So I bought a wedding dress this weekend. And by "I," I mean "my mom." But that's cool because it's getting delivered to my house in a box of white goodness. I really, really, really want to post a picture of it here, but alas, Alex reads this little site of mine and I'm pretty sure that asking him to avoid my blog until October 20th is asking an awful lot. However, if you want to see a picture of the dress, just let me know and I'll TOTALLY e-mail you one...or twenty.
In other wedding-related news, we also registered! It was a grueling 4 hours at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, but we managed to make it through without killing ourselves. And being the gluttons for punishment that we are, we left there and headed to Target to register for even MORE stuff. I think it's because I've been looking forward to registering for, oh, half my life, and so I was willing to put in a long day to fulfill my childhood fantasy of wandering around a store with a laser gun. It was actually a lot of fun, if not weirdly guilt inducing. I felt a little weird about picking out items and then expecting others to gift me with them. However, those thoughts quickly exited my mind every single time I got to scan something. I'm like a little kid. Seriously.
In non-wedding-related news, I started my new job yesterday and am loving it so far. It's a very small company and I am the only girl. Which is awesome, because the office looks like a bachelor pad. It has now fallen upon me to bring a "woman's touch" to the office. Which is hilarious considering that I am NOT that girl. My idea of girliness is not peeing on the toilet seat. And that's about it. So it'll be interesting when they realize that the only difference of having me in the office is that they now have to lift the seat up if they use the facilities after me.
And that's it. I have a ranting post about wedding cake almost ready to go. I started it last week in the midst of my hatred of a certain local bakery, but never got to finish it in the midst of the horribleness of finishing my old job (worst 2 weeks ever!), meeting with every florist in the city (too many flowers!), and packing to head down to wedding-land with momzilla (weddings are the devil!). It's been busy, but good. Although I must admit I now need a 3 day weekend to recover from this last one. Irony is my friend.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
I *heart* The Office
Anybody watch the season finale of The Office tonight? Because it was AMAZING. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
Also? Today marked the 1 year anniversary of me and Alex's relationship. But did I get on here to blog about that? Nope. I came here to talk about how I'm in love with Jim and Pam. What does that say about my relationship with Alex? Well, it means that we're perfect for each other because his immediate reaction to that episode was, "I NEED TO BLOG ABOUT THIS!"
And just now? We just rewound the final scene, oh, about 3 times and grinned at each other every time. I also clapped and yelled, "IT'S SO GOOD!!!!" every time we watched it. Yes, yes, I am a goober. But it was JUST.SO.GOOD.
Also? Today marked the 1 year anniversary of me and Alex's relationship. But did I get on here to blog about that? Nope. I came here to talk about how I'm in love with Jim and Pam. What does that say about my relationship with Alex? Well, it means that we're perfect for each other because his immediate reaction to that episode was, "I NEED TO BLOG ABOUT THIS!"
And just now? We just rewound the final scene, oh, about 3 times and grinned at each other every time. I also clapped and yelled, "IT'S SO GOOD!!!!" every time we watched it. Yes, yes, I am a goober. But it was JUST.SO.GOOD.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Today, I...
...realized that I've lost 9 pounds on the South Beach Diet.
...resisted the temptation of Panera Bread bagels.
...reminded my mother that yes, I DO want to buy my wedding dress over Memorial Day weekend in Memphis, JUST LIKE WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS.
...realized I needed to buy toilet paper at the most inopportune time possible.
...quit my job.
...kissed the most handsome redhead alive.
...resisted the temptation of Panera Bread bagels.
...reminded my mother that yes, I DO want to buy my wedding dress over Memorial Day weekend in Memphis, JUST LIKE WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS.
...realized I needed to buy toilet paper at the most inopportune time possible.
...quit my job.
