19 days, 18 hours, 32 minutes until we tie the knot

Things seemed a lot easier when the countdown on our wedding web site said 450 days until we get married. Now that it says 19 days, I'm realizing I need to stop procrastinating on a few things.

I still have not ordered flowers. The jam is made for the favors, but the labels haven't been done. We do not have vows picked out. The playlist for the iPod still needs refining and added up somehow to figure out if we have enough music for a 6-7 hour event. S'mores ingredients and marshmallow sticks still need to be purchased. I haven't even made a test boutonniere to see if I like the ones I want to make. I have only practiced doing my own make-up once and that was in 2007.

We finally got around to ordering Troy's ring, only to find out that it might not actually get here in time for the wedding (in which case, they will loan us the store sample that is slightly too big for the weekend). We're usually better than this, but procrastination has reared it's ugly head and neither one of us can seem to motivate much.

I started out getting a ton of stuff done early (about 8 months early), and then things started to fizzle. Thank goodness I got most things done early or I never would have been able to get through this.

I have used the following excuses to procrastinate on the wedding planning in the last few weeks:

• surfing lessons


• emergency animal sheltering training


• rescuing three dogs


• cleaning the house (we have a housecleaner)


• walking the dogs


• sleeping


• blogging