Twins Have A Special Kind of Love

People's Backs, Spotlights, and Great Music!

Athens, GA. Wilco was awesome.
Unfortunately I'm 5' tall, so this is what I saw for most of the duration of 2 hours:


However.. my wonderful skyscraper made it possible for me to see the show in 10 second increments:


Enjoying the show..

I love his grin :)

Mental Chamber

Staring at the blankness of this window before typing this sentence made me feel relaxed for a second.. just for a second, before I started having thoughts again.

Do you ever get really tired of receiving information? I don't usually, but I have lately.

On the show Fringe, there's this chamber filled with water in which a person lays while having their brain connected to a machine that allows them to visualize their unconscious mental processes. Sometimes I think having a mental chamber would be a pretty nice escape, especially with the sensation of half floating in water. But then I realize that it would only make my nagging thoughts visible, not make them go away, so maybe just a dark enclosed chamber filled with water would be nice. That sounds like a womb. Reverting back to the simpler stages of life can be the most relaxing place to be in.

Hug.

Checking off to-do tasks is not as relieving as a good hug.

Hey, I'm not too stressed at the moment to write!

Well gang, I've been too busy to write here when I've wanted to, but being that today, Sunday, I woke up too early thinking it was Monday, I'm up with some time on my hands. So I guess I can try to remember everything I mentally noted to write about later, heh.

Invitations
Done! Everyone should get theirs within a week or 2. We worked on them for 3 hours Friday night, trimmin', stuffin', stampin' and organizing. I can tell I have more patience for these things than Jonathan does ;) but he was very helpful. I finished wax-sealing them yesterday, with only one flaming-wax-falling-onto-the-envelope mishap. No burns though; it's good.

Wedding Dress
So the wedding dress progress is probably 80% done right now, and such a relief! I tend to take on projects that have unknowns and variables that I'm not sure if I can achieve. Accomplishing what I have on this dress is very satisfying for any doubts I may have had. It sure is wonderful, however the road to wonderful wasn't easy! I've literally shed blood, sweat and tears for this dress. When things don't work out it can get SO frustrating! (that's the tears part, heh) I envisioned throwing my dress against the wall many times, but of course I did not. The blood part came every time I pricked myself with the pins, and the sweat part is from getting a serious workout laying the peices. The fabric bits are so large, and I had to lay them on the floor so I had to stretch in odd positions to reach across it, and to jump from one side to another, as well as just to pick up the whole thing because it's pretty heavy! Many times I've felt my muscles sore the next day, from sewing... who knew!?

I've shown the dress to a few select individuals (my immediate family, Erin, and my mother in law to-be) and they generally have the same reaction about it's amazingness. Feels good! I'm on the right track. I think I've gained a load of confidence about sewing from this huge project. Of course, buying the dress form the other day helps, a LOT.

The other night I pinned my dress bits all together on the form and just looked at it. It's exactly what I'd always envisioned it to be! I left it on the form that night and I was so excited about it I couldn't sleep! I kept waking up to peek at it, ha. I'm so pleased! I can't wait to wear it. As I was telling Jonathan, since I've spent so much time on this dress, I want to be able to wear it for more than just one day. So we're going to re-wear our wedding attire during our honeymoon, maybe find a hoity toity restaurant to go to.

Bridal Shower
Yesterday Terra hosted a bridal shower for me at her house, which I was so impressed with! She had little yellow-tulip centerpieces on the tables, tons of really amazing food that she made herself (I'm eating the blueberry bundt thing right now) and 3 fun games. The first game involved passing around covered cups of various herbs that we had to smell and guess. It was pretty hard! I realised I need to cook more in order to be so familiar.. but the highest score was only 4/12.. I got 2.5/12, ha. The second game had guests design my wedding dress as they drew it on a paper plate resting on top of their heads. My favorite was Marisa's:


Then there was a bouquet-creating contest where guests had to assemble a flower bouquet out of colored tissue paper in 2 minutes. It was so hilarious watching everyone go crazy like some Double Dare "physical challenge", haha. My favorite bouquet was Terran's:


Francheska took some photos of the events too, so I can post those when I get them back from her.

Then of course there were lots of gifts, which I have yet to go through becase right now there's a living room full of gift bags!

The bridal shower makes things seem so close and so real. It's nice to know I've got a group of ladies who are willing to do so much for me. I have to admit that it was weird being the center of attention. I'm not used to it! I was hoarse by the end of the shower just trying to talk to everyone, and over everyone (there were around 17 guests total). Guess I better get used, at least for May 16!

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Alright a new post must ensue. I'm tired of looking at that baby cake. I titled this entry as I would label a file name at work, ha. File names! versions! revisions! Oh my GOD.

I've been pretty busy, if you couldn't tell. Work has been crazy (this moment right now is the first real lull I've had since... probably the last time I made an entry here) and it just got interrupted for 45 minutes with some "quick revisions". *shrug* Being so busy, seriously, has often made me numb, to emotions even. It's really weird. Your brain almost becomes an inhuman machine. All I can do is ADS! I begin to not get annoyed with having to do yet another one.. just more stuff to feed my desire for the ultimate efficiency. When I find myself so robotic, things like hunger, lethargy, and worry no longer occur to me.

Anyway I've been trying pretty hard to get wedding related projects closer to completion.

• My dress is fitting almost perfectly now! When I wear it I think about hugging Jon in it
• further work to be done yet on the dress
• Invitations are sent to the printer for a proof and address labels are ready to be printed
• decorations are (I assume) completed for the most part thanks to my mom and my sister

I can't think of anything else if there is anything else. Fwoo! (that's the sound of me ignoring the things I'm forgetting).

I'm looking forward to the family visiting tomorrow. I hope the weekend won't be hectic. Also we're getting our engagement photos taken on Saturday.

"I'll get my dress out and, press it!" - Audrey Hepburn.

A Startling Cake

So, I was looking up ideas for the groom's cake today, and I came across many creative ideas for cake decorating in general, which were highly impressive.. but then I came across this one:

Ho-lee crap that is frightening. Not only is it frightening, but it suggests the consumption of the newly born, and that is cannibalism.

Anyway, Jon and I came up with a cool idea (mostly his idea, but I love it) for the groom's cake, which you'll have to wait and see how it will turn out on the day. Buuut... let's just say if Jon had his way, our place settings might look something like this:



..just kidding. (I'm just kidding about just kidding).
You'll have to wait until we have boys one day, Jonathan ;)