#1 Rule for squats

So I'm sitting here watching fitness videos on itunes and I think, 'Why is it that your knees aren't supposed to go beyond your toes when doing squats or lunges??' I've been told that over and over and over again, but I've never questioned it. Does anyone know? It's probably something obvious.

Wedcession

So it dawned on me recently that our wedding will be affected by the recession & I really love how Meg at A Practical Bride approaches the subject. Let us keep on the sunny side of life.

A remarkable thing

A month or so ago, when my fiance and I were in Asheville meeting with cake vendors, we decided to look for wedding bands. We went to an independently owned place first with no luck. High prices and nothing that suited me. My fiance bought just the engagement ring, so because of the nature of the ring, I was having a hard time finding a band that matched to my liking. We then went to the mall and looked for rings in 3 different stores there. Nothing.

On Friday the 13th my fiance took a day off of work to run wedding errands with me. Before we headed out to Asheville we stopped at Hollifield Jewelers here in town. There's two jewelers here in town, but I picked this one to go to first since they were the nicest to me on the phone.

So we're looking at bands and again, I can't seem to find anything I really like. There's the wrap-arounds that make it look more like a set, but those have diamonds and are therefore more expensive. The lady pulls out some regular bands and I demonstrate how they just look funny and what exactly I'm looking for. We even start discussing custom made bands and how expensive they can be. On a fluke she pulls a band out that in my mind now, just glows of brilliance while the Hallelujah Chorus is playing.

This ring is perfect. Well, about 95% perfect. It doesn't match completely, but it's perty darn close. It's white gold and raised a little like my engagement ring, it has a notch in it that enables one of the prongs to fit into (therefore making it fit closer together and look more like a set), it was inexpensive, and a size 6. My exact size. Apparently it was left over from another set where someone didn't want the band. Ridiculous.

I went home with it that day. And my fiance had to hide it from me because I kept putting it on & trying to wear it.

Oh yeah, and he bought his there too. ;o)

Mission #1: Accomplished

139.6

Back in the 130s. Just barely, but the 130s nonetheless.

I weighed in at 140.6 last week (a gain of 0.6) and that was a bit of a bummer, so I'm excited for this number today.

Question for my readers

We're doing a registry at a retail store and one that's an "alternative" registry where we register for things like recipes & advice. Coming from the person that didn't want to do a registry at all, two registries is pretty amazing.

So I've been taking the "it's your wedding, do what you want" advice, but I do want to please my guests. Is it too much of a pain to be registered at just one store? Obviously, it drastically reduces the options that guests have for where they buy their gift. Or do you think guests would prefer more options than just one retail store?

Drinking is much more fun than hiking

Before I start, my sister made me realize (whether she intended to or not) that hiking in February isn't very much fun because it's hiking in February. I have hope that maybe the Mt. Pisgah hike wasn't fun for that reason rather than because I really don't enjoy hiking anymore.

At any rate...

I had the best time out with my fiance last night. One of the bluegrass bands we're looking at hiring for the rehearsal dinner was playing at Barley's in Asheville, so we decided to go hear them live. We first stopped at Bed Bath and Beyond to double check something on our registry and then we headed to Barley's. We ordered a pitcher and a slice of cheese cake to share. A couple of people we know from school and whom we don't particularly care for walked in, but they thankfully didn't see us. So we talked, drank beer, ate cheesecake, and listened to some bluegrass. And on the way home we had this awesome discussion about religion and spirituality. If we didn't know before that we're a perfect fit, we do now.

Even though I woke up with a headache this morning, we still agreed that we had a lot of fun and we vowed to go drinking in AVL in the middle of the week again. ;o)