Friday, September 01, 2006

The Aftermath

Ok, OK!! So, I thought recovering from the wedding would be easy. I thought I'd still be motivated, and get it all cleaned up in record time, rearranging my kitchen to fit in all the new gadgets. Not so.

After the BIG DAY, we went up to relaxing Door County, Wisconsin for a few days. It was great. We went to a winery, golfing, mini-golfing (in a downpour), to a romantic outside fancy dinner, shopping, and on and on. It was the perfect mini-honeymoon, and I didn't take any pictures.

When we got home, I realized that I only had one week before I had to go back to school. I hung around the house like a slug for two days. I welled up in tears every time I'd walk into my closet and see my dress hanging there. (I still want to wear it again!) I sobbed when my bouquet (which had decorative cabbage in it) started smelling like rotten cabbage, and I had to pull the dryable stuff out to and throw it away. I was a wreck. My house still has presents in piles all over. We have bags of wrapping paper in the garage to throw out in stages. (The city won't pick up overfilled garbage carts, and we only have one.) It'll get done, but in time. I'm feeling MUCH better now.

Not a lot of pictures yet, but I have a few, compliments of JessBerry.


The back of my dress.

My sister and hairdresser fixing me up.

My ringbearers. My nephew, JT is on the left. My Godson, Bubba, the right.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Printing

250. That is how many ceremony bulletins I am printing, stamping, and folding. I am waiting on the last batch of 25 to finish up right now. 125 are entirely complete. I must stamp and fold the other half now. Why did I decide to do this to myself. Oh yeah...all the bulletins that the church makes are tacky. Oh well. 4.5 days left!

Friday, August 11, 2006

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!!!!

I just changed my blog template, and I stupidly erased all my links. Stupid, STUPID!!!

Tired.

I'm tired. Remember that wedding that I started planning way back when? Well, it's one week away now. You'd laugh if you knew what I did today. I cleaned my mom's house because she's having a pirate party tonight! I spent an hour putting together a plastic pirate ship to go in the pond. Honestly, I can't make this crap up. That's how I got my pirate personality there on the right.

There's still a lot of wedding stuff to do. I did go to my final gown fitting last Monday, and my final hair run through is tonight. Amazingly, yes, I plan to skip the pirate party. I'm still tired. Whew! We'll see if I get back to posting on this thing. If I do, I think I'll try to change the layout.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Delete or not to Delete?

I am not happy. My friend, NessaLee has been forced to move her blog due to some real life issues. This makes me feel sick because this is not the first time this has happened. Last fall I signed of for several months because someone traeted her awfully, and it was through her blog that they found her. I was even suspect for a short while. I am NOT happy. It just makes me wonder if this is worth it at all. Is it safe out here? Why do people treat people horribly? Why do people feel the need to use this, a usually friendly environment, to inflict that kind of hurt. I don't know. I just feel like I shouldn't even be reading out here, much less writing. Of course, whose reading this spot any way?!

So, I'm seriously thinking of deleting myself from the blog world permanently. Why should I bother with this mess?

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Good or Bad?

So, it's tornado awareness week here in Wisconsin. Today was the big day of the test tornado warnings and everything. If school had been in session, we'd have had a tornado drill just a minutes ago. So, at 1:20 today, a mock warning was issued. I was sitting here at my computer when the sirens went off. (I knew it was a warning since they'd announced it on the news last night and this morning.) Anyway, I'm hearing the sirens, and I'm thinking to myself, those don't sound very loud to me. So, I shut up the windows and stood in the living room, with the TV on. I couldn't hear them at all. With the TV off, I could hear them faintly. And this is the one that bugs me, with the TV off, standing in my bedroom, I could barely hear them. They definitely were not loud enough to wake me if there was a tornado in the middle of the night. During waking hours, I'd be glued to my TV, but at night I'd have no idea.

Now, it's not like we get a lot of tornados close to where I live, but two have touched down within five miles of my house in my lifetime. You may think I'm crazy, but I can think of much better ways of going out besides being sucked up like Dorothy. Although, if the lion, tin man, and scarecrow are still in charge, Oz might not be a bad place to visit. I'd just have to get a hold of those damn ruby slippers in order to get back home!

Back to my original question, is this a good or bad thing?

