10.8.10

We recently had a crazy 100 year flood this past weekend.  We were not hit as hard as Nashville was, but we did get hit.  Our venue is a cave, it’s a young cave and the river still flows through it.  If it rains a normal amount the cave floods to the point they can’t give tours.  I don’t believe many weddings get canceled, but it is a possibility, the rain can get up to the dance floor and flood the space.  Well with this flood, we got a ton more rain that usual, obviously, but the cave flooded majorly…..majorly.

This is the space, random picture I took one day while I was down there:

That is the water you see in the bottom left corner.  That can get much high as you can see the dance floor which can get flooded.  Well, this time it flooded completely, as in the water is above the metal shelter and quite a ways up the trail.

They aren’t sure how long it will take for all the water to drain out of the valley, I went on Tuesday and it was only 1 foot down from Sunday when the flooding stopped.  It is 20 feet deep in many place….at one foot a day that would 20 days before they can even really get down there to see what has happened and what all needs to be repaired.

Luckily I have 5 months to go and hopefully every thing will be mostly fine and repairs will be quick and make it much better than it would!

Here’s our lovely venue as it should look

I can’t wait til it’s here and I get to marry the love of my life.  Hopefully we won’t have to relocate it!

We had originally planned on having just 2 attendants each.  I had an attendant to drop out so as to not hurt feelings we moved one of Fi’s female attendants to my side and had her husband stand in.  Fi is close to both of his attendant’s husbands, but closer to them so their husbands were going to be ushers.  We thought he would take it better being a stand in than another girl would have been for me, girls are so stinkin sensitive!  Having one husband, fi really wanted the other but never would straight out tell me.  I had a girl I wanted to add but didn’t want to think she was replacing the girl who dropped out because she really wasn’t.  I decided to just do it and fi got to add his second guy, so now we both have 3 attendants and I guess that is ok!

We went 3 days after I asked and bought a dress, we move fast around here

After about 20 dresses that all looked pretty darn good on her we decided on this one

So now we’re all outfitted, we just have to get the men into tuxes, but they aren’t doing that for several more months.

and I thought I was a slacker in the last post….now I really am!

I have been having a really hard time staying motivated to lose weight.  I’m really convinced it was the birth control medicine I was on.  I had no motivation to do anything at all.  I craved junk food all the time, never wanted to go to the gym…it was horrible!  I’ve changed the medication and now I’m kind of back on track…as much as you can be for dieting for over and year and going to the gym and not losing much and what you did lose you gained back during that stupid birth control snafu.

We’ve been doing well the last few days, but this week is my birthday and we’ve been celebrating and not to mention that it’s flooding outside, I just don’t wanna do anything today!

For my birthday my mom got me a new laptop!  I was really tired of duct taping my screen up so I could use it…really annoying.  I got a Toshiba, it’s 16″ it’s awesome!  I love Windows 7!  Now I just have to get microsoft office downloaded so I can finish working on my lab reports, I have 2 practical/written lab finals next week, boo

As far as the wedding is concerned…I’m a little nervous.  We have a beautiful venue at Lost Rive Cave.  It has been raining since Friday night and the end is not in sight.  The cave is completely flooded, not that unusual, the way the cave is made it if rains just a few inches it is impossible to get into the cave without getting really wet, but we’re not talking just about inside the actual cave…

The venue is located on a dance floor that is outside of the mouth of the cave, there is a dance floor and a beautiful chandelier that decorates the ceiling, both are under water.  I don’t know if it’s ever been flooded this bad, but it makes me nervous.  Our wedding is 5 months and a few days and if the chandelier is ruined I’ll be really upset, that really gives the venue its beauty!  I’m thinking the worst and what if they have to cancel all weddings this year?  What would I do?  I have no idea!

I’m not worrying about it too much yet, and I hope I don’t have to worry about it later, but I feel bad for any brides who are supposed to get married any time soon, hopefully they get everything cleaned up very quickly!

I will be changing this to a wedding/weight loss blog, but primarily wedding.  I will update you on what I’ve done and will be doing!  Stay tuned, I’ll get better at this, i promise!

It’s been crazy around here with wedding stuff and school stuff, too many tests and things to study for!

I’m currently working on planning the rehearsal dinner, I already have the invites designed now I just have to find a place!  We went to our favorite restaurant yesterday to book one of their rooms and of course the one I wanted was already booked, so now we’re looking at another restaurant, but I can’t get them to email me back!  So we’ll see, we’re hoping to get out sort of cheap!

Well, I must get back to studying, next post will be about our new puppy!

