To Be Famous

When I was little, I had this dream of being a famous writer. Obviously that never happened, and I've been reduced to writing online to a nobody in particular. I am jealous of all these people that started blogs and got discovered (especially the guy who waited tables, started a blog and actually wrote a book about it. Come on! I waited tables too!). But I guess I'm mostly to blame for it, because I settled and changed my mind and sold out to be a business major. A major I thought I could actually get a creative job in, but no.

I used to think my writing was actually pretty good, but it turns out that I had been mistaken from the very beginning. I still have this one story that I wrote when I was in high school in a little blue brad folder. And it sucks. I mean, I guess a 109 page story is pretty impressive for a high schooler, but the main attraction was making out over Chinese food and the girl being attracted to her step brother. I usually did tell stories from first person; I think it makes any book more interesting. And now most of my blog entries are about the wedding and the job, and losing person after person at work. I think being my friend at work is the kiss of death. I miss Mike a lot at work; he was my only ally.

I am excited about the wedding. It's four weeks exactly from today. I had the final planning session with them on Thursday and everything is now set in stone. I guess I'm more ready to just have it over and be Bennett's wife already. I'm ready for "redacted". Sounds so plain. But I love it!!

I haven't decided if I will keep the maiden name as the middle name or not. Probably not. "redacted".

And then I think, this person who gets all excited about weddings and Chick-fil-a and Glamour/Cosmo magazine probably should have never been a writer to begin with. Oh, I have plenty of stories to tell; there are plenty of things that have happened to me to let me have something to write about. Maybe after the wedding when I'm done flying on cloud nine, I will have some time to sit and be deeper.

And Another One Bites the Dust....so to speak.

So another one of my friends has been discarded from the lovely land of yellow. And I'm really sad. He was a super cool guy, and is still coming to the wedding and hopefully we can hang out with him and his fiancee. Makes me really sad actually.... I just had to voice again how much I will miss him on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.... and who knows who I am now left with.

So I had my shower at Erica's last week and it was really great . It was good to see Aunt Karen and Aunt Mart and Bri. Haven't seen all of them in forever. I'm getting pretty excited about the wedding....just have a few things left to do...and then it's over. Can't wait to actually be married.

Fun Things

So the invitations go out tomorrow. I am pretty proud of how good they look. It took a while and a lot of money on stamps, but they are finally ready. Can't wait to finally get a good number on the people coming so we can order the rest of the stuff.

And now that my dad has mandated place cards that has added an additional two or three hours or so planning a seating chart and writing names on place cards and table numbers and all sorts of other things....grr. But he pulled out the, 'I'm paying for it' card, so I couldn't say no.

So a couple weeks ago, we went to see Cory Morrow. He is a texas country singer and just so happens to be singing our wedding song, "always and forever." You should check it out on myspace just to hear it. It's awesome...and makes me cry. But anyway, every new show that bennett goes to, he buys a koozie...and at the end of this night...this is what we got..

Oh yeah..that's totally cory's signature with our wedding date on there and congrats!!! How awesome is that?!!!!

And got my shoes today....

Which I am also very excited about...I wasn't expecting them to be this cute or to fit as well as they do. But I think they're perfect wedding shoes....I can't wait to wear them!!