...kissed the most handsome redhead alive.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
My Face Hates Me
This weekend was the wedding of our good friends, Bryan and Erin. They are a fantastic couple, and Alex and I spend a lot of time with them. Alex plays lots of nerdy computer games with Bryan while Erin and I roll our eyes and talk about celebrities. They were the couple Alex conspired with when on his original proposal plan, before my job kinda went and ruined it. So I've been looking forward to this wedding for months. Alex was a groomsman and I was to read a lovely passage from Colossians. Friday night, we all gathered at the gorgeous church to rehearse. I didn't get a ton of shots of the church, but check out how beautiful it is:
After the rehearsal, we headed to nearby Italian restaurant for dinner. And while this is not a fantastic picture of me (in fact, I'm not even the focus. I'm not sure WHO the focus was supposed to be, but the bride-to-be took the picture, so it was her weekend and her prerogative), but I wanted to point out that I looked normal. Tired. But normal. Except for that stupid red circle around my face. Those arrows totally screwed with my peripheral vision, you know what I'm saying?
So let's fast forward to Saturday morning. I wake up. I stumble into the bathroom because I feel ill. I look in the mirror and notice I look odd. And then I puke.
And my face is no longer white. It is red. RED. RED. RED. Scary, terrifying, I think I have the plague RED. I lay back down because, frankly, I honestly hoped it would just GO AWAY with sleep.
But then I threw up again and decided maybe I should do something. I called Alex (who was already be-tuxed and doing groomsmen-type things at the church) and he convinced me to go Urgent Care and get a magical shot that would make the rash disappear. The bride herself had gotten a rash earlier this year and had gone to Urgent Care and the magical shot made it all go away. If it worked for her, it would work for me. Right?
I shouldn't have driven and I'm not sure how I ever got there, but I eventually found myself at Urgent Care. Why didn't I ask someone to come drive me? I have no idea. I didn't want to inconvenience anyone in their wedding preparations, I suppose. Which is STUPID, by the way. I should have called someone and it is a miracle I wasn't in an accident because I could barely hold myself up high enough to see out the windshield. Once I made it to Urgent Care, I was hunched over and crying and told the nice nurse lady that I was about to throw up.
I did not lie.
No sooner had she gotten me away from the prying eyes of those in the waiting room, but I puked into the closest receptacle I could find. Fortunately, it was a trash can. Everything after that is a blur, but I ended up getting two shots, puking again, getting another shot for the puking, and then being sent home with merely an hour to get ready and get to the church.
I sped home in my non-nauseated state, got dressed, called Alex's brother and told him to find someone to read for me, and took off for the church. I, of course, got lost because downtown Dayton is just like every other downtown and you can never turn right when you want to. I finally saw the church (with the wedding party lined up), parked the car, literally ran PAST THE BRIDE and into the church, and sat down just as the mothers began walking down the aisle to light the candles. Whew!
The wedding was beautiful and in my haste to get to the church and not throw up at the same time, I forgot the camera. However, the camera came to the reception! Where I looked like this:
AAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! Who is that scary, monster lady!? What is wrong with her? Leper! Leper!
When I got to the reception, the bridal party was taking pictures in the lobby. Alex was there and told me that when the bride saw me, she did a double take and had to compose herself before speaking to me. AWESOME. Because that, my friends, is what I want a girl to remember on her wedding day. Me scaring her. But she recovered nicely and told me she loved me and sent me on my merry leprosy-laden way.
Fortunately, the multiple shots at Urgent Care did work and I felt great by the time dinner began. (Also, that picture of me at the reception? Was taken in order to show how much I had improved since the wedding. Sadly, I don't have any pre-wedding scariness to share, but it was actually worse, if you can believe that.) And all night, people would randomly come up to me and talk to me about how my face was clearing up. There's nothing like having your face be a conversation starter at someone else's wedding.
I suppose it all turned out okay. I got a sneak peak at Alex in a tux (fantastically handsome, of course) and I got to celebrate my friends' marriage without groaning in a corner miserably.
