I have a hard time remembering to blog here. Whoops!

So what’s new here? Still making wedding plans. Just about two months away. Got my invites designed and printed by Vistaprint but I’m being lazy and I don’t feel like addressing them. Too much work. *procrastinates* We’ve got a photographer, yay! I’ve got almost all my wedding attire done. Just need some smexy underoos and probably one of those long line bra thinguses (and losing an extra 10lbs or so, and drag out my weights to tone up my arms.)

I’ve decided that I’m going to do my own makeup. I ordered a relatively inexpensive eyeshadow set from Sephora that had some good reviews. I don’t wear makeup a lot, so I wanted something I could use on a day to day basis as blue and green aren’t my usual colors. I also wanted something that’s long lasting and doesn’t all disappear into my creases after an hour. Plus it came with eyeliner and primer. The colors in this set are more what I wanted. But the reviews made me think otherwise. I’ve gotten fairly good with doing my own makeup with practice so I’m pretty confident I can do it.

We got Mark’s ring today! Just a simple white gold band. He’s not fond of jewelry and just wanted something simple to wear. I told him that if I can afford a nicer ring later, I’ll buy one for him. But I really couldn’t afford it now.

I’m trying to get back into drawing more. After I take a long break from doing anything artistic, I always feel frustrated with my work and I can’t seem to get anywhere. I still strongly desire to do more comic work, but I find it to be an uphill battle. I’ve been messing around with Paint Tool SAI and I really like how the color blending/shading/lineart works in the program as opposed to Photoshop or Painter. It just makes it a bit faster, and less playing around with settings. So I may turn to that. But I find sketching in Photoshop is faster for me for a lot of reasons.

Also getting trained on more stuff at work. Though unfortunately it means losing my weekends. I definitely need the money, so I can’t really complain. I just like my lazy weekends! But if things get unbearable there, Mark’s dad is also training me to solder pewter. I get to play with fire! Muahaha. So maybe after the wedding I’ll just go over there for the time being. Better working with family than feeling like a slave to a register and crazy customers.

So our plans for Christmas were put off because Mark’s dad got the stomach flu on Thursday, or whatever that nasty bug that’s been going around is. We were originally going to his parent’s having a little gift exchange and yummy finger foods, then on Christmas going over there again for dinner. Instead, we went to a friends to play board games, and today we visited his grandmother and drove around aimlessly looking for something open that had food. Sheetz (gas station) was it. Though the chicken sammich I had was delish, so I wasn’t too disappointed.

Tomorrow, I’m going to my parent’s and then we’re going over to his parent’s for belated Christmas dinner.

Mark got Harry Potter legos from me. He got me the Serah Farron figure that just came out! But I am dissapoint that it doesn’t come with a stand and won’t stand up properly. But oh well, It’s very pretty and has been added to my collection of figure awesomeness!

His parents and sister got us stuff, so we’ll open that tomorrow! My parents also got us a giftcard for Applebees. So yay, we can go out to eat somewhere that’s not fast food! I don’t know or think they have anything else for us. His parents also contributed some money toward our new dining room table. Boo on adult things! But I do like our table!

Though since everyone in close proximity has gotten that nasty bug, I’m hoping that if I get it, it’s this week and NOT the week after. I’m going to a convention where I’m a department head, so I really CAN’T miss it. I gotta drag out the sewing machine soon too and get working on my costumes! I’m going to try to finish up two, one should be pretty simple and the other is almost done.

I posted this on my LJ first, forgetting that I should post here first and crosspost. Whoops!

Yesterday, my parents came to visit. More lulzy fun. I look forward to seeing my parents because Mark and I always have good laughs and facepalms afterward. I love them dearly, but OMFG!

So we ended up going to a buffet chain that my mom absolutely loves called Ryans. We found one a bit south of here and I told my mom about it awhile ago. She was determined to go yesterday. So we go out there.

It’s kind of like the ideal elderly buffet. They did have some good stuff. But… I have a hard time trying to control myself at buffets and I like to avoid them like the plauge. This is especially true since I’ve not been keeping up as well with my diet/exercise regimen. I’ve not gained weight (still hovering between 163-166 on any given day). But I’m getting flabby. Anyway!

My mom is trying to pour those little creamer cups into her coffee. She barely opened it, and is SQUEEZING IT out. I’m sitting there eyeing the yummy rolls contemplating how delicious it might be with my baked chicken and mashed potatoes. Maybe I’ll add just a little bit of butter! Suddenly, creamer shoots ALL OVER the rolls, the table, and almost onto my plate. T_T

They have a buttload of deserts. BAD BAD BAD. I got little small portions of all the chocolately goodness. In the end, I was pretty stuffed. Like, OMFG I CAN’T MOVE stuffed.

I made sure to bring some 1′s with me just in case my parents decide to leave a itty bitty tip like they usually do. Like, we’re talking $2 (for a $50 bill). Instead, they leave NO tip. When I ask my mom if they’re going to leave a tip, she says “No, the waitress was hardly here!”

But… she was there and getting drinks when our glasses were still only half full, getting plates every time we finished one, and she even brought out the extra eggroll samples for us when my mom asked for them thinking Mark wanted more! ;_; I felt so bad, so I left her the measly $3 I had.

So anyway, I was stuffed. I was all hot and trying to digest the food. I couldn’t fall asleep very well. As soon as I’d fall asleep, something would wake me up. Either a car pulling in, my neighbor drumming on something near the wall trying to be a rock star, or just thoughts. I didn’t sleep at all last night. By morning, I was feeling sick.

I wanted to call off today, but work is so short-staffed. Calling off there is like a recipe for disaster. So I went in anyway and did an 8 hour shift. (Was supposed to be until 1). Mark and I had originally made plans to go to Cici’s Pizza (a Pizza buffet which I DID NOT NEED after yesterday) with his parents today. But I couldn’t get out of working till 5. On the bright side, I ate very little since I was feeling sick. I did have Subway for lunch though. I’m somewhere around 1300-1400 calories today. I’m really trying hard to stay around this amount.

I came home and promptly NAPPED! <3 It was happy time!