She-wolf

There is nothing like wedding planning to bring out the crazy.

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Yes. Crazy as in 'Shutter Island' crazy. 

Seriously. I consider myself to be fairly laid-back and easy-going (okay, so I might be somewhat type-A, but still). That is, I did until I started planning a wedding. Honestly, I had no idea that it would bring out all sorts of crazy in me.

First of all, I like having to-do lists, because I like the satisfaction of ticking things off of lists. So, upon getting engaged, I promptly googled 'wedding checklist.' Yeah, rookie mistake. So many checklists out there! I was getting stressed just figuring out which checklist I wanted to use. This did not bode well.

I finally came accross Russell and Hazel; they have some really great, comprehensive checklists on their website. For free!! Score! Go to their site and print them all out right now.

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(I also ordered their super-fancy wedding binder, which I am in love with) Anyway, I printed out ALL of their templates, which you can download (again, for FREE, people!) here, and proceeded to fill the binder with the lists, my inspiration photos, random pictures and advise I had ripped out of my plethora of wedding magazines (I have an addiction).

The checklists are for everything - a general timeline (one of the biggest helps to me, since I felt super overwhelmed at the beginning of the process. Well, still do), specific vendor checklists, contact sheets. The list goes on and on. The only down-side is that you have to go into each individual checklist (there are 57!), figure out which ones you need (I, for example, didn't need the destination wedding schedule), and print each one individually. A bit time consuming, but worth it.

Whew, one thing ticked off my list - finding good checklists! Now, that's all well and good, but this wedding stuff? Yeah, things sit on my check-lists forever and don't get ticked off. And this stresses me out. Why? I have no idea! I realize that there are timelines, and you don't need to deal with certain things until certain months, but for some reason, I hate seeing things just sitting on the list, not getting dealt with RIGHT NOW, and not getting checked off. I never knew I was this uptight about things. I have all of these lists in my head, too, of what I need to do RIGHT NOW, all of these tasks and ideas floating around in my brain. What is wrong with me? Why has this wedding made me so stressed out?? Oh right, it's a wedding.

For those of you who have planned weddings, how did you cope with all of this? What organization tactics did you use? (Or, maybe you just weren't as crazy to begin with as I was. There's always that)

.negative.

.feels like -5.

have i discussed yet how much i absolutely love boston winters? yeah... not so much.

.cheers.

.salt.

.greg nickels must read my blog.

apparently, seattle realizes that they effed up big time with the snow, and will now be using salt during snow storms. i probably could have told them that months ago, but oh well.

it dumped snow on us here yesterday (i can't escape it!). and you know what? the roads were never once not driveable. not. once. perfectly clear, with maybe just a hint of slush, which is normal.

some pictures in between flurries

look at that beautiful, non-rutted street. and this is just about as back road, side-street as you can get. and still perfectly driveable.

no 'packed snow' policy or ruts here.

way to get on that, seattle.

.cheers.

.grinch.

.the continuing saga of seattle snowstorm2008.

it never ends!

more pictures. more monotony here. just blogging to not be bored. and to relieve your boredom, obviously!

backyard - this was sunday, before the second big dump occured.

front yard - pre-2nd round

and my personal favorites...because i know you are as obsessed with these awesome berries as i am.

little bit more snow on them this time

will post pictures of last night's excursion soon.

.cheers.

.cabin fever.

.can you believe this?.

i cannot believe how terrible the city of seattle is in the snow. what are they thinking? what is wrong with them? "packed snow" for the roads?? really?? that just creates really dangerous, slippery, bumpy ruts.

i was sliding all over the place today. mercer is an absolute mess. it was absurd. absolutely absurd. NONE of the roads are cleared. NONE.

and why? because salt is bad for the environment? i don't care. my life is more important to me than a bit of salt on the road. or at least a snowplowed road, for heavens sake. you don't even have to salt it. just clear it. i spent three hours sitting in traffic trying to take my sister to teatro zinzanni. it was completely ridiculous. and obviously i am not pleased about it.

get it together, seattle. seriously. learn from the snow-pros.

.cheers.