YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So many people, so many boothes, so little space!!! Why did I go you ask? Of course I already have most of my vendors...but, I was honestly trying to win something...flowers, cash, limo...whatever!!!
Our names didn't get picked in any of the big raffles, perhaps I'll win a vacation...I entered just about every drawing possible. So...we'll see.
Dan was a trooper...he walked with me and even carried all the brochures, what a guy!!!! And, I got 4 comments on how cute my shoes were....from men! That was nice
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Decisions, decisions, decisions
you know, I thought all this wedding planning stuff was going pretty smoothly.....
NOw it just seems as there is always a decision that needs to be made. Readings, dance music (actually this one is pretty much done), ceremony music, introduction music, programs, flowers, wrist corsages or pin on corsages, hair styles, coat wear one or not....robe, wrap, whatever? Tuxes vest color and shirt color, ushers...tux or suit?
Maybe we should have eloped.
oh well.....3 months away.
School is well, busy as always.
Dan is wonderful....except his opinion always seems to be..."whatever you like best honey." Which I think is his way of saying....I don't want to irritate you so I'll pick which one you like best!
NOw it just seems as there is always a decision that needs to be made. Readings, dance music (actually this one is pretty much done), ceremony music, introduction music, programs, flowers, wrist corsages or pin on corsages, hair styles, coat wear one or not....robe, wrap, whatever? Tuxes vest color and shirt color, ushers...tux or suit?
Maybe we should have eloped.
oh well.....3 months away.
School is well, busy as always.
Dan is wonderful....except his opinion always seems to be..."whatever you like best honey." Which I think is his way of saying....I don't want to irritate you so I'll pick which one you like best!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Engaged Encounter
Rockford, IL ....Bishop Lane Retreat Center
730 pm we check in, get room assignments and head to our rooms to unpack. A very tiny room with two beds, but I figure I'm first so I get to chose the bed first. I put all my stuff down, collect Dan and off to the retreat. It was not a bad weekend, just long. We had a series of lectures then "discussion questions" followed by "dialogue" Friday night didn't end until midnight, I had been up since 5 and I was exhausted. Off to bed we went.
I got to my room and realized I had forgotten my toothbrush....ewww gross....so I finger brushed my teeth in order to at least get them somewhat clean, and swished vigorously with mouthwash. My roommate decided she wanted to text her fiance all night long, no biggie, except her phone beeped with each depression of a key! Ugh!!!! Up early at 7am the next morning, I showered, pulled the same routine with my teeth, then added gum chewing to the mix. So, I felt totally gross, but then my roomie didnt' shower, and when she came out of the bathroom, she didn't wash her hands!!! I'll take dirty teeth over poopy hands any day of the week!
WE got a surprise visit when at the end of Saturday night the brought in some "extra priests" and we had surprise confession!!! Wow! It had been an awfully long time since I'd been to confession.....thank goodness we had a "review" I, like so many others were a bit lost.
All in all, it was a decent weekend, long, my butt was numb after the end of Saturday, but the last dialogue we did where we wrote a love letter to each other, really brought the whole thing home for us. We got home about 1030 last night and then I had to work this am....It's been a long weekend, but we're getting there.
730 pm we check in, get room assignments and head to our rooms to unpack. A very tiny room with two beds, but I figure I'm first so I get to chose the bed first. I put all my stuff down, collect Dan and off to the retreat. It was not a bad weekend, just long. We had a series of lectures then "discussion questions" followed by "dialogue" Friday night didn't end until midnight, I had been up since 5 and I was exhausted. Off to bed we went.
I got to my room and realized I had forgotten my toothbrush....ewww gross....so I finger brushed my teeth in order to at least get them somewhat clean, and swished vigorously with mouthwash. My roommate decided she wanted to text her fiance all night long, no biggie, except her phone beeped with each depression of a key! Ugh!!!! Up early at 7am the next morning, I showered, pulled the same routine with my teeth, then added gum chewing to the mix. So, I felt totally gross, but then my roomie didnt' shower, and when she came out of the bathroom, she didn't wash her hands!!! I'll take dirty teeth over poopy hands any day of the week!
WE got a surprise visit when at the end of Saturday night the brought in some "extra priests" and we had surprise confession!!! Wow! It had been an awfully long time since I'd been to confession.....thank goodness we had a "review" I, like so many others were a bit lost.
All in all, it was a decent weekend, long, my butt was numb after the end of Saturday, but the last dialogue we did where we wrote a love letter to each other, really brought the whole thing home for us. We got home about 1030 last night and then I had to work this am....It's been a long weekend, but we're getting there.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
100 days
We are down to 100 days!!! Or a little over 3 months! HOly cow....
I have 9 weeks left of the semester, 31 weeks total until I graduate!!!
I started day shift at work, and that is nice. It's so hard to get up at 5 am every day though. So very hard. I hate mornings, just not a morning person at all....
I'm back in mother baby for clinicals, back at ABMC, which is much closer than Childrens. I got to be in the nursery the other day and I had a great nurse who let me do all the assessments and play with the babies, that was great. I just love those little people when they are that tiny. I think I could handle working in a nursery/L and D situation. I thought that last year, but I really believe it now. So if ER doesn't work out for me, there is always L and D!
Dan and I have our Engaged Encounter weekend retreat this weekend Friday night, Dan is going to pick me up after work and we'll head out to Rockford.
We got ourselves all registered and honestly I don't even know what I registered for! It got to the point where we were just adding things...do we need this? I don't know put it on the list....
Well...off to the homework. Hope all is well, will attempt to blog more often.
I have 9 weeks left of the semester, 31 weeks total until I graduate!!!
I started day shift at work, and that is nice. It's so hard to get up at 5 am every day though. So very hard. I hate mornings, just not a morning person at all....
I'm back in mother baby for clinicals, back at ABMC, which is much closer than Childrens. I got to be in the nursery the other day and I had a great nurse who let me do all the assessments and play with the babies, that was great. I just love those little people when they are that tiny. I think I could handle working in a nursery/L and D situation. I thought that last year, but I really believe it now. So if ER doesn't work out for me, there is always L and D!
Dan and I have our Engaged Encounter weekend retreat this weekend Friday night, Dan is going to pick me up after work and we'll head out to Rockford.
We got ourselves all registered and honestly I don't even know what I registered for! It got to the point where we were just adding things...do we need this? I don't know put it on the list....
Well...off to the homework. Hope all is well, will attempt to blog more often.
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