*Longtime Lurker* Super Bored at work...

cupcakesfrosting

What's everyone doing tonight / this weekend?

Tell me one random fact about your week, good or bad..

Hellokatie0517

Now I wish I had a cupcake! Argh! Waiting for FI to get home with dinner.  Working on the house this weekend.  We're in the midst of 9 month long kitchen renovation.  I'm a baker (hobby, not profession), so it's killing me!

Random fact about the week...got a little freaked out by our venue (an inn) and it had "Mr. and Mrs. Paul <enter FI's last name here />" in writing for our wedding night's reservation.  It's was an "awww" moment, but scary at the same time. 

cupcakesfrosting

Oooh, that is scary / exciting! Congrats! We're still deciding on venues, that's totally freaking me out. Lol.

Congrats on the reno, sounds fun / irritating. Haha.

laurenclaire1386

Last night was the only night this week I've had decent sleep. That's my random fact about this week. FI will be home from a work trip in about an hour, and I'm pretty gosh darned excited Sorry, that's two random facts.

Anyway, hi! Damn glad to meet ya!

amysmomma

I just went shopping with FI for my engagement ring, and now I have to wait 10 days to get it while they size it.  And I want it NOW.   What about you?

cupcakesfrosting

@Laurenclaire - Thank you! I've always wanted to tell you I love your Siggy pic, but I never exactly had a chance, Lol. Yay for FI coming home!

@amysmomma - Damn waiting! I hate it.. Congrats about the ring! What's it look like?! Pics?

I am at work, until 830, at which time, I will be going home, and drinking. Quite a bit. It's been a uber rough week.. My Grandmother (my favorite) was diagnosed with Breast Cancer on Tuesday.. We're all taking it really hard. I'm pretty sure I've cried myself to sleep every night since then..

aMrsin09

Hmm, random fact about this week? 

We've identified up to 7 or 8 plants in the garden and found out the creek behind us is actually ON our property.  Supposedly it has platypus in it.

laurenclaire1386

Well thanks Cupcake!

aMrs! What's the haps man? Haven't seen you around in a bit. If you have a platypus, I'd like to see it please!

cupcakesfrosting

@aMrs - Ooh, Platypus are pretty cute. Haha.. Creeks are awesome, and that's really cool you have one on your property..

amysmomma

I'm really sorry to hear about your grandmother.    How is she taking it? 

I don't have any pics of the ring, I thought I'd get to bring it home.  But I will definitely take pics when I get it, cuz sometimes I like to AW. 

aMrsin09

@Lauren, we only had dial-up for the logest time, so I've been slowly coming back, plus we're like 14 hours difference, so that makes it hard.

As for the platypus and creek, I'm sure they are both very cool, but to see them would require me to venture beyond the fece lie and honestly, its scary back there.

cupcakesfrosting

She's not taking it too well.. She sort of, but not exactly, told me she doesn't really want to fight it. She's had 2 heart attacks within the last 10 years, and she has Lupus.. She's a pretty sick lady when you get down to it, but she's made it this far, and through all of that...

When she was telling me, she kept playing with my left hand, but I wasn't really paying attention.. When I woke up the next morning, my first thought was, she was playing with my engagement ring. She's scared she won't be there.. It totally broke my heart.

laurenclaire1386

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[QUOTE]@Lauren, we only had dial-up for the logest time, so I've been slowly coming back, plus we're like 14 hours difference, so that makes it hard. As for the platypus and creek, I'm sure they are both very cool, but to see them would require me to venture beyond the fece lie and honestly, its scary back there.
Posted by aMrsin09[/QUOTE]
Dial up is teh suck! My parents are still on dial up cause they live in the middle of damn nowhere.

Also, I grew up next to a creek, so I get not wanting to venture out there. Snakes and such. Yeah there's cute stuff, like squirells and chipmunks, but fuuck a damn snake.

aMrsin09

Lauren, now that I think about it, where we live is probably not very different than "backwoods" LA.  Just different critters and foliage.

amysmomma

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[QUOTE]She's not taking it too well.. She sort of, but not exactly, told me she doesn't really want to fight it. She's had 2 heart attacks within the last 10 years, and she has Lupus.. She's a pretty sick lady when you get down to it, but she's made it this far, and through all of that... When she was telling me, she kept playing with my left hand, but I wasn't really paying attention.. When I woke up the next morning, my first thought was, she was playing with my engagement ring. She's scared she won't be there.. It totally broke my heart.
Posted by cupcakesfrosting[/QUOTE]

That's so sad!!  :(  How old is she?  And when is your wedding? 

cupcakesfrosting

She's 67. Wedding is 11/13/2011.. We're waiting to hear what her treatment will be, then based on that, we'll either keep the Wedding Date, or change it so it's closer..

kris10royal

Hi cupcake! Hate to hear that about your Gma.
I am laying around trying to get up the strength to go work out. Random fact of the week, I somehow managed to make all A's (well, one for the past 2 semesters and still get excluded from school... I had a very rough semester a few ago and made like 3 Fs and still working on pulling that up, so I just got done typing my appeal. Yuck.

amysmomma

67 is a very young age to go through all that she has.  It's very considerate of you to consider moving your date for her.  I think I would do the same in your situation.  Breast cancer treatments are much more advanced now than they used to be, I wish her the best.

