Mark your calendars

Brian and I have selected a place and date for our wedding. We will be getting married on July 9, 2010 at the Newton White Mansion in Mitchellville, MD. We'd looked at it online a few times, checked out a bridal show onsite and then went back for our own tour yesterday. I love it. We'll have our ceremony outside on the lower patio, which overlooks the woods and a golf course (but mostly the woods). The picture below shows the back of the mansion and the brick courtyard, the wedding party will be in front of the fountain and the audience will face away from the building on either side of the fountain. We'll probably have cocktails and hors d'ouerves on the upper patio after the ceremony.

And then we'll move into the atrium, shown below, for the reception, although we'll have access to the whole mansion (including a side room that we think will be for the kids to hang out on their own if they want).

Now that we have that big detail out of the way, I think we'll slow the planning again. We talked last night about starting to look into caterers this June and I'll probably go dress shopping in July when my mom comes to visit. Honestly, now that we have a date and a place, I'm nowhere near as stressed as I was before. And besides, as Brian pointed out last night, we have nothing but time...or, at least, 465 days of time. :)

FYI

A quick way to get rid of any feelings of good will I might have towards you is to come into class, after having skipped school the day before, and complain about how tired you are and how wrong it is for me to ask you - an AP student - to write a one paragraph explanation of social welfare policy in the US.

Four days until break. Not that I'm counting...

If this is news, my life is not that interesting.

All the same, I am getting a haircut this afternoon for the first time since September. I thought that before I cut it off, I would let you all see how long it has gotten. Honestly, I don't think it has been this long since I was in middle school. I won't be chopping too much, but it needs a style and at least a few inches need to go. My hope is to have it this long, but also healthy by the time our wedding rolls around. Sorry, something more interesting next time, I promise.

Thanking the lion

Snow day tomorrow! We're getting hit with a pretty nasty snowstorm so no work for me tomorrow. I'm not thrilled about missing a day of instruction, but I'm glad for another day of rest and some time to work on grad school stuff. And while I'm pretty much over the cold, wet weather, I'm looking forward to March going "out like a lamb." Have a good Monday, all!