superlame

I knew something like this would happen. I’ve been so overwhelmed with school and wedding planning lately…and yet I was lulled into a false sense of security…

I got a 92 on my last test, and a 9.5/10 on my last 3 writing assignments. today I got into my soc 111 class and found out we had an assignment due. yep. my excuse for not knowing it was due? on our syllabus, the timeline is given as a table divided into 3 sections: dates/topics, critique due dates, and corresponding reading. we have 2 critiques on new york times articles, in addition to the 4 book critiques. all of them are 1pg double-spaced, so not too complicated. but what snared me is that the nyt critique due dates are listed in the column with the outside reading – not in the critique due date column. so I never saw it.

ah, well. it really is my own fault. now I need to go find an article on globalization, write a 1pg critique, and turn it in by 5pm. this means I automatically lose 4 of 10 possible points.

like I said, superlame.

and by the way

I really do think about non-wedding-related things. a lot of the time, actually. the other night I went to turn mu’s lights off so he could go to sleep; he was already zonked out at the top of his climbing branch, with his arms hanging down. if you can imagine a lizard in a hammock, that’s about what it looked like. he was so adorable! I wish I had taken a picture…

the guest list

o the joys of compiling an invitation list for wedding announcements. I may have been slightly off in my estimates. I know that really, what I should have done was make the lists first and then order; but because of a variety of things…that didn’t happen. so here are my excuses:

1. I was very picky about which invitations, and took a long time to choose
2. the ones we want are custom-made and therefore take longer to make
3. everyone I talked to said they got about 250 invitations and had extras
4. we’re from the same home stake and most our friends are mutual

however, I was wrong. there’s going to be a lot of trimming. I had previously made an invitation list of family, family friends, people from fairfield, and my friends that included overlap to the list I knew jarom would be making. this totaled 185 people. I can cut it down to 160. today jarom’s mom gave me her list of people from the stake to add; there were 27 that I didn’t already have. now I am supposed to be getting all of the hillery and harrington families, family friends, and jarom’s korean buddies.

I wonder if I should talk to the woman who’s making our invitations? maybe she can still make some more…like 50 more…otherwise I’ll have to get out the red pen and eliminate people. fewer people means fewer presents. isn’t that materialistic of me?