a week from today...

My name will be Annie Petersen! 

I'm so excited!

My cat Beans...

So... I just got a new kitten. 

Her name is Beans (named after my best friend Becky-who I call Beans). And, she's the CUTEST. She's the easiest cat ever and is just so So SO cute. 

I just love her. 

No thank you.

Last night Elizabeth and I went to get a test run of my hair and make-up for the wedding. 

 The lady that was doing my make-up was a teacher at an estitition school, so I was sitting in front of a class while she explained everything that she did to her students. The girls in her class were watching very intently and every time the teacher would say, "Wow... that looks so great" they would all echo and say, "Oh yeah... totally." So of course I'm getting super excited to see what it looks like. 

Then they let me look in the mirror.  

OH. MY. GOSH… AWFUL.  

Thank goodness it wasn’t the day of the wedding.

Here's what started going through my head, in no particular order...

- EW.

- Don't cry... don't cry...

- This is hideous

- I don't even recognize my face… I look like make-over Barbie… from the 80’s

- If this happened on my wedding day Elizabeth would have to distract people by tap dancing on stage while I try to redo my make up…

- I'm never coming back here

 Somehow the "professional" doing my make-up managed to make me look worse in make up than when I walked into the room with no make up on at all. Not sure how that happens...

One of the girls in the class saw my reaction of pure horror and says, “Oh, I know that you’re not used to a lot of make up… but it looks great and the first time that your fiancé sees you step out into the isle, you’ll see that tear roll out of his eye and fall down his face because he’s going to think you look so great.” I smiled to be polite and also because I didn’t have anything nice to say in response. In my head I’m thinking, “No, if Drew were to see me like this he wouldn’t cry. Oh no… he would run in the other direction as fast as he could to get away from the circus clown who killed his fiancé and then put on her wedding dress.”

 It was really… SO bad. I have lost all faith in people who do make up for a living. I’m just going to do it myself, and I’m so fine with that.

 So, lessons learned... 

- Don't always believe that the person doing your make-up has any clear understanding of what “looking great” is.

- Don't ever wear a neon shade of lipstick with matching eye shadow

- Don't ever just have a "make-up artist" show up on the day of your wedding without a trial run… EVER!