So it's 2010 and I'm getting married this year. Yeah.....that's not weird!! It'll take some getting used to. Thankfully, I have an awesome lot of family to help me deal with everything. Mum has already been phoning the hotel where we're having the reception. Not embarassing at all. Still, I have contacted the lady at church who's head of the flower team, tried to get hold of my friend who could DJ for us and emailed our hotel contact about booking the mobile bar. A good start.

A nice breath of fresh air to look forward to: a trailer of the upcoming Matt Smith era of Doctor Who - both he and his companion look adorable and interesting and energetic, colour me excited! - and David Tennant regenerating into Matt Smith (yes, I cried!).

*le sigh* The wedding reception venue can't hold as many as we thought it could. But we shall muddle through and decide if it's what we really want. We'll take a good hard look at the wedding guest list again and decide who we really want to be there for the fun and games in the evening.

Meanwhile, I've been plunging head first into Puck/Rachel and here's some favourites of what I've found

Fic
Don't Do Sadness by hariboo_smirks 'Every big change starts with a small one. That's just how it is. Thing is, nobody usually sees it coming' Massively wonderful Glee as a fabulous team fic too.
In a Giddy Whirl by waldorph 'Puck is a badass motherfucker'
and the companion piece The Ones that Entertain by waldorph 'Kurt is going to make this fabulous' Yay for girlie bonding and the wonder of Kurt. I want to go shopping with him!
sin tetas, no hay paraiso by dress without sleeves. 'The girl has the grip of a damn beartrap and she's not letting him go. He sighs. "What do you want, Crazy?"'

Music Video
I'd Come for You by Natih1986. Pure awesome.

Yay! Wedding reception venue booked. A hotel less than five minutes from the church. Hurrah. We hammered out many wedding details as my parents visited. Mum and I had one magnificent disagreement about my brother being an usher and then when I told Anthony about it later, he took offence, believing Mum was inferring that his friends who are gonna be ushers aren't good enough. That's not what she meant. We'll get there in the end.

Very awesome Merlin fic rec. I don't watch the show, but I appreciate the fiction.
I've Still Got Your Face (Painted On My Heart) by thisissirius Merlin/Arthur, Gwen/Lancelot, AU, reworking of Gone in Sixty Seconds, R.

In a year's time, I shall be getting married. At 3pm on this day. It feels more than slightly surreal. But kinda exciting too :) Yay. My Dad sent me a sweet email commemorating the occasion. He surprises me sometimes in the best ways.

Thoughts go to all those grieving and remembering 2001 today. I'll be lighting a candle and sending my prayers and good thoughts your way.

I have a wedding dress!!

Yep, on Saturday, I tried on about 25 dresses, with Mum and Emma and Kendra opinionating and then finally, ironically, it was the last one I tried on. And it was special. It's totally not the style I thought I'd go for at all. I'd try to describe it, but I don't think that would help much really! So contact me on MSN and I'll send you a pic of me in the dress. It's incredibly exciting. Dad agreed to pay for it and voila! One wedding dress. Emma is gonna look after it til the epic day next September. It makes me smile just thinking about it.

I also bought several other dresses, including the cutest little rainbow dress for my cousin Anna's wedding in December which I am really excited about. Anthony made the expected jokes about me wearing a rainbow flag. I need to buy navy shoes and fishnets and jacket for it at some point, but Mum will be coming to visit again for this. Also got my pink dress ironed and hung up for Kate and Lerys wedding in July. That's gonna be a really fun day. A most unusual way to spend my birthday.

Ahhh, must go to bed. My eyes are starting to droop shut and I keep zoning out. Clearly, I have been awake way too long. So when I try to sleep, naturally it will evade me. Darn my screwy internal workings!

Mum arrived here safe and looking as glam and breezy as ever. We ate at TGI Fridays, where the music was loud (and so against Anthony's taste he literally headdesked, it was very amusing. Should I have not laughed?), and the food was delicious and filling - both Mum and Anthony told me I eat very slowly, hey the whole world just eats fast, okay? I have a small stomach and I need time to digest and I happen to talk a lot because dinners are social times. Also the waitress who was delightful and attentive throughout, managed to charge me almost £5,000 for the meal before realising her mistake and refunding it. Seriously, £5,000?! I wasn't phased, but my companions were. I'll be going to my bank tomorrow to check it's all accounted for!

