Sorry it has been awhile, but I am usually on facebook but I know some of the family is not to I wanted to try to update.
The invites are sent so you should be getting them any day now. A lot of people are asking us where we are registered since we didn't include any note saying what to get us. To be honest we don't need anything. I know it's crazy, but we have both been married before and we live together, so we pretty much have everything. We can't take time off work for a honeymoon so there is no wishing well website to send money to. We couldn't agree to a charity to donate too considering they are all worthy, so we would just be happy to get a card with heart felt well wishes. If you feel the need to send a gift, just make it a gift card to target or safe way or luckys, something like that. Plus it's been hard on evryone lately in the money department so gift are not nessesarry at all. Hope that helps out if anyone was wondering. :)
As for the rest of the wedding plans go, it's cool so far. The bridesmaids all have dresses. My dress is currently missing. I gave it to the seamstress to bustle the back of it sometime in May and I haven't heard from the lady again. I'm not panicked yet. Dad and the grooms men still need suits. We finally got a cake topper, it's a corpse bride from tim Burton's movie. we have plenty of decor and I pay the flower lady in August. Our d.j. is putting together a playlist of mainly 80's music and celtic stuff some new wave too since you can't exactly dance to goth music. I thnk The funkins (foam punpkins) are being carved by a friend who is a billion times more creative then myself.
As for Rob and I we wre doing well. Mostly working and when we get the chance we meet up with mom and dad to go somewhere. Before summerschool started we drove down highway 1 to big sir and toured the hearst castle. We went hiking in sanol canyon and mom and dad took Rob to the golden gate bridge to take photos. All the photos are on facebook, since this blog wont let me put photos up anymore.
Summer school started a week ago so I have been busy with that. But as soon as summer school is finished we will plan another trip and I may try to hunt down my wedding dress.
thats about it guys. Love you! oh and don't forget to send back your reply cards apparently I need to count people for the wedding. LOL
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
More from my bucket of crazy
So, we managed to pick out the bufet menu as well as the flowers. I honestly can't recal what we will be eating since it was done last month, however I do belive there will be some sort of chicken dish. The flowers seemed to be extreemly complacated, There are thousands of choices in flowers alone, wittled down only by the seasonal choices. Then there seems to be an endless choice of shapes of boquets to choose from...really...I had to pick the shape of the boquet. I figured that once you put a bunch of flowers together it makes it's own shape. I guess I was wrong. I had no idea what flowers I wanted so the lady told me to bring her a picture. I just kind of handed her a picture of some boque I found in a magizine, but it doesn't stop there...no of course not. I had to substatute some for others and all that horse doody. Natalia came with me and I just let her do it. I think she is better at girly things than I am.
In August mom and I ordered my wedding dress, however we hadden't heard anything from the store we ordered it from in quite awhile. We decided to stop by the store in November while I was on Vacation to just see if they had an e.t.a on the dress. So we went to the store and it was closed. Not just closed but it closed down. No dresses in the windows no people working in the now empty store, no cars in the parking lot. All this store had was a phone number on the window. After mom and I paniced and freaked out and yelled and pounded on the doors for a while we called the number and was assured the dress was ordered and in production and not to worry about the dress or the deposit on the dress. We were also told that the e.t.a on the dress was about the 3rd week of December. So on December 29th we drove to stalkton and picked up my dress, it's freeking awesome!
Rob got his suit and shoes. we ordered the ties and all that jazz. So far a huge chunk of the wedding crap is done. But we still need to figure out a cake and a cake topper as well as the music. the girls still need dresses and we have looked at quite a few places and not found anything they would like to wear. But I think I can finally relax for a bit and add to the wedding account for a few months before we have to put more money on the next thing we need.
Mom has had two surgurys in the past month. She had her ankle repaired from an injury she got about 10 years ago. She is now in a giant boot and has a frankenstine walk but she is okay. Then she had the little cancer spot removed from her ear as well. she has tiny stitches in her ear now. I was hoping she would look elf like but no such luck. She is doing well, even though dad has done most the cooking and cleaning the past few weeks, he has actually managed to keep from burning the house down...for the most part. He did have an issure with a cornned beef he turned to dust, but it was his 1st day cooking. lol
In August mom and I ordered my wedding dress, however we hadden't heard anything from the store we ordered it from in quite awhile. We decided to stop by the store in November while I was on Vacation to just see if they had an e.t.a on the dress. So we went to the store and it was closed. Not just closed but it closed down. No dresses in the windows no people working in the now empty store, no cars in the parking lot. All this store had was a phone number on the window. After mom and I paniced and freaked out and yelled and pounded on the doors for a while we called the number and was assured the dress was ordered and in production and not to worry about the dress or the deposit on the dress. We were also told that the e.t.a on the dress was about the 3rd week of December. So on December 29th we drove to stalkton and picked up my dress, it's freeking awesome!
