Oh how time flies.

Bleh..nothing like spending a long weekend dying from food poisoning. Fun times! I had such a bad headache that I was seeing flashing lights it was like a disco in my brain. My stomach still feels like it went several rounds with a boxer.

So here I am with just under five months until we get married. Oh. Ack. Err. Okay time to make a list and check it twice and then start making phone calls and getting things moving because....
OH MY GOSH THERE'S LESS THAN 5 MONTHS UNTIL I GET MARRIED!
I think I've just been slacking because it's such a small affair and it doesn't seem like there is much to do because it's a Friday afternoon high tea and that's all set. I was so looking forward to all the DIY projects to put my own personal stamp on a venue but in the end I'm not having any of that so I'm just left with the basics, none of which I have!

I also realised today that I haven't even looked at dresses. Other than the JCrew one that is hanging sadly in my closet I haven't bothered actually going into a shop and looking. Yeah I know I'm cutting it close, if not too late! Ack! I was dreaming of going dress shopping when I had lost more weight so I wouldn't hate it so much...looks like I'm going to be heading out next weekend if I can..or maybe during my lunch hour..who does that? Who looks at dresses during lunch hour?!?! Can I even do that? How long does it take? Also fascinator/veil, shoes, makeup, hair, jewellery...all that stuff. Oh.oh.oh.oh.

Officiant. yeah still have not dealt with this...bleh.

Ceremony site. Apparently The Mister was going to call some places but apparently he hasn't.

Vows and readings and all that. There's only 14 people attending 4 of them are in the wedding party! I want to get everyone involved and feeling like they are part of something special. Now I have to figure out readings...Little Prince? Velveteen Rabbit? Wizard of Oz? I have no clue what people read at weddings! Dang I've never wished more that I attended church before, those church people always have things planned!

Rings. It's going to be so fun trying to get The Mister to come out jewellery shopping with me. It won't be anything like pulling teeth at all. Oh and my ring was custom made so it should be super fun trying to find a band that fits it!

Flowers. I'm not freaked out about this. Doing my own from either my garden or if that fails hitting up the flower market the day before. Should probably do some trials before though. Just for fun.

Invites. Linocut prints...guess I should go buy some lino and dig out my cutting tools from their hiding place. Better start this soon because I know I'll make mistakes.

Favors...originally I was going to give out jam...but it was going to be The Misters mom's homemade jam but giving his parents and sister the jam, which would basically be giving the jam back to them, seems wrong. Do we give something different to our parents?

What am I forgetting? Something big I bet!
Ok I'm going to go write these things in my calendar and then pull The Mister away from his video game and explain that some things need doing or else I'm going to lose my mind.

It was Ravioli.

Sorry for lack of posts this week.
After finally kicking the head cold by Friday and having a good night with friends The Mister and I woke up this morning feeling all sorts of gross. We soon realised we had a nice little bout of food poisoning on our hands.
The only thing we can pinpoint eating that may have caused it was the ravioli we had for dinner last night.
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Keys to my heart!

Have you seen the Tiffany keys?

My obsession with old fashioned keys started when I was very young, my Nanny moved into a house that had mysterious keys left behind. I imagined that they unlocked some sort of magical door that led to a secret room. A room untouched by time. Prices start at 130CDN for a simple silver key. This would be one key I would never misplace!

Sick,sick,sick.

Sooo sick. Be back when I don't feel like someone has filled my head with hot pudding.
I'd like to thank The Mister for bringing it home. Although I'm not acting half as sick as he was...what is it with men when they are sick? Do they all turn into two year olds?

It's been a good run but...

I think I'm over Martha Stewart Weddings magazine.

For the last ten years(oh who am I kidding? I've been buying it for much longer than that!) I have been a member of the cult of MS Weddings. Pouring over the pages and feeling my heart rate rise with each lovely image. I started to notice the effects wearing off some time last year, yes it was still incredible eye candy and yes it was still inspiring but something was missing. I just didn't know what. Had they changed? Had I changed? I just couldn't put my finger on it.

Yesterday I saw the new Spring issue and as I have for every issue I bought it without looking at the contents. I got it home and did my little ritual of pouring myself some wine before cracking it open. Something happened that had never happened before. I put it down without going cover to cover. Maybe it was because they are starting to recycle ideas, the cootie catcher? A flower made of tissue? Covered match boxes? I was starting to feel a bit like I was having deja vu. Then there was the sheer amount of things with outlandish prices.You know that MSWeddings isn't feeling the recession when they recommend 420 dollar face cream or acne skin treatments that cost 400-600 dollars per treatment! Yes it is all still incredibly lovely but it was a bit like an exercise in voyeurism into this land where money grows on trees and every gal has a 10 carat diamond and a 10 grand dress.

It suddenly dawned on me that wedding magazines are like late night informercials. They show you how amazing something is over and over until you start to think that you just couldn't possibly live without it.

I love Martha Stewart(lets face she's a sassy broad who'd I'd invite over to dinner in a heartbeat.) in general but perhaps because of the economic times were all facing, the excess that is the Weddings magazine just isn't a world I feel comfortable even peaking into at the moment.

So I'm going to break up with her. Sure I might has a quick fling with her in the Summer and Fall(my favorite issue) but I might have to contain them to reading in store, and there's always the internet if I feel lonely.
So farewell MS Weddings I know you will bring joy to many, many other girls hearts like you once did mine.
It's not you it's me.

Week six!

Sorry for being M.I.A this week. Work has been so busy, yesterday I stayed until 8pm! A couple of things happened this week one of them was I ate two fast food meals. I fully admit that while eating them I thought "oh this is heaven." but about 5 minutes after I was finished I felt incredibly sick which is obviously why I went back for more the next day you know just to make sure. Despite the delicious fries or maybe because of them I did get out daily for exercise. I took my dog for an hour and a half walk, climbed up about 80 stairs and saw a deer on someones front lawn! It's always so magical to see something like that in the city. I was fully prepared this morning to step on the scale and see that I'd either gained more weight or stayed the same.

So I was thrilled to bits when I saw the number appear.........

Ahh back on track!

Stuff so far.

I always said I worked best under a tight deadline. Every essay I wrote the day it was due always came back with at least a 90.

• So far I've got a photographer, verbally booked, just waiting for her to send over a contract.


• Our reception venue contract signed, dollars deposited.


• I've decided what I'm going to do for the few invitations we are sending out. I'm not sure how many people know what linocut prints are but it's one of the art mediums I can honestly brag about being somewhat good at. Limited edition prints as invitations!


• Made a short list of ceremony sites that we are interested in.


• Talked about favors.

Ok so we should probably book an officiant. That's probably the biggest thing that's missing right now. I mean we could get married in any old outfits but you need an officiant to make it all legal. How do you pick a stranger to perform a life changing ceremony? My number one choice would be a friend, but here in Ontario you cannot get a quick internet ordainment. Nope it has to be a recognized member of clergy or a justice of peace. At least that's my understanding from all the things I have read on government sites. Sure there's all sorts of people to choose from but it's all a bit like speed dating. It's easy to like someone based on a conversation where they are trying to sell themselves. I've heard horror stories of officiants not remembering names, showing up drunk, deviating from the script. I just want something simple, meaningful where we say our vows, exchange rings and kiss. I don't even understand why we need an officiant once we have a marriage license!