I also wore a sombrero and danced like a goof with my future husband. I feel as though that is how every post and every night should end for the rest of our lives. You?
After the rehearsal, we headed to nearby Italian restaurant for dinner. And while this is not a fantastic picture of me (in fact, I'm not even the focus. I'm not sure WHO the focus was supposed to be, but the bride-to-be took the picture, so it was her weekend and her prerogative), but I wanted to point out that I looked normal. Tired. But normal. Except for that stupid red circle around my face. Those arrows totally screwed with my peripheral vision, you know what I'm saying?
So let's fast forward to Saturday morning. I wake up. I stumble into the bathroom because I feel ill. I look in the mirror and notice I look odd. And then I puke.
And my face is no longer white. It is red. RED. RED. RED. Scary, terrifying, I think I have the plague RED. I lay back down because, frankly, I honestly hoped it would just GO AWAY with sleep.
But then I threw up again and decided maybe I should do something. I called Alex (who was already be-tuxed and doing groomsmen-type things at the church) and he convinced me to go Urgent Care and get a magical shot that would make the rash disappear. The bride herself had gotten a rash earlier this year and had gone to Urgent Care and the magical shot made it all go away. If it worked for her, it would work for me. Right?
I shouldn't have driven and I'm not sure how I ever got there, but I eventually found myself at Urgent Care. Why didn't I ask someone to come drive me? I have no idea. I didn't want to inconvenience anyone in their wedding preparations, I suppose. Which is STUPID, by the way. I should have called someone and it is a miracle I wasn't in an accident because I could barely hold myself up high enough to see out the windshield. Once I made it to Urgent Care, I was hunched over and crying and told the nice nurse lady that I was about to throw up.
I did not lie.
No sooner had she gotten me away from the prying eyes of those in the waiting room, but I puked into the closest receptacle I could find. Fortunately, it was a trash can. Everything after that is a blur, but I ended up getting two shots, puking again, getting another shot for the puking, and then being sent home with merely an hour to get ready and get to the church.
I sped home in my non-nauseated state, got dressed, called Alex's brother and told him to find someone to read for me, and took off for the church. I, of course, got lost because downtown Dayton is just like every other downtown and you can never turn right when you want to. I finally saw the church (with the wedding party lined up), parked the car, literally ran PAST THE BRIDE and into the church, and sat down just as the mothers began walking down the aisle to light the candles. Whew!
The wedding was beautiful and in my haste to get to the church and not throw up at the same time, I forgot the camera. However, the camera came to the reception! Where I looked like this:
AAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! Who is that scary, monster lady!? What is wrong with her? Leper! Leper!
When I got to the reception, the bridal party was taking pictures in the lobby. Alex was there and told me that when the bride saw me, she did a double take and had to compose herself before speaking to me. AWESOME. Because that, my friends, is what I want a girl to remember on her wedding day. Me scaring her. But she recovered nicely and told me she loved me and sent me on my merry leprosy-laden way.
Fortunately, the multiple shots at Urgent Care did work and I felt great by the time dinner began. (Also, that picture of me at the reception? Was taken in order to show how much I had improved since the wedding. Sadly, I don't have any pre-wedding scariness to share, but it was actually worse, if you can believe that.) And all night, people would randomly come up to me and talk to me about how my face was clearing up. There's nothing like having your face be a conversation starter at someone else's wedding.
I suppose it all turned out okay. I got a sneak peak at Alex in a tux (fantastically handsome, of course) and I got to celebrate my friends' marriage without groaning in a corner miserably.
I also wore a sombrero and danced like a goof with my future husband. I feel as though that is how every post and every night should end for the rest of our lives. You?
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Where I've been. Sort of.
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Anybody out there?
I have this strange feeling right now. This typing and then publishing to the internet. It feels like blogging, but can it be? Can Cora have been released from her ivory tower to blog with the normal folk? Can she?
Ok, enough with the dramatics. So what's been going on with you, Internet? Life treating you well? Things aren't so shabby here. Let me tell you a story, k?
