I admit it: the shower was fun. It was a really good time.

The apartment is filled with gifts from the bridal shower. A lot of gifts. Somehow I have rearranged all of these gifts such that they all actually fit in the studio. I am shocked about this! But it’s also exciting. All of the new things we have are all things we really, really wanted, all things we have a use for. Now that we have them, we’ve been so gourmet in the last three days! The food processor has seen some serious use, as has the cast iron pan, the waffle iron, the new whisks… and of course, all of these gifts require thank you notes. I wrote nine yesterday. About twenty-five of them to go. Sheesh. I got Bryan to write one, which was a miracle as he hates handwriting anything. His handwriting is… adorably illegible, sometimes. (If computers didn’t exist, I’m not sure how that boy would communicate effectively without speaking.) But as he knows this, I’m usually the one to write cards of any kind. As in the billion shower & wedding thank yous. So one? Yes, I will claim it a victory for my cramping hand.

I also started stamping and addressing the wedding announcements we hope to mail the day of the wedding. Gathering the addresses for that is, in itself, a bit maddening. Probably 50+ per side of the family, and then random ones to people we knew through various things across the years (high school, college, neighbors, etc.). It’s weird, this is one thing I’m excited to do. It’s sort of under the “you only get married once” umbrella, so it’s really important for me to get out all of these announcements. We’re having 31 people — officially, I think — at the ceremony/reception, so it’s going to be tiny and amazingly intimate and I love it. But when we decided that, I committed to making sure everyone we didn’t invite who we would have traditionally, all those family members, would get announcements.

And yes, I am getting really revved up, really actually excited about the wedding. Im so eagerly looking forward to Saturday’s supersecret bachelorette party events (which I can only imagine will involve beer and/or margaritas and a really good time all around with my dear lady friends) and then… wow.

This Saturday is my last Saturday night as a single lady. Bryan’s putting a ring on it the next Saturday. (Such a horrible Beyoncé joke/reference, that.)

GAH! But I still want to finish this darned draft before the wedding! I want to (crazily) say that I finished a novel in the first few weeks of 2009 leading up to my wedding! But until then I have the Things to Do list of doom. Doom.