A week in the life of...
Oh wow! Hi! You're still here! Welcome, welcome. Kick off your shoes and get comfy. We're all friends here. (I hope.)
I honestly don't expect too many of you to stick around when I clearly am a very lazy blogger. I don't even think I can be called a blogger. I just have a blog.
So, what has been keep me away from this here little part of the interwebs? Nothing too exciting, unfortunately. Just the day-to-day stuff which gets in the way, particularly at this time of year. (Also, the IT guys at work have mentioned that they sometimes read my blog, which I think gave me a little case of writer's block... blame the IT guys.)
The highlights of the past few weeks are as follows (in no particular order):
(Wedding invitations. Thank goodness. For a while it was looking like we'd be inviting people via email, phone call and smoke signal.)
Finally deciding on wedding invitations. Can I stress that I'm well aware that the perfection that I desire in wedding stationery is truly ridiculous and unnecessary? I'm the only person who will know if the green printing on the invites exactly matches the green in the monsteria leaves in the table arrangements; so really, it shouldn't matter. But it does. It matters to me. I am only doing this whole wedding palaver once, so it's gotta be right. I love my fiance BB, and I love that I'm marrying him. I also love planning events. But I ASSURE you, that this is it. One wedding, one wedding-planning experience is enough for me. I'll be content after this to limit my event-planning to little children's birthday parties. (Bring on the bunting and fairy bread. I wish I could have them at our wedding!)
(The lovely new maxidress my Mumsy bought me, heading out to dinner with the parentals, and their fave pasttime, Card Scrabble.)
Having my folks up to Hervey Bay to visit. (I know, I complained on Twitter about this A LOT, but it was really quite lovely. And I adore watching my Mum and BB hanging out and enjoying each other's company - it's quite special having your Mum and fiance get along so well. I feel lucky.) Just sitting on the verandah playing Card Scrabble and drinking from our new frosty mugs (best purchase ever) was blissfully relaxing. And of course there was a fair amount of wedding talk over cocktails, too, and you know how much I love that!
(The imcomparable Dolly Parton, and BB & I waiting for the magic to begin!)
Seeing Dolly Parton live. {Go on, insert blonde & busty joke here.} Say what you like about her, Dolly is truly amazing. BB and I went to her concert, expecting a nice hour or so of country classics. What we got was a breathtaking 2 and a half hour concert, PACKED with Dolly's incredible voice, her hit songs, covers of her favourite pop, rock and rap (yes, rap) songs, interspersed with her famously effervescent humour and some mind-blowing musicality. The incomparable Ms Parton played so many different instruments well, including fiddle, banjo, steel guitar, harpsichord, piccolo, piano AND saxophone. Yep, she played the saxophone. Brilliantly. Oh, and did I mention that she's 65 years old and was running all over the stage, dancing and shaking her famous tush the whole time? I wanna be like Dolly.
(See that? It's ME. MEEEEEE!)
Being immortalised in print. Don't laugh, I'm serious. My favourite author (I only call him that when Carl Hiaasen & Bill Bryson aren't around, shhh) John Birmingham, named a character after me in his latest (and possibly greatest) book Angels of Vengeance.
Yup. An author I've loved for YEARS named a character in a novel after me. I don't know when the coolness of this will get old. I suspect it wont. I'm freaking stoked. And due to this brilliant example of nomenclature, Ole' JB has skipped to the top of my favourite author list. And I'm buying his books for everyone. So if you're on my Christmas list, expect JB's back catalogue.
I honestly don't expect too many of you to stick around when I clearly am a very lazy blogger. I don't even think I can be called a blogger. I just have a blog.
So, what has been keep me away from this here little part of the interwebs? Nothing too exciting, unfortunately. Just the day-to-day stuff which gets in the way, particularly at this time of year. (Also, the IT guys at work have mentioned that they sometimes read my blog, which I think gave me a little case of writer's block... blame the IT guys.)
The highlights of the past few weeks are as follows (in no particular order):
(Wedding invitations. Thank goodness. For a while it was looking like we'd be inviting people via email, phone call and smoke signal.)
Finally deciding on wedding invitations. Can I stress that I'm well aware that the perfection that I desire in wedding stationery is truly ridiculous and unnecessary? I'm the only person who will know if the green printing on the invites exactly matches the green in the monsteria leaves in the table arrangements; so really, it shouldn't matter. But it does. It matters to me. I am only doing this whole wedding palaver once, so it's gotta be right. I love my fiance BB, and I love that I'm marrying him. I also love planning events. But I ASSURE you, that this is it. One wedding, one wedding-planning experience is enough for me. I'll be content after this to limit my event-planning to little children's birthday parties. (Bring on the bunting and fairy bread. I wish I could have them at our wedding!)
(The lovely new maxidress my Mumsy bought me, heading out to dinner with the parentals, and their fave pasttime, Card Scrabble.)
Having my folks up to Hervey Bay to visit. (I know, I complained on Twitter about this A LOT, but it was really quite lovely. And I adore watching my Mum and BB hanging out and enjoying each other's company - it's quite special having your Mum and fiance get along so well. I feel lucky.) Just sitting on the verandah playing Card Scrabble and drinking from our new frosty mugs (best purchase ever) was blissfully relaxing. And of course there was a fair amount of wedding talk over cocktails, too, and you know how much I love that!
(The imcomparable Dolly Parton, and BB & I waiting for the magic to begin!)
Seeing Dolly Parton live. {Go on, insert blonde & busty joke here.} Say what you like about her, Dolly is truly amazing. BB and I went to her concert, expecting a nice hour or so of country classics. What we got was a breathtaking 2 and a half hour concert, PACKED with Dolly's incredible voice, her hit songs, covers of her favourite pop, rock and rap (yes, rap) songs, interspersed with her famously effervescent humour and some mind-blowing musicality. The incomparable Ms Parton played so many different instruments well, including fiddle, banjo, steel guitar, harpsichord, piccolo, piano AND saxophone. Yep, she played the saxophone. Brilliantly. Oh, and did I mention that she's 65 years old and was running all over the stage, dancing and shaking her famous tush the whole time? I wanna be like Dolly.
(See that? It's ME. MEEEEEE!)
Being immortalised in print. Don't laugh, I'm serious. My favourite author (I only call him that when Carl Hiaasen & Bill Bryson aren't around, shhh) John Birmingham, named a character after me in his latest (and possibly greatest) book Angels of Vengeance.
Yup. An author I've loved for YEARS named a character in a novel after me. I don't know when the coolness of this will get old. I suspect it wont. I'm freaking stoked. And due to this brilliant example of nomenclature, Ole' JB has skipped to the top of my favourite author list. And I'm buying his books for everyone. So if you're on my Christmas list, expect JB's back catalogue.
Posted by Katy Potaty CUPCAKE LADY at Monday, November 28, 2011 2:22 PM 
Categories: reading, Bridal/Wedding, Spring, fabulous friends, blogs, Summer, inspiration, Books/Movies, Twitter, music, real life/foibles
Categories: reading, Bridal/Wedding, Spring, fabulous friends, blogs, Summer, inspiration, Books/Movies, Twitter, music, real life/foibles
Congratulations on being immortalised! And your mum has a great sense of fashion
oh yes, wedding invitations - looking gorgeous! Simple yet so stylish!
xx
MV
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Awe so happy for you beautiful! you always seem to have your life perfectly together! it's great to see xo
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How exciting. We're nearly finished out invitations too and I just realised we're getting married on the same day!!
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