And I know I reference The Office too much, but this episode started playing on TBS and it made me realize that maybe I need to drag my fitness orb on the train into work instead of the uncomfortable office chair I currently sit in:
Archive for April, 2008
Confession: we didn’t finish the CD on Sunday…but today we have a solid first draft.
So we didn’t finish the tracklist like I wanted Sunday…but we did register! But that’s another post.
Instead, last night, I pinned the reluctant groom down and we hemmed, hawed, imported, split, and integrated tracks to create what we have as our perfect first go-round:
Who’s ready to WORK?
(Image from tv.yahoo.com)
Confession: I feel like time is slipping, slipping, slipping…into the future.
April is rapidly coming to a close, and while I’ve made strides, I’m likely not doing nearly enough ahead of time. So…despite it being a gorgeous day here in New Haven, I’m hankering down and as God as my witness, I’m going to finalize our CD-favor playlist and subsequently finish creating our CD cover.
Confession: the stationery store experience was completely overwhelming.
And I didn’t even make the first go-round of selections!
My oh-so-gracious mom took a good hour out of her busy schedule to flip through some wedding books at The Little House Shop in Wayne, PA (and no, no relation to a certain Little House on the Prairie or Big Woods for that matter). I knew her tastes would skew to the traditional, and she ended up picking up some interesting papers and layouts from the Crane and William Arthur books after an hour of parsing through them. Armed with her notes, page numbers, and a free afternoon during the holiday rush, she and I then headed to Papyrus at the King of Prussia Mall. Ugh, that was a lot of links for a paragraph.
Image from Philly.com
I love the King of Prussia Mall.
Confession: this reluctant bride is a total Jane Austen nerd.
Add to that the Bronte sisters and L.M. Montgomery…any novel (or series) that makes mention of the lovely tradition of shopping for and assembling the trousseau. With the recently-concluded Jane Austen marathon on PBS, this has been especially in my mind as I figure out what I want to bring on our Italian honeymoon…particularly for the evenings…
(Image from pbs.org)
Confession: I am a bit of a liar, I guess.
More posts to follow…ugh…I loathe having to work on Sundays…
I do have many, many things to speak of, though! Love you all…
Confession: this reluctant bride must take a very short break.
A busy few days are in store for me (both personally and professionally–gotta love weekend work…or not), which means my internet presence will be diminished. At least today and tomorrow.
But here are some posts to look forward to in the near future:
- Trousseau shopping in New York
- Preliminary hair/makeup ideas
- Tales of bridesmaid dress shopping
- Dream registry–the crazy things I’d love to get, but feel weird about asking for them
- Updates on DIY projects
- My list of “Most Inappropriate Songs to Play at a Wedding”
- …and much more!
Look for new posts come Sunday evening.
Confession: now that Thursday TV is back, my productivity will plummet, at least through May sweeps.
Because any fans of The Office and 30 Rock know that 100% of your focus must be on the show in order to catch all of the wonderful fast jokes and references to older episodes jam-packed into each half-hour show. It’s a serious thing.
That said, all you brides out there looking forward to throwing dinner parties, last Thursday’s episode of The Office could prove helpful as a guide to how to throw a killer fete (assume spoilers from here on out):
Oh, Jim and Pam. She didn’t even care what people said about her, she just wanted to eat. Which she realizes is a lot to ask for. At a dinner party.
(All image credits go to JustJared)
Confession: though a professed foodie, I am by no means a competent chef.
Well, that may be a bit harsh (I have been honing my knife skills lately, I suppose) but it’s not too far off from the truth. In reality, the RG is is the one who cooks–I am the humble taster/barmaid/sommelier in our little household. I’m also often responsible for picking either some of the weekday dishes or the the more elaborate weekend meals, and therefore I’ll turn to one of the many titles in our small culinary library:
(Yes, we really have over twenty titles. The bottom shelf and half of the middle shelf are devoted to my old New Yorkers)
Confession: I’m kinda crushing on the suitcases I bought for the bridesmaids.
Make that completely crushing on them.
Let me start out by saying that I am quite the Wes Anderson fan–I can watch The Royal Tenenbaums ad nauseum, and I think my pals are a little sick of me playing the Life Aquatic Stuido Sessions with Seu Jorge whenever there’s a party. His obsessive attention to detail kills me–from wardrobe to set design to soundtrack choices, what seems like an odd mix of random elements becomes cohesive and pitch-perfect under his direction:
(Image from imdb.com)
And the promotional shots of the Louis-Vuitton designed luggage for The Darjeeling Limited have been in my mind for a while and I wanted to work them into my wedding aesthetic somehow:
(image from Rushmore Academy)
