Before you read my post, go read this article – Australia’s Mother Teresa. This lady is a truly inspiring woman. I only hope that in my life I can find half as much passion and courage and will as her.
We finally booked and paid the deposit on the restaurant for the reception. We were going to cut the traditional Chinese banquet down to 6 courses (from 8), but Vincent’s parents felt that it would be looked down upon by some of the guests, so we’re back at the big menu.
I have one word from my experience today – parents. Specifically mine, and if I wanted to get even more specific, mothers.
I’m sure that I will be travelling down the same road of ranting over the entire course of my life and I really should learn to let it roll off me, but I just can’t. Sigh… I can’t even find the words right now to express my frustrations.
I will move on. I must move on…
Right! Moved on. Thanks for all your comments regarding the bridesmaids dresses. I never understood the need for a bride to pick really ugly dresses for her bridesmaids to wear – talk about insecure! I wanted a dress that the girls would want to wear more than just at the wedding, and hopefully they like these dresses enough to do that.
Next I have to find a good place for the boys to get tux’s from.
So this week I will find a photographer (or at least book in appointments to meet some) and will start looking into florists. I’m worried about the flowers, because I’m not too knowledgeable and I worried I could get duped! I might drag my sister along with me =)
I haven’t updated all week… and I’ve been on leave. How slack is that? Lol. But then again, if I’m not at work, I just don’t feel like being on the computer. And I’ve had a ton of stuff to do this week.
On Monday I went shopping with one of my bridesmaids. The purpose of the hours that killed my feet, ankles and legs wandering up and down streets and shopping centres was to find Bridesmaid dresses.
Well, one day clearly wasn’t enough and even though I had a break on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and half of Saturday was also required. The most difficult part was finding a dress we liked that came in the right colour. I had decided early on that because of my bridesmaids’ availability (one lives overseas now) that pre-mades were the only way to go. It kind of sucks that we had to rush it, but I figure that since I work best under pressure…
The dresses we picked are Alfred Angelo, and the dress style is this one. The colour we have ordered them in is Dusty Rose.
Hmm… what else happened on this busy week? Oh, I went to the doctors on Tuesday and got my second Gardasil shot. It hurt like a mother b*tch. Darned doctor!!! What a bastard, jabbed me right between the muscle. Not in the fatty part of my arm, but somewhere where it would hurt for days and days. It’s still bruised!! And don’t even let me get started on the rest of the check up… All that matters is that I survived =)
And on Friday it was Good Friday. And that also happened to coincide with my birthday. We had a nice lunch at Vincent’s parents place, which my family was invited to. I had a really nice time, as did everyone else. It was fun and the food was great =)
And on Sunday we went to the beach and today to my parents place.
So yeh, busy week. I’m not looking forward to going back to work but I’ll take the good times with the bad. Lol.
I hope you’re all well, and that if you so happened to have time off over this weekend that you had a good time!
I’m so sleeeeeeepy! It’s the end of a long week and while everyone else is out partying and celebrating the end of the week, I’m celebrating in traditional Skye style =) Sitting around and doing nothing important!
I just got off the phone to my Mum. Argh, she’s so frustrating. I asked her a while ago if she would like to come shopping with me to find a wedding dress tomorrow. She was so happy to be invited and to feel involved, but now she’s trying to control the whole day. I told her what I was intending to do, and she was so against half of the day I had planned I had to back track and just agree to do what she wanted.
And then she wonders why I don’t want her to be too involved.
And then I had to convince Mum that the cats weren’t over a year old yet. Sheesh! You’d think she would trust that I would know how old my own cats are. But no… she’s magically managed to add 6 months to their age…
I had a semi vent to my sister just now and I’m so glad she understands what I’m having to deal with. The difference between my sister and I though is that my sister would roll over and take the path of least resistance whereas I’ll kick and scream all the way. Sigh. Mothers. I think I need to move on with my issues =)
So what has happened since I last blogged? Not much!
- I got good news that even though I’ve moved up into the next tax bracket, as of May this year the threshold will be moved, so I will move back down a bracket (yay!). This has made me feel very relieved. No more having to work out ways to offset my tax!
- I went running twice this week, despite not feeling great. I actually feel accomplished because of this, and I think that the light exercise has been helping ward off full blown sickness. I know not to go all out because I’ll weaken my immune system, but it’s helping me breathe easier.
- I got a compliment from my boss. That was nice =) Last year as you may or may not know, I was handed one of our most difficult client accounts and asked to manage it. We had a review at the start of this period with them where they slammed us (mostly due to the previous PMs bad job). We had a catch up this week and the turn around has been amazing. They have so much more confidence in us and are very happy with our work. I’m pretty pleased with that, although I know I wouldn’t have been able to do that without my amazing manager.
- I lost weight. Actually, let’s pull out all the stops here. I am soooo thrilled that in two weeks I’ve lost 1 kilo. That might not sem like much to y’all, but it’s a truckload to me. I actually only need to lose about 6 kilos (12.6 pounds) to reach my target weight, but I think that when you’re close to your goal it’s harder to lose. I can actually see the difference. I love my doctor now. He was a total fool when it came to “girl” stuff, but he has redeemed himself =)
And that’s about it. I best be off. Have to go write down all the addresses of bridal shops I want to go to tomorrow and then I’ll probably go to bed. We girls need our beauty sleep!
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