Got a lot done this weekend.
Lots of random errands that required spending money for school, how fantastic.
But also organized the rehearsal dinner (K Pasta! Yum! Thanks to my students for having parents that own restaurants!)
Took a lot of time to relax as well. Watched 2012 (entertaining) and lots of Buffy episodes (fantastic!).
Church - Palm Sunday. Easter is almost here. Wow.
Amazing. 19 days to go, and then I am a married woman for life.
I am so EXCITED! :)
Plus, spring break is next week. That's awesome too - but not as awesome as April 17th! :)
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Pride...or something I'm thinking about
So, in case you didn't know, I'm planning a wedding. It's coming up pretty quick now. Like 25 days or something like that. Insane!
As I've been planning it, people have offered to help. "No, it's fine. I got it." "Kevin's helping out a lot." "We're fine, thanks though."
Someone offered to help this weekend, and I said, all right, go ahead. I later found out that she had some problems with the helping, and it didn't go as planned. "I should have just done it myself," I thought.
See, growing up, I was the go-to person in group projects. I'll do it, it's fine, don't worry that you didn't do anything and I wrote a 40 page description of Thomas Jefferson. I was the overachiever (still am, who I am kidding?), and I just picked up the slack because I didn't want to have to suffer. I even had a friend in college say, "You know, none of us in music history do the reading, because we know you'll answer all the questions." I always felt like I HAD to do everything, because no one else could do it as well as I could.
Humble, right?
Yeah.
No.
God convicted me yesterday a lot. He said I need to surrender the table numbers, and just let someone else do it. Are people really going to obsess about the table numbers? No. (If you do, please don't tell me. I don't want to know.)
So, I need to work on surrendering, and letting other people do things, and being okay with how they turn out. I need to DELEGATE.
Okay, God.
I'm working on it. But it's hard, so I need Your help, okay?
Love you all out there.
P.S. Christina, do you appreciate the wedding planning update? :)
As I've been planning it, people have offered to help. "No, it's fine. I got it." "Kevin's helping out a lot." "We're fine, thanks though."
Someone offered to help this weekend, and I said, all right, go ahead. I later found out that she had some problems with the helping, and it didn't go as planned. "I should have just done it myself," I thought.
See, growing up, I was the go-to person in group projects. I'll do it, it's fine, don't worry that you didn't do anything and I wrote a 40 page description of Thomas Jefferson. I was the overachiever (still am, who I am kidding?), and I just picked up the slack because I didn't want to have to suffer. I even had a friend in college say, "You know, none of us in music history do the reading, because we know you'll answer all the questions." I always felt like I HAD to do everything, because no one else could do it as well as I could.
Humble, right?
Yeah.
No.
God convicted me yesterday a lot. He said I need to surrender the table numbers, and just let someone else do it. Are people really going to obsess about the table numbers? No. (If you do, please don't tell me. I don't want to know.)
So, I need to work on surrendering, and letting other people do things, and being okay with how they turn out. I need to DELEGATE.
Okay, God.
I'm working on it. But it's hard, so I need Your help, okay?
Love you all out there.
P.S. Christina, do you appreciate the wedding planning update? :)
Friday, March 12, 2010
Phew!
Hey all you people who read this blog,
So, yeah, it's been almost a month, I'm sorry, okay? :)
We are at about 36 days till our wedding. Lots accomplished! Lots to do:
Accomplished:
-tasting (going with chicken piccata with a raspberry wedge salad, wild rice, and veggies)
-ordering of parent presents
-ordering all bridal party gifts
-limo booked
-guestbook ordered
-table numbers figured out (but not made yet)
-invitations out (and OH! that was a story. That was horrible. I don't think I wrote about it on here. But maybe I will, as a "haha, wasn't that hilarious?" post. It was NOT hilarious at the time though.)
-website done
-booked flight
-bridal shower thank you notes (took me forever, I am so bad at those)
-and many other random things that I am forgetting
Still to do:
-bridal hair consultation (tomorrow!)
-makeup consultation (april!)
-make the table numbers
-write thank yous as presents come in (so fun to get boxes in the mail!)
-finish paying for honeymoon
-book rental car
-finish counseling
-get organist to agree to the music I want (she plays well, but she's a musician, like me, and "I'm not sure I can cut that piece shorter - it's just so beautiful!" Well, lady, it's my wedding. Deal with it.)
-decide on Father Daughter dance music (what the heck should I do? My dad is NOT nostalgic or cute like that, so "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman would just make him barf. Thoughts, anyone? To show you what I'm dealing with - he suggested "My Favorite Things" from Sound of Music. Yeah.
-and I'm sure, tons of other stuff we need to get finished.
In other news, I am good for my job next year! Thanks, God. We didn't really know what was going to happen with that. People told me I would be okay, that I was back far enough (hired, I mean), but I tend to worry unnecessarily. Need to work on that.
Okay, I'll try to blog more, as we get closer. I will. I'll try. No guarantees.
Miss you all!
Congrats Scott and Amy!
