Wedding Fever

So I've been living and breathing my wedding planning lately, I guess it's why I haven't had many original posts like I did through the summer.It's hard to have time to get out and do something original when your investing so much time and effort into a big event. It definetly has it's ups and downs. Most of it is fun! Some of it is stressfull.

It's Fun to do things like talk with Vendors about Flowers, Music, Ceremony vows ect. but this afternoon, I'm working on getting everyone's addresses into a spreadsheet.... VERY TEDIOUS. It's not the most exciting Sunday afternoon to be looking up 160ish peoples addresses and postal codes... Thank goodness for canada411.com

We have so many decisions to make, so bouncing ideas back and forth has been taking up a lot of our conversation and thought. It leaves way for a lot of creativity, but also a very tired mind that doesn't quiet itself for sleep. Sometimes I wonder what would I be doing "right now" if I wasn't wedding planning.

It's hard to have a conversation with someone without our wedding coming up I think the longest I've gone in conversation without it coming up is all of 15 minutes. Sometimes it's them who bring it up, admittedly it's often me. I'm sure I have friends tired of hearing about our wedding ( Sorry! :) )

Maybe to deter me from talking about it, people should scream and ring bells like its the word of the day on Peewee's Playhouse anytime I bring up anything to do with getting married

I think right now I'm going to head out for a walk... I Really need a break from this Computer screen,who knows, Maybe something that has nothing to do with getting Married will happen! How Exciting!

Don't you just love it when teachers' good intentions go amuck!!!

An elementary school class started a class project to make a planter to take home to their parents. They wanted to have a plant in it that was easy to take care of, so they decided to use cactus plants.The students were given greenware pottery planters in the shape of a clown which they painted with glaze.The clown planters were professionally fired at a class outing so they could see the process. It was great fun. They planted cactus seeds in the finished planters and they grew nicely but unfortunately the children were not allowed to take them home...the cactus plants were removed and small ivy replaced in them and the children were then allowed to take them home instead.The teacher said cactus seemed like a good idea at the time!

First Tree!

I've been thinking about getting a Christmas Tree for the last while. This is our first Christmas in our house together, and I've really wanted to start some tradition . Drew and I are each others family now, and tradition is important in family.

I have an environmental conscience and for that reason I've been debating between a real tree and a fake tree. I've heard good and bad reports of both. And they did nothing but confuse my decision.

False tree:
Good Reports: It saves another tree being cut down that helps to filter green house gases , costs less money in the long run, and you can use that money to help the environment
Bad Reports: It just eventually ends up in a landfill, mostly plastic, never decomposes,

Real Tree:
Good reports: When it is tossed out in tree collection, it is chipped up and can decompose, Less environmental waste. Hey they were probably grown on a tree farm anyway right? Fills the house with a Christmasy aroma.
Bad reports: It's supporting a farming industry with pesticides, there was lots of water wasted on the growing of the tree, and it's Fumes and residue can be harmful for the house. Often people are allergic.

Are you wondering what we decided to buy?

Well it was neither.

We opted for "Reduce, Reuse Recycle "

Thanks to Freecycle ( www.freecycle.org ) we were connected with someone who was throwing out their perfectly nice false tree. Probably because they bought one of those new fandangled pre-lit trees. We were able to save a curbside tree left for garbage and give it a new home. We diverted a false tree from a landfill, give it a new life, and didn't have to pay a cent to do it.( other than the cost of gas in the car to curbside tree-nap) This was a great way to save my conscience.

Now we have it all set up and lit. It's beautiful. We have maybe all of 6 decorations on it, and it doesn't have anything on the top yet. ( We have some fun Ideas though )

I'm thinking of having a Pre-Christmas Tree warming party , invite friends down , ask them to bring an ornament of some sort.To hang on our tree. I would love to include our friends in our Christmas traditions to come by hanging the ornaments they give us on our tree in Christmas's to come.

I would have to serve cider, and egg nog, hot chocolate and tea ( of course not to forget the baileys and rum). Bake up some cookies. How about some Pumpkin and Apple Pie?

Maybe feature the "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" ( Retro cartoon of course) And really try to set a mood to get everyone hyped up about Christmas.

I'm Already excited to have our First Tree.

My Christmas season, has officially started. ( Even if it is still a little early)

FrUsTrAtEd

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Sorry, I just had to get that out...

The Llama Song!

The Llama Song!

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You know your life is exciting when...

I Got a new shelving unit today, yes, to me this is exciting. I am one of thoose people who some how manages to collect large amonts of paper. And I never seem to throw an of it away. I have about 8 months of debit slips I emptied out of my purse. Who knew?

Well anyway , I have spent the night sorting through my paper, throwing stacks of it away. I'm suprised how much I really didn't need of all that paper.

Sometimes its fun to sort back and find old notes and letters , fewer and fewer now with instant messaging, email and blogging. I guess this electronic revolution has saved me alot of trouble because I have almost every email ever sent to me since 1995 ( save the few that were deleted from hotmail as well as some spam)

Back to my Shelves!

is it too early For a Christmas Post?

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