Friday before last, I had to go to Indianapolis for a trade show for work. I REALLY didn't want to go, because the thought of spying on other booths while pretending to work in a field I know relatively nothing about sounded like about as much fun as a root canal. I tried hard to get out of it, using just about every reason I could think of, but to no avail. My boss was having none of it and so I begrudgingly went to the show. Blech. We wound up being gone for 13 1/2, which was about 13 hours longer than I wanted to be gone. When I came back home I was cranky and tired and just a general joy to be around, what with all the angry hissing. Alex, bless his soul, would not let me just lay down and wallow in my misery. "No wallowing! No misery," he said, "We have to go to a friend's birthday party."
So I drug myself up and complained about how I looked like crap and needed to freshen up and on and on and on. I made huge dramatic sighs and eye rolls and talked about what I miserable, horrible life that I was leading and how could he possibly understand my pain? Instead of telling me to go jump off the closest bridge, he actually listened to me and apologized for such a hard day. Then he told me to check his blog, because he had actually posted today and it was pretty funny. I was grateful that he was trying so hard to cheer me up, so I grabbed the laptop and headed to his site here.
I know! How adorable!
So I looked up with surprise (I'm pretty sure my jaw was on the floor at that point) and he was already down on one knee and had the ring out. He had an excellent speech prepared, and you'd think I could remember it, but I don't. I believe the words, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you." were thrown in, but that's about all I can recall. I just remember thinking, "Is this really happening?" and "Oh crap. He's trying to put the ring on the wrong hand."
So I am TOTALLY engaged! Internet! I! AM! ENGAGED! What in the world!? How is this possible? Can you believe I finally tricked a boy into marrying me?? You can't? Me either!! But I did! And now I have trouble writing without using a lot of exclamation points!!!!
So Alex and I are getting married. October 20th. Because I don't wanna wait. :) And neither does he. We are ready to start spending our lives together as Mr. and Mrs.
Of course, I have to show how awesome my fiance is by sharing pictures of the gorgeous ring he proposed to me with. It is beautiful and these pictures simply don't do it justice.
I have this strange feeling right now. This typing and then publishing to the internet. It feels like blogging, but can it be? Can Cora have been released from her ivory tower to blog with the normal folk? Can she?
Ok, enough with the dramatics. So what's been going on with you, Internet? Life treating you well? Things aren't so shabby here. Let me tell you a story, k?
Friday before last, I had to go to Indianapolis for a trade show for work. I REALLY didn't want to go, because the thought of spying on other booths while pretending to work in a field I know relatively nothing about sounded like about as much fun as a root canal. I tried hard to get out of it, using just about every reason I could think of, but to no avail. My boss was having none of it and so I begrudgingly went to the show. Blech. We wound up being gone for 13 1/2, which was about 13 hours longer than I wanted to be gone. When I came back home I was cranky and tired and just a general joy to be around, what with all the angry hissing. Alex, bless his soul, would not let me just lay down and wallow in my misery. "No wallowing! No misery," he said, "We have to go to a friend's birthday party."
So I drug myself up and complained about how I looked like crap and needed to freshen up and on and on and on. I made huge dramatic sighs and eye rolls and talked about what I miserable, horrible life that I was leading and how could he possibly understand my pain? Instead of telling me to go jump off the closest bridge, he actually listened to me and apologized for such a hard day. Then he told me to check his blog, because he had actually posted today and it was pretty funny. I was grateful that he was trying so hard to cheer me up, so I grabbed the laptop and headed to his site here.
I know! How adorable!
So I looked up with surprise (I'm pretty sure my jaw was on the floor at that point) and he was already down on one knee and had the ring out. He had an excellent speech prepared, and you'd think I could remember it, but I don't. I believe the words, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you." were thrown in, but that's about all I can recall. I just remember thinking, "Is this really happening?" and "Oh crap. He's trying to put the ring on the wrong hand."
