Getting RSVPs back already about the invitations we sent out on Monday makes this whole thing actually seem real instead of 'oh it's x time away'.

eeeeep

Hooray! My dear little bronze god is back from the shop. He had some problems with his start-up files, and they updated him to System Pack 2 (which apparently had never been done). More tweaking and optimizing and he seems to be doing okay so far, knock on wood ( Read more... )

God dammit Hermes, you need to stop breaking every six months. I can't afford fixing you ( Read more... )

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My life is a haze of wedding. Oh God it's happeningggggg

Dress: check. (rented for half-price from a store, and it's pretty)
Photographer: check. (sister-in-law is a professional wedding photographer)
Cake: check. (woohoo for sales and getting a three-tier cake from a good bakery - still need flowers and ribbon for it, though, and to borrow Carl's ( Read more... )

Well, after a lot of frenzied packing, running around like a lunatic, commuting about a hundred and twenty kilometres in a snowstorm with a loudly objecting cat, a Dodge Sprinter packed to the rafters and a GMC Safari van with yet more stuff ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Off to the city for one last holiday gathering in Canada for a while.

Happy New Year to all as well, if I'm not back in time to say as much.

I did it. Yes, I'm bragging a little.


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For those of you not in the know - and haven't heard me rant about it on my Facebook - I've jumped feet-first into National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for short ( Read more... )

Approved.

90% waiting, 10% action at the Consulate.

Visa should be coming in 'two weeks', but it could be sooner.

I don't even know what to say anymore except

FINALLY.