Wedding Planner

Work is really slow today. I hope I didn't just jinx it by saying that. I'm glad its Friday. I'm looking forward to my weekend, even if I am going to be cleaning and movie the whole time.

Three weeks from tomorrow is my wedding day. We are getting very excited. I'm really starting to stress out about the little things now. I just can't wait until the honeymoon! Until then, I'm keeping myself busy with small details, spending a lot of money, and trying to coordinate everything. That is, if I can finish it all without pulling all of my hair out! I never knew that planning a wedding would be so stressful. I mean, how hard can it been to plan one day? Ha! Little did I know…

At least most of it is taken care of. The big things anyway. I should get started on some of those small things though… So much to do, and very little time!

Dogs, Poverty, and Water Levels

I was reading an article in National Geographic April 2006 issue this morning. The article was about how in the Marina district of San Francisco, dogs outnumber children. People are pampering their dogs and they are living better lives than most children. Apparenty there is roughly about 745,000 people and an estimated 111,000 dogs. San Francisco also has the lowest number of adult to children ratio in the United States. They also have the highest population of animal therapists and dog masseuses. Thing is, they cost upwards of $75/hour. But as a guy I work with said, when you have that much money, you've got to spend it on something. It just blows me away, that in the same issue, they are talking about how spoiled dogs are, and the article just before that is about how no matter how they have been going about it, the poverty in Venezuela just keeps worsening. The US, however, is still Venezuela's number one customer. According to the article, we are getting more than 10% of our annual oil imports from them.

They also had an article that I enjoyed reading about. I live near Lake Powell, and know people that go there on a regular basis to fish, swim, hike, vacation and whatever else they decide to do there. The levels of Lake Powell, as of April 2005 was down by 145 feet. There are vivid pictures of water lines. I guess some conservationists want to just drain the whole place compeletly and make it into another Grand Canyon. Only here, its call Glen Canyon. There is–or should I saw was– a town called White Canyon, that after the Colorado River was dammed up, slowly became flooded and was taken over by the waters. Even though the level have receeded great amounts, there is still no sign of the former city. Pretty interesting stuff.

It's actually one of those situations where, you really want to help, but know there is little you can do. A lot because of money, but even that isn't a good excuse. We get into the mentality of 'what can I as one mere soul do for the good of millions?' I know this doesn't exactly pertain to the last article I talked about, as that is almost entirely a weather system problem, but there are little things that we can do in our surrounding environments that can help prevent big things like this from getting as bad as this.

Shopping

A few of us decided to go to Farmington, NM to go shopping today. My fiance' and I needed to fix our registry since some of the things we registered for were no longer available. After spending about an hour and a half at Target, my future sister-in-law and I decided we wanted to go to the mall and go shopping there. Of course, the men were none too happy with us then. It made me wonder. Why does shopping come so natural to us women, yet men almost always seem to depise it? Is it something in our gene's that telling us if we are female, we must love to shop, and if we are males we must hate it? Whatever it may be, I still can't help but love to shop. I did end up buying the cutest skirt. I bought it because I have a bridal shower that my sister is throwing me next Saturday. She won't tell me much about it, except that its more of a dressy shower. I, being the woman that I am, plan to go shopping again this afternoon to find a cute top to go with the skirt I got.

It's inevitable in my world not to shop. It's in my blood.

Blogs

I recently read an article about Nadine Hoabsh and her blogging scandal. I found that although writing a few words anonymously eventually became the cause of her total downward spiral, she made a come back, and that is true inpiration. Actually, it's the main reason I started this blog. She turned it around and is actually happier now than she was before. She is now her own boss, a published author, and the creator of a great read. The blog is called Jolie in NYC. It's facinating. (A link is on the sidebar if you'd like to take a peek.) She rants and raves about (in her earlier postings) about being the beauty editor at a magazine, and now anything from hair and makeup, to celebs, to music. Great musings.

I also read the headline article in April's Cosmo on Lindsay Lohan. Of course, you never know how much is fabricated due to editing and half-assed interviews. The most interesting part of the whole thing, besides the fact that her boobs really are real, was a quote she read: "Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Ok, so I'm a quote fanatic, but I liked it. Kind of makes you think about which moments are really important.