Last night I managed to get into bed before 9 p.m.
I put on an eye mask to block out the light (the sun doesn’t go down until after 9 p.m.) and drifted off to sleep within 20 minutes. Victory!
I can tell that my lack of sleep is affecting other areas of my life (I’m snackier, more irritable, less creative and less motivated to work out, etc.), so I am trying to prioritize my sleep. On nights when Ryan works late and doesn’t get home until close to 8 p.m., it stinks to only have an hour or so with him until I feel like I need to go to bed, but I’m beginning to realize that may be the way it needs to be for a while. At least Ryan was a good sport last night and got into bed early with me so we could read and hang out together for a little while.
I just realized that the second paragraph of this blog post might lead you to believe that I am miserable, but on the whole I feel much happier since I started working at the gym four months ago. It has been a good change for me, but I’ll elaborate on that a little more in another post since I’ve been meaning to blog about the whole working from home versus getting out of the house thing.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning was a toasted whole wheat bagel topped with almond butter.
I toasted the bagel and topped it with almond butter before I left the house this morning and it held up just fine until I was ready to eat it in the break room at work around 5:30 a.m.
My hours today have me at the gym from 4:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., so it will be a long day. Phew!
Leslie and Ross: Wedding Update
I have some good news on the wedding front from Leslie and Ross! They officially put a deposit down on a wedding venue.
They will be getting married on…
A spring wedding!
Ryan and I told Leslie and Ross that they definitely didn’t need to wait an entire year to get married if they could find a venue they loved that had availability sooner. We took a little more than a year to plan our wedding and have always said that we felt like we booked a venue and then did nothing for seven or eight months!
With their wedding date on the books for the beginning of March, my head is already spinning with bridal shower and bachelorette party ideas. I can’t wait!
Question of the Morning
- If you are married, how long was your engagement?
- If you are engaged, how long is your engagement going to be?
We were engaged for a year and a month, but I definitely think a shorter engagement would’ve been totally manageable. We booked our venue and then months passed without any wedding planning until things picked back up about two to three months before our wedding.
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How exciting! We were engaged for about 10 months. I wanted a super short engagement, but as a teacher, we were limited by the school calendar. We got married the first weekend of my spring break, so we could have the week afterwards for the honeymoon.
Your breakfast looks delish! Glad you were able to get some sleep. Crazy how much sleep affects.
My husband and I were only engaged for 3 months, and it was perfect for us. All the planning just happened straight away, and everything came together so smoothly!
I am getting married Saturday!!! Our engagement was only 7 months and it was PERFECT! Have fun planning!! I am sad my planning is almost over, but SO excited to be married!
My Fiance and I got engaged last month in China! (Today’s our 1 month engagement) We just booked our wedding venue for 9.13.14 – my Grandparents anniversary. So we’ve got a longer engagement which is fine to have so much planning time but I’m an event planner by day so I feel like I could plan this in a few weeks and have the wedding, at the same time, I think I’ll enjoy all the extra time I get to plan, just hoping I don’t go too crazy with all these fun extra details I’m finding on Pinterest!
I am engaged right now and my wedding is in about 11 weeks! We will have been engaged for almost exactly a year. I felt the same way with initial booking venues, excitement, etc. then it was nothing for several months until now. Now I’m up to my eyeballs in planning! I think anyone could do it in a few months, since that’s what it seems like right now anyway!
I always wonder about this! Always thought I’d want/need a long engagement, like 1.5 years+, in order to be able to pay/plan for the whole thing. But you guys all give me hope, haha!
My husband and I got engaged on our two year anniversary, November 16, 2007, and married on July 25, 2009. I really wanted this specific date as it has a very personal sentimental meaning to me, so 2009 was going to end up being a Saturday which was perfect since we were going to have a fair amount of out of town guests. At the end of the day it didn’t matter how long our engagement was because we were already living together and knew we were going to be together for the rest of our lives anyways, so it was really just a formality in our eyes.
We were engaged for a year and 9 months – WAY too long… However, it was because half way through the engagement we changed our plans. My husband was previously married in a Catholic church and had to go through the annulment process to have another wedding in the Catholic church. It took a long time to go through that and eventually I decided I had different dreams. After being engaged for 7-8 months, we decided to do a destination wedding. That took a little more planning as we were traveling from Vermont to Mexico to get married… we had to give guests enough time to save and book everything. It was completely worth it in the end!
My Fiance proposed in May and we are looking at making it official on March 8th as well!!!!! So keep posting wedding planning ideas!! I need them!!
I think we will be doing a family only ceremony and then a BIG country casual reception after the honeymoon! I am so excited for everything to come!
Congrats to Leslie and Ross as well!!
my DH proposed in July and we got married in October – so a 3+ month engagement.
We had a small wedding in the mountains in the slight off season between prime leaf peeping and skiing. Let me tell you, wedding dress store people did not like my time line at all. LOL.
I was engaged for a year and 4 months, we basically did nothing the first 5! We knew we wanted a summer wedding but 4 months wasn’t enough time so we had to tack on the extra year 🙂
We were engaged on Feb. 14th and married June 21st. The wedding was small and came together quickly and we felt like we were waiting around for the wedding! Loved a short engagement.
My husband and I were engaged for a year and six months. I needed to the longer engagement in order to make everything by hand. Plus we changed venues half way through.
I didn’t want a long engagement for this very reason (mine will be 15 months), but we have been very diligent about getting things done. I’ve been really pleased with how we have enjoyed the process, but have been able to make quick decisions and move on to the next thing. So with 10 months to go, I have been able to scratch the following of my To-Do list: Venue, church, caterer, dress (!!), rehearsal dinner venue, Save-the-Date photo/design (still need to print and mail) and website. Bridesmaid dresses will be next, and I am even going to start looking around for welcome package ideas because that is one job that just doesn’t seem very fun.. but I know I will hate myself if I procrastinate on it!
I just got engaged last week (!!!) and am in the very beginning stages of planning – but I want a short engagement! Spring looks like the most manageable for us at this point, since it will be in Texas we know it won’t be in the summer, and Fall 2014 seems SO far away for us!
I am so sad I have been way behind on reading due to our lovey vacation I wish I could have commented on this sooner! Anyways, our engagement was a whole 6 days. My husband proposed between stations, he was leaving for Germany for 2 years and didn’t want to
I am so sad I have been way behind on reading due to our lovey vacation I wish I could have commented on this sooner! Anyways, our engagement was a whole 6 days. My husband proposed between stations, he was leaving for Germany for 2 years and didn’t want to wait, we got married then he left that night. After 4 months of lots of paper work became home and we had a ceremony with family. Then I got to fly over and live in Europe. (: looking back I still wouldn’t change anything.