flowers, flowers, & more flowers

Well I can officially say that I DO NOT like flowers! After this wedding charade, I can justify that even more. I'm thinking of going to HEB and just put my own ribbon on it! Its absolutely absurd how much flowers cost.

As you can see, I had my florist appt yesterday evening and it was pretty uneventful..just exhausting. Well for starters..the woman I was supposed to have an appointment with was late...she decided to go to deliver flowers about 10 minutes before our scheduled appt...that proved to me "who cares" and I was already starting to not like this place. So she finally showed up and we discussed flowers. I honestly don't know what I want anymore. First I wanted to do just the plain Calla Lily bouquet with a white ribbon and then a pink ballet tied ribbon around the stems, but after being surrounded by millions of different types of flowers-I have no clue anymore.

So after a lengthy discussion about my wishes, we parted and now I hafta wait a week to find out what the damage may be. So this was florist #2 and the next one surprisingly will be the 8th of December at the HEB Central Market..yes I am going ot HEB, they actually have a less expensive but beautiful selection for a wedding and I"m willing to do anything to save myself and my parents some dinero!

So today I was supposed to have clinicals. Well I did, sort of. We all got there and started listening to morning report about our selected patient and then as we were off to do our initial assessments, our instructor pulled us into the waiting room to let us know that she had been called into work for an emergency heart surgery...dammit...so our clinical got cancelled because we can't take care of patients without her there. So luckily, I am home...cleaning for night of movies with my girl friends...and then studying until they show up at 7pm.

So I'm gonna get back to the duties that I don't want to do! yuck! Talk to you again soon.

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My wild and crazy life

I decided to start this blog to document this time in my life which is NUTS! I am currently working full-time at BAMC (Brooke Army Medical Center) as a certified surgical tech, going to school full-time for Nursing and now trying to plan a wedding for March 2009!
(note to the reader)****Its been about 2 months since I've started this entry! Sad, huh? I've been so busy with work, school, and planning our crazy wedding! So I thought that I'd finally get this blog up and running***

My employer has FINALLY granted me my wish of dropping one day of work...but stay at a full time 36 hour...yep, which means that I'm working 9 hours a day for 4 days and have one day off a week. Whew...boy did I need that one extra day off....especially to do laundry...what a sad day when my laundry bin floweth over!

This is the second 8 weeks of school and boy am I brain dead. There was actually one point where I had to talk to my doctor about what I need to do to concentrate more...I honestly felt like I recently got ADD! I can't concentrate at work or school and I'm finding that my memory is starting to slide downhill....well come to find out...I'm too stressed out (surprise surprise) and so the lack of memory is not because i"m getting older, just that I have too much on my plate. So needless to say, I am trying to take one day at a time and take the time to actually breath and take things slowly, well at least for 5 minutes and then I'm back to running!

So the past couple of weeks have been running around to different wedding appointments...venues, flowers, caterers, etc...I never realized how much crap goes into a wedding. Also, how commercialized it is. Its nuts! So I've decided that we're not gonna have flower centerpieces, but edible ones...granny smith apples to be exact! The guest can look and then eat! The next couple of weeks I need to get off my booty and get out the invitations! We finally have our venue...but we're still waiting for the stupid caterers to give us a price and a menu option so I can send out the invitations and the guests can choose chicken or beef. So tick tock tick tock....always waiting for someone else.

Daniel and I decided to hire a planner...who works for 10% of our planned budget....but daniel is getting more and more upset with her because I'm finding the better deals. I've been setting up the appointments...shouldn't she be doing all this crap? So we're on the teeter totter right now whether or not we should just ditch her and complete this ourselves. Time will tell...if she keeps slacking, we're gonna hafta let her go! Today daniel made the comment that I should become a wedding planner because I find the less expensive deals.....always there to save money somewhere! Besides I don't see the reasoning behind putting my parents or ourselves in debt for a joyous occasion!

Well I"m off to get some studying in and then off to bed. Gotta work again tomorrow and then another florist appointment afterwards. Who would of known it costs so much for a bunch of flowers with ribbons on it. I'll be sure to update my appointment experience tomorrow evening and let you know the damage! Good night and I finally finished my first blog! Yippee for me!