Atlantean and I can't believe that our one month marker is only two days away!
Well, apparently, we can believe it, because this Saturday, we rounded up Mermaid's boyfriend, Wolfman, Fairy Queen and Gnome and took the van and a truck up to our new apartment and literally got halfway moved in! And we are almost an entire month out! I guess you could say we're either eager, or super super ready and want to be prepared. Or maybe those are the same. I'm not sure.
We've made a rule, he and I, that we're not allowed to "hang out" in the apartment like EVER. Not because we're afraid we'll start slipping into anything naughty. We really wouldn't. Only because I want it to be special. I want it to be real. Not some hangout joint that we just return to once we're married. It's a sacred space, reserved for married Nymph and Atlantean only.
My bachelorette party was interesting! I just hoped everyone had a good time! The only thing that didn't go so well was my attitude, I think. I got too caught up in the details and then got too controlling, but I believe there were many good moments :) Let me go through the experience, if for nothing else, for my own therapeutic re-evaluation.
In the beginning, we played a bunch of games, kind of waiting for the last person to arrive, but also just to break the ice, and it really did work. We had laughter and teasing, and I really felt like my friends had arrived with an attitude of wanting to be there, which I think made all the difference. Siren really had a lot to do, and I really appreciated her efforts. We played the bean game, which is basically "Never Have I Ever" and then we played a couple of paper games, such as a wedding word search and a game called "How Well Do You Know the Bride" which I liked :) and which Imp and Mermaid slaughtered (naturally)
After that we ate. I cooked some beans in a bowl (a chili of sorts) while Siren brought some chicken salad and rolls to make chicken salad sandwiches. Siren also bought a party pack of Bahama Bucks which actually disappeared ;) and then I made Cake Bombs, which would have been called Cake Pops had I not had to make them so enormous. Both deserts were a huge hit :) And we got to eat them on some Day of the Dead plates and cups I had found at Target and was super tickled pink about. Pixie bought Atlantean and I the sugar skull sugar bowl I had wanted from off our registry and I affectionately nicknamed her Dulcinea the next day when I went to take it to our apartment the next day.
Then we went downstairs and watched Atlantean's responses to some questions I had written and then Siren, Imp and Mermaid had all asked and then filmed him answering. Whenever Atlantean got one wrong, Mermaid wrapped me up with toilet paper. I was grateful for her willingness, because I felt it was at this part that we started losing some interest, and I felt kind of awkward just being strapped to a chair when only my sister was participating. I might just be paranoid. In fact, looking back on it, I probably just am. But then Imp came up with the great idea of just asking him what his five favorite things about me are, and then we wrapped me for as long as he spoke. Then Siren sent me the video. I love him.
Then we went upstairs and put on face jewels. It was actually a load of fun. I've learned people can have a lot of fun when they put their mind to it. I really like the face jewels part because it set us apart as a tribe, ya know? So we decided kind of last minute that the "Something Old" in our scavenger hunt would just be a selfie taken at my house, which would soon be my "old house" so it worked out. We then headed to the mall to find "Something Blue" but we realized the mall was closed, so we headed to Savers, which we were then equally shooed away from. So, as our last hope, we headed to Walmart. Everyone picked out something different that was blue and we had me hold them to take a picture with me. That one was kind of awkward and strange and impromptu, but then everyone found a bin full of large animal head masks that we all tried on and took pictures with as well, so I figured we were having a good time. Everyone in Walmart was looking at us weird when they saw our face jewels though lol. Then Imp started her period and the machine in the bathroom wasn't working, so Brownie and I went hunting for pads. She is honestly one of my favorite people to be around, so even that part was kind of fun :) Brownie bought Imp some pads and we headed out.
By now I was getting kind of tuckered out socially, but I was keeping it up because you only get one bachelorette party. So we headed to the graveyard for the "Something Borrowed" (because life is borrowed lol). Siren and I had looked up scary stories, trying to focus on scary bridal stories and I read them outloud in the car while the girls squealed. Dryad would say things like, "It is Friday the Thirteenth and we are in a graveyard. If we see a clown, GAS IT" and that would put the other girls on edge. Then Mermaid was really terrible and would say things like, "Guys, do you see that thing moving over there?" I read scary stories about brides being buried alive or haunting their dresses. My one I contributed was one called "La Pascualita" which I thought added to the whole Spanish Day of the Dead theme. It was all about a mannequin in Chihauhau Mexico that people believed to not actually be a mannequin, but the preserved corpse of the shopkeepers daughter that had died the night before her wedding. It was creepy. Everyone got so jumpy that when we finally got back to a stoplight, a pedestrian that Dryad pointed out at the last moment scared the entire car, and Mermaid, at one point, thought a statue of Jesus was a woman in white wandering the graveyard.
