Getting it together

After a series of long, focused, deep breaths I finally think things are totally under control. And I haven't even gone to see my shrink yet! :)

Of course it's probably a bad idea for me to do the deep breathing thing right now, since I just filled the room with chemicals from the spray glitter I just shot my veil with....No matter though!

I had Friday off from work, so I spent the day sending out some emails to get a few things organized and trying to get the house picked up. Truthfully Joe and I never have a dirty house (because neither one of us can stand it) but it does occasionally get cluttered, which is just as bad in my book. So I did what I could to take care of that. Last night and tonight I concentrated on the "office" because it was trashed with everything from shower gifts (we've decided not to start using anything until after the wedding when we have everything) to wedding decorations to my bridal emergency kit.

What's a bridal emergency kit, you ask? Well, it's a collection of things that a bride might need on her big day. Things like:

• Hair pins and bobbie pins
• gum
• mints (because if I so much as think about popping my gum during the ceremony Joe might leave me at the altar)
  
• bottled water
• straws (so I don't mess up my lipstick while staying hydrated)
• granola bars (you never know when I'll get hungry)
• clear nail polish (for running panty hose...not that I'm going to wear those pain-in-the-ass things
• hair ties
• Tide (TM) stain pen
• cold medicine (non-drowsy)
• motrin
• safety pins
• tampons, etc
• lotion
• chapstick
• bandaids
• tums

Anyway, I have tamed the office. I even took some arts and crafts time to write all of our attendants' names on ribbons to tie on their champagne glasses and to make super-sweet reserved signs using left over invitation paper and a wax sealer. So it looks pretty good (well, right now there's an old sheet on the floor and my veil is hanging from the fan, but that's temporary).

I have at least one last WalMart run to make for a few random things and I'll need to get some groceries on Tuesday or Wednesday before the wedding so I can feed the people staying in our house. On Thursday I'm going to make spaghetti so that everyone that's in town won't have to go out to eat and all that. We have a white board keeping track of everyone's arrival....flight times, where they are staying, who's picking them up...the works.

Tomorrow Joe and I are going to tackle our bedroom, which is pretty cluttered (his help in contingent on his health...he is STILL sick). Then next weekend we'll super clean the house and make sure we have all of our bedding washed for the people staying here (we have a FULL house) and all that.

Today we picked up our wedding rings. I was going to have Joe's engraved with an Irish Gaelic saying, but he picked out a titanium ring, so that's out of the question. I do need to take our cake server to the engraver though. Joe purchased flasks for his groomsmen (minus his brother, who he is still shopping for) and he's going to have them engraved when they arrive. I got some super cute stuff for my bridesmaids, but I can't say what they are since some of them read my blog.

Tonight I organized all of our decorations into boxes. There is a specific box for the church and for the gift opening (not really decorations so much as napkins, cups, etc) and the ones for the reception are all labeled with the contents. I typed up some instructions for decorating - I've put Teresa and Julie in charge of decorating, but they are definitely going to need some help. I'll have to see what kind of bodies I can come up with.

This week I really only need to work on emailing everyone who's invited to the rehearsal dinner and getting together the wedding weekend itinerary. Oh, and figuring out how to get my Mom to show up on time to everything.... :) Just kidding Mom....I already have a plan for that! :)

Night!