"and I'm singin' the blues..."

Singing the blues I am. I'm missing Tony a lot and he's only been gone a week as of today. Blah! 3 more weeks to go. It's just so hard being there alone. It's no fun to cook for only one person. I basically go home and sit for 3 hours until it's time to go to bed...fun yes I know. I will go work out if it's not raining. I went for a walk this week and I really enjoyed that. I fed the ducks and walked around the lake. I may bake some tonight and watch one of my netflix movies. Just kinda relax. I'm going to paint pottery tomorrow with Bailey. I love going to this place. Anything crafty is an escape and release for me. Although I'm singing the blues, it really made me happy today when we hooked up the web cams and I could actually see Tony. That just made my day to see him. I have to figure out why the microphone isn't working and then I can talk to him too. I just miss him so much and it's hard to be away from him. BUt I just have to look at it like he won't be going away again for awhile and I get to spend plenty of time with him inthe future. HEck we're getting married in like 10 months!!! Ahh yes we're finally getting married. I'm so excited for that day. I want it to be here now but then I don't because I still have a lot ot do. We are about to book a caterer and I've spoken with a baker and a florist that I will be meeting with in the next few weeks. Things are moving right along. Now it's just tidying up loose ends and doing the tiny details...and there's a lot of those. So wedding stuff is going good so that relieves some stress. I think with all the stress, Tony leaving and the major road I take to work pretty much being out of order...i've been quite stressed. I haven't been eating right, sleeping well or feeling well either. Last night I finally slept well and through the night! The weekend is ahead which is exciting, I don't have much going on and I can relax and oh yes crackbook (scrapbook that is)! I hope to maybe work out this weekend as well. Lord knows I need to. Well you've heard my blues and sorrows and my poor pittiful me's so I guess that's about it. Nothing exciting going on....work, sleep...work, sleep...it just keeps repeating. Welcome to everyday grownup life. IT's not so bad. Just the bills suck, but you get through it.

A funny one liner to close today's entry....A friend at work told me this one:

What did the fish say when he swam into the wall?.....................................................................................Dam!

Wahahahaha, too funny for the ultra easily amuzed.

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Saturday

For once no rain today! Finally it was nice to see a pretty day! Well I got to talk to Tony twice today! 1) 2 o'clock this morning when he arrived in China (3 p.m. the next day). Then I got to talk to him around 8 a.m. (it was around 9 p.m. there) and they had arrived in Shanghai safely and he was going to sleep. Weird because I was just getting up. Well I went and bought my wedding dress today - it was so awesome! To see my all dressed up, it was just amazing! I was so excited. We got a size bigger to allow for growing room, alterations and what not. Also for comfort - I want to be totally comfortable. Then we went to the mall and had lunch and went to this scrapbook blowout sale. Everything was 85% off. I got 72 sheets of paper, lots of stickers and random other things. The grand total was a whooping $15. I was shocked. I literally picked up almost every sheet of paper. It was so awesome. They may be having another one in August. I'm so going! Then we went to IKEA - so fun. I got some organization stuff- go figure I bought organization stuff. Then I finally came home - I was worn out. So I have been watching movies and relaxing all night. It's nice but lonely. It'd be a lot more fun with Tony here. :( I finished my scrapbook on Friday - well I have all my pages finished up to now. So now I have to take more pictures and add to it over the next year and our engagement pictures (which are 10-20-07 by the way). Tomorrow I'm not planning on doing much besides errands. I'm planning on eggos for breakfast then off to the stores before they go nutz. So shopping, groceries, gas and then home to enjoy the rest of the day. A nice relaxing weekend. I think that's all my exciting news for the day or all that's worth writing about. I think I may go watch tv in bed now. I'm an old loser...I'm ready for bed by 10 p.m. and up by 8 a.m. haha. Alright well bye for now.

Adios.

