Am I lucky? Heck, yeah!

This week was awful. It was a crappy, terrible, awful waste of a week. I was stressed to the point of tears, exhausted, and just plain frustrated with numerous things, all of which individually probably weren't such a big deal, but together drove me a little bit off the deep end. As a result, I was in a bad, cranky, and depressed mood all week. Until last night, that is.

I started my 2nd summer class this week, and the schedule for this one, while short-lived is way more intense than I expected it to be (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights). So not only was I not in a great mood, I was coming home late every night, too exhausted to spend any real time with the fiance, thereby compounding my stress and frustration even more. Last night however, I came home to find the fiance cooking dinner for me because he "thought it might cheer me up". Sweet, you say? Absolutely, but what makes this even sweeter is that he was cooking a full dinner at 10:00 PM, when I get home from class. Oh yeah, the "I'm-a-good-fiance" meter was off the charts as I smothered him with kisses for being such a great guy. Sigh, I'm so, so lucky.

Not that I needed to be cheered up even more after that, but the moon must have been in the 7th house and Jupiter aligned with Mars because I bought my wedding dress this morning!!! I made a random call to the bridal shop that I really loved working with inquiring about sample sales and yammering on to the owner about how much I'd fallen in love with this dress, but I just couldn't bring myself to pay full price for it, and I figured my best bet at getting THE dress was to hold out for a sample sale. Wouldn't you know, she knocked $400 off the price right there on the phone and gave me 24 hours to get in there and pay for it! You bet your behind I blew off work this morning (ok, so I actually asked my boss' permission and knew she'd probably say ok) and coerced L to metro into the 'burbs (ok, so there was no actual forcing involved) so I could try it on one last time and put some $$ down. Holy hannah, I am one excited bride! If the fiance didn't check this blog every once in a while, I'd post a huge picture of it just so you all could see how gorgeous and sparkly it is! No joke, I put that sucker on this morning and teared up as I thought about what the fiance might think about it and how excited I am to walk (or maybe run) down the aisle in it.

So, this is where we stand:

Engagement pictures, check
Wedding rings, check
Wedding dress, check

And....that's about it, so far. Hey, at least they're all fairly big (and mostly necessary) things that are done. Now if only we could finally figure out where and when.....