I'll see you when I fall asleep
Look how many updates I've done this year! A whole... three!
Things are happening, though, you guys. First of all, because it is the most exciting to me - After going borderline crazy and having hideous nightmares involving $100,000.00 perfect dresses, terrible bows, and ants on my bridesmaids, I have found a dress! It is... unique, and under budget! I was able to get a dress by a Perth designer (who ended up being the lady helping me with fittings - she didn't tell me until after I'd decided to buy the dress as she didn't want to influence me, which I thought was rather nice), and compared to many of the internationally designed off the rack dresses I tried in a similar price bracket, is made of really excellent materials - real silk, for one, which I thought would be prohibitively expensive.
Of course, I have no idea what I'm actually going to do with the dress when all is said and done, but that's a problem for the future. Probably I just have to worry about keeping Exo and Inca off've it. And it won't be ready until July. I'm having it made-to-measure, which again, was not as expensive as at other stores, so I'm pretty chuffed. And any last minute alterations I need are included in that price, so yeah. Now to do every other thing.
Oh, the store was Collezione Bridal Couture, in Perth. The dress isn't on their website, but there is a similar one. I'm not going to say which one that is, in case Gavin decides to read my livejournal for the first time in eight years, haha.
S that' exciting.
And tomorrow is the Engagement Party! I'm still frantically trying to organise last-minute things, but I think it should all pan out pretty well.
Wait, I can use all of my old Livejournal icons again? Excellent.
Work-wise, things are pretty good. I have an actual contract to read over and come back with how much I want to get paid annually, so that's a thing. Unforutnately I have no idea what other people with my experience are getting paid, and I'm not sure if it's politic to ask my uni friends. Seems a bit crass to just ask. I know what I'd like to get paid, but I don't know if it's reasonable or realistic. (The answer is "more than my brother" - who earns more than me moving boxes from one place to another. His hours are terrible and the work is physically hard, but still... I... I would like my five years and two degrees worth of university education to at least make me feel like I'm ahead in the world.)
Unfortunately, all of this wedding and work stuff has been making me fall horribly behind on my side-project - trying my hand at Vlogging and blogging games-and-geek-culture-stuff at XXP. I have just been so exhausted and overworked lately I've just not been getting it done, which is really disappointing. I know it's something I could do really well if I just... prioritised it a bit higher. I should just try more!
Anyway, tonight we're off to eat delicious, delicious Mexican and then I've got to try to finish our Save the Date card design, print them and... distribute them somehow at the Engagement party tomorrow. OH! The theme of the wedding is going to be Art Nouveau, because Gavin and I both love the hell out of that whole movement. Art Deco is also good, but Art Nouveau? I wish I could roll in it.
P.S I am trying SO HARD to rationalise an iPad. I just feel it would make everything easier. My laptop is getting kind of old. I really shouldn't though....