Just like mum

I believe that it is around now, the mid 20s. That a girl will look at her mum and go, oh dang, she's just like me.
It was my baby brothers 23rd birthday last week, and so we had dinner with my folks. I asked mum when it was that she saw Europe. Late 1979. When she was 25. Now just over 30 years later, at about the same age, I'm going too.
Here are some mum and me stats.
She meet Dad when she was a teenager, I meet Ri when I saw 16.
However she married Dad at 19, I'm marrying Ri at 25.
Dad was 20-21 when he proposed, Ri was 22.
Ri will be 24 when we get married Dad was 21.
They got married in October one day before my mum's dad's birthday. We are getting married in May one day after my dad's birthday. (We didn't know this before we set the date- well I knew about MY dads birthday, but not Pa's as he had been dead for many years).
Mum finished nursing school at age 29, 3 weeks after having her first child.
I finished university (with 2 degrees mind you) at 24, sans children.


I'm hoping to recreate some of the photos they took on their Europe trip. They went in November, so I'm going to practice looking very cold.

Christmas in November... and whatever comes to mind

Every year I forget exactly how hot and rainy summer is. Christmas and mums return from America has resulted in wedding block. I really cannot think of what to do next for the wedding.

We're half way through the wedding invites (well the mock up copy), but need to go to three shops before we can start the mass production. Also I need to find the Myer's stuff, so I can include the gift info. Oh and I'm not sure what time to put on the invite for the ceremony OR reception.

We've registered at Myers, for about 20 items. We've got to go back.

We have the name of about 3 or 4 dress makers, but we're going to wait until after Ri's sister gets back from India before we start that process. That's actually Ri's job.

I'm about half way through the vows.

So many half done tasks. Now to Christmas.

We had our first Christmas party on Sunday. With the secret santa, where Ri had to buy for his mum and I had to buy for someone I never meet. I finally got to meet Al, Ri's future future Brother inlaw. He was exactly what I was expecting except for one thing. He had brown eyes.

Christmas does not feel very Christmas-y this year. We are not even going anywhere! Ri's sister will be away and so will my dad. We have not even put up a tree yet. I know this is the normal time to put up a tree, but in my family we put up the tree in the first week of November.

MY MUM IS HOME! She was away for three weeks and we got a text msg and a postcard. Now I can't be told off next year if I only call six times in six months.
We picked her up from the airport yesterday. She went to all the thanksgivings sales, and come home with bags of gifts for her three children.

My gifts include a necklace from the Tiffany's in new york. And a shirt from a chocolate factory that simply says "Reese's".

Right now

Hi,
I haven't blogged in ages!
Honestly, I got a bit sick of the internet, I still have no plans to log on to facebook until July.

I'm sitting at home alone, Rhys has gone to a concert with my brother. I'm so glad they have music in common.

In the last week or so...

In the last week I've recovered from being very sick. On the last day of the flu/whatever it was, I couldn't get down the hall without a bucket and Rhys needed to give me IM maxolon, which finally stopped the vomitting! (Lovely).

I'm a Redcross volunteer (this is not new), I don't think I've mentioned that yet. I work with adults with high level needs, we do sensory activities. It's pretty good fun, it's something to do between locums, actually it means a lot to me. I went to a meeting at Redcross at Milton. Good times. We did an activity on what was stressing us out at that point in time. Mine was covered in wedding/honeymoon related pictures. Dork!

I start my next locum in a week! It almost doesn't feel real! It's been a few weeks since my locum at TPCH.

I'm all over the place about the wedding. I can go from freaking out about have I choosen *the perfect dress* to laid back *can't someone else do it* in a day.
It still doesn't feel real!

Oh the money. We're SO lucky that my mum is awesome and letting us live at her new house, we would have NO money if it weren't for her.

We've started talking about our honeymoon, I started trying to do a rough idea, found some maps and websites. But got completely overwhelmed!
6 months, around the world. Where the hell do you start?!

This month is our fourth dating anniversary. FOURTH! Everytime I've written that down this year I've looked at it and thought no. But yes 2005 is when we started dating. It took the bum two months to ask me out! So many people told me he wasn't worth it. But I knew he was.

Rhys's dad is getting married again this month.
I was not surprized. I told Rhys, after dinner with his dad and the lovely lady he is marrying, at the end of last year that they would get married. I could just tell.
Plus she was still wearing rings on her ring finger.
His dad seemed distressed about getting married 'before us.'
We both just want everyone to be happy.