5 Days And Counting

Predictably, I've come down with some sort of viral infection due to a combination of factors.  It's probably a back-to-school bug, passed on to Super Fiance from someone he was in contact with, which he then in turn passed on to me.  Couple that with me failing to take my vitamins or exercise or eat well for several days last week, my stress level becoming elevated due to my boss taking maternity leave a week early, and running around like mad all weekend and, well, the results speak for themselves.

Actually they sneeze and drip and ooze and hurt for themselves.  I've got the sore throat and nasal symptoms, plus fatigue.   Bleh.  It's making it hard to do those final activities on the checklist!

Of course now you're asking "And those final activities are??"

• Print ceremony programs
• Pull together a reception playlist
• Finish compiling the script/agenda for Mike, our MC
• Finish the ceremony puzzle
• Put together 3-4 kids bags
• Box everything up for travel

All of this needs doing by Friday, but of course being sick slows me down.  Tomorrow night we're going to a Brewers game, for free, and we get to have dinner and sit in the Dew Deck (courtesy of a generous family associated with the Young Adult Oncology Group), but I'm hoping we don't have to stay for the whole game.

Wednesday night we have our usual Team Trivia, which we would never want to miss, but it's another chunk of our week that can't be spent tying off loose ends.  Thursday night Nick bowls in his league, but I can accomplish stuff around having dinner with my parents, and Friday is FRIDAY.

Yikes.  There is a silver lining though!  We had our final walk-through at Country Inn & Suites, and they (awesome, as ever) are making the room available to us for set-up as early as Friday morning.  Sweet!  So now we don't have to stress over getting all the decorating done in the one- to two-hour time frame before the ceremony starts.  Hooray!

Before you go...

There is a lot of stuff to be done before packing it all up and skipping town for 10 days, believe it or not.  Especially when one is the proud parent of two fur children (perhaps one less capable than the other).

I'm in a weird place right now where it feels like it will be forever before our wedding and honeymoon, but simultaneously I'm panicking because I don't know when I'll get everything done.  The stack of last-minute tasks really is piling higher and higher.

I can't very well clean the house now, since it will have a man and a dog and a hairy little cat tromping through it for the next six weeks yet.  But in two weeks it will have to be spic and span, since our wedding shower is being held in our house.  I know, I know - should I be cleaning for my own shower?  I don't mind, since everyone else is being so fabulous and going to such trouble for us. It's the least I can do. Besides, it's easier to maintain a clean house than clean a disaster area from scratch, right?

Right?