When one has spent months getting all spreadsheet-happy about the wedding, and one has 5 worksheets of various sizes and descriptions, and one is feeling very smug about the clever ways in which one used conditional formatting to make pretty colored columns showing how many adults are eating from which category and how many children, [...]
It’s Monday morning. Kate and I cleaned up the house this weekend and did various prep things for the wedding, to wit:
Cleaned, straightened, rearranged the living room furniture so we could practice dancing
Practiced dancing to Our Song and freaked ourselves right out by going all deer-in-headlights midway through. The first dance is where [...]
It’s turned to summer here, with all the flashing thunderstorms and
oppressive humidity that entails. The basement of the house is about 15
degrees cooler than the upstairs corner where I currently have my desk, so I
may move back down there over the weekend. As it stands, though, I’m just
off the kitchen, which means I [...]
It’s a bad sign when going to bed earlier actually makes you feel worse in the morning. I don’t know whether it’s been the aches in my floating ribs, the wedding to-do lists I’ve been writing in my sleep (and then in a new Moleskine notebook I just bought for the purpose), or what, [...]
I’ve been really stressed this week. Lots of moving parts and lots of deadlines and urgency. Kate and I are trying to get our wedding website put together (primarily but not entirely my task, this) and get our invitations assembled, addressed, stamped, and mailed out (primarily but not entirely Kate’s task, this). We’re [...]