Internet, I fear that I am getting sucked into the deep dark hole that is wedding planning.  And having friends.  And, okay, having to get work done.  So really I guess I fear that I am getting sucked into the deep dark hole that is known as life.  Apparently I am perfectly ordinary.  Who knew?

Each of these bloglets really deserves its own fully thought out blog post but who has the time?  Not me!  Instead I will simply arrange these things chronologically.

The Wedding Invitations, response cards, maps, directions and registry information have all been printed and assembled.  Stamps have been purchased and I have a stack of wedding invitations sitting on the table waiting to get mailed.  The part of making our own wedding invitations that took the most time? Choosing a font.  Seriously.  We went through THIRTY EIGHT font choices before finding the “perfect” one.  The deciding factor? Will’s deciding that this font’s W’s were neither too pointy nor too round.  I wish I was kidding.  We are using “Cotillion” for the font nerds out there.  Once the font was chosen it took from Thursday afternoon (yep, I printed out the invitations while I watched the Michael Jackson coverage on MSNBC) until midnight of last night/this morning to get the invitations ready to be mailed.    The second hardest part of putting together the invitations?  Finding one of these.  I had to go to six stores before I found one.   The invitations will be mailed later today–after UPS delivers the second season of the Closer from Amazon.  I want to get the mailed today but at the same time I’m hoping the UPS guy takes a while because I would like Will to be there with me when we put the invites in the mailbox and he probably won’t be home until seven or eight.

On Saturday night we went to see Rent at the Keller Auditorium.  Will bought the tickets for me as a birthday present knowing that Rent is one of my favorite shows ever.  An added bonus?  Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal are reprising their roles as Mark and Roger (roles that they created as parts of the show’s original cast) for this tour and on Saturday I got to watch them.  Yep.  It probably sounds cheesy but watching Anthony Rapp play Mark is something that I have wanted to do since I first heard the soundtrack to Rent.  I had chalked it up to a “never gonna happen” (especially since Rent is no longer playing on Broadway) and I am not ashamed to admit that I geeked right out when he walked out on stage in full Mark costume.  I might have hooted and hollered a little bit. Adam Pascal was also excellent but I’ve always found Mark’s story more compelling than Roger’s.  And getting to see the original Mark in La Vie Boheme? Shoot me now because, theater wise, it does not get much better than that.  There is more theater geekery that needs to be written but the time! I do not haz it!

Sunday we went out to the coast with our friends Jen and Steve.  It was a beautiful day.  We all got sunburned and I got to sit through four hours of male machismo penis comparison as Steve drove like a maniac to see if Will would keep up with him and Will kept up with him to prove that he could.  Two hours there and two hours back my mantra was “Be a winner Steve! Just because you can pass someone does not mean you should!”  I am not ashamed to admit that there were a few moments when I was absolutely terrified. TERRIFIED.  I’m talking pushing myself back in my seat, grabbing the “oh shit” handle, trying not to throw up and almost bursting into tears TERRIFIED. After we got back I made Will promise that from now on we’ll just meet them wherever we go.  Will was a little “I’m a good driver! I know my limits! I can keep up!” until I pointed out that if he gets a ticket for reckless driving it could prevent him from getting a job after he graduates if the company does a background check because “I had to prove that I could keep up with the guy I was traveling with” won’t fly during an interview.  Other than the scary scary driving though, the trip was fun. Even with the sunburns.

Yesterday was spent working in the morning and then spending the afternoon and evening finishing up the wedding invites.  I also tried out the Wii’s All Star Cheer Squad and it? Is way boring.  It is nowhere near as much fun as We Cheer.  Today I will spend sitting on the couch, waiting for my DVDs to show up and catching up on work.

Who knew so much could get packed into so short a time?