Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Awwwww...
So I came across this photo and just had to share it. It's so cute! Oddly enough, I've always loved chihuahuas. You can check out monamivie's etsy site here, where this outfit is listed.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
How sweet it is to...make wedding decisions
I'm really having a grand ol' time with this.
If my grandfather's land ever happens to be converted into a wedding venue, I'd gladly volunteer myself as the wedding coordinator.
My aunt and grandmother want to throw me a bridal shower in June. I don't know why I'm so tickled about this...probably because I had lost hope that it would ever happen!! I had a novel idea this evening to ask for a/some item(s) with "Future Mrs. Parrish", "Bride", "Chris' Bride" (you get my drift) at the shower. It kills me that I'm so into these cheesy things, but you can't help what (who?) you love.
The major decisions that need to be made soon (just because I've designated them as needing to be made soon--no particular reason) are: DJ, officiant, & invitations.
My fiance is in charge of finding an officiant & he's kind of driving me up the wall. He doesn't ever talk about it (because guys don't sit around talking about wedding stuff) so I'm left to guess where he is in the process. Even when I ask him it's, "I'm working on it." Poo!
I've narrowed it down to 3 DJs, one of which my fiance wants to cross off the list b/c of the lack of communication. I just can't quite do that yet...not until I get a price.
I've created my own invitations on the computer, but we're still trying to decide on printing. I thought we could do it on my printer, but my fiance doesn't think so because I have a $20 printer and the invitations would be light ink on dark paper. Apparently that's trickier to do than dark ink on light paper. So he contacted the school's print shop & we're just waiting for a meeting with them to see how much it would cost. I'm secretly hoping we get a discount since we're so cool, but they may not think we're as cool as we think we are.
Hmmmm...anything else? Not really. A bed and breakfast I looked into for the wedding burned down about 2 weeks ago. I can't tell you how thankful I am they couldn't accomodate how many guests we're having. I feel really bad for the brides that did book with them.
Looking into shoes for the MOH & BM...proving to be more difficult than originally anticipated.
I think we're getting closer with the tux/suit issue. We found a Jean Yves grey tux that we really like in one of my bridal magazines that I have. It looks something like this:
The awesome thing that we found out while searching for a store that carries them is that lo' and behold, our rinky dink Peebles store in downtown Sylva is listed as carrying them. By golly! I think it's pretty damn amazing. Sylva never has anything. I take that back, Sylva has things, just not things like this.
I'd like your opinion!
Here is the MOH & BM dress:
The dress is in "truffle", essentially a really dark brown (I'm not sure that this picture is of truffle--it looks kind of light in this picture). My older brother (an attendant on my side) and my dad will be in their AF mess dress uniform (the one on the left):
Now, that being said, do you think a grey tux is an okay choice? We're afraid brown might look too 70s and black might clash with the navy & truffle.
Also, I'm not so sure we'll be able to find a shoe for the girls that will match the dress, so we might have to go with a different color. Burnt orange? Burgundy/maroon? In that case, would you match the ties to the dress or the shoes? I guess you could do both, huh? But that might get tricky.
Maybe black shoes are the best option...then get some kind of jewelly black accent piece to tie it together (brooch, necklace, hair pin). But then that's not very colorful. But do we need to be colorful? I read in one of my magazines that it's okay to wear black to a wedding nowadays--as long as it's appropriate.
I don't have the best fashion sense & I want to make sure there's not too much going on with the fashions that it's distracting! There's always the option of dying a David's Bridal shoe to the exact color of the dress. Oh man, I'm at a loss as to what to do. Combine this with the cheesy "Future Mrs..." stuff and I'm a silly little girl. :o)
What's your opinion (not as to whether I'm a silly little girl...as to the colors etc)?
To everyone: have a wonderful week!
If my grandfather's land ever happens to be converted into a wedding venue, I'd gladly volunteer myself as the wedding coordinator.
My aunt and grandmother want to throw me a bridal shower in June. I don't know why I'm so tickled about this...probably because I had lost hope that it would ever happen!! I had a novel idea this evening to ask for a/some item(s) with "Future Mrs. Parrish", "Bride", "Chris' Bride" (you get my drift) at the shower. It kills me that I'm so into these cheesy things, but you can't help what (who?) you love.
The major decisions that need to be made soon (just because I've designated them as needing to be made soon--no particular reason) are: DJ, officiant, & invitations.
