Bring on the stress

Less than T minus 2 weeks 'till the wedding. I still have to buy big pumpkins along with a number of other items. The song list needs put together and we need to find out how exactly we are going to get it to work (ipod drama). I have to make around 150 favors.

I had my bridal shower yesterday! Thank you Jessica! It was completely amazing. I had a great time, tons of fun!

We found out yesterday early morning my cousin died. It's a horrible story and I'll leave it at that.

I'm completely frazzled. I can't remember if I've already done something. I keep asking the same questions over and over and over and still I forget if I asked it already. I felt terrible for trying to enjoy the shower. I still feel bad worrying about the stupid wedding details.

Posting will be back when I can think straight and stop the crying fits. Damn you Death!

I Get Gifts?

So the other day I was talking to one of my bridesmaids and she mentioned, "yeah I have your gift for the bridal shower". I said, "what gift? I get a gift?" and the realization started to dawn on me. I get gifts at the bridal shower!!!! Woo hoo! I win! Don't ask me how I could possibly forget that people will be giving me presents. I was looking forward to the shower so I could see people, hang out, eat good food and maybe play some great silly games. But now people are going to give me things! Who ever started that tradition anyways? I'm getting married...give me lots of parties for various reasons so I get tons of gifts. I'm not complaining or anything because, well, I'm the one getting the gifts here. But really, how many gifts do people need just because they are getting married? Oh well, one of the many crazy things involved with getting hitched.

OCTOBER!!

Squeeeeeeeeeel! I'm getting married this month! Today we went to the gym which I am totally happy about. It was just what I needed to take the edge off my stress. We are cramming in lots of sessions this month because we feel better when we work out and I want to feel my best for our wedding. Also, we don't plan on going after the wedding for a little while so we want to get plenty of time in while we can. After the wedding it's honeymoon time!

I went to the store and paid for the petite fours. My Mom picked them up later in the day and they are staying in her freezer until the wedding. The lady there named Amy was so nice! The manager of the bakery was going to charge me an extra dollar and some change for shipping. So she (manager) rounded the direct cost of the cakes from $53 and some change to a solid $55. Okay, I could deal with that but I did grumble a bit because originally I was told that I would pay what it cost them and nothing more. Well, when I went to get the bill today to pay for them, Amy told me not to bring a receipt back. She didn't want her manager to know that she took $5 off for me. So I paid $50 for the cakes when the store paid almost $54. I win!!!

I looked up our county clerks website to get information on a marriage license. The website was very informative. It had all the info I needed and it was all good news! The whole process only takes 15 minutes. They issue them 8:30am to 4:30pm so we have to do it on a lunch break. They cost $60 and it must be cash. And the best part? We only need to bring a drivers license or ID card. No birth certificate or anything. Pretty easy huh?

This Sunday is my bridal shower, double squeel!! I'm so excited for this! It is being held in Eugene. While we are out there Justin is hanging out with some of his groomsmen and going shopping for his shirt for the wedding. After the shower on our way back home we are going to stop by the amazing 24 hour Winco! We are going to buy the candy for the wedding favors and all the pumpkins we need for the wedding. Our car will be loaded down with pumpkins!

Hunting season opens this Saturday. So in the midst of all this darned planning Justin is also going to try and kill us some dinner. Yummy, I love homemade deer jerky!

Well, enough ramblings for tonight! I gotsta go take a shower and get me some sleep!

Happy October!!

Halloween Yet?

I love Halloween and I can't wait for it to get here. So in the Halloween spirit here is a video that I found last night.

The story...I was talking with Sammi and she told me about a video on youtube. It is of the Wizard of Oz suicide. Apparently in the background of the movie they caught someone hanging themselves on camera. Later this was replaced with a bird on the DVD version. That's how the story goes. Well, I was interested in seeing this. I love those little things about movies (Disney's Ariel ring a bell?). They make me curious and I like to see them for myself. So last night I went in search of a good video that showed this.

Here is the one I found

Wizard of Oz Suicide

Okay, I see what they are talking about. I'm not sure if it is actually a person though. So I went in search of a better video....and came across this.

Please note, this scared the crap out of me! Not for the feight of heart!! You get a warning.

The Wizard of Oz Suicide - Revealed

I'll let you catch your breath. I didn't get a warning when I watched this. I should have read the comments I suppose but who does that before watching every youtube video? I jumped and screamed my head off. Things like that, that just pop up, scare me. It was so unexpected! This is the first thing to really scare me in years...years.

I just watched it again and it still creeps me out.

Just thought I'd share the scare!

It's on like Donkey Kong...

Remember the game Donkey Kong. That was fun. I played it on my Gameboy. The green pixelation was great wasn't it? Ah the good old days.

