three weeks to go

Three weeks from right now, I will be an old married lady. Well, okay, I’ll be married. Everything right now is a blur, a happy blur for the most part, as everything converges on the event. Because I have spent so much time exactly where I am right now — on my laptop in the living room, organizing and chugging through this mass of information — I feel like I should give a few technology shout-outs, especially since I have churned through many, many tools over the past year. Just ask FunkyPlaid: every time I sent him a to-do list update, it would be through a different service. ActiveInbox has kept my Gmail account focused and action-driven. Toodledo has managed the to-do lists swimmingly, via the web and via Pocket Informant on my iPhone. The...

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Posted on 25 Sep 2010 | Comments Off

wedding planning mode enabled

wedding planning mode enabled

[wedding] initial palette for gown Originally uploaded by cygnoir When my mom arrived on Monday, she asked me all sorts of questions about the wedding. I knew that I should have answers to at least some of these questions already, but I didn’t. I left her with a lot of blanks to be filled in shortly, so that when I took the day off work on Friday we could deal with some preliminary logistics. Bridezilla I am not. Our wedding day, though magnificent I am sure, will be a day, not the judgment on the rest of our lives together. The world will not implode when (not if) we have to compromise on some of the details. As a result of all this realism, I found myself at a planning loss. I couldn’t visualize anything specific that would help to kick...

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Posted on 8 Aug 2009 | 5 comments