Sometime last month I came across the song, “Mushaboom” by Feist (probably while perusing the wedding forum over at the Offbeat Bride Tribe ning). Ever since finding it and sharing it with Aaron, we both haven’t been able to get the song out of our heads! Seriously, whether I just woke up or am coming back from class at the end of the day, the melody and lyrics pop into my head and simply wont budge. I don’t mind, though - I am utterly in love with every part of it, video included. Watch for yourself:
It follows logically, then, that this would become the first song on our mix-tape of 2010. Mix-tape? Mix CD? Mix-tape sounds better. Old school feeling, you know? We haven’t really made mixes for each other — a couple our first summer but nothing really since then. Before we went off to school that first year, he gave me a mix of songs that reminded him of me, and I gave him a ’super cheesey and totally cliche but absolutely necessary CD of love songs’ that reminded me of him. To date, those have remained our staple songs, with the addition of some Mason Jennings lovelies.
Ahhh, I can’t tell you how many times I have listened to this song ;)
Even though we have a long way to go(!) in the wedding planning process, we have gotten quite a lot done. Here is a list of some of the things we’ve happily decided on, and other things we haven’t really thought about yet. The next couple of months is going to be INTENSE.
Things we have decided on/settled:
Photographer
Videographer
Ceremony musician
Mode of reception music
Caterer & dinner/app menu
Wedding dress
Groom’s vest
Bridesmaids outfits
Officiant
Centerpiece items
Dessert menu
Invites, RSVP’s, save the dates, thank you cards
Invitations sent
Hotel
Lighting items
Flower kinds
Still to be decided:
Timing of bridal photography session
Video logistics
Ceremony music
Reception music: general, first dance, special songs
In an email sent Saturday morning, my Wetland Ecology professor wrote to the class that “Spring arrived here yesterday at 4:30 pm when the first group of sandhill cranes flew over headed NW in the Madison direction.”
To add to that, I saw nine Sandhill Cranes fly over while visiting my wetland yesterday. How I love their dinosaur calls.
So, there you have it:
As of four thirty PM on Friday, March fifth two-thousand ten: Spring has arrived.
I remember making crafts in school in the beginning of March - ones of lions and lambs and trying to predict the weather. Well, today was sufficiently sunny (and then some!) but a cold wind still blew. I’m getting very excited for spring and all of the outdoorsy-ness that it will entail.
I have to come up with an honors project for one of my classes. It’s the last honors credit I need before graduation, and this time the project guidelines aren’t set — I get to make my own agenda. So far I have three ideas:
Extending a project from the class, which would probably be a decorated journal based around the theme of racism in America;
Explore the dichotomy/divide between art and science and how that is affecting my life (and/or how it will affect my future);
Create a blog or video log of potential resources/role models/job characteristics I want to incorporate into my future career, an important thing to think about since I will be graduating in May.
I went to my professors office hours this afternoon to talk to her about it, but she wasn’t there. So I went and got ice cream. I need to think of an idea this week though, so I can write the proposal and turn it in by next week.
I feel like it should be mid-April by now, the semester has been so busy already. It’s a little shocking to think that I have only been at it for a month. I am going to try making monthly goals to see if that will break time into smaller chunks and keep me grounded in the present.
