Well it is now less than a month until we get married.... 26 days, 3 hours and 17 minutes to be precise.

Both of us have been planning this for the last 19months and have come across many hurdles. However, now that it is nearly here we are both worrying about the mounting costs and have become rather de-motivated with the whole thing.

I'm on top of everything - I think! The bits that need doing are all in hand and should be done but neither of us feel excited about it anymore.

I am working every single day of December and then on 4th January we fly to England, drive to Scotland on the 5th and get married on the 6th. Although this is stressful I want to have some anticipation and excitement.

Any ideas how to get it back?

TIA

Time and Materials
Gerhard Richter: Abstrakt Bilden

1.

To make layers,
As if they were a steadiness of days:

It snowed; I did errands at a desk:
A white flurry out the window thickening; my tongue
Tasted of the glue on envelopes.

On this day sunlight on red brick, bare trees,
Nothing stirring in the icy air.

On this day a blur of color moving at the gym
Where the heat from bodies
Meets the watery, cold surface of the glass.

Made love, made curry, talked on the phone
To friends, the one whose brother died
Was crying and thinking alternately,
Like someone falling down and getting up
And running and falling and getting up.

( 2. )

• 18:12 #michaeljackson Vy disturbing, vy disturbed: tinyurl.com/y9vekh6 #

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Stolen from my f-list.

if you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

it can be anything you want -- good or bad -- BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

when you're finished, post this little paragraph in your lj and see what your friends come up with.

Is going to ask a girl out tonight.

He wants to go on a blind (double) date later with a friend in Melbourne.

He would like to take this girl.

But if she does not accept him it would make him feel more confident to know that anothr girl might jump in on the double date if she isn't doing anything that night.

Would you be interested in dating this lovely boy? Are you bored and in need of some lulz?

We picked up our wedding rings at the beginning of the week and I absolutely loooove mine :)

( Sparkles! )

There was a little "100% meme" going around Twitter, where you scan/post part of your art at 100%. I posted a few, but I liked the Ezio close-up (from that last stupid comic) the best, because it shows how gross it is up-close!

( BIIIIG image )

This has pretty much been me this past month.

Jónsi - Boy Lilikoi (mp3) I've been listening to this a lot. Dreamyyyy.

http://www.formspring.me/jaboo Ask me anything! There's already been a 2gether mention and a reference to a true hospital story that I used to tell as a horror/gross-out story in college, so... I don't know if this is a plea for you to be gentler or push the envelope.

1. Community. As soon as I download the episode so I can watch it again, I will make a Mr Winter icon. Because that is my new faith.

2. Prince of Tennis fic rec! kestrelsan wrote some awesome & hot Atobe/Sanada fic which you should totally check out: Winning Prospects. I'm so glad you're finally writing in this fandom!

3. When is it considered acceptable to come to work with bed-head? Never or only if you're really hot?

Oh man, themoononastick wrote I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one on one, always, forever, now. for me for drawn_to and it's everything I could have asked for in a Ryan/Spencer (and Ryan/others) fic.

In other topics, I'm probably not going to get O Christmas Troy out of my head anytime soon. Thanks, Community.

:DDDDD

You know, I think more and more often
by Tadeusz Borowski

You know, I think more and more often
that I should go back.
Maybe I'll meet you. And happiness?
Happiness is being sad together.

So I look through the moonlit window
and listen.
Nothing. A breeze stirs somewhere.
Alone among the leaves - the moon.

Like a golden wheel it rolls
above the windblown leaves.
Such moons, only paler,
shone over the Wisla.

Even the Big Dipper on its course
stops in a tree at midnight,
just like at home. But why here?
Truly, I don't know.

What's here? Longing and sleepless nights,
unknown streets and somebody's verse.
I live here as a nobody:
a Displaced Person.

I think of you. I know I must leave.
Perhaps we can return to our past,
but I know neither what youth will be like
nor where you are.

But I'm yours or no one's
forever. Listen,
listen, read this poem
if somewhere you are alive.

( + )

Different Uses for Window
Arlene Ang

Replication. Of days, of stars.

A ledge to lean over gauges the distance

to certain death. I have sat

naked to the passing clouds

as they altered the freckles on my skin.

The chairs I’ve thrown out for the pleasure

of wanting them back.

I have scars from glass

where I was shattered. Urgent spasm

of wind. I started out a girl in the tower.

And now this hair outweighs me,

this sun as it transforms

the shoddy braid into gold. My favorite portion

in birds is the wing. Singular.

The promise of flying

without the possibility of cigarettes.

I can stand here forever

and watch the shadow of where I am

as it moves on the ground,

darkening the faces of men

the second they look up.

From H_NGM_N.

( omg brendon :') )

I missed this when it happened, spent this whole video basically like ♥_♥ I love them so much.

"'Play Konstantine bro'? Isn't that a Something Corporate song?" lololol &him;


Unrelatedly, I am way excited for Christmas this year. My family have had a bad year financially so I don't think I'm getting/giving many presents this year, and it took me awhile to get into the spirit because I couldn't believe it was already December, this year has gone so fast - but I'm really excited. I'm going to make a gingerbread house and it's going to be amazing :D And for those of you who left your addresses, I should be sending cards next week ♥

ALSO, speaking of things I'm excited for, I'm seeing Why? on Wednesday, and omg CANNOT. WAIT. :D

It's up, it's running, and it has donations! Why don't you donate?"

It crapped out in Australia because of fucking crazies there, so if you are Australia, why not donate to it over here? And then, um buy some binoculars. So you can see it as it drives merrily past.

I'll wave, it'll be cool n' shit.



Rockin' it bus side.

The Pillow



The pillow said:
at the end of the long day
only I know
the confident man’s confusion,
the nun’s desire,
the slight quiver in the tyrant’s eyelash,
the preacher’s obscenity,
the soul’s longing
for a warm body where flying sparks
become a glowing coal.
Only I know
the grandeur of unnoticed little things;
only I know the loser’s dignity,
the winner’s loneliness
and the stupid coldness one feels
when a wish has been granted.



by Mourid Barghouti

We just lay-buyed my wedding ring and I am so excited to be married so that I can wear it! Hah. Its an 18 carat gold band with a row of "brilliant cut" diamonds accross the front, it's so beautiful and looks fantastic with my engagement ring (a single brilliant cut (round) 1 carat diamond on an 18 carat yellow gold thin band) I am so pleased.

I just wanted to put a question out there: What did you spend on the grooms wedding ring?


My fiance has always worn a patterned gold wedding band (he requested that we buy it for him, when after her proposed to me, to warn of the "flock" (his words lol) of single women) However it only cost around $300 AUD and I feel guilty at having a $6000 engagment ring and then a $1000 wedding band and leaving him with his $300 ring (despite him seeming happy with the band) What would you do in this situation?