Day 15: A Fanfic

Well, I'm sorry to disappoint everyone today, but I'm not going to really be able to post on this one. I don't read fanfic. I don't have one that I read. I don't have an author that I follow.

So....


Here's a picture of a cute cat!!

Day 14: A Nonfiction Book

I'm a fan of Chuck Klosterman. He's a fantastic writer and I'm pretty sure I own every single one of his books. This is a history of heavy metal music, with a particular emphasis on the glam metal that flourished during Klosterman's formative years in the mid-to-late 1980s, through its demise in the early 1990s, and potential rebirth in the late 1990s.

I went tailgating!!

This weekend was Thanksgiving. It is also when Austin and I make our trip up to Arkansas to see all of our friends. I don't know why we usually only go once a year to see everyone, but we always go up for Thanksgiving. And Austin never has let me meet many of his friends... It was mostly just my friends... I was begining to wonder if he actually had friends...

So, this time when we went up, Austin informed me that I would be going to be meeting a lot of his Hendrix friends and we would be tailgating. Now, for those of you that know me, you understand why I was a bit wary of tailgating. For those of you that don't, I'll explain. I hate football. I'm a vegetarian. I also don't drink beer. So going to sit in a field with a bunch of people I don't know and combining these three things didn't really sound like the recipe to a good time to me.

But I was wrong. That's right, I'll admit it. I was wrong. It is actually a lot of fun.

And how many other times do you get the excuse to start drinking at nine in the morning??

I also did find out that Austin did have friends in college! Who knew?? I did get to meet the guy that is going to be Austin's Best Man and his second groomsman. And a ton of other people that are going to be coming to the wedding. And people that had a lot of very amusing stories about Austin in college.

This is Andrew, Austin's Best Man

Ashley, Andrew's brother, with Andrew. I really liked Ashley, he kept telling me how pretty I am. Always a good thing.

Austin's second groomsman, Josh.

The three Hendrix boys... They're going to be trouble...

And now it makes sense why they're friends...

See! I actually was there!

And the band. Because that's the real reason people go to the games.

Save the Dates!

Well, even with all of the chaos that has been the past two weeks, Austin and I have been able to gather up most of the addresses for our guest list and get out about 95% of our Save the Dates. We've now been able to send out about 175 of our 200 Save the Dates.

Now, sending out all of these Save the Dates got me thinking, we were planning on having around 125 guests at the wedding. Somehow our list has gone up to a little over 200. Yes, you read that right. It has almost doubled. Some of this is due to the fact that neither Austin or I expected his parents to want to invite so many people to this event, and some of this is due to the fact that we didn't realize how many of our friends wanted to come and be a part of things. Luckily for us, space isn't an issue with our venue.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll be able to get all of our Save the Dates out by the end of the week (yes, I do know that this is Thanksgiving). Here's hoping!!

Day 13: A Fictional Book

I know everyone is expecting me to write about Harry Potter for this one, but I'm going to go a bit older. I'm going with Lord of The Rings.

Yep, Lord of the Rings.

I don't know of anyone out there that doesn't love this classic series. And since I just received my set of the 4-Disk set of all three movies, I decided to go ahead and reread them all. I must say, they are just as wonderful as when I read them for the first time when I was 6. These books are timeless (as I think the Harry Potter series will turn out to be).