Lindsey

Well, as most people know, I’ve been furiously working away at wedding things now that my semester is over. Overall, the semester was okay, and I got decent grades, but it definetely wasn’t my best. I was a little stressed out for the last fourth of it and had a rough patch. But, I came out all right. Thankfully.

So now I’ve put myself to work for the wedding. I made 200 and sent out 184 invitations. If everyone attends and brings the amount of people I expect, that would be 421 people. Hopefully, for the 80 people who would have to watch the wedding standing and our parent’s checkbooks, that won’t happen. I want lots of people to come, but not everyone.

Also, the invitations were made by hand. My friends (although mostly just Megan) and I printed them, punched holes, tied ribbon, stamped the label with silver ink hearts in most cases, put foil seals until i ran out due to my other bag of them being MIA somewhere, put USPS stamps on the rsvp envelope and the outside. I have to say for their quaintness, we did an excellent job. In case you are wondering, the woman-hours on that project was around 40 HOURS. I saved hundreds of dollars, but still. It was exhausting. So if your name is on your parents, no bitching.

I have also sent in “engagement announcements” to the grant county review in Milbank and the Ortonville independent. Hopefully they publish them this week.

I have also created a wedding website. Much of it is for out-of-towners, but one important piece is our gift information. We aren’t doing a “gift registry” at Target or anything because it is to much work and too expensive to haul out here. The uhaul for the way out here was around 500 or so. Shipping stuff also costs money. So we are looking for either personal gifts that mean something, or gift cards so we don’t have to haul tons of kitchen gear 1500 miles. We created a “gift card registry” that although my mother lets me know is tacky, is way more convenient. If you have any suggestions for places not already on the list, let me know. The more variety, the better.
Here is the website: click here
For people familiar with the area, read the directions and make sure i didn’t make any mistakes. I wrote them fast and you never know when you do that.

In other news, Tony is making a trip soon – two weeks from now i think- to visit us. Should be a good time. My mom and sisters are arriving June 7th, and staying a few days and seeing the sites, and we should be back to O-town on the 12 or so.

I also will be working at Applebee’s every weekday during the summer, the money isn’t great for lunch, but its better than just spending it.

I also would like to get golfing more. This is the first year in many I haven’t practiced year round, and by far the latest that I haven’t made it to play a round. B and I hit up a range one day, but you have to use mats, and thats worthless. My professor is taking me to a fancy private course sometime soon, so I better get in top form to beat him.

I also am pretending, although hopefully it happens for real, to begin a concerted effort to lose some weight. I am at about my heaviest ever, and that isn’t how i want the most photographed day of my life to be. So I’m going to try to start running/working out more. I did run a mile or so outside today, but it was so warm out I couldn’t do much more than that. I don’t sweat much, so I get overheated pretty easily. I should have ran on the treadmill at the fitness center, but it was too beautiful to be inside all day. My goal is 7-10 pounds before the wedding. I already have the dress in to get fitted, and it is a little snug on top, so I could lose some but not a lot, because alterations are too expensive. It cost almost $200 to do the hem. After the wedding, I’d like to lose 5-10 more. So a total of around 15. I’ll never be as skinny as I used to be – my body finally caught up to my bone structure. Plus although most of you don’t want to know or care, I don’t want to lose my “lady lumps” either. I kinda like them.

After expressing my love for my breasts, I think this post is complete. Does anyone else feel a little awkward?