Thursday, October 29th, 2009
- I have voice crushes. My original voice crush was Ira Glass. Now, I have a voice crush on Peter Sagal and Kai Rysdall. (The Ira voice crush remains)
- I want to elope. I’m so sick of wedding input from random people. My wedding budget is none of your business. If you’re worried that my wedding budget is preventing me from buying a house, worry about something else, because IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
- We have a potluck at work today and I want to call in sick. Unless I know you very well and I know your general kitchen cleanliness well, I don’t want to eat something you made in your kitchen. Sorry.
- You can look at my ring, but you may not hold it, because I do not trust you. (Seriously, someone asked that I take my ring off so they could look at it, who does that?)
- I want children, but I have no desire to ever leave my career to care for them. People look at me like I’m crazy when I say this. I like what I do for a living and I’ve worked too hard to leave it all behind.
- I really, really hope that my upstairs neighbor gets evicted. He/She is inconsiderate and a terrible neighbor. Also, there is really no need to lift your feet up to knee level each time you take a step. Also, after a particularly loud stomping session in the kitchen, I heard something fall and break. I was very sad to learn that it was my tiny giraffe teaspoons from Anthropologie. Which apparently are no longer on the Anthropologie website which probably means they don’t have them anymore, which means I’ll never replace them. You owe me, upstairs neighbor.
- It’s October and I’m still running my air-conditioning most days. Sometimes I wonder if there is residual Lupron in my body.
- I secretly hope we have another winter snow storm again. Not leaving the house for a week sounds delightful right about now. (can you tell I’m a little burnt out?)
- So, spill it. What do you want to confess?
Friday, October 16th, 2009
- I’m fairly certain that for the past 4 days I’ve been suffering from a little something the world likes to call H1N1.
- Here’s something that’s REALLY stupid: if you’re an otherwise healthy adult, you’re not supposed to go to the doctor unless you have “complications,” so if you’re an an otherwise healthy adult you can count on suffering through this for four (and counting) days. Your doctors office might pretend that they can help you, but mainly they’ll just make you wait 5 hours for a phone call back and when you finally get sick of waiting and call back, they’ll just tell you, “Lots of fluids!”
- So, that’s what I’ve been doing.
- I’ve felt too sick to read your blogs (sorry) and even too sick to look at wedding stuff online.
- I had planned to go into the office today, but just now I went into the kitchen to get a glass of water and the walk back to my bedroom had rendered me exhausted. Thank goodness for a boss who has already given me permission to work from home. (what a difference a year makes, my boss of last year would have demanded to know what I did to myself to get so sick)
- Anyway, enough about that, except you need to know that I’ve lost my final 4 pounds and have reached my goal weight which means that my dear boyfriend will be purchasing me whatever pair of jeans I want. What should I get!?!
- Okay, now to the MOST IMPORTANT NEWS: We’ve set a wedding date and we have a venue.
- We’ll be getting married August 28, 2010 at The Gerding Theatre at the Armory, which is really the most perfect wedding venue in all of Portland.
- Now, our next task is getting save the dates out and choosing a caterer!
- And, with that, I’m going to rest a bit before I begin my work from home day.
- I’ll be laying around watching Lifetime movies this weekend. Let me live vicariously though you and tell me what you’re doing.
Friday, October 9th, 2009
- I can’t decide whether this week went by super quickly or super slowly. I keep changing my mind.
- I’ve had tiny hints of a cold all week long, each morning waking up with a scratchier throat than the day before. Then, last night right before bed, I developed the worst stomachache ever. It’s still here.
- I’m trying to ignore Dr. Google’s offer for a house call, but it’s SO HARD. (feel free to ask Dr. Google what stomach pain around the belly button lasting for 12 hours means for me).
- Today we’ll be looking at 3 potential wedding venues. One of them is definitely my favorite and if they can hold the capacity we need, then I’m pretty sure we’ll book it. But, I’m not sharing the location until it’s booked. So, all the other Portland Brides who are trying to steal my location ideas can just go elsewhere. (Flugel Horn, maybe?)
- This week was my sweet fiance’s birthday. Also, it was his twin brother’s birthday. Funny how that works out. Anyway, I thought I was being the BEST FIANCEE ever by bringing him cupcakes from Saint Cupcake which is a darling little cupcake shop here in Portland. But, mistake 1: I brought him a Fat Elvis Cupcake which is banana and chocolate. He apparently doesn’t like banana (yet he eats banana bread?) Mistake 2: the cupcakes were all dry (NOT MY FAULT). Mistake 3: I did not get a cupcake for myself. Actually, if they were dry, maybe it wasn’t a mistake.
- Anyway, I totally redeemed myself with an awesome birthday dinner for both boys at Tabla (which is my very favorite Portland restaurant at the moment). If you come to visit me, we’ll go there.
- This weekend, we’ll extend the boy’s birthday celebration in wine country with wine and awesome Spanish food. (Hello little crab stuffed peppers! I am going to eat you!)
- If you’ve not consulted Dr. Google yet about my tummy ache, can I suggest that you do so now? SO HURTY AND OWIE.
- If I survive these stomach pains, I’m looking forward to having Kali and Kerri over on Tuesday night for our very popular and very fun Girls’ Bad TV Night. Quite honestly, we never end up watching much tv because there is too much talking and eating, but we still have a great time and we TRY to watch at least something on television that is really trashy.
- Oh, so I went to Nordstrom Rack this week with strict orders for myself to buy myself a pair of brown flats and BROWN FLATS ONLY. But, instead, I came home with these. I really should return them and get BROWN FLATS because they really don’t fit perfectly, but look at how fricking cute they are!
- Okay. I think that’s all. What are YOU doing this weekend? Also, should I keep the shoes even if they’re a smidge too small?