Rob got his suit and shoes. we ordered the ties and all that jazz. So far a huge chunk of the wedding crap is done. But we still need to figure out a cake and a cake topper as well as the music. the girls still need dresses and we have looked at quite a few places and not found anything they would like to wear. But I think I can finally relax for a bit and add to the wedding account for a few months before we have to put more money on the next thing we need.
Mom has had two surgurys in the past month. She had her ankle repaired from an injury she got about 10 years ago. She is now in a giant boot and has a frankenstine walk but she is okay. Then she had the little cancer spot removed from her ear as well. she has tiny stitches in her ear now. I was hoping she would look elf like but no such luck. She is doing well, even though dad has done most the cooking and cleaning the past few weeks, he has actually managed to keep from burning the house down...for the most part. He did have an issure with a cornned beef he turned to dust, but it was his 1st day cooking. lol
Sunday, October 17, 2010
more wedding crap
We have started ordering items for the wedding. I went through oriental trading company for a lot of stuff. They seem to have nice things for a price we can afford. So far we have the grooms gifts and bridesmaid's gifts, flower girl and ring kid gifts, garders and treat bags. I also went out and got the veil thingy, which I kind of don't understand the point of since Rob and I live together so he has already seen my face. But apparently since my dress is strapless, dad wants a veil to cover my tattoos. You can still see them through the veil, so again, I am not too sure why this was so flippin' important. We have the invites, we just haven't printed them out. I got my shoes, they are $10.00 white ballet slippers so I am not towering over Rob. He is already a bit shorter than I am.
The list of stuff we need is still really long though. We still need a cake, flowers and center pieces (I hear these are extremely important..for some reason)as well as brides maid dresses and grooms and grooms men's suits. the list is endless. I am glad we started planning now, since a picture person runs about 2 grand alone. *sigh* I am not sure why things are so expensive when it's just for a day. It seems starting out your marriage in debt up to your eyeballs is the norm, but I have a mortgage to pay and Rob needs braces. It's pretty funny to see all the wedding magazines where the couple have this huge lavish wedding that costs tons of money and they are younger than Rob and I. I wonder what they do for a living and how much debt they are in. Maybe I needed to pick a higher paying job that was less fulfilling, instead of going for a job that made me feel like I made a difference in a kid's life.
I don't like planning big events like this, I don't know how to organize stuff like this. A coordinater costs more money, but maybe worth it to get the pressure off. I have a year to stress out about everything. The worst part is I have no one to blame but myself, it all started when I fell in love with a dress, and I had to build a wedding to match it. If I stayed out of the dress store, I would still be getting married in my parents back yard or a nice normal small stress free court house. Here's the kicker, I don't even remember what the stupid dress looks like! I haven't seen it for 2 months! We ordered it and I am sure it is being made somewhere in a sweat shop in China by tiny children who only get paid $.8 a day! I can't even recall the beading or the shape of it. I just know it's strapless and has some green on it. For the love of all that is Holy!!!!!! I have dug myself in way too deep to turn back now. The parents were kind enough to pay for the wedding venue and mom got her fancy dress already and she LOVES it! She looks amazing in it!
Just think, it's going to be a whole year of posts like this. Me freaking out and second guessing ever move I make. It's like year long torture. Poor Rob. Poor poor unknowing Rob. I have hid my crazy from him for over a year already, it's getting harder and harder to pass off my mental break downs as p.m.s. At some point he will look at the wall calendar and figure out I am just slowly going bat crap crazy.
So thank you for reading my post and letting me vent. Keep up with my page to watch me spiral down into bridzilla like tantrums. That way the asylum had documentation of why I have to be in a padded room in a "hug me jacket". Maybe they have a whole room full of brides, I should suggest it when I get there.
The list of stuff we need is still really long though. We still need a cake, flowers and center pieces (I hear these are extremely important..for some reason)as well as brides maid dresses and grooms and grooms men's suits. the list is endless. I am glad we started planning now, since a picture person runs about 2 grand alone. *sigh* I am not sure why things are so expensive when it's just for a day. It seems starting out your marriage in debt up to your eyeballs is the norm, but I have a mortgage to pay and Rob needs braces. It's pretty funny to see all the wedding magazines where the couple have this huge lavish wedding that costs tons of money and they are younger than Rob and I. I wonder what they do for a living and how much debt they are in. Maybe I needed to pick a higher paying job that was less fulfilling, instead of going for a job that made me feel like I made a difference in a kid's life.