And WOO Christina! Have a great time this weekend! :)
So, yeah, it's been almost a month, I'm sorry, okay? :)
We are at about 36 days till our wedding. Lots accomplished! Lots to do:
Accomplished:
-tasting (going with chicken piccata with a raspberry wedge salad, wild rice, and veggies)
-ordering of parent presents
-ordering all bridal party gifts
-limo booked
-guestbook ordered
-table numbers figured out (but not made yet)
-invitations out (and OH! that was a story. That was horrible. I don't think I wrote about it on here. But maybe I will, as a "haha, wasn't that hilarious?" post. It was NOT hilarious at the time though.)
-website done
-booked flight
-bridal shower thank you notes (took me forever, I am so bad at those)
-and many other random things that I am forgetting
Still to do:
-bridal hair consultation (tomorrow!)
-makeup consultation (april!)
-make the table numbers
-write thank yous as presents come in (so fun to get boxes in the mail!)
-finish paying for honeymoon
-book rental car
-finish counseling
-get organist to agree to the music I want (she plays well, but she's a musician, like me, and "I'm not sure I can cut that piece shorter - it's just so beautiful!" Well, lady, it's my wedding. Deal with it.)
-decide on Father Daughter dance music (what the heck should I do? My dad is NOT nostalgic or cute like that, so "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman would just make him barf. Thoughts, anyone? To show you what I'm dealing with - he suggested "My Favorite Things" from Sound of Music. Yeah.
-and I'm sure, tons of other stuff we need to get finished.
In other news, I am good for my job next year! Thanks, God. We didn't really know what was going to happen with that. People told me I would be okay, that I was back far enough (hired, I mean), but I tend to worry unnecessarily. Need to work on that.
Okay, I'll try to blog more, as we get closer. I will. I'll try. No guarantees.
Miss you all!
Congrats Scott and Amy!
And WOO Christina! Have a great time this weekend! :)
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
6 months and counting...
...and I'm going slightly crazy.
Case in point: invitations and the fiasco that was this weekend.
Probably wouldn't have been that big a deal if I hadn't had this big plan in my head. "Here's what we'll do: we'll watch the Super Bowl (since we can't make it to a party this year), and put together the invitations, and at the end of the game, we'll have them all done, sealed, stamped, and ready to go! Productivity!"
Yeah. Not really what happened.
Some highlights:
-Getting to the post office at 3:07 on Saturday to discover that they close at 3:00.
-Attempting to print the addresses on clear labels and discover that they a) didn't line up right, b) smeared ink all over the place, and c) wouldn't feed correctly into the printer.
-forgetting the charger cable for the laptop that had all the addresses on it, and frantically trying to change all the names from "Bob and Sherry Jones" to "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones" as fast as I could.
-Eventually figuring out the labels, but having to remove them, one sheet at a time, and lay them on the couch so they could dry and not smear.
-Giving up on the idea of inside clear labels with the names and just handwriting it - with my out-of-shape cursive. (As in, I don't write in cursive. Ever. So it's out-of-shape.)
-Staying up until 11:30 p.m., and only finishing 30 invitations.
Holy crap.
It was awful. Probably doesn't sound as bad here, but trust me, it was bad. Why else would I burst into tears over ink smudges?
It'll all be over soon, and maybe then I'll return back to my normal, somewhat stress-free self. That's my hope anyway. 2 months seems like a long time...
Case in point: invitations and the fiasco that was this weekend.
Probably wouldn't have been that big a deal if I hadn't had this big plan in my head. "Here's what we'll do: we'll watch the Super Bowl (since we can't make it to a party this year), and put together the invitations, and at the end of the game, we'll have them all done, sealed, stamped, and ready to go! Productivity!"
Yeah. Not really what happened.
Some highlights:
-Getting to the post office at 3:07 on Saturday to discover that they close at 3:00.
-Attempting to print the addresses on clear labels and discover that they a) didn't line up right, b) smeared ink all over the place, and c) wouldn't feed correctly into the printer.
-forgetting the charger cable for the laptop that had all the addresses on it, and frantically trying to change all the names from "Bob and Sherry Jones" to "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones" as fast as I could.
-Eventually figuring out the labels, but having to remove them, one sheet at a time, and lay them on the couch so they could dry and not smear.
-Giving up on the idea of inside clear labels with the names and just handwriting it - with my out-of-shape cursive. (As in, I don't write in cursive. Ever. So it's out-of-shape.)
-Staying up until 11:30 p.m., and only finishing 30 invitations.
Holy crap.
It was awful. Probably doesn't sound as bad here, but trust me, it was bad. Why else would I burst into tears over ink smudges?
It'll all be over soon, and maybe then I'll return back to my normal, somewhat stress-free self. That's my hope anyway. 2 months seems like a long time...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
RAIN!
So, yes, here in SoCal we are experiencing intense heavy rainfall. And yes, my car did get flooded yesterday - nothing too bad, but hopefully not expensive to fix. And yes, I did have to keep students longer in classes because of the tornado warning.
Still - I love it!
Rain is perhaps my favorite weather. Of course, I have never lived in snow, so maybe that will change when I live someplace with snow. (East Lansing, anyone?)
We're in for another storm today. We'll have to see how it goes - woohoo! :)
Stay dry, everyone!
