wedding plans

The weirdest part of wedding planning, I think, is when you get to the point where you can start turning the planning over to other people. I'm talking about showers and the like. There won't be any for a few months yet, but I've sent the preliminary emails to the ladies in charge and it's weird to think that now I won't hear much else about those events until they happen. It's also nice.

As for other planning things, we're getting very close to being done. We finished our registries this weekend (Macy's and Crate & Barrel), we are thisclose to being finished with our wedding website, and we should have our catering decision made by the start of next week (tastings tomorrow and Saturday). Plus, my goal is to reserve a block of hotel rooms by the end of the week. Then, the only big things that are left are the cake (Coldstone), the florist (someone Brian's mom knows through the Chamber), and the videographer (Brian's domain). Oh! And the officiant! That's probably the biggest bogey in all of the planning - Brian is convinced we can find a judge to marry us pretty easily, but I'm not as convinced. And I really do want a judge. We're not doing any sort of religious ceremony, but I don't want any sort of New Age-y stuff either and that is often the alternative to a religious ceremony.

Anyway, it's not all wedding plans. There's also grad school (which I'm avoiding by writing this post). It's going much better this semester; I'm enrolled in a class about struggling adolescent readers and I feel like I'm learning a ton. Which is the point, I think. That being said, I am still REALLY ready to be done. In a fun twist of the calendar, my last paper is due on my 30th birthday. (30th?!) Can't come soon enough, I guess.

And there's work. Eh. Not much to say there. I'm having the kind of year that makes me wonder if there isn't something better I could be doing. Only problem is, I have almost no idea what that would be. Maggie said someone once told her to consider what she would be doing if she didn't have to have a job and she would figure out what she wanted to do more than anything, but I don't think that would work for me. First, I wouldn't do anything. At least not every day for 8-10 hours a day. I mean, really, I am NOT that teacher who is itching to get back to work at the end of a long break. And second, I would work with teenage kids. Probably not in a capacity that requires me to enforce a million rules and grade hundreds of assignments, but still. Not a super helpful exercise in this instance. Then again, maybe I'm doing it wrong.

So, exciting things, mundane things, puzzling things...seems like life continues as normal no matter how frequently or infrequently I post. Funny, that.