So the list(s) begins...

Well there are several lists in the making. One is list of questions to ask on Tuesday (woo hoo)...another is the compiling of things to be done (oh yay)...and last but not least, the guest list. It will be interesting to see how many people the list ends up with. I think right now, we are sitting at like 200..eek. I just know come October/November, we will have to sit down and find out who is a must keep and who can get x'd off. This will be an interesting feat none the less.

I'm thinking I'm going to tell Cyndi Lu that we are looking about 200 so far for the wedding and reception. I've got so many things that I need to talk to Cyndi about because I don't know if it can be done or not. My head is spinning. I'm truly truly glad that I'm not trying to get all of this planned in less than a year. I do wish though, at times, that it would be January 8, 2010, not 2011 that Jeremy and I would be getting married. Oh well.

Well I'm going to go for now. I might come back later.

I think I'm on a roll!!

So I promised a picture of the invitation as it is now. So here it is.....drum roll please........

Anyways, back to business.... Well, I believe I have found my wedding coordinator!!! She did the wedding of my track coach to his wife. It was beautiful! Plus Erica (the coordinator) is young and understanding, especially since I'm in school and have a lot going on. She does great work and has great prices. I'm so glad that I went with my gut and contacted her to see if she does weddings outside of the Tulsa area, and she does...**doing happy dance again**... http://www.erica-weddings.com/index2.php ...<---that's her website, give it a look!

So now, I have almost 2 checks off of my list of vendors to get. I'll have another partial check come March 3rd.
The next big checks that will need to be done include: the caterer (will have to have an idea sooner or later so I can let Cyndi Lu know), the cake baker, the florist (but I know who I want to go with, just haven't gone to talk to them yet), and rentals (that will be determined after the meeting on March 3rd, well partly, and what the caterer provides).

At least I already know, well for the most part, what I want the guys to wear. I have no clue on the girls. I just need to get with them and start playing with dresses on the web. But first, I actually have to truly ask them first before anything else can be done..lol. I'll probably end up doing that over the summer or something, or just before school starts. Don't get me started on Jeremy and groomsman..lol.

I think I'm chugging a long at a good pace since the wedding is now at 683 days away. I still feel like last week, the countdown was at like 700 and something. But I need to start writing lists so that I know what I have done and haven't done so far (plus put tenative dates for when I hope to do those things by).

Ok..I think I'm going to get off of here and try and do some Historical Research stuff. bleh..lol

Invitations...and other things...

So, I'm excited..I have finally designed an invitation that I'm in love with! But I'm up in the air now about whether to do it as a panel card or as a pocket fold card. I'll have to post a picture of it tomorrow. Jeremy and I found what will probably be the vases for the centerpieces. I haven't really gotten anything else done really.

I don't want to study for my test on Tuesday...bleh. Can I be done with school yet..lol

Well I'm going to go. Hopefully I'll get photos uploaded tomorrow.

Wedding Randomness and other things...

So here's the picture of that shirt that I got Jeremy for Valentine's Day. And what is funny to me, is the bride totally looks like Princess Peach from Super Mario...and I used to always be Peach when I played Mario Kart 64....I miss that game..I need to find my N64 that is buried in my closet.

I'm trying to avoid getting back to studying for a quiz that I have tomorrow in US History since 1877. Why couldn't that chapter be shorter like the last one..lol.

I thin once the rest of the lilies that are a part of my V-Day bouquet finish blooming, I'll take another picture and post it. That reminds me, I need to take a picture of the wonderful silver branches hiding in the garage...I really need to start toying with how they're going to be set up. Maybe Cyndi Lu at OHC might have some ideas. I need to start making my list of questions that I have for her to take to the appointment on March 3rd.

I'm sure that I really need to step it up and start looking for a wedding coordinator, since that is a requirement that has to be met so I can get married at OHC. There are a few that I have looked at, contacted one back in the fall, but there's another that I need to contact to see if she does weddings in Oklahoma City, since she's based out of Tulsa.

Well I guess I'm going to get back to studying for now. I might venture back on later, but I doubt it.

Caution: Slow Moving Wedding Planning Ahead...

So I have finally scheduled a time to go talk with the events coordinator at the History Center. I get to meet with her on March 3rd in the afternoon! She's a really really great woman, she even has her degree in history!!! So, the wedding planning process is still going...just really really slow, since as of today, there are 689 days to go. It seems like forever, but when I think about how quickly time has flown from when Jeremy and I got engaged back in September to now, its insane. Its like..uhhhh could a I have a few more days back maybe..lol. I know that at this time, come next year, I will be in my final semester of my bachelor's degree and at the just under a year mark. Needless to say, stress will be at a max, kind of like it is for me right now because of Historical Research.

I still need to upload the picture on Jeremy's shirt that I got him for Valentine's Day. Even his mom got a kick out of it..lol.

Happy Valentine's Day...

