Wedding Trip #2
I’ve got a weekend of wedding planning ahead of me.
Christina and I head up to Maryland this weekend to flesh out some of our plans for our event. Up to this point I’ve been fairly out of the loop. This is sometimes by choice, sometimes by a simple turn of events. I think this weekend will find me more involved.
I know that we’ve got the concept of the wedding rehearsal down, but I don’t know if we know all the details. The idea is that it will be “if you are invited to the wedding, you’re invited to the rehearsal” type of thing. More casual than the wedding, but I don’t think it’ll be jeans and a t-shirt casual. More of a cook-out type of environment. The location is a manor near the ceremony and reception spot. I’m really looking forward to this part of the weekend. I think that the day of the ceremony and reception will be such a whirlwind that the rehearsal night will really be the time that I can hang out and socialize with everyone.
The ceremony location is set, but I think the most work we have left to do is related to the ceremony and reception. That’s probably not uncommon. Who knows, I’ve never been married. One of the red flags in my head is a back-up location. The ceremony is going to be outside, and we haven’t looked around for a site in case a storm rolls in. I’m not sure, but I think we’ll have the reception outside (in tents) regardless.
Christina and I were up in Maryland months ago which I suppose was our first official planning trip. That consisted of address lists for the folks we were going to invite and a bit of preliminary scouting for hotels and suppliers. Planning for an event at a remote location has been odd because the actual planning takes place in concentrated spurts with lots of lag time in between. Usually this makes me worried as I tend to be a bit OCD when planning things I’m involved in or responsible for. We’ve gotten some resources up near DC to help us out with a lot of this, so it’s all good.
I’m looking forward to taking some pictures of the different sites, and I was told there will be food tasting as well.
I like food.
your choice was right
no chance to be there now
i swear I’m done
no one to lead you back
it’s yours to find
it’s all you’ve ever done
you’re falling down
you’ll falling back to us
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resolution: Update work journal
Do you keep a work journal? I’ve tried in the past, stopped, and have picked it up as one of my attainable goals this year.
Back in DC I was asked a few times a year to summarize what big projects I’d worked on. That was mostly for my supervisor to accurately complete a performance review. Since it was a summary it wasn’t fairly detailed and was updated on demand, not on a regular basis.
In New York I would keep track of my hours worked. My job in DC was an hourly contract, so that was part the daily grind, but in NYC it was more about showing how much time I had already spent working that week. Our team was understaffed and our boss would drop projects on us Friday afternoon expecting work over the weekend. Keeping track of those hours gave me a bit of ammo when we’d ask for more resources, more organization, or just to feel a bit of accomplishment.
Here in Florida I don’t really have any of these requirements. My boss has asked us to keep track of time (which I need to remember to do along with my work journal!), but in the year I’ve been here there’s been no performance review. I’ve added the goal of keeping a daily log of what I work on simply for my own sanity. We tend to jump around from project to project and I’ve found that it’s so much easier to open up my word doc and see exactly where I left off the Friday prior to a Monday. If I can’t pick it up right away, my notes along with the day or two before can usually catch me up.
The process is pretty easy. I just have a Word document sitting on my desktop, enter a date line, and add bullets for each major task. Simple tracking and organization.
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resolution: Blogging
Last night I saw Julie & Julia and began thinking more about my blog, so I’m starting a new series of posts based on my last post, A New Year’s revolution.
In order to get up to speed, I’ll be making some posts about goals that I’ve already set for myself, why I chose that goal, and anything else that comes to mind on the topic.
What makes this so meta is that the goal I’m talking about in this entry is “blog entry within 3 days.”
Those of you who have actually kept this site bookmarked and come back after the extended hiatus know that this blog’s gone through several iterations. It started when I was back at Purdue, through my time in DC, and was particularly absent while I was living in New York City. It was around that time that I suppose I was turned off to the idea of blogging. For whatever reasons I didn’t feel any motivation to chime in with my thoughts on annoying co-workers, bad jobs, or how much I couldn’t wait for Friday.
While those posts may still show up from time to time, I plan on trying to add a bit more depth or at least keep things interesting. I also want to add themed series of posts over the next year (such as this resolution series). I’ll try to find ways to keep this interesting for those who take the time to check it out as well as use it as an outlet for whatever’s on my mind.
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