YAY!
I just finished the last block for Galaxar’s blanket! No more pictures till it’s done!
pretty quilt blocks!
So, Lemmers sent me a picture to show me how mad Isaac was at me for not getting anything done last week.
He looks mad, doesn’t he? Well, I didn’t want to disappoint Sir Isaac yet again this week, so in the last seven days, I have made six pretty quilt blocks!
My total is up to twenty four blocks. I need twenty eight, and two of the blocks aren’t usable. That means there’s only four more blocks to go. This is exciting. And it makes Isaac happy.
See?
march 13 is really soon
Geek Love is ours
We’re getting into details now. We finished the wedding website a few days after invitations started arriving, and we got gift registries sorted out and published last night. I have confirmed my makeup and hair people, and Pat Morrison is good to do for ceremony music. We’re making headway with finalizing the ceremony. On Saturday I have an appointment with the person doing alterations on my dress. I’m going tomorrow for attempt number two at obtaining the marriage license.
Last week, we tried to get the marriage license and my passport only to find that my birth certificate is no longer considered a birth certificate. I had to order a new one, which arrived yesterday, so tomorrow I’m going to go try again. The passport people and marriage license require the same identification set and are in the same building, so that’s at least convenient. I have to take another morning off to do it, but at this point I just want it to be done.
The gift registry was harder to do than we wanted. No brick and mortar stores have good online gift registries, and our families aren’t going to be okay with using an Amazon.com registry. Sears had the best online registry, and as a web developer, I have to say that not having an online registry may have been better. It wasn’t tied into their catalogue website at all, but their wishlists are. What is the difference between a wedding registry and a wishlist? The only thing I can think of is adding multiple people’s names to the account, but even then, there aren’t individual log-ins.
I have a feeling some of our guests aren’t going to like the number of items on the registry, but Alan and I had a hard time coming up with the items we have added. We have a full apartment and don’t really have room for more stuff. We’re going to upgrade our dishes and a few small appliances, but other than that, we are good. We have a short registry, but it seems like we always managed to pick the most expensive item in the store when we did add something. I’m going to blame Alan for this, even though it’s probably not his fault.
We have to work on our vows still. Right now Alan’s seem to be lines from an MC Hammer song, and mine involve the robot apocalypse. Think we’re going to have to do a bit better than that.
What other wedding things am I missing guys? What things should be done by 7 weeks before the event?
I would make a terrible wedding planner
First off, did you realize that it’s 62 days until march 13th? That’s really soon.
So I thought I should let you all know how wedding plans are going. Mostly cause I want to know if I’m forgetting about something.
- Date: March 13, 2010, which seemed really far away when we picked it.
- Church: Camlachie United Church. We also have two ministers and Pat Morrison’s going to do music for us
- Photographer: Is shooting with a Canon something or other in RAW format and then giving Alan a disc of the photos for him to play with
- Invitations: 71 were mailed out yesterday. We have about 30 more to go because there were missing bits in their addresses
- Wedding Party: I’ve got three kick ass bridesmaids who all have nice dresses and I’m assuming they will all have been altered by March 13th. Alan’s got three kick ass groomsmen who are bad at getting measurements to him. They may be wearing tuxedo t-shirts if they keep this up. We have a hairdresser booked.
- Flowers are being handled by family friends who own a flower shop nearby
- Reception: Across the street from the church. The UCW is catering. My brother is going to be the emcee and is for some reason trying to think up nerd jokes. The DJ is the hairdresser’s husband.
This weekend we got a lot accomplished. We printed out the address labels and put together and sent out most of the addresses, I got my shoes, and we also picked out our rings. We also managed to get most of the missing pieces in addresses filled in by calling the relatives who are good at organizing and have things like address books. This week I need to confirm that the person who was going to do makeup is on board and talk to our photographer. On Saturday I’m going for another dress fitting.
What do you think? Am I forgetting about something?
shoe shopping, manicures, why I will never be able to look at cheesecake ever again, and a random thing lem made me
Yesterday, I went shoe shopping with Kat and Courtney. I don’t like shoe shopping, or most other types of shopping in any way. However, I do like Kay and Courtney, so I had my hopes up that shoe shopping with Kat and Courtney would be at least tolerable, and hopefully even fun.
It started off promising. We met at Chapters, where I looked for the Javascript book and everyone else generally browsed. The book I was looking for wasn’t in stock, but that’s okay, because I probably won’t have time to read it for a while and I there’s a store in Hamilton that has it in stock.
So then we went to the Shoe store, which has a name but I forget what it is. I don’t care at all about fashion, so it’s always a good idea to have these two on hand when it comes to any types of purchases. Kat declared that if I were to wear black shoes, she would not come to my wedding, which I thought was really really funny. Courtney went into former shoe store employee mode and directed us and made me try on shoes, and they picked out a pair of 1-inch sandal shoes with sparkly things on them, and also a pair of satiny slippers. It took a total of half an hour and was relatively painless.
Afterwards, we were all like ‘What should we do now?” and somebody[1] suggested that we go get manicures, and that sounded like more fun than going shopping or simply going to Kat’s apartment, and it was too early for dinner, so off we went to get manicures. There we discussed completely inappropriate things in not very well veiled terms quite loudly, and laughed a lot. It was fun.
These were our colour chocies. I was hooker red, Kat was subtle pink, and Courtney was the maroonish colour
Then somebody was all like, “Let’s go get some cheesecake”[2] and we were off to the cheesecake factory. Kat wanted to show us a girl she’s into in a way that wasn’t all “hey, look at that hot girl over there”, so she told us that she would tell us about the lovely piece of cheesecake when she walked by. This devolved into hilariousness and innuendo and now I can never think of cheesecake without thinking of Kat saying “maybe its the kind of cheesecake that will allow me to eat it”
Then we went to a Thai place for dinner.
Then we forced some person who just had eye surgury and couldn't really see to take our picture
And then we went back to Kat’s place and did the elevator dance, and then Courtney and I forced Kat to sign up for Twitter, and then we talked some more about cheesecake and other randomness.
And then this morning, I got this comment from the lem and then about half an hour ago I got this picture from the lem, who loves ’shopping things into other things.
the file name originally was 'poke me and die android.jpg'
And that’s it.
1: Some will suggest that “somebody” was me. I will deny this forever, regardless of the facts.
2: This was not me. Honestly.