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Camera Fun

Inspired by Anessa, I found my macro function, and started shooting. I also found the black & white and sepia color functions. I'm a monster now, baby!


Monday, April 17, 2006

Minimal Excitment

So, my mom and I went down to near Chicago, IL today and bought fabric for the bridesmaid dresses. YEAH!! Another to-do that is done. It is SO pretty. I even took a picture of it with my phone and e-mailed it to BerryChick. Of course, I don't text, and I've only emailed a picture twice before, so this took about 5 minutes to do, and I don't even think it was a good picture. Oh well. We also stopped at the Trader Joe's Grocery store and I bought four bottles of Two Buck Chuck wine. :-) The Shiraz makes me happy. hehehehe

Easter was good. I ate too much chocloate. I played with my nephew, who gets bigger every time I see him. I'll see him tomorrow, I'll post a new picture. He's so cute it's scary. I think that's it.

My God, that was the most boring post ever!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Shy Blogger

I can't help but comment on the great stories I have heard following the great blogger outing in Texas. It sounds like it was a BLAST! I feel strange, though. I've always been outgoing when it comes to certain things, but when it comes to social situations, I am dangerously shy and reserved. I don't know if I could have kept up with that bunch! Oh my goodness, they would have had to sedate me before getting me into a tattoo chair. Another thing. I've always liked tattoos, always thought having one would be cool, but I don't think I'll ever get one. But on to my inspiration for the post. I read that there is another outing planned for next spring. I think it would be fun, it's in Chicago, only an hour away from me, why not put my name down on the list? I just can't get the courage to. Just like when I read a post I like and want to comment on, but since I haven't met bloggers in person, I feel all strange like I'm some sort of blogger stalker, joining the conversation uninvited. And then I'm afraid if people actually read my blog, they'd be like, "Who is this anal, nerdy, snobbish bitch?!" Or they'd be bored to tears, which could just as easily happen. I don't know. I guess I could be like, this is MY blog and I can say what I want, but I'm too self conscious for that. I don't know. I guess I'm done with my little pity party now.

It is a good day. Working at a school, it's Spring Break time! I don't have to go back until April 24th! YEAH!!! It's time to get some major wedding legwork and house cleaning done! I'll save my impressions of Spring Break plans among my rich suburban students for another date. Maybe when they all return hung over and tan from the tropics.

PS I just did a spellcheck. Can you believe that the words blog and blogger are not in the "blogger.com" dictionary?

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Another Nessa

I never thought that I'd ever meet another Nessa in my life, but I did today. I walked into my local Panera, and there in front of me, taking my order, was another Nessa! I thought it was cool, so I said, "Wow, I have a friend named Nessa, and I thought she was the only one!"

The nice girl replied, "You do? I thought I was the only one!"

I explained that I have a friend named Nessa who lives down near Houston, TX. The nice girl laughed, and told me that she was originally from Amarillo, TX! Small world. So NessaLee, if you ever venture up here to Yankee Land, WI, I'll take you over to my Panera to meet the other Nessa. :-)

PS To the retreating bloggers: I hope y'all are keeping yourselves out of trouble down there in Austin. Wish I was there...

Thursday, April 06, 2006

J & B is NOT Brandy

I just took a peek at my post from yesterday. It sounds like I had a big bottle brandy, that drives a Volvo over to my house for dinner. hehehe J & B is not a bottle of brandy, just the initials for two of my dear, dear friends from high school. :-) (Not only am I bad with knives, but I don't make much sense sometimes.)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Yes, I am a Dumb Ass.

I wrote this email to my best friend, BerryChick this afternoon, and it occured to me that it might be entertaining. We'll see... The names and places mentioned in this post have been changed to protect the innocent. :-)

Howdy, partner!

It's been quite a week here. I haven't had time to write at all! I don't know how to write this because it's funny, and if I don't say it correctly, it won't be funny.