So I am TOTALLY engaged! Internet! I! AM! ENGAGED! What in the world!? How is this possible? Can you believe I finally tricked a boy into marrying me?? You can't? Me either!! But I did! And now I have trouble writing without using a lot of exclamation points!!!!
So Alex and I are getting married. October 20th. Because I don't wanna wait. :) And neither does he. We are ready to start spending our lives together as Mr. and Mrs.
Of course, I have to show how awesome my fiance is by sharing pictures of the gorgeous ring he proposed to me with. It is beautiful and these pictures simply don't do it justice.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Braggart
I'd like to take this moment to brag on Alex, the best boyfriend of all time. (I'm working on getting that trademarked, by the way. I could do something obnoxious like, every time I refer to him, I'll write, "Alex, tbboat tm. That won't make him want to poke his eyes out AT ALL.)
Friday, he showed up at work with flowers and lunch. Which is adorable, but I kinda already knew about it, what with the post-Valentine's, let's make up for no delivery during a snow day thing. So he showed up and everyone seemed to go into a tizzy in the front office, like they've never seen a handsome redhead before. I felt a little guilty parading him around like a hunk of meat and so I didn't introduce him to anyone. (Which was a bad idea because I was then barraged with questions after he left. So in order to make my life easer, I'm going to throw him to the wolves on his own next time. Love you baby!) So I basically ran him in and out of the office as quickly as possible, like we were avoiding paparazzi or something. I should have thrown a blanket over his head. Or maybe shaved his head. (Oh, BRITNEY.) But then he told me that he had left his credit card in my car from our previous night's jaunt to the best Italian restaurant ever. So, despite his many protests, I walked him out to my car, where he practically shoved me back towards the building and told me he'd lock the car after he was done hunting for his plastic money. I didn't think anything of this because Alex is one of those people who loses things often. He just has so many genuis thoughts running through his head that he doesn't have the time or energy to worry about things like his wallet or cell phone. Who cares if he left them under the ottoman in the basement? He'll find them eventually!
Fast forward to 4:30-ish when I got off of work. I walked out to my car wishing that I was on a tropical island that had never seen snow before and opened my car door to find a heart-shaped box of chocolates and a teddy bear in the front seat. Yes, he IS that adorable folks.
And yes, he does love Justin Timberlake more than me and is VERY excited about seeing him tomorrow night.
Friday, he showed up at work with flowers and lunch. Which is adorable, but I kinda already knew about it, what with the post-Valentine's, let's make up for no delivery during a snow day thing. So he showed up and everyone seemed to go into a tizzy in the front office, like they've never seen a handsome redhead before. I felt a little guilty parading him around like a hunk of meat and so I didn't introduce him to anyone. (Which was a bad idea because I was then barraged with questions after he left. So in order to make my life easer, I'm going to throw him to the wolves on his own next time. Love you baby!) So I basically ran him in and out of the office as quickly as possible, like we were avoiding paparazzi or something. I should have thrown a blanket over his head. Or maybe shaved his head. (Oh, BRITNEY.) But then he told me that he had left his credit card in my car from our previous night's jaunt to the best Italian restaurant ever. So, despite his many protests, I walked him out to my car, where he practically shoved me back towards the building and told me he'd lock the car after he was done hunting for his plastic money. I didn't think anything of this because Alex is one of those people who loses things often. He just has so many genuis thoughts running through his head that he doesn't have the time or energy to worry about things like his wallet or cell phone. Who cares if he left them under the ottoman in the basement? He'll find them eventually!
Fast forward to 4:30-ish when I got off of work. I walked out to my car wishing that I was on a tropical island that had never seen snow before and opened my car door to find a heart-shaped box of chocolates and a teddy bear in the front seat. Yes, he IS that adorable folks.
And yes, he does love Justin Timberlake more than me and is VERY excited about seeing him tomorrow night.
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