moriath

So, last week Billy and I ordered our wedding rings from Zales. We bought them online because his ring was only available online and we figured we might as well just get them both at once.

Well, for some inexplicable reason they shipped separately. Billy's arrived yesterday, while mine only went out today.

According to the FedEx tracking info, it shipped from New York City, and is now sitting in Newark, NJ and isn't expected to be at my apartment until January 12th. FedEx+Zales is all kinds of crazy.

Also crazy: how freaking cold my parents keep their house. SERIOUSLY. I'm about to put my gloves on so I can keep messing around on their computer. I mean, I know Billy's and my apartment is kept obnoxiously warm (not our fault; we have absolutely no control over the heater), but this is pretty much the exact opposite.

It's times like this that make me kick myself for choosing a basement bedroom back in elementary school.

Of course, since I'm at my parents' house, that means I have lots to do this weekend. Plans for today:
-Buy hair dye
-Get hair cut
-Get materials for veil
-Make said veil
-(Possibly) Buy stuff to make my own hair clips and/or jewelry, so I can start getting an idea of the whole wedding look starting tomorrow with my hair trial!

Tomorrow I have the hair trial and the tasting, and may slip in a trip to my old middle school to see my old librarian. If I don't do it tomorrow, then I'm going on Monday.

If the snow doesn't eat me first. (Okay, there's not really a lot of snow here, but considering it was raining yesterday in New York, it's weird to see lots of white fluffy stuff on the ground here)

So my day of wedding stuff didn't get started until 5:30 tonight. Mom, Dad and I went out to dinner...and then Mom and I dragged Dad all over town trying to accomplish things. Very few of which were actually accomplished.

Our usual fabric store didn't have the netting I wanted for the veil. We went to another fabric store and they only had tulle, despite my specific request for hat/russian/french netting (okay, maybe throwing all of those names out there doesn't really make it specific, but this one type of netting is known by all three names, so you'd think the person would have recognized any one of them). Add this on top of not being able to do my jewelry this weekend, or my table numbers, and I'm getting extremely frustrated and wishing that I hadn't given myself so much time in Holland.

I did get my haircut though, and 99% of it looks really cute. It's the shortest I've gone yet, but I think this look really works for me. The 1% I'm not a fan of is the bangs, because she left them too long. Maybe the stylist at the salon will fix that for me tomorrow?

Currently dying my hair. ~checks the time~ Ooh, I'm actually supposed to wash it out now.

Waking up early tomorrow to go back to the fabric store and get the netting they did have. It's not necessarily what I want, but it will at least give us something to work with at the hair trial.