Island in the Sun

Last Monday, I traveled to Catalina Island for work, which was a nice change from sitting in the office all day. I got paid to roam around in the sun. It was a long day, but nonetheless fun.

Here are some pictures from my work excursion:

Famous Catalina Tile

Typical Mode of Transport

Looking for Nemo - Garibaldi Fish

The Habor

Father Son Moment

My boss brought a long his 4 year old son, so he could spend some quality time with his son after the work obligations were over. He is definitely one of the best behaved 4 year olds. Caught a father/son moment on my camera.

Fabulicious

Today, during lunch I headed over to Nordstrom and found some super fabulous dresses, for me to wear for my engagement photo session in October! Did I mention that all three items were on sale. Double Yeah!! Now, hopefully I will stick with these choices, and not change my mind! Trust me, I've been shopping for different types of outfits the minute I booked my photographer back in March. So far I've returned 4 different dresses, a cute top and a pair of shoes. What can I say, at times I can be pretty darn indecisive. For now though, I'm confident I'll stick with my three outfits I picked out. Pictures will be posted tomorrow.

*Update*

Of course, I ended up returning all the dresses I bought in Nordstrom. LoL! Somehow I knew that was going to happen. I spend to much time online window shopping, therefore I keep finding better looking dresses. So, here's a picture of my new outfit for my upcoming e-pic session in October. Good thing, it's a final sale...who knows perhaps I would have exchanged this dress for another one as well. Now, I just need to find a perfect pair of stilettos to match my dress. As of right now, it's the pair you see in the picture. Check again, it might be a different one in a few weeks. Hahaha!



p.s.: The dress looks much better in person! Absolutely Fabulous!!

Move Your Body...

The Big Day is less than 9 months away. The wedding planning itself is moving along quite well. Next week I'll sign the contract with my florist. And in September I'll have my first makeup and hair trial. Thanks again to my sister and her blog stalking skills - the stylist who styled Mrs.Pootiekins is opening up her own business. Naturally, I had to set up an appointment with her stylist, since I'm in love with Mrs.Pootiekins wedding. Two words to describe up her wedding: Gorgeous and Fabulous!
Like every Bride-To-Be, I want to look fabulous on my wedding day. With that said, I finally started my work out regiment- instead the crash diets I usually. Yes, we all know - Crash Diets never work in the long run. Yet at times, it does serve its purpose, especially if one lacks the motivation to get their lazy butt to the gym.
Usually I'm pretty consistent when it comes to working out, but the last few months I've been one lazy heffer. So now with the wedding 9 months away and the holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas) being around the corner, I need to get my butt in gear. And unfortunately my metabolism slowed down, since I'm in my late twenties now.
Ugh, it's soo much work losing weight the good ol' fashion way - working out consistently and portion control when it comes to food. This week marked the beginning of my new self. hahaha. I just hope I can still stick with the program until May. My wedding should be a big motivator right?! Not that I'm fat by all means, but I love good food. Well my friends and I often go out to eat. Looks, like I have to scale back on that =(.

The stats as of Monday, August 18, 2009:

Bust: 33''
Waist: 27.5''
Hips: 36''
Weight: 117.5 Ibs (ugh, my heaviest I've ever been)

Sorry folks, but I'm not posting a before and after picture of me. Maybe later. But the goal is to lose about 3 inches on waist and hips, and bring my weight down 110Ibs. Hopefully, I won't lose anything around my bust. I'm not well endowed as it is.

So it begins...

Even though I'm in the midst of wedding planning, some how I failed to realize that my 9 month mark was rapidly approaching. Last week Saturday, my good friend J. mentioned that my wedding was exactly 9 months away. Wow! I' was proposed to in December! It's finally settling in...I'm engaged! And next May, I will be getting married to my bestfriend, my soulmate, my lover. Man, talk about a delayed reaction. haha. =)

Thanks to a very persistent sister, I would not have been so far ahead in my planning. Basically the minute I got engaged she hounded me: Start looking into venues, all the good venues will book fast. Check out this photographer! She's an up and coming photographer! Start getting quotes! See if they are booking for 2009 already etc. ...

Yes, I have a crazy sister. OMG, if anyone could have just seen her during her wedding planning days. She definitely was a Bridezilla!! lol And I quote her:



".... Move over bridezilla...her comes SISTER-zilla! I kidd I kidd. The other day, my sister was calling me literally 10x a day and asking a million questions and I thought to myself was I like this, too? My MOH said 'YES just WORSE!' What a BITCH!"



