Work was hell. Why is it that when you are sick every customer treats you like poop? I got yelled at by this little old lady that had the HUGE time restrictions because at the same time she HAD TO HAVE her glasses my computer broke and I had to start the order over. The real kicker is that her watch was 20 min. fast. She did not realize this until she was 20 min. early to pick them up and I told her they weren't ready. By her watch it was 5pm on the dot. I had to tell her she was wrong. I had another lady practically throwing glasses because she wanted small ones that would never in a million years fit her Rx. I had to keep saying no... something a little bigger. All I was trying to convey what the she needed lenses bigger than the paper clip size she wanted. She said she was in a bad mood because she had a bad day at work. I see a cycle here.
Doc says to drink plenty of fliuds. I have a head thingy. Not really a cold. Everything is swollen and putting pressure on everything else and making the floor spin.
I am going to go lay this throbing head on a nice soft pillow.
Brian and I picked our "first dance" right before we moved. We had heard snips of it on the internet. I had heard it many time before but couldn't remember the words. All I could remember were the words in the title of the song "Someone Like You"... by Van Morrison. Brian got the CD today so we could take it to dance class on Mon. He was playing it tonight and I started to cry. This is not a good start. I need to work this out of my system or I am gonna look like a football player on our wedding night... big black streaks under my eyes.
Posted by MamaM at 8:57 PMI have a big test tomorrow and I can't seem to motivate myself to study. I don't feel well tonight and would rather be curled up in the fetal position. I suppose that since I am dedicating time to my blog I could probably spare a few minutes for Real Estate but it makes my head hurt.
I will be hiding under the covers... good night.
Brian and I are going to school together!!! We won two free dance lessons at Fred Astaire Dance Studios. We went tonight and had so much fun that we signed up for a 5 session package and then we are going to take the next one after that too. They are even going to put together a dance for our bridal song. I thought it might be too much to handle with everything else that I am working on but it was nice to unwind and have a little fun. I have about five left feet when it comes to dancing but Brian is learning too so there isn't too much pressure. We get to do it all together.
Other than that... I got one contact lens in today!!!! It took the helping hands of the doctor but I mostly did it by myself ;)
I got an e-mail from Mia tonight. It was so cute. All of these random letter spaced out on the screen. I was able to get the jist of what she wanted to say. =)
My eyes are so tired. I spent 30 min. trying to get contacts in before I quite for the day. I get to try again tomorrow. I figured now would be a good time to invest in a few pairs. I don't think that glasses go with wedding dresses. If it is this big of a pain I may just squint all night instead. Every time I got one of those little suckes on my eye and would blink for the first time the lens got spit out and stuck to my lashes. This really sucks because part of my job is to teach people how to do this.
Sleepy eyes are ready for bed. Nighty night.
We had the best weekend. I took Brian to lunch on Sat. I blew my entire check from my second job. The food was fabulous and we traded leftovers for dinner in the hotel so it was well worth it. The room was cool. We had a special room on the top floor and needed to use out key in the elevator just for access. There was a hospitality room with hot food and munchies and drinks. We had sparkling wine delivered... part of the package. The bed had a feather bed on it and feather pillows. While we were out shopping they came and turned down the sheets and put chocolates on our pillows. We even got breakfast delivered in the morning. It was really nice to be so pampered. We both enjoyed it. We have decided that we must get one og those feather bed things. It was so warm and comfortable.
We had engagement pictures taken this afternoon. They all came out really nice. We got extras for the family.
Brian's friend from CA isn't able to be in the wedding. He finally got into the policeman school of his dreams... LAPD. So, we asked Jenny's husband to be in the wedding. Colin is a lot of fun and Brian had a good time hanging out with him the last time he was in town. We also figured it might be more fun for Colin to have something to do. We are both excited he said yes.
I was able to study while Brian watched the Super Bowl. I needed his dad to help me with my paper because I have to appraise his house for my final project. He was really cool about it and very willing to help. Karen however...shushed us for talking during the game. She then asked if I was in school. I think she thought I was finished or something. I guess his step sister wants to go into business also. That should give us something to talk about.
Sweet Dreams all. ... Damn that Brian he just walked by with MY feather slippers on! I have to go kick his arse now. =)
I am going to pull out all of my hair by March. Classes are driving me crazy. For all of the work we are required to turn in I feel I am owed a pay check. I realize that in the eyes of a teacher my payment is knowledge. I would rather get my knowledge the old fashioned way... reading and study time. Now I have to appraise a house and find three comparison houses and a lot of land. In the end it will be about 15 pages long and take the entire coarse. My first mid-term is next week.... week 4. I will miss my hair but I will get a great wig for the wedding.
I am delighed at the thought of what comes after finals. The Aunts are throwing me a shower... on a weekend I already have off... no more drama with work. I can't wait for that because it is the mark of the begining of the end. I will start running full steam ahead with wedding planning and be married soon after.