So, last Friday Rook and I had J & B over for dinner. I cooked lasagna because it was something that I couldn't mess up. They were due to arrive at 6:30, so around 5:50, I was busy getting the salad ready. I was making an Italian CHOPPED salad. I sharpen the big ol' kitchen knife, and set to work. I was in a hurry, and Rook was standing over me. I was telling him how to help when, oops, I chopped into my right hand thumb. I pulled back right away and held my thumb with the other hand as hard as I could to keep it from bleeding. Amazingly I didn't feel it, and it didn't hurt at all. (According to the ER doctor, that's normal when you cut yourself badly because you cut through the nerves, ha!) Every time I'd open my hand to try to see how bad it was, it would SEEP blood. Not pretty. So, I've pretty much decided that I need to go to the hospital, but I can't drive, Steve can't drive, and by this time I know J & B are on the way. I call my mom, OK Rook dials and holds the phone to my ear, and she can't take me because she has my baby nephew and no car seat. She tells me to ask J & B if they can take me. I'm in a panic, crying, because I don't want to go because I don't have insurance. She tells me that I MUST go, and that I need to ask J & B. So, it's now about 6:15. J & B arrive on time. I ask them if they'd mind taking me to the ER after dinner, which really upset J. He got his cop face on, and is all like, do you not understand the term EMERGENCY room? It means that you're there for an EMERGENCY, and should go right away! So, we all piled in the Volvo and headed over to the hospital near my house. I felt SO bad, but J & B said that they were entertained by the people watching. One guy that came in had tried to catch a knife that he dropped, dumb ass! We were at the hospital for an hour and a half. I only spent about 20 minutes of that time with health care professionals. Although, they did want to wait until it stopped bleeding before they did anything. It bled for over an hour from the time I cut it. It was strange to look at it after it stopped bleeding. The cut is about 1/4 inch deep in the part of my right thumb that would rest on my violin bow when playing. I sliced into my thumb nail too. So, all in all, I cut about 1/4 of the way through my right thumb, but it was close enough to the tip, so I didn't hit anything major, only maybe a good vein, which will heal OK. It's still quite tender. I'm keeping a band aid on it for two reasons, one to give it padding, so it doesn't hurt as much when I bump it, and two, it looks gross. The doctor said that he could have stitched it, but he glued it because stitches can't close the part of the cut under my nail. The glue was able to hold my nail together to seal that part of the cut. The glue is starting to come off, like the doctor said it would, but I'm so scared that the cut will break open or something. The doctor said two things that made me laugh. The first was when he said, "So, you're a lefty!" I was like, how did you know that? He was like, you don't usually chop into the hand you cut with. I was like, oh... stands to reason. The other was when he said, "My God, how hard were you cutting? I don't usually see people who cut right through their finger nails!" I was like, I was in a hurry, and the knife was REALLY sharp. I had just sharpened it.

So, after that adventure, we piled back into the Volvo to go back home. The lasagna had been sitting in the warming drawer for over two hours, so the top cheese was a little crispy. It was still good. J & B brought cheese cake for desert. It was awesome! We drank two bottles of wine, and laughed a lot. It was fun. My thumb didn't hurt at all until the next morning when I had to take 600mg of ibuprofen. It's healing nicely, no sign of infection.

Other than that adventure, life is pretty boring. Last night Rook's mom decided hat she really wants to throw a formal rehearsal dinner at a small hall or something. Rook and I really don't want that. We want pizza at our place. But, that's her party, I guess, when you think all traditional. What a waste of $$$$. I'm still saying, help with the actual wedding, PLEASE!!!! The numbers get closer to $20K every day! OK, maybe we're not that close to $20,000, but it's going to be over $15,000. I can just feel it.

OK then. I might have to copy this into my neglected blog. It may make a interesting post, like any one ever reads my blog anymore. Smell you later!!!

Luv,
Rae


Yes, this is all true. What has my life come to?????

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Hello Spring!

Crap! Has it been an entire month since I've posted? Wow! I guess I'm just not as motivated since BerryChick quit. Honestly though, nothing much has been going on here. I have been planning the wedding. It takes a ton of time. I had no idea how consuming the entire process gets. To top it all off, we are over budget. We're going to have to cut back some place. I do know that we're going to spend less than $5 each on centerpieces. Boo Ya! (OK, that was a throw back to high school. God, the ninties were great.) Wow, I think I just thought of a post there. I just have to get back in the habit of this. I even might update my condo blog, as we FINALLY have furniture. Yes, I lived in my house for 6 months without any living room furniture. I don't know if our asses will ever hit a lawn chair again without painful memories. I'm babbling now, so I'd better get going before I bore any of you non-readers. :-)

Monday, February 20, 2006

Mondays

Have you ever had one of those days where you get out of bed only five minutes late, and by the time you're ready to go you're now fifteen minutes late? Yeah. It's been one of those days.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Weddings, Weddings Everywhere!