My fiance is in charge of finding an officiant & he's kind of driving me up the wall. He doesn't ever talk about it (because guys don't sit around talking about wedding stuff) so I'm left to guess where he is in the process. Even when I ask him it's, "I'm working on it." Poo!
I've narrowed it down to 3 DJs, one of which my fiance wants to cross off the list b/c of the lack of communication. I just can't quite do that yet...not until I get a price.
I've created my own invitations on the computer, but we're still trying to decide on printing. I thought we could do it on my printer, but my fiance doesn't think so because I have a $20 printer and the invitations would be light ink on dark paper. Apparently that's trickier to do than dark ink on light paper. So he contacted the school's print shop & we're just waiting for a meeting with them to see how much it would cost. I'm secretly hoping we get a discount since we're so cool, but they may not think we're as cool as we think we are.
Hmmmm...anything else? Not really. A bed and breakfast I looked into for the wedding burned down about 2 weeks ago. I can't tell you how thankful I am they couldn't accomodate how many guests we're having. I feel really bad for the brides that did book with them.
Looking into shoes for the MOH & BM...proving to be more difficult than originally anticipated.
I think we're getting closer with the tux/suit issue. We found a Jean Yves grey tux that we really like in one of my bridal magazines that I have. It looks something like this:
The awesome thing that we found out while searching for a store that carries them is that lo' and behold, our rinky dink Peebles store in downtown Sylva is listed as carrying them. By golly! I think it's pretty damn amazing. Sylva never has anything. I take that back, Sylva has things, just not things like this.
I'd like your opinion!
Here is the MOH & BM dress:
The dress is in "truffle", essentially a really dark brown (I'm not sure that this picture is of truffle--it looks kind of light in this picture). My older brother (an attendant on my side) and my dad will be in their AF mess dress uniform (the one on the left):
Now, that being said, do you think a grey tux is an okay choice? We're afraid brown might look too 70s and black might clash with the navy & truffle.
Also, I'm not so sure we'll be able to find a shoe for the girls that will match the dress, so we might have to go with a different color. Burnt orange? Burgundy/maroon? In that case, would you match the ties to the dress or the shoes? I guess you could do both, huh? But that might get tricky.
Maybe black shoes are the best option...then get some kind of jewelly black accent piece to tie it together (brooch, necklace, hair pin). But then that's not very colorful. But do we need to be colorful? I read in one of my magazines that it's okay to wear black to a wedding nowadays--as long as it's appropriate.
I don't have the best fashion sense & I want to make sure there's not too much going on with the fashions that it's distracting! There's always the option of dying a David's Bridal shoe to the exact color of the dress. Oh man, I'm at a loss as to what to do. Combine this with the cheesy "Future Mrs..." stuff and I'm a silly little girl. :o)
What's your opinion (not as to whether I'm a silly little girl...as to the colors etc)?
To everyone: have a wonderful week!
TV shows
I know I've written about this before, but I'd just like to reiterate.
My shows in alphabetical order: Biggest Loser, Grey's Anatomy, Lost
Due to the recession & because I didn't have a job at the time, we decided to downsize our Directv package to the Family package. You basically get your local channels, religious channels, shopping channels, and kids channels with this package. The only thing I'm bummed about missing is the Tour de France and Top Chef. I can do without everything else. I won't deny that it'd be cool to have them, but they're definitely not necessary.
The only "cool" channels we still get (besides the locals and in my opinion of course) is "Nat Geo" & the Food Network.
Which leads me to my main point. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Food Network. When we moved from Italy to Texas, we finally had American TV and my little brother and I fell in love with Nickelodeon. My older brother would ask, "What are you watching?" And we would aggravate him to no end when we'd reply, "Nickelodeon". That was not an appropriate answer in his opinion. He needed an actual TV show name. Nickelodeon was sufficient in our eyes. My favorites: SNICK, Clarissa Explains it All, Eureeka's Castle, this show:
and this one:
At some point I graduated to Hey Dude:
and Salute Your Shorts:
There's a bunch more and I think I might get some horrible comments if I didn't mention Ren & Stimpy.
Anyway, this post has taken a weird turn...I meant to rave about the Food Network, but ended up reminiscing about old Nickelodeon shows.
So here's my rave about the FN...it's like my Nickelodeon of my adulthood. I love the Challenge shows (unless it's a savory food challenge), Ace of Cakes, Unwrapped, and Chopped.
