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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Calming Bridezilla




34 more days to go :) I cannot wait, but I know there is still lots to do before the big day. We've got to decide on songs, put together wedding programs, buy the alcohol, meet with more people, and there's more -- I just cannot remember all that is on the checklist. Things have been going smoothly though.

Last weekend we hung out with many of the important coordinators of the wedding. We met with the chuch coordinator first to go over some of the parts of the wedding program and flow of the ceremony. She's pretty cool, and Jay gets along with her pretty well. By the middle half of the meeting, the church coordinator and he were bouncing jokes and sarcastic remarks off of one another.

Then, we had a glimpse of how the flowers would be arranged in the sanctuary. Sometimes I think Miss D is too good to us (She's the one who is helping with flowers). The arrangements and layout is going to be beautiful and simplistic -- just the way I want.

We then headed to our reception site where Valerie, my wedding coordinator, set up a table to help us get a better picture of how the reception would look. Again, it was exactly what I wanted.
Although it is getting down to crunch time, I do not feel as anxious as I had predicted. I am thinking it is probably due to the fact that I have an amazing fiance whom I could not imagine being without; the numerous angels who surround us, asking what they can do to help; and our angels from above. All that said, there have been some stressful moments that caused my mother to intervene and calm the Bridezilla that was about to overtake me. I think I've done pretty good though. I'm expecting Jay to post on here stating the opposite.

Well, it looks like Jay is almost finished with the last book in the Twilight series. We are off to work on dinner plans for Father's Day.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Another Billion Dollar Idea I'm too lazy to implement

So I just got back form the gym and I'm running Quicken to pay a bill, and it occurs to me that I could greatly simplify calorie counting if they'd put the caloric value of everything I buy at a restaurant on the receipt. Then I could just scan all my receipts (or better yet, download my calories from the bank).


It'd be really neat to watch how many calories each dollar buys, and budget the input and output like with all other account types. A smart pacemacker could count how many calories I burn, and the rest could be measured by a digital commode. Networking all these gadgets together would give me a real-time report of how much longer I need to stay at the gym to eat another order of fries.

I suspect, though, that much everything I do in Quicken, it's just to feed my OCD, and probably doesn't make my habits any better.