Moving

I'm moving this week. Most of my clothes are already at the new apartment, and now we're packing the rest of my stuff, including the computer. I know I'm mostly afk anyway, but I thought I'd let you know why I'm not around at all! No DSL at new house, no internet at all in fact, so I'll be on when I can get Charles's computer and run away to Starbucks. :)

Wedding Update

Yesterday morning I went to sister's house and printed out our wedding announcements. We have close to 90 of them in two sizes with the same text. Sister's going to translate into Spanish so we can do a batch to go to the uncles and my grandma in Mexico. I have to go through the "guest list" we had worked on when we were going to spend lots of money and see if I need to buy another box of announcements. Today, after work, I'm going back to sister's house to work on at home cards and how to combine them with the announcements- we're thinking gold ribbon. Now, I know that ettiquite states that I should hand-write the addresses, but I apologize in advance to those who are getting them - I probably won't have time. Charles came over this morning to help me pack up my clothes, my non-clothes stuff is going up tonight... Tomorrow, Friday morning, I get to go have my fingerprints taken for my new job, I have a 10am appointment with the Ventura PD, so I'll be staying at the apartment tonight. Then after that I'll be un-packing, possibly making another trip for more stuff. It depends on how much we can stuff into our two cars tonight. Ack, I haven't even tried on the dress mom got me yet. Feeling overwhelmed. Luckily, Charles and I talked about stuff last night and worked out our problems, so that's one less thing to stress about

Subtle Messages

My fiance turned off comments on his blog, deleted or hid comments I'd made, and still hasn't added me to his friends list. He also says in his blog that he's going to a race on our honeymoon weekend. He mentioned it as something he'd like to do when we talked on the phone, but that was after he told the world he'd definately be there. Should I be upset? Hmmmm.

Quiz 2

Ahh, it's almost October, and activity on the vampire mailing list from Haunt is picking up. Although it's now been years since I played a vampire for a month of scares, I still enjoy their discussions.

You scored as Marius. You are the quiet cool. You are so mellow people are lulled into a false sense of security. When you are pissed god help anyone who crosses you? Marius 100% Blade 83% Spike 83% Dracula 83% Armand 75% Deacon Frost 75% Akasha 75% Louis 67% Angel 33% Lestat 25% Whose your Vampire personality? (images) created with QuizFarm.com

Quiz

Thought I'd share, pretty accurate.

Slow and Steady

Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it.

How Do People See You?

Wedding Update

Oh, apparently I've now ruined the wedding by wanting to have my dad walk me down the aisle... go me huh? I don't know what to do, give up on every little girl's dream and risk my dad not being able to do it down the line if/when we renew our vows, or ruin the whole event for my fiance because his family can't go and mine can. What can I say, I'm crushed, between the two men in this word I love. :( But there's no going back now anyway... I can't tell my parents they can't go now... They thought they couldn't, then Charles and I talked about it and invited both families, and today his family said they won't be able to attend and he's mad at me because my parents can go. I'm the baby in my family and my dad's retired (after 4 years on disability, he's now old enough to be officially retired), his parents are still working and raising kids, and yes it was short notice. I'm sorry. Charles, I'm sorry. Mr and Mrs Wyble, I'm sorry. Everyone else I can't please with our wedding, I'm sorry. What am I supposed to do? We already figured out that it would cost about $10,000 to even come close to pleasing half of the people in our lives and decided against it. But now Charles is mad at me and there's nothing I can do... Even when we weren't leaving the state, we couldn't make everyone happy... My dad can't drive because he never regained use of his left hand after his stroke. My mom is terrified of driving on the freeway. Both of his parents drive, but they have 11 kids still at home to pack up. How were we supposed to even pick a location when our families live an hour apart??? Someone has to give.

Ants

I need to talk to David, my pet expert. These damn ants are swarming the worms not only in the can but in the food dish in the tank. Can't imagine it's good for the lizards to eat ants that are on the worms... I just cleaned the tank too. :( I'll have to relocate it and clean it again, but not in that order, or in parallel rather...

Keeps getting worse...

