So the wedding is 4 days away and things seem to be coming into place. My mom comes in tonight and she’s staying with us till Thursday. I still have to work tomorrow so I’ll try to make a list of things for her to do! My bridesmaid from CA comes in tomorrow and then the one from NC comes in Thursday, just in time for the bachelorette party. The last one comes in early Friday morning.

Weather looks like it will be tolerable, currently no rain is being predicted, but that may change, as always. Good thing it has cooled down a bit though. I have a small “to do” list, but they are things I can knock out pretty quickly, or things I can hand over to someone else and I’m fine with delegating.

Jason and I cleaned the house last night, and I mean cleaned. Mopped floors, shampooed carpets, emptied a bunch of trash. I even mowed our lawn that had 2 foot weeds springing up out of it. I have a few bug bites to show for it too. I *finally* cleaned out my car after many months of not having done so. It feels good to finally take care of that after saying I would for so long.

Wow, we’re really closing in on the wedding day and it all seems a bit surreal. I had my hair trial this past weekend and it was excellent. The girl who is going my hair took her time to get it right and I’m so confident in her abilities for the wedding day. She also did my make-up and it was perfect.

My maid-of-honor was supposed to meet me there, but she never showed up. We’ve gone a few days without talking before, but she didn’t answer her phone, her emails, etc. On Wednesday she emailed to tell me she’d been in a car accident!! She’s okay, but her car is totalled. If someone had been in the passenger side, they probably would’ve been impailed by the door frame and, at the very least, would’ve suffered horrible injuries. I still don’t know the details of the accident, but it sounds like her insurance is taking care of things, even providing a car for 30 days for free.

I don’t know what I would’ve done if she’d gotten seriously hurt. Especially right now. I don’t even want to think about it.

Well, I haven’t had anymore nightmares, so that’s good. We have quite a few small things to do before the wedding, but we really are on track. Two Sundays ago I had a shower at Lyndi’s aunt’s apartment in Green Hills and it was really nice. I’ve met Pam many times before so it was nice to see her and it was very generous of her to have us in her home. Lyndi did a great job putting things together. The decorations were really cute and the games were a lot of fun. They were just silly bridal games, but I think people got into them.

Again, I was amazed at the generosity of my friends and soon-to-be family. Jason’s mom and sister were there and they were a lot of fun. It was nice of them to drive down from C-ville for the party.

Last Saturday we had our final shower at our house. No, we didn’t throw a shower for ourselves, it was hosted by my maid-of-honor. She prepared the most amazing Irish menu you could possibly ask for. Soda bread, fondue, phyllo cups, 3 desserts and Irish drinks to boot! It was amazing. The turn out was pretty small, but we got to spend some quality time with close friends.

Sunday Jason’s parents came down and we ordered the tuxes for the guys and got juice for the cocktails. Jason and I are in the middle of designing the cocktail menus, so that’s fun. I have a few other display items to put together still.

This weekend I go for my hair trial and I’m so excited! We’ll do a full trial run of my hair and makeup for the wedding. I can’t wait. Then I meet with my wedding coordinator to go over the days events, etc. Sunday I have a work pool party, which seems kinda weird, but I’m going to go for a little bit. Its not with my normal work group, but some other people I worked with on a certain techie project. It was nice of them to invite me. Sunday night, Jason and I are going to see a Sounds game in a skybox with the rest of my office. Our manager arranged this for us when we reached a certain number of electronic prescriptions. That’s a bad explanation, but I’m too lazy to go into it now!

More later!

I found out yesterday that the one member of my extended family who’d already RSVPed is not going to be able to come to the wedding. For legitimate reasons, but still a bit disappointing. I didn’t think I would mind if none of my relatives came, but now, when I think about it, I’m kinda upset. This is the most important day of my life and it’s supposed to be the day when family comes together to celebrate. Just thinking about the Egan family portrait makes me a bit sad. It will just be me, my mom and my brother. Of course, they are the most important members of my family, but its just unsettling that none of my other relatives consider this a reason to miss a day of work or buy a plane ticket. My only consulation is knowing that soon I will have a bigger family than I’ve ever had. I haven’t had any grandparents since I was 19, so its cool to think of Jason’s grandparents as soon-to-be-relatives.

But anyway, I am very grateful that so many of our friends can attend and I know it will still be an incredible day.

Whoo hoo, one night without freaky wedding dreams! Or, at least none that I can remember!