This weekend is our 2 year anniv. Brian got us a room at a nice hotel for some R&R and time away from daily madness. I am treating him to dinner at the Cheese Cake Factory and we are having our pictures taken on Sunday. We don't have any pictures of Brian without that damn Hooters visor on =) Thank you so much seester. We will be gitting some extra's to mail out too... provied they come out ok.
Other than that I am ready for this weekend and dreading next week... with my test and paper and take home test.
To answer the many questions... no I do not proof read my site or check the spelling. When I do post it is usually 11pm and by that point in the day I am sleepy and ready to turn in for the night. I work two jobs... about 45hrs a week and go to school. I have testes and quizes and homework weekly. I am busy and double checking my spelling takes time. Something I am running short on.
Hope you are understand. Toodles and good night.
Funny story. Brian's step mom calles Brian today and says that her daugher Jen bought a leather jacket for Brian's dad's birthday. Jen wand her want to know if we want to go in on the gift. Brian asks how much they wanted and they say $100.00. Brian say that we were not planning on spending that much and the answer would probably be no. She then tells him that if we don't go in on it then the other kids would have to put in even more money. HaHa suckers! Too bad we weren't asked before the $$$ was spent. We had actually just decied how much to spend on birthdays this year and I can tell you one thing... it wasn't $100.00 per parent.
Posted by MamaM at 8:36 PMBack in Nov. I let my boss know of all of my requests off for wedding related things. One of them being the shower that Brian's family is throwing me. I was the first to request any days off in April. Soon after I wrote everything in the new calander everyone else started requesting days off. One of the most request days off is the day of the shower... April 6th. So what does Grace do? She comes to me and says "Meghan, this weekend you have requested off for your shower isn't very convient. Could you please change it. I was thinking possibly to the next week or maybe the week after." My response was that I was not throwing the shower for myself and did not have a say in the date. Nor was I able to change it since it was set so long ago. Brian actually has an Aunt comming from Chicage for the shower! She just replied "Oh." and walked away. Keep in mind that she is the same person who asked me to reschedule my surgery.
Posted by MamaM at 8:29 PMWe thought we finished with the wedding invites... then Brian got an e-mail from his dad adding yet another person. His family thinks I am crazed and doing this all WAY too early but I would kindly like to point out that i am currently working 2 jobs and going to school. I need time to spread everything out. I will type more tomorrow.
Must sleep now....ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Today was long.
Posted by MamaM at 10:29 PMToday sucked.
Posted by MamaM at 8:19 PMI ordered the cake today. I now have to go to the bakery on my next visit to Cleveland and look at designs.
I think I admire the people that get married with all of the planning involved. It is making me crazy. I am jealous of those who run away or get married in private. I realized this when a customer told me today that she is going to elope next month. I really wished it was me. Everyone keeps telling me it will be worth it on the day of my wedding. I am not so sure if it will ever be worth it. I think it is more a matter of being blinded by love and joy.
Okay. We have set another date to work on wedding invitations... Sat. I have to make brunch though. I am kinda excited. Brian took charge and got everything with his dad taken care of.
I talked to the caterer today and set up an appointment for that. The girl seems to have forgotten everything we taled about before so this will be interesting. I set everything up for the weekend after finals. I am simply trying to preserve my sanity.
I am sleepy and it is my bed time.
P.S. I am so proud of Seester for setting up the appointment for the fitting. Thank you.
Jayne, Christina, Lisa and I started the invitations today. We never thought we would finish but we did. Or so we thought. As soon as we count out all 110 envelopes we have just stuffed and stamped and addressed on the outer envelope, inner envelope, and response card... also stamped. All were sealed an we were feeling such joy when Brian said "Oh, I forgot my dad has a list too." Let's not forget to mention he was asked to give his dad the same dead line as his mother but now we will have to wait for Friday. So Sat. Christina and I will be at it again.
By the way. I now have limited movement in my left hand.
Toodles
I am so glad that the dress fits. I will be even happier when I hear confirmation of an appointment for the fitting.
Work was interesting. How many people do you know that could work an entire day with out bending at the waist. If you know me then that is one person on your list. Everyone was nice and picked up things I dropped... I was in so much pain that I never abused this. I would hate to lose the help. I managed not to show any glasses on the low shelf. The nice thing is that everybody is so understanding. They did ask why I didn't take any pain killers. I had to explain that they are really strong and I could not be trusted counting money. They understood.
I am off now to take some meds and dream sweet dreams of all of my girls fitting into their dresses perfectly.
Deirdre has yet to try on her dress for the wedding... as if you all didn't already figure it out. It is making me crazy.
Work was work and I have a pinched nerve in my back so I am a little emotion right now... movement makes me cry. We went out for drinks and Brian had to push me in the booth because I couldn't slide.
Going to bed now... TTFN.
I got the invoice from the other florist. It was nearly twice as much as the first one. I was reading this whikle driving (at a red light) and I do not believe one should be driving when trying to absorb such a shock. On a funny note though... when I got to school I had to use the little girls room and accidentally dropped the invoice in the camode. I thought it was quite fitting though.
School is the same... boring.
