Music Buffs, Anyone?

HELLO FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS!

Happy St. Patty's Day. Yeay for the Irish!

I have a task for you:

I'm looking for a song to be used during the wedding dance for the father/daughter mother/son dance (the dances will be combined if we find the right song so it can't be TOO gender specific). My dad prefers country if possible. I need suggestions... and Butterfly Kisses makes me PUKE so don't bother suggesting it.

Gracias and Have a Great Day!

Cuz it seems like the thing to do

So it looks like everyone and their snoop doggy dogg has finally posted on their blogs. Praise God and have a beer!

I think I have a pet peeve of longing for new info from friends and then finding nothing but a 12 day old rotted post on their site. Not that I haven't been guilty of the same thing especially in the past year, but man... it sure is annoying to crave info and find none.

Speaking of cravings... I have a weird thing wrong with me. After some screwed up Natural Family Planning charts and a lot of questioning, I have gone to the doctor and been pseudo diagonosed with this thing called Metabolic Syndrome. I'm not exactly sure what it is and it sounds like not all doctors really think it exists... but mostly it means that I have issues with insulin resistance in my cells and my cholestorol is outta whack. And it's possible that I might experience infertility (SUPER DUPER SAD!!!!) So my doctor tried to put me on some stupid medicine that would make it all better... but before I took the stupid medicine that MIGHT make it all better, I did research and found out that I could change my diet and quite possibly fix it myself. So that's what I've done. My diet is different... like WAY less sugar and WAY less grease and WAY less everything that tastes good. Diets are stupid. But on a happier note, because I've been learning NFP, I've been diagnosed with this thing that eventually could have caused me major problems (heart disease, diabetes, infertility etc)... and because I was charting I know about it now instead of 15 years from now when I have Diabetes already. YEAY FOR NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING!! NFP is fab and I highly recommend it for everyone... even if you have no intention of trying to get pregnant or postponing pregnancy. Charting helps you know all kinds of neat things about your body. It's a Godsend.

In other notes...we're like 54 days from the wedding. Today Andrew and I went to look at our future apartment. And the stinking ladies wouldn't let us see it. I'm getting really sick of these little chickies (why is it exactly that nearly all apartment complexes have size 0 fake-blond witchy looking 20-somethings working at them?) -oops... I think I just stereotyped. Anyhoo... these chicks are all "For liability reasons, we can't let you look at the apartment until we've had a chance to get through it since the last tenant moved out." Now I completely understand if they need to clean the joint up before they let us see it... but LIABILITY REASONS??? I think this was a big fat lie used to cover up the fact that the last time we were in there the little desk person told us that of course the previous tenant didn't smoke and she was sooo clean and she always had candles burning. Whatever. and Stupid.

Too bad for Andrew that this little encounter sent me into witchfest 2006, and he had to deal with me being very pissy for the rest of the day. (And we went to see the apartment at like 10:30am.) Poor dear. I do so love him.

In other news, if you haven't read the book "Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis, it is a MUST READ.

I should probably like sleep now. And also I should pray that I wake up in a better mood than I had this entire day. Thanks for reading my rant. Or at least skimming it.

Oh yeah.. by the way...

ROCK CHALK... JAYHAWK.... K UUUUUUU*

And Go SHOCKERS!!!!*

**I've got two teams to cheer for in the NCAA tourni this year! Who's pumped about March Madness??!! I AM!!! I AM!!!

roLleRcoAsTer

This whole wedding planning thing is...

fun
stressful
disheartening
exciting
awful
wonderful
neat
frustrating
fabulous
blecky
depressing
anxiety-filled
unbelievable
fabulous
grand

ALL OF THESE THINGS. And it changes by the hour. Seriously... like 6 hours ago I was super pumped about the wedding... the marriage... the husband... the everything. And about 20 minutes ago I was crying my eyes out because it's SOOO stinking stressful.

There's all these little things that keep popping up to worry about. Most of them are things that I can't just snap my fingers and make go away either... or at least they never seem like those things right at the moment.

I think wedding planning and marriage planning would be a WHOLE LOT EASIER if it didn't involve everyone and their dog. Like... if I had mad people skills, then all these little issues would go away... but because I don't know how to say the things I'm thinking without pissing someone off or stressing someone out or making someone angry... I just don't say them at all and it's blecky.

I vote that we go back to a bride, a groom, a priest, 2 witnesses and a Church.

MUCH MORE SIMPLE!

MONKIES! (not monkeys)

***side note*** Actually, I really think all this stress is definitely worth having all of Andrew's and my loved ones at the wedding and reception and dance. Because I can't imagine celebrating such a huge thing in life without all of y'all. But I just needed to get that little rant out to make the stress melt away so I could sleep. Yes. I'm much better now.

