tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Whomever said ‘practice makes perfect’ was a big fat liar. In fact, ‘practice makes improvement’ (as my mother is fond of saying) is a flat out lie, too.

Or I guess it could just be me.

But I feel bad for my friends who have the letter ’s’ in their name, because I cannot write a lower case ’s’ in calligraphy to save my life. For some reason they are slanted way to the right, or not curved enough, or something else is wrong with them.

I have addressed all of my inner envelopes and am a third of the way through my outer envelopes. Instead of getting better, I think my s’s are getting worse.

And I love the Bonds, but damn you people have long addresses!! I thought I would get a break with a four letter last name but come on! Madagascar has like 8 lines to their addresses. That’s a lot of bad calligraphy.

I really hope people only take a cursory glance and throw the envelopes OUT.

All our information is on our website anyway, so there’s really no need to keep them.

Stupid lower case s.

I’ll be spending a lot of time in Tampa in the near future, thanks to work. I didn’t exactly picture the first few months of our engagement being spent away from Aaron, but what can you do. I guess it’s nice to be missed…and there’s no feeling in the world like seeing him after being apart for a week. Gotta find those silver linings!!

Anyway my calligraphy is actually coming along alright, I just need to work on consistent spacing and sizing. I’m hoping I won’t have to put pencil lines on the envelopes to keep things straight!!

I can’t believe the summer is almost over and we haven’t gone camping yet. And of course now we won’t be able to since I don’t get home til 10pm on Friday nights. We’ve used our new tent once. So sad.

Buddy is one co-dependant cat. Even as he sleeps, he has to be touching Aaron in some way. Even if it’s just the tips of his paws resting on Aaron’s hand.

I’m in Tampa this week for work, Sun – Thurs. I used to like travelling for work – it was a bit of an adventure, you save money, I like hotels and flying – so it was all good.

But now I hate sleeping alone. And I just want to be home, with Aaron.

I also can’t stop thinking about snowboarding, mostly on our honeymoon. I wish it were winter already!! I do really wish we had gone camping this summer, too. The summer always seems to fly by, but now I wish it would fly by FASTER so we can get on the slopes!!

Anyway my plan is to hit the hotel treadmill every morning this week, so I better hit the sack. Alone. Sigh.

I’m constantly touched by people’s genuine happiness for others. Every time I get a Happy Engagement card or gift, it overwhelms me. The fact that another person could be so happy that I am so happy…when I stop and think about it, it boggles my mind.

I guess it shouldn’t since I feel the same way when other people are happy – but I still appreciate it all nonetheless. Even if it’s not a card or gift – just a simple, “Congratulations, I’m so happy for you!” When someone really means that, and you know they mean it and are not just saying it out of a societal requirement for politeness, when you hear the joy in their voice because they are happy for you, it’s an amazing thing.

God, selflessness just kills me sometimes.

I hope I make other people as happy as they make me. At least once or twice.

I’ve been practicing calligraphy today so I don’t have to pay someone else to address our wedding invitations.

I am not very good at calligraphy.

My hope is that all our guests will behave much like I do when I get a wedding invitation – I think how nice it was that I was invited, tear open the envelope and toss it into the trash, and then hold onto the invitation just until the wedding (as long as it contains vital information), then toss it immediately after the wedding.

Our website contains all the information anyone would need, so there is no real need to hang onto the invitation.

So please, don’t spend time scrutinizing how well spaced and uniformly your address is lettered. Really, does it matter?

This is Aaron’s gorgeous friend from high school, Meredith.
I’m so excited they’re friends so I can be her friend too!

Aaron proposed, and I said yes!!

My brother reminded me that after my sister’s wedding, when he and my dad were in the limo on the way home, my dad told him, “Well Matthew, we got one married off, one to go!”

So I’m sure he’s happy too!