tmcnorris's Xombytes

With our wedding now only 5 months away and realizing how much I still have left to do I'm starting to feel the crunch. I mean, we've been together for five and a half years so is it really that important to have the perfect wedding just to make our relationship official? The short answer is yes. The frustrating part is that I'm the typical girl who has envisioned her wedding since she was a little girl and I'm now faced with making those visions a reality on a budget. I speak of the budget for several reasons. First, no matter how much money we have I cannot justify spending $100,000 on a one day party. There are far too many other things we want more that to have the platinum wedding, but this is what everyone sees at the defining moment in your relationship, one that you stare at photographs of for the rest of your life so it is important. But I want to know why everything is so commercialized? Seriously? Seriously.

My pets are total brats lately. I'm not sure if it's the warmer weather, the shorter amounts of time I've had to spend with them lately, or if they are on a kick of bad behavior but they are draining the life out of me. Then I feel like a bad pet parent who has these absolutely unruly, undisciplined pets scampering about the world without any human guidance or decency. Before 8am I am filling food dishes while dodging hungry dogs, sweeping up the unstuffed toy fluff, feeding the cat scratching at the door all the while being glared at by the cat as if she is saying "touch me and I will claw your face until it's unrecognizable". Oh, the love. Then the next minute they are all looking at me with their head crooked to the side and with their angelic eyes and I just want to scoop them up and hold them forever.