I always have a hard time with summer vacation. It's funny, I look forward to it, but when I actually get there, it's hard to deal with it. When I was younger I never had a problem with summer vacations. I'd read a few books a week, go hiking, and go biking. Now that I'm older, I have a list of things that I wanted to get done over summer vacation because I didn't have time to do it during the school year. For some reason, very little of it actually gets done. It's not usually that I'm relaxing instead either, just procrastinating.
Speaking of procrastinating, I've been procrastinating some of the smallest things. They're so simple that they'd take all of five minutes to accomplish. I need to make a vet appointment for my cat. I need to get my oil changed on my car. Little things like that have been pushed back for at least two weeks now for no reason at all.
At first I thought I had a good reason for putting that stuff off. I was reading a wedding planning book and doing as many things as I could from it. Now I'm taking a break from wedding stuff for right now. The next step is finding a location and we have to wait until we have a few days to drive back there. We're going to be getting married in the general area where I'm from. We figured it was the best way to do it because I have, by far, the most relatives and almost all of them live there. If we got married here, everybody would have to travel. But then again, I suppose that might be a good thing because with all of our relatives and a few close friends, our number of guests is up in the 60s already. If we had it up here, not as many people will come so we can afford a nice reception. Well, while it is tempting, I'm not going to do that. Besides, there is probably one vendor for each thing we'll need around here. No competition = higher prices (and probably poorer quality). Anyways, anyone curious about wedding stuff can check out the website at www.rainaandmike.com.




There is a certain advantage though in patronizing local businesses, I had my wedding in the small town I now live in and am very glad I did. Everything came together nicely. The food was great the flowers were lovely the cake came from P'burgh and was raved about, Don Benjamen (formerly of the Royal Savage) did the food. People in a small town may care enough not to do a half baked job.
Autumn10:58 PM CST