Crazy Talk

Julie: "Well there is a language barrier."
Mora: "What language? Crazy Talk?"

Different pages, still very funny. Anyway, I will miss Julie, my student, horrible. She has been such a pleasure to work with and teach and I have loved helping to form another caring PT to enter this profession.

67 days until our wedding. Almost 2 and a half months to go. RSVPs still coming in which are a much more fun part of wedding planning than I anticipated. Yay for good things to come like showers and bachelor parties (for the girls and boys respectively)!

Count Your Blessings

This was the quote for Dr. Seuss Day. As I have been very horrible at posting and it is now 73 days until the wedding, I figured I should write something here. Why, I don't really know since no one actually reads this, but it makes me feel as though I do have some sort of life. Above is my Dr. Seuss cake...

Wedding plans are hopping along. I got my hair and make up test drive done and they looked very bride-like. Now I am just trying to stay on top of face antibiotics that make me feel sick, trying to keep up on household chores and working. One week left of my student and then I'll be working hard again :(

Anyway, life is good. Grandpa is home and somewhat healthy. I am getting married to my favorite person in 73 days. I have a good job that is rewarding if hard. We are hopefully getting our house soon and moving. And I just love my life :) In comparison to one year ago this week, I feel like I fell down a rabbit hole and ended up in a fairy tale....

The Fight Over Peach

So the first words of advice almost every past bride gives me if the "At some point you will go insane and be crying to your fiance because he doesn't care about the difference between peach and pink." As typical Mora, I said I doubt it, I don't even like pink, but I think I reached this point this week. As I stood there blow drying the clear labels I thought were so fabulous when I bought them, but are only fabulous as smudging. After having labels print as things such as "Mora and Guest Jimenez" and inviting only one child of two child families, I reached my peach/pink point. Standing there blowing dry labels acknowledging I was going crazy was both humerus and upsetting, because since when does someone who is quite great at planning events reach a breakdown on pieces of sticky paper? But anyway, after throwing a temper tantrum over straws that broke the camels back, I am hoping that now my pink/peach moment is over and wedding planning will continue smoothly.

Did I mention there are only 100 days left until we are married and I become Mora Pluchino??!!

Love You, Mean It

As we sit here with Brian playing football and me listening to love songs and getting overly emotional and teary eyed, I think yet again of how happy and lucky I am. As "Let's Stay Together" is finally allowed on the playlist again and is a happy tune again, and I find new songs to love and relate to our lives :)

I'm sappy, I know....

"Ten miles from town and I just broke down
Spittin' out smoke on the side of the road
I'm out here alone just tryin' to get home
To tell you I was wrong but you already know

Believe me I won't stop at nothin'
To see you so I've started runnin'

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughin' with you
I'm thinkin' that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through
'Cause I know there's no life after you

Last time we talked, the night that I walked
Burns like an iron in the back of my mind
I must've been high to say you and I
Weren't meant to be and just wastin' my time

Oh, why did I ever doubt you?
You know I would die here without you

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughin' with you
I'm thinkin' that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through
'Cause I know there's no life after you

You and I, right or wrong, there's no other one
After this time I spent alone
It's hard to believe that a man with sight could be so blind
Thinkin' 'bout the better times, must've been outta my mind
So I'm runnin' back to tell you

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
Without you God knows what I'd do, yeah

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughin' with you
I'm thinkin' 'bout all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through, yeah
Know there's no life after you"

one year later and a much happier place.

Have Faith

So my Mary Engelbright calendar has been very funny lately. It has eerily appropriate comments for different days and events. When my poor student had her first confrontation with a vomiting patient, the calendar said "If at first you don't succeed, try again. If not, then quit!" For the day that we began to wonder if we would be able to get our house, was the two words of "Have Faith." And for my day in peds was the picture of a bad little boy with the quote "If you can;t be a good example, you'll just have to be a terrible warning." This was then followed by a day of typically bad kids behaving extremely well. There remains nothing much too new in our lives. Still waiting for our contract to be signed and attourney review to end. Keeping our fingers crossed as I try to be a patient person.

Bye Bye Bun Bun

So Marley is being adopted by one of my coworkers and her family in order to relieve my mother of bunny duties. Some pictures of him below on his last evening with us. Hopefully now he will live a happy life with people who love to see him every minute and spend time playing with him. I'll miss having him, but I think this will be a happier life for him.

A bit of this and that

So I'm getting married to this goof ball who can't even be serious for the 2 seconds it should take to get his "portrait" taken.

I'm working 48 hour weeks, but I get to spend one day a week playing with toddlers and babies which is challenging, scary but also going to be great for my career.

I got to go home this weekend and spend time with my parents which is always a delight. And I get a half day on monday to spend with my mom, in addition to the holiday season.

Brian and I have begun the quest of finding a house that we like that we can afford, so this too had kept us busy and allowed us to spend more time together mulling over budgets, and real estate websites and being grown ups some more.

149 days to go until our wedding :)