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Rain...blah

Happy Friday! It's a naasty rainy day here in Houston...again...what a surprise! It's rained like the last 2 months straight. What a wet summer! I'm just glad it's getting it all out of its system because I really don't want it to rain the weekend of our wedding. There was a bad bad storm this morning-knocked the power out twice. Kinda scary because it was soo loud, but then kinda nice to lay and listen to the rain. Well I go get my dress tomorrow so that's exciting. Tony left yesterday to head to China, he stayed over night in Chicago. He leaves for China at 10:30 this morning. I can't help but feel nervous because he's going to another country. He is going to be around the world. Kinda scary, especially with all the stuff China has going on. 30 days...30 days is all I have to wait. I'm sad and lonely though. I just miss having him around. I'll be ok after a few days...it's just the inital. Hmpf, he just called to say he's boarding...14 hour flight.
We met with a caterer yesterday. That went well. All of this is so stressful. People sometimes make me feel like we picked a bad date. We picked the date and started doing things and then found out my brother graduates the weekend before and Tony's brother graduates the day before - so if it rains I'll let you guess when the make-up day is. Yup right during the wedding. We didn't know this was going to happen. I just feel so stressed. Also some family can't come because my cousin graduates. I guess I can't win. Oh well, there's nothing I can do about it now. I am going to just plan it the way I see fit and enjoy it - it's my day!
Oye what a boring post...blahblahblah. Everything will be ok..I'm going to start reading a book this weekend, scrapbook some and think of ideas for wedding invites. I'm also working on a birthday present for Karen and a present for the girls. It is supposed to be a rainy weekend so I think I'm going to chill out and watch movies. That should be fun, can't tell you the last time I did that. Rain, sweats, blanket and a good book or movie...sounds like a plan. Especially to get rid of these rainy day woes!! :)

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Wedding Planning Bliss

Well let the happy bells ring! It started out as a rocky week with the wedding planning - I was frustrated and discouraged. We went and looked at some ceremony places in Galveston this past weekend and fell in love with one. Hotel Galvez. They said their Oleander Garden was available but when we called to book it was already booked from 4:30 - 7 that day. I was sooo bummed. So Monday afternoon/night and yesterday I searched and searched online for more places. Well Hotel Galvez got incontact with me yesterday seeing if there was a way we could push the wedding up or back. I told them it just wasn't an option. If we pushed it up to 2 p.m. people would die of heat and wish they were sitting there naked or were off somwhere in the arctic and if we pushed it back till 7:30 - people's stomachs would begin eating themselves and it would screw up our entire reception. So we had to tell them it wouldn't work - meanwhile I've been talking to the hotel booking manager not the events/catering manager. So later yesterday the events/catering manager emails me about another outside venue at the Galvez....the beautifully groomed front lawn. It was available on our date and time and it's just gorgeous. Needless to say we booked! So our wedding ceremony will be held in front of the Hotel Galvez! (See picture below) I am so excited. We can have the guests face the hotel or the ocean, our choice! It's going to be perfect!

Also yesterday we booked a DJ! Two big check marks! The girls all have their dresses so there is another check! OH and at the Bridal show I tried on my dream dress and it fit perfectly! It is the ONE. Karen, Tony's mom and I are going to get it this weekend! Yay. So exciting! So that's what 4 major checks to check off!! Karen and I are meeting with a caterer/Florist/Baker on Thursday so hopefully that will go well. My goal was to get the bulk of things taken care of by next month so I'm right on target! Whoo hoo. So exciting.

Signed,
one happy bride!


