Nearing the Finish Line

Posted by on May 16, 2012  |  1 Comment

Do you want to talk about it?, Mark asked gently – okay, lets be real – cautiously.  I was sprawled across the couch, looking as if I’d just run a marathon and pushed myself beyond my mental, emotional, and physical limits – workout clothes on and all.  I let out a sigh (my notorious cue of stress, irritation, fatigue) and curtly said, No.  I don’t want to talk.  I don’t want to think.  I just need to be still for 20 minutes. (Yes, Mark is nearly a saint for loving me for the past 15 years.)

My life the past few months has been a big jumbalaya of wedding planning, working with my graphic designer to finish my new website, planning for an amazing wedding conference I’m attending in June…and of course trying to be an attentive wife, a hands on momma, a good daughter, an available sister and friend (definitely falling short in availability these days. Sorry friends!  I will return to normalcy in July).  In a word – its been busier than I expected.  Luckily, I took a very limited number of weddings this year because of I guessed that all the work going into rebranding would demand a full time effort.  Planning my average 15 weddings concurrently with this would’ve been a nightmare.  If I could go back and kiss the me in November when I decided this, I would.  :)

But I can almost make it out….the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.  Everything is almost finished, set to launch next week.  I recently spent $30 on a bottle of wine solely because it had my name written on it, spelled with one “L”.  As soon as my website goes live, I’m cracking that sucker open!

 

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