Oh hello! Why yes, I am still living, breathing, thinking, feeling, loving, and planning. Just still not picture taking. :( However, I will be getting a new camera verrry soon (hopefully this weekend), and I will try to resume my 365 project. I'm just considering the month of March a FAIL, and moving on. Anyway, I thought I'd do a quick bullet point update for anyone who has missed me!
- Oh my, I am neck deep in wedding planning. Enjoying some moments immensely (cake-tasting and wedding discussion time with J)...and others not so much (emailing and calling vendors with no response). So far, we have a church, a reception venue, a cake, and a photographer. I have a dress and shoes. We registered for gifts. We still need a DJ, official hotel block, and flowers. But all in all, I think it is going well!
- On the topic of wedding planning...I find it ridiculous that it is so difficult to get vendors to respond to emails requesting information. We're in a recession...and I am a potential source of money! If you aren't going to respond to a contact form on your website, then don't put it out there! I even had a hard time getting some people to call me back. I can tell you, though, that I am not hiring anyone who won't call back. As much as I hate the phone, it makes me nervous to think I wouldn't be able to get in contact with someone before the wedding if I needed to!
- At the beginning of this month, some of my friends threw us a fabulous surprise engagement party! I honestly had NO idea it was coming. It was a fabulous party with many of our favorite people...complete with a piano player, bartender (the very same one who witnessed our engagement!), fabulous food, and valet parking. I was so shocked when we walked in, that I think I was speechless for awhile! We were so grateful for such a special party, and all the effort and love that went into it! I must also confess that I broke my Lenten discipline and had wine. But, I figured it is the only surprise engagement party I will have in my life, and I would regret not having some of the tasty bordeaux and cabernet that was provided. I always say that I am not legalistic about my faith...and this was a night to prove it! :)
- We are headed to SC in a few weeks for an engagement party that my parents are throwing for us. I am looking forward to that as well!
- On a non-wedding note, we sang Bach's St. Matthew Passion this past weekend. I hope I can write more about this piece later, because it really moved me so much more than I expected. I was fighting back tears through both performances. I am normally not one to jump on a musical bandwagon, but I am really quite a fan of this piece.
- I am really excited about Holy Week and Easter this year. I am loving singing in a church choir again, especially one that performs works from composers that lived 200 years ago or more. I have seriously missed good choral church music.
- J and I are thinking about buying a house this summer. An exciting and frightening prospect.
I think that is about all I can fit into a 5 minute update. Hopefully I'll be back to elaborate more soon...
