What Would Jen Do

Archive for July, 2008

This morning when I came in to work, my desk had been decorated.  There are ballons and flower petals all over the floor.   It was no surpise, as even people at work know it’s not nice to surprise me.

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word on the street is that my wedding was a lie and i’m not really married.

 I do love cake, and that cake was very good, and pretty. We had no idea what it was going to look like, it was chef’s choice.  I think he did a great job.  I am also in love with my bouquet, it’s still in the fridge, i’m hoping to keep it as long as possible because it’s just pretty to look at.

picture of the day

so far this one is my favorite.  just click on it, it’ll get bigger.the pictures are massive and if I resize them too much they lose something.   We’re going to get a 5×7 in this one.

I bought another wedding album today because as of right now we have like 75 pictures and I anticipate receiving at least 150 more once the disposables are developed and everyone who tooks pics on their own sends theirs to me.   So far i’ve seen the ones Icey’s little sis took and they are pretty good.   I’m also hoping, (wink wink nudge nudge) that a scrapbook will magically appear at my house, all pretty and stuff.

it’s official

I just have to say that so far, we’re not having good luck with this wedding weekend.

I took today off to do all the little things that need doing, as i mentioned before.  And things were going pretty good until I picked up a pillow to put it back on the couch.  Somehow that motion managed to do something wonky to my back.  And I’ve taken so many pain pills that I want to throw up.   I have a broken nail and an ugly cut on my right hand, and two zits.     Last night Icey’s battery died at work (that’s four dead batteries in friends cars in less than a month, please check yours)   My mother either has gout or a small fracture in one of her ankles, she can walk, but not well.   That doesn’t bode well for her in Vegas.

I guess really it’s not all that bad, it’s just that things were going so smoothly for so long and then in a day all this crazy stuff starts happening.

I’m going to peel myself off the couch and try and finish up my long to do list.

It may only be Wednesday, but today is my Friday!  

I took tomorrow off to do all those last minute things you have to do before you go out of town.  This time it involves calming myself down enough to feel comfortable leaving my dogs at the Petshotel.   Which isn’t really going to happen, I’ll just have to put on a brave face for them and pretend nothing is wrong and that mommy will be right back!   We’ve been sleeping with small blankets for about two weeks, so that the dogs can have those in their suite (yes i said suite) and smell us in there with them.   I am packing enough blankets and toys for an army of dogs.

I’m not nervous about getting married, i’m nervous about my POOR BABIES ALL ALONE WITHOUT US IN A STRANGE PLACE.   I hope they forgive me.  

Now I have three days to decide if I’m changing my name or not.  Let’s take a poll!

I lied, instead of getting off my butt and doing things, I’ve been basically sitting around for the past week.  The weather change really threw my whole system off and if anything derails me from my routine, all hope is lost until i can regroup and start over.   I just kind of give up and shut down.

I’m hoping that I can sort of get back into the swing of things, at least thru Wednesday. Because after that, all hope is lost again for another week or two.  I’ve got some big big plans for this weekend, lets see if i can stick to any of them.   I’m probably just going to have to force myself to do things. Like go to the gym.  and clean.  and bake tiny pies.  and NOT lay on the couch.  It’s actually making me pretty depressed.  laziness does not work for me.  

last night a big old storm blew through, and normally mojo runs outside to bark her face off at thunder and lightening and wind and life in general.   Voodoo usually runs to hide because he hates hates hates the rain.  But last night mojo was the one who got scared, she jumped up into bed with us and slept in between us until someone accidentally touched her with a toe.  it was like having a kid. 

I am so happy that we had today off.   I really needed to just not be at work, even if it was just for an extra day.   In two weeks we’ll have a mini vacation when we go to vegas and we each took two days off before and after the weekend, so that we will still be able to have some downtime at home before having to go back to work.      Right now our weekends are still pretty busy taking care of all the tiny things you need to do for a wedding.  Almost all of the major stuff is done, it’s the small things that add up and take up a lot of time.   Plus we still have to live our every day lives.

So I took today to do a little cleaning, we had lunch out, I played some Sims and watched 2 horror movies. Tomorrow we start again with the busy-ness.   no more sitting on my butt.