Mistress of my Domain

I'm feeling a little down. I went to my job interview. I thought it went fairly well. They didn't ask a lot of questions, but I thought I did a good job with the questions they asked. They said they were interviewing five people and would be hiring two. I thought my chances were good, but I got a call later and didn't get it.

It's not that I really wanted that job, but I've been rejected over and over lately and it's disheartening. I try to look at the positive and for every batch of applications I've filled out I've at least gotten 1 or 2 interviews out of it. But then I go back to the negative and I've still been rejected like 6 or 7 times out of those jobs, not to mention the jobs were immediately after I apply I get a rejection e-mail.

It probably doesn't help that today would have been my dad's 72nd birthday.

Anyway...on to the wedding recap.

Not surprisingly the last couple of days before the wedding were really hectic. It didn't help that I made some of the same mistakes I usually make, like not asking for help and waiting to the last minute on things. I waited too long to get programs for the wedding and I ended up buying this downloadable program from Etsy. The only problems with it was I was going to have to cut the programs myself after they were printed out. And when I went to Office Depot to get the card stock the woman who sold it suggested, I couldn't find it. I had to buy a different kind and hope they came out okay and didn't look too cheap.

Unfortunately I had to wait until the next day to print them out. Usually I could print them out in the front room where the printer was whenever I wanted, but Mike's aunt was up for the wedding and sleeping in there. The next morning it took me forever to get it printed out correctly. I had to leave to get my hair done and had to show Michael how to do it. I ended up getting to my aunt's to do my hair later than I should have and she gave me grief about it all day.

( Running around... )

Stacey

Long rant-y post ahead.

Four months until the wedding! OMG. I have a feeling I might start hyperventilating more and more. Mike told me as we get closer to the wedding, if I hear him playing Bob Marley that's when I know he's feeling really stressed. Still so much to decide.

( Stress! )

I feel like I haven't posted a real update in ages. For pretty much the entire month of January I didn't really visit LJ. I thought after the holidays work would ease up a little, but I've been working mostly five days a week all month which is good for the bank account, but I started to fall behind in things and couldn't catch up for awhile. But I'm trying to stick to my resolution and balance my time a little bit better so hopefully I'll have time for more things.

( Life things )
Stacey

My birthday was pretty great! First, I'd like to thank again those who sent me birthday wishes through PMs, posts, or v-gifts. It was all so appreciated and made my day!

I didn't really do anything out of the ordinary. Like last year, I got to spend the entire day with Michael, so that immediately made it pretty awesome. without going into too much detail, everyone should wake up the way that I did. Mike said that we could do whatever I wanted. Me, being Miss Indecisive, was having trouble deciding where we should eat and what movie we should see. I finally, after way too much internal debate, decided to go to Chili's and later go and finally see Iron Man 3.

I don't totally regret everything I ate that day. My birthday definitely had to be a cheat day and the cheese cake, margarita, and ribs, were kind of worth it. We went back home for some more fun times and then we went to get ice cream at Coldstone Creamery before the movie. I'm a big weirdo in that while I love apples, for some reason I don't like the apple pie filling. They had this ice cream there which is basically apple pie in ice cream form and I had it without the apple pie filling. It was pretty great.

Iron Man 3 was great, soooo much better than Iron Man 2. Iron Man 2 wasn't a trainwreck or anything, but it was very forgettable IMO. IM3 basically had a better plot that was easier to follow. It was funny, lots of great action. I won't give anything away but Ben Kingsley is brilliant.

Our one real snag for the day was that after we left the movie our car wouldn't start. It had been light out when we arrived, but it had been raining and Michael forgot to turn off the lights and the battery died. We called Greg and Jean for a jump. She wasn't too happy because I don't think she realized we'd be out for a long time and they'd gotten a cake for me. We didn't eat the cake until tonight.

( Weddings, Babysitting, and Camping )

Stacey

More wedding dress shopping. I had decided that I was just going to try on the final two, but I was looking through the catalog and there were a lot of dresses that I didn't get to try on. So I picked about four to try on again. But I when I went to the official David's Bridal website I got to see some pictures of real people trying the clothes on and ended up omitting a couple of the dresses. So I decided to try on two new dresses and retry one of the dresses from Saturday, along with the two frontrunners.

( A Final Decision )

ETA: In case there's any confusion this is the dress I picked:



Stacey