Bach Bash 2012 & Last Minute Chaos

Just a few pictures from my Bachelorette Bash this past weekend.  I am still waiting on more from friends - but this is what I have thus far.  Weeeeee.  We had a lot of fun. Quite possibly too much fun.

And.... now it is time to get myself married on Saturday.  The weather is looking like garbage.  We are looking at "Scattered Thunderstorms" with a "60% chance of rain" --- GRANTED.... it was supposed to be all sorts of rainy for my bachelorette party and it was DRY .... but with an outside ceremony planned & having to make a decision by Thursday .... my anxiety is REALLY high.

Things to do this week....
[ ] Finish packing up the candy buffet -- which means I need to get more bubble wrap
[ ] Pack up the sparkler table and sparklers.
[ ] Drive all the wedding stuff down to McDonough.  To both the venue and hotel.
[ ] Manicure and Pedicure
[ ] Eyebrow wax
[ ] Get car tags for my car
[ ] Decide on an inside or outside venue space
[ ] Talk with my photographer to go over the timeline & shot list.
[ ] Talk with the DJ to go over the timeline and playlist and such
[ ] One last Pure Barre
[ ] Hit the tanning bed
[ ] Pack for the honeymoon -- which means I need to do laundry
[ ] Breathe
[ ] Get my Mom's Wedding Thank You gift.


Things you should not pester me about....
[ ] Where you are going to get your hair and make up done.  Hey.  Hello.  This is 100% not my responsibility, especially since you're trying to make arrangements THE WEEK OF the wedding. You have had months to plan and google salons in McDonough.  No, my girl cannot do you too.
[ ] How you're going to get around Atlanta.  Again, not my issue.

....but. with all that said. and all I have to do this week.... I know Saturday will be a fun - great day! =D

Total Random Thoughts.

-I love how my Kennesaw pup's tail is always wagging. She is sooo happy all the time. I am glad we were able to keep her out of a shelter and give her a good home!
-my Mundy ladies gave me the funniest wedding card with my wedding gift. 10 awesome wine glasses and a card telling me to drink my stress away. Wahoo!
-speaking of the Mundy ladies. I cannot wait for Friday morning massages with heather before the wedding.
-and on the topic of massages.  Heather and I got a wickedly good deal at the Loew's hotel in Midtown for the 22nd.  $89 for the night - originally $222.  It is nice to have friends in high places. ;)
-I gave Kyle his wedding socks the other day and I was surprised that he liked them! His socks are gonna match my dad's. 2 favorite boys get to have matchy matchy socks!
-I am in the process of reading my second pre-wedding required reading book and I highly recommend it.  However, since I have been so busy with my work trip I doubt it will be finished in 9 days ... but I will finish it even after the wedding.
-wahoo. I am no longer breaking out. Thank you aveeno and biore!
-did I tell you that I got Mully and Kennesaw duffel bags with their names embroidered on them for their 10 day vacation at doggie daycare? Yes. There is a good chance I have mental issues. Luckily Kyle loves me the way I am!
-by the way. We are taking donations to pay for that doggie daycare stay. Yikes.
-we (and by we I mean I) have started packing for st Lucia! But it is currently a hot mess of clothes and bathing suits on the floor.
-which i think that mess on the floor irked Kyle the other night - he was trying to vacuum and clean the house.  Whoops?
-can I admit that I am gonna miss my pups like crazy when I am on my honeymoon?
-my bachelorette party is this weekend. I am so crazy excited!
-we are officially at the 9 days till mark.  Seriously?  At one point I thought this day was SO far away and now it is steamrolling at me faster than I can handle.
-and the weather predictions thus far - RAWR! 60% chance of rain pretty much all day. High of 73* low of 54*.  But... everyone keeps telling me that it is too far out to predict weather.  But, mark my word -  I will be stalking weather.com for the next 7 days.
-And it appears that a lot of our wedding guests wait till the last minute to do things.... wedding gifts are ROLLING off the registry.
-Eekk. I need to call and schedule a time to pick up my wedding dress. must.do.that.right.now.
-And I need to call our DJ back. .must.do.that.tonight.
-Evidently, I have been slacking at my knot.com to-do list ... glad I just looked at it.
-9 days ya'll.  I cannot wait to see everyone and hug so many people.
-I think we should take bets on who is gonna cry more.  Me or my dad? ;)
-Speaking of..... I need to order my tear catching hankercheif.
-I thought I was soooo much more organized than I evidently actually am.

Getting Ready.

12 days to race day. 12 days till the day of realization how unready I am for my 1st ever half marathon. I was actually chatting with my Team in Training run coach and to quote her, she told me "it would be a rough day in San Fransisco" for me. Yay? I cannot act shocked, I think like many people I did not take this as seriously as I should have. (I have a friend running the Chicago Marathon this weekend who has not run in 2 months.) I sometimes wonder how people who work full time can train for a big race like this and still have a life outside of training and work. Maybe it's just me since I work like 50 hours a week. Oh well.

I am not feeling too great but I decided I needed to move my legs a bit yesterday so I hit the treadmill. It reminded me how much I hate the treadmill ... and this line of talk just reminded me I need to charge my Garmin. I am doing some "movement" (as I like to call it) because I am trying to pick my half marathon gear. I got a new pair of kicks the other day so I am working on breaking those in, but I think I may stick with the shoes I have been running in months for. No worries, they're still good... they have not hit the 300 mi mark just yet. The socks that were given me in the race participation bag from the Big Peach 10K the other week were/are awful so I am not wearing those either. I need to go get a long sleeve tech shirt for the race start and gloves. Rumor has it San Fran will be chilly. Awesome? BUT... so far my half marathon itunes playlist for race day is amazing so I am happy about that.

I am keeping on keeping on. I am up for a BIG run on Saturday and then I am gonna do little runs all next week. I am in no way prepared for this, but all in all I signed up to support my friend who is battling Leukemia and to raise money to blood cancer research and to date I have raised $4700. So at least I feel like a rockstar is one aspect of this adventure!