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Good Monday Morning

Good morning, ladies! Yes, I actually think this is a good Monday. Why, you ask? Two reasons. 1. Today is D's birthday! Yay! We are going to dinner tonight at Trader Vic's. 2. D finally went back to work today. That will greatly help out our budget. How was everyone's weekend? Did you get any wedding projects done? Or any other wedding to do items checked off your lists? Except for running a couple errands, we stayed in all weekend. Made a lot of progress on the bar. D got the frame of the bar all built. Now we just need to decorate it and add the finishing touches. I also finally framed some of our engagement pictures. Put some in the living room and some in the bar. It's nice having them around. Lastly, I made 22 jars of pineappe preserves. I was planning on making a smaller batch, but ended up making more. Wrapped up jars for all of my shower hosts, put a few jars in our pantry and am thinking about bringing the rest, if there's enough, as favors for my showers with my friends. After doing all of that, I felt pretty burnt out on wedding projects. Boxed all my other projects up and won't be doing anymore until we go to the beach house in May. Then MOH and I will finish everything up there. What do y'all have going on today?

Re: Good Monday Morning

  • jtolyjtoly member
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    Happy bday to D! I can't believe all the March bdays! I bet he's happy to go back to work, just sux that it's on his bday! We went out to the gym and then out to eat Friday and then went grocery shopping. I didn't leave the house after that until last night when I went to the gym. We watched Hugo last night cause it won so many Academy Awards so we wanted to see what' at the talk was about. It was ok. Today work till 5 then to the gym. I slept only 2 hours last night. Here I go again. I couldn't sleep cause I was irritated by something my XBF did this weekend but I think I'm over reacting this time but I can't help it now after everyjing else she has done. After I finally fell asleep, after 1:30 am, I was awoken to the towns fire alarm system going off and knew FIs pager would be going off....and it did at 4 am. It was a false alarm so I was awoken for no reason : (. I'm a little sleepy No wedding projects cause I don't have any haha but I did update my Bio and started looking at things to do for my sisters shower in July!
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  • You knocked a lot off your list! Go Kimmy! I tried making the shell bouquets yesterday and I think it’ll be easy enough, but need stronger flower wire. Now to try and track that down in NYC is going to be a challenge. My sister also told me last night that she’ll be coming to the wedding! So that was exciting!!

     

    Kimmy, happy birthday to D! My birthday is tomorrow  - Pisces are the best.

     

    Anyways, otherwise today I am going to the yarn store at lunch to buy some yarn to finish up some projects. I am starting to eat gluten-free today to see if that helps with some stomach stuff I’ve got going on – fingers crossed! Thanks to Pinterest, I found a good slew of recipes to try out.

     

    Have a great day, ladies!

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  • Jenn -- sorry to hear you only got two hours of sleep, ugh! I'd have no motivation to go to the gym -- :)
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  • jtolyjtoly member
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    I say it now that I'm going but I may be too tired later. Maybe I will just cut my workout in half or just go use the weights. FI has a meeting tonight so he won't be going w me which is more reason so just stay home. Lol
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  • Lora - Do you have a home depot or some other kind of home improvement store nearby? That's where I got the wire to do my hangers and it's still bendable enough that it isn't a pain on your hands.

    I worked on my bouquet some this weekend too. I wasn't crazy about how squished the flowers were, so I spread them out and added some filler tuffs of fabric.

    I am so excited for this weekend. My first shower is on Saturday (St. Patrick's day) and I get to pick up my dress that day. My cousin is supposed to do bridal portraits on Sunday, but I'm not sure if thats going to happen or not.
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  • Pisces are the best!

    Lora- You should try pipe cleaners. That's how my shell bouquet is put together.

    Jenn- Hope you get more sleep tonight.
  • Kimmy-Sound like a productive weekend and I'm glad FI is back at work, plus a happy birthday to him!

    Jenn- I hate not getting sleep =(

    Lora- I think the shell bouquets are very neat.  I'm going to try to do shells around the stems of mine.

    Over the weekend we went shopping and I got a ton of stuff done for the wedding.  Plus we DIY'd and I got the flower girl wands done and my mother started making the flower girl dresses.

    Today FI and I are working then I think we are meeting my mom at the mall to get him some pants and a few more things for our wedding projects.  I'm working on our brouchure to put in the OOT bags.  Where did you/are you printing your's from?

    Have a great day!

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  • jtolyjtoly member
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    Yay Nikki that's exciting!! Post pics!
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  • Stupid TK keeps eating my posts. I feel like I have lost my voice!

    Lora - You should go to a home improvement store for your wire. The have all different sized gauge wire.
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  • Kimmy -- Thanks for the tip! I saw that on one tutorial and wanted to try to do it. 

    Nik -- GREAT tip!! There's a Home Depot a few blocks away that I'll have to check out. :) 
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  • BMcLeodTeamBMcLeodTeam member
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    Hey ladies, just peeking in before finishing off my work day. I have an evening off just for wedding stuff tonight while FI is out doing meetings so I will be on more tonight (and hopefully getting some things checked off the mile long DIY list lol)!

    Kimmy - Just wanted to say how happy I am to hear about the help with your budget! That's awesome :)
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    [QUOTE]Yay Nikki that's exciting!! Post pics!
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    I will! I was playing with my sister's bouquet yesterday, so if I screwed it up it wouldn't be mine. Tonight I'm planning on fixing mine.
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  • Happy Birthday, D, and all the other March babies!

    Congrats on the progess made, and boo funky sleep schedules!

    I slept in today, and weighed myself this morning. Lost 7 pounds in a week!

    I didn't really do much. I went to the store around lunch to pick up a few ingredients: FSIL requested this Italian Sausage Soup so I finished that up for her not too long ago. 
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