. Paul and I have a Full bed. 
We checked Macy’s, but they didn’t have anything we liked. The good news is that bedding changes often, so we will check back in a few months and maybe find something then. We can add items to our registries as often as we want. The registries aren’t final and we may add things or take them off if they become unavailable (both stores will notify us if our chosen items become unavailable). You can visit our registry at Bed Bath and Beyond’s website, select Wedding Registry, and then type in either my name or Paul’s in the search box.
We are planning a trip to D/FW sometime in mid-April to find a baker and, hopefully, a wholesale florist. I guess I’d better start thinking of what kind of cake I want, eh?
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03.13.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:31 am by paul
OK, so 235 days left and counting. Time for another update? I guess so.
Still not much new. Things are in a miniature holding pattern right now; it’s like a capacitor: charge up, and do lots of stuff all at once.
We did register for china , flatware, and crystal this weekend. I’m not much for china myself (I’m a guy, you see), but I do like this pattern. Geometric platinum designs on the china and crystal, and the flatware matches.
Aside from that, we need to find a baker, book ‘em, and send a deposit. We also need to source some wholesale florists in the area (and make some choices about the flowers).
Oh, and we need to do the whole “wedding registry” thing. There’ll probably be another post when that happens.
Um, that’s it for now. Back to work…
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01.28.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:55 am by heather
Well, almost the end of January and I thought I’d update on what’s happened. As usual, not much has actually happened since we’re still early out, but there are a few things. First, Paul and I sent the deposit in to the photographer and are waiting for the contracts to arrive in the mail, so that’s taken care of. Hooray for the photographer!
Second, we bought a treadmill. We’re both hoping to shed a few more pounds for the wedding. Ok…make that a lot more pounds! I broke it in tonight while listening to an audio book, “Spock vs. Q” on the iPod Paul gave me. It was actually really funny and had me cracking up at several points while I pounded down the…er…conveyer belt? Anyway, it made the 53 minutes, 301 calories, and 2.2 miles I walked/ran go by really fast. I also got a Pilates DVD at Halfprice Books to supplement the treadmill workout. I want to avoid getting bored with the treadmill and Pilates is really great at toning muscles, especially in the torso and that’s where I need it most! I want that wedding dress to fit me better without too much alteration (not to fear, there’s still a 2 inch seam allowance!).
Third, I quite possibly got a temporary job at the IRS. It’s only 2-3 months as a Data Transcriber or Clerk, but it pays really well and I can work every day, unlike subbing. Even a couple of months will help out tremendously towards funding the wedding. Also, it’s right across the street from our apartment, so I can walk to work! I will also save on gas.
And now, something new that I’m going to add…according to the Countdown Timer on my desktop…the wedding will commence in 279 days 15 hours 14 minutes and 53 seconds.
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