Much drama ensued at the house on Saturday, after D's mother saw our invitations. By that I mean snarky comments, pouting, crying, the whole deal.
No, not by me. I stayed calm, even as I ordered ALL NEW INVITATIONS.
Gr.
So, question - is it customary to include the groom's parent's names on the invitations? I think it might be, but I want your opinion.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
What a week!
My, it's been quite the busy week. Thursday was a 2 hour evening cruise around Lake Monona, a work event that I helped plan. It was super pretty:
And lots of fun:
Then Friday was a Mallard's Game, with other people from work to celebrate a recent project. That was very fun too, but very mosquito-y, and we ended up going home at like 10pm.
Me and a friend's fiancé:
Looking at the wrong camera:
Then on Saturday, was the bachelorette (side note: blogger doesn't recognize that as a valid word, I'm offended) party w/my co-bachelorette, M! Seriously, I still haven't recovered. Loud summed it up pretty well - the entire night was just fabulous. Drinks, (somewhat naughty) presents, a fantastic dinner, lots of wine, a limo, champagne, shotgunning, dancing, and friends giving you the most wonderful send-off into marriage that I could ever ask for. All of my pictures completely stop after dinner, because I was too busy dancing to whip out the camera.
Being sexy in the booth that M and I got to sit in at dinner:
The *fantastic* sommelier:
The two amazing ladies who were responsible for the whole evening:
On Sunday we ate brunch at Fox and Obel's Market in Chicago, and it was amazing! We shopped in the cute gourmet section of the store *after* we had eaten - and I still somehow managed to pick up $50 worth of fun food.
After I got home on Sunday, I had an hour to show D my gifts before the neighbor on the left (slightly drunkenly) showed up to announce it was time to head over the the right-side neighbors house for drinks. It was the left-side one's birthday and we had planned to go over for wine and cheese, so we did. Ended up staying until 9pm and meeting more of our neighbors and such. Pretty fun.
This week was addressing and stuffing wedding invitations, and on Tuesday I got to see my wedding gown!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!! It's soooooooooooooooo pretty, I look like a princess. Comfy-ness is not as great, but whatever, it is a fantastically ornate and floofy dress.
Yesterday was all the cooking that I haven't been able to do for over a week. About 5 power-hours of D and I in the kitchen, cooking our asses off.
Tonight, we put together the 5 foot long BRIGHT RED grill. Tomorrow, D's parents come down. His father will help him install our new garage door and his mother will help me in the garden by taking some of the flowers home with her. Gypsy will also help me with lightswitch plates and in return, dig up and take home plants - I don't want them! Sunday is the same thing - another person coming over to take flowers. Next week is catching up at work, then Friday is the 4th of July at Loud's house. Fun!
Monday, June 9, 2008
Too busy
I find that I go through phases in my life, variating between one extreme to another. There are weeks where I have stuff planned all the time, almost every day, sometimes more than one thing in a day, and I'm social and outgoing and busybusybusy.
I'm also then usually exhausted, and end up going a couple weeks where I don't really go out at all, except to go to work or the store.
I'm moving back into the latter phase now, because I am exhausted. There are things planned almost every weekend this summer - and while that's fun after this winter's (slightly-forced) hibernation, I'm also trying to get moved and settled and also plan our wedding and get all that stuff together, which is making me feel slightly crazy. D and I stayed home from work on Friday because both of us felt that we had no time to ourselves lately, and then went out for a low-key camping night (where we drank D's homemade beer and wine!), but then we came back Saturday morning, and spent the day doing laundry, napping, and having a completely FABULOUS 3 hour long dinner at Eno Vino afterwards.
Yesterday he flew out to a customer site and so I'm alone in the new house for the first time since we moved in. Have I mentioned that I am NOT settled in/completely comfy yet and I HATE thunderstorms?
And as a side note, if anyone wants to come tear out some perenials from my gardens, feel free to just come over and do it. I'm so sick of the damn things, because they look HORRIBLE. All the rain lately has made them just spring up and all the ground cover especially is getting out of control. The weekend of 6/28-6/29 I'm going to tear a bunch out and give them to various people who want them - if you want in, let me know.
I'm also then usually exhausted, and end up going a couple weeks where I don't really go out at all, except to go to work or the store.
I'm moving back into the latter phase now, because I am exhausted. There are things planned almost every weekend this summer - and while that's fun after this winter's (slightly-forced) hibernation, I'm also trying to get moved and settled and also plan our wedding and get all that stuff together, which is making me feel slightly crazy. D and I stayed home from work on Friday because both of us felt that we had no time to ourselves lately, and then went out for a low-key camping night (where we drank D's homemade beer and wine!), but then we came back Saturday morning, and spent the day doing laundry, napping, and having a completely FABULOUS 3 hour long dinner at Eno Vino afterwards.
Yesterday he flew out to a customer site and so I'm alone in the new house for the first time since we moved in. Have I mentioned that I am NOT settled in/completely comfy yet and I HATE thunderstorms?
And as a side note, if anyone wants to come tear out some perenials from my gardens, feel free to just come over and do it. I'm so sick of the damn things, because they look HORRIBLE. All the rain lately has made them just spring up and all the ground cover especially is getting out of control. The weekend of 6/28-6/29 I'm going to tear a bunch out and give them to various people who want them - if you want in, let me know.
Monday, June 2, 2008
I have a new address!
Yes, I've been slacking off lately. But I blame the fact that we moved over Memorial Day, and I do believe that my kitchen is permanently lost............so many boxes. Our 2 car garage is currently only a 1 car too!
Moving took pretty much 7 hours to do. We got up early and the movers weren't done till like 4pm (though they did take 1/2 hour break when I picked up pizza for lunch for them). It was kinda sad to leave the old house. That house was pretty much the perfect house to be in while I was laid up, because it was one story. I couldn't have lived in the new house with everything broken as it had been. And it has lots of storage, and it has larger windows, and a larger master bedroom, bathroom and closet.
When we moved, we slept Wednesday night at the old house and Thursday night at the new house - poof! Just like that we were all moved. That was disconcerting.
The new house is kinda nice though - a little smaller and therefore "cozier" in a way. It's coming together, slowly but surely. I'm currently in a wicked "nesting" phase. It's making D absolutely crazy :P
The housewarming party will be in early, August, combined with the deep-fry party. There are many, many projects that I want to do and lots of stuff to still unpack and put away, so I'm hoping 2 months is enough time to do it all!
Either way, email me if you need the new address. The old stuff should be forwarded for about a year I think though.
Moving took pretty much 7 hours to do. We got up early and the movers weren't done till like 4pm (though they did take 1/2 hour break when I picked up pizza for lunch for them). It was kinda sad to leave the old house. That house was pretty much the perfect house to be in while I was laid up, because it was one story. I couldn't have lived in the new house with everything broken as it had been. And it has lots of storage, and it has larger windows, and a larger master bedroom, bathroom and closet.
When we moved, we slept Wednesday night at the old house and Thursday night at the new house - poof! Just like that we were all moved. That was disconcerting.
The new house is kinda nice though - a little smaller and therefore "cozier" in a way. It's coming together, slowly but surely. I'm currently in a wicked "nesting" phase. It's making D absolutely crazy :P
The housewarming party will be in early, August, combined with the deep-fry party. There are many, many projects that I want to do and lots of stuff to still unpack and put away, so I'm hoping 2 months is enough time to do it all!
Either way, email me if you need the new address. The old stuff should be forwarded for about a year I think though.
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