On weddings and ends of semesters
Hello, LJ. I owe so many comments from previous posts and so many emails, and I swear to the fandom deities, I will catch up with them soon, but JFC, this semester has officially kicked my ass.
I suppose that's to be expected; I've taken five classes, one of which is medieval Latin (stupid, stupid, stupid decision--the five classes, not the Latin, except, yeah, maybe the Latin too) AND I'm writing a thesis (the first draft of which is due in early January and I only have 12 pages done, sob, and fuckers keep recalling the library books I need for research, most of which I'm the only one who's checked them out in years so WHY NOW, ASSHOLES) AND I have a 15-hour a week field ed (which is in an awesome,tiny Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parish in the western part of the state, but it's about an hour drive one way) AND I have a 8-hour job at the library AND I'm a student rep on a selection committee for one of the post-doc fellowships my school gives (I'm due to spend several hours tonight reading applications and commenting on some more of them--holy crap, some academics do shit apps) AND I'm planning a wedding (WHICH IS IN TWELVE DAYS, WHAT IS THIS, I CAN'T EVEN.)
So. Yeah. Hand to God, I am taking the bare minimum of classes next semester, because I really only have one required class left to graduate and at least one, if not both, of the others will be the div school equivalent of Basket Weaving 101 because after this semester--after the past FIVE semesters, goddammit--I deserve a super easy load.
Anyway. Classes are over as of last week; I have three papers and a sermon for my field ed placement to write before this next weekend rolls around and one Latin exam to take next week and the last little bits of a wedding to plan. Please forgive me if I'm still slow in responding to comments and emails. I'm planning on taking breaks from paper writing to answer them. And to play with the kittens because there's nothing better for stress than snuggling with a Pansy, Imogen or Draco. \0/
To give you some idea what Noe and I have been doing for the past month, here's the state of our foyer. Not in the picture are the five enormous boxes filled with decorations and items for floral arrangements tucked away in other rooms. Oh, and the six or seven boxes that are still in transit. Fuck all if we know where those are going to get stored for the next twelve days. /0\ (Yes, there's a highly interested Draco sniffing around the boxes, down in the lower right. *g*)
All of that is for the wedding reception, which is going to be Harry Potter themed. (We're having an awesome winter-Quidditch-at-Hogwarts cake! Yes! I will post pictures of it afterwards! Our bakery is filled with geeks-with-art-degrees who are flipping out at the chance to make it. :D) It's not a sit-down dinner, thank God, although there's going to be a ton of food, and we have a room in the church that looks like this that we'll be using for the reception, so, Hogwarts theme it is!
And because I have had multiple requests for dress pics, here are some. Not on me, because the top is a corset, and it's a bitch and a half to put on. I did it once, then swore I wouldn't do it again until the day of the wedding. Although it looks awesome. \0/
So I chased the cats out of the guest room, pulled the dress out of the closet, and spread it out. Close-up view of the top, along with the cashmere sweater I'll be wearing since our church is stone, with high vaulted ceilings and is freaking freezing in winter. Every part of my outfit except for the sweater, which is from the UK's Pure Collection, and my shoes, which are Converse Chucks, comes from Etsy. (I'd say a good 75% of our wedding is from Etsy, including my bouquet which is filled with paper flowers made out of Harry Potter books, so when that comes in, I'll post a pic or that as well.) My dress was made by KMK Designs and I LOVE IT. Our colors for the wedding are purple and green to go along with the Advent colors in the church. We are nothing if not liturgically correct, LOLZ. And a bit pagan, since we deliberately chose to get married on the winter solstice at the exact time of the solstice. Our priest hasn't yet caught on to that. :D
I found this cameo of two women on Etsy as well, listed as being two sisters or a mother/daughter. I, of course, went HOLY CRAP, LESBIAN CAMEO, and proceeded to buy it. I think it's fucking awesome.
This gives an idea of how big the skirt poofs out. I'm like a giant meringue, ZOMG.
And here are the shoes with the skirt.
I'll be taking off the shoelaces, which are actually hot pink, and replacing them with shoelaces I'm making from purple tulle ribbon the same shade as the Chucks. My future mother-in-law is a bit horrified that Noe and I are both wearing, as she put it, basketball shoes down the aisle (Noe's will be white with the same purple tulle ribbon shoelaces), but whatever. I'll break my neck if I wear heels, and we LIKE the Chucks. Also, I almost always write Harry in Chucks, because that's my head canon for what he would wear, so it's a nod towards that.
