2 decision down...A Million left to make

Wedding decisions dominate my life. It is pretty much all I think about. Right now we are in the process of planning the engagement party that mom and dad are hosting. I never realized just how BIG A DEAL every little thing is.

So we finally have two decisions made. Of course we have our ceremony location...Perkins Chapel on the campus of SMU. Now we have our photographers. This was a completely happy decision! Pictures are the most important thing of all other things to me. I am so happy with our photographers!

So now...only a million decisions left to make.

We are meeting with two possible locations for our reception this afternoon. I hope one of them turns out.

The Countdown Begins!

Exactly one year from today I will be getting married. Actually...right now it is a little after 2pm so I will probably be getting ready to get my hair and makeup done. We have to be at the chapel at 6:00pm for pictures and the ceremony starts at 7:30!

I can hardly believe that a year from now I will be getting married!

There is still so so so much to do!

On a more somber note...I will only be a "Dean" for one more year. One year from today I will be becoming a Swanner. Ginger Swanner....Mrs. Swanner... :) I like that! It makes me happy.

I wonder how I will be feeling one year from today. I know I will be excited....but I can't imagine HOW it will feel.

Sooooo....365 days until our wedding!!!!

Happy Day!

Vanilla Toothpaste

We go to the gym almost every morning. It is hell...but I see the benefits so I guess it is okay. In my gym bag I have all the stuff I need to start my day. This morning I brushed my teeth for the first time since stocking my gym bag. I bought one of those travel size tooth pastes. It is vanilla flavored. It is strange to brush your teeth and taste vanilla. Pleasant...but strange.

Wedding Woes

Planning a wedding is too much work. Thank goodness I have a coordinator to help me out. Our current stress is a suitable reception site. I make this more difficult because I am finding that I am more picky than I thought. For instance....

I don't want to have the reception in a regular hotel ballroom. The carpet is usually ugly in hotels...and then there the hideous chair covers. Mom says that I won't be thinking about carpet on my wedding day...I beg to differ. If it is ugly and I hate it...well...I will have pictures to document ugly carpet the rest of my life.

Am I just completely crazy? I never thought I would agonize over stupid little stuff like that...but here I am agonizing.

Oh well...Nathan and Mom keep telling me that it will all be okay and work out in the end...of course that doesn't help NOW. :)

Visit my Wedding Website!

If you are really bored...or maybe just really interested...you can visit my wedding website. Well...I guess I should say OUR wedding website!


www.ginandnate.com

Miserable Migraines

Monday I had a surprise migraine. Usually my migraines aren't surprises...but Monday was out of the blue. My doctor gave me several meds to choose from...the expensive ones don't work. So I take a lovely red pill. Unfortunately it didn't work Monday. In fact...nothing worked...not even the pain killers. He gave me hydrocodone to kill the pain if I couldn't get a medicine to work...5 mg didn't help so Nathan gave me a half of another pill...it didn't help. I think it finally just knocked me out and I had bad sleep.

I spent ALL day Tuesday in bed. It was horrible.

My main concern with my horrible headaches is that there was NO WAY that I could have cared for a child Monday and Tuesday. So what will I do if I get one of these headaches when I am pregnant? Or after that child is born? I sure can't take the kinds of medicines they are giving me when I am pregnant or nursing.

And even worse...from what I have read on the internet...they can give me the same kinds of drugs they are giving me or pain killers to manage the pain. So does that mean that I will have these horrible for the rest of my life? Oh I hate them.

Dr. Jones thinks I will grow out of them. GROW OUT OF THEM? I didn't start getting them until I was 18....so somehow I don't see that happening.

I'm Getting Married!!!!

Well...I can finally let out my big secret!

Nathan proposed on Friday, June 3rd. We have been talking about getting married for over a month now. We have our date, location, and time. We have even had the ring for 2 weeks now....but Nathan wanted to make the proposal special and so we decided to wait to announce to the world that we were getting married until he "officially" asked me!

I am so very very happy!

So...the details!

June 17, 2006 at 7:30 pm at Perkins Chapel on the SMU campus.

We have a wedding website....

www.ginandnate.com