still plugging away
update: still getting married. surviving the first month of grad school has wiped most things matrimonial out of my mind, but i'm slowly coming back.
went to the crazy boston bridal expo with e$ at the beginning of the month and only made it through with the help of some gin and tonic. also stole a bottle of red wine left unattended at the hotel. which was still not as funny as when we and another of e$'s bridesmaids brown-bagged some harpoons in her car in the parking lot of good vibrations in brookline (this was midday, mind you). wedding planning and alcoholism, are we seeing a trend here...
still getting so much crap email, phone calls, and junk mail from the expo. i did win $300 off laser hair removal. which might just cover my big toe. and i got called about this nutty 21st century bride thing, where you "totally won" 2 nights in a holiday inn in "several desirable destinations," $500 in coupons, and 30% off of some online crap. the catch: you have to go to a 2 hour seminar and be powersold on some "safe" cookware for $$$ that if you don't buy, you might end up poisoning your offspring with your evil teflon products. so, we passed on that after looking up the scam online. what slimeballs.
the hotel contracts are signed; save the dates should go out sometime in the next month if kz and i ever get moving; the caterers are on board and i'll be calling them again in november to give them a final breakdown of the menu so they can get a contract to me. also chose our fake-honeymoon destination and need to book the 2 nights after the wedding. and i need to let someone know that i can't take the cellular biochem exam that friday. cause i'll be busy getting married. i heard from the admin staff that nobody has ever missed an exam for that reason before. it made me feel kind of country, but not in a reba way; in a coal miner's daughter way. bleh. i keep forgetting i'm actually an adult.
and, i'm in the process of changing my cumbersome hyphenated last name. i figure better to get all that straightened out before we do the marital paperwork and file joint taxes. it's ironic to me; legally changing my own name before we get married, and then keeping it. how iconoclastic.
went to the crazy boston bridal expo with e$ at the beginning of the month and only made it through with the help of some gin and tonic. also stole a bottle of red wine left unattended at the hotel. which was still not as funny as when we and another of e$'s bridesmaids brown-bagged some harpoons in her car in the parking lot of good vibrations in brookline (this was midday, mind you). wedding planning and alcoholism, are we seeing a trend here...
still getting so much crap email, phone calls, and junk mail from the expo. i did win $300 off laser hair removal. which might just cover my big toe. and i got called about this nutty 21st century bride thing, where you "totally won" 2 nights in a holiday inn in "several desirable destinations," $500 in coupons, and 30% off of some online crap. the catch: you have to go to a 2 hour seminar and be powersold on some "safe" cookware for $$$ that if you don't buy, you might end up poisoning your offspring with your evil teflon products. so, we passed on that after looking up the scam online. what slimeballs.
the hotel contracts are signed; save the dates should go out sometime in the next month if kz and i ever get moving; the caterers are on board and i'll be calling them again in november to give them a final breakdown of the menu so they can get a contract to me. also chose our fake-honeymoon destination and need to book the 2 nights after the wedding. and i need to let someone know that i can't take the cellular biochem exam that friday. cause i'll be busy getting married. i heard from the admin staff that nobody has ever missed an exam for that reason before. it made me feel kind of country, but not in a reba way; in a coal miner's daughter way. bleh. i keep forgetting i'm actually an adult.
and, i'm in the process of changing my cumbersome hyphenated last name. i figure better to get all that straightened out before we do the marital paperwork and file joint taxes. it's ironic to me; legally changing my own name before we get married, and then keeping it. how iconoclastic.
posted by sabominator @ 3:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 1:14 PM,
terr said…
i love that you are changing your hyphenated name to just one last name... still your own... and not taking on the hubby's name. just beware, people will look at you all crazy when you say that you have different last names. happens to me all the time. it's fun to yell at them like they've lost their minds for even THINKING you'd be so subservient to take a man's last name. i thank emma for making us such independent women, don't you? :)
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