I'm 25 and there's less than 3 months to go!

Last Friday marked the 3 month countdown for our wedding! We celebrated it and my birthday with an evening at "Art on the Rocks" and a celebratory bottle of champagne. Saturday was spent with friends for a relaxing birthday party complete with a delicious dinner by Brian, a dip in the pool, and my favorite birthday cake (angel food filled with sherbet and fresh whipped cream). My mom arrived Saturday night and helped me celebrate my 25th birthday on Sunday with a quiet evening at home and a yummy home-cooked dinner, then we forged straight on into "Wedding World" for the remainder of her visit. We tied ribbons on bubbles, we tapped into our crafty sides making bouquets, boutonnieres, pew markers, and corsages, I modeled my wedding dress and my mom cried as we picked out a veil, the girls came over to stuff the invitations and sample wines for the reception, and my mom countless stops to take care of other wedding details while I was at work... It was a busy week, and all I can say is I can't wait 'til October when I become Mrs. Anne Dranka!

Jealousy

So Anne is off in Colorado for a week proving that she is in fact a top scientist (not that I ever had any doubt). Though many people apply, Anne was one of only 100 or so students and post-docs that got chosen to attend this year's Pathobiology of Cancer workshop in crummy Aspen, CO. I don't know why I can't go to some cool place with cool people and learn all about the absolute cutting edge in my research field too. Jealousy rears its ugly head...

Anne's Dress

So I answered a phone call in the lab a few days ago, and the caller asked for Anne. I turned and gave the phone to her, and after a very brief conversation she hung up. It turns out it was the guy from the bridal shop calling to inform her that her dress had come in! Exciting huh?

Who wants to tell me what it looks like?

After reading Kelly's Blog and seeing that the neurotic test worked so well for her (sorry Kel, it really does describe you to a T), I decided to take it as well. See below:

Your Score: The Geek
You scored 20 anxiety, 57 awkwardness, and 52 neuroticism!


You stick out like a sore thumb, with your social awkwardness and mildly neurotic behaviors--but you don't let it get you down! You are The Geek, and are here to prove that people who know the first 1000 digits of pi and try to woo dates by talking about calculators can be happy too! You have friends...and they are probably just as odd as you.

Your low anxiety score implies that you are able to relax, can enjoy the here and now, and have a healthy amount of self-confidence.

Your high awkwardness score implies that you are socially inept, probably stick out from the crowd, and perhaps feel uncomfortable in large groups of people, such as at parties. Your high neuroticism score implies that you exhibit neurotic behaviors--probably fanatic obsessions, counting compulsions, or other geekish tendencies. You may know every word to LOTR, or draw anime of all your friends.


I totally disagree! I may be a geek, and I may be engaged through the love of nitric oxide, but I don't have counting compulsions or anything crazy like that....And I only stick out like a sore thumb because I'm tall. Well, at least that's what I think...

Thoughts?

Fresh Vegetables

I have to say, I really enjoy this time of year. The last few weeks we've been getting fresh vegetables and fruits from various local and/or organic sources, and have mostly eaten fresh whole foods everyday. I highly reccommend the Pepper Place Farmer's market for anyone in the area that wants some local veggies.

Wedding Bands

Went shopping for Wedding Bands last night. I had no idea that the price of Platinum can increase so much! The lady at the jewlery store we went to said that it's up to $2000/oz. currently. That makes for some expensive rings! Anne's engagement ring is platinum, and the same setting at the place I bought it is now nearly double the price! So I checked out the year-long price history for platinum, and it's gone through the roof lately. Who knew?? Stupid housing market....I think it's affecting even this.

Lots of Parents in Town!

This weekend, Anne's Dad and Stepmom drove to Birmingham to visit us, so my parents drove up from Mobile to meet them and hang out with everyone. We both really enjoyed having everyone here for a while, and even though we didn't do anything too big in terms of wedding planning, it was great for everyone to get to chat for some time.

We did get the tuxes picked out, which was one of the major things that we had left to accomplish. While I'm still mostly in the dark about what Anne will be wearing, I do know that the gentlemen will be dressed to the nines......

Oh yeah, and it turns out that my Mom is a great bowler.....she beat us all hands down in two games on Saturday afternoon.