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Noice-ities: strike a pose

Published 15 June 2010

God bless the Queen for having an un-birthday and giving us a long weekend. Cause we needed it.

This weekend I managed to:

Catch up with local and non-local friends and their offspring (kids are cute, but they’re cuter when I get to hand them back to their parents/grandparents
Have the wedding make-up trial with my BFF a.k.a The Chief Bridesmaid
Catch up with my sisters to plan the next stages of how we look after mum, who’s still unwell and still in hospital
Attend Jarod & Liz‘s Informal Wedding Celebrationsâ„¢ and stuff our faces stupid with pizza, pasta and icecream and make copious notes of what ideas we’re going to copy for our wedding/pizza/cupcakes party
ZOMG I BOUGHT A WEDDING DRESS. Not unlike the one pictured above. This shot was taken just as the shop assistant suggest I strike a pose for the trial photo

Needless to say, after such an eventual and social weekend, I’m kinda looking forward to a week at work that’ll slow the pace down a bit.

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Four months until the wedding

Published 9 June 2010

I get an email every Â month to remind me how long til we get hitched.

So with four months to go, here’s what I’m “supposed” to be focusing on

Reserve bridal suite for wedding night
Select gifts for each other
Select gifts for bridal party
HireÂ wedding vehicles for the bridal party, you will need to decide what sort of transport you need and where the two parties are getting ready

Instead, I really need to be focusing on

What we’re going to wear (because at this stage we’ll be nude)
Who our celebrant will be (we have his phone number, so that’s a start)
How we’re inviting people (because apparently Facebook won’t cut it for everyone)

What else should I be doing to plan Our Big Day?

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This week’s noice-ities – we’ve set a wedding date!

Published 8 May 2010

Another week, another round of Noice-ities. Already!

This week has been full of lots of noice-ities (cupcake decorating class, happy clients, crocheting), and not so noice-ities (car issues, funerals and issues with that still-alcoholic mother).

But the best part of this week has been the fact that weâ€™ve pulled our finger out and set a wedding date! And a ceremony location! And a reception venue!

I know, itâ€™s quite ground-breaking.

Everything has been pretty much set around the reception venue, which is our favourite pizza restaurant that conveniently has a function room:

And thankfully thereâ€™s a huge park nearby, complete with Jacaranda tree. Danâ€™s agreed to the Jaca and I love that weâ€™ll be under the tree of my hometown, the jacaranda city. Jacaranda trees donâ€™t usually bloom until late October, but weâ€™re hoping theyâ€™ll make an early appearance in light of global warming and whatnot. And thereâ€™s my selfish anti-environment wish for the day.

Iâ€™ve created a visual approximation of how the tree might look in October:

There has been MUCH! EXCITEMENT! that weâ€™ve set a date. I was hoping to hide under a rock until the week before, but I donâ€™t think Iâ€™m going to get away with that. At all.

But weâ€™re happy with what weâ€™ve chosen so far, and the venue means we can invite family, friends and current/former work mates to join in the fun. Câ€™mon, itâ€™s a pizza party, whatâ€™s not to look forward to?

October ninth, twenty ten. Cause thatâ€™s how bride blogs say I should write the date ;)

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On 2009 (the top-five version)

Published 19 December 2009

Last year I ripped off a post from Fifikins (aka the woman who keeps kicking my arse in Words With Friends), reflecting on my 2008.

It’s actually one of the better meme/survey thingos out there for that sort of thing, so I’ll use it again later this month.

But it goes without saying that 2009 has been my year. Sure, some of it has been shithouse, but it pales into comparison to the rest of my year.

And on that note, I present my 2009 top five:

Started by own business (now known as Rah!Creative)
Things have been slow, but that’s kinda how I need it. I can’t handle having a full-time job as well as a needy home business. I’m learning heaps, I passed the Tax Man’s rules and regulations and I even made a profit in my first financial year. WOO!
Got my first blog gig (at That’s Noice!)
I helped Leigh with setting up That’s Noice! at the end of 2008, but we launched in Feb this year. Fark knows why Leigh trusted me enough with one of her projects, but I’ve LOVED it. It’s not always easy coming up with content and I’ve had to get my head around all the technicalities of having a ‘real’ blog, but it’s been a great experience and hopefully 2010 will be an even bigger year for the blog
FINALLY had our water feature repaired
After 709 days, our leaking loungeroom wall was repaired. We were also told our building should be condemned in the next 5-10 years, so we at least have a goal for moving out (?)
zOMG Dan proposed!1!!!!!!
Easily the most amazing event to happen to me. There’s someone in my life who’s willing to tell the world he wants to make it permanent? Crazy. Just don’t ask when/where/how the wedding will happen, cause we still can’t decide!
Ben Folds at the Opera House, thrice
Ahh, the week that Dan and I played excited fangirls, seeing Ben Folds at the Opera House. Each of the gigs was unreal, but the hands-down favourite was the ‘by request’ gig where we had perfect seats, Ben played my favourite song and played Dan’s actual song request. Blew my mind and we still talk about it to anyone who’ll listen