I don't like planning big events like this, I don't know how to organize stuff like this. A coordinater costs more money, but maybe worth it to get the pressure off. I have a year to stress out about everything. The worst part is I have no one to blame but myself, it all started when I fell in love with a dress, and I had to build a wedding to match it. If I stayed out of the dress store, I would still be getting married in my parents back yard or a nice normal small stress free court house. Here's the kicker, I don't even remember what the stupid dress looks like! I haven't seen it for 2 months! We ordered it and I am sure it is being made somewhere in a sweat shop in China by tiny children who only get paid $.8 a day! I can't even recall the beading or the shape of it. I just know it's strapless and has some green on it. For the love of all that is Holy!!!!!! I have dug myself in way too deep to turn back now. The parents were kind enough to pay for the wedding venue and mom got her fancy dress already and she LOVES it! She looks amazing in it!
Just think, it's going to be a whole year of posts like this. Me freaking out and second guessing ever move I make. It's like year long torture. Poor Rob. Poor poor unknowing Rob. I have hid my crazy from him for over a year already, it's getting harder and harder to pass off my mental break downs as p.m.s. At some point he will look at the wall calendar and figure out I am just slowly going bat crap crazy.
So thank you for reading my post and letting me vent. Keep up with my page to watch me spiral down into bridzilla like tantrums. That way the asylum had documentation of why I have to be in a padded room in a "hug me jacket". Maybe they have a whole room full of brides, I should suggest it when I get there.
Monday, September 20, 2010
wedding plans
Okay so the wedding plans as annoying is they are, are going well. We have a venue we have a guest list and food. We have the dress and a groom. We have my shoes (they are white slippers) and we have the invites (only 60) we even have our d.j. but we are getting there. Rob and I started a wedding fund so we can put money in it and when we need to buy stuff we use the money outta that account so we can still pay bills. We still need a cake, a person to take awesome pictures and a few other things. But we have a year to save and a year to spend. I am trying not to panic. I have only cried 4 times while doing our budget.......I honestly thought this would be fun, it's not. we should have eloped.
Monday, August 16, 2010
He's my Elvis
So one of my favorite authors in the whole wide world came to Capitola California yesterday. He was doing a book signing and a talk. Thanks to authortracker.com I was lucky enough to get a heads up on his book tour. So since Mom and Natalia read his books too we asked my Dad to drive us an hour away to Capitola so I could get my books signed. I finally did something with my summer that was such an amazing experiance that I still am freaking out about it. I can't belive I met Christopher Moore! His talk was hilarious and fasinating. Dad even strted reading his books now because he was so inpressed with Mr. Moore. I borught 5 books for him to sign since the rest of my collection of his books were lent out and never returned. He signed them all and posed for a photo. I was so happy! I am still happy. I think it may be one of my happiest days ever. I just wish the picture looked better. I could swear Natalia and I looked like normal cute chicks but when we looked at the picture after, Natalia looked like she gained 50 pounds and had a gap tooth and I have 9 chins insted of my usual 3. uuughhhh we so photo blew it. Anyway, if you guys would want to read any of his books they are all awesome. But my personal fave is: LAMB. Mom's favorite is: PRACTICAL DEAMON KEEPING and dad is currently reading: A DIRTY JOB. If you get the chance to read any of his work, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
On a wedding note, Rob and I have set a tentative date of October 22, 2011. We still have to look at our budget and a place to have it. The dress has a deposit already, so that has been figured out. Good news is we have a year to slowly pay for things and make changes, Bad news is Rob needs braces and thats crazy expensive. The other cruddy news is, well honestly Rob is a sacurity guard and I am a teacher's aide, so we make about as much as the paper boy combined. Gurrrrr. I found a book about weddings on a budget and read it cover to cover, there is a ton of great hints to help out, but the more I read, the more I despreatly want to take the deposit on the dress back and go to a drive through wedding in vegas. I forgot how much I hated planning the 1st wedding. It's amazing how the prices for wedding crap has gone up in the past 10 years. It seems to me that it's not the wisest thing to start out a marraige in serious debt. I was looking at veils on like and the lowest priced one I found was $37.00! For the love of everything holy and pure, it's a flippin' veil! So apparntly I will be making my own or skipping it all together. I next looked at flowers.....yeah I said flowers. Apparently normal flowers are decently priced, but if you type in the word wedding first, all of a sudden they are tripple the price! uughhhh! Honestly, they just die anyway! So I will ither go fake or someone's garden will be harvested in the middle of the night. After the flowers, I looked at cake. A normal round cake is about $20.00 at the highest. But low and behold you type the word wedding in and BOOM! now it's $450.00 at the lowest. I called and asked why such a high mark up and they said the frosting is more expensive.....really.....thats what they said. I even asked if they mixed crack in it or black market babies but she said no, just a good butter, then hung up on me. So maybe buying a few round cakes and stacking them up maybe the way to go. How hard could it be to decorate a cake? After the cake phone call, I was too scared to look for food people or a hall or anything at all. Eloping isn't an option now that the dress is 1/2 paid for and mom has seen it. What have I gotten us into? Why did Rob have to insist on a non-court room wedding? Why did I agree to putting a deposit on a dress? (the dress is amazing and perfect and it makes me look like I am thin and have a butt) I may have bought the dress just to vacumme in it. Why? why? why am I an idiot?