And with that, I need to go finish up a paper on Pentecostal faith healing theologies. Woot?
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I suppose that's to be expected; I've taken five classes, one of which is medieval Latin (stupid, stupid, stupid decision--the five classes, not the Latin, except, yeah, maybe the Latin too) AND I'm writing a thesis (the first draft of which is due in early January and I only have 12 pages done, sob, and fuckers keep recalling the library books I need for research, most of which I'm the only one who's checked them out in years so WHY NOW, ASSHOLES) AND I have a 15-hour a week field ed (which is in an awesome,tiny Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parish in the western part of the state, but it's about an hour drive one way) AND I have a 8-hour job at the library AND I'm a student rep on a selection committee for one of the post-doc fellowships my school gives (I'm due to spend several hours tonight reading applications and commenting on some more of them--holy crap, some academics do shit apps) AND I'm planning a wedding (WHICH IS IN TWELVE DAYS, WHAT IS THIS, I CAN'T EVEN.)
So. Yeah. Hand to God, I am taking the bare minimum of classes next semester, because I really only have one required class left to graduate and at least one, if not both, of the others will be the div school equivalent of Basket Weaving 101 because after this semester--after the past FIVE semesters, goddammit--I deserve a super easy load.
Anyway. Classes are over as of last week; I have three papers and a sermon for my field ed placement to write before this next weekend rolls around and one Latin exam to take next week and the last little bits of a wedding to plan. Please forgive me if I'm still slow in responding to comments and emails. I'm planning on taking breaks from paper writing to answer them. And to play with the kittens because there's nothing better for stress than snuggling with a Pansy, Imogen or Draco. \0/
To give you some idea what Noe and I have been doing for the past month, here's the state of our foyer. Not in the picture are the five enormous boxes filled with decorations and items for floral arrangements tucked away in other rooms. Oh, and the six or seven boxes that are still in transit. Fuck all if we know where those are going to get stored for the next twelve days. /0\ (Yes, there's a highly interested Draco sniffing around the boxes, down in the lower right. *g*)
All of that is for the wedding reception, which is going to be Harry Potter themed. (We're having an awesome winter-Quidditch-at-Hogwarts cake! Yes! I will post pictures of it afterwards! Our bakery is filled with geeks-with-art-degrees who are flipping out at the chance to make it. :D) It's not a sit-down dinner, thank God, although there's going to be a ton of food, and we have a room in the church that looks like this that we'll be using for the reception, so, Hogwarts theme it is!
And because I have had multiple requests for dress pics, here are some. Not on me, because the top is a corset, and it's a bitch and a half to put on. I did it once, then swore I wouldn't do it again until the day of the wedding. Although it looks awesome. \0/
So I chased the cats out of the guest room, pulled the dress out of the closet, and spread it out. Close-up view of the top, along with the cashmere sweater I'll be wearing since our church is stone, with high vaulted ceilings and is freaking freezing in winter. Every part of my outfit except for the sweater, which is from the UK's Pure Collection, and my shoes, which are Converse Chucks, comes from Etsy. (I'd say a good 75% of our wedding is from Etsy, including my bouquet which is filled with paper flowers made out of Harry Potter books, so when that comes in, I'll post a pic or that as well.) My dress was made by KMK Designs and I LOVE IT. Our colors for the wedding are purple and green to go along with the Advent colors in the church. We are nothing if not liturgically correct, LOLZ. And a bit pagan, since we deliberately chose to get married on the winter solstice at the exact time of the solstice. Our priest hasn't yet caught on to that. :D
I found this cameo of two women on Etsy as well, listed as being two sisters or a mother/daughter. I, of course, went HOLY CRAP, LESBIAN CAMEO, and proceeded to buy it. I think it's fucking awesome.
This gives an idea of how big the skirt poofs out. I'm like a giant meringue, ZOMG.
And here are the shoes with the skirt.
I'll be taking off the shoelaces, which are actually hot pink, and replacing them with shoelaces I'm making from purple tulle ribbon the same shade as the Chucks. My future mother-in-law is a bit horrified that Noe and I are both wearing, as she put it, basketball shoes down the aisle (Noe's will be white with the same purple tulle ribbon shoelaces), but whatever. I'll break my neck if I wear heels, and we LIKE the Chucks. Also, I almost always write Harry in Chucks, because that's my head canon for what he would wear, so it's a nod towards that.
And with that, I need to go finish up a paper on Pentecostal faith healing theologies. Woot?
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