Something borrowed...congratulations to my Matron of Honor TNK for her recent wedding in June.  I was her Maid of Honor and she will help me with my wedding.  Here she is with her then-fiancee posing for her engagement photos in romantic San Francisco.  This is just one of many gorgeous shots around this beautiful city.  I also love the black and white photos, it really shows off the charm of this city by the bay. 

So what am I borrowing from TNK?  For my "something borrowed" I will be wearing TNK's veil for my wedding.  The bridal veil is one of the most marked-up wedding accessories and one can easily make it using this set of instructions.  So initially I was thinking of making my own veil.  But since attending her beautiful wedding back in June, I wanted to share in some of her happiness, and what better way than to borrow her veil?!  She even took a trip down to LA to deliver her veil for me in time for me to try it on with some wedding gowns.  Now that's a wonderful Matron of Honor!  I just hope that my wedding will as organized as her's was.

I think that my "something new" will likely be shoes.  What about something blue?  Maybe a blue ribbon in my bouquet...

"Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe."

After much web browsing for ideas and months of design changes, I have finally settled on our wedding website design.  I wanted something very clean and modern but also classy.  I also wanted to stick to the cherry blossoms theme but didn't want anything too feminine and girly.  So I browsed tons of couples wedding sites both professional and self-made.  I got plenty of ideas for the various categories of links to include in the site, but didn't find any designs I like. 

Just as I was getting discouraged, I found this beautiful design.  I can't even remember where I found it but I love the colors and the simple representation of cherry blossom trees.  So I decided to build a wedding site based on this image.  Here it is...it is just a shell for now.  I am still working on getting some pictures up and creating the links.  For now, I'm just happy to settle on a design and the rest is just getting the information together.  I hope everyone likes our wedding site,  Mr. BAW is out of town and he's not seen it yet.  Hopefully, he'll like it too.  Stay tuned for more information on our wedding site.

Sorry for the lack of blogging!  But I have some pretty good excuses.  Since I can't post any pics yet (you'll see why)  I'll post my random thoughts of the day.

1) My Mac laptop of 4 years finally died.  Back in June I had to replace the hardrive, essentially performing "brain surgery" on my computer.  I lost 5 years of emails and all of my music files.  But I got over it, and continued on using the Mac.  Then a few weeks ago, it started to hang up when ever I run anything for two seconds.  After days of frustration, a friend diagnosed it for me.  Turns out that both fans had stopped working and the processor would overheat if I ran any applications.  I once again rolled up my sleeves and took the thing apart.  Unfortunately, the power supply to the fans are behind the circuit panel which is permanently mounted to the frame.  So there you have it...$2000 computer rendered unusable because the little fans don't work anymore.  Sigh #1...

2) Long story short, I bought a new computer.  Going with a PC this time, much cheaper and more powerful.  However, when I got it, I discovered that the PC had a 1394 4-pin jack while my external hardrive (with ALL of my files, pics, etc) had a 1394 6-pin cable.  I still have to purchase a converter.  Sigh #2...

3) Due to the tough housing market, I have taken my condo off the market for now and will be renting it out for a year.  I have been trying to sell my condo since June.  But buyers have been extremely reluctant to make offers so I will rent it out a year to see what the market will be like then.  So I had to move all of my stuff into storage for now.  Moving is just not fun.  I HATE moving.  I still have to clean out some closets.  Sigh #3...  Oh, did I also mentioned that I have recently moved offices at work too?  Sigh #4...

In other news...we are starting to interview wedding photographers.  I want to talk to at least three different groups just to get a feel of what we like. 

Also congratulations to our friends S&S in welcoming their baby girl Emma and A&N in welcoming their baby boy Shiva!  So many babies, so little time!

Speaking of cute kids,  this is my favorite commercial of late!!  Pete Wiggins is such an adorable kid in this Kaiser Permanente commercial titled "When I was younger."