wine galore

i'm sitting in joey's grandma's back room and am surrounded by liquor. Saturday's theme is "A Night in Naples" and there's 10 different kinds of wine but there is also 2 different kinds of tequila, 2 different kinds of rum, vodka, jack, beer and smirnoff. i told grandma i wanted to try all of the different wine and she said "good girl." i would pass out. maybe i'll grow an appreciation for it.

showers galore

a big thanks to all the ladies that threw the bridal shower on saturday - it was awesome! there was so much food and the chocolate fountain was so yummy and there was purple and gold everywhere - i loved it! this was like wedding shower games for the advanced because they were tough! but everyone had a good time and i can't thank our bridesmaids enough! next up is joey's side of the family plus the couple friends. and then my co-workers are throwing one for us the week after - then the showers are done and the big day approaches! still so much to finish but it's in the works. anyway, i haven't posted pix from the shower but my wonderful matron-of-honor aka my sister did

gabe.gbox.org

it's under the photo gallery section.

have a good day!

my civic duty

so i finished jury duty today. i've been on jury duty since last wednesday. we sat in the box until today and we settled the case today. it was a civil suit and we were just awarding monies. i'm actually happily surprised that we ruled the way we did. i thought it was going to take a while longer for the 12 of us to agree on such things. our forewoman lady was really pushy - she came into jury duty stating she loved jury duty and she felt like she was on vacation. apparently this is the 4th time she's been on a case and she actually calls if she doesn't get her notice - how weird! the plantiff was asking for $1.5 million - from medical bils (past and future) and pain and suffering (past and future). i think they were a little disappointed when we awarded $27,074 - and $11K was for medical bills alone. that's too bad really because a third is going to the attorney. what a waste of time - the accident happened 5 years ago. anyway, six and a half more weeks til i become mrs. lopez - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

so the countdown begins

eight more weeks until the big day ...
so many things done, but so many more things to do
A BIG THANK YOU TO THE O'S - the most awesome friends and paper people ever with even more patience than an elephant (do elephants have patience?) when i saw the printed version that they had to work with and that they had to individually cut each one - i would have strangled myself. you two are wonderful!
so now all the other nitty gritty stuff comes along and that process has begun too ... so it's ok, all is good. mark said he was surprised i wasn't stressed. i said i don't really get stressed. ha!
had breakfast with mark and dana this morning and that was awesome. we were making fun of dana because she's so sappy now. haha. just kidding. but you know you are. hehe. it's always good to hang out after so long and just kind of continue like there wasn't even a gap, an understanding between friends of different ways of thinking but so much to the core of their very being that we know how they work and why they would feel the way that they feel. it's nice.
anyway, had more dance lessons today. i got really dizzy spinning but all in all i think it was a good productive lesson.
we finished all of the pictures to give to gabe so we can check that off.
i told joey's mom that i didn't want lingerie at my shower and she said that i had to have some - that's what a "personal" shower is for. she wants to get me the crotchless panties - she's crazy. or she suggested the swing to go in the poker room - i said yeah, it would definitely be a "poker" room. she said that we had to be creative and open to ideas in the beginning with sex. i'm telling you - it's so weird having this conversation with your mother-in-law.
anyway, our new nephew has a name - asher albert. we get to go to his shower tomorrow. i hope he comes on time or late because if he shows up 10 days early i don't think i can make it to the birth and i'd be missing one bridesmaid.
my first nephew is now 7! wow 7! he turns 7 on 7/7/07. i told my brother to buy the lotto because today could be his lucky day.
anyway, the next couple weeks are going to fly by. we still have a couple things left to do with the loan that we should fax in next week and then we have to fill out the papers that the escrow officer sent us this week and hopefully we can close sometime late july / early august. we're hoping the latter so it's easier on the pocketbook with all the finishing payments with the wedding.
there's so much stuff going on and it's all so exciting. scary. but exciting and new. and we've only just begun ...

wow

as i was talking to joey we said in two months we'll be opening presents =)
anyway, just wanted to say hi! since i haven't in a while because everything's been so busy lately ...
on this week's agenda ...
work and work ...
stuffing and mailing ...
food tastings ...
breakfast / lunch dates ...
dance lessons ...
nephew's birthday party
new nephew's baby shower ...
brother's birthday ...
more work and jury duty calling ... blah ....
and it's so hard to do in the flippin heat.
i usually always wear a long sleeve shirt under my scrubs but yesterday and today i couldn't do it because it's so flippin hot...
anyway, we'll continue at another time. have to go to my floor.