Now we've reached the 40 day marker and things are getting craaaaazy. Tomorrow is my first dress alteration as well as my last birthday as a Welsh :-) Exciting!
This weekend was extremely busy; Monty and I met today to discuss my progress on the review paper and the project I'm thinking of adopting for summer work (which, by the way, is "promising" and "moving in a great direction") so I spent a lot of time reading my paper and other papers to add more background info to my review paper. Friday night Keegan and I went to his family's house for dinner and then out to see the new XMen movie with some of the other BMEs- the movie was pretty entertaining, so I enjoyed it. The next movies on our list to see are Star Trek, Angels and Demons, and the Terminator Salvation movie. I'm also looking forward to seeing the new Pixar movie Up and (naturally) HARRY POTTER!! Before seeing Xmen I hadn't been to a movie since Quantum of Solace in November, so I guess I'm just going to see a year's worth of movies in one month :-)
Saturday was really busy also- I did my usual morning fitness room trip, went grocery shopping, went to Cait's graduation ceremony (so proud!), registered at Crate and Barrel, and went by my family's house to visit with my mom for Mother's Day. Whew! And Sunday was spent finishing the paper. The end of the year is always so hectic... final projects and exams all wrapped together, then all of a sudden it's the middle of May and I don't know how I got there.
Tonight I'm going to address the last of our wedding invitations (I hope) so I can take them by the post office tomorrow on my way to the fitting. I've also called the woman who organizes things at the Fallon Center (where our reception will be) to see about making some changes to the menu and how we want to decorate everything. Keegan's parents have also generously offered to pay for a bartender; even though I don't drink a whole lot, I know there will be a lot of people there who would like a drink, especially after a boring wedding ceremony :-P
On a completely unrelated note, I have set up a lot of shows on the National Geographic Channel to record lately, and there was a really interesting one about King Tutankhamun that further solidfied my desire to go to Egypt. I was even looking around on hotels.com and Expedia to get pricing information. But I guess I'll have to wait awhile after the wedding for my funds to restabilize before I go planning any huge vacations... I also recorded some episodes of a show called Life After People, but I haven't had the chance to watch any of them yet.
I've recently been thinking a lot about whether or not I want to start attending Keegan's family's church. He never goes to church, but I feel like I should attend a service there at least once before we get married there, since it's sort of a big deal. I also want to be familiar with Father John's style before he performs the wedding. I have no desire to convert to Catholicism, but maybe I could still learn something and hear something new from a Catholic perspective; I've attended some Catholic services before but I always get the "holier than thou" feeling when I'm there. I can't take communion in the service because I'm not Catholic, I get lightheaded from the insanely strong incense wafted everywhere, and I don't appreciate that a lot of the clothing I see on the members of the church cost more than my Duke tuition. But I guess that's a pretty cynical way of looking at things. I really do like Father John though, he's extremely friendly and (appears to) live modestly. And he doesn't make me feel guilty about not wanting to convert. Hmm, that reminds me I have to go and meet with him again... better add that to the list of things I need to set up. Maybe once the wedding is over I'll have more productive things to write about in this blog :-)
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