It’s Tuesday. I don’t know what that means other then there is nothing going on a work today and a million things going on outside of work today.

Lets start from the top.

Saturday Matt came over to help me cut out my wedding dress. We actually got pretty far which is good and makes me feel better about the whole thing. He ended up staying for dinner and then we went on an adventure with my parents to North Van. That’s what we do when we are together. Revert to being 16. It was most fun and allowed me to fall asleep early. The pictures in this post are from said adventure.

View’em all here.

Contrary to Chads last post I didn’t end up going out for dinner and Sex in the City last night. The boss’ husband busted his knee and so people didn’t want to go if she wasn’t going to come (because she had to tend to her broken husband) so we postponed it. This means we will actually probably never see it.

This however totally worked in my favor. I was able to re work one of the busiest weeks of my life and went out with Marlee last night to buy curlers and a curling iron for our bridal hair trial this coming Sunday. Doing this allowed me to free up Wednesday which means I can now accompany my parentals on an evening shopping trip to America!

I was also able to spend some quality time with Mr. Ciavarro last night. Its been so long since we actually had a few moments to spend together on the couch doing nothing. It was most needed. I have become smitten with him this week.

Today there will only be two of us in the office which will be most boring. The only good thing is it will give me the chance to keep an eye on Italy vs. France.

Its funny how I obsessively blogged about World Cup ’06 but haven’t said anything about Euro Cup ’08. It’s partially because I haven’t had time to pay attention to it and because I am too emotionally involved and I don’t want to write about it on here then jinxing myself. It’s a complicated Italian superstition thing. I will say however, that today is basically death match day. We need the Netherlands to win and we need to win against France (my sworn soccer enemy) in order for us to proceed. The catch is that they are playing both games at the SAME TIME, which means I will be crapping my pants for a good 2 hours. Sweet Jesus help us all.

Tonight there is a bunch of stuff we need to do and a bunch of appointments we need to attend to so I really don’t know when we are going to eat dinner. I want Hot Dogs for dinner tho because we bought some really good ones from Safeway and they are SO yummy. I know Hot Dogs are more of a lunch meal or a picnic meal but we need something quick tonight so I am putting in my order for Hot Dogs.

Hot Dogs and Hashbrowns please!

Strange I know.

I really don’t have anything to say.

I’m just here waiting for Chad to get out of bed.

I’ve started to clean my room but I can’t really move due to the muscle pain I am feel in my leg.

Don’t ask.

I hate sitting here waiting for people so I can start my day.

I really should clean this disaster and maybe dust everything since I probably haven’t in a month.

Fack.

GET OUT OF BED CHAD.

I am officially exhausted. My lower back hurts and my body is aching for some rest. I haven’t decided if I will be joining Chad at the gym today or not.

I think its time for a wedding update.

So last night, aside from getting my eyes check, which by the way turned out they only slightly got worse over the past 5 years which means I wont have to get new glasses, I went wedding shoe shopping. That turned out to be a bust but mainly because what my Mother wanted me to get was basically the exact opposite of what I wanted to get so we found nothing. I will go again tomorrow to different stores and hopefully find something.

With less then 3 months to go before the big day I am running into crunch time. I currently have no wedding dress, no shoes, and the bridesmaids dresses have to be altered and adjusted. Thankfully I have been proactive on some things and have both hair and make up trials scheduled for the next two week. GO ME!

In a week and a bit we are going to get our engagement photos done. These I am most excited about. We have decided to go to Stanley Park to get them done because we will have the option to take both ‘Nature’ & ‘Urban’ shots there. We just need to pick if we want the west side with English Bay & the Granville Street Bridge, or the east side with Coal harbour and the North Shore.

On Saturday, aside from starting my dress *eek* we are meeting with my uncle to go over the readings and things for the actual ceremony. Then we have to meet with the Organist to pick all the music. Hopefully I will be able to arraigned that on Sunday.

We went Wedding Cake shopping this past weekend. We didn’t do any taste testing because we already know what we want – Diplomat cake all the way! – but we did need prices for the actual cake itself, plus a slab. Prices for the cake ran from $750 to $350, FOR THE SAME CAKE. People are nuts. I don’t know why you would pay 750 bucks for the exact same cake you can get for $350. We are down to two different bakeries to pick from, that is unless my Aunt can come through and actually make the cake for us, then we will just have to buy a slab and we are all set!

