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Mark your calendars for 5/15/10!

Ryan and I met with our priest a few days ago and set the date. I’m excited about that. I was worried before because our window of days was slowly closing. It had to be on a Saturday because you can’t do weddings on Sundays in the Catholic church (could you imagine trying to squeeze a wedding in between 5 masses?). That Saturday also had to be after FSU graduation and before Ryan started med school, which was looking like the last week or two of May. Then I had to worry about Tony’s graduation. That left the 8th and the 15th of May. Justine, one of my bridesmaids, goes to a private college and her graduation is May 8th…so there you go. And behind all of that, my best friend Gina is hoping to enter into religious life and she didn’t know when she would be able to take a few days off. I had to decide to just take the date that was available, otherwise we might have to wait a long time. But, I know that God will provide for us. He has already blessed this relationship so much, I know and trust that He will allow Gina to be there, considering how special she is to me. I think it is a good date, I kind of wanted one that was numerically interesting, like 8/9/10 or 5/2/10 or something like that, so 5/15/10 is pretty cool–five one five one oh. But don’t be waiting for your “save the date” cards yet. Its still way early in the game. I think I want to send them out exactly one year in advance.

So not only did we set the date when we met with our priest, we also took this test, its called Focus (or something like that) and it was 156 questions long. We each took it in a separate room. Some of the questions were sort of silly–do you ever worry that your future spouse might hurt you–I mean, if you answer yes to that question, don’t get married. And if you were in a fearful relationship, you would probably lie anyway. But most of the questions were good, like have we discussed and agreed upon certain financial things, or how do we feel about the involvement of our in-laws in our day to day life, etc. Things we need to discuss but just haven’t because the opportunity never arose. The point of the test is not to see how compatible or not you are, but to make the transition into married life as smooth as possible. We go back in a week to talk about the results. It should be an interesting experience because Ryan and I were talking about the questions and our answers and there were a lot of them that we interpreted differently.

More on that later.

Ryan and I were at the mall, killing time. We started at one end of the mall, walked to the other end, didn’t see anything interesting, and walked back. When we got back to where we started, I got a call from my aunt. She said she was at J.C. Penny’s and saw some candles she thought were the right color and she wanted to buy some for us, since they were on super holiday sale. She told me I should try to go there to see if I liked them and I said, “actually, we’re at the mall now, I’ll check and call  you back.” So, Penny’s is on the other side of the mall. We got there and I found the candles, they were beautiful but not quite the right color. However, there were silver ones in the same style that I liked. See, my aunt and I are alot alike…when we see something we like, we want to buy it. And I knew it would mean something to her to be able to get me those candles, so I gave here the option to get the silver ones. She said she would get 4 tall ones and 4 short ones. So I got some too, 4 tall and 4 short. They were very pretty and 70% off. When we were in line, my aunt called me back and said she got them all. Turns out they were even cheaper at the register so she went back and got two more big ones. I decided to keep it to the 8 I had because they had a bunch of the tall candles back there and no more of the short ones.

Looks like I’m doing a great job so far with this whole stuff on sale thing!