That Sucks!

I received a call from my future mother-in-law last night. It is official Josh's brother Ben won't be able to make it home for the wedding. I am really bummed. We were prepared for this but we were hopeful that he would be able to make it. It is also official that my grandparents in Florida will not be able to make it either. My poor grandmother is suffering from back pain and will have to have surgery this fall. Also, they were hit by both Frances and Jeanne. So, yes I am pretty bummed out about this, but you have to roll with the punches. I am just happy of the people that we have traveling distances to spend the day with us!!!

Wedding Bell Blahs..............

I know that I have not been a diligent blogger and I am sorry. My goal was to tell you about the bachelorette party and stuff but ran out of ambition. Last week I was sick, had to help my girlfriend with her wedding, she got married...to clarify. I don't even have the ambition to tell you about the whole weekend. I am so tired....... I have no ambition to do anything but wedding stuff. You should see my house you can tell that. I just want to sleep..... That is one thing that I am NOT having a problem with yet is sleep.

Don't be worried. I am ok, just blah..... Need a central line of caffeine.....

Showers of Love

On Saturday was the Bridal Shower thrown by my Maid of Honor. I was a little worried to be prefectly honest. N has been VERY busy with her own wedding and was VERY stressed out on Saturday to say the least. The shower was scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm. I arrived at 12:20pm to find Josh's parents already there. Not to far behind them pulling in was his aunt and grandma. They the guests began flocking on the house. We had a wonderful lunch of bbq'd pork, many salads and my Sister in Laws famous Taco Dip.

We went around the room and introduced evereyone. It was cute as to what different ppl said. My mom was so cute, she said I am Julie and she's mine. That is enough to bring a tear to your eyes..... We played toilet paper bride. I got to be dresses up in a dress made of TP. The fun part was dressing each other up as my bridesmaids. My little cousin Lucy was the cutest of them all so she was declared the winner.

I recieved many wonderful gifts. I appreciated everything that we received. I cannot wait to go through our stuff and pack it up for garage sale. Yeah!

The final "game" of the afternoon. I had a rose and for each petal that I removed I had to list a reason I loved Josh. Now I thought about this earlier in the day. I thought that this may come up. So I had many reasons thought up, but when you are on the spot like that your brain goes BLANK. I think that I did pretty good. There was only one that I thought of later that I should have said.

Knottie Bitches

Ever since I got engaged I have been a huge Knot.com supporter. As you may or may not know I am planning a bridal shower. No sillies it is not for me it is for my friend Nora. She is getting married three weeks before me. In fact a month from now she'll be leaving for her honeymoon....I think. Sorry Nora spacing for a second!

The Knot has these helpful message boards where you can go for advice, help, wedding talk and if you just need to vent. So I have been looking for a particular shower game for a month now. It is getting down to the end of the wire and I still want to do this. So I figured I am a knot member I will post this on their message board. I know that someone somewhere has done this. So I typed up my post. It didn't show. I typed it again, it didn't show. I refreshed the page to see if it came up. All of a sudden there is like 10 of these messages that I typed.

I feel bad. I tried finding a delete button, nothing happened. I see one of my posts has a some replies. So I click it open. One was helpful. The other informed me that everytime I hit refresh it re-posts my last post or comment I made. Oops. Atleast I understand now why I have so many posts. I still can't figure out how to delete them.

All of a sudden people are posting. Jraehoner is a moron. People are yelling at me because I posted so many times. I had to type I am new get off my back several times. But the women were REALLY cruel to me. I am NOT repeating anything they said. I made a few "friends" that stuck up for me and reminded me what it was like to be new. Someone needs to do that once in a while. Now I am nervous about posting a question again. I know people won't pounce on me because now I know what I am doing. But jeez if they get that hyped up over a simple mistake. WOW!!!!

So you are now warned of the knotties. Oh and don't go there if you aren't getting married and mess with them because they call you a troll.....

The Wedding Countdown

I found this cute little counter online. I cannot believe that our wedding is in 54 days yikes!!! So much to do... So much to pay!! Enjoy the counter.

