I've been so busy I haven't even posted

I am such an awful blogger. I love being updated and reading everyone elses blogs but I never spend the time to update mine. Sorry! I don't even know if I can remember everything that has happened since I last posted, but I'll try.

Grad school has ended for the summer for me. I planned on taking a class during the first summer session, but that class got canceled. I had the opportunity to take the class we need for next year, but I just decided to spend the last few weeks finishing up little details before the wedding. I know I probably should have taken the class, but I am really enjoying not having to go to class two nights a week. The class the was canceled is now being offered during the second summer session for all the students but obviously I will not be in town so I hope to get a waiver to be able to do my practicum without the class. I will then make up the class next summer.

It is now less than 6 weeks till the wedding. WOW. I know Rod just wants it to be over with, but I hope he knows how much love I put into creating a beautiful and special day for us. (I don't remember if I put this in the last post, so I'll just repeat myself if I did) We bought shot glasses for our wedding favor. I wanted them to get them with a satin etch because I didn't really want to choose a color. The place we ordered them from said we should do a dark color. My mom and I talked about it a lot and we ended up going with the satin etch like we had originally wanted. I think they came out great. You can read everything and it doesn't stand out too much! We had them shipped to California, but my dad travels there every other week normally so he stopped by my grandparents' house and picked up a shot glass to bring back to me:) I ordered our unity candle last week. Unity candles are expensive. I really liked a very simple one online and it was $45. I ended up finding one on ebay that a lady makes for you and puts a picture of you on it and any saying you want. You could bid starting at 19.95 or you could buy now at 24.95. Well I figured I should bid first because even if I lost she had other auctions I could buy from or bid on. I won the bid so I ended up paying $34 with shipping. My grandmother told me it arrived yesterday and it looks nice. I also bought another part of Rod's wedding gift and it was shipped to my grandparents house. Then I bought lingerie for my honeymoon. All of you who know me know I'm not the smallest person so when it comes to lingerie, I wasn't sure I would want anything. I figured I had to buy something since it is my honeymoon. I actually got Rod's opinion on something. So it's not a surprise, but I think I will be getting lingerie for my bachelorette party. If not, it's ok because I do have something. I was told I needed to have something white for me wedding night which is the only thing I don't have. My mom and I bought lingerie for underneath my dress, so does that count? The other thing I recently bought was blue christmas lights for my grandmother's deck. She has this beautiful backyard and deck overlooking the LA harbor. We are having coffee and desserts after the rehearsal dinner on Thursday night there and we are also having an after party after the wedding there. My grandmother wanted to put blue lights on her deck because blue is the main color in our wedding. I thought that was really cute so I bought her blue lights to string on the deck. I got my dress bustled and picked it up yesterday. It is going to bustle really pretty. Now I just need to decide how I'm going to do my hair. Oh yeah and hope my dress fits on the wedding day. It can zip up right now, but it pushes my boobs up to my chin.

I'm trying to be really good about eating but its hard. I'm thinking of joining Weight Watchers online. It calculates all your points for you. I don't want to spend a whole lot more money, but I think this might be good for me. I just trying to make sure I would do it before I spend the money on it. Someone I work with started it on Monday and lost 3 pounds by the end of the week. She's not really big either so I should be able to lose some weight quickly. I just don't know. Once the wedding is over I'm going to try to get serious about losing weight. It's so hard when I'm in class so much and when I get home I don't feel like cooking. I guess I'm just lazy. I don't feel like doing anything when I get home. That's not only bad for eating but cleaning as well. Our apartment always looks bad.

School is out in 5 days. Actually I have to go back the next Monday, but that's only 6 days. Then I leave for California the Thursday of the next week. Once school is out I plan on cleaning up our apartment and putting things away and getting rid of things I don't need. Collecting things to use later on is one of my weaknesses. I got it from my mother who got it from her mother. I wish I didn't get that gene. It's awful. I keep old school work and papers. I should just get rid of undergradute stuff. I know I'm not going to look back at it. It's just hard to get rid of it because I think I might need it later on down the line, but really I never look in those boxes.

So I might have missed a few things along the way, but this has been my life. Next weekend is a neighborhood BBQ at my parents so Rod and I are going there and then Sunday is father's day. Hope everyone is doing well. Summer is pretty much here! Have a great summer!