i know i've not been around on my blog much lately, but more than likely i've been--or will be soon--around in person much more. in about two weeks i'm due to see just about everyone i know, all in one big room together! it's coming up on matt's and my wedding day and i've been super preoccupied trying to make sure everything gets done. who knew that there were so many online wedding checklists, and who knew they had so many things on them you have to do?! and it's a good thing, too. i wouldn't have thought of things like "designate who will meet, greet, and handle each vendor on the wedding day," and "confirm location, date, and time with photographer; create your 'must take' photo list. " i didn't want it to be, but evidently it is a lot more complicated than throwing a graduation party in your backyard... and hopefully with fewer things catching on fire...
i've also been up in portland for my bachelorette party and bridal shower, both of which were incredibly good times and made me feel very blessed to have such fun and caring friends and family. i'm also quite blessed to have a fiance who has no qualms about getting into the wedding planning and is handling several of the tasks on the stupid-ocd-bridezilla-website-checklist himself. as annoyed as i may get with the all the cliched bride-y-ness that has suddenly invaded my life, i am glad for this wedding planning thing because it has made me see very clearly that i have a true partner in matt. we work well together as a team, and we balance each other out (i've found that semi-naive optimism paired up with semi-intentionally-exaggerated grouchiness really can add up to one whole pragmatic realist). and we can count on each other to get shit done.
ok, i'm done with the self-indulgent shmooping all over my relationship now. i just wanted to say "hi" and explain what i've been up to. i'm sure i'll be back to blogging once this thing is over with. see many of you soon! :)
2 comments:
i think it's really cool that you and matt complement each other so well (and help each other feel less, not more, stressed out). as you are no doubt aware, it bodes well for the longevity of your relationship.
i like it when there are opportunities in a relationship to work on sort of challenging but mundane tasks like that together, because i think it is very telling. recently DWE and i were trying to blow up an air mattress using a pump from a different air mattress (it's a LONG story). DWE did most of the work in terms of rigging the pump so it would work on the other mattress (i mostly just watched and listened to him describe what the problems were, and i loaned him my tweezers as part of the pump's "modification"). he had almost gotten it to work but it still wouldn't, and he was starting to give up, and i got the idea to use a toilet paper roll (i am not making this up) and it worked perfectly. it was, in it's own weird air-mattressy way, very romantic.
toilet paper roll and tweezers--i love it! it's so macgyver!
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