Happy Annireversary!

In exactly one year, James and I will be at our wedding ceremony saying our vows. And yes, I do mean exactly one year, as I am a huge dork and scheduled this post to go up at 5:15 p.m. on September 18.

At that point, we will have been together for over four years! I'm extremely excited to get together with everyone we love and celebrate our relationship. Being married will be awesome, I'm sure :D

Tonight we're going to Chicago Fire to celebrate our annireversary (P.S. I'm quite proud that I coined that catchy little word. Get it? Anni-reversary? One year before?? Yes!).

Today is also the day my sister (and maid of honor) Rose flew to Ireland! I'm sad that I won't be seeing her for eight long months, but that's overshadowed by my excitement for her study abroad experience. Not to mention excitement that I'll be visiting her in Europe the next time I see her!

Happy weekend!

Wishful Wednesday: TV Star

Today’s Wishful Wednesday topic (from The Seattle Smiths) is:

“‘I wish’… I could be __________.”
(Name that TV star! Post a picture and tell us why)

**Wishful Wednesday is supposed to be something to get us through those lovely hump days. It may be a wish, a hope, a dream, or an aspiration – some topics may be fun and playful and others more insightful – but most importantly, it will give us an opportunity to get to know our fellow bloggers a little bit better, and see what makes each of us tick... **

Easy. I wish I could be Carrie Bradshaw. She’s so fabulous.

She’s confident, has a career doing what she loves, has strong relationships with great friends.

And she lives in New York City, where I think I’d fit right in. This apartment is calling my name!

I’ve always wanted to be Carrie because her life is so exciting and filled with great parties and friends.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every episode of Sex and the City, but I still watch the reruns on TBS sometimes.

Recovery

Recovery is going okay. I discovered that vicodin makes me nauseous - yay... I started cutting them in half and that fixed the problem. I've had no major problems, but I'm still in pain. If I had no painkillers I'd be very unhappy. But I do, and I'm thankful for that!

Wishful Wednesday: Home

Today I’m participating in Kelsey at Seattle Smith’s “Wishful Wednesday” game.

The rules:
1. Copy the lovely Wishful Wednesday button and attach it to the top of your post.
2. If you want to use McLinky... feel free to add your blog so others can see your idea and hop on over to your blog!
3. Link it back to my blog if you'd like.
4. Lastly, be creative with your ideas :)

I like this game!

Today’s Wishful Wednesday topic is 'I wish’... I could come home to ____ house everyday! (attach a picture and tell us why)

I absolutely love my neighborhood in Sacramento, Land Park. The houses are historic, unique and beautiful. The people are friendly. The trees are big and shady. I wish I owned a large house here to come home to everyday. Our one bedroom duplex is nice for now, but eventually I need more space and I wish we could currently afford this home:

Currently on the market for a mere $649,000.

Oral surgery

I’m having my wisdom teeth removed in two days – all four of them. Bright and early at 7 a.m., which is good because I don’t do well without breakfast. I can’t even have a sip of water!

This is my first and only surgery ever, and I’m quite scared! I’m so not excited about getting a part of me yanked out violently. This whole thing freaks me out!

I’m just thankful for the ability to be put to sleep. I plan to just stay on painkillers the whole weekend and hopefully it works out perfectly…

Slap Chop

I need one of these ASAP!


The other day I spent like 30 minutes cutting vegetables for my veggie calzones. It took forever and I've deemed the Slap Chop a necessary purchase. I'm going to keep my eye out at Target for a similar contraption. Think of the time I'll save!

September 18, 2010

The venues are booked and the date is set! We're getting married on September 18, 2010! I get to marry this guy - how stinking cute is he?!

He's going to be my husband. Woo hoo!

We decided to have our ceremony at one of my favorite places in the world:

On a cliff above the Pacific Ocean. Next to a lighthouse. On a clear day you can see all the way across the Monterey Bay to the mountains on the other side. It's perfect!

I thought about getting married at this spot ever since I first discovered it (with James almost 3 years ago), but we were worried about parking, rain, and lots of other people watching. But we decided to just deal with it, because this location is breathtaking. We may walk a little way, and there may be 20 strangers watching but I don't care! ...if it rains, well then that would certainly screw up the plan. Then we'd probably have the ceremony at our reception site.

Speaking of which, we decided to book option #2 that I wrote about last week! It has a great atmosphere and I think (hope) everyone's going to have a ton of fun there. I was second guessing it because it doesn't have an ocean view, but now that we're having our ceremony at the ocean I'm okay with it. Actually I'm thrilled about it!

I love James, I love planning parties... life is good!