I am a speech pathologist

I'm having such a good day. I had a bad day yesterday, let's just say there was a disagreement over the wording of our wedding invites. Mum doesn't want her name on the same invite as dad. They live in the same house. I didn't mean anything by putting all my immediate families name on a trial invite. I haven't even printed it out on our paper yet! I'd just used their names in the trial to see how it looked with names/alignment. Also I had written Ri and I were the hosts. I ended up bursting into tears in the office at work, I was overwhelmed with a *I can't please anyone* feeling.
Mum and I have kissed and made up, she doesn't mean to say somethings aloud and then I'm too sensitive. There is no problem there.

But today has been one of those days.
Beautiful sky, working airconditioner, half day at work. Got me thinking how lucky I am...
It's been over a year since I graduated with my masters in speech pathology and I am really beginning to feel less like a new grad and more like a speechie.
I love my job.
I love that I have work up until our wedding!!!
I love my work place.
I think my workmates are AWESOME.
I fell into the right area of speech pathology.

Ri is perfect. Today alone he has:
Gotten up early to run me a bath before work. Made breakfast. Made Lunch. Dropped me at work. Picked me up during his lunch break.

The things I'm stressing about are so small that they don't matter. Or so big that they've got to wait til we get back.

I've been wishing time away, waiting to be married, that I haven't stopped to appreciate wow I am a speech pathologist!

The good and the bad

Well I did not get my job, so I have two more weeks to go! Lucky the same hospital has offered me work til the November (for sure) and maybe even up until Christmas.
I would have loved to be permanent, but casual pay is pretty good... and variety would be nice.

As this weekend, The dress is now living with us upstairs. These are photos of me trying on the dress and a close up of the veil. I wish I could post up all the pics we took, but where would be the fun in that?

I'm now doing my head in with bridesmaids dresses. I'm finding styles I like that dont come in the colours, a designer that has the colours but no dresses that quite suit. Plus it REALLY sucks that they don't have the dresses in the store, so we were trying on dresses that have similar features. It's not good enough. When you're spending $1200 on 3 dresses they should at least have one in store.

So we've started looking for a dress maker. I have a design in mind.

Job Interview

Had a job interview for the job I've been filing in for since June. So often you hear of people trying for jobs, only to find out in went to someone on the inside.

What is the bet that I am the exception?

If I do not get the job then Rhys and I have a Plan B...

At Home From Work.

Hi there,
What’s on my mind lately?
Well firstly I am extremely frustrated I’ve had 2.5 days off work with a mystery illness (some where between a chronic migraine and a sinus infection, mum keeps saying H1N1 just to upset me). I just want to be back at work. At this rate I'll be back to work on Monday.
Wedding News:
We’ve been invited to a wedding in November, the beautiful bride to be has made the nicest pocket invitations that give me hope that it is possible to make your own invitations and have someone pick them up going “Did you make these?!” I’m very excited about their wedding and you’ll probably be hearing more about it after the fact.
Music: ah music, I’ve been thinking about wedding music since Rhys proposed, considering the typical wedding music makes me a little queasy, or my eyes involuntarily roll back. Songs I’m loving at the moment include:
Chris Brown – Forever
Black Eyed Peas – Tonight
And this is something I’m thinking for the procession of the bridal party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb1oJwD_Ktk

The list of songs that we wont play is longer:
No Abba
No songs by Australian Idol contestants
No boybands
No sad break up songs (I've heard 'I will survive' played at a wedding)

We just want happy songs that are hopefully not cheesy... I'm way too particular about lyrics and will probably still be looking at what songs to play late next April.

Under it

Have gotten back into the planning.
Although I am more interested in my current work, I love being a speechie.
I've decided I'm going to spend my recent earnings on my dream cake from:
http://www.sweetums.com.au/

Don't even ask how much the cake will cost!!
But it's my, Dear me, Good job at work, love me.

We've been thinking about invitations and trying to decide between making them and getting them made.

I was thinking on the way home that when it comes down to - what would I rather spend money or time? Right now time seems more valuable. Maybe thats because for the last six weeks we've both been working full time. We get home from work, eat, sleep and go back to work (I do love it). Weekends are becoming interesting, when I'm tired (and I get this from mum) I don't feel like seeing people. Rhys and I are perfectly happy to just chill out at home, alone watch dvds, read books and eat baked goods (hmmm, old at 24). I wonder if thats a bad thing.

My point is, I would rather spend more on the invites and have another relaxing weekend with Ri.

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.