Category: Random

> My Angelina Jolie Pillow Lips were starting to deflate at this point thanks to Benadryl

>So. It’s Oscar night. Unlike in many years past, I am not sitting clustered around the television with all my movie-loving friends, vying to win the prize for having made the most, best educated guesses on our party ballot. Where am I instead? Sitting in a pile on my mother’s couch in Marshall, Texas, nursing…

>She must really be feeling bad because she actually forgot the log-in to her own blog. Christi forgetting how to log in to write something? Hard to believe, huh?

>The down side of all the marvelous-ness of getting married and having a fun wedding is that it unfortunately also involved downsizing my life, purging the unnecessary and unsentimental, and kicking some crap to the curb. I’ll be all glad I did it when it’s all over and done with, but right now, it’s bogging…

>So, I have been forced to acknowledge something that I always know but always seem to forget. I internalize stress. Not every time, mind you. Sometimes, I can be snappish. But, as a rule, it manifests itself this way: fatigue, illness, insomnia. I’ve had all recently. Another thing I always do is ignore the proven…

>I am sleepy. I had to drive to and from Marshall to visit with my Dad and the lovely ladies who are putting together the food for the reception. Decisions and lists were made, and that project is in more-than-capable hands! I was listening to a very interesting book on tape called “Intuitive Listening” by…

>We decided to have our reception at the church as well. It will be in a separate building, a big ol’ building with fabulous audio/visual capabilities — and we are all about that, you know! Anyhoo, I had class tonight, and it was very interesting and thought-provoking, but I really wanted to be somewhere else.…

>So, the firethroat was, in fact, strep throat, which in all of my years, I have never had. And now I have. May it be the first and last time. First of all, it was horrible pain, and I have a notoriously high tolerance for pain. That pain, however, I could live without. I felt…

>My throat hurts so bad that I have taken to numbing it in order to be able to swallow my own spit without crying.

>Just got home from a photo session with Chris where we sat for engagement portraits. It was super-fun. The photographer, Candice White, was super-laid-back and fun, and we had a good time being serious AND silly. Of which we both are, quite regularly. We had a clothes change or two, and we stood, and we…