Day from hell

You know those days where one thing goes wrong then another leading to a domino effect that causes you to whimper in the corner hoping that the world will just leave you alone for 24 hours and jumping at any noise for fear that even more shit is gonna get dumped in your lap.

I had that kinda day yesterday.

It didn't start out as such a bad day, aside from the fact that it's been cold and rainy for the past three days (a rare thing here, sure to drive any Nebraskan bonkers), I got some free pizza and won a polar bear from Promega. Even the EHS tour of the lab was no big deal.

But then I went home and suddenly found a little orange sticker on my car's window claiming that the thing was "inoperable." Well I figured they just suddenly got a stick up their butt cause my car is not a pretty little sporty thing so I'd just jump in and move it.

And the battery's dead.

I can tell right away because my car seems to eat them for breakfast and if there's one thing I know about cars it's when the battery takes a crap.

Rather than fight with it we made some dinner (it's a wonder I didn't burn the shit out of myself, honestly) and figure out what to do after.

But first I had to make the rice krispie bun for the hot dog (I have certain parts of the cake devoted to different days and going off the schedule is a sure sign of madness at this point). In going for the corn syrup I caught my hand on the shelf scraping it open.

Swearing a bit I got down to the krispies. Following the recipe on the box of our store brand "Rice Puffs" in the middle of pouring it into the pan I realized that we didn't have enough and had to quickly make an extra batch to fill it.

And then just as I was gonna start a new pot the nose piece on my glasses broke and fell off.

I finally lost it. I'd had enough of bad things going wrong so I just curled up on the floor crying, swearing, and just railing against the world. I couldn't believe just how much the world seemed out to get me and beat me to a bloody pulp.

After getting it all out, I glued and fixed my nose piece, my guy filled in the rice krispie bun, and we got the car jumped enough to move it and we'll just wait til Friday for my father (a mechanic) to help change the battery (sitting down eating cookie dough and watching the RiffTrax of Iron Man helped a lot too)

So if you do see a woman who may have a wedding looming on the horizon (even if it is just 3 days away) don't always assume she's stressed because of that. Life doesn't stop for a wedding, nor do evil gypsy curses trying to give you the day from hell.

Groom: Research

This weekend was an interesting experience in wedding stress study.

Oh no, not for me. For my guy.

That's right, the groom instead of being super laid back and only thinking about getting blitzed or having cold feet is actually stressed about the wedding.

It started Saturday as he was in the middle of killing I think it was a bear that was eating sheep (yeah don't ask). He sat there getting more and more in a funk as dark clouds gathered around his head.

Upon asking why he was in such a mood and digging around a bit I discerned that it's because he felt he didn't know what was done and what wasn't so he had no idea that just about everything is ready to go (despite me telling him over and over that we're fine. I may need to invest in some cue cards for him to read. Maybe that will sink in better).

He was liberally medicated with a Rum 'n' Coke and after a few hours of baking cookies his spirits appear to have been lifted (must look into this as possibly cure for the wedding blues).

But alas the next day his symptoms took a weird turn. For as he returned to his melancholy state a call from his groomsman and parents caused him to gain the energy of 10 toddlers at a candy factory. I'd never heard a man talk so fast in my life.

Fearing that this may be contagious I hid in the bathroom til he came off his weird energy high. While he was still buzzing I put him in charge of checking out stuff to do for our honeymoon. So he came up with some places to go, orchards to see, wines to drink.

Amazingly ever since then he's been pretty calm and his usual self.

So if your groom is about ready to pull his hair out as the wedding gets close I'd say try to give him some little task that you've been meaning to do but you know he can handle (I'd think it'd work a lot better than this kit).

Or have a liquor cabinet full of his poison of choice on hand.

stress, Stress, STRESS!

On Wednesday we had the last meeting with our officiant. After getting all the little details out of the way she asked a question I've been hearing more and more "So, how are the stress levels?"

Honestly, we're both pretty cool. I can count on one hand the times I have wanted to strangle someone with a piece of tulle while planning this schindig.

In fact I've been more stressed about some sciencey lab thing at work (for those in the know it's running an SDS-gel in a lab that has never done it before. It's going okay right now, but I'm not getting enough mA for some reason).

I don't know if I'm missing out on something by not being constantly on edge as endorphins pump through me, but we've generally spent our nights catching up on old British tv shows (hurray for Spaced's release in the states) or finishing Lego Batman.

At this point any little plans I may have had or things I wanted to do have long been abandoned and left to the ether and anything else is so done we could have this thing today.

I'm so cool that I think it's starting to stress out all those around me.

Has any one else experienced an almost Nirvana calm as the wedding got near instead of the stereotypical freak out?

Also a wedding blog shout out to Jen of She Weds and Jenna of That Bride as they get married tomorrow. Hopefully it all goes just how you want it to.