But I met Christopher Moore! and thats all that matters right now. I have to keep thinking of that so I don't crank call wedding venders in my area.
On a wedding note, Rob and I have set a tentative date of October 22, 2011. We still have to look at our budget and a place to have it. The dress has a deposit already, so that has been figured out. Good news is we have a year to slowly pay for things and make changes, Bad news is Rob needs braces and thats crazy expensive. The other cruddy news is, well honestly Rob is a sacurity guard and I am a teacher's aide, so we make about as much as the paper boy combined. Gurrrrr. I found a book about weddings on a budget and read it cover to cover, there is a ton of great hints to help out, but the more I read, the more I despreatly want to take the deposit on the dress back and go to a drive through wedding in vegas. I forgot how much I hated planning the 1st wedding. It's amazing how the prices for wedding crap has gone up in the past 10 years. It seems to me that it's not the wisest thing to start out a marraige in serious debt. I was looking at veils on like and the lowest priced one I found was $37.00! For the love of everything holy and pure, it's a flippin' veil! So apparntly I will be making my own or skipping it all together. I next looked at flowers.....yeah I said flowers. Apparently normal flowers are decently priced, but if you type in the word wedding first, all of a sudden they are tripple the price! uughhhh! Honestly, they just die anyway! So I will ither go fake or someone's garden will be harvested in the middle of the night. After the flowers, I looked at cake. A normal round cake is about $20.00 at the highest. But low and behold you type the word wedding in and BOOM! now it's $450.00 at the lowest. I called and asked why such a high mark up and they said the frosting is more expensive.....really.....thats what they said. I even asked if they mixed crack in it or black market babies but she said no, just a good butter, then hung up on me. So maybe buying a few round cakes and stacking them up maybe the way to go. How hard could it be to decorate a cake? After the cake phone call, I was too scared to look for food people or a hall or anything at all. Eloping isn't an option now that the dress is 1/2 paid for and mom has seen it. What have I gotten us into? Why did Rob have to insist on a non-court room wedding? Why did I agree to putting a deposit on a dress? (the dress is amazing and perfect and it makes me look like I am thin and have a butt) I may have bought the dress just to vacumme in it. Why? why? why am I an idiot?
But I met Christopher Moore! and thats all that matters right now. I have to keep thinking of that so I don't crank call wedding venders in my area.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Summer Vacation
Summer vacation has started. I made so many plans. I wanted to hang out with all my other pals. Natalia and her brother Rodrigo are un-employed so they have lots of time on their hands. However, everytime we make plans somthing comes up and we end up trying another day. Rob and I made plans as well, but he ended up having training on all the days he had off. I have been pretty desprate for somthing to do, besides clean the house and stalk Edward Cullen on the internet. I have managed to read 7 books in about 2 weeks. I hang out with the parents playing scrabble at the coffee shop. We sit out side and play so mom can work on her tan. Apparently the natural light makes it far too easy for my mom to pin point all my grey hairs and my new wrinkles. Sending me into a spiral of self doubt and fear. I end up making an apointment to dye my hair and research the prices of botox. gurrrrr.....
