Making some progress!

We were busy little bees today! But it seems like we are making some progress, finally! We met with a nice woman today who has a catering business. She seemed to know her stuff, it seemed more affordable by far than anything we've seen lately, and I think it'll work out. She's going to come with a few ideas for menus and pricing and get back to us. And then we'd get to have a mini "tasting" and make our decision. I'm pretty confident that she's who we'll go with. Then we went and checked out a hall. Its fairly small, but I guess it'll hold up to 150 (and we won't have nearly that many!). We had planned to just put down the deposit but Jeremy's mom offered to pay the remaining balance. It was so great of her. Its one less thing to stress out about.
So, hall-done. Caterer-practically done! Dress-done. Flowers-mom is taking care of so done! I need to get myself into gear and decide if I am making my invitations or if I should just order them. I need to figure out some decorations for the tables and some favors. Still ALOT to do, but its not really freaking me out yet.
In other news Jeremy had an interview on Wednesday. He sounded like it went really well, but won't hear anything for a few days. Please keep your fingers crossed! He really is excited about the prospect of working for this company and we need the income. But I'd love it if he was working somewhere that he could be happy and enthusiastic about what he was doing.

So much to do!!

Oh, I don't know why it felt like such a long day today! I'm ready for it to be Thursday so I can have a day of no work! I'm going to stay home all day and try and straighten up the house (wait...didn't I just say NO work? darn!!) and work on figuring out what I want to do for wedding favors. Yesterday was kind of a nice turning point. I've been happy about the wedding, but since we had finally set the date I've been a little apathetic about it. I think part of it was just being a little overwhelmed by the whole thing, and being overwhelmed by the energy and excitement that everyone else was having. That and last week I was kinda getting the hang of living daily having to take medication. But last night I spent ALOT of time on the phone with my poor mom (I think she's having a blast though!) talking about ideas. She's sent me lots of good links to some really cute ideas for favors and invitations. I finally started rounding up the guest list. I figured out a few things. And I'm FINALLY just insanely giddy that in 4 and a half months I am finally getting to marry the perfect guy for me!!!! There is a ton to do. But I have plenty of confidence that we'll get it together in the end. I am pretty sure I know what I want for favors. I have the cutest idea for invitations. I have an appointment on Saturday with someone that was recommend by one of the amazing ladies that I work with to talk about her catering, and getting ideas for how much she charges. Hopefully she's affordable, I think I'd like having someone recommended so highly by someone I know. So I need to kinda figure out what I would like to have for a menu so we can get some estimates. I need to myself in gear and get a checklist going!! Its going to be SO much fun. I should go be productive probably. It's a good idea.....

First blog....

and its Valentines day! It was a pretty uneventful day. I had the day off and we'd originally intended to get up and go to J's parents for a bit and then go to dinner and a movie. We never made it to the parents house and after dinner I was feeling a bit weird so we came home. Romantic huh? The new medication that I'm taking has kinda thrown me off this week. Thought this stuff was supposed to make me feel better not worse! I'm sure my body just is still adapting, but it'd be nice to feel better already! It's been a pretty rough week with dealing with the various little side effects. Or trying to decide if it was nothing and I'm just being paranoid and convincing myself its a side effect. But if it does what its supposed to then its worth it in the long run.
J and I finally set the wedding date last week. It kinda sucked that I really wasn't able to do much planning this week while not feeling well. July 11 will be here before we know it! Two days after having the date set I had a moment where I almost changed my mind and wanted to elope! His mom and sister are so excited. They've called and talked to us about wedding stuff like 4 times this week. I feel so bad because I know they just want to help and they are SOOOO excited about this, but they are stressing me out. And I don't want to stress its supposed to be a fun time! Hopefully it'll calm down a little soon or I may go slightly mad before now and then....and wouldn't I be lovely wearing a straight jacket over my pretty dress?
Oh and tomorrow is our 7 year anniversary (of sorts....its complicated lol)