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myurbandream ([personal profile] myurbandream) wrote2009-02-21 02:19 pm

ringel rangel rose, was ist los, hast du keine zeit für mich...

engagement party last night was so fun!! there were twenty people there including jim and i, and i knew almost everyone. we had the party at olive garden and it was so~o tasty!! and then we went back to my apartment and played apples to apples, which i've never played before. kathryn set it all up and got all the invites out, and there was even cake and flowers! and veronica got me a gift, which was pretty awesome, too. and then after everyone left i went over to jim's place and collapsed, i was so exhausted from this week. but i got like nine hours of sleep- and i actually slept- and i didn't have anywhere important to be this morning, no work to rush and finish. kathryn and i went to the rec this morning (and the weather was absolutely stunning), then we went to the bank and the grocery store, and it started pouring just as we were leaving the heb, but by the time we got back to the apartment it had stopped raining. *shakes head* that's texas for you.

so today and last night were amazing, which makes up for how everything from tuesday to friday morning absolutely sucked. (well, i had an okay crit on wednesday, but that was about it.) i haven't been sleeping well or very much at all, and i'm getting more and more uncertain about how my education is gonna play out. i talked to jim about this last night: i'm going to finish my degree, but i don't know if i'm going to try for my license afterwards. i just don't like what i've learned so far about architecture as a profession in the states. maybe it's different in other countries, or maybe i just don't know enough architects, but as much as this is what i've wanted to do since i was three years old, i don't know that i could handle becoming the kind of person that architects seem to be. so maybe i'll be a drafter. *shrugs* we'll see.

ETA: booked the church this past tuesday, and tomorrow i'm putting down the deposit for the sanctuary and reception hall. excitement!!!
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[personal profile] pronker 2009-02-21 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds exciting and I remember the thrill of wedding-planning quite well.

[identity profile] jen-chan13.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
sometimes it's more like a waking nightmare, trying to find time for everything. but it is exciting to see things slowly start to come together and fall into place, and all my hard work paying off.

(if you don't mind my asking, how long ago was this for you? i could use some pointers. ^___^)
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[personal profile] pronker 2009-02-23 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
1990. It was a civil ceremony in a judge's office, far from what seems to be planned for you, but the two things I recall are picking out my dress (antique velvet from the 1920's with beaded designs; the color was rust, the beads clear and boy, were they heavy!) and the next was our wedding brunch in a Korean restaurant. I enjoyed the recent movie Bride Wars with all its loveliness and the milieu of the Plaza. I've been to the Plaza but only for lunch.

Oh yeah, we videotaped the ceremony and the videotape was lost in a move. Urgh.

[identity profile] jen-chan13.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
yes, that's lots simpler than what i'm doing. i think my bank account would prefer that i do something similar, but... i guess i'm a closet romantic or something. i write too much fafic, that's what. so i'm going pretty far into it: church and reception, vows and white dress and candles...

oh no!!! i'm so sorry about the video tape! that's one of the things i'm most paranoid about: getting good pictures and holding on to them. they're so expensive to do professionally though. *frustrated*
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[personal profile] pronker 2009-02-23 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Mmmm, now the thing would be all digital and uploaded and saved like mad all over the Internet. Times change and for the better.

[identity profile] catc10.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
Wow...*luck luck dance*
I found that mouse!
I'll put it in the mail tomorrow, but I don't know when it'll get there. Another week, maybe.
ME

[identity profile] jen-chan13.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
yay!!!! drawings will be soooo much easier with a mouse, you have no idea.

wish you and cait and all could have been at the party... it was a bit of a drive though. :) i miss y'all so much!!! you HAVE to come visit me over spring break, or at least in the summer. seriously.

[identity profile] catc10.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I think our idea was to visit in Spring Break. Need to check when that is, though.
ME

[identity profile] jen-chan13.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
dude.... the luck-luck dance? really?

[identity profile] catc10.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. The luck-luck dance is *lucky*. Duh.
ME