Mistress of my Domain

WOW! I can't believe it's been a whole year and I'm not just talking about since my wedding - since my last real post as well. I've posted a couple of stories, but other than that nothing.

I chalk it up to some business, laziness, and my usual practice of procrastination, procrastination, procrastination. After the wedding we were all so tired. I had wanted to do a recap of some kind, but just decided to wait to do it. I didn't visit LJ or twitter or keep up with my mail. After a couple of months I had about 400 e-mails I needed to reply to. I finally started visiting Twitter again and LJ again.

Once I finally came back, I wanted to get to doing the wedding recap, but I tend to get very word-y (see this post for example LOL) and I knew talking about the wedding would take forever so I just kept putting it off. At one point, to try and motivate myself I made the decision that I wouldn't post anything until I posted about the wedding. That...clearly didn't work. I had to break my rule and post my resolutions after the new year, but I just got too busy and didn't get around to it.

What's funny, to me anyway, about not posting for so long is I used to not post for a long time with no problem. When I first started on LJ I was really just a lurker. I didn't have a lot of friends or a lot going on in my life. But now that I do have a lot of friends and do have a lot of stuff going on in my life, I don't post in forever.

Though not posting on LJ isn't the only thing I'm behind on. I've never gotten the dress that I wore to the rehearsal dinner dry cleaned. I haven't cleaned my wedding dress. They had this wedding dress preservation kit thing at David's Bridal, which I wasn't sure if I wanted to do, but I need to do something. I haven't gotten the pictures my aunt took at the wedding rehearsal. I still haven't got our wedding album. We got all the pics from the wedding (over 800) on discs, but the album hasn't been put together. It's been horrible trying to communicate with the wedding photographer. It takes him forever to answer e-mails.

So, anyway, I've decided to do a wedding recap - for anyone who still cares - and post some pictures over the weekend. This will also be a kind of nice way to relive the wedding before our anniversary.

Things between Michael and I are going alright. When it comes to our feelings for each other we're still just as in love as ever. I've never been in a relationship before, so I have no real frame of reference, but it still surprises me how after six years together we're still so crazy about each other. He still texts me that he misses me on occasion. We're still ridiculously affectionate in public (which is never something I thought I would be.) We don't make out in public or anything. But he puts his arms around me and we hug. So, yeah, still in love. :)

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Mike and I went up to Maryland last week. One of his cousins was getting married. No one but their parents were invited to the actual ceremony, which took place at a courthouse on Halloween, but everyone was invited to a reception/party the next day. Mike's mom Jean could not stop harping on how weird she found it that they were getting married on Halloween. I thought it was a little odd, but I'm sure it's not a first. I wasn't going to judge them for it because I know that a little of my wedding ideas have been considered odd, so I'm not judging someone else's choices. If they want to get married on Halloween that's their business as long as it makes them happy.

( Grandmothers, Colds, and Pictures )