The Circle

Wow, how strange. This weekend is the first time in a month that I skipped checking out everyone's blog every day. I really missed it. It is weird how soon you become addicted to these things.

WEDDING!!! Is that a scary word? For some guys it is pretty terrifying. I thought I was pretty numb to it. I used to think, "Hey, no problem. I've done that already, and Eric and I survived. I can't be anymore terrified of it than I was right before I got married." Turns out I was wrong.

My sister got engaged two weeks ago to Eric's friend, Nick. I realized as I was looking through our blog this morning that I hadn't posted anything about that. I am thrilled about it, even though it has kind of an strange, assimilation quality to it. For example, now all my friends are my sister's friends. Which isn't a bad thing, because my sister is my best friend and I love to hang out with her. It is just kind of....strange. Another thing is that Eric's friend dating my sister produced this weird phenomenon that we call "The Circle". If you tell one of the other three anything it is pretty much guaranteed that the other two will know about it in less than 5 minutes. Honestly, less than five. We are all connected by emails, text messages and cell phones. And sometimes it seems like mental telepathy. "Hi, am I crazy or did you just think about calling me? You did? Great. Because I have something to tell you. Wait...what do you mean you already know?"

But seriously, I am really excited for them to be married. And they are excited too. So excited, in fact, that they are having the wedding in January. Of 2007. This is due to the fact that Nick is being transferred to Arizona and Sarah wants to go with him. But there are no jobs. So that means that they (i.e.: me and my sister) have about 5 months exactly to plan it. Can you say, panic attack??? This weekend was the first of many planning weekends that are going to take place in the near future. We made some progress, but mostly at the expense of any an all free time. Including the freedom of our thoughts. I think I thought about wedding things more in this weekend than I did the whole time I planned my wedding. And I thought about them HARDER too. Eric had to shake me awake from more than one nightmare on Saturday night because I was yelling things in my sleep. "What do you mean you need the deposit now? And you promised us red napkins! Red!" But the church is taken care of (I have to give props to Nick for that one) and my sister has decided on a hall and a caterer. And I think we made some good inroads with invitations. All the rest of it is still looming over them, but it should prove for some interesting weekends in the future.