The first full week of Lent

Time to fast, time to feast:

Lent is a time to fast from certain things - and to feast on others.
It's a season we should
Fast from judging others, and feast on the Christ dwelling within them.
Fast from darkness; feast on the Light.
Fast from anger; feast on patience.
Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism.
Fast from worry; feast on divine order.
Fast from complaining; feast on appreciation.
Fast from fear; feast on unceasing prayer and faith.
Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.
Fast from idle gossip; feast on purposeful silence.
Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion.
Fast from suspicion; feast on truth.

-This is taken from the West Texas Catholic, a newspaper of the Amarillo Catholic Diocese.

Lots of changes, old Max, lots of changes

Hello friends and neighbors,

In today's episode we'll be discussing how different life is about to become. For those of you unfamiliar with our show... we take a topic, beat it to death with a hammer, and the merrily continue on our way towards something less or more disconcerting.

In 64 days and 50 minutes from the time of this post, the wedding music will have begun. And I'll soon walk down the aisle to become a Mrs. Is anyone else a little concerned that it is already March? I mean... seriously... wasn't it just November a few weeks ago?

Now... I'm not getting cold feet or anything yet... but I am struck at how much things will change. Getting married means becoming a Mrs. Becoming a Mrs means living with a boy. Living with a boy means not living at the Daisy house. Not living at the Daisy House means 1 less person to pay rent there. One less person to pay rent there means the house might not be around forever. The house not being around means lots of changes for lots of people. And those people affect other people and more people and lots of people and... MONKIES! (not that it will affect monkies, that was just an explitive thrown in for dramatic effect)

Furthermore and without further ado, it's nuts.

In other news, Lisa got new glasses. So did Jose. And Andrew will get them on Monday. It is a SPECTACULAR week... get it "spectacle"... heh heh.

Hmmm... Well I've about exhausted my energy for writing blogtasticness for now. I shall leave and go back to work.

Cheerio!

Because Sara has neat things on her website

Thought it was neat... took it from Sara. :)

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Hotel chain call center phone rep
2. Manager assistant at car rental place
3. Marketing coordinator at an ad agency
4. Traffic director at a radio station

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. Pretty Woman
3. Wedding Singer
4. Thirteen Going on Thirty

Four places you have lived:
1. Williamsburg, KS
2. Andale, KS
3. Lawrence, KS
4. Wichita, KS

Four TV shows you love to watch: (I'm using only shows currently on the air)
1. American Idol
2. American Idol
3. American Idol
4. American Idol (this is really the only show I ever watch)

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Montreal & Toronto Canada
2. Florida
3. Colorado
4. California

Four websites I visit daily: (or almost daily)
1. www.gmail.com
2. www.babeswithouttrying.blogspot.com
3. www.google.com
4. www.my.yahoo.com

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Mom's lasagna
2. Andrew's and my Salmon & Spaeztle dinner
3. Chocolate Chip Cookies
4. Kristi & Val's Sunshine Chicken

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Cuddling with Andrew on a blanket at the park
2. At IHOP with Valpo
3. Having girl time with my roomies
4. Playing cards with my brothers, sister-in-law, Andrew, Mom & Dad

The Open Book Club

Tonight there were about 25 people at my house for the Sojourn Retreat Reunion party. It was a great time... and it made me realize just how fun and crazy my friends are. Like my heart just gets bigger each time they're all around cuz they're all so different and unique and wonderful... plus they're great huggers. Yeay for hugs.

But that is neither here nor there nor anywhere... because I had a much more interesting epiphany type o thing this evening. It's about being an open book.

Now i've always sort of been one to wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm sad... people know it. If I'm happy... people know it. If I'm angry... people know it. If i'm pissy... people REALLY know it. And on top of that I general will tell just about anyone just about anything about me because I hit a point a few years ago when I decided that keeping things on the downlow was kinda stupid. So I decided to stop having secrets and I just started living outloud.

Anyways... this has taken me to a point in my relationships with people that even I'M not completely comfortable with what I talk about sometimes. For example, tonight toward the end of the evening when only a few people were left in the house, our discussion was centered on where Andrew and I should stay on our wedding night. Now normally... it wouldn't be a huge deal if people were just offering suggestions of places... but it was like a pretty detailed conversation... that people were actually pretty passionate about... and I was just sorta standing there wishing that everyone would just stop talking.

I was just struck by the ludiocrity of the situation. My life is such an open book that everyone can read it and everyone has something to say. It sorta grosses me out. At the very same time it completely amazes me because for so many people to know so much stuff about me, I must really trust them. And to have that many awesome trustworthy friends is a huge giant gift.

I think perhaps I need to work on my ability of keeping things to myself however because one of these days all this "stuff" that is being talked about now... is actually going to be happening. And I'm not sure I want to share something so personal and sacred.

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In other news... have I mentioned lately how utterly blown away I am by my fiance? Like... it really feels like I love him more everyday than I did the day before. I don't know how it's possible. Even when I'm so annoyed with him that I could just about scream, I still love him so so so so much. It's awesome. And in 10 weeks from yesterday, he'll be my husband. Far out.