From the Mind of AlphaBetsy

So why not celebrate.  The lovely Vanessa from  a fanciful twist  has officially announced this years Mad Tea Party, and I think it is the perfect way to take a break  from Wedding Madness.  Want to play? Have your own mad tea party and link up with Vanessa  and the other Mad parties. Click here to sign up at a fanciful twist. And a very merry unbirthday to you!! 

We are now under 4 months until the big day. Can I scream yet? Lol. Actually things have started to come together in the strangest ways and it looks like I will not have to flip out and cancel the wedding. I'm just kidding, but I really was beginning to panic at the number of things we still had up in the air at this late date. But we have really kicked our butts into gear and gotten a lot of things done, started, actually thought about, that hadn't been yet. We went to a gaming convention (Origins) last weekend and we got the first of the stuffers for our favor bags. Seth and I had a good portion of our initial courtship happen during two RPG games we were both involved in, so we decided to put random dice into the favor bags. At origins you can buy a pitcher full for $39, so we did a whole pitcher. This should give us enough to put two per bag. Also while at Origins I fell in love with and bought a corset to go under my dress for the wedding. The nice thing is that it...

I have a secret, I want to be Snow White when I grow up. She is by far my favorite fairy tale princess. When I was a little girl eating an hour could take an hour, because if it was a nice red one, I would take a bite and then collapse in a mock swoon and repeat ad nauseum until the apple was done. I wear a silver charm on my silver necklace that I wear all the time of my favorite heroine disney style. So imagine my excitement when I realized that not one but two new movies were coming out this year about my favorite girl, and one had Thor!! I have not gotten to see Mirror, Mirror yet, though I have read the book. This morning Seth and I went to see Snow White and The Huntsman. I liked it, but did not love it. Maybe I am a bit picky about my Snow White films, lol. I loved Chris Hemsworth as our Huntsman, he was hard, and tender, and well Chris Hemsworth. Charlize Theron did well being both human and super human as the wicked queen. The dwarves were made up of some amazing actors incl...

I have been in a bit of a wedding panic over the last couple of weeks, but I am finally not quite as manic so I will show you what I have been doing when I am not panicked, doing school work, or working. Komen race for the Cure  Mom with a hot pink biker!!  My beautiful niece Sadie.  I have another week of school for this quarter, and will be glad when this set of classes is complete. Maybe it is all the stress, but this quarter has kicked my ass. Next Monday I start taking bellydance classes again, which is super exciting, and in June I am hoping to get signed up for my boot camp class, and to take some of the extra classes I bought. I am taking classes, but both are online for summer, which is a bit of a relief really. Hopefully I will be able to calm down and get my head back together soon.

Mother's day this year also was the two year anniversary of my mom's remission from breast cancer. For her mother's day gift my little sister and I went in together to get mom a survivor tattoo. My little sister drew the initial design and had taken it to an artist she had worked with previously and he drew it up for us. Then on Sunday we surprised mom with a trip to the tattoo parlor.  The line drawing. It says 2009-2010 Survivor Mom in the chair with me lurking behind her.  Zach getting to work on the tattoo.  Mom smiling through the pain with me lurking in the background again.  Zach still working away.  Filling in the color.  The tattoo right after the artist finished.  The final product. It's clearer than this I promise, stupid camera phone.  Tomorrow night my mom is joining me to go to a poetry reading that I have to attend for my creative writing class.This Friday my mom, Traci and I are going to ...