I’m not doing so hot when it comes to this NaBloPoMo thing, am I? Last year I was all up in NaBloPoMo’s face and posted every. single. day. This year? Not so much.
I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been busy with the rest of my life. I have a wedding (in two weeks zomygod!) and a family to care for. I’ve also had doctor’s appointments out the wazoo. I’m stressed and starting to feel it with the physical manifestation of the rash that has broken out on my face. Lovely.
If you hadn’t noticed, there’s also a holiday right smack in the middle between now and the wedding…
… and I’m avoidingall three of us are avoiding Thanksgiving (maybe not The Kidlet - it’s his dad’s year to spend the holiday with him.) It’s hard enough trying to not think of Elaine while doing all the wedding stuff, but harder still - this will be the first Thanksgiving in 7 years we haven’t celebrated at her home, with her cooking, and her OMG amazing mashed potatoes. I miss her so much right now.
In spite of everything else, the wedding plans are, for the most part, falling into place. Many of details are going to be decided at the very last minute (AHEM, the entire catering menu?!) I head to San Diego next Sunday to start decorating - the one awesome thing about getting married at home is that the decorations can be put up days (or weeks) in advance and no one bitches. LOL.
We’re expecting about 40 people (pretty darn close to what I’d counted on) and only the closest of our family and friends. It will be elegant and beautiful, and just enough of everything to be perfect.
In the meantime…
This weekend I’m going to be all alone with me, myself, and I - K1 is in San Diego (of all places!!) working at a big conference, The Kidlet is at his dad’s and I’m…. home by myself. Such a strange feeling.
In my alone and strange feeling I start to realize - Life seems really heavy. Really, REALLY heavy, right now. When I feel like this I find myself blogging less and avoiding my computer (i.e. the internetz) as if it was covered with smallpox.
It’s strange, isn’t it? Most people write more when they’re stressed or need to ‘get things out’… me, I just avoid. Avoid is the word of the day.
Today I was reminded by a total stranger to “find the joy” in my life - especially in my hectic, pre-wedding life. Here’s what I had to say:
Re: I’M GETTTING MARRIED!!!
P.S. The title “Re: I’M GETTTING MARRIED!!!” is taken from the original thread where someone else told the world SHE was getting married (i.e. I wasn’t the one announcing my upcoming wedding). I replied with a Congrats and it went from there :) I’ve met such amazing people on Seesmic.
Exactly one month from today I’m marrying K1. I’m a bit overwhelmed at the thought of everything left to do, at the same time I’m excited/happy/READY to get married.
13 Things I Need to Do Before My Wedding on December 6th
2. Ship the box of miscellaneous wedding decorations (and other stuff) to our wedding destination (San Diego, CA)
3. Book wedding night hotel suite. Find out who (besides us) is staying at the same hotel.
4. Come up with the entire catering menu/food, etc. (!) Because a family friend is doing this for us, it might not be 100% decided and set in stone until we go shopping at Costco/Sam’s Club the day before the wedding. Heh.
5. Someone mentioned a wedding rehearsal - I hadn’t even thought of that. Do we really need to rehearse?
6. K1’s parents mentioned paying for a wedding rehersal dinner - I hadn’t thought of that, either. Rehearsing just to get dinner out of it might be fun.
7. Two words: Bra and slip (ok that was three.) I hate the ’standard’ one from the bridal shop, I’m still hoping I’ll find something different.
8. Yikes, book kennels (or bribe friends) for all four dogs. Although, I really want to take Hunny Bear and have her in the wedding (or something?) because our dogs are such a huge part of our lives. Need to discuss.
9. Make sure everyone is square with where my son is going to be (who’s taking care of him) during the days I’m gone before the wedding and before K1 and he comes out.
10. Consider Thanksgiving (I’ll already be in CA).
11. Remember I hate Thanksgiving and I don’t feel like celebrating, anyway. We always did that (for the last 7 years) at Elaine’s.
12. Oh! Arrange for the marriage license, etc. We’ll be legally married here in Florida for the sake of sanity (why complicate a wedding by needing an out-of-state marriage license?)
13. Remember to pay all my regular bills and not get caught-up in wedding stuffs that I forget anything!
Take it however you want it, but I wanna do bad things... right now.
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