Sunday, September 23, 2007

quote of my night

dodger says, of his morale, "i am deflated - like a sad balloon."

Saturday, September 22, 2007

quote of my morning

of my fingers, dodger says, "they are nimble, like the children of the industrial age."

Monday, September 03, 2007

engaging

it's so weird to suddenly be engaged. one day i'm my normal self and then the next day i have this ring on my finger and people are congratulating me and asking questions. i get to hear from my friends i haven't talked to in a while. i see dodger in a different light. i can't explain it except to say - oh my god. this man will be my husband. oh my god. for the rest of my life. and that more than i've ever felt before in our four years of dating that i really feel like one half of a couple. we've always been so independent, but it feels different now. i'm ready for the rest of my life with him and it starts today.

of course this also comes with the family dealio. this weekend i coincidentally had a trip planned back to see my parents so of course my mom organizes a dim sum with 25 of my relatives. i was thinking of posting all the chinese american things i'm going to have to encounter as part of this little experiment called my wedding celebration. this weekend was the "you need to buy a box of candy for each household that's coming to dim sum" tradition. Also, apparently See's Candies is the gift of choice. Of course it is. In one of those it's so chinese but yet so not chinese traditions.

I don't know where to start really. i don't think i'm ready to think about it. give me a few weeks to just enjoy being engaged. but thankfully, i have girlfriends who have either recently gone through or are going through this process themselves. and i'm talking the type of girlfriends who have color-coded excel spreadsheets and pivot tables dedicated to this type of stuff. gotta love the alpha woman.

being the first in my generation on my mom's side to be married is a big deal. come follow me through the craziness in the next coming months. Dodger and I were calculating that if we just counted our aunts, uncles and cousins, we'd come to 106 guests already. Crazy times ahead. Crazy times I say...