So Jason left for Portland, Oregon yesterday, which means I’m left to fend for myself for a few days. I think its good to have time apart, but it doesn’t take long for me to miss him. Especially when it comes to sleeping…I find it very hard to have a good night’s sleep when he’s not there. Of course, it doesn’t help that I’ve invited Clem and Dex to sleep with me and they aren’t the soundest of sleepers either. Plus, both of them are on the look out for “dad”, so every noise is potentially Jason coming home.

The point of this is that I had another crazy wedding dream. In this one, we were at a location where weddings happen one after the other all throughout the day. I was freaking out because I hadn’t met with my florist to finalize the flowers, I hadn’t given our officiant the script for the ceremony and I hadn’t even met up with my wedding coordinator till like an hour before the wedding. The ceremony before ours was running late and by the end of it, the officiant said he couldn’t stay and that he could come back the next morning. Since most people either live in Nashville or they were there for the whole weekend, we decided it would be okay to do the wedding the next morning, but then we didn’t have the location reserved. Anyway, it was a mess.

I sure hope not, considering the crazy dreams I’ve been having lately. I keep dreaming the ceremony is all messed up or the planning was all wrong, when I have no reason to worry at all. I’ve heard I shouldn’t do wedding stuff right before bed cause that can prompt the dreams, but its pretty much on my mind non-stop nowadays! Anyway, I’ll enjoy the day when it gets here, but I think I’ll be a little relieved when it is all over.

You know its been too long when you can’t even remember where to go to update your blog. Unfortunately, I’m not going to spend a good deal of time updating my blog right now, but I will add more later, I promise. Things with the wedding are coming along nicely, every thing is falling into place. I sent out the invites today! Very exciting. I have a lot of activities lined up between now and September, so I think I’ll be kept busy!! Well, I just wanted to post so you know I’m alive and well. I will update more later!

Wow, its been quite the past 2 weeks. With my show opening, family coming in, getting new living room furniture, and then getting the stomach flu/food poisoning (not sure which one), I am POOPed!

The show went really well last weekend. We were sold out on opening night and four of my friends from work came. It was really great. Jason came too, so that made it even better. I think everyone enjoyed it, it was at least different from what they were used to as far as theatre goes.

My mom and brother came into town on Saturday, so they both got to see it as well. Sunday I got sick with something nasty and that knocked me on my butt all day Sunday and on into Monday. It was nice having my mom around though, she took care of me. We went to brunch at Ellendales, which was a really nice brunch, but it was hella busy. I mean, kids running around screaming, bumping into waiters with big trays full of dirty dishes, and waiting 10 minutes for a water refill. Anyway, it was a nice place, but I was already feeling crummy, so I don’t think I got the full enjoyment out of it.

Monday we went to get my dress, since its in, and I tried it on. It fit perfectly and just needs a bustle, so they’re holding it there till I get in touch with the seamstress. I didn’t know it didn’t come with a bustle, but I guess I was supposed to know that. Oh well.

When I finished with school, I probably should’ve taken some time to relax a little bit! Now I’m in a play with Actor’s Bridge, playing soccer on Sundays, and still planning for the wedding. All of the above are fun and enjoyable, but I probably should’ve eased back into it.

My play, Metamorphoses, opens next weekend, the 12th, which is Mother’s Day weekend. My mom and brother are coming to see it and are staying with us for a few days. My brother still hasn’t seen our house, and neither of them have met Clementine. Anyway, they are both coming in on Saturday and then Sunday we can do brunch. I made reservations at one place, but I may change my mind to go somewhere closer. Monday we’re going to pick up my dress, which I haven’t seen yet since it arrived. I’m very excited.

The play itself is going really well. I’ve memorized all my lines and am not having dreams about forgetting all of them. We haven’t really seen the set yet or tried on costumes, but I think we get those this week. For those of you who don’t know, the play takes place in and around a pool of water, so we have to have comfortable, yet minimal, costumes. In fact, there is one part of the show where a guy is entirely naked. I’m not sure if my mom knows that yet. Oops. So anyway, if you want to come see it, call head for tickets at 341.0300. It’ll save you $3 to call ahead.

Soccer has been fun so far. We’re 1-1 so far and I have some fun bruises to show for it. Nothing like Jason’s nasty bruise on his NZ trip, but battle scars nonetheless. I’m having a good time. I wish my mom could see me play, but there’s no game on Mother’s Day.

Lastly, wedding stuff is coming along nicely. Today is exactly 4 months away from our wedding! I’ve decided to hand-make our invitations. I’m creating them from scratch, not using a kit, so we’ll see how they come out. I’m working on other details, like the favors, cake, and decorations, and I have a pretty good idea about all of them. The music is hard to put together, but I’ve at least found our recessional song.