it's wintertime. i'm in hibernation mode. i am craving large-scale indoor projects. this happens around this time every year, more so as i get older. good thing i have a wedding to plan for and decorate!
yesterday we spent a good deal of time at william's work, working on save-the-dates (they don't mind if we use their equipment after hours, we provide our own ink, etc.). it's all designed! i must say that william did a very nice job. so we're almost ready to print and ship. i will be hand-addressing envelopes. . . i hope they look okay. a calligrapher, i am not. i used to have nice handwriting, but now that i take notes very quickly for part of my living, it has steadily gotten worse. hopefully i can access my super artsy side. . . which is not that artsy as many of you can attest (those that know me in "real life").
i am also undertaking a scanning project. . . of scanning in my family's photos. there are a lot of them, and i know we'd all like to have them, especially some old photos of my grandma and her family. i became obsessed with this notion, and with part of my christmas money i bought a pretty nice scanner on amazon this morning. also the photos could be used in a wedding slideshow at some point.
project undertaken!
it was kind of nice to work on things yesterday and today and feel marginally productive (yesterday i'd call very productive, today not quite as much, despite my trying). this month is going to be nutty. we're both in a wedding on jan. 19, so we're gearing up for that, plus my job is about to get super busy again (please no long hours, please please please). i did write two stories and do some editing, plus i cleaned a little and worked out.
oh yeah. that's the other thing. no big resolutions or anything but i am attempting to take a little better care of myself until the wedding. i'm not worried about my weight, but my flab has hit max capacity and needs some toning up. plus i'm hoping i'll get that anti-anxiety, positive mood thing that everyone talks about having once in a workout routine. i wouldn't really know--i worked out steadily the last two years of college, mostly because i wanted to avoid doing homework, and didn't see a whole boatload of results, but i guess idid feel more productive. and i had toned arms. and when i moved home, i did most of it myself, not needing a guy to carry all the heavy stuff. ok. so i probably had a lot of results. but i hate it. it takes a lot to motivate me, even more than the cellulite on my thighs. i do want to be able to go, go, go more. . . more energy would be great. . . i'd like to have less back problems and this might help, and my posture totally and completely sucks, so it'd be nice to stand up straight on my wedding day. so far i've run on the elliptical (surprising even myself with distance and speed, although nothing to brag about), and i have done some situps with a medicine ball and some boxing thing with weights. which almost killed my arms. we'll see how easy it is to get a shirt on tomorrow. no promises, just going to try to do better. and actually do it, not talk about doing it. twice already in the last week. . . will do more this week.
so anyway. i thought i'd post some of the fruits of my labor. i still need to post of my gifts and such. . . later date on that one.
this is one of my favorite photos of my grandma marion, who's my mom's mom, who died of parkinsons disease in 1994. i was close with her.
here's another of my favorites, with her twin sister and another friend. they are quite young. my guess is teens? she was born in like 1916.
another one of my favorite outfits she had:
ok, now one of my handsome grandpa, her husband. (maybe not her husband at this time)
oh, here's another favorite of my grandpa. love the fedora.
then, of course, one of her wedding day. i love this for so many reasons; my great-aunt fixing her train; they're not quite ready; the cocky pose of my grandpa, the cars in the background. and yes, she was tiny--4'11'', and he was 6'2''ish:
and, me, at age one. the glamour girl thing had already started.
more to come!