That's how I feel just about now. It's all I think about. It seems as if all of my free time is now devoted to my wedding. OK, not all of it, but it seems that way. Last night we went to the jeweler to look at the wax model of my ring. Tomorrow I'm going to the wedding store to try on dresses. My mom is making mine, but I have no idea what I will look good in, so I'm off to try some on. The question is: do I wear dress up underwear for this adventure? You know, the one piece sucker in underwear thing. I don't know. I do know that I'm not wearing it all day. Next Monday I have the most important meeting yet - I'm going to talk cake with the cake lady. This, I think, is the most important stuff. :-) I've been to too many weddings were the cake was all dry and nasty. I want a good cake. Different flavors for different layers. Yumm.... Oh, it's all too much! I know, it's going to get done and it's going to be beautiful. I can't wait! Oh, remember the post on an affordable, elegant wedding? Well, you know, it's not going to happen. Elegance = $$$$$. We're going for elegance. I'll still be paying it off when my children start college. It's one day in my life that I want to look bcak on without any resevations, or should haves or what ifs. In the long run, the amount we spend on this will be pennies compared to what we spend on other things, so we're just going to do it! I am so glad. Here's to the 200+ invitations that we'll send out. Here's to the best wedding food that they'll ever taste. Here's to the celebration of the first day of my marriage! I just hope I am able to savour it all. At least I know I have a great photographer to catch all the stuff I miss! hehehe Here's to us.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

A Simple Post

I just want to post today because I feel like it. I don't have anything funny to say, or anthing interesting either. We found a hall for our wedding reception, and on that end I am very happy. My mom says that it is time to start looking at wedding gowns. I'm not looking forward to this portion of the planning. I am such a porker, and I really hate how I look the size that I am. I don't want to see myself in a wedding gown at this point. I am working hard at loosing some inches before the big day. Let's hope it all pays off. I guess having your mom make the dress is a good thing. I won't have to pay extra if it needs to be taken in. :) I'm really tired this afternoon, so this is all I'm going to say for now. Toodles!

Monday, January 23, 2006

I am NEVER Doing this Again!

OMG! I am never getting married again. I can't believe how difficult this all is. Too many people to invite, too little money, lots of booked halls. When will it all end?! I want to have a wonderful celebration, but now I know why everyone just says to elope. I'll stick it through, but it's going to be difficult. At least we have a florist, photographer, ceremony music, church, pastor, and jeweler. OH! The bridesmaid dresses are already picked out, and we have a seamstress to make them. Saving money on that front. How do people do it? How do people put on elegant, affordable weddings? I'm beginning to think that the words elegant and affordable can't go together in the same sentence.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

A Word to the Wise

Don't get digital phone from your local cable company. I can't even count the number of times our phone has been out since we had it installed in November. We love our digital cable and our cable internet, but the phone SUCKS! That is all.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Putting a Toe in the Water

Wow. It's been a LONG time. I think I'm over the hurt of what happened last fall, but it was horrible. I can't believe how horrible people can be. It's unbelievable. I love SillyNessa, and if she's feeling well enough to post, I should be too.

So much has happened in the past few months. I'm a little bummed. It's been so long since I've updated, I've lost my place on Nessa's blog roll. BerryChick has deleted her blog all together. I don't know if anyone will ever visit My Own Little World, but I think I need someplace to just write. I'll be starting off slow. No daily blogs or anything. I don't have the time for that anymore, now that I'm gainfully employed, a homeowner, and planning a wedding. I just don't have time. I will share my adventures and thoughts, and hopefully not bore the pants off of any readers.

I'm waiting right now for the AAA to come and change my tire. I tried to get it myself, but it's totally stuck. I've changed the tire on my car before, but something is hinky with this one. Thank God for 24-hour Roadside Assistance! Too bad it runs out for me in 3000 miles. My security blanket will be gone. I think I'll sign off for now. I'll have to write a few catch up posts, but not tonight. My brain wants to sleep, and who knows what I'll produce!

I'm happy to be back!