Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
I already love the holiday season, and in the winter of 2006, there was no better time (as far as Neil and I were concerned) to get engaged. We’d already be seeing family and friends that are normally scattered far and wide, and everyone was pretty happy to add a little extra dose of good … Continue reading Indie I Do!
There are not many major life decisions my 8-year-old self got to make. In fact, there were three: 1. I would be married someday 2. I would marry a person whose last name was further toward the beginning of the alphabet 3. I would change my name to my spouse’s last name, so that I … Continue reading Adventures in Name Changing
Now that I finally have time to write, most of the memories about our wedding are getting quite hazy. Thankfully the pictures were just finished, so I at least have a reference for what actually went on. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous or edgy at all on our wedding day. I’d … Continue reading The Wedding
Well, we did it! I’m currently hanging out in bed at the Fairmont YVR, drinking coffee and slowly waking up before breakfast. Our flight leaves at 15:10. For the wedding, the weather turned around completely and we had beautiful sunshine as the perfect backdrop to a really lovely ceremony. And the reception was definitely the … Continue reading Hitched!
It finally happened. Friday, March 21, 2008. Approximately 10:00am, PDT. I lost it. I snapped. I screamed. I wept. I slammed doors and threw things. I became the complete and utter perfect picture of Bridezilla and threatened to call the entire thing off. Over a $26 piece of hosiery. Straw, camel, back. You know the … Continue reading The Losing of the Mind
So, my co-workers are totally better than your co-workers. They’ve been scheming for a week now, completely behind my back, to put together a surprise wedding shower. They even got Neil involved, and had him come to the office for the festivities. I’d been having a completely insane day, between the regular insanity of getting … Continue reading Best Co-workers Ever
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Happy. I kept telling myself that I didn’t want to get to this place, but it has happened. I am completely, totally and utterly obsessed with my wedding. I swore I would not be one of those brides who took any moment, any conversation and related anything … Continue reading Giddy Ninny
Darren asked an interesting question in the comments of my last ranting entry (for the record, I feel better now that it’s out of my system): Hey, I have a related wedding question. Julie’s going to be a bridesmaid this summer, and so she has to obtain a dress. The bride is mostly handling this, … Continue reading De-mystifying the Delay
That’s it. I fucking hate weddings. Everything to do with weddings.
I told Neil the other night that I don’t want to get married any more, because I don’t feel good about it. I feel like a miserable hag who has no time to be awesome after dealing with shitstorms at just about every angle.
This of course is not true – I definitely want to marry that man – I’d just rather elope at this point.
Apparently, when one is getting married, she is expected to put her life on hold to execute it. And I do emphasize “she.” Neil has a bunch of wedding-related things on his plate as well, but everyone seems to want to talk to me. Or they keep asking me if I’ve “checked up on him” with little disapproving “tut tut” noises. As if I’m partnering myself with a four-year-old who needs to be reminded to brush his teeth, and then examined for tooth cleanliness as well as breath, because he may have just smeared his tongue with toothpaste instead of actually brushing.
For the record, we check in on each other. We both have a shit-ton of responsibilities (both wedding-related and non-) that need to be met in order to keep our lives running.
Anyhow, I digress….
Putting one’s life on hold to plan a wedding is the most ridiculous fucking idea I’ve ever heard. It’s not a fucking coronation, it’s a goddamn dinner party. The end. Considering that for work I can plan half-a-dozen major events with 6-figure budgets at once, a girl should be able to plan one measly 5-figure wedding and still have time for reasonable amounts of work, play and sleep. Not so much.
I’m just so pissed off at this point in the myriad ways I’ve been jerked around and how a bunch of things are self-destructing, that I need to vent for a bit (apologies to those whose RSS reader just exploded – for the rest of you, rambling ranting vent below the cut)…
Continue reading “Affianced = Please jerk me around, I deserve it.”
Happy Valentine’s day to all of you, from all of us at Chez Watercooler! And from us to you, some chocolate, getting dirty, courtesy of our friends at AdHack (if I’m not eating much chocolate these days – because there is NO room for me to get any bigger and still fit into my wedding … Continue reading All you need is Love
**UPDATE** February 14/08 – many things crossed off, invitations sent. This thing may just happen the way it’s supposed to after all! According to the calendar (and all the wedding-based emails I’ve signed up for over the past year), there are screaming notices everywhere that this past weekend I just cruised through the 8 weeks … Continue reading I have how many weeks?
One of my favourite features of the Nike+iPod setup is the Powersong. It’s a simple concept – pick a song that pumps you up, gets you going, gets the mojo flowing, renews your energy. Program that song into your iPod nano as your Powersong. When you’re lagging and need a boost, you hold down the … Continue reading Powersong
I was out for dinner with a group of girlfriends last week. Of the six of us, four are married and two are engaged and getting married in March (including yours truly). So, as the conversation often does these days, talk turned to weddings – specifically dresses. Through the process, I haven’t been particularly sentimental … Continue reading Dress up Doll
I thought about making some sort of personal resolutions this year, but 2008 is shaping up to be a year of so much activity, growth and change already I think I’ll just give myself a big pat on the back for making it through. It starts off with becoming a first-time homeowner, complete with list … Continue reading Resolved
Ring is back. Am happy again. Especially since night before last I had a fantastically vivid dream in which the jeweler had stolen my diamond and replaced it with Cubic Zirconium (he did not, I checked). Our wedding bands are completed and engraved and living safely in the jeweler’s vault. I wanted to take a … Continue reading Shiny!