Well that was a crappy endorsement of the FN. Especially when I got to thinking and wanted to add ABC's TGIF:
The Perfect Strangers intro is at the end, but I don't remember them being in the TGIF line-up.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS! In some ways I wish I could go back and relish the times, but in other ways, it kind sucks being young and having to live under your parents' rules. *sigh*
Alright. Moving on.
My shows in alphabetical order: Biggest Loser, Grey's Anatomy, Lost
Due to the recession & because I didn't have a job at the time, we decided to downsize our Directv package to the Family package. You basically get your local channels, religious channels, shopping channels, and kids channels with this package. The only thing I'm bummed about missing is the Tour de France and Top Chef. I can do without everything else. I won't deny that it'd be cool to have them, but they're definitely not necessary.
The only "cool" channels we still get (besides the locals and in my opinion of course) is "Nat Geo" & the Food Network.
Which leads me to my main point. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Food Network. When we moved from Italy to Texas, we finally had American TV and my little brother and I fell in love with Nickelodeon. My older brother would ask, "What are you watching?" And we would aggravate him to no end when we'd reply, "Nickelodeon". That was not an appropriate answer in his opinion. He needed an actual TV show name. Nickelodeon was sufficient in our eyes. My favorites: SNICK, Clarissa Explains it All, Eureeka's Castle, this show:
and this one:
At some point I graduated to Hey Dude:
and Salute Your Shorts:
There's a bunch more and I think I might get some horrible comments if I didn't mention Ren & Stimpy.
Anyway, this post has taken a weird turn...I meant to rave about the Food Network, but ended up reminiscing about old Nickelodeon shows.
So here's my rave about the FN...it's like my Nickelodeon of my adulthood. I love the Challenge shows (unless it's a savory food challenge), Ace of Cakes, Unwrapped, and Chopped.
Well that was a crappy endorsement of the FN. Especially when I got to thinking and wanted to add ABC's TGIF:
The Perfect Strangers intro is at the end, but I don't remember them being in the TGIF line-up.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS! In some ways I wish I could go back and relish the times, but in other ways, it kind sucks being young and having to live under your parents' rules. *sigh*
Alright. Moving on.
Adventures in waking up at 5:00am
So I started my kitchen job at the hotel on Saturday. Have to wake up at 5:00am. :oP They started me on a weekend where a bunch of kids were staying for a Color Guard competition at Western. In other words: I started on a busy weekend. But really, there's nothing to it and the only things that sucks is having to get up so early. Oh, and cleaning up after sloppy kids.
I got a job offer today (kinda). They wanted me to cross-train to fill in at the front desk too, but now there's an actual position open there. Problem: 3rd shift. Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. The good thing: it's quiet at night and I might be able to get a lot of research work done--mainly writing my thesis. So I'm still rolling that over in my head & trying to decide if that's something I want to do.
Another thing is that the golf club that I interviewed to be a server at called and said those positions were filled but that the "member services" department was still looking for people if I wanted to do that. I haven't actually talked to them yet about it (received a voicemail from them), so depending on what it is, whether it's full or part-time, and what the pay rate is, I might take them up on it and leave the hotel business. Yeah it sucks to tell someone, "Sure I'll work for you!" and then turn right around and say, "Sorry, but I'm leaving." But I feel like they'd understand for three reasons: 1. They keep making comments like, "If you decide to stay..." like they're prepared for me to change my mind and leave. 2. Because the date their paychecks have been arriving has been varied lately. 3. Because they can't offer me a full-time position right now.
Aside: I'm watching America's Funniest Home Videos right now and they're showing clips of kids opening Chrismas presents. I love Christmas. One kid was really excited to get macaroni. Another kid goes, "What the hell is this?!" Ah, to be a kid on Christmas morning again... *sigh*
I got a job offer today (kinda). They wanted me to cross-train to fill in at the front desk too, but now there's an actual position open there. Problem: 3rd shift. Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. The good thing: it's quiet at night and I might be able to get a lot of research work done--mainly writing my thesis. So I'm still rolling that over in my head & trying to decide if that's something I want to do.