The Hotel Galvez

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Friday the 13th - not scared

Today felt like a red day - in honor of Friday the 13th! Most people fear this day but I don't anymore. The last Friday the 13th I got engaged - yes weird date but yup he popped the question. So it's forever a good day. haha. Tony comes home from Virginia Today! Yay! He leaves for China Thursday so that gives me a few days with him before he heads out. OH i forgot to add to my checklist that we have a photographer! A very cool one at that - she gave us field level Astros tickets for booking her! So that's another headache off the list. I spoke to lodging today and I'll be working out a contract with them for everybody's hotel rooms and I spoke with a caterer today and we are meeting next week to discuss pricing, menu and their services. Moving right along!! Oh and I found another possibility for the ceremony today so I will be in contact with them - hopefully. People kind stink at calling and emailing back. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt - maybe they are busy. Except for Benno's Catering - they just stink!! Not calling me back stinkers! Anywho...let's see...wedding stuff and dinner with friends tomorrow, hanging out with Tony and the Bridal extravaganza Sunday and that's about it - a pretty laid back weekend. Just the way I like em. I was going to go get some flowers at michaels yesterday but a big storm rolled in so I went home, watched a movie and ate pizza. Deja vu is what I watched - very good. I think that's about all the excitement i'm full of today - IT'S FRIDAY SO TGIF!!! Have a good one.

Cheers!

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Wedding Basics

Anyone who knows me knows I am planning a wedding - a wedding I've been thinking about for umm let's see 7 years now. I am marrying my high school sweetheart on June 7, 2008. We are doing everything in Galveston. We have sooo much to do it's almost overwhelming. Well we have a reception place - Roof Garden on the strand in Galveston. We have Bridesmaid dresses - a pretty yellow from Dillard's. Umm I've pretty much picked out flowers and a cake design I like. This weekend we are going to the Bridal Extravaganza in Houston - hopefully I can find a caterer and a DJ. We are looking for a place to have the ceremony right now. We originally thought the beach, but we're worried since it's public property that we won't have our privacy or our spot and what not (ha I rhymed). SO we are looking at different places around Galveston. I'm going shopping for dresses next weekend. So the long checklist is as follows:
1) find ceremony location

2) find caterer

3) find DJ

4) block hotel rooms

5) find florist

6) find baker

7) find dress

8) design wedding invitations

9) make guest goodie bags

10) Wedding night hotel room

11) Flight for Honeymoon

*I know there's more - we'll add to the list later

Things checked off as done:

1) Reception location

2) Bridesmaid dresses

3) flowers & colors

4) cake (mine)

5) centerpiece ideas are in prototype mode - so we'll put them in this check off list
6) Honeymoon - picked out just have to book in September - Disney World here we come

So there are some updates to go by. I think once we get a caterer and a ceremony location secured a lot is kind of downhill from there. We have a lot of work to do. I hope to clear some things off the list in the next two months.

As for normal life outside of wedding: I have become addicted to scrapbooking, but my scrapbook is almost done of Tony and I ( I wanted to have it out at the wedding). Now I have something like 6 or so pages to finish and then add pages of things we do throughout the year and engagement pictures. That was good - however I now have become a "Scraphead" as Tony calls me. OH well something to add to my list of hobbies. I'm my own little Martha Stewart. TOny comes back from Virginia tomorrow...Yay! Then he leaves again Thursday for China. I'm nervous and it's most definitely going to stink, but it's a good experience for him and he's looking forward to it, so I have to be supportive. He'll be gone for 4 weeks so that's not so bad. Then he comes back to begin student teaching at Pearland Junior High South. Then he can't leave for another year because he has school (teaching) and then the wedding. Plus I have the rest of my life with him. Good point I say! So I think I've pretty much written a book for this entry. I'm going to attach some pictures and we'll call it a successful entry!

the reception site

the bridesmaid dress

the flowers: mine will have white daisies as well and the girls will have one of each flower. Each bouquet will be bound by ribbon so the natural stems stick out.

the cake but with flowers for added color and our own monogram of course :)

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First Blog

Well day one of this so called blogging. I went to a PRSA luncheon today with a topic on blogging. It seems to be the "thing" now-a-days. I figured if i'm in the myspace and facebook thing I might as well try something else. So we'll see how this works out. Being that I am planning a wedding right now it might be fun to talk things out on here and post pictures. Alright...well first blog post complete.

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