Highlights

I'm back to work, and I hit the ground running. Actually, I hit the ground, and it hit me back. What a crazy week. I think I worked close to 50 hours this week. Anyhow, the highlight of my week. On Thursday, we had our division staff meeting which are held quarterly and attended by 50-100 people. So, we were going around doing updates and announcements, when suddenly, the director of finance says she has an announcement. They announced my wedding and gave me flowers! I've never seen them give anything like that at a staff meeting. And, I found out that it came out of the division budget, not even my team's budget!

So, now I have beautiful flowers on my desk! My coworkers are really wonderful!

Just a Taste

We're back from Italy and London! What a beautiful, wonderful trip! We did a lot of chilling, eating gelato, hiking, swimming, reading. Also, ran around London, took the tube to all sorts of places, and had dinner right next to Yoko Ono! Pictures to come later (not of Yoko, though. I was too shy to disturb her dinner).

In another world of photos, our wonderful wedding photographer sent us a teaser of our wedding photos! The full set will be up later, but here are a few:

http://www.michellewalker.com/slideshows/TuHo

And we're off to see the wizard!! Last blog for a bit...

See you on the other side! WAHOO!

One Lucky Bride

I found out some exciting news!

Gene Higa is one of the premier photographers in the Bay Area and around the world. In the February, he announced a contest that he would be holding, called One Lucky Bride. You can read the details here. Basically, he has teamed up with some of the other most sought after vendors (Maria Chang for hair/makeup and Mandy Scott Flowers) to provide a free bridal shoot. You just had to tell him a story.

Well, check it out. I drafted up the story pretty quickly and wasn't expecting to get picked. I was totally stunned yesterday!

Gene does beautiful work, and I'm really looking forward to working with him! We looked into him for our wedding, but it would've broken our bank! You can see more of his work at www.genehiga.com

We'll not only have the amazing work of our amazing photographer, Michelle, on our wedding day, I'll also have a separate session with Gene on another day and get to get all dolled up again! fun times. Any suggestions on cool locations?

Crunch Time
In other news, it's countdown time for the wedding. Wednesday marked the 1 month point. There are so many little details left to take care of.

This is what I did last night after I got home at 8pm: Cooked dinner, made bridesmaids gifts, designed centerpieces, started doing the crafty work for our centerpieces, contacted our florst, entered RSVPs, contacted our print designer, read a little, sleep.

It's pretty much like this all day every day. I'm so grateful for all the wonderful help we have been offered and given. It's a really special time to celebrate and spend with friends and family.

I may be MIA for the next 6 weeks (not that I post that much as it is). But, I'll be back! As a married woman!

Puppies, Cartwheels, and a Near Death Experience.

So my bachelorette party was this weekend. Fun times. Others may write more later. But, we did almost die. See Karen's post for more details about that. Oh, and Janet taught Mary how to do cartwheels. Awesome. And Bob. Oh, drunk Bob, and your two boring friends and your one cute married friend with a tsunami tattoo. Thank you for entertaining us so. Olivia's an assassin.

What else? Mega millions drawing tonight. I get a puppy if Karen wins. Proof is below.

[16:16] k: some ppl at work pitched in to buy some mega million lotto tickets
[16:16] k: hee
[16:16] k: hee
[16:16] ev: NICE
[16:16] ev: did you/
[16:16] k: yeah i pitched in with them
[16:19] ev: nice
[16:19] ev: if you win
[16:19] ev: will you buy me something?
[16:19] k: i'll buy you a puppy
[16:19] ev: will you buy me a puppy?
[16:19] k: HAHAHAHA
[16:20] ev: pppppllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
[16:20] ev: hahaha
[16:21] k: HAHAHA
[16:21] k: i wrote it before you asked for it
[16:21] ev: hahahah
[16:21] ev: YES!!!!
[16:22] ev: you should buy mary a puppy too
[16:22] ev: that'd make her happy
[16:22] k: yes, i'll buy mary one too
[16:22] k: everybody gets a puppy
[16:22] ev: YAY!!