Monday, June 30

Ring ring ring, Banana Phone!

I've been living on the phone lately. I hate using the phone too, normally my minutes never peak 100 for the month cause I never use the dang thing unless I'm trying to figure out where Nick is.

I called the local Chevy dealer this morning to find out about fixing my door. They have the part in stock and its only $73 so I'm going to swing by tomorrow morning and get it. I'm going to ask them how much it will cost if they install it, but I think I'll just wait for my Dad to come home and do it. Boy, will that be a relief to have fixed. Then I won't feel like such a jackass when I take my car to have everything else fixed. Uhh, yes, I can see you are 6'5" but could you please climb over the passenger seat? Yes, thank you. lol, mechanics hate that.

I made a hair appointment on friday for a trim and to try out bridal styles. It was only after I made the appointment that I realized my cousin Tony is going to beauty school and does a really good job styling hair. I'll see him on Saturday at a family party so I think I might corner him with the idea. What else is family for?

Tastefest (now called CityFest) starts Wednesday! I want to go! I have Thursday off, anybody else?

Saturday, June 28

I am slowly going crazy 1-2-3-4-5

Well, my computer has some weirdo virus and I thought it was effecting the internets too, but it turns out my sister just unplugged the ethernet cable when she took her router -_- duh. I've been on the phone all morning with the entire world and drank most of a pot of coffee. I feel crazier than usual. Oh, where to start...

Well, my parents on on vacation in Florida until the 5th or so. My grandma is in the hospital and my two Uncle's aren't considerate enough to keep my sister and I updated. We thought she was going home yesterday and when I tried calling her at home this morning, no one answered. So on a whim I call the hospital, and lo and behold, there she is with breathing problems and everything. Imagine my surprise since I assumed no calls from the Uncles would have meant everything was ok. My sister and I are ready to strangle them. They didn't even think to call us. It makes to want to holler.

Then, my sister and I were supposed to watch my cousins dog this week, and my dog here at home. We were going to split it up based on what was easier when. Apparently my cousin has been trying to email the two of us all week and since I thought my computer was broken and Amy hasn't gotten connected to the internets yet, we had no idea. Amy managed to check her personal email at work the other day and we find out that since she couldn't get a hold of us, her mom is watching the dog now. Really? C'mon. Does she not have a phone? I know she does. Hopefully my aunt doesn't mind too much, because I feel like a real jerk.

Lastly, I start my second job next Sunday evening so Nick and I are trying to finish up all the wedding stuff in this next week because I won't be able to do anything besides sleep and Nick just won't do anything unless I make him. We bought our wedding bands last week, they are very pretty, I can't wait until we can wear them ^_^ Tuesday we will hopefully eat and order cake. We also get to go to the hall and taste and order food for the reception Tuesday night. I need to make a hair appointment this week to try out styles. I'm going to try and put my mom in charge of flowers and leave the hootch up to Nick and his Aunt, but I don't know if either of those are really good ideas at all. My mom asked for a job a month ago and I told her I needed help with the cake, told her what I needed, what I wanted, and she never did a thing. Very helpful, but exactly what I expected from her.

Tomorrow Nick and I are going to see Johnny Lang play at the festival in Mt. Clemens. It should be pretty cool. I think I'm going to bring a water bottle filled with vodka and forget today. Very mature, I know.

EDIT:
I forgot to tell you about Jamie's birthday party! Jamie had a lovely birthday party with a lot of lovely people at a lovely pottery studio in Royal Oak. I made a mug with an alligator inside. I'm going to pick it up in a few days, I hope it didn't come out too ugly, I'm not very artistic. Lia came and I was super excited since I haven't seen her since 11th grade or so. I miss my friends. Why did we all move so far away from each other? We are all retarded.

Thursday, June 26

esta roto

My computer at home is broken (again) so I'm using the one at the library for a few minutes. So far I cannot check Livejournal, MySpace of Facebook. Lame. My dog and I are home by ourselves until the 5th most likely. Come visit us, or do my chores at least. There are a lot more chores when its just me.

I took the night job at JoAnn's. Its starts July 6th and lasts about 5 weeks, 9pm to 5am. I'm keeping my job at Barnes & Noble 7am-3:30 so If you don't hear from me in the next month, this is why. Nick and I ordered our wedding bands last night and will hopefully be able to order our cake next week. I need to get as much of the wedding done in the next 2 weeks because it will be waay too late by the time I have time again.

Blegh, okay, I have to leave and feed me and my dog dinner. Send me a text message, I can't read any lovely comments you leave me ^_^
My computer is broken and i have so much to blog about! Thank god for cell phones

Wednesday, June 18

I feel like I blog about wedding stuff a lot. There's more to my life than that I swear :)

In the next two weeks there will be a massive shifting of family members. My sister is moving into a new apartment, my parents are going on vacation so my sister will be back house sitting, my cousin is going up north so I will be house sitting her house the same week my parents are gone, right when all these family members go back to normal, family is flying in from California and the Grandparents are driving up from Florida with my parents. Ack, I'm so confused. Hopefully, everyone will get to where they are supposed to be, and I get to see all of my cousins.

I've been looking around for a second job. Not as seriously as I should be, because c'mon, who really wants to work more than they already do? But Nick and I seriously need the extra income so we aren't eating desperation soup (read: hot water) for the first three months living together. We'll see where I end up.

P.S. Have you seen my registry? Some one bought me a drill! Yahoo!

Tuesday, June 10

Shoot me now

I really hate the fact that there is even a "Wedding Industry." It makes me angry, all this fuss around YOUR SPECIAL DAY (like you'll never have a special day ever again), where you must have the perfect hair with the perfect makeup and the perfect matching favors to match your perfect blah blah blah or everything will be terrible. When did this begin? When did women start falling for it? I have had more women than I care to admit to come up to me gushing about MY DAY and the dress and the hair and the everything they seem to think is important. Why is it important?? Shouldn't this event be focused on the marriage? Our new life together? Thats what I'm concerned with, not matching anything. Whats worse to me, is I can't quite assert this viewpoint to the women around me without being terribly rude. They're so excited for the matching favors, tablecloth and flowers. The other day I got an Oriental Trading wedding magazine, and in it you could order special wedding toilet paper. No lie. Go ahead, wipe you ass with this symbol of my union.

Points I am trying to make:
  • I don't want this to be MY SPECIAL DAY, I just want to be Katie, marrying Nick, with as many family and friends as they could afford to attend. This isn't about me in a white dress being the center of attention. Its about me publicly announcing my commitment to this man, while I happen to be wearing a white dress.
  • Who cares about all the matching and personalized everything? Yes, parties do look fabulous with great decorations. Parties are also fabulous with nothing more than good food, good music and lots of friends and family.
  • Why does there have to be a terrible industry that makes me wish we eloped? I want my family and friends there, I just want them to leave all those "wedding expectations" the style network shoved down their throats at home.

That being said, if we get any personalized crap from Things Remembered, I hope its at the wedding and not the shower because there is no way I will be able to accept the gift with a straight face. Oh, the horror of personalized bullshit. Shoot me now :)

Thursday, June 5

Oy vey

I finally put my very expensive Nike running shoes to their intended purpose today. I walked the 6 mile track around Stoney Creek. Oy, it took me two hours! But it was nice, I really enjoyed myself. It would not have been possible without my iPod though. That thing saves my live over and over. Hopefully I'll keep up with this exercise thing. I've really been wanting to join a gym lately but I can't quite commit to the membership fee and I know that as soon as I sign a contract at one, our house will be on the opposite end of the universe. So we shall wait and see.