I can say that 90% of my wedding planning has gone smoothly. The other 10% involves 2 things.
THING 1:
The restaurant I had planned on having dinner at afterward misled my mom and I into believing that yes they would be available to host our dinner on August 20th at 7:30pm when they replied back to her and asked would we like inside or outside. Of course we want outside and to that they then said "We are booked for a private event the 20th and the 21st. We could do your dinner on the 19th." I'd like to applaud the genius who thinks I can have my post wedding dinner before my wedding... So now I'm researching and emailing different restaurants to see if they are available for my post wedding dinner.
THING 2:
My wedding dress to me has gone MIA. I found a lovely lace halter dress for a whopping $110. Now given that is was only $110, it seems I contributed to child labor in China where some poor little children probably hand stitched my dress. All was fine and dandy with that until now. Supposedly my dress left Hong Kong on June 14th. To me with Hong Kong being right across the ocean from WA (had to have the dress sent to my parent's house first) it should only take a week to get there. Well here we are at June 28th. Today would be the LAST day it should take to arrive given standard shipping. So I have started to panic. This basically leaves me with one month to find and order a new dress and have it arrive here in Lima if this dress does not show up. August 4th I'm on a plane bound for the Estados Unidos and will be up in Bottineau, ND the next day. I have a slight layover in Miami but how on earth during my time in Miami will I find a dress that fits just right and isn't too expensive otherwise god willing there is something in Bottineau, Minot, or even Fargo that I can get to without inconveniencing anyone.
So let us pray that the dress shows up today. Otherwise we move onto the prayers for the poor poor unfortunate customer service agents that will get stuck dealing with me. No dress = no wedding in my mind... And no wedding is just not an option therefore I NEED my fucking dress...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Friends or lack there of...
It seems to me that I can now expect the length of my friendships to last 2 months to 2 years... With that being said I miss most of my friends back home and I'm going to miss the two really good friends I've made down here... I hope that the connections remain, although since moving it seems that most will fade...
As I have adjusted to life as a stay at home fiance fairly well and managed to develop a Friday night social life for the better part of a couple months... Unfortunately, Nicole has to move on to bigger and better parts of her career and the same goes for Michelle in a couple of weeks... Therefore Friday night dinners and the every now and again Saturday manicure will be put on hold till I find my new group of NORMAL (I emphasize normal because of the lack of normal individuals within this embassy)friends to do dinners and such with... But then again that is this life and something I knew getting into this adventure...
I guess what I didn't fully prepare for was the lack of communication from friends from back "home"... Home is now in quotes because THIS is my new home... I feel like there was a great enthusiasm towards being friends with me because I was leaving but now that I've been gone, it seems I'm all but a distant memory to most... Maybe it's because I have too many posts from Cityville on my Facebook and I've been blocked by people? or is it that sorta you don't see it so you forget about it kinda thing?
I also have a tendency to go along with the belief that my generation is too reliant on TEXTING... Back in WA I was always only a text away and even I have to admit I would rather send a text than pick up the phone and hit the call button... Given that texting is not an option to get a hold of me, I had sent out a FB message to the friends I felt I would keep in contact with the most... I guess really only 2 of them actually picked up the phone and called and even then it seems it's been a couple months.... It's like the excitement of my move and the excitement of my engagement has faded into the background.... Maybe it's also my fault for thinking they should be the ones to pick up and call when I also have not picked up to call them... In my head I know these people have jobs, where as I do not... So I guess I thought that since they are the busier ones that they would call when they have time, as where I do not want to bother them when they are busy...
Now life goes on and I understand that friendships will definitely come and go, but I just think I expected a little more out of those who said they would keep in touch and maybe I need to step up my game in the friendship department as well...
As I have adjusted to life as a stay at home fiance fairly well and managed to develop a Friday night social life for the better part of a couple months... Unfortunately, Nicole has to move on to bigger and better parts of her career and the same goes for Michelle in a couple of weeks... Therefore Friday night dinners and the every now and again Saturday manicure will be put on hold till I find my new group of NORMAL (I emphasize normal because of the lack of normal individuals within this embassy)friends to do dinners and such with... But then again that is this life and something I knew getting into this adventure...
I guess what I didn't fully prepare for was the lack of communication from friends from back "home"... Home is now in quotes because THIS is my new home... I feel like there was a great enthusiasm towards being friends with me because I was leaving but now that I've been gone, it seems I'm all but a distant memory to most... Maybe it's because I have too many posts from Cityville on my Facebook and I've been blocked by people? or is it that sorta you don't see it so you forget about it kinda thing?
I also have a tendency to go along with the belief that my generation is too reliant on TEXTING... Back in WA I was always only a text away and even I have to admit I would rather send a text than pick up the phone and hit the call button... Given that texting is not an option to get a hold of me, I had sent out a FB message to the friends I felt I would keep in contact with the most... I guess really only 2 of them actually picked up the phone and called and even then it seems it's been a couple months.... It's like the excitement of my move and the excitement of my engagement has faded into the background.... Maybe it's also my fault for thinking they should be the ones to pick up and call when I also have not picked up to call them... In my head I know these people have jobs, where as I do not... So I guess I thought that since they are the busier ones that they would call when they have time, as where I do not want to bother them when they are busy...
Now life goes on and I understand that friendships will definitely come and go, but I just think I expected a little more out of those who said they would keep in touch and maybe I need to step up my game in the friendship department as well...
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