Wedding dress shopping tomorrow with the dream team of Emma and Kendra. Included is an appointment with Oxfam Bridal. I'm hoping it's not too hot as one of my academics, who is totally strong and forthright in her speech, took my aside today to politely and firmly tell me that I smelled quite strong. Translation, the hot weather has made me stinky. That would be because of the heat of my domain, Bill and I call it the Dungeon as we're on the ground floor, and because I travel in a sweatbox of a bus to and from work. Still, a small canister of deoderant will be bought tomorrow for work purposes.

There's a voice in my head, which is male and swears a lot. I think I've watched and read too many of Spoony's reviews recently. Darn you, Anthony, for introducing me to this! Check it out people, he talks/writers sense, most of the time :)

Ah my two exhausting full days of work are over. I can't believe how tired it's made me! And I have a full week of them next week, there won't be much left of me come the end of it. I really need to get some stamina and staying power. I don't want to be getting snappy with people just because I'm tired.

Abysmal Champions League football final tonight between Barcelona and Manchester United. Man U were just terrible, giving the ball away. But I got to watch it at Nick's house, after the tail end of the Living Room team meeting that I got there for. It was nice to just chill and chat afterwards during the football, we so rarely get to do that together. And there was tea and cheesecake so I was happy.

I've been wearing a beautiful nightgown that belonged to Granny P recently - it's deep turquoise silk and has an ankle length skirt so I feel endlessly elegant. And it's sheer over the breasts but still covers what it needs to. Even in her nineties, Granny P remained stylish, from her nightwear to her underwear. I should have kept more of her nightgowns but this was the one that caught my eye. Maybe wearing it is the cause of the vivid dreams I've been having about her recently. They've been nice, like she's still around. I certainly feel her presence when I'm trying on wedding dresses, imagining what she'd say. The colour scheme of the wedding is going to be purple, which was Granny P's favourite colour. I like to think she'd approve.

I had a truly bridal experience today. With the tireless Emma and baby Kendra to both give opinions, I tried on a ton of wedding dresses, including a slew at a bridal shop that I didn't think would suit but really did. Gail, the fitter, knew what she was doing, stuffing sponges down the back of each dress as I wore them to get the fit temporarily right, a very strange experience but beneficial. Mum's gonna come down in a few weeks to see me in them. The first of many wedding-themed weekends, I'm thinking. I can't wait, time with Mum is fun.

Happy Birthday, Dad! Mum took him out for a surprise birthday trip today, to a National Trust place, recently opened, former home of Agatha Christie. How cute is it that she organised a mystery trip for him? He called me today and sang 'Life is a Cabaret' down the phone to me as I'd sent him Cabaret on DVD for his birthday - it's one of his favourite films and he hasn't seen it for years. It was a tonic to hear him so happy, as it always is :)

The weather here is so hot! I'm hiding under sun cream and sun hat. I must be the only person who hides from the sun lol.

The warm weather heralds the end of another TV season. It's so odd I have all my shows end at the same point, many of them on cliffhangers which is most irksome. Exciting TV, but irksome to me since I have several months to wait for them to return lol. The one I'm most looking forward to? Supernatural of course, with its possible last season. I say, good choice Mr Kripke. Tell the story you want to and finish when you want to, don't keep going because the network wants more.

I might possibly be going shopping for my wedding dress tomorrow. It kinda all depends on whether I can get hold of my shopping buddy, Emma. I hope the dress is there, I found it in Plymouth's branch of Monsoon, not a place I usually shop. But the dress felt like a fairytale and I like that :) Fingers crossed I can track it down. It can always be bought online, yay for the internet.

I am undecided if I shall join dreamwidth. I like Livejournal so much and getting involved in another journal thing would really sap out my time. Of course, I also said I'd never join facebook so....

Saw a trailer for Robin Hood series 3 last night and nearly had a fit. Anthony gathered me in his arms whilst I ranted and flailed at the screen in righteous anger. He is most long-suffering lol. I was also very disturbed at the lack of Much in the trailer. Hey, I'm not gonna watch the series but please say they haven't got rid of one of the best things about the show (again). Oh BBC, your fail is epic.

Just realised last night that I was supposed to write a TV column for Sorted by 1st April. Ummm......oops? Luckily I'd started work on an article about Supernatural. So gonna finish that up sharpish and send it off. They may also publish my article about Christians in wrestling which is awesome. Gonna start watching the new series of Primeval this weekend as there may be something there to write about in the future too.

And there's train tickets to book for Easter and Mum's birthday present to post (Duffy's album) and I am trying to purge the super vivid and disturbing dreams I had last night about weddings. I haven't even started planning the thing and it's taking over my subconscious, so not fair!! Gonna have to start planning soon though, after Easter most likely. Thankfully I have tremendous back-up, all hail the mothers!