The insanity begins fatality or something
So the first weekend of insanity is about to start. After lunch tomorrow we pack up the flowers and stuff and head out to wedding weekend number one. Currently I have a ton of flowers smelling up my spare room. It's getting a little claustrophobic in there. I have 3 dozen red roses, 4 stems of stargazers(These branch out a LOT and have 3 or 4 big blooms on a stem...well they will when I get them all opened anyway...), 20 stems of Alstromeria that are mostly white with a red center like the stargazers, and 12 stems of pure red Alstromeria. I'm supposed to have a dozen white roses and a dozen calla lilies when I get there. I think I might take some bridal lace with me as well. The flowers take up 2 big buckets plus I have a tote full of stuff: vases, decorative bowls for tables, corsages and bouts, flower supplies and tools, rehearsal bouquet, ringbearer pillow etcetc. Then there's my camera bag which looks a lot like a small duffle bag oh and our actual gear for 2 days. Nothing like piling the car high for the drive to Iowa. I guess it's a good thing Pat has Monday off to recover especially from all the flowers.
In other news...we have begun slowly the process of determining what is getting left behind when we move. Some things we obviously won't be able to decide on until we find a place but we have gotten a "new" dresser that replaces both our current dressers and barely takes more space than 1 of them. Since the handle on one drawer stripped withing a couple of months and has been a pain to deal with ever since I am not at all sad to be parting with it. Especially since "new" dresser is made of real wood not particle board so it's less likely to die though the joins in the drawers are getting loose with age. I sorted through my clothes and got rid of a bunch of stuff that doesn't fit me. Right now we still have 1 totally empty drawer and some space in the other 3 drawers but we also have a ton of stuff in the laundry so I'm sure the space will fill up. Getting 6-8 of Pat's sweaters in one drawer is so much nicer than barely managing to get 4 if you balanced the thicknesses correctly.
Next weekend will be equally crazy to this one only we get to stay at home. I am making dessert for the rehearsal dinner. Plus we have the favors to do and stuff. Thursday I will be baking and Friday we will fetch the mints and then there will be rehearsal stuff and putting the favors together and possibly some overnight guests. Saturday is the insanity of the wedding itself and possibly more guests. Then Sunday gift opening and stuff.
Oh in other news I got paid so will be depositing a check today. Meant to do it yesterday but forgot.
Our kitty almost scared me to death last night. We got him one of the safety collars that has the elastic break strap so if it gets caught on something it'll break rather than kill him. He keeps trying to chew his way out of it. Usually he can just get his teeth into the tail end which does nothing for him so we stop him from chewing on it but don't really worry. Last night he was making some weird noises though and finally I picked him up to see what was wrong. He'd some how managed to get his teeth into the real collar and not just the tag end. And he'd managed to get his lower canine looped through the elastic break strip in such a way that he could no longer actually close his mouth. I'm thinking the elastic break strip is a little too elastic because it didn't break. I had to take his collar off and pull it off his teeth. I was a little worried he'd hurt himself but he's fine. I put the collar back on a little tighter so he can't do it again. He's probably as uncomfortable as most guys are in a properly situated tie but if I hadn't caught it in just a few minutes he could have seriously hurt himself and he was not capable of eating or drinking like that.
Well I need to actually go get busy making those star gazers bloom and stuff so I'm going now.
In other news...we have begun slowly the process of determining what is getting left behind when we move. Some things we obviously won't be able to decide on until we find a place but we have gotten a "new" dresser that replaces both our current dressers and barely takes more space than 1 of them. Since the handle on one drawer stripped withing a couple of months and has been a pain to deal with ever since I am not at all sad to be parting with it. Especially since "new" dresser is made of real wood not particle board so it's less likely to die though the joins in the drawers are getting loose with age. I sorted through my clothes and got rid of a bunch of stuff that doesn't fit me. Right now we still have 1 totally empty drawer and some space in the other 3 drawers but we also have a ton of stuff in the laundry so I'm sure the space will fill up. Getting 6-8 of Pat's sweaters in one drawer is so much nicer than barely managing to get 4 if you balanced the thicknesses correctly.
Next weekend will be equally crazy to this one only we get to stay at home. I am making dessert for the rehearsal dinner. Plus we have the favors to do and stuff. Thursday I will be baking and Friday we will fetch the mints and then there will be rehearsal stuff and putting the favors together and possibly some overnight guests. Saturday is the insanity of the wedding itself and possibly more guests. Then Sunday gift opening and stuff.
Oh in other news I got paid so will be depositing a check today. Meant to do it yesterday but forgot.
Our kitty almost scared me to death last night. We got him one of the safety collars that has the elastic break strap so if it gets caught on something it'll break rather than kill him. He keeps trying to chew his way out of it. Usually he can just get his teeth into the tail end which does nothing for him so we stop him from chewing on it but don't really worry. Last night he was making some weird noises though and finally I picked him up to see what was wrong. He'd some how managed to get his teeth into the real collar and not just the tag end. And he'd managed to get his lower canine looped through the elastic break strip in such a way that he could no longer actually close his mouth. I'm thinking the elastic break strip is a little too elastic because it didn't break. I had to take his collar off and pull it off his teeth. I was a little worried he'd hurt himself but he's fine. I put the collar back on a little tighter so he can't do it again. He's probably as uncomfortable as most guys are in a properly situated tie but if I hadn't caught it in just a few minutes he could have seriously hurt himself and he was not capable of eating or drinking like that.
Well I need to actually go get busy making those star gazers bloom and stuff so I'm going now.