mlibrarianus

....and they said it wouldn’t last. Managed to survive the wedding just fine. Thanks to a lot of help from my family and friends. If I had to do it over…I wouldn’t do all the food. That is the one mistake I made. I was so busy trying to get things on the table that I didn’t really get to circulate much. Day turned out to be nice but a bit chilly. All in all things went pretty smoothly (even if the rental company did forget to delivery the tables and chairs until I called them up – but they responded quickly and deducted the delivery charge).

I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. P.M. Forni, co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project – http://www.jhu.edu/civility/, at our Staff Development Day. He gave me a lot to think about and one being how impatient I’ve become in traffic. I recently went from a 15 mins. commute to 30-40 mins. commute if traffic isn’t too bad. I now have to fight more major commuter routes and am exposed to more traffic than I ever have in my life. I’ve found myself being terribly impatient and not liking the feeling.

I plan to work on being more civil (more patient) when in traffic. It really doesn’t get me anywhere any faster to be rude and inconsiderate plus it has a negative side effect on me. I started this morning by not riding on the bumper of the car in front of me and allowing those people who insist on being first to get in front of me. I can’t control them so why do I think I can keep them behind me (and if I am successful at that does it get me anywhere any faster? NO). Here’s to calmer blood pressure and better commutes!

...ding dong the bells are gonna chime!

Trying to plan a low stress, low key 2nd wedding isn’t as easy as one would think. Had my first “wedding” dream last night – basically just remember frantically running around trying to get everything done (we are having the reception at our house). May is coming all too quickly. I’m very confident and calm on the marriage side of it all but just a wee bit stressed on the wedding/reception details side (not to mention we are doing this on both “sides of the pond” so double the stress). All will work out just need to remember to breathe.