Musings

Since I ended up watching* The Godfather last night (for the first time) instead of blogging properly, I thought I'd start Monday off with a few wedding-related thoughts I've been having lately. They may or may not turn into rants - no guarantees.

- Yesterday I ate, in no particular order: day-old crab salad, a bowl of cinnamon Life cereal with soy milk, three glasses of chocolate soy milk, a deli sandwich, two Vietnamese rice sponge cake things dyed green and pink, a stack of water crackers with pesto put on top, some dried apple slices and a chocolate cookie. And today I feel sick. I don't know why I'm eating so weirdly lately. Sak makes normal dinner, but for some reason I just don't feel like eating "normally". Maybe it's the stress? I can't eat a lot at once, so I make up for it by snacking. In any case, I feel gross and it's looking like I won't break 130 pounds by the time we leave. Not at this rate, anyway.

- We had our first rsvp'ed guest cancel on us, news courtesy a third party. And then my mother had to listen about how disappointed said guest was to lose frequent flier miles, but how exciting the other plans were. By the tone of mom's response email, I'd say there's no action necessary on my part now. Wedding drama both fascinates and scares me at the same time.

- So we had a cancel, but then! To make up for it, we found out the DJ is bringing THREE people! Please someone, tell me why you need three people to man a DJ booth, where there will be only music, and no emceeing? And please tell me why they never told us before, and why we never got a contract, and why we still have no idea what they plan on playing? Oh wait. That's right. Friendor. It's a good thing I thought to ask them who was coming. And they sent the response to Sak's dad. Lovely. I decided I would not make them place cards. That made me feel a little better.

- I get waaaay too excited about little details, apparently. I giggled for about an hour straight after printing out our contact info for the out-of-town bags. I'll share them with you later, but I'm pretty sure I'm just loony at this point.

- Sak has nearly all our hotels booked for Japan now, and I'm super pumped! I think we're staying in one of each type of hotel, pretty much. Standard western, Ryokan with private onsen (I'm too prudish to bathe with other women), and capsule! The capsule hotel should be interesting. It is TINY. And I like how Sak wrote "it's our honeymoon! :)" in the comment section while booking. The reception-person probably thinks he's the cheapest future-husband ever. But we've got to balance out that $300/night ryokan somehow. Oosh.

- My parents have decided that their wedding gift to us will be to clean our house while we're in Japan. I think they are sick of coming over and having absolutely no where to sit. It's a permanent wedding-tornado. Pretty much the best gift idea ever, in my opinion, but Sak is pretty wary. I think he's afraid someone will throw away all his stuff while we are gone. Mom will have to promise not to toss anything before he'll be okay with this idea.

- I haven't been able to keep up with the blogs very well, lately. And it drives me crazy to see all the unread items in my reader. I apologize if it seems I don't comment much. Even though the to-do list is dwindling down (finally), I still feel like I have no time at all. Where's the mythical pre-wedding peace, eh?!

- And speaking of blogs, Sak and I have been discussing what role blogging will have in my/our future. I think it's pretty clear that I enjoy it, and he definitely enjoys reading the comments you all leave. He likes to suggest topics, too. So I think I'll continue. But I haven't figured out what, if any, the focus would be. General nerd life? Would you all unlist me for that? haha. I've always wanted to do a web comic. But I think I want to continue to draw for others rather than just myself. It's just more fun/interesting to me. Plus I get so excited when someone uses my art to make something cool. Bee, Gator, Pretzel! I'm talking about you. :)

Hopefully we'll be back to the regularly-scheduled posting soon, but thanks for bearing with me through another mind-vent. I think it's healthy to get it out there, sometimes - and to know that Sak and I (nor any other couple) are purely project-producing robots :)

*I kind of wigged out after the horse-thing, and then tuned out temporarily in the middle while battling photoshop and our old, dying computer. When I returned, someone was in Italy and I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Bummer, since I was hoping to see why so many people *love* the movie.