July 3rd

Ever had milk the day after the day? Scares the hell outta you, doesn’t it? The spoon is trembling as it comes out of the bowl, it’s after the day, I’m taking a big chance! I smelled it, you smell it, what is it supposed to smell like ?! It smelled like milk to me!. I don’t know how they are so definite though! Maybe the cows tip them off when they’re milking them…

“July 3rd”.

http://youtu.be/FzhypkGmdBA

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That’s today!  It’s July 3rd.  And you have to say it like a cow would, if cows could talk.

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Wasn’t Seinfeld the greatest? 

I’m debating whether to go to the gym today.  I don’t want to run because I have a 10k tomorrow, but I feel like some cardio is in order. 

I also have shopping to do for the BBQ tomorrow.  Or cookout, as we would say in the South.  I am going to make some potatoe salad.  Fascinating stuff, I know!  You can’t make this stuff up.  This is actually how exciting my life is!  😉

Okay, I’m off to put on brightly coloured workout gear and pretend I’m going to the gym.  We’ll see what happens next.  Happy "July 3rd"!

Sooooo hot!

I made the mistake (?) of deciding to run around Forest Park by myself this morning.  Jen wanted to go to her boot camp (which ironically was canceled and she found out, oh, about five minutes after I headed out) rather than run with me 🙁 but I didn’t want to hit up Tower Grove.

It was about 87 degrees at 8:30 when I started out.  I ran about 2.5 miles and then decided to turn back around rather than run by the highway in the sun for the next mile.  So all in all it was 5 miles, and it was the hardest 5 miles ever.  The entire time I was a sweaty mess and occasionally had to walk until my head cleared enough that I was sure I wasn’t going to pass out.  I think I lost 10 pounds!

I suppose it probably wasn’t that bad.  But I had to burn off the pasta I ate last night for dinner, as much as I wanted to sleep in…I knew a ridiculously hot sweaty run would be just the ticket.  And it was.  It really was.

Last night we went to Sage for dinner.  Afterwards we may have finished off all the cake samples from earlier in the day. (Yes, yes we did.)

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Cake Tasting

All right.  So we FINALLY got to do some actual, real, down to earth, wedding planning.  Oh yes.  I’m talking about cake tasting!

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The Cakery gives you a to-go box of up to four flavors to taste at home.  If you like it, then you can go back to do the rest.

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French vanilla, chocolate, lemon, and red velvet.  Those were all filled with vanilla butter cream frosting.  And that’s a side of chocolate frosting.

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Can you believe this was all complimentary?  Does it make you want to pretend you are engaged to get free cake?

Let the tastings begin!  I pulled out my cake plate for the honors.

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Verdict:  Cake tasted great!  I liked the lemon best, Chris preferred the red velvet.  Our wedding cake choice will likely come down to price though.  We’ll see! 

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Oh, and here’s the new grill.  That’s Chris acting proud.  Or something.  Constipated?  I told him to try to think of something happy.  I guess he couldn’t…I wonder if he would have the same problem producing a proper patronus? 

Wedding planning is a full time job

Until I started planning my own wedding, I had no idea what was involved.  Just absolutely no idea.  The amount of time you have to put into this thing is ridiculous!

I’m in the wedding business myself (I have a string quartet that plays music for weddings) but I am learning so much.

Things I’ve learned so far:

1) We brides get very impatient.  Grooms too.  Chris once got annoyed that a vendor hadn’t responded to him after a day.  Over the weekend.  In May.  I convinced him to calm down, because I figured the vendor was busy with actually doing a wedding that day and would likely respond early the following week.  Heaven forbid anybody get a day off.

2)  Everything costs more than you think.  Food.  Venues.  Photographers.  And things on your registry.  At one time there was a $109 gravy boat on my registry.  And I thought I could have a wedding for $10,000. (Yet people are still hesitant to spend $150 on a violinist…)

3)  It’s hard to think about anything other than my wedding.  Which is still six months away.  Almost every conversation I have with somebody ends up being about my wedding.  I used to find this incredibly annoying when other people did it…so I must assume everybody now finds ME incredibly annoying.  Sorry friends!  🙁

The good part is that I have a full time job!  Granted, it doesn’t provide a salary, but it does keep me busy, and there is free cake involved (later today in fact.) 

What we’ve done this week:

Finished the wedding website

Sent out save the dates

Started on our invitations

Met with a florist

Made other appointments with florists

Made cake appointments

Finished our wedding registry

Made appointments to shop for my dress

Made appointment to check out the hotel suite again

Signed deal with hotel for guest rates

That’s a lot, I think!  Not to mention I also got a haircut and discussed hair and makeup options and timelines with my hairdresser.  And did some planning with Leslie too.

See what I’ve done?  I’ve made a whole blog post about my wedding.  The thing is that Chris is going to a festival soon and we need to get as much done together as possible before he leaves.  He is very involved in the planning (equally with me) which surprises vendors, but it’s just the way we are doing things.

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