Still - I love it!
Rain is perhaps my favorite weather. Of course, I have never lived in snow, so maybe that will change when I live someplace with snow. (East Lansing, anyone?)
We're in for another storm today. We'll have to see how it goes - woohoo! :)
Stay dry, everyone!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Feeling better...
Hello everyone out there.
No, I haven't died.
Yes, I have been a hermit.
The word "hermit" always reminds me of the Babysitters' Club books. I think, in one of them, there is a reference to some random neighbor who was a hermit, and apparently, would subsist on nothing but dandelions.
Random, I know, but that's how my brain works sometimes.
Anyway, I have been a hermit lately. I have been canceling plans, I have been holed up in my house. It's fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
This past week, I got lots more rest than I thought I would. And I actually started feeling like myself again. Being away from the pressure of my job (or that I won't have a job...ha), not to mention not dealing with kids, not worrying about the wedding, getting more sleep, etc....it's been really nice.
And I still have about a week left!
Of course, I woke up today feeling yuck. And this week is much busier than last week.
But, I'm going to keep resting.
Please forgive me if I haven't called you. I need to rest. At some point, I'll come out of this funk. I predict next August, after I'm finished with grad school and I KNOW that I have a job.
Thank you for your patience. I love you all - even if I have disappeared.
No, I haven't died.
Yes, I have been a hermit.
The word "hermit" always reminds me of the Babysitters' Club books. I think, in one of them, there is a reference to some random neighbor who was a hermit, and apparently, would subsist on nothing but dandelions.
Random, I know, but that's how my brain works sometimes.
Anyway, I have been a hermit lately. I have been canceling plans, I have been holed up in my house. It's fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
This past week, I got lots more rest than I thought I would. And I actually started feeling like myself again. Being away from the pressure of my job (or that I won't have a job...ha), not to mention not dealing with kids, not worrying about the wedding, getting more sleep, etc....it's been really nice.
And I still have about a week left!
Of course, I woke up today feeling yuck. And this week is much busier than last week.
But, I'm going to keep resting.
Please forgive me if I haven't called you. I need to rest. At some point, I'll come out of this funk. I predict next August, after I'm finished with grad school and I KNOW that I have a job.
Thank you for your patience. I love you all - even if I have disappeared.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Rest...finally
I'm not really great at resting. Things have to literally STOP for me to rest. That's why my best rest comes during vacation time - spring break, winter break, summer break. All well and good...normally.
Except that the past two summers have been mostly full of school. (I love school! But it's not resting.) And this August, when I got back, I dove into wedding planning. (I love planning my wedding! But it's also not resting.)
Sometimes, God needs to whack me on the head to get me to stop. Sometimes, I won't stop until He REALLY whacks me on the head - or the whole body, if need be.
So, He did that.
Came home after a relatively normal day at work Monday, sat on the couch, and developed a 101 degree fever in a few hours. I haven't had a fever since I had my appendix out - which, last I remembered, required a trip to the hospital. Apparently, this was serious.
Went to the doctor on Tuesday, and he told me I had a sinus infection. No big - I get them every year, usually 2 or 3 times. But this doctor said, "Don't go back to work until Monday."
Monday???
"But I have concerts...But I have this string teacher in-service thing...But I'm meeting with some other teachers to do thus-and-so...but I have to work out...but...but...but..."
Nope.
Time for me to relax, chill, watch television, movies, and whatever. Time to get pampered by my oh-so-amazing fiancee, who has cooked for me, ran errands, cleaned up, washed dishes, done laundry, and in general stayed by my side so that I didn't have to do anything.
And I am sick. I'm really sick. Sickest I've been in a long time.
But I needed this rest. So I am okay with missing four days of work. Even though I have NEVER missed that much work in a row.
I needed this.
So...
thanks, God.
Except that the past two summers have been mostly full of school. (I love school! But it's not resting.) And this August, when I got back, I dove into wedding planning. (I love planning my wedding! But it's also not resting.)
Sometimes, God needs to whack me on the head to get me to stop. Sometimes, I won't stop until He REALLY whacks me on the head - or the whole body, if need be.
So, He did that.
Came home after a relatively normal day at work Monday, sat on the couch, and developed a 101 degree fever in a few hours. I haven't had a fever since I had my appendix out - which, last I remembered, required a trip to the hospital. Apparently, this was serious.
Went to the doctor on Tuesday, and he told me I had a sinus infection. No big - I get them every year, usually 2 or 3 times. But this doctor said, "Don't go back to work until Monday."
Monday???
"But I have concerts...But I have this string teacher in-service thing...But I'm meeting with some other teachers to do thus-and-so...but I have to work out...but...but...but..."
Nope.
Time for me to relax, chill, watch television, movies, and whatever. Time to get pampered by my oh-so-amazing fiancee, who has cooked for me, ran errands, cleaned up, washed dishes, done laundry, and in general stayed by my side so that I didn't have to do anything.
And I am sick. I'm really sick. Sickest I've been in a long time.
But I needed this rest. So I am okay with missing four days of work. Even though I have NEVER missed that much work in a row.
I needed this.
So...
thanks, God.
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