Update, with a bit of a rant

Holy cow, it's been been a loooong time since I've posted. I'm pretty sure no one really reads this anyway, but oh well, it's a good place for me to chat when Dave is tired of hearing about wedding details :P.

So I guess my first update can be related to my weight loss. I'm down a little over 15lbs and feeling fantastic. A few people have mentioned that I look smaller. Dave says I look skinnier and he hopes I don't shrink any more :P. I tried on a dress that I had bought for Dave's Dad's wedding back in February that was way too small for me to wear. It fits like a glove now :D and I feel super fantastic in it! I'll be wearing it to Dave's Aunt's wedding in a month, so I hope to lose at least another 4lbs before then. I'm making small steps, but they add up quickly!

Next up, the centerpieces. Well, my "grow op" wasn't very successful, and after Dave finally put his foot down about all the plants in the house, and expressed his concern over how upset I was getting over them dying, we put a kebosh on the design and I'm starting from scratch. I have a few ideas that I've really come to like, and I'll post a pic or two here to give you an idea of what

I've come to like. I really like this idea, I'm not going with floating candles though, just candles and petals on the table. I'm thinking of wrapping some wire with different shades of blue beads around the base of them to add the touch of blue I want in there. I can get the orchids at the dollar store, and get some pretty cheap cylinder vases at Ikea or something (maybe even the dollar store too!). We'll see.

Ummmm can't really think of anything else related to planning that I've done...it's been a busy couple months with work and I just kind of put everything on the back burner for a bit.

Now, for my vent. Someone just called me ignorant because I said divorce is not a word in our vocabulary. Dave and I have survived a lot these past 3 years. Addiction, school, long distance, unemployment, health issues, death, and I could go on and on. But we've survived, stronger every day. We've always said how the only two things that would tear us apart were cheating and abuse. Is that reasonable? I think so. We're dedicated to our relationship and our upcoming marriage. We will fight through anything other than those two things. No one should throw statistics in my face and tell me it happens every day, so I should consider it. Dave and I are going in to this marriage with the mentality that divorce is NOT an option (again, unless one of us cheats or becomes abusive). I'm not naive, I'm not looking at life through rose-coloured glasses, I know that marriage takes a LOT of work - heck, this relationship has been a lot of work! But we love each other and we want to be together for the rest of our lives. It's like anything we want in life - if we want it badly enough, we'll work hard for it. Ugh. Some people just make me so angry....oh well. I need to stop taking things so personally. I have faith in us :)