Wedding Woes

So after asking my dear and beloved Fiance for the past FIVE FREAKING WEEKS to email a guy he knows who MIGHT be able to get us a good deal on a venue for the wedding he finally sent the email today. His reasoning for not sending it before? He was busy. Now I will grant him that, yes, we have both had a very hectic schedule over this past semester. BUT if  you have time to update facebook and read my blog then you freaking have time to send a five minute (if not less) email! Ugh!

 

I have been putting away every freaking dime I have for this wedding from my dish washing/waitressing job at the restuarant and I know money is tight for him right now so I'm not mad about him not being able to contribute as much but could you at least be slightly more involved in the planning of the wedding. 

I don't have my maid of honor around, she is in Boston. My mom won't come and visit me in Florida because she thinks we will just argue about the dress. The two girls that did volunteer to help me dress shop once slept with my current fiance and the other doesn't know that I know she is sleeping with my ex fiance. I have all of one day a week off from work which is the same day the majority of the wedding dress places are closed. If I do buy a dress its going to take 4-6 months to arrive and the wedding is now scheduled for October so I need to make a decision soon. A huge problem with this is that I actually found the wedding dress I want badly but the freaking thing costs almost $1,600 and the total amount we plan on spending on the wedding is $4,000 if we can help it. But once my mind is made up its going to be damn hard to change it.  I have looked on all the discount wedding dress stores online and NO ONE is selling that dress for cheaper. 

I have scoured for venues and for caterers and have looked at wedding cakes, and I can't make up my mind on any of it because the budget of the wedding is so up in the air. I don't know if we will have $4,000 in time for the wedding. I am saving about 400-500 a month but then the sushi place ends up being slow and I bring home less than that. 

I am so close to just saying screw it and just going to the court house but damn it all I want that wedding dress and I freaking WANT to walk down the isle and I want pictures and I want everyone in the world I know to see it. 

What else is bugging me about the dress is that I know that I am going to need to lose weight before the wedding so if I get a dress that fits me now it may not fit me in time for the wedding. So then what the freak do I do? Spend another couple hundred so I can have it altered again. yeah... great... 

Sorry about all the complaining folks but I just needed to get that off my chest.

Bathroom Etiquette

Okay so this just popped into my head the other day. Are there some people out there that just don't understand bathroom etiquette? I was at a hockey game earlier this year and had to use the little girls room. So after finding it (it was on the floor below where I was) I picked a corner stall. All of the other stalls were empty except for one all the way down the other end. And there were a HUGE amount of stalls in this bathroom. So I am sighing in relief when someone walks in and picks the stall right next to mine! I could understand if there were only like three stalls in the bathroom but this place had an entire wall full, why oh why do you have to pick the one next to me? I am a nervous pee-er as it is (not a fan of going in public) so this only hightened my already existing stage fright.

To me it seems that if you have a row of stall open it is only the polite thing to do to leave at least one open stall between you and the other person.
 

Summer Vacation Here I Come!

The above picture is WHERE the hotel is. In other words, the hotel is literally right on the beach at Cocoa Beach. The Atlantic Ocean will be our backyard. Curtis and I are going for my birthday in June and while it is going to be stupid hot it will be totally worth it. I got a great rate for the room, originally over $150 a night for only $58 from getaroom.com. 

While we are there we are going to watch the sun rise together, go to the Kennedy Space Center, and lounge by the pool and in the hot tub late at night. I am going to tan and we are going to try and make it so Curtis doesn't burn and its going to be freaking awesome fighting against the current of the ocean as I jump through the waves.

Can you tell I am excited yet?!?!

Exams

Curtis's exams for the spring semester are finally over *breaths huge sigh of relief*. He just called me a little bit ago at work and sounded out of breath to tell me he got an 80% on his final Biology exam, it was one of the harder classes this semester. This means that he passed all of his classes and most of which are A's. He took 6 classes this semester and 2 jobs and dealing with a nutty room mate at times but he made it through it like I knew he would and I am way proud of him :-D

The paper he and I worked on together (on Thailand Prostitution) ended up getting a 100%! So that was an automatic A in the class basically. Over the summer he is only taking 2 classes thank god so that should give him a little break. The great news about the classes over the summer is that its entirely paid for by grants and scholarships. We are not having to pay a penny out of pocket.

Dress Shopping

I tried on a couple more dresses on Monday at Demetrios in Tampa and lucky me most of the dresses there are a size 10!... I'm a size 14 at best. Much like the picture above my boobs were popping out all over the place and it sure as heck did not zip up the back. I did however find two dresses that I liked quite a bit. Both are around $1500 which means I will try and find it cheaper online becuase there is no way I am spending that much on the dress if I can help it.

