#1. My Dress Came In!!!
Mom said the package came in on Tuesday in terrible condition. I wish there was a picture of it, but apparently the box was caked with dirt, squished and the tape was coated with dirt and peeling off the box...nice! Thank goodness for purchasing the $10 garment bag or else I would have been making my first bridezilla appearance this week!
#2. Country Stampede is NOT the same weekend as my wedding!
I have been a little bit worried about this because it fell on our pre-versary this year. When we booked our wedding date, they hadn't release information on the 2013 Country Stampede, but today I googled it...and voila! June 27-30 which is the weekend after the wedding (and most likely when I will be on my honeymoon and far away from the craziness)!
For those of you that do not know about Country Stampede, read that little caption above, and also know that it is an awful time to live anywhere remotely in the area. Every year it brings in tens of thousands of people. It is held out at the lake on the last weekend in June, but it floods Manhattan with half-clothed, drunk, confederate-flag-toting (don't EVEN get me started on that), straw-hat-wearing country music fans and Manhattan only has a population of 50,000 to begin with.
Okay, enough bashing on CS. Truly, there are civilized people that go to this celebration, but they are few and far between all the crazies. More than anything, I was worried about my out-of-town relatives having to pay more for hotel rooms, being able to find hotel rooms and having to fight ridiculous traffic and crowds if they want to do anything the night before the wedding. And the good Lord forbid them forget to bring something and have to go to Wal-Mart. Also, there is a ton more police out - not that I am encouraging my relatives to drink and drive - but I would hate for something to happen to them when the hotels are only 2 blocks away.
#3. My Hair
It's the headband!
Ok, pause for sad story: My hair started falling out last summer. Like a GIANT spot of hair - gone. I got 3 rounds of steroid shots at the dermatologist's office and around September the hair started growing back. I've been wearing headbands for the past year now anytime that my hair is in a ponytail. The scariest thing was we really didn't know why it occurred (the doc says stress...idk), and we didn't know if I would keep losing my hair (I didn't) or if it would ever grow back (it did).
But now, this crazy mess is long enough to stay in a bobby pin and I don't have to wear my stretched out headbands...yay!
It's actually straight for once (since I put it back when it was wet), but just imagine curls exploding from that section of hair and that's what it typically looks like. I've basically gone through 4 stages of hair growth this year and this one is definitely the best. I've named them:
Stage 1: Bald spot
Stage 2: Baby chick hair (super soft and stands straight on end)
Stage 3: Super Curls (hair that would dry curly in seconds and was too short for the straightener)
Stage 4: Long Super Curls (I can reach it with a straightener or pin it back!)
Luckily, this traumatic experience (imagine you woke up with a bald spot...it's traumatic!) was offset by the fact that I wear my hair down 95% of the time during the school year. It has covered the stages of hair growth quite well, something that I am SO thankful for. Not only that, but by this time next year, I should have normal hair for the wedding!
#4. New Camera
Nothing too fancy, but I upgraded cameras. This guy is 16 megapixels compared to my 4+ year old 7 megapixel camera that I bought in Mexico. There are a lot more functions so hopefully I will get to beautify this blog with clear, crisp images! Hooray.
Has anything been particularly special for you in the past few weeks? Share your good things!
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