This week has gone by quickly!

We’re already at Thursday, so that means tomorrow is Friday! Tomorrow after work, I am heading to Toronto to stay with a friend whom I haven’t seem in a couple of months. I will stay with her tomorrow night and then I’m meeting lj and nej to go to a bridal show in Toronto and then we’re going to go shopping for dresses for them for the wedding. It will be good to get back into the wedding mode since I haven’t done much lately. I still have 7.5 months, so there’s lots of time ;)

I have set myself some goals to work towards. I want to have my flowers ordered by the end of February since apparently you need to do that at least 6 months in advance. I also have to start looking into the cake. Mom and I are going to a work shop in mid-February about making your own invitations. And CT and I should book our honeymoon in the next few weeks. At least the cruise portion. I think we have pretty much decided on doing the 1-week cruise from September 16-23, with a few days in Puerto Rico first, from September 12-16 likely. If we book before Feb 15th, we get a free room upgrade on the cruise, so we just have to finalize our decision. Since we are booking our flight and hotel in San Juan separate from the cruise (it’s cheaper and there is more flexibility that way), we could always book the cruise now and then wait a few months to book the flight and hotel. That would spread out the cost a bit. I also have a friend of my mom’s who is really gifted musically (she used to be the music director at my church and I also used to take piano lessons from her), so I would like to see if she would play the music for the ceremony. So, before the end of February, I want to have the flowers ordered, decide on a cake, know what I’m doing with invitations, have honeymoon booked, and have ceremony musician booked. I think I will feel much less overwhelmed if I get some of those details out of the way. Then I will set some new deadlines for the next things on the list.

All in all, I think I’m at a good point in the planning for being 7.5 months away from the big day, I just get overwhelmed when I think of how much there is left to do. Hopefully the next few months will be productive!

In other news, CT has a big meeting today with his supervisor, and he doesn’t know what it’s about, just that it’s good. I can’t wait to find out what it’s all about… maybe a big promotion…. Or he gets to transfer to the office in town (he currently commutes about 35 minutes). I am really curious!!!!

EDIT: 12:05pm

Just got the call from CT. They have found him a position in the local office!!!! Doing full-time retail ads, which is what he really wanted (no more real estate, he hated doing that). There is a girl in another office who would like to have CT's old job, so before he can make the switch, that girl needs to have some time to wrap up her work, then CT needs to train her on his old job, then he can move to the local office. So that whole process may take 3 or 4 weeks. He will get a 10% pay increase with his new position, with the opportunity to make more (apparently they work a little differently in the local office where they make a commission on any ads they work on). But, at a minimum, he will be making 10% more than he is now. He is really happy! But apparently he can’t tell anyone at work until the supervisors make the official announcement, which will likely be sometime next week.

I am so happy for him! Now he will have a 10-minute commute through town instead of the 35-minute sometimes-horrible-in-terms-of-road-condition commute. I don't know what it is about highway 7, but it is dangerous! I am so glad he won't be having to make that drive every day again after he makes the switch!

He and I are definitely going out to celebrate tonight!