I’m so getting one of these next month. Mmmmm.

I can hardly believe I’m getting married in less than 2 months. How the past year or so has flown! We’re mostly all organised, just have a few fine details to finalise - yay! In the meantime, I’m counting down the last 8 weeks off work …

Time flies so quickly these days. I’m not quite sure where 2007, but here we are in 2008. The Christmas holiday was a lovely break in the routine. The trip to Melbourne was awesome, and made me very, very homesick. But life in Sydney is good. The apartment is our little corner of the world, and I love it. We upgraded the TV last weekend, and this week the main shower is getting re-tiled to make it more waterproof (we hope).

2008 is looking like a very big year, if only for the fact that I’m getting married this year! Yay! Things are coming together really well, and the main thing we need to sort out now are the invitations, so that they can go out to the overseas guests with lots of time to spare. But things are busy busy busy. Lots of guests coming to stay in the next couple of months. Lots of work to be done. But all is well.

Why are all the public WordPress themes ugly? Why can’t somebody make a pretty one? I’m starting to think I might have to do it myself if I want to have a nice looking blog, but it’s such a lot of effort, and there’s so little time for such things anymore. Once upon a time it would have been uni exam time right about now, and that was always such a good time to work on such pointless endeavours …. Ah, those were the days!

Have been SO slack with the blogging. No point trying to go back and discuss all that has gone on in the last age, but will do my best to write more regularly. Feels like all I blog about lately is how slack I’m at blogging … Hmmm.

Wedding plans are coming along. Dress is done, shoes are done, venue is done, celebrant is done, photographer is done. Thinking now about invitations, bridesmaid colours and the honeymoon (current destination of choice is somewhere fabulously tropical and exotic …).

The apartment is going well. Custom shower screen should be installed in the next few days and then the renovated ensuite bathroom will (finally) be ready for use. Yay!

Work is boring.

Kev went to the USA and bought me earrings from Tiffany’s in NYC. Yay for pretty shiny things!

That’s the short version of the last few months. Photographic adventures have been scarce, but Sculpture by the Sea is coming up again in a few weeks, so that may get me back into it. So little time for the many fun things I want to do these days!!

Well, I got The Book yesterday. And I just finshed reading it.

Don’t worry, I won’t spoil anything. All I’ll say is that it’s more than sufficiently ‘Wow’.

I wanted to read it as quickly as possible so I wouldn’t have the ending spoiled. Very glad I didn’t hear anything before I read it.

Now I feel strangely lost. I suppose I won’t be the only one feeling that way now that it’s over. But yeah, I’m slightly sad that I know how it all ends now. No more surprises or twists in the tale.

Most disappointing Thursday night ever.

Had an appointment to get my hair done tonight, which I was craving, on account of my ends being all split and broken. This required me to:

a) leave work at 4:30pm (ok not disappointing so far - actually, quite good! But it goes downhill …)
b) catch a train to the suburb my hairdresser’s salon is in (not the same as where I live …)
c) make it to my appointment easily by 5:30pm.

Easy, right?

Wrong.

First, I jumped on the first train that came along, not thinking about the fact that I was getting off earlier than normal. When I did realise, I crossed my fingers that the train would stop at my stop, because *every day* whatever train I catch, it *always* seems to stop at that station.

Not tonight. It’s an express. And not just a slight express. Oh no, it was a major express.

So I ended up back at the station I would have got off at if I was going home. Argh!

No dramas, i think. I’ll just hop the next train going back to the city and I’ll only be 5-10 mins late. No biggie.

Out of 5 platforms, how many do you think are going towards the city?

Turns out, only one. And the next train is in 11 minutes. And it doesn’t stop at my hairdresser station.

Argh!!!!!!!

At this point I give up and head home. Only to get a message from Kev saying that he’s stuck in horrible traffic due to an accident and will be home sometime before Christmas.

Sigh. What a night. I can only pray it gets better from here …

I’m seeing the new Harry Potter movie tomorrow night. Am beyond excited! Although I suspect that this is nothing to the excitement that will precede the release of the 7th book in a couple of weeks time! I’m already counting my blessings that I live walking distance from a major shopping centre, because I suspect that the car parks are going to be a zoo that morning!

The wedding planning hasn’t progressed much in the last couple of weeks. Now that we’ve got the date, venue and celebrant sorted out, the rest is slightly less pressing. We do probably need to start thinking about a photographer soonish, to make sure we get somebody we like for the day we’ve set, but I’m sure it will be fine. 13 months to go feels like a long time but I suspect it’s going to disappear very quickly, so I want to be as organised as possible, as early as possible. I definitely don’t want to be running around a week before the wedding freaking out because a crucial detail has been forgotten!

Otherwise, we’ve been pretty quiet. I took a flex day from work last Friday and enjoyed the luxury of a 3 day weekend. Bliss! I feel so recharged now, and I’ve been much more productive this week than I would have been otherwise, I think!!

Last weekend we drove up to Gosford on Saturday to see the Storm play, simply because a) it was a lovely day, b) we’ve never been to Gosford, and c) we just felt like it. Was lovely. We drive back down to Sydney after the match in time for late night enchiladas at Montezumas. Mmmmm.

I have fallen in love with Chapel Press.

I’m trying not to let myself fall too far though, as I’m convinced that a full set of wedding stationery from them would be far more expensive than we can afford. And despite the expensive tastes of both Kev and myself, we are actually trying to put this thing together on a reasonably tight budget! (Read: We’d both rather go on an expensive honeymoon than spend a fortune on one day!)

But they are divine. Sigh.

Well, the wedding plans are coming along nicely. Ceremony and reception venue - check. Marriage celebrant - check.

OK, so we haven’t got too far yet, but the wedding’s still over a year away, so I think we’re doing alright, considering!

We’re starting to turn our attention to things like colours now, so that we can start thinking about stationery styles, bridesmaid dresses, flowers, etc. The verdict? It’s not easy choosing colour schemes! As soon as one scheme catches my attention, I’ll come across another idea that seeems just as appealing. Dilemma!