I notice it’s November. Thanks for letting me know about that tiny detail and how I’ve been MIA since mid October. Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is: I am still around, with this wedding in mind and the July 2008 date still as my target. The bad news: According to my calculations we are now eightish months until the date and without a single dime available, planning has come to a screeching halt. (Can’t really be screeching, huh, if there wasn’t much going on before now?) Regardless, to catch you up on what went on this month in the world of planning:

•  My color choices meant nothing since none of them even made it past preliminaries. I may take the advice I was given over the summer: choose your colors after choosing flowers for the event. Sounds like the way I should go.
• The job hunting looks promising what with employers willing to move my start date until after I get this pesky little wedding out of the way.
• The groom-to-be is now only 30 pounds away from his Slim Down goal.*
• The bride-to-be is now only 19 pounds away from her Slim Down goal.

*I don’t recall listing what his original goal was, but let’s just say 30 is a step in the right direction from the previously targeted number.

Anyway, less than one month left until I go home for my last winter break of college life. Finishing up 2007 is only making the reality of this wedding that much more emphasized in my mind. Dude, I’m totally gonna get married soon. How did we get so old?

Philosophical questions aside, December at home brings the hope that I’ll get 10 to 15 pounds closer to my Slim Down goal and that planning will actually take place whether we have the money or not. (Charge it!) I keep hearing how the dress should be fitted about 6 months ahead of time, the venue reserved x months ahead of time, the caterer secured y months ahead of time and the invitations sent out z months ahead of time. If the absolute values of 6, x, y and z are less than or equal to 8, then maybe this can all still be pulled together in time. Of course, I don’t know what I’m talking about, so there you go. Should a kind financially wealthy individual come across this humble message, please know that you would dreams come true for the low low price of $10,000. I would write you a fancy handwritten letter expressing my eternal gratitude and send you a picture of us with bright smiles on our faces. (Is anyone still there?)

So that what you’ve missed in November in a nutshell. The stagnant phase of a college gal trying to find the right formula that will finally make trees sprout money instead of leaves.  I hope y’all had a great a Thanksgiving weekend.