So I hope everyone is having a good one today. Mine started a little rough by having someone call me, no clue who and didn't even leave a message...mmmk. But I did get woken up by my dear fiance Jeremy. Before he left my room this morning, he left 2 little cards and a Reese's cup..yum...So yeah, those cards were the beginning of a scavenger hunt...I got lots of candy, including an entire bag of Reese's cups...Dove melt-a-way chocolates... Warheads!!!...and Andes Mints!!!! But my biggest gift this morning was a beautiful arrangement of white daisies, red roses, stargazer lilies, and a pretty little red/orangish flower. I'll have to go investigate what the one I don't know is. I also got the new Madagascar!!! So I feel like I made out like a bandit this year! Considering last year (our first V-Day together), I was sick and Jeremy had to take care of me.

For Jeremy, he got Zack and Miri, a pair of comfy shorts (considering the fact that I steal his baseball shorts all the time), and an AWESOME shirt that he couldn't stop laughing about. I'll have to post a picture of it when he's wearing it. But the shirt has a groom and a bride on the front of it. The groom has a ball and chain and is frowning, the bride is smiling and underneath it says "Game Over." Jeremy likes to play video games but then, technically "game over" since he's taken..lol. He said he's going to wear it today for when we go run errands and go meet up with his mom, but he will change shirts for us to go to dinner. I'll grab a picture of him in it and post it later...lol

I'm thinking of re-doing the blog, but I'm not sure how I want it to look and what not...so..we'll see what the blog comes to be over the next week or so...**but to go with today..the blog is pink..so help me..lol**

Also, I'm going to try and blog a little bit more, especially pertaining to wedding stuff and not so much of ranting about personal things...

I'm out for now...

A little bit of wedding stuff...

So today, I went and looked at some more wedding stuff and ended up getting a good amount of stuff for $15 from another newlywed. I ended up getting 2 wicker baskets that are already black (I just have to change out the bows to blue) that will be used for the programs. I also got some framed Oklahoma stuff would have cost me about $15 for just the frames, plus I even got an Oklahoma shaped basket. So I got some stuff done today, but I've got time to get things figured out. Kirsten also gave me some great ideas for favors and how to set things up. I'm so glad that before buying the branches from her, that I had actually met her years ago. But she's been so helpful already.

Anyways, I'm ready for the weekend. Yes I'm excited that tomorrow is Valentine's Day, but I get to sleep in for once!!! I may take some photos of the branches and the stuff that I got today and post them some time this weekend. If I don't get to it, I may do it next week.

I'm just ready to get out of the funk that I'm in...blarg....

A week that started off good..has now gone down hill...

The last couple of weeks have been insane. Historical Research is making me want to pull my hair out. I'm finally through a major hoop as of Monday but still have a few more to go...bleh. So much of me is ready for this semester to be done with for so many reason. The first reason being that I'd be done with Historical Research for good and won't have the stress of having to write a major paper until I hit graduate work. But the other reason is the fact that I'm tired of my semesters being rocky due to my eye...

I had my last eye appointment back on Tuesday. My cornea doctor was pleased with how well my cornea graft is doing, but he was worried that my vision has not improved to where it needs to be. So I got sent to have scan done of my retina because while he was looking at my eye, he saw what looked like inflamation. So off to the second floor I go. I get the scan done and stay positive since I was getting to meet my plastic surgeon about what he can do to fix my eyelid. It was really interesting how much better my peripherial vision will be come time for that surgery. It won't be perfect but it'll be better than what it is now. At least I won't look as much like Rocky Balboa or the Hunchback of Notre Dame when the time comes for E-Pics, Bridals and the Wedding.

Well during my visit with the surgery scheduler, the wonderful Oklahoma weather struck...oh joys. So we were finally able to finish the paper and got my surgery scheduled for the last Friday of my spring break in March. I wasn't going to miss any school for this surgery..yay. Fastforward today...I forgot my phone in the car while I was in class and missed a call from my mom. I listened to the message and called her back. Well after my cornea doctor looked at the scan, he passed the word on that I now have a retinal fold. Yeah, thus the reason why my vision is still so blurry. So now on March 3rd, I get meet my 3rd acutal eye doctor, but my 4th doctor overall at Dean A. McGee Eye Institute...

And as it stands, I'll probably end up having to pushing back doing the eyelid lift, which I was looking forward to, and have to deal now with the possibility of my 4th surgery on the eye itself. I'm 22 years old, I shouldn't be having these kinds of surgeries...but Murphy's Law...or Clary's Law as my cornea doctor now calls it. I just wish I could have a normal life that wasn't full of eye appointments and restrictions...blarg..I just want to give up.

I've now hit the point that I'm not caring about my body again. I haven't done Turbo Jam in like 2 weeks now. I hate depression. I hate how everything is going good and then it turns to shit. I was hoping that for once, I would have a semester that wasn't interrupted by a surgery that wasn't during a break.

I think I'm just going to crawl into a black hole and cry myself to sleep and hope that everything just goes away. I haven't even touched anything wedding related for myself in weeks now, jsut checked around on the Knot and on WeddingBook, as well as picked up the silver branches that I bought for $40 and will be looking at some more wedding related stuff, just nothing major.

I guess I'm going to stop rambling and try to go to bed. If I can't, I may be sneaking into Jeremy's room and cuddling with him for a while to maybe soothe my nerves and maybe help me get to sleep some how. I'm just glad I only have an 11 o'clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays...