one hundred seven

I've been trying not to think about the wedding until after I graduate. I'm trying to just focus on school. But as I care less and less about these last few days, it's getting harder and harder not to focus my attention on the wedding–especially since next Saturday we'll go to Precana.

I printed out directions this morning: the last journey I have to make around Indiana  before I graduate and move out of the state. I have a pretty good feeling that Evansville will be the only city I see in it for quite  a while... that is, unless Indiana University takes me under their wing as a poor little Public Policy graduate student. Sometimes I wonder if I could really do it, move back into Indiana. I'm still an Ohio loyalist, so I'd rather be in my state. I'm as blue as the come, so I'd rather be in a socially liberal state. Anyway.

I finalized the list of songs for all of the dances at the wedding and have a few CDs made to play while people are arriving and hanging out at the reception, before we and the DJ arrive.

I finalized plans for the tuxedos, in my mind, which has been a much longer process than anticipated because of the guys' schedules. They've finally gotten it together–odd that the girls could pull this off before them, since our measurements and dress selection are much more in depth. Oh, gender differences.

There are even more things to wrap up in the next two weeks. I'll get all the tuxedo information and get them ordered. Then, Sarah, Joe's mom, is bringing some peacock feathers that a friend has been collecting for us. The feather-getting was step number one for making the flower arrangements.

A cool thing that I like about the wedding, that we're just getting going: An environmentally friendly gift registry. We'll be traveling, so we're shying away from gifts anyway. Instead, we're starting a wedding bank account that people can add to. It saves a ton of energy, fuel, material, paper... I love it. And it's super easy. And it will help us survive the first bit of time abroad. [Key to that: I've made us PROMISE that we're paying ourselves back that wedding nest egg when we get home, so that we can actually start a home. For now, it will operate like a loan from ourselves.]

We're also getting the next step of our life going, crossing off to-do's from the post-wedding life list. Things like buying plane tickets and finding a hotel to live in before we find an apartment, crying about spending the money, reserving a room for the wedding night and figuring out when we'll go to Chicago to get our visas. We're coming, World, ready or not. And I don't no who is more "not," you or us.