We still need to get wedding bands. We went and looked one day but I couldn’t make up my mind because I wanted the big gaudy one (of course) but it was stupidly expensive (shocking) so I don’t know what to do. We need to go back again and look and I just need to be reasonable and pick something that will look good but not cost us and arm and a leg. Chad already picked out his band because hes not gaudy like me.

The only real important things left to do (besides make my dress) is to confirm everything we already books months ago. I know the decorations are all set, but the actual flowers need to be finalized, as well as the DJ, and lots of little things. The majority of the little things I can’t do until after the dress is finished and the engagement photos are done because I need to use the leftover fabric and pictures to make the ‘little things’. I really want to get moving on all those things so I have time left at the end for any small ideas or things that pop up. I can’t wait to make wine bottle labels! I am such a nerd.

Anyways, there is still lots to do and it looks like the majority of all my free time will be taken up with the wedding over the next three months. It should be interesting. I’m just really itching to get started on the last bit of stuff so it is over and done with. I need to start making lists and drawing pictures of what I want. Yes that’s a good idea.

Oh candles! I need to buy some from Ikea for the head table. Mental Note that one.

The day has come! I finally have my very own parking spot in the underground garage! Sweet Jesus I have been waiting for this day forever. No more parking my car on the side streets. No more cursing at people who take up too much room. No more walking to the front door with a million things in my hands in the rain. All of that, GONE!

The only down side to this is that I will no longer be escorted to my car by Mr. Ciavarro. I thought he would be happy by this. No more walking me to the car late at night when its cold and rainy and all he wants to do is go to sleep. But I was mistaken. It seems that he grew quite attached to walking me to my car all the time. Like it was ‘our little thing’. And now his services won’t be needed anymore.

I guess its kinda like the mamma bird letting her little baby fly and do it on her own. All this time I ‘depended’ on Chad to walk me to my car and now I don’t need him any more. Aww :(

He made quite the production about it last night being the ‘last time’ he will ever walk me to my car. SO CUTE. I can’t handle it.

In other news I am wearing an effing turtle neck today. THE ALMOST MIDDLE OF JUNE. This is what it looked like on Monday night. It rained so much that the man hole covers started popping up in the middle of the streets. Its soooo friggin depressing and its so cold that it actually feels like November. So much so that the Fox keeps playing November Rains. Oh Ma God, let this weather STOP ALREADY. Le sigh.

I’m going to get my eyes checked today (it would have been smart of me to do that BEFORE laying down 500 bucks on new D&G glasses but anyways) and I have a feeling my eyes HAVE changed.

I need to get contacts so that on my wedding day I will not be blind and can actually see who I am marrying. I have discovered that I really do need to wear glasses on a daily basis, which is not a problem excpet when we go out and I want to dress up with out having to wear my glasses, then I either go blind or look like a nerd. This is where contacts come into play.

Hopefully everything will work out with that tonight. Yay contacts!

So we had Chads birthday party at the Yale on Saturday night. It was definitely better then I expected. The first band that was on had a female lead singer and she was hot and really good. The first set was all original music and the second set was all covers. It was really good music, and thats a pretty big thing coming from someone who is NOT a huge fan of blues music.

I wasn’t going to take pictures because it totally didn’t seem like the type of crowd who would ‘accept bloggers’ but the later it got the more people got drunk and the more I didn’t care. Plus Neil made me. So here are some pictures.

We got there at around 9 and it was about half full of old men and cougars; which we all excpeted. Then at around 11 or so these young chicks in little dresses came out of no where and it made all the guys happy. It was very odd. The age of the crowd began to shifted as more and more friends showed up. By the end of the night it was about half “old” and half “young”. It made for a very entertaining crowd.

The one thing that stood out to me the most was the amount of fashion disasters I saw that night. Omg I could not handle it. It was like these women hadn’t left the house in 20 years to go out and party which meant they had NO idea what was fashionable and what wasn’t. And at the same time I know that some peoples priority in life is not to have the lastest fashion but there are just some pieces of clothing that should never be worn no matter who you are. For example, jeans that have criss cross leather ties up the front so that when you wear them you have an inch of skin showing all the way down your leg with a leather shoe lace criss crossing down your leg. I almost barfed.

Overall it was a pretty good night. Everyone had fun and Chad wasn’t falling over drunk (bonus!) as apose to last year. And even though I was the DD I really enjoyed myself.

Chad owes me fries from Fritz tho.

The rest of the pictures are located – Here.