I'm going to go kick Lego Batman's butt. And clean the house. If I'm not back by tomorrow either the thing growing in the corner pulled me in or one of the villains has me hostage. I'm off to save my appartment! Duh da dunnnn! (like superhero music...get it?)

I'm IT!!

I have never been tagged before. Honestly, I'm a little confused on how it works. I'll wing it. Wings are good. Perhaps I'll have hot wings tonight?

Let's see, Blablover5 from Introverted Bride tagged me. Yay! Super blogger! You should check her out.

Now I think I just answer the questions like she did, right? Works for me!

4 things I did today:

1. Woke up ready to get the working portion of Friday over with so that I could enjoy my weekend. Oh how I love the weekends!!!

2. Watched this clip from a football game. Frickin' amazing! I tried something like that in a dream the other night. Only it was showing off my skills at a running roundoff backhandspring backtuck. I ended up watching my head roll away from my body. Let's just say it was unsuccessful.

3. Learned that my bank Wamu is not very happy today. Or my Dad. He had stocks in Wamu. Whoops.

4. Got surprised by Justin for lunch. He was supposed to be too busy to take a lunch today. Noon rolled around and in walked Honey! The perfect pick-me-up for a Friday afternoon!

4 things on my To Do list:

1. Get off my lazy ass and get it back to the gym...tonight!

2. Play Legos Batman and get the current frickin' level finished...again. We bought a Wii just a couple days ago and last night while in hot pursuit of some villains our tv started emitting this horrible loud "ehhhhhhhhhhh". Think of "the most annoying sound in the world" from Dumb and Dumber. Yeah, that one. The Wii froze. We lost our unsaved progress! Damn it! It wasn't that bad of a loss, but enough to get really frustrated with the darn thing and call it some mean names. Let's hope tonight goes better.

3. Get my cardboxes finished. I've been unable to do these because I need an exacto knife to cut the top slit before I decoupage them. No knife, no progress. My goal is to finish these tomorrow. Or at least get a good start. It depends on if the Joker taunts me. I might be forced to play.

4. Do the dishes and scrub down the bathroom. I'm been putting the bathroom off. My least favorite of household chores. I figure if I do it tonight, I don't have to worry about it the rest of the weekend. Blah.

4 of my guiltiest pleasures:

1. Being a nerd and playing video games late late into the night. We're talking next morning here.

2. Shopping at Torrid. I love this store! My pretty plastic cards get abused here. Oops.

3. Being a Britney Spears closet fan. I can't help it. I love her music. Have you heard her new song Womanizer? LAUV ET! <---Kinda like a high pitched sing-songy voice. (From a movie I'm not sure which.) I'm glad she's finally not so damned crazy.

4. Food. I have a love/hate relationship with food. I'm learning to control the beast.

4 random facts about little ol' me:

1. I have this weird thing about open doors. I get anxious if I'm in a room -any room- and the door is open. I have to constantly glance at it. Otherwise I end up scared and running to either slam it shut or leave the room.

2. If I'm in a longer than normal hallway or an aisle at the grocery store I'll walk down to the end of it...runway style. Always making sure I have the "wind in the hair" look.

3. I have been to Disneyland 16 times throughout my life (I'll double check that when I get home.) and I can't wait to go back!

4. When I was 8 I was a Junior Princess at the Toledo Summer Festival. That year I fell out of a tire swing at the highest possible point. I broke my arm and a stick went into my lip (inside it actually, where the lip and gums meet.) I had to pry myself off of the stick. Eew. That night was a big hoopla to announce everyone and I really wanted to go. I was eight and there was a princess tiara...of course I wanted to go. I passed out on stage and had to get carried away by my Dad.

Now I'm gonna tag 4 people:
1. Ramblings of a future Mrs
2. She Weds
3. THE ATYPICAL BRIDE
4. Jumping the Broom

I hope they don't mind being tagged! I really should comment people more often instead of just reading their blog and sneaking out the back door.

Duck, duck, GOOSE!!

Moms Flowers

These are for the Moms. I love the way they both turned out! It's a little bit of green/pink hydrangea and a pretty orange daisy-ish flower.These aren't different angles. The top one has a smaller orange daisy and more hydrangea. The bottom one more orange daisy less hydrangea.I was worried they were both a little too large. Especially the second one with the larger daisy. But then my Mom pointed out that both Moms have large breastesses so It will look fine no matter who wears which. I'll let them decide.Here is a close up of the raffia. I know I've shown it a couple times now but I can't get over how nice it goes with the whole theme. I'm so glad I discovered this method of wrapping everything. It makes it look much more put together and complete. With my "trial flowers" that I basically destroyed, I attempted many different methods of covering the stems and tying the ribbon. DISASTER!! Not only does the raffia method look nice but it is extremely simple to do. My kind of thing!