Long Time No...
Yup, I've gone and done it again. I disappeared on you. If we were dating, I wouldn't blame you if you asked to break up. Don't hate!
As usually, I have some very good reasons. I've been a very busy little bubble bee! How about I fill you in:
BOSTON: Still sucks here, but its getting better. We have a couple of friends that keep us smiling and in the last few weeks Matt and I have logged a good few cuddle sessions. I'm so sad for the people that were devastated by mega-storm Sandy (Wait. Was it actually called a mega storm? I think I want to call it Mega-Storm because of that episode of the office where Dwight puts his desk together with Jim's and calls it Mega Desk. I digress), but I'm so grateful that it gave me two days off with my sweetheart. We even found time to celebrate our anniversary and pick a....
WEDDING DATE: We have one!! YAAAAY!! Praise all things that are holy that the search for a wedding venue is finally over! We finally decided on The Atlantica in Cohasset, MA. Check this picture out:
and this one:
Besides the beautiful view, the Atlantica made it onto our shortlist because it endeavors to break the timeless tradition of the draining the bank accounts of couples who simply want to celebrate their commitment to each other among some well fed friends and family members. I mean, seriously! Why is it so ridiculously expensive to get married??
Thank you, Atlantica, for having a venue site fee that is $200 and not $4000. Thank you for having a Food & Beverage Minimums that make sense instead of minimum head counts. Thank you for having all-inclusive drink packages that make sense and for being willing to entertain my silly obsession with....
THEMES: We are having a theme wedding! Oh, don't you roll your eyes at me. This is going to be great! We are going to do a (subtle, mind you) vintage boardwalk/carnival theme. Check out my new project. TheWoolWedding.com. I'm pretty proud of my RSVP form. :) Oh! and check out our colors:
I'm not going to let out too many of my secrets because... well... lets face it, many of my readers are on the guest list! But let's just say that it will be playful and lighthearted and if all goes according to plan, our people are going to smile so much their cheeks are going to ache. I'm so excited!! I can't wait for August 2013! There is SO much to do until then, especially since it looks like I'm going back to...
SCHOOL: Yup, this graduate may be matriculating one more time. Here's the kicker. Matt and I are both in the restaurant industry. He is already an Executive Chef and for those of you who have ever lived to love a chef before know that the hours they work are looooooooong. Now I'm a bartender, yes, and the hours for me are short and profitable, but do I want to be an old pregnant bartender with no hope of maternity leave or perhaps even a job when I come back? Yeeeah, that sounds sucky. Do I want to be a 50 year old tight black tank top wearing bartender who's kid just graduated high school? I don't know... maybe. I do love the job, but will I regret having never tried anything else in my life? What kind of example will that set for my babies? So I'm going to try and get a nursing degree. I think it will offer me a lot of the things that I dig about bartending = its physical... I get to work with people (and make them feel better)... there's lots of problem-solving and plenty of opportunities to approve upon your craft... and the hours can be as fantastic or as terrible as I want them to be. Only real problem is that I have NONE of the pre-requisites in place and just found out today that I don't even have the pre-req's to take the pre-req's! So I am starting from the waaaaay beginning expect this time I don't qualify for any real financial aid. Oh, and the Boston nursing market is pretty saturated so getting a job nursing is going to be just as hard as getting a job on the bar. Ooooh, maybe that means we'll have to move back to New York. ;)
But then again... home is pretty comfy these days.
That's really the bulk of what's been on my mind lately. Am just trying to piece it all together. Will do my best to check in more often. I miss you. :)
As usually, I have some very good reasons. I've been a very busy little bubble bee! How about I fill you in:
BOSTON: Still sucks here, but its getting better. We have a couple of friends that keep us smiling and in the last few weeks Matt and I have logged a good few cuddle sessions. I'm so sad for the people that were devastated by mega-storm Sandy (Wait. Was it actually called a mega storm? I think I want to call it Mega-Storm because of that episode of the office where Dwight puts his desk together with Jim's and calls it Mega Desk. I digress), but I'm so grateful that it gave me two days off with my sweetheart. We even found time to celebrate our anniversary and pick a....
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| See! Boston girls can be pretty awesome! |
WEDDING DATE: We have one!! YAAAAY!! Praise all things that are holy that the search for a wedding venue is finally over! We finally decided on The Atlantica in Cohasset, MA. Check this picture out:
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| borrowed from http://www.deanandhamilton.com |
and this one:
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| borrowed from Trip Advisor |
Thank you, Atlantica, for having a venue site fee that is $200 and not $4000. Thank you for having a Food & Beverage Minimums that make sense instead of minimum head counts. Thank you for having all-inclusive drink packages that make sense and for being willing to entertain my silly obsession with....
THEMES: We are having a theme wedding! Oh, don't you roll your eyes at me. This is going to be great! We are going to do a (subtle, mind you) vintage boardwalk/carnival theme. Check out my new project. TheWoolWedding.com. I'm pretty proud of my RSVP form. :) Oh! and check out our colors:
I'm not going to let out too many of my secrets because... well... lets face it, many of my readers are on the guest list! But let's just say that it will be playful and lighthearted and if all goes according to plan, our people are going to smile so much their cheeks are going to ache. I'm so excited!! I can't wait for August 2013! There is SO much to do until then, especially since it looks like I'm going back to...
SCHOOL: Yup, this graduate may be matriculating one more time. Here's the kicker. Matt and I are both in the restaurant industry. He is already an Executive Chef and for those of you who have ever lived to love a chef before know that the hours they work are looooooooong. Now I'm a bartender, yes, and the hours for me are short and profitable, but do I want to be an old pregnant bartender with no hope of maternity leave or perhaps even a job when I come back? Yeeeah, that sounds sucky. Do I want to be a 50 year old tight black tank top wearing bartender who's kid just graduated high school? I don't know... maybe. I do love the job, but will I regret having never tried anything else in my life? What kind of example will that set for my babies? So I'm going to try and get a nursing degree. I think it will offer me a lot of the things that I dig about bartending = its physical... I get to work with people (and make them feel better)... there's lots of problem-solving and plenty of opportunities to approve upon your craft... and the hours can be as fantastic or as terrible as I want them to be. Only real problem is that I have NONE of the pre-requisites in place and just found out today that I don't even have the pre-req's to take the pre-req's! So I am starting from the waaaaay beginning expect this time I don't qualify for any real financial aid. Oh, and the Boston nursing market is pretty saturated so getting a job nursing is going to be just as hard as getting a job on the bar. Ooooh, maybe that means we'll have to move back to New York. ;)
But then again... home is pretty comfy these days.
That's really the bulk of what's been on my mind lately. Am just trying to piece it all together. Will do my best to check in more often. I miss you. :)