Wedding... making me crazy. All of the hair appointments are set up now. Even the practice run in April. Some of will be there for Brian's family's shower. I talked to the DJ and need to call the caterer tomorrow. I am NEVER getting married EVER again... if we sould ever renew vows it will be in Vegas or on a cruise... just the two fo us.
I spent almost 3 hours on the phone today. I was trying to find a salon. The one that Cheryl mentioned charged $120.00 just for a consultation and style the day of the wedding! I finally found a place that is still reputable but has better pricing. I also made the directions for the invitations and worked on gathering addresses. I am off to send out more e-mails. TTFN
Posted by MamaM at 6:50 PMCheryl e-mailed me today letting me know that she found a salon in Westlake that does hair, nails, and makeup... and provides a wedding package! Is she on the ball or what? We have decided that Audrey Hepburn hair is the way to go. We are even making a date to watch the movie for ideas.
Applesauce will look great in my special key chain ;)
Not much to write home about. I got up, went to work, came home, went to Sam's Club with Brian, came home, ate dinner, watched T.V., and now we are going to bed.
I did get to call Cheryl and let her know that I picked the first florist. She was excited. While neither were the steller people I had hoped for I am putting my trust in Silver Fox. The mother daughter team gave me visions of tears of horror on my wedding day. While I will be crying plenty... as every Delaney woman does... it will be tears of joy.
Cheryl and I had a wonderful weekend. I thought I would get out of watching the Buckey game but as it turns out her sister is a huge fan. The good part was that there was tons of food and then tears when the Buckeys won. She was so happy she was actually sobbing. Too bad Brian decided not to come up that night.
We met the florists and Cheryl is one smart cookie. I couldn't have survived without her. I think I have made my decision. I thought it would have been more cut and dry. While the Silver Fox Florist lady was nice she was pushy. I was happy with the price and the picture she painted but not so sure about her. We went to meet with the mother daughter team... All Things Bright and Beautiful, and they were pushy too. They seemed to be lacking the knowledge that I was looking for and the people skills needed to sell me. They actually were in disagreement of how to make my bouquet! I could picture them beating eachother with my flowers to drive their points home. I left there more confused than I have ever been. After a fairly good night of sleep I decided on Silver Fox.
On Sunday we were happy to be going to the Christening of Sarah. However there was some confusion with the directions and we ended up driving around for 45min. We tried calling Dad but he had not taken his cell with him. Disappointed we headed home. Dad finally called but by then it was too late. I guess we will use a map finder
on-line next time. We were sorry we missed everyone.
Today must have been a full moon. I think I talked to every loony out there. Again I maintain that even sales girls need personal space... backoff and stop breathing on me!
We booked all of our rooms for the wedding. Brian called the place where Mom and Deirdre made reservations because they got a good rate of $65 a night... kitchen included. When He called though (2 days later) he was told $95 a night... same room. So I called and nicely (part of my resolution) asked the girl why there was a discrepency in the quoted prices. She said "obvioulsy we are sold out". I said "but my fiancee booked the same type of room". She said "obviously they are different". I said "since you seem to be unwilling to discuss this in a polite manner we will not be staying at your hotel and will not reccomend any of our guests to either". She said "I did the best I could". So I do not reccomend that anyone stay at the Towne Home Suites by Marriott on Sperry in Westlake. It is a shame because we have a lot of people comming in from out of town.
I booked our honeymoon suite for the night of the wedding. The lady at this place was much nicer and she even remined me to book it in my new name!
I am leaving tomorrow for Cleveland. I am so excited. I can't wait. I have to go pack.
Sorry about the delay in posts. I had posted the other night but something was broken and everything was lost.
I got a second job. Odly enough it is in the store I already work in. It is back with the doctor. It was under my nose the entire time. So now I will be in school (starting next week) and working 2 jobs. If Brian doesn't kill me first I may just have to do it myself. Hopefully everything will be ok. I just really need a good teacher in my finance class. Math is not a strong subject for me.
We are almost finished with all of the post holiday cleaning. We went and got the freezer from Brian's mom and the printer from his dad and all of the clothes I picked out for myself from dad. Dad did a great job. We really got some wonderful presents this year. Maureen got me froggy socks. When I opened them I thought that maybe she intended them for Deirdre because frogs are her thing. I put them on and saw a little crown on the frogs and realized they were definately for me and are very perfect. I got a good laugh.
Work was very busy this week with everyone trying to use insurance benefits before the end of the year. I have some nice commission headed my way.
***A little note for people who are compulsive returners. Sales people work on commission. If you return everything you buy, don't go to the same sales girl. By the second visit to her store she knows who you are and she hates you. She doesn't need you for her lively hood. Stay away. She will cease to be nice to you.
Last night was nice. I am hoping that this year will be just as good as the last. Thinking back on it... it was a pretty good year. My resolutions will be to give up fast food, put the past in the past and make the people important to me my top priority. I am also cutting back on Pepsi and Coke but that is just until the wedding. :)
Happy 2003