Anyway, I'll help you get your mind off of it a bit.  Have you chosen your wedding colours yet?

cupcakesfrosting

Yuck indeed Kris! I went through that my first two years of College, was working 3 jobs AND going to school. Obviously that didn't work, so I failed one semester, then dropped out. I'm currently on Academic Probation, grr.. Working on my petition to remove those classes from my transcript too..

cupcakesfrosting

Yes, we have! And thank you..

Main colors are Black and Green, accent colors are Hot Pink and White..
I'll be wearing a Black gown (yes, so controversial, but we're really not traditional, and I hate White), and lime green high heels..

amysmomma

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[QUOTE]Yes, we have! :) And thank you.. Main colors are Black and Green, accent colors are Hot Pink and White.. <strong>I'll be wearing a Black gown (yes, so controversial, but we're really not traditional, and I hate White), and lime green high heels..</strong>
Posted by cupcakesfrosting[/QUOTE]

That sounds hot!   

cupcakesfrosting

Lol. I'm hoping! Haha..

What are your colors? Any big milestones you've reached in your planning? Where are you getting married?

kris10royal

Yea that was partly my problem. I have a 3 year old, his dad left  (and he was the one who was making the money while i went to school). so i picked up one job, wasn't making enough money, so i picked up a second job. then my step dad had a heart attack, so i lost my babysitter (my mom) for a while, and had to put my son in daycare, which made more bills (daycare was $120/wk and he stayed sick while he was in daycare, so doc bills, too). it was a mess of a semester. ugh, oh well. I hope even though they said "working too many hours is not an excuse", they will realize i was doing what i had to do. if not, then i'll just be a year behind.

cupcakesfrosting

They definitely should understand, Kris.. Huge family situational changes, I mean come on... Most people have hearts, here's to hoping they do for you!

amysmomma

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[QUOTE]Lol. I'm hoping! Haha.. What are your colors? Any big milestones you've reached in your planning? Where are you getting married?
Posted by cupcakesfrosting[/QUOTE]

My colours are red black and white.  I'm going for the tradtional white gown with train, and red shoes.  Um.. milestones... guest list is done, reception and church is booked, photog, dj and decorations booked, and that's pretty much it.  FILs are paying for half the caterer so they wanted to book it.  I'm getting married in a small town close to the small town that I live in a Catholic church. 

How about you?  How long have you been engaged now?

kris10royal

Thanks cupcake. I hope so!

cupcakesfrosting

Funny story:

I met FI the first day of College in 2006. He worked at the Cafe at school. We were Best Friends for more than a year and a half (I was head over heels for him the entire time).. He asked me to be his girlfriend on July 21st, 2007 and asked me to marry him on the 22nd.. Lol.

We originally we're getting married last November, but FI got sick and was in the hospital for a little more than a week, but we don't have Insurance, so the bill was more than $45,000. So we pushed it back to next November, in hopes we'll have some money saved up by then.. Haha.

I've got some ideas as to where we want the Wedding, but it's all kind of up in the air at the moment.. I'm glad we didnt put any deposits down yet..

We've got the Guest List 99% figured out. Haven't figured out food or anything yet. FI is a chef, and he is UBER picky, so finding a local that I LOVE and a place that is BYO has been a little hard in our budget..

amysmomma

He proposed after you were his girlfriend for a day?!  Omg, I guess there really is such a thing as love at first site.  How cute is that!

Oh god that sucks about you FI getting sick and it costing $45,000!  I'm so glad that we don't have to pay for health care here.

Yes it's a good thing that you didn't put any deposits yet.  But if you decide to move your wedding up to the summer, you may need to move fast because summer venues tend to move quickly. 

lauralaur

Hiya! Tomorrow we finish moving (yuck) and then we're having a slumber party with the puppy. We want her to spend a night outside of her crate, but we're going to stay with her for the majority of the night so we don't wake up to puddles everywhere.

Um, random fact about my week? I haven't got anything exciting. Just more working on the house and trying to keep the puppy from biting us.

cupcakesfrosting

Lol. Ya, but we'd been Best Friends for over a year and a half.. We talked everyday (if for some reason we didn't see each other that day), and he was my Everything for that time.. I went through a lot of crappy family stuff, and he was there for me the entire time.. It didn't seem odd to me (or my family or his) at all.. We just sort of melded from Best Friends to Engaged..

Ya, the bills still haunt us. Lol. Medical stuff SUCKS in California..

amysmomma

That's really awesome.  I consider my FI my best friend too.  And it's awesome that your families accepted the relationship, that always helps!