Then we headed up to the last one, "Something New" (Yes, we know they are out of order, but we worked with what we had okay?) which was the Draper Temple to symbolize that we'll be sealed in the temple. This would've been very nice moment if I had not had the misfortune of really needing to pee. So we drove back down the mountain to my house where we chilled for a little bit. Siren and I had had the plan of watching Corpse Bride (because I really do like that show) at the end, but we got back so late and everyone was so comfortable and chatty that we just kind of didn't. We offered, but Dryad and Pixie said they needed to get to bed. But then I hinted that I could show off my dress. I had never tried on all the pieces I had simultaneously yet. Brownie had asked me previously if she could get a private viewing after the bachelorette party, but I saw no harm in all of them seeing it. So Mermaid helped me put it on and we showed it off.
Guys.... I look really pretty.... 😙😊
After that, most everyone was ready to head out, but I realized (after Mermaid reminded me) that I hadn't given Brownie her birthday gift, even though it was in November. (I just figured since it was close to our wedding, I wouldn't have the thought, so I bought it early) I bought her off of Wish some long socks that make her legs look like little thin chicken legs.
Guys ... she LOVED it.
She wanted to put them on immediately. She was strutting around and laughing so hard and I was so glad she enjoyed them so much! It was definitely not a wasted gift! She went home very cheerful and offered to help us move tomorrow (though she slept through her alarm, poor girl. I don't blame her lol)
Imp also stayed for a little longer and we caught up with her a little bit. Imp is like Mermaid and I's sister, and we love her very much and miss seeing her, but life changes and she says that when I get married "our childhood is officially over."
After the party, I missed Atlantean, and my sister offered to drive me over to his house. He and I wanted to do some kind of midnight Denny's run, but when we got to it, we were kinda tired, though happy to see each other, so we just decided to go and do McDonald's instead. We hung out and then I let him go because we had an early morning today with moving in. I told him and Mermaid's boyfriend and Brownie that we'd be up at eight.
The next day, I was up at eight, but when I woke Fairy Queen up, she kind of begged me to tell everyone to come at nine. I knew that wouldn't be possible, so I just started loading stuff up out of my room onto the couch upstairs. When people finally did show up, we got a lot done :) We got our mattress, our coffee table, all of our kitchen stuff, and even our couch in the apartment! Atlantean and I really are living in very empty rooms at the moment, but it was super fun to move everything around and organize it. Atlantean and I also laid on our bed together for the first time, and I might be weird, but it felt kind of scandalous. I could tell when we did and everyone was in the room what they were thinking... 😅 So when unpacking, I made sure to put all the pictures with glass and posters and wall things on the bed so we wouldn't be tempted to lay down on it.
Other than that, this Sunday was super productive as well! We went to church where I taught a lesson on The Creation and Atlantean taught a little more difficult of a lesson with 12 year old unfocused boys, but after church, I made sure we had time to go grab some side tables a ward member had offered us and I drove there on stick shift! Atlantean says I need to think a little more gently, because my transitions are still way too rough. I'll try to work on that with practice. Then I went over with Gnome to learn how to take care of a ward member's dog, whom is equally as red and as nervous as her owner (I think it's kind of funny). Then we practiced dancing, then we went over to the church where we're having our reception to look around, and then we went to our new apartment to drop off and pick off some stuff, came back to Atlantean's house to have dinner with his family and his brother and sister with three children were there! (they usually aren't) And his sister-in-law had brought me a gift basket because she had missed my shower! It was full of all sorts of really fun stuff! And I was really excited and grateful to her! That night we also went to Pixie's house to play a game of Betrayal at the House on the Hill, not one of Atlantean's favorite game, but I and the girls were feeling it that night. While there, we picked up an armchair a knife block that they had offered us. We ACTUALLY have the dilemma of having too MUCH furniture and no where to put things. I also think I might want Atlantean's desk but have no IDEA where to put it. So all in all it was a productive night. Also, I proved to myself that attitude is an important thing in life. A different night when I went over, everything that Pixie's sister did really irked me, but this night, I was laughing and cavorting with her. It really just goes to show that it's how you perceive things.
And that's it for my exciting weekend! This morning I got up and was way better about exercise and food. Then I walked around the graveyard when my brother dropped me off so I got an entire hour of walking in. Lately I've been liking the song "All That Matters" from Neverland, I really think it applies to my life now.
Also! I gave Imp's brother the entire script of Red with a Riding Hood (my musical). So not only did I TOTALLY forget that his mom asked me to keep it low-key with him on music during midterms but I handed him the ENTIRE SCRIPT.
Failing.
(Also did you know Nymph derives from the Greek word numphe which means "Bride" and the Latin word nubere which means "to be the wife of"? How perfect is that??)
Excited for what's to come,
Nymph
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