Wedding, Car, Frazzle

A few days ago, I woke up and stared sleepily at the September calendar hanging on the bedroom wall while the alarm buzzed. That's when it hit me. Holy crap! I'm getting married in less than two weeks. I knew this already of course but for some reason the magnitude of it hit me just then. Let's just say I hadn't actually looked at the place that Andrew and I had reserved for a reception. We'd only seen pictures on the web. There were some rather pressing questions that needed two be answered before the party. For example:
"Where, exactly, is it?" ...  "Are there picnic tables?"
I knew the general location, but ... well I'd never been there. I suddenly realized why some member of my family have been getting stressed about my lackadaisical approach to planning my wedding reception. I guess I've been to preoccupied with car work, getting rid of clutter and figuring out how best to work with the child I've been babysitting to worry that much about a party that was more than a month away.
Honestly, I do not regret my priority setting, but well, the time has come. Head counts and lists must be made. So, I've been busy as has Andrew.
Wedding plans have taken a priority but the car project has not taken a back seat. We both dearly want this car to be running and out of the driveway because if it's still sitting there by the time school starts, it will sit until December.
We've made two trips to Portland in the heat of the day. Yuck. For one of them we picked up Mom and went on into Washington to explore the park where we're having our reception. It's very pretty BTW (that's By The Way), and it does have picnic tables.
The second trip was all car. It took us to the junk yard and the DMV. But I was on the phone a lot figuring out wedding stuff. If I'm not careful, I may end up trying to serve the guests greasy old bolts and putting cake in the car. The heat has made scrambled eggs out of my brain.
Eggs. That reminds me... but I'll tell you about that later. Posting with title of "Eggs" coming soon....