...the sun is out and up and down again.

apparently the Smashing Pumpkins wrote a song called 'Thirty-Three'. i read through the lyrics. i do not understand why it got the name that it did.
on a more personal note, i turned in my apartment keys today! now i just have to wait for all the ridiculous charges that they'll throw at me for apparently not cleaning it sufficiently. but i'll fight em. cuz if you show up unprepared and a half an hour late for the move out inspection, you had better be prepared to deal with the wrath of a stressed out bride-to-be and new homeowner who has just been dying to unleash the bridezilla hidden within her on some poor unsuspecting victim and giggle at the ensuing confusion and insanity.

delicious.

tonight will be my third night sleeping in the house. so far, its been like camping: both in the sense that its 'intense' (say 'camping is intense' out loud and just giggle with me) and also in the 'all my food is non perishable and packed in boxes and i get dressed out of a duffel bag and i wear sandals into the bathroom' kind of way. and while at times it is very tempting for me to complain about how the house is a mess and we're still not done painting (grr on the special blue tape STILL peeling the new paint out of the corners) and all my stuff is in boxes and my fiance is going to a baseball game tonight without me and i'm pretty sure that this month is going to result in a half-planned wedding, i am getting better at reminding myself that i am blessed beyond belief to have a house to live in, and a fiance who loves me enough to clean the bathroom for me, and no matter what this month brings i WILL get married in 34 days.

God is good.

treinta y cinco.

its been just over two weeks since i started an official daily count down. it does not feel like its been that long. but at the same time, the numbers are dropping quickly as the days fly by and i'm starting to realize just how much time i dont have left. we are at the five week mark, and its crazy to think that just over five weeks ago we had just closed on the house. that doesnt really feel like it was all that long ago - are the next five weeks going to go by just as quickly?

my dog sparky, he does tricks.

Moving Day!!!

i have been through the torturous process had the distinct privilege of packing up all my stuff and moving several times in my twenty-three years, and this one is by far the most unlike any move that i have ever undertaken. since i've been going to work at the house every night, i have been slowly moving things into the house all week. mostly non-essentials like books, movies, office supplies, boxes that havent been unpacked since the last move, and all the wedding stuff that i havent looked at in at least a month. i have packed them into my car, (nothing new there) and then taken them out the same day in a new place.

but today, everything goes: clothes, furniture, kitchen stuff, bathroom stuff, and every little detail that i have put into making that apartment feel like home for the past almost-year. it will become someone else's home, and i will move on to my house full of boxes and gifts and drywall dust and do my best to make it start to feel a little bit like home.  

forty-two thirty-sevens.

some days, i have trouble finding even one halfway decent picture to use for the countdown.

but today for some reason i found too many good ones to just choose one.

i almost feel a little sheepish posting them all.

but seriously, i could go on for miles.

but since i would like you to keep counting down with me, i wont.

happy Friday!!!

ex.ex.ex.vee.aye.aye.aye

HUGE thanks go out to Mark's dad, who has come over to the house the past two nights to help prime and paint in the guest bedroom. without his help i feel like i would still be cutting in the primer instead of getting ready to finish up painting that room tonight!

real fast.

time is flying.

today i am moving wedding stuff from my apartment to the house. i will be moving it into the basement bedroom. i will then proceed to make a Do Not Disturb sign to hang around my neck, and delve completely into Wedding World with hopefully wreck-less abandon for the next thirty-nine days.