The world is so different up here

Yesterday, I took my dress to a great friend & all around good person, Liz, so she could hem it for me. She said it'd be done in just a week or so! I'm so excited to have it be the right length for walking. Of course, to figure out that right length I had to decide on my shoes. My original choice were some shoes I've have forever:

After spending copious amounts of time looking around on the internet at people's amazing shoes, I decided to get some! Zappos.com & Endless.com have FREE shipping & FREE return shipping for 365 days!!! Why wouldn't people want to buy tons of shoes this way?! Well, I narrowed it down to 4 shoes to order:
After walking in them & with the input of Michael & Christa, a choice was made. Aaaa-aaah-ahhh (that's the noise you make when light shines through the clouds. you know the one) Here is the winner with the dress on:

When I put them on for Liz, she loved them and so the dress has been pinned and the choice is final. I've worn them for about 3 days in a row now to start slowly breaking them in and they're not painful (I even did an exuberant hopping dance in them) I think as long as I can grab a sitting break here and there, I'll be golden.

But the really, truly best part is that I. Am. So. Tall. My whole worldview is different! I can reach the bowls & tall glasses. The freezer is eye level. I have to bend down a little to look into the fridge. Even Michael said, "Wow, you're tall!" in the most surprised voice I think I've ever heard.

Finally, my blogging life has come down to shoes - WOW. I'm off to my real life blog to say something a bit more interesting

anal. retentive.

wedding planning begins in such a frenzy of excitement & "huzzah!" that you kind of loose your mind for a while. for about 6 weeks or so i was consumed by everything: the date, the place, the guest list, the way it should look, the dress, etc, etc, etc. it was exciting, but also overwhelming. i mentally willed myself to calm down and not fixate, but of course it didn't work. i was dreaming about wedding details. i'm sure michael was dreaming about getting un-engaged :)

and then, one beautiful day, i stumbled across another bride's planning on the internet. and you know what that wonderful woman had? timelines. lots of pretty, colorful, organized powerpoint slides of timelines. it was glorious! birds were singing to me!!

and so, for the past 2 weeks or so, i've put aside aimlessly scrolling the internet every time a wedding detail popped into my head only to be immediately distracted by something completely unrelated (looking up wedding favors would end in trying to track down unique ceremony quotes). i began to make my own lists, timelines, charts, and calendars. it has been the single best thing that has happened during the planning. here're some examples:


the calendars are my favorite, because they let me say "today, molly, you will ONLY worry about the invitations." or "i've got only a week left to finish that damn registry!!" plus it lets me see what's going on in my real life and hopefully keeps me balanced.

so now you all know my dirty little anal retentive secrets (and this doesn't even talk about all my Excel Spreadsheets!!!"

i had to share

every so often (when michael's out for a prolonged period of time) i do some frivolous wedding planning. for the past few days, i've delved into actual music options and came across this:

Vitamin String Quartet (http://www.vitaminrecords.com/web/page.asp)

They are a group that turns regular song into instrumentals. They have literally anything you can think of (weezer, the doors, dashboard confessional, tool, pussycat dolls) and i just had to share it. not only is it perfect pre-ceremony music (i hope you all have fun guessing which songs they are!), but it's just plain fun to listen to. The website has some samples & if you go to www.playlist.com they come up with a handful to listen to as well.