I am going to be a WIFE!!!!!

Go ahead laugh at me. I am used to it. In a conversation with Josh this weekend, I came upon a harsh realization. I am going to be someone's WIFE!!!! As Josh so sweetly pointed out not anyone's wife his wife. In unison awwwwwwwww!!!! When it comes to this wedding I know that I can handle the mishaps and the problems that come up along the way. I don't even feel overwhelmed anymore when I think of all of the stuff that we have to do because we steadily cross things off the list. What really throws me into an asthma attack is the fact that I am getting married. I am going to be joined to someone until death does us part...... I know if it doesn't work out we can always get a divorce but who goes into their married life with that comforting thought. I know that nothing in our relationship will change only my last name. But a wife, a wife cooks and cleans and wears cute little aprons. She always has fresh cookies in the cookie jar. She can make a Martini extra dry with a twist. I don't even know what a dry martini is. I still sometimes leave dishes on the coffee table or in the sink hoping the dish fairy will come. Then I realized oh I am the dish fairy now along with laundry elf, toilet gnome and dust bunny hunter. Being a wife means that I have grown up and that is scary!!!!!

I don’t' feel grown up. How is a grown up supposed to feel? I never felt a magical change. Where was that??? Who waved the magic wand and said ok she is a grown up?? Where ever that wand is I want to break it in two. I don't wanna grow up...................

3 months and counting......

It is now three months until the wedding. What can I say but ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We registered last night. That was a treat!! I love going shopping and not buying anything because that is what registering really is. We also met with our minister yesterday. It is really nice to have a minister that swears once in a while. This shows that he isn't perfect and that is ok. Other than that the favor putting together begins!!!!! Yeah!!!! I cannot wait to get that done. When we get that done we will have to start stuffing invitations. Then panic mode begins!!!!!!! Please PLEASE help me with my previous post. I need to help my girlfriend out. She has been there for me!!!!! I just need to know how to be there for her because I am at a loss!!!!

100 days to go?

Today has just been one of those days that you want to end but doesn't. I have been having problems with my projects at work. They just aren't working like they are supposed to.   I just want to cry.  Not only are things not going so well with my tests, I have to give a presentation on Wednesday.  Have I started???  Of course not.  They say "Oh nothing formal, just a 15 minute talk about the pathways of your cell line, where it holds promise on the disease front and where you are with the project.  The big deal is that this is the first time that I have given a speech at work.  This is like a test to prove that I am a competent employee.  I know that it isn't really true but I don't want to look like a total ass in front of my co-workers. 
 
Not only are things at work not so great we have now hit 100 days to the big day.  I know that may seem like not a big deal but a year ago it was 465 days.  I have watched the days slip by slowly at first now they are slipping through our hands like water.  Each day I grasp for the time that was lost that day.  I feel like the day is going to be here before we will know it and will we have everything done by then?  I sure hope that we can make it through the next 1o0 days.....
I don't know with the road construction on highway 14 I hope I can keep my sanity. 

Wedding Day Strangler

For our wedding we are making our own invitations, favors, programs and anything else to save money. Last night I asked Josh to perform a very simple and necessary task cutting raffia to the appropriate length to tie the invitations together. Simple enough right????? Obviously not if I am writing about it. He proceeded to pitch a royal fit!!! You would have thought that I asked him to pull his own leg hairs out one by one until they were all gone. I could not believe it!! So if he didn't cut the raffia who would??? Of course ME. It was easy enough cut the strings and put them in the box. It was easy enough and he could watch his precious Monday night Discovery channel at the same time. He whined and complained the whole time. On top of that Jackson kept taking the scrap pieces and running around the house with him. I tried SO hard not to laugh at that but it was hilarious!!! I was prety mad because this is just the beginning of the crap that needs to be done. Needless to say I packed his bags and send him on a huge guilt trip. Because I'll be damned if I am doing this all myself.

I know that the wedding is four months from tomorrow but we are SO busy with stuff this summer it is unbelieveable. I feel like everyone said to each other lets plan all of our weddings and have babies this year so that Josh and Jess have no money. How dare they......