I showed the pictures of the dresses to my mom and she said I should keep looking. I asked her why and her response was they look "uncomfortable". This made me think that by uncomfortable what she really means is i am going to look fat in it. Oh well I might be reading too much into that.

I do have one other place in mind  that I want to go look at dresses and see how their price compares as opposed to the other two places I have been to. I also found out that I need to order my gown pretty soon if I expect it to be here in time for the wedding.

Oh and the wedding date will definitely NOT be in August. A co-worker is taking her vacation at the restuarant right on the weekend that I wanted to have it so I am still keeping November 11 in mind but I am also thinking about having it October 10, 2011 (10/10/11) mainly because it is on a Monday which means everyone we know is more likely to come. All I really know is I have to pick a set date soon otherwise I am going to be in trouble.

I also have to pick out a venue and SOON! The Hungarian church is still available but its just SO small. Granted we are not going to have a ton of people there to begin with but I was hoping for a decent size dance floor at the least. Any suggestions about places in the Hillsborough/Pinellas county Florida (not the beach because Curtis will fry and so will I) they would be greatly appreciated. And if you have a rich uncle that lives down here and has a huge mansion we can have it at I am all for it. (yes I live in la la land and my fairy god mother and white slippers are hidden in my closet).

Update - Graduation

Super over-exposed picture of Angie and I.

So what was supposed to be a sort of 3 day weekend vacation for me didn't turn out like I had hoped. Poor Angie's flight was delayed BIG time and she didn't arrive at the airport till 6am. She did get to meet Curtis for a brief minute while his car was in park in front of the airport gates. Her mom came and ended up hugging me before Angie which was kind of funny actually. We put all of our stuff in her trunk and off we went for a 4-5 hour car ride up to Tallahassee.

With random pit stops, me attempting to read and driving part of the way we made it in time to pick up Angie's cap and gown along with the tickets to the graduation. I love FSU their campus is so pretty with its old architecture. All the buildings end up looking like castles. Almost all the buildings are made out of brick.

That night Angie, her older brother John, John's girl friend Jasper, Angie's dad and I all went out to a wine bar and listened to music that was too loud while drinking WAY too much wine. We ended up following Angie's dad home in the car just to make sure he got home okay. At one point he stopped at McDonalds and I got out of the back seat snuck up to his car while he was picking up his order and asked him how many weight wachers points that was since he was on a diet. Angie's dad finally made it back to the hotel safe and we were on our way home as well.

We didn't get to sleep in much Angie's mom was up at like 5am or 6am and we were up an hour later getting ready. The shower after Angie got out kept going from hot to cold back and forth which at like 7am my body is not ready to deal with. I was doing a little dance in the shower trying to get out of the way of the water when it was cold while I had one foot up on the wall trying to shave my legs. I finally said forget it and just shaved my legs tot he point where the skirt hem stops and hoped it wouldn't be a very windy day.

We got to campus early but it was still packed from morning ceremony. We got a good parking spot and Angie, John and I went and toured the campus. We didn't get a chance to go into the buildings like when Angie and I toured the campus like 2-3 years ago. I guess they decided to lock the doors now.

I almost knocked some old lady out while we were walking into the building because she put her hand on my shoulder and started pushing me. Of course I didn't actually do it but I did end up yelling at her. Me + lack of sleep does not equal a happy camper. Not to mention I don't really like being touched let alone pushed by someone I don't even know. While they were calling names I was half falling asleep in the bleachers.

When they finally called Angie's name we hoot and hollard and let the world know how proud of her we were.

Oh I almost forgot! I ended up getting her an opal bracelet which she loved, yeay! and she even wore it to her graduation, SUPER yeay!

Right after graduation we went to eat where angie's mom almost got us into a car accident and after that we drove another 4-5 hours back to Clearwater to drop me off.

And that was my 3 day vacation at FSU, it flew by like it didn't even happen.

Update - Job

Well as you can tell from above, I did not get the job. It has been over two weeks now since the interview and even though I sent them a thank you letter and a follow-up email about the position still being open I never heard a word back. Makes me kinda sad.

Curtis also interviewed for an Assistant Manager position at his job and didn't get it. Though after the fact we found out its for the best because the guy that would have ended up being his manager turned out to be a jerk. Curtis took on more hours at a different store location even though he has finals this week as a favor and then the guy just started being an ass by leaving early leaving his sick Assistant Manager there and then when he got a text saying 250 items were missing he called Curtis and told him he was going to come over there with the cops to look at the video (which I personally took as a threat to Curtis). Come to find out the 250 peices were missing from another store entirely. Ugh! What a guy... so glad Curtis is not going to end up working for him. Plus we would have ended up moving up to the New Port Richey and while the rent is much cheaper up there, there is NOTHING to do up there.

Hopefully another position will open up soon for him and they will pick him for it. God only knows the man has worked hard and long enough to deserve it.