I’m sure some of you that may read this probably feel the same way. When I look to see what my stats are for the day/week/month etc, it is only slightly sad to see that I have zero hits for the day. I know I don’t post much, frankly because I don’t have a lot of time and the day in and day out workings of my life really aren’t all that exciting. I figure you would (my faithful readers, that was sarcasm folks) would much rather read something interesting as opposed to mindless dribble in which I ramble endlessly about everything and nothing, but I could be wrong. Perhaps that is exactly what you may want; mindless day to day “stuff” that has little or no meaning. Perhaps my “pearls” of wisdom are being “cast” in the wrong direction. I’m sitting once again working on homework and I am really tired. I need some down time where I can actually catch up with “life” but alas right now I have more to do than I have time to do it. Time management my friends is what this process is going to take. Did I mention I was engaged and that my time management really stinks right now? When it was just me, it was easy, I could do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, but now I have to plan around my fiancée’s schedule and mine, and many others as well. I don’t mean to complain, I’m grateful for my busy life because it means I am actually accomplishing something (well okay attempting to accomplish something anyway).
This past weekend I attended a wedding and two receptions, this was torture at points but also nice as well. It reminded me of everything my fiancée and I have yet to do to get ready for our wedding. We only have 15 weeks left and of those we really only have 15 Wednesdays because that is the only afternoon/evening we both have off. So what does this mean you ask? It means that we have 15 days to plan/take care of the wedding. Yes that is correct, stuff everything that goes into a wedding into a little over two weeks and that is what we have to work with. Slightly daunting if you ask me, but alas, somehow it will all get done. I only hope that something else doesn’t come up and mess up our two weeks. Back to the weekend, my friend that I have known for over 15 years was married to a significantly older (than her) gentleman. They didn’t seem to go together very well, definitely had the “odd couple” aura about them. I hope they are happy and that they aren’t just in it for the physical (although if you saw this guy I couldn’t imagine for the life of me she is in it for that) affection and security that goes with being married. The fun part was that they had the wedding/reception on a boat. What was only slightly annoying was that you were basically trapped for about four hours with people you may or may not like; most of these people were fairly well intoxicated not too long into the “jaunt”. Fun to watch; absolutely! It was embarrassing at points because the moron younger brother was a loud mouth without alcohol and even worse with alcohol. They should have stopped him drinking a whole lot sooner than they did (if they did I might add). He would create those ever so fun “memories” of the one person that shouldn’t have been a memory at all. None-the-less, I am happy for her I suppose. I have to say at this point I am glad that it wasn’t me. Her mother for the longest time tried to set her daughter and I up on a date, however I wasn’t interested in her even slightly (she can be loud and obnoxious frequently, and I don’t do loud and obnoxious ever). She was a friend and that is all she would ever be, so her getting married was VERY nice in that regard.
The second reception was a little classier, there was no alcohol and the people could come and go as they please (I felt trapped on the boat in the first wedding, more than once and I was REALLY grateful that my fiancée was there otherwise I would have gone nuts). This made the evening significantly more uplifting than the afternoon. The second reception although fairly decent had two major flaws: their colors and their “display case”. They had chocolate/poop brown and teal as their colors. Although they went together fairly well they were lacking in the fact that teal was VERY overwhelming and distracting. If they would have used the brown a little more and the teal a little less it would have been a lot better but I must say teal and brown was a bad idea to begin with. Trust me; it did not work to the benefit of ANYONE in the bridal party or the guests. One of the bride’s maids looked like a giant walking piece of poop (it didn’t help that she was a rather large girl as well) with a piece of teal ribbon tied around her mid section. Poop on a rope anyone? I have yet to see that one…soap perhaps but definitely not poop. The other thing that bothered me about the second reception was that they had all of the bride and groom’s awards that they had ever won on display. It seemed tacky to say the least. I can appreciate that the parents or whomever were proud of their children but if those were my parents I would have told them to forget it. I am going to be on display enough as it is on my wedding day; I don’t need to show off my trophies to the world (I don’t have that many anyway so it wouldn’t take up much space but I digress). It felt forced and ill thought out. I have never seen that done before (thank goodness) and I hope to NEVER see it happen again.
Finally, you might ask how the wedding plans are going, and well let’s just say I am very happy that the wedding isn’t this weekend. We have our colors picked out (marine blue and platinum), the tuxedos, the reception site, and the wedding site. That’s it! No flowers, cake, photographer, invitations, dresses, decorations, center pieces…blah blah blah, etc. That isn’t to say that we haven’t done anything for the wedding but that what we have don’t hasn’t been enough to say it is complete or decided. We went cake tasting (which was the best part so far), we’ve gone dress shopping (she looked amazing and we aren’t superstitious so I have already seen her in several wedding dresses). I want to be a part of this wedding (I wasn’t a part of my first wedding and it was annoying, it was my wedding too and all I basically did was show up which really pissed me off because I wanted to be a part of it and she just kept on telling me that it was basically her wedding). I guess that is one reason my first marriage didn’t last, after she said “yes” my life wasn’t my own. I should have walked away when I had the chance on the first one but didn’t which was the biggest error on my part but I digress once again. My fiancée now on the other hand loves that I am involved in the wedding and we are working together to make this happen. It is somewhat daunting but still good.
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