At least I have Jelly-Bean. He doesn't seem to care what I look like. bonus points for him! He has managed to worm his way deeper into our hearts. Honestly I always liked the stupid bird, but now it borders on obsesive. We buy him toys off the internet, the bird gets more mail and packages than we do. He has a place on the couch between us. He has the run of the house, he climbs off his cage and hops to us when he wants to cuddle. He even took over the blanket Auntie Elaine gave me for x-mas! If we try to use it, he hightails it over to the couch and climbs up the blanket and burrows under it! He drinks my orange juice and my coffee when I'm not looking. We even rent him bird movies from discovery channel. When Rob comes home from work, the bird gets kissed first, when I come home from work the bird gets kissed first. It's finally dawned on us, we are parents. I don't know how it happened, he was suposed to be a pet, he was suposed to be something that we just feed and ignore. Now we have a bird car seat, seed on the floor, special blankets for him and extra money spent on ways to entertain him. So even though I will never have to save for a college fund or bail money and I don't need to buy clothing, I will never need to bring cup cakes to his class for his birthday....I have a kid, he just has feathers. I can't even blame my stretch marks on him. On that note, I gotta go, someone needs sunflower seeds and fresh bathwater....
At least I have Jelly-Bean. He doesn't seem to care what I look like. bonus points for him! He has managed to worm his way deeper into our hearts. Honestly I always liked the stupid bird, but now it borders on obsesive. We buy him toys off the internet, the bird gets more mail and packages than we do. He has a place on the couch between us. He has the run of the house, he climbs off his cage and hops to us when he wants to cuddle. He even took over the blanket Auntie Elaine gave me for x-mas! If we try to use it, he hightails it over to the couch and climbs up the blanket and burrows under it! He drinks my orange juice and my coffee when I'm not looking. We even rent him bird movies from discovery channel. When Rob comes home from work, the bird gets kissed first, when I come home from work the bird gets kissed first. It's finally dawned on us, we are parents. I don't know how it happened, he was suposed to be a pet, he was suposed to be something that we just feed and ignore. Now we have a bird car seat, seed on the floor, special blankets for him and extra money spent on ways to entertain him. So even though I will never have to save for a college fund or bail money and I don't need to buy clothing, I will never need to bring cup cakes to his class for his birthday....I have a kid, he just has feathers. I can't even blame my stretch marks on him. On that note, I gotta go, someone needs sunflower seeds and fresh bathwater....
Friday, July 23, 2010
*yawn*
sadly, I have nothing cool to report.....The most exciting thing that Rob and I have done in the past month is ordering fushigi balls off the interwebs due to our massive boredom. We have not recived them yet, but are eagerly awaiting their arrival like a kid waiting for the decoder ring at the bottom of the cereal box.
Summer school will be over next week and I will have 3 weeks off, and I have been told by the parentals that I have to unpack the last 6 boxes from my move into the condo. All the boxes contain "childish" things like sailor moon dolls and kid's toys. Mom forbade me to display such items in my new condo because I am an "adult". so if I am suposed to unpack them, yet can't desplay them.....what do I do with them? How do I make this woman happy? I am at a loss.
So the parents will be heading out your way to Utah on sunday, day after tomorrow. Natalia will watch their house and take care of the cat, since my parrot is a 2 year old with flock behavior and can't be left alone, and Rob can't be left alone cuz all he can cook is rice. I can't bring the bird to my parent's house cuz the cats will just tourture him. So Natalia is way more cat savy than I am. I tend to forget that they are around unless they are meowing and junk. So I would expect my parents to show up around Monday late or Tuesday early.
Anyway, we still haven't bothered even planning a wedding or even a date, we just say Octoberish 20011ish. I am pretty much inclide to just hit up a courthouse and get it done with, no fru fru dress, no going in debt planning anything,no having to scout out some location, no dancing....no drama or headache.....sounds perfect to me. Although I would love a huge halloween costume party shindig.....dangit! what do I do? lol
Summer school will be over next week and I will have 3 weeks off, and I have been told by the parentals that I have to unpack the last 6 boxes from my move into the condo. All the boxes contain "childish" things like sailor moon dolls and kid's toys. Mom forbade me to display such items in my new condo because I am an "adult". so if I am suposed to unpack them, yet can't desplay them.....what do I do with them? How do I make this woman happy? I am at a loss.
So the parents will be heading out your way to Utah on sunday, day after tomorrow. Natalia will watch their house and take care of the cat, since my parrot is a 2 year old with flock behavior and can't be left alone, and Rob can't be left alone cuz all he can cook is rice. I can't bring the bird to my parent's house cuz the cats will just tourture him. So Natalia is way more cat savy than I am. I tend to forget that they are around unless they are meowing and junk. So I would expect my parents to show up around Monday late or Tuesday early.
Anyway, we still haven't bothered even planning a wedding or even a date, we just say Octoberish 20011ish. I am pretty much inclide to just hit up a courthouse and get it done with, no fru fru dress, no going in debt planning anything,no having to scout out some location, no dancing....no drama or headache.....sounds perfect to me. Although I would love a huge halloween costume party shindig.....dangit! what do I do? lol
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