Introducing Mr. Cooper Fisher!
He's a yellow lab and he's my mom's Valentine's present from my dad. The first few weeks with him were rough. Rough in that he became attached to sleeping with me in my room, which led to absolutely not enough sleep for Chrissy! He's such a little peanut, and he has such a personality, even though he's pretty mellow. He still has the puppy nibbles, and loves to jump up at try and eat my hair. It was quite the surprise when my mom came in to work one day with a picture of him on her phone saying "look at what dad got me for Valentine's day!" I'll post more pictures of him later. I need to upload the ones on my camera to my laptop, but the camera's all the way downstairs and I'm being lazy.
So even though Cooper has put a definite wrench in our daily routine, we've gotten a lot accomplished for the wedding. We still need a DJ. It's funny because we didn't have a budget for one established until recently, so when I was communicating with one we met at the wedding expo last fall, I couldn't fully commit to them because they were pretty expensive. They kept calling and calling and calling, and now that we have a budget to work with, they NEVER call! Isn't it irritating how that happens? Looks like they'll be getting a call from me within the next few days! We did seriously get a lot done. My mom and I went to Michaels a couple weekends ago and purchased all the stuff to make the programs, a couple topiaries for decorations, scoops for the candy bar, and some other necessities. We still need quite a few things, but it's amazing the pressure that gets relieved even when you get just a couple things checked off the list. As far as the church goes, all we pretty much have to do is get married! We just had our last Evenings for the Engaged class tonight, and we met with Joel Hellenkamp this morning to talk about our FOCUS test. He accused us of cheating because we answered so many of the questions the same! We did have a few that we differed a little, but really it was either because we looked at the questions totally different ways (they were so vague!) or it was something we covered in our engagement classes and were seeing eye to eye on. So we pretty much got the green light from him to get married...HOORAY! It's crazy to think that in just 3 little months I'll be married to the man of my dreams! I have got to be the luckiest woman in the world (or at least in my little world)!
The past few weeks have been fairly stressful all around. For about 2 weeks Brian and I hardly saw each other! I was sick the first week and trying not to give it to him, but he got it anyways so he was sick after me! During that week, also, his mom and dad were out of town, so he was left to run the store alone, meaning opening shifts everyday (from about 6am to whenever he can leave, usually around 3pm) and not much alone time. We did get to spend a very romantic Valentine's day together, though. We both worked in the morning, but then he took me to see He's Just Not That Into You (loved it!) followed by a lovely dinner at Anthony's in Gig Harbor. Funny story about that Anthony's. We went there for dinner last summer after we were engaged and back from Italy, and we sat right by the window and had the most incredible waiter. He was so personable and friendly, and we both really liked him (and I'm sure he really liked us after he saw his tip!). Anyways, to make a long story short, we had him as a waiter AGAIN on Valentine's day and he was still just as fabulous. He remembered us and wished us well in our marriage. We even got to see his wife and kids as we were walking out (we were his last table). If we have the rehearsal dinner at Anthony's, we're definitely going to be requesting him!
Work has also been stressful...I think more so for me than for Brian. We've added another cosmetic line in the bay with both myself (Clarins) and Elizabeth Arden. Things were said prior to Prescriptives moving in that were apparently just to keep us happy until they actually got there. My case line is totally screwed up and I have way less space than I originally was led to believe and I've been stressing out about it all week. Which you can totally tell by looking at me because I have a little bit of a breakout going on. That pisses me off even more because I haven't had one like this in a couple months. Oh well, I keep telling myself it could be worse: I could be losing hours or losing my part time person or lose my job completely. All it is is a few cases lost. It was still a little bit of a kick in the face. But I won't dwell on it any longer. It's not worth the time or energy and it'll force me to work that much harder.
Okay, I think this is probably long enough for now. I promise to post more Cooper pictures as soon as I can. Hope all is well! Love you all!
