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Seven Quick Takes

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There’s a stinkin’ blizzard outside right now! It’s windy as heck, there’s snow falling, and it’s COLD! It was even hard to breathe while I walked from my car to the gym this morning. Brr! I plan on staying inside for as long as possible today. Daphne, on the other hand, just wants to be outside.

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Kyle is a pretty huge movie buff so we like to play 20 Questions with movies when we can’t fall asleep. Usually he stumps me and he always figures out my answer within 10 questions, but last night – I won, haha! I guessed all three he had for me and I even stumped him on one of our favourites – Super Troopers! I may brag about this one for a while.

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There was a woman wearing JEGGINGS at the gym this morning. If I could multitask/had a better camera phone/be more incognito I would’ve taken a picture for proof. I can understand tights, but jeggings? Ridonkulous!

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I FINALLY have wedding favours figured out! Whew! I was browsing for ideas and had an “AH HA!” moment when I seen them – Chocolate covered pretzels! We’re going to make them ourselves, the chocolate covered part, that is. Delicious! We’ve also finally started picking out our music for the “main” songs. The hardest will be the mother/son, father/daughter dance. Everything is so cliché! We also have the best song ever for the wedding party. Everytime we knock something off of our “to-do” list it gets me more and more excited about the wedding.

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My dad JUST called and told me I can get my new phone today, and then get a new phone contract next week. Huzzah! Goodbye, POS flip phone!

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Even though Kyle and I pretty much just bought our place, we can’t help but keep looking at real estate. We’re already looking into what and where we want our next house to be. It will definitely be our “child-raising” home, lol.

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This will probably make me sound like a cranky old lady, but the “kids” (See: College students) next door to us are SO LOUD. I’m more than certain that it’s Reading Break and they’re just partying. Last week they were yelling outside as they got home from the bar at 3 in the morning. Last night, it was loud music while I was trying to watch Big Bang. Oh well. They eventually turned their music down, and they didn’t wake me up in the middle of the night, so I won’t complain too much.

Morning Person

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I’m actually so NOT a morning person. I like to lounge around all morning on the couch and sip my coffee while I wake up. So when I went and signed up for a new gym membership (at a different gym than the last one I went to) I got the idea in my head that I’ be all tough at get up when Kyle goes to work and gym-it-out first thing in the morning. Hell yes!

So yesterday morning, I dragged my ass out of bed and got ready to go. Kyle chuckled at how bleary-eyed I was, I groaned and told him to get to work.

Really, once I got up and moving, it wasn’t so bad. My sleepiness wore off quickly as my heart rate increased. (Sidenote: How accurate are the built-in heart rate monitors on the machines? It told my my heart rate was “high” but didn’t give my actual rate. I have no idea what my heart rate was when I was exercising a year ago)

Verdict? I think I could be a morning person three times a week so I can get my butt into the gym. For now I’ll do cardio and hopefully I’ll be able to get the guts to use the weight machines. (I am totally shy to use the weight machines on my own.) Maybe I’ll even get a lap-pool friendly bathing suit and do some laps afterwards (String bikinis are not rapid-swimming friendly. Hell-oooo boob exposure!). Maaaaybe I’ll even start getting up earlier than 7 a.m., but lets not push it ;)

Are you a morning workout or evening workout person?

WTW: Anticipation

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A couple weeks ago, I put together our wedding invitations. Buying a kit was probably the best idea ever, although there were times when I wanted to throw in the towel. Like, trying to figure out which way to feed the envelopes into the printer, or cutting zillions of blue ribbon because the black pre-cut ones that came with the kit just didn’t match our colour theme, or jamming the printer by feeding an RSVP card in too fast and mucking up three whole cards. Oy! But it all worked out, and it was cheaper than hiring someone to do them for me.

Last Monday, I mailed our wedding invitations away. Now, I’m worrying over whether or not people will receive them, RSVP on time, and actually accept. I know I can’t count on everyone I invite to tick the “Accepts” box instead of the “Regrets” one. As much as I’d love to have everyone we invited there to share our special day, it probably won’t happen.

That being said, there wasn’t one invite that was sent out of courtesy. Every single one of those invites went to people who we actually want to be there. Figuring out the final invite list was so. hard. It was a matter of where to you draw the line. Cousins? Great-Aunts & Uncles? 2nd Cousins? And then what about old friends – do you invite your best from from elementary school but had a huge falling out with, or do you invite one of your favourite coworkers instead?

I’m nervous to see who accepts our invitation. In fact, I’m more nervous about that than trying to figure out what to give our guests as favours. (Something I’m still stumped on, but we’re leaning towards something edible)

Do you get worried about who will or won’t RSVP to an event you’re hosting?

Quick post-schedule update: Tuesday we received four RSVPs in the mail. Four! I was so nervous to open them!