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Homeward bound

April 9, 2010 at 1:39 pm (On my mind, Random Rant) (Cry Me a River, family, home, Michael Buble, Michigan, nature, super cow, travel, wedding, wedding planning)

I think I’ve been picking up my sister’s bad habit of not updating her blog… ahem. Sorry.

We’re leaving today for a wedding business trip home to Michigan. We have a pre-marriage counseling session set up with the pastor and we’ll also talk about the ceremony schedule. We also have to meet Abby, our fantastic (albeit quite expensive) photographer. It’s basically a hi-bye situation with the family unfortunately. We can’t leave until Ty gets home from work and won’t get home until very late tonight. Then we have to leave at a decent hour Sunday to make the 7 hour drive to be back for work next week.

There is so much crap to get in my car it’s ridiculous. Not only are we bringing a small suitcase, but I’m taking my dress home too, which is not small by any means. Thank God I hate the big poofy dresses or we’d be screwed. I’m also going to test my parents’ new washer and dryer by bringing home our laundry. I won’t have time to do it this weekend and I simply don’t have enough work clothes yet to go without. And while we’ll be doing it for free, I chucked the sheets and towels in there too. And my winter coat that smells like cow poo (yes, still!)  from my feature story explorations. My computer has to come home so I can work on another feature story that’s running next weekend if I can find the time. I’m bringing home copies of my prosecutor’s office scandal articles and other small stuff like that. And we’ll only be there for about a day and a half.

It sucks that we won’t have much time for family. But we’ll be back up there again May 1 for a wedding shower. We might have to plan a couple other things for wedding planning then too, but there should be more time to just relax.

In non-wedding news, I’ve discovered that the absolute best version I’ve ever heard of “Cry Me a River” is Michael Buble. The bass line is friggin’ AMAZING. It’s almost James Bond-ish. While cleaning up the kitchen today, I blasted it from my external computer speakers… and repeated it twice.

Ty also showed me this video quite some time ago. And in my research for my milk tester feature, I found it again. I’m still shocked by it.

Maybe we should stop messing with nature. I have a feeling this could come back to bite us… or run us over, or just plain fall over and squish us.