Category: BlahBlahBabble

For three days, I couldn’t think of a thing to post. (Not that I had any time to do it anyways, but still…) Really, did you want to hear the excitement of me finally getting my insurance coverage straightened out? No, probably not.

Now? It’s like the floodgates have opened. I have about 37 different things I want to write about. Here’s a list, so I can come back later and write more. Think of it as the sneak preview or something…

– Stunning not shocking…
– Dude, you should have bought a Dell…
– Ceremony ideas and suggestions…
– The great photography debate…
– The bridezilla symposium…
– Catholic school uniforms…

… and so much more!

Emily “stole” my post about the ball yanking man. Ok, not really stole – she just wrote about it first. I tried, but I just was too tipsy to write about it Saturday night, and it was sounding all garbled as I tried to explain that it was some guy in the Greater Houston Area that I have never met. Anyways, I don’t care what he tried to tell to my friend, that crap is not “normal”. Ever.

Do you know how I realized my life has become too busy for my own good lately? This is the first time I have sat in front of a computer for more than 10 minutes since Saturday night. I feel like I have been zooming around non-stop, which is not a good thing considering I suspect that I might be getting tonsillitus all over again. I am tired to the point of punchy exhaustion lately, and snap at the drop of a hat. Whew. This weekend, things should finally slow down somewhat. If nothing else, I’m going to have to put the brakes on myself – I can’t handle this much longer.

Things aren’t all bad though – just really, really busy. Yesterday was Jason’s birthday – I can’t believe he is 12 already. Next year he will officially be a teenager, and I feel like it has all just flown by. I guess all parents say that to some extent. He had a fabulous birthday and got almost all of the gifts he had wished for at the last minute. I had asked for weeks what he wanted – he finally gave us ideas the day before his birthday! Thank goodness Mike was able to help me out and get to the store for the presents!

Yesterday was also the regional science fair, and all of Jason’s hard work this year on his project paid off. He got a second place in the engineering category for his project on trebuchets! He was so thrilled – he was just beaming all day! He wore his medal out to lunch, while we ran errands, and even to dinner last night! I am really proud – he worked hard this year, but it was a subject he really enjoyed (hey, who doesn’t like to fling things with a trebuchet?) so I think that helped make it easier to some extent. I think that’s the trick with science fair – find something you love. I made it to state science fair in both 7th and 8th grade with my project on photograms, kicking off a love of photography. Hopefully, this win will inspire him just the same!

Busy with a zillion things. Invitations. Taxes. Wedding planning. Cleaning. Running errands. Shower last weekend. Easter. Jason’s Social Studies project. Tons of stuff.

I’ve got a lot more to say about all of it, but no time right now.

However, I wanted to take a moment to extend the invitation here to my Tiara Happy Hour Bachelorette party! May 7, 2004 at the Flying Saucer in downtown Houston, bachelorette party fun in a tiara! If you want to come – even if you don’t live in Houston – let me know! (Sorry guys, this one is just for the girls.) I would LOVE to see you there!

I didn’t realize how long it had been since I actually sat down and designed a website from scratch until it came time to break out my mad HTML skills to create Doug and Chelsey’s Wedding website. I’ve always been a hand-coding sort of girl, but when you haven’t done it in a long time it can be quite frustrating!

First, I didn’t like any graphics that I had to work with. Then I couldn’t find any calla lillies in the right shade of plum. (Those are still a little light, but looked best on with the site.) I”ve been working on this for days and I have a huge welt from beating my head on the wall. But tonight I finally had a breakthrough. I found the right shade of plum. I realized that if I made their photo more sepia-toned it would work better with the page. I found a cream color that worked for the box. Kymberlie graciously let me use the code I wrote for her when she first started blogging to get towards a layout that I liked.

At last. I can be really picky, and I just wasn’t happy with anything I came up with for her site until now. Finally.

There is a lot left to do – there are more pages that she wants added, but I don’t have content for them yet. I need to make buttons and graphics for the sidebar. She might hate those calla lillies when she sees them. But I don’t care. I broke through the barrier and got a site up and running. I can code again!

If Chelsey & Kymberlie weren’t throwing a bridal shower for me tomorrow, I would probably spend the day cranking out our wedding website. But there are plans for a girlie day, and I can’t WAIT! I’m looking forward to spending time with the people that are going to be able to make it, and I’ll really miss those of you that can’t attend – but I truly understand!

Yeah! I can code HTML again! Go me!

To answer the question of the day, we are registered at Bed Bath & Beyond and Williams-Sonoma. The wedding date is May 29, 2004. My last name is Selleck, just like Tom. (But more on that later…)