Yeah, remember how I said I had too much to do and too little time? As I was going to PetCo to get food for my poor, hungry lizards, which I was going to rush home and feed them before I went to the apartment, I get a flat on the freeway. The THIRD flat tire of our new car we bought in May. You know, my '91 Explorer has had it's problems, including replaced brakes, radiator issues, etc, but it's never left me stranded on the side of the freeway... Of course, my phone was almost dead and rather than have it die on me when I was snaking up the Pacific Coast Highway in the dark, I had left it on the charger while I made the "quick" trip to the pet shop. I was bad and drove the car some more after I realized the back left tire was flat. I passed an interchange, because getting on another freeway was going to be no help. I got off on the next exit, near a Ford Truck place. Of course, they didn't do tires for "small" cars, but one of the guys at the shop was nice enough to change the tire for me. So I'm driving on a spare for now. I borrowed Mom's car again to go to Oxnard, which sucked because in the process I somehow lost the loan application which was in the trunk of the car before I left to PetCo. It disappeared, and now Charles has to drive down to El Monte so that we have a form with both of our signatures on it...

Wedding Update

By the way, I'm getting married 2 weeks from today! Transportation, minister, photographer, videographer, flowers, music, and rings paid for. Champagne flutes (engraved) and present for Charles arrived yesterday. Rings and marriage license safely put away. To do: Hotel reservations, his tux, my dress. (I like this dress I have, but mom wants to get me another). Now I just wish he'd make some mention of it or me on his blog. =/ (And yes, I've told him repeatedly.)

So much to do, so little time

As much as I like to think that my "part-time" job gives me time to do stuff, it really doesn't. I work 11-5, which means I would have had to wake up far too early to go to the bank for a loan (considering the time I got off the phone with my boy last night), and today when I get home I have to program the sprinklers, load a television in the car, pack up clothes, show mom how I want my wedding dress, and then get to Oxnard (almost 2 hours away) before it gets too late. Another reason why I can't get up early, I need to sleep now rather than sleep on the road. Oh, and I ran out of worms for my lizards. Well, kind of. I noticed ants in my room, and I couldn't figure out why. Then when I went to feed them before bed, I realized that there were ants milling around INSIDE the container of worms. I was very confused, but now we know ants eat worms. So I have to go to PetCo and get worms and come back and feed them before I leave. But I can't choose not to go to Oxnard, I have to get finger printed early in the morning for my new job and I don't want to risk driving there in the morning and not getting there on time. I feel very emotionally drained. Yesterday, I got called in by the division manager to ask why I took a long lunch the day before. Well, the reason that I took a long lunch the day before was that there was lightening and a union meeting. Now, we're a swimming pool, and people can't swim in lightening, it's not allowed. So everyone was out of the water, the lifeguards were at home, and I had a supervisor in the office. I told her I was going to the union meeting, which was upstairs in the same building. I figure the reason my supervisor didn't reprimand me for it was because she was there too. So instead she went two steps up the chain of command to have the division manager do it. We're having financial problems as of late. I actually don't want to quit my job at this point, I'd rather see how long I can keep working two jobs without being either totally drained or very pissed... I already came to the realization that once I move, my first two hours of work each day go to pay for my gas, so if they'll let me work two ten-hour days I will. Then I can work three days at my new job. At least long enough for us to pay off what our wedding is costing us... My supervisor at my new job plans to start me the Monday after the wedding, which is really cool of her. I think she's getting married soon too (well, I know she's getting married, how soon is the part I don't know), we were having a discussion on changing last names. My boy's taking me from A to W, I think hers is taking her from S to Z. Not sure who wins there. :) I have a lot of stuff. Just stuff, in general. I've been sending things home with Charles when he comes to visit, or dropping things off when I visit him. Now most of my CDs, DVDs, files, and a good amount of clothes are in his apartment. Then I look at the rest of my stuff and I wonder if I even want to clutter myself with it at the new place. I have clothes that don't fit anymore too. It's so hard for me to buy clothes, I went wedding dress shopping last night with mom and sister and my chest and waist/hips are in two different sizes. I can either have my chest constricted or my hips baggy. I think I'd rather keep the dress I already have. On a final note, I must admit that I purchased three (small) cook books last night. Make of that what you will!

Go me

I've finally been overcome by peer pressure and started a blog. I've considered it many times in the past, and have in fact been told that I should do so because of my entertaining life. I've always replied with "but I can't say things like that, I'd get fired!" But we'll see what we can get away with, yes?