In all honesty though, if it weren't for her, the only vendor booked would have been my venue. But thanks to her obsessive compulsive behavior during her engagement. The following vendors are booked already:

• Photographer
  
  
• Videographer
• DJ/Lighting
• Florist
• Date of Coordinator
• Officiant
  
  
• Invitations

With my wedding being 9 months away, I'm on the hunt for the perfect DRESS. Actually, I'm just waiting on my mom to return from her trip. She went to the Eastcoast to spoil her grandkids. To get an idea what type of dresses I'm interested in just check out my planning bio.

In addition to my dress hunt, I'm still haven't decided on Bridesmaids dresses yet. So far these two Jim Hjelm dresses are in the running:

Girls just wanna have FUN (SHOES)!

Today has been a pretty lazy day. Unfortunately, I wasn't motivated enough to get my FAT BUTT to the GYM. Ugh, I wish scientist would invent a motivation pill!! Tomorrow though, I'm determined to hit the gym!!! Let's hope I still will be motivated.

Well, I wasn't entirely unproductive. I did find some place card holders, I would like to use for my wedding. Not to mention, I found these fab shoes. I'm still debating whether or not to buy them. What do you guys think?These shoes are from Steve Madden. They come in three different colors, black, purple and The purple and taupe. Can't decide which color to purchase. Help me decide! Purple or taupe??

My theme for my wedding is vintage. These are the vintage tealight place card holders, I was talking about. However, they only come in an antique white finish, but this shouldn't be a problem, as I can always paint them brown.

Here Comes The Sun...

I've been wanting to blog more, but haven't had the timely lately. So here is a quick recap of my eventful and crazy week.

Last Saturday I lost my debit card, which is highly annoying because I never ever carry any cash with me, and I do not own any credit cards. Thankfully, I was able to dash to the bank, pull some money out, report my debit card lost and hope no one depletes my account.

Monday: I checked my bank account and I have $0.00, which means someone actually used my card. Those bastards! This meant I had to ask my boss for a cash advance. I hate asking for cash advances. The reason: I haven't earned that money yet. I know the bank will reimburse me my money, but it usually takes a few days. As you can imagine, my Monday wasn't going that great.
Not to mention the earthquake, we had that day as well. Ok, we can't predict earthquakes. But in my defense, it was the first real somewhat big earthquake I experienced, since I moved to Cali. 8 years ago. Naturally, that freaked me out a bit. Good thing, I was at work because if I were home alone...who knows might have gotten a panic attack.

Tuesday: Since I don't have an ATM card I have to rely on cash to purchase things, such as gas and groceries. This was a great way to start my morning. After work on Monday, I spent my last cash at Albertson, since my fridge was empty and I had nothing to eat at home. I was planning on going to Wells Fargo afterwards, but unfortunately they were closed already. Just my luck. I hate not having an ATM card.
Anyway, I also needed to fill up my tank, but decided to go to the Cheveron Gas station before I head out to work in the morning. Good thing I have a gas card, if not I would have been screwed, I thought to myself. Unfortunately though, I have a habit of filling up the tank, when I barely have any gas left. This day was no different. To make a long story short, I went to the Chevron Station to fill my tank. Inserted my card but it wasn't working! Great, hopefully it wasn't my card! So I go inside to the attendant give him my card. He tries swiping the card but it still doesn't work. That's when he told me that their credit card system was down. It had been like that all morning. Seriously!!!! I panic because I had no money, the banks weren't open yet and I had no gas to get me to work! Of course I panic a bit and tell him that I needed my card to work. He tried again, but it still didn't work. Some guy behind me tells me that I should pull money out of the ATM. Duh, I thought of that myself, but wait...I don't have an ATM card, because I lost it!! I told everyone my story, why I was desperate. So he gave me 10 bucks, so that I could get to work. Of course, I was grateful, if not I would have been stuck there, but how embarrassing!! This whole situation made me an hour late to work!! Good thing my boss understood and our client we were meeting that day was running late.

Thursday: While working on my first DIY project for my upcoming wedding. I cut myself with dull scissors so deep, I thought I had to get my finger stitched up. Thankfully, that wasn't the case. After completing the project and cleaning up my mess I made in the living room, I burnt my arm on the still hot glue gun! Come on...what else could go wrong?! Despite all my injuries the project was worth all of it, because they turned out fabulous.

The finished floral Monograms!

Friday: I'm relieved that it's finally the weekend. Of course my co-workers and boss all laugh at me...seeing me all bandage up, and after telling my story. They agreed it definitely wasn't my week.