Woah. Seriously. It's been a REALLY REALLY REALLY long time. Is anyone still out there???


I ended up getting a myspace and forgetting all about how awesome livejournal was. :-( Sad for LJ.

WOW. I just read my last few entries. My oh my how things have changed.

Here's a quick run-down:
1. Marriage rocks. Walked out to Rock the Casbah afterall...thanks for all your help making that decision! (See entry several clicks down.) 
2. Never made it to Ireland, but did make it out to California. *shrug* Hey, we had a good time.
3. Have made peace with teaching and even with my place of employment. In fact, I've done more than make peace...I actually really enjoy it. It's a super long story.


I'm sure there's more, I'm just excited to go back and check out more old posts and whatnot.

I forgot how to use this thing!!

Mood Swing Dujour: amused
Music Dujour: watching House

Long time no update!!! But today was the last day of school...I'm on summer vacation!!! Yay!!!!!!


That is all for now. I'm a little braindead. I'll be back soon, though.

Sorry I haven't been around but.....

I'M GETTING MARRIED THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!

Mood Swing Dujour: ecstatic
Music Dujour: Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place

I'm a dirty cheater.


My first bridal shower is tonight and I can't stop looking at my online registries. It's a compulsion...I can't help it. I was just about to check Target again...I don't know why. I just checked it last night. And I also couldn't help but check Bed Bath and Beyond last night. And I found that ... oh, so many gifts have been purchased. And then I checked Williams-Sonoma. More things were gone. Including our $99 set of ceramic flour, sugar, and tea canisters. It would have been such a nice surprise.
But no more.
No more surprises. 
I will know all of my gifts...


...but there's something even worse that I should confess. I don't feel guilty. At all. In fact, I'm wicked psyched.
Wicked.
And I've got a second shower next weekend. (That one is given by my family. Tonight's is by his family. It's a long story about why I ended up with 2 showers.)  I will continue to check my online registries every 5 minutes. They really should not allow brides access to those pages. It's too tempting!!!! Tonight's shower is an evening cocktail party. It's so frickin' awesome. I got a pedicure last night.

Not everything is beautiful, though. I had to have my car towed to a garage this morning. *sigh* I suspect one of the drive belts went because I could barely steer my car out of the driveway on Friday. It was like a workout to steer it back into the parking spot. I probably could have driven it to the garage, but I was too scared. I mean, steering is pretty important. And what the hell, the towing company only charged me $8.

So it was $8 or a pulled muscle. I'll pay the $8. *grin*

Sorry. I am procrastinating because I feel like being a spoiled bride today and I don't want to clean my apartment. But I have to because my mom is spending the afternoon with me and will bring me to the shower later. I just finished cleaning the guinea pig cage.
I'm going to go finish the living room and kitchen at least.

Music Dujour: Blue Orchid - The White Stripes

With 66 days to go until the BIG DAY, there are lots of details to go over. One I'm having trouble with. So I'm calling on all my music geek friends to weigh in on this one....

Since I'm no longer a paid user, I can't do a poll *sad face* so you'll have to just reply to the post. Awww...I briefly considered going back to a paid account just to make one.

Anyway: we need an entrance song to walk into our reception. But we don't want something cheesy. We want something that is either different or really rocks out. Here are the front runners:

1. Rock the Casbah: The Clash 
2. Move Your Feet: Junior Senior
3. Don't Stop Believin': Journey (I love this one, but it does have it's slow moments...)
4. Dare: Gorrilaz (although I think it might be inappropriate...but who's really going to be deciphering the words when the beat is awesome?)
5. Mr. Blue Sky: ELO (not great to dance to, but a fun song. And since we aren't dancers, I don't see why we'd need a dance beat.)


I don't know who will actually take part in this, I just thought I'd give it a shot. Because I'm having a snow day (our FIRST this winter...normally at this time we'd have had at least 5.) And it's not really snowing out. It's all ice falling from the sky. Boooo....

Have a great day everyone!!!!

Music Dujour: Countdown - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

84 days to go........

Tags: 84
Music Dujour: Scrubs on TV

It's amazing what the Bridget Jones' Diary movie and a big cozy sweater can do to turn your day around. And a movie and sweater has a lot fewer calories than alcohol. Though both have the same effect, essentially.

Mood Swing Dujour: relaxed
Music Dujour: movie in other room

Being a bride is exhausting work. 

I just don't understand "Bride-zillas." Who has that much time and energy to put into being a bride?? I'm a laid back bride and I'm feeling the stress. I don't get it.

Random thoughts.

Oh - and Jules - you are the sweetest for reminding me of other good things in my life. Yes...my engagement was awesome...but it happened in July of 2005. We have been engaged for ages.

Which is why it's so strange that there's under 100 days to go. 

Holy. Crap. Sorry to be so ADD, but American Idol is on in the background (because Law and Order C.I. is a repeat, unfortunately) and some chick just sang the Lion's song from the Wizard of Oz. But sang it like the lion. What the.......??????

Anyway, just checking in. I'm drowning in phone calls and questions about undergarments (I had to get a boustier, bous... , full-body bra!!!), flower pictures, stress-eating and guilt from not going to the gym.......

I'm not even going to get into the stress at work because I don't really care anymore. At least I know I have a paycheck.

I need a nap. :-)

Mood Swing Dujour: ditzy
Music Dujour: Crap on the TV...I miss Criminal Intent

Well, usually I take the last post of the year to go through the one best thing that happened each month through the year, but I'm afraid it would be too much of a struggle to come up with anything this year, save for March when my niece was born. She really is the best thing (and really the only good thing at all) to come out of 2006. Thank GOD for her or I would have gone completely mental.

So instead, I will simply say that I've never been so glad to see a year go.

And here's what I am looking forward to in 2007:
Jan/Feb/March: Getting ready for my wedding and my niece's first birthday!
April: MY WEDDING! And mini-honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
May/June: finding a NEW JOB - preferably NOT in the education field.
July: Starting a new job
August: Honeymoon in Ireland?? Maybe....we might put it off until next summer...still on the fence. But it would be cool to go in August.
September: Either starting school in a new district (realistic) or celebrating the beginning of a school year WITHOUT me. (my hope)
October/November/December: getting ready for the first round of holidays as a married woman!!!!!!!

Now I'm going to go. My wrists hurt because I just spent the past two days tying little tiny bows on my home-made wedding invitations. Ouch.

Mood Swing Dujour: Bring out the alcohol!
Music Dujour: Used to Love You - John Legend

THAT'S IT.


I am changing careers. You can't talk me out of it. I mean, if I can't get another job then that might make me reconsider...but I'm DONE. 

DONE. 

I need a real damn job. Not whatever this crap is. 

You have no idea how crappy my week has been. Who am I kidding? The last 5 years have been crappy. I'm frickin' done.

Mood Swing Dujour: pissed off
Music Dujour: Portishead - All Mine