Today I have started thinking about Christmas shopping, not a moment too soon, tomorrow is December. I have no idea what I am getting people and I probably won’t for a few more weeks. Is it possible to just make everyone bread?
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Christmas Cheer
Today we scavenged through our storage locker to find one shoe box of Christmas cards to use for our wedding thank you’s, we will also be sending out a picture with it. This has become a dreaded chore to just finalize the wedding details and to move on. I am certainly thankful that everyone could make it to celebrate, but the idea of hand writing 100 cards feels draining right now. I want to be high spirits when I do it, so I am going to plan a day once the pictures are ready and put some Christmas music on and pound through them.
Additionally we got out our small beginnings of Christmas decorations, I am excited to add a little festive charm to our place.
Party Season begins…
Tonight we are going to Ed’s work Christmas party, I love any chance to dress up, do my hair and makeup and have free dinner, booze and dancing.
Last night, we had a very successful dinner and hilarious evening as always. Dinner was delicious, I love all holiday dinner fixings, they always remind me of Grandpa and those yummy dinners he used to cook for us. And as an extra dedication I even made scallop potatoes from a box just like he used to.
American Turkey Day
Since Ed’s bachelor party was on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, we missed out on having a thanksgiving feast with our friends, so we are making up for it tonight.
I love that we can throw together an impromtu dinner party at Trondee’s house in a matter of days and it is always a good time!
I will be truly sad when these dinners go on hiatus during Chress’ and Trondee’s adventures abroad. But I know that when we all reconnect it will be just the same 🙂
Christmas is coming!
After the Santa Claus Parade, it becomes acceptable to start thinking about Christmas. The city starts to be illuminated with bazillions of lights, the Bay windows are unveiled, the Christmas music is playing in the malls.
I was excited yesterday to remember that with Christmas, comes coffee places adding Christmas flavours into hot chocolate. The best is still Second Cup peppermint white hot chocolate, but I am always game to try new ones. And last night I had the gingerbread hot chocolate at Tim Horton’s, it was “interesting”, both mom and Jon seemed delighted by the strange concoction.
Additionally, I love Christmas flavoured ice creams too. Even though I just want one bowl of it. And Ed always groans and moans when I get excited about the newest release. I do truly like the peppermint fudge crackle from President’s Choice, but I agree that one year I had an eggnog one, it was in there till June.
YEAH Christmas flavourings!!!!
re-charging
I can feel myself rising up from my bridal brain mush, like a newlywed phoenix. There were a great few months spent thinking only of red and aqua details, entertaining our guests and throwing the best damn wedding we could afford!
Now I am ready for the next challenges and details that will occupy that brain space.
As I re-charged my i-pod this morning, I realize that I need a new set of running music to get me back to full force. And with that energy, I hope that soon there will be no looking back from the next whirlwind adventure.
p.s. I will be writing about the honeymoon diary soon enough
holiday-blog-a-day
I am challenging myself to do a blog a day from now till New Years, by then it will hopefully become habit.
Today is our one month wedding anniversary! We survived! “They say the first month is the hardest…” Ha! if only every month could be started with a fabulous trip to Asia. We are going to celebrate by trying a highly recommended Thai restaurant called Sukhothai – just like the hotel we went went in Bangkok was called Sukhothai Hotel.
With the holiday season approaching, a few things to think about, eggnog, baking, decorating and making a wish list.
newly (wed, blog, life, whatever)
well, I clearly missed the boat on writing about our wedding adventures, now that it is is half way through November and nearly a month since our wedding day…
I even missed out on writing about our honeymoon, sheesh, what a lazy ass I am!
I will try and be a little more persistent in writing about our actual lives.
We arrived home from our 3 weeks in Asia in a daze and love for HK. We have actually discussed moving their and the adventures we could have…tho I think the adventure we are having here is just as invigorating, tho comfortable.
Our domestic adventures begin with our new appliances, our need for creative storage solutions and of course our daily episodes with our furry babies.
Wedding Dress!
well after only my second wedding dress shopping excursion I bought a dress. I really didn’t think it would happen so soon. I figured it would get to the point where it was annoying mom that I hadn’t made a decision and we would have a fight about making a choice, just like when we bought our condo. But it was truly amazing. After arriving at the Woodbridge Bridal plaza, we started investigating the different boutiques. At the first store, the dresses were starting around $6k…so I tried some on for fun. And that really mdae me want to buy the Bride’s Project dress. While we were there we learned all the tricks of how to clip a wedding dress. For me they clipped it to my bra, so that it looks done up, even though it is too small. Then some other chick but on a size 6 and had to clip it cause it was too BIG! Hate her! Anyway, on to the next store. It was a 50% off discount store with dresses priced under $1000, such a huge difference. But sadly, they were all hideous. Now onto, Chez Jordan…at this time I was getting a little unmotivated from the aggressive sales people and the multitude of dresses I had tried on. So Jamie and I picked a few more, and so did the sales lady and mom. So I started out trying no 5 more dresses. The first one, had a corset, which made me want to buy the Bride’s Project dress and add a corset. And the sales lady said “oh, that is your dress” and I thought, you are sneaky! So onto the next dress, I put it on, and it was lovely. And I thought well good to know. Then I went back into the dressing room for dress number 3. After putting on dress #3, I thought how much is dress #2? I was thinking it was going to be out of range. But it was $1150. uuuummm…ok, that is reasonable. So mom and I look at each other and say, “maybe I should give that one another try” I put it on once again, and walk out. Step on the step stool and they tighten it up. Then they get a veil. The first one’s colour didn’t match, so they go and get the ivory one. Just then mom starts crying! And we knew it was the one. This of course made our already poor bargaining skills have even less merit. In the dressing room we discuss putting off buying it and how to get a better deal. In the end, I got it with no tax. So I am quite pleased 🙂
Photographer
Ikonica!
We fell in love with Jackson at the wedding co show…sadly he is a fortune. So we are happily investigating his other associate photographers.
We will be meeting Lisa on Wednesday, I hope she impresses and we can get this all settled.