The beaver is a proud and noble animal

This will hang proudly on our bathroom door :)

- Deposit cheque at NatWest
- make music CDs
- buy Katy's makeup She gonna look nice! but spensiiiiive!
- buy Katy's hair curlers
- buy disposable cameras
- buy cufflinks
- rent lighting equipment Thank you sbourge! I kiss you now!
- final suit fitting for Michel and I
- book taxis
- book hotel for Quebec
- book cat sitting service We went to visit a really nice-looking cattery 5 minutes away!
- confirm hotel for Ottawa
- find somewhere to sleep in Montreal We're going to rent a furnished studio for a week.
- send off cheques to Chilford & Cake

By jove, I think I've done it! Organized over 10 hours of music so that it fits nicely on CDs (no one being longer than 1h19 or shorter than 1h15) and organized so that there's a nice progression from cocktail music to dinner music to fun music to chill music.

Those last few CDs are going to be fun :)

Lotsa music!

Slept well, which makes me happy. Katy's ipod is synching away, which makes me more happy. There is a comic about pig parts. This makes my day:

In honor of which, I have made an LJ icon:

That is all.

The good news is that I've done most of the leg work to retag Katy's MP3s to load in a sane fashion on her ipod. The bad news is that in my pissed off/stressed out frame of mind, I snapped at her and managed to put a serious downer on the good work that her spa day had done. Go me. If this day keeps going like it is, we're going to be divorced before we get married.

I'm looking forward to getting married, but to be perfectly honest, I'll be glad when the day itself is done, hopefully without a hitch, and we go on vacation.

I admit it, I can't be arsed to do anything today. It seems that I've finally reached my limit of wedding organization and planning and doing and emailing and calling and stressing. The good thing is that it's almost done. The bad thing is that it's *not* done and I still need to do it. The stress vein on my forehead has now become my constant compation. This does not please me.

Slept like ass last night. Katy zonked out like a light, but I couldn't stop my brain from overthinking stuff and I just couldn't relax enough to fall asleep. The cat jumped on my chest and demanded some fuss, which actually helped a bit. I slept quite badly though, and the whole left side of my body is tense and sore, another sure sign I'm wound rather tightly at the moment.

Right now, I'm trying to organize the reception music, which will involve mixing and burning about 15 CDs, while at the same time re-tagging a large of Katy's MP3s so that her ipod will actually be usable. This will be brain numbing, brain damaging scut work that I hope to write code to do and prevent me from going quite mad and potentially punching a hole through the screen of my laptop. I hope.

Today didn't really go according to plan. I wanted to sleep in late, work on the music for the wedding and cook at a leisurely pace for dinner tonight. Instead, I had to wake up earlier than expected to go with Katy while she got various bits and bobs waxed, then go into town while she got her haircut (for 4 hours!!!) and then get dinner done (though that, at least, went according to plan and was quite nice).

Right now, I'm hiding away upstairs while Katy is getting merrily blotto with Anna, Rho and Rita on her hen night. I hope they have fun. I, in the meantime, will take this time to catch up on my book and just relax in a bit of peace and quiet. Sounds like a plan.

At first, we thought we wouldn't have enough food. Then, we thought we'd have too much. Now, with the fabulous chef from Chilford, we've gotten something that should hopefully please everybody :) Plus, except for one or two things that can't be changed, I can eat it all, mouahahahahahahah!

CANAPES ON ARRIVAL WITH RECEPTION DRINKS TO INCLUDE:-

Cocktail Sausages
Wild Mushroom Bouchées
Crab Mayonnaise on a toasted crouton
Parma Ham and Melon
Quails Eggs wrapped with Gravalax
Tuna Fish Barquet
Caramelised Red Onion and Goat Cheese Tartlet

BUFFET @ 2.30 PM

Ciabatta Rolls (Egg and Cress, Chicken & Mayonnaise, Tuna Fish & Cucumber)
Baby Rolls (Filled with Ham and Cheese, Brie & Cucumber, Prawn & Mayonnaise, Beef & Dijon Mustard)
Beef & Asparagus Rolls
Choux Buns filled with Avocado and a spicy Cream Cheese
Salmon en Croute
Roast Vegetables in a Filo Pastry (Sweet & Sour Sauce served separately)
Skewered Brie with Black Grapes
Leek & Mushroom Vol-au-Vents
Baby Quiche with Spring Onions
Cheese Scones
Indian Selection
Crudities
Fruit Kebabs
Cocktail éclairs and Small Cakes

7.00 PM BUFFET

Sausage Rolls
Mixed Veg Dim Sum
Spinach & Stilton Filo Parcels
Pork Pies
Fruit Scones with Strawberry Jam and Double Cream
French Bread Pizza with Chopped Tomatoes & Goats Cheese
Cheese Board with Biscuits, Grapes and Celery

While browsing on Gizmondo, I found the trifecta of useless, costly crap. I bring you, in order of stupidity:

The $1200 toilet seat

The Panasonic DL-GWN toilet seat has a light that illuminates a bull's-eye in the water at which to aim your stream. Its light has a dual function, also warming the toilet seat. Now call me crazy, but instead of dropping more than a grand on a toilet seat, I'd get a dimmable light switch in the bathroom along with a heated toilet seat, both which can be had for a fraction of that price and accomplish the same thing.

The $1200 keyboard

Now I'm all for stainless steel. It just looks cooler than anything else. However, there are limits. The only thing that this keyboard has going for it, besides being made from stainless steel, is that it has an integrated trackball. No wireless, no integrated card readers, no other gizmos. Just steel and a freakin ball bearing.

$1.89M bra

Korean designers have created a $1.89 million solid gold bra decorated with diamonds during a fashion show in Seoul. Besides being cold, heavy and completely impractical, just look at how it's biting into those poor boobies!!

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/ultimate+pie+theft/

that just made my day :D