Another crazy day!  We had a double date with our friends, Annie and Kevin.  Annie is a ‘grooms woman’ in the wedding and we went and picked out her dress today, then we shopped a little and ate dinner.  Another fun night that did not include eating healthy or working out.  Tomorrow will be hit hard.  It’s hard to eat well when you are out with people who are not weight conscious, we did do a little better tonight than we did last night.  We shared a steak omlette and pancakes (shhh).  Gotta have a free weekend every once in a while.

Again, leaving you with the work of the day, Annie’s dress and this is the color as well!

Well, today wasn’t a total loss of a day, but it was for workout/diet wise. I went shopping with my Bridesmaids for their dresses and ended up being gone A LOT longer than I had intended. So I ate out twice today, and neither meal that great, fish and chips and fajita nachos and no working out. That will be remedied tomorrow, we will be working out at some point, doing something and eating healthy. We still have to go out with Jeremy’s attendant and go shopping for her dress, but we’re (Jeremy, I, his attendant and her husband) all going and making it a little double date. This will be the only weekend we will have to do this so, it’s really a once kind of thing….not to say the eating out is only a once thing, but this poorly kind of is.
I’ll leave you with the work of the day:

This is Tina on the left in her dress in the right color and Patti on the right in her dress but it will be the same color as Tina’s dress.

I missed my post last night because I picked up my wedding dress!!!! It was a 45 minute drive to the store that I will be going to twice this weekend anyway to pick out bridesmaid dresses, but I just had to have it! It was definitely worth the drive. When I purchased it I was measured at a size 26, WHAT? I’m a size 16 in regular clothes…that’s crazy! No one believe I was at a 26 either so they got a 22 for me to try on and it lacked about 1.5 inches zipping around my waist (read: love handles). I picked it up last night….and it FIT! I expected it to be a little to small but if anything it was a little too big! By the time this next 7 months goes by I’ll have to have it taken in, I hope! I love when I get that validation of what I’ve been doing is right and working! When you’re in your skin and seeing it every day it’s hard to tell that any weight has been lost. So whatever it is I’m doing is apparently working so I’ll keep doing it! We did celebrate by eating sushi and then a brownie from Starbucks! I was excited, leave me alone! Back on the diet today, just needed a little sushi in my life!
On a different note, taking our puppy to the vet today about her back, she’s doing really bad so hopefully we get good news! If not….no clue what will happen…

I hate people, just making that known. If you were on the road tonight in Bowling Green I probably spouted several fowl words in your direction! Oh, and to you 2 old ladies shopping in Sam’s tonight that took FOREVER…hate you the most….
I haven’t eaten bad today, but I know I can eat better. I had cream of wheat for breakfast (I just love it!) for lunch I had a handful of wheat thins, string cheese and a small onion roll with roast beef, cheese and mayo, yum-o! For dinner I had 2 shake-n-bake pork chops, don’t really like pork that much but Jeremy does and I used to like this….not so much now, macaroni and cheese and a mini moon pie with sprinkles. I’m still hungry, but am trying not to eat anything! Maybe I should go brush my teeth, but I’m hungry…..
We went and lifted weights tonight, I’m just not where I used to be with weights, I wish we wouldn’t have taken time off lifting during the Christmas/New Year holidays. I’ve noticed my back is thinner and that is motivation! I think my birth control is affecting my motivation, some days I just don’t want to do anything and it didn’t start until I started this pill, so I’m not sure. I still have 2 months to try, so hopefully it’ll level out quickly.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better diet day, and hopefully I won’t have to go out!

Welcome to my blog! I’m a bride-to-be on October 8, 2010, and this is my place to record and track my weight loss and journey to it! I hope to write every day, but we shall see how that goes!
A little background, I met the love of my life on January 11, 2008 we had coffee and watched Sweeney Todd in the theater, fast forward to today and we are busy planning our wedding! He’s the sweetest guy I know and I couldn’t imagine the rest of my life without him. I feel like I’m the luckiest girl in the world!

Currently on my weight loss journey, I’m slacking. Jeremy was in our gym’s biggest loser competition, so we went to the gym every day for at least 1 hour, usually 2 most days. After he was eliminated I was so tired I gave up for a while. We had a few too many cheat meals and I’ve gained a few pounds from when I was at my lightest. I have a wedding dress to fit into and a honeymoon I want to look fabulous for so I have a long road ahead of me! I’m hoping you guys will keep me on point and I’ll be too embarrassed to report that I’ve had a bad day. At the top of the page you will see different pages, soon I should have a weight chart that I will be reporting to each week, day is to be determined! Stay tuned, I’ll be writing more very shortly!