Pros:

• Life w/ WM
• Legitimize Charlie, Max & Ollie.
• A real anniversary
• I won’t be an unwed hobo
• He’ll stop asking me all the time to get married
• State-paid healthcare when I eventually get laid off
• I won’t be a chubby single woman
• I’m not getting any younger
• I can put the gory, creepy Netflix account in his name (He loves horror movies. The Netflix account is in my name. Therefore Netflix thinks I love the SAW series and that’s hard for me to swallow.)
• Our WoW guild and all of our neighbors already think we’re married.

Cons:

• G-D name change rigmarole AGAIN! Seriously. I still get mail with the Burbermille name.
• Planning a wedding, no matter how teeny, blows.
• If this fails, I am one step closer to becoming Dale Evans. (Did you know America’s cowboy sweetheart was married four times?)
• WM is a DB.
• I’ll be a chubby bride.
• This Doctor Who thing of his. And the zombie shows. And all the sci-fi he likes.

The list confirmed that my “yes” answer was a good one.

The image above is my doodle on the page, a (bad) recreation of the evil bride in Disney’s Haunted Mansion attraction at WDW. Yes, that’s an ax. I bet her handwriting is even worse than mine!

I planned for a small bun with just the flower clip as decoration:

I'm an artist!!!!

Two rubber bands, forty-seven hairpins and $85 later, I wound up with a gorgeous array of loops and swirls!

It looked like a million bucks! Thanks to the talented staff at Esthetica for making this bridescrone look like a model!

As for everyday hair, I’m seriously intrigued by this cut, as seen on Sasha Alexander from Rizzoli and Isles. The TV show is horrible (I literally wince through the 8 minutes I have to sit through in order to see next week’s The Closer preview) but the hair? I like!

I think this might work on me.

Unlike my Samantha Who? hair fascination, I think this is a style that is suited for my hair, which is thick thick thick and a bit wavy. What do you think?

So what about earrings?

I made ‘em! I wanted to have green earrings to match the shoes and the hair clip. Each earring uses 8 4mm Swarovski bicones (I used the Green Mix), one 6mm black Swarovski bicone, 4 jump rings and 9 head pins – one for each bead. I did a bunch of wrapped loops, put the bead on the rings, linked the rings together and here we go!

If my bamboo plant ever dies, my jewelry photography is up the creek without a paddle.

Because they’re for me, I cheaped out on the metal findings.

So here’s what’s left for me to do: Brow wax, glue on the fake nails, buy a shaper to get me into the dress (I should have ordered a 12 and had it taken in), get the gift and I think that’s it. Oh, and sell some plasma to pay for it.

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Work. Stress. Nonbloggable. Happy? Monday.

The LinkWithin widget has Misty’s picture when I preview this post. I miss my little black raincloud.

Here’s the entry for my brother:

My point was proven, by the way, because he never mentioned my “blogging” about that. Ha!

Anyway, I’m happy to announce that John & Kristen are (finally) engaged and will be married sometime next year.

Which means two things:

1) I have GOT to lose at LEAST 35 lbs by some undetermined date. Obamarms optional. Note to self: tapeworm.

2) I have to make pretty cupcakes for Sunday, after which I shall commence with list item 1.

Congratulations, you two!!

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Dream:
I’m obsessed with the Jim & Pam wedding on The Office. Obsessed to the point where I’m collecting Pam dolls and am trying to create a replica Pam wedding dress on a mannequin in my living room. I think this was as close to a nightmare as I’ve been in a while.