8 days left

Today, my day was filled with checks, checks, checks. First, I had my daily checkin with my sisters, which I am totally loving. A wedding is such a great excuse to video chat everyday! Then, I made a pilgrimage to the shops-Michael's, Nordstrom Rack, Whole Foods, Yolk, and the Mac Store. I needed to finish buying my fancy wedding makeup and was helped by a very nice makeup artist. Within the first few seconds of our conversation, he gave me a ton of tips (rub this face stuff everywhere for a wee bit of glow, use this stuff on your forehead and around your eyes and lips because it has silicon and smooth out your fine lines. In awe of his obvious knoweldge, I ended up flashing the nice make-up artist while discussing my décolletage - but he told me he'd seen everything, so it was okay.

Then I got to pick up my wedding gown.

Ahhhhhh.

Invigorated by all of the checks on my list, I came home and took care of projects. Some of the things that have been hanging on as incomplete projects were done. Stickers taken off. Ribbons tied. Glued things that needed gluing. Lavender partitioned out (somewhat). Paper folded. Now, I just have a few things left to do. Luckily, Dave will be home from now until the wedding to help finish things up.

I cannot believe that it is almost here. 8 Days! 8 Days!

Julie and Julia

Last night, I went to see an advance screening of Julie and Julia last night. Annie captured it well when she said the movie was delightful. It made me laugh out loud, reaffirmed my love of Meryl Streep, gave me inspiration to use my le Creuset pot I got as a wonderful wedding gift, wondered if I would ever really follow a recipe, caused a surge of pride that a blogger made it big, and made me think that I should purchase pearls for daily use.

Now, I have a list of things to do that involves finding lavender, a pocket square, and picking up my wedding dress (!). I'm approaching the day slowly and wondering if I should attempt to make the perfect egg for breakfast.

12 days to go

I'm 12 days away from our wedding. Twelve! Yesterday, I had the freak-out I had been expecting for some time. It all started with the shoes - I am having an issue finding something that works with the dress and have found out that short healed strapy sandals no longer exist. I know because I've looked at every shoe in many, many malls. (I now have three options and hope one will work.) I showed questionable logic by throwing coffee and pizza on my shoe fire, which caused a full on moment. Luckily, today was my scheduled pre-wedding facial. An hour of having my face smooshed and moisturized has allowed me to attempt wedding programs and hopefully my last dress fitting!

Media Saturation

I spent way to much time online yesterday. I can tell because my dreams were infiltrated by things I read. But, maybe, I was just hungry. You see, I had a whole dream that took place in Mozza 2Go (a place that got a lot of press because it opened yesterday). In my dream, I was at some great counter choosing sausage and pepper sandwiches for Dave and myself. My mom and my sister drifted through to discuss the stock. It was my idea of a great dream.

In my non-dream life, I have never been to any of the Mozzas (Osteria or Pizza). Perhaps I should go because now I am having a hankering for pizza and pasta...maybe some olives. Yum.