Oh, hello, 5 days out. The best word(s) to describe how I am feeling? Excited. Stressed. Overwhelmed. Grounded. Anticipatory (is that a word?). Stressed. What, dessert? Wine? Oh. Excited. And I keep getting reminders of feeling ALL of those things. Like this prognosis from my astrology guy: Damn, you Mercury Retrograde! Do you not understand […]
Like peak week…
This wedding week is feeling a lot like a bodybuilding peak week. Or marathon taper week. All the hard work has been done. All the “heavy lifting” so to speak. Now it’s just fine-tuning a few things and making sure you are well-rested and healthy going into the big event. Sort of. Except it feels […]
The land of “last time”s…
We’re a week out from our wedding. Quite literally. We have a 5pm ceremony, so a week from now, I will be officially married. It’s crazy to think about. It’s like something you’ve been preparing for for a very long time yet doesn’t seem quite real… Or dreaming about since the thought of “being married” […]
Oh look … pie!
It’s the day before a long weekend. Some of us are traveling. Some of us are chilling at home. Some of us are working. But whatever it is we are doing, long weekends like this, especially the Thanksgiving variety, always invoke a sense of wanting to relax and reset a bit. It might be the […]
A good question to ask
My brain is tired. It’s the day before we get off for Thanksgiving break. Folks are already in break mode. I already noticed that the traffic was lighter on the way to school today. Teachers are ready for a long weekend. The kids are ready for a long weekend. We’re ALL ready for a long […]
It will all get done
You know all those things you say you’ll do “later”? Well, “later” has shown up for me. BIG time. And it’s not “later” in the procrastination sense. It’s “later” in the there-was-no-way-we-could-have-done-this-earlier sense. [this is all wedding-related, by the way] Or it wasn’t quite the priority. So it’s a lot. But it will all get […]
Inner gym rat
As my fiance and I were having breakfast this morning, he jokingly (and lovingly), referred to me as a “gym rat”. Probably because I had just come back from the gym. I gave him a look (I’m sure it will turn into my wife “look” … LOL!) and replied, “I am NOT a gym rat.” […]
Haste makes waste … and other musings
In our elementary music classes we study a composer each month. It’s super cool actually. It’s neat knowing that we are often these students’ very first introduction to some of the world’s greatest composers. This month we are studying Beethoven. On top of that, we learn about a musical word each week. This week it’s […]
One foot in front of the other…
…because sometimes that’s all you can do. One day at a time. One hour at a time. That’s my life right now. Working 1 1/2 jobs AND wedding planning puts you in that position. And with the little bits of time you have left? You prioritize things that are important to you. For me that […]
Eyes wide open
I’m feeling inspired. I went to go support one of my girlfriends at her bikini competition this past weekend. I did that 5 years ago, too. And got hooked. And started competing myself. So, she was my initial introduction and inspiration to the sport. And it’s interesting watching shows now, knowing, empathizing, with the competitors. […]