You may now puke on the bride

So, do you realize that Wills & Kate's engagement was 5 months long?  Guess who else's engagement is 5 months long?  Mine.

And... that's where the similarities end.

Did I get up at 3am to watch the marriage?  No.
In fact, we loaned our satellite receiver to the coffee shop downstairs so that they could watch it.  So I woke up to the delighted squeals of coffee shop girls gushing over fashion and dresses and kisses.... blaugh!

I did watch a few clips of the wedding at a more reasonable time of day.  And I noticed one thing:

During the vows, Will & Kate both looked like they could puke.    
Which is how I'm starting to feel every time someone brings up weddings, or what they think I should be doing to prepare for my wedding, or I see references to weddings on tv, or etc, etc...
Anxiety and I are not friends, and I completely understand the feeling of wanting to puke!

Way to be human Will & Kate!

Holy Week

Where has the time gone?  Easter is just around the corner, and Lent is pretty much done and over with for another year.

And not a moment too soon...

Let's just say that 'Robert' and I had a falling out.  Well, ok, here's the thing:  Running with Robert is a great idea!  And I wholeheartedly endorse it, and congratulate those who have seen it through to the end.  Me, however, I am a bandwagon hopper.  And Robert requires too much effort on my part, so I've pretty much hopped off that wagon.  Perhaps it was too structured for my liking, or maybe I'm just not committed enough.  And I really don't like his music.  So what's the point of running to something I'm not enjoying?  It makes it a chore and that's just not cool.

Come on!  We all knew how this would end, right?

Anyway... I definitely haven't given up the treadmill (heck!  I paid money for that!  I'm not giving that up!), and can manage to run/walk/gasp/hobble a respectable 15 (make that 13) minute mile - a number I would like to, and plan to, improve (without Robert's help).

In the meantime, I'm very impatiently waiting for spring to return so I can get back outside and finish cleaning up my yard and flowerbeds and barn, and get everything organized for all the partying that is associated with getting married.

Hydro is literally worthless

If you weren't angry about hydro prices before, this article should do it:

Ontario power prices go below zero

 At this time of year, they pay upwards of 12.8 cents a kilowatt hour to get rid of excess hydro!  Oh, but don't you worry, hydro prices are only supposed to rise by 46% over the next 5 years.  It's a good thing the government has noticed that we're struggling with these ridiculous costs and has offered a 'generous' 10% discount!

Bridesmaid dresses?

Manditory Wedding update

Dave and I are bottling wine tomorrow.  Fun Times!  I'm looking forward to the new experience (I'm sure that by about bottle 20 of 90, I'll have had enough experience and just want it to be over!).   We went with fruity wines instead of the plain ol' red and white - I'm looking forward to that too!  Now, if I can manage to stay out of it for the next 3 months...

It's not actually 3 months away anymore.  We are now under 3 months away.  T minus 78 days.  Ack.

Our 'pre-marital counseling' is over now.  I'll keep my opinions to myself about that one.   My boss seems to think we should attend his marriage prep weekend (tonight and tomorrow) at the Catholic church.  I declined, but he still insisted that I take a copy of all the booklets.  At least two of the booklets are about Natural Family Planning....  Thank you, Fr.

I think we might actually meet with the caterer this weekend.  Its not something I'm terribly concerned about, but we do need to know how she runs things so that we know what sort of dishes we'll have to rent.  I'm not too very keen on having to do any elaborate hall decorating, so I've been avoiding the task of going to a rental place.  But sooner or later, it will have to be done.  Good thing I've got a couple future sisters-in-law willing to take on the decorating!

The girls are going shopping next weekend.  Hopefully that will take care of dresses and shoes.  I really am leaning towards three different coloured dresses for the girls, but we'll see what we can find and who knows what'll happen.  The guys, well, if they show up to the wedding wearing pants, it'll be a bonus!  :P

I have 2 little kids who keep hounding me to be the flower girl and ring bearer.  Tough luck kiddos!  Ain't gonna happen.  I'm pretty sure that Zachary thought it was completely against every rule in the book to not have a ring bearer.  "Amy, you can't even get married without a ring bearer!  Who's going to carry the rings??"  Not to sound mean but I don't need a little ham at the front of the church fidgeting around begging for attention - there's already going to be four grown men standing at the front doing just that! 

Speaking of wedding bands, they're looked after too. Davey's should be done soon; nice and plain - exactly what he wanted.  Mine needs to be custom made to fit beside my engagement ring properly (it's got a flared band on it that makes fitting a generic ring beside it a little troublesome), but!  It's going to be really plain too, and won't cost more than one of those generic bands anyway.  Bonus!

Invites are just a postage stamp away from going into the mail.  So if you're expecting one and haven't got it yet, don't worry, aside from the few that have been hand delivered, no one has one yet!  Please note: I think we invited 214 people, and the church seats about 180.  So.... *sigh* I would love to have all of my 420 facebook friends in attendance, but it's just not practical.  No hard feelings, k?

I've got a good pal who's willing to sing a song or two during the wedding, plus a co-worker who's more than delighted to take on the organist job (assuming our regular church organist doesn't want the job).  Now we just have to pick out some songs and bible readings - something that I feel like I have had very little direction or guidance with.  Davey, with very little church experience under his belt, has zero opinion about it, so I'm sort of on my own on this one.  Suggestions are appreciated, but be warned, if your suggestion consists solely of 1 Corinthians 13, I might be less than impressed.

Other than the little details like flowers, this thing is planned!  (Maybe we can just pick a bunch of dandelions off the side of the road?)  It's really not all that hard to plan a wedding.  Stressful, well, as stressful as you make it, but not hard.

Oh yeah, honeymoon?  That's planned too.  Just need to book our ferry tickets to Newfoundland!

Spring? Is that you?

Ah, finally!  For the first time in what feels like about a bagjllion light years, I actually spent time outside tonight.  Yay! 

Me and the BF went for a nice long walk in the sunshine, and then I played outside in the mud and sticks and leaves and stuff on the lawn.  That's right, on the lawn.  I have a LAWN!  How exciting is that??!   

Funny how when I lived at home I did everything possible to avoid lawn & garden work, and now that I have my own, I can't wait to clean it all up and make it all look nice!