Madness

So a lot has happened in the past few weeks. Obviously there was Amsterdam (as detailed in the other blog), I finished up school, getting ready for the parade, catching up on work, and reeling from the weight I've gained. Then there's the wedding. I'll explain:

Amsterdam = look to other blog, but the jet lag affects, or what I think are jet lag affects, didn't quite leave me until Thursday of last week.

School = So I did end up ditching the last day of school. I slept all day in hopes that I would work on my paper in the evening. That didn't happen. At 10PM I realized that I should just hand in what I had completed for partial credit. I boot up the laptop only to realize that my most completed version of my paper is housed on my work computer (rat fink!), so I had to ask Dane to drive me to work at 10:30 on a Saturday to get my paper. We did and I handed it in about 50% complete. Since the assignment was worth 20% of the total letter grade for the class and I already had an A- I figured I'd be lucky to get a C in the class. However, the teacher said that if we did a good job on our final paper, he might redo the week four grades. Even though I didn't complete the whole paper, he said I had done such a good job on redoing it that had I finished the paper he believes it would have been A+ material (wow!). So he felt bad that all he could do was give me 15/20, which for only a 50% completed paper that was amazing. And he upped my W4 assignment grade, leaving me with a B+ for my final grade. Again, not bad considering I didn't even do the bulk of the final. Whoot whoot! So I'm on a hiatus (thank God because there's no way I could complete anything for school right now) till I get back from Mexico. My next class: Enterprise Risk (whatever that is).

Parade: So the parade is this Saturday. I feel woefully unprepared for the d@mn thing. And this year I'm wearing my Isis Wings, so I'll have HUGE props on my hands for all to see when I make a mistake. But as SC said, I'll just have to recover and move on when I make a mistake. :-) I've been practicing and plan to practice for about an hour or so each night this week above and beyond the class on Wed and dress rehersal on Thurs. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the parade still and think it will be a great time. My costume is near complete. I just need a choli.

Work: Is going well, I haven't made it in the past two weeks to make up for AMS, but I did come in 2 hours early today. I figure if I do that for the next two weeks, then not only will I get all caught up on work, I'll make up for the lost time. I came back to a happy office, Janis (the ED) even hugged me! Everyone was happy to have me back and geniunely excited to hear about my trip. Our new Director of Admin/Finance started too. I think I'm really going to enjoy working with him. He's strong in Finance, but knows Accounting well enough to help me out. I think he will be a great asset to the organization. For now I'm closing May and working on various projects and reconciliations. I have more pots on the burner than I usually like, but it's still better than TSA.

Weight: Ugh - I weigh more today than I did the day of surgery. WTF!? I ditched the vegan diet and all of a sudden I've gained 10 lbs. And I've been slacking on working out. So this week and for the next three weeks I've resolved to work out for 2 hours a day and I'm back to portion control as of tomorrow when my Lucky Palate shipment comes in. It's one thing to be overweight, it's quite another to do what I've done and then gain the weight back. I'm absolutely ashamed of myself and feel like the most pathetic loser in the world. No excuses, seriously, I have no effing excuse.

Wedding: So this week is dedicated to the Parade, but I have put a little thought here and there to the wedding. Like we went shopping yesterday for Dane and got his wedding outfit. We found my wedding shoes (which will hopefully go with the gown as I won't get the gown till 1 day before I leave for Cabo). I bought some cute, classy outfits for Mexico and will probably get more when I'm in PDX next weekend. I still need lingerie, figure out my hair situation, order spa services, nail down the vows, get the money down to Cabo, figure out the suitcase/packing situation. There are a lot of tiny details that still need to be done. Fortunately for me I can focus ALL my energy to the event after this Saturday. I have the whole plan worked out. I've had to sluff off some household duties and chores in order accomodate the wedding, but that's no biggie. The house will still be a mess upon our return, no sense in stressing now to get it done. And in other news, Dane and I have decided that we will be having a pirate wedding after all. In order to legally be married we have to have a Mexican ceremony w/ the judge all done at the courthouse. Technically our beach ceremony is entirely symbolic/traditional in the non traditional way. So we thought, shoot - if we are already going to have a formal wedding and we wont understand a lick of the Mexican ceremony, might as well have fun with it and dress like pirates.

And finally - (you won't believe this) apparently Dane's mom (Janet) and husband (Bill) are having troubles securing their timeshare for the wedding. They already purchased their airline tickets but they can't get in to their timeshare till Sunday so they need a place to stay for Saturday night. Bill called Dane to ask if he and Janet could room with Dane and I for Saturday night. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe that?!?! On our WEDDING!!! Dane said he was just in shock. He didn't know how to respond. But even if we did entertain this idea, it's an all-inclusive resort. You can't even get in the d@mn thing without having the proper credentials and/or paying for a day pass. Not to mention we could get in serious trouble for smuggling people in. The fucking nerve. My mom is so funny, she sent an email today saying that she and dad have grossly underestimated their spending money and need to stay with us in our room. I almost fell for it but then keeled over laughing. Well played, Mom, well played.