Another thing is that the golf club that I interviewed to be a server at called and said those positions were filled but that the "member services" department was still looking for people if I wanted to do that. I haven't actually talked to them yet about it (received a voicemail from them), so depending on what it is, whether it's full or part-time, and what the pay rate is, I might take them up on it and leave the hotel business. Yeah it sucks to tell someone, "Sure I'll work for you!" and then turn right around and say, "Sorry, but I'm leaving." But I feel like they'd understand for three reasons: 1. They keep making comments like, "If you decide to stay..." like they're prepared for me to change my mind and leave. 2. Because the date their paychecks have been arriving has been varied lately. 3. Because they can't offer me a full-time position right now.
Aside: I'm watching America's Funniest Home Videos right now and they're showing clips of kids opening Chrismas presents. I love Christmas. One kid was really excited to get macaroni. Another kid goes, "What the hell is this?!" Ah, to be a kid on Christmas morning again... *sigh*
Friday, March 27, 2009
What a roller coaster ride!
Down when preparing for my research while dealing with the doctor appointment.
Up when I felt like I was prepared for the presentation and I received a mystery package from my mom. The package was potted bulbs in a cute pink can. It's like getting two presents because I'll get to watch them bloom.
Down again when I had to (per my advisor) rearrange my presentation minutes before my presentation. Talk about frustrating.
Up when I received the inaugural NC Research Award at the Graduate Research Symposium. I got a nice little certificate, a glass paper weight thingy for my "desk" I suppose, and a check for $100. Sweet! It's the first time this has been awarded and it's the only one in the state (at this time) that is awarded.
Down again when some stuff happened regarding whether or not I truly deserved the award.
*I'd just like to acknowledge that I typed up this post on Friday but didn't post it. I'm quite glad I didn't because I've calmed down a lot and was able to reread and edit it to an appropriate level.*
Up when I felt like I was prepared for the presentation and I received a mystery package from my mom. The package was potted bulbs in a cute pink can. It's like getting two presents because I'll get to watch them bloom.
Down again when I had to (per my advisor) rearrange my presentation minutes before my presentation. Talk about frustrating.
Up when I received the inaugural NC Research Award at the Graduate Research Symposium. I got a nice little certificate, a glass paper weight thingy for my "desk" I suppose, and a check for $100. Sweet! It's the first time this has been awarded and it's the only one in the state (at this time) that is awarded.
Down again when some stuff happened regarding whether or not I truly deserved the award.
*I'd just like to acknowledge that I typed up this post on Friday but didn't post it. I'm quite glad I didn't because I've calmed down a lot and was able to reread and edit it to an appropriate level.*
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Doctor Day Done
Saw the doctor today and made a complete fool of myself. Not to the doctor, but to the lady that does all of the insurance stuff.
I had to switch insurance because I no longer qualified to receive the school's health insurance. My deductible is high and some other stuff I still don't understand. The only time I wish I would've gone into the military or married someone in the military is when insurance issues come up. I've been so stressed about money and this presentation tomorrow that I just broke down and cried like a baby. I then composed myself to call my mom to ask her what I needed to do (yes, still doing that at 27) and promptly lost it again over the phone. I'm sure I scared her to death. The woman was so sweet though..."Just let it out, it's okay." Haha!
But yeah, appointment over, hopefully all bad cells are gone. Will need 3 normal paps before I'm deemed okay. I had been told that they recommend you not have kids for 3 years after this procedure, but my doctor said that wasn't the case with what she was doing today. Now if I have to have two or three of these done, THEN there would be cause for concern. So I'm excited about that. Not that I'm going to try to have kids anytime soon, but at least I won't have to wait three years from now.
Off to push through the pain and tackle this presentation.
I had to switch insurance because I no longer qualified to receive the school's health insurance. My deductible is high and some other stuff I still don't understand. The only time I wish I would've gone into the military or married someone in the military is when insurance issues come up. I've been so stressed about money and this presentation tomorrow that I just broke down and cried like a baby. I then composed myself to call my mom to ask her what I needed to do (yes, still doing that at 27) and promptly lost it again over the phone. I'm sure I scared her to death. The woman was so sweet though..."Just let it out, it's okay." Haha!
But yeah, appointment over, hopefully all bad cells are gone. Will need 3 normal paps before I'm deemed okay. I had been told that they recommend you not have kids for 3 years after this procedure, but my doctor said that wasn't the case with what she was doing today. Now if I have to have two or three of these done, THEN there would be cause for concern. So I'm excited about that. Not that I'm going to try to have kids anytime soon, but at least I won't have to wait three years from now.
Off to push through the pain and tackle this presentation.
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