My brain might just explode

I've gone back to school.

Totally last minute. Went into it completely unprepared. But I'm there.

(and by back to school I really mean I'm only doing one course, online)

Course started Monday. My login details for the course didn't get sent to me until very late on Monday. Naturally I was at my parents' all week in the land of no internet. They're on dial up still, so getting anything done was impossible. So I tried the library. Nope. (yeah, my hometown is light years behind when it comes to technology) Maybe our lone coffee shop will have a WiFi connection. Nope. So what I'm getting at here is I got NOTHING done all week on my course. I read the first chapter in my text, made a few notes but that was it. I get back to the city yesterday morning, login to see my first assignment is due today (today being Friday)! Seriously. So I was up until 2am last night (this morning?) reading a long-winded 8 page article, answering the related questions, reading another short article, doing those questions. The part I'm now stuck on is writing a summery of that short article. Its 3 paragraphs long. Its very short. How do you summaraize something that is already very well summeraized? Ugh.

I'm still in a rut as far as weightloss goes. I haven't gained any, so thats a good thing I guess.

My friend S is getting married next year. She's in full on planning mode now.
Dress? check.
Save the date cards? check.
DJ? check.
Photographer? check.
Invites? check.
Bobble for her hair (instead of a veil)? Check.
Venue? Check.
Flowers? Check (well, sort of. His aunt is going to look after the flowers for them)

We're going cake sampling tomorrow. She's doing all this pretty well on her own: her fiance is out of town frequently for work for months at a time sometimes. Her wedding party is mostly all in Ontario, the only one here is me. So I'm trying to help as much as I can. We're trying to do all this on a tight budget. She is panicking it won't happen. I assure her it will. I've already found her killer deals on a DJ and a photographer. Her $1200 dress we got for $500. We're going to do our own makeup on the big day, which is fine. And quite possibly hair as well. This worries me. I don't know how to do my own hair. I'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

I don't mind helping. I really don't. I used to work at the resort where she is getting married. I know the people and the place. I will be of any help I can be (since her MOH is being less that supportive and helpful right now). But I'm going crazy. Everyday its something about the wedding. Don't get me wrong here, I'm super excited and happy for them both. She's been waiting for him to pop the question and finally he did. I love her, she is one of my favorite people. Her and I together always leads to (good) trouble! I'm just tired of having to pull her down of the ledge when she starts freaking out over the wedding, and not being able to get everything she wants for her wedding. I've tried to tell her she'll have a fabulous wedding, but she also has to realize that when you're on a budget some of the finer, fancier things may not happen. And to have a great wedding you don't need a ginormous budget - she's got one of those wedding planning books that she is taking word for word. I'd like to throw that book of a bridge. And of course for what she wants the book says she'll need $10000+, which isn't an option for them. So, even though I'm going internally crazy I bite my tongue and lend my assistance to her.

What else....ummm......work is going well. Ironing out kinks as we go along. I'm still trying to deal with being lied to and mislead for the past 2.5years that I've been there. Its always night to know after such a long time you've been told to do things the wrong way. Yeah, its just about as great as it sounds. We're having our first department staff meeting in a year on Monday. I'm interested to see how it goes and what our new manager has to say. So far, things are goin well. Work sucks SOOOOOOOO much less now. Oh, and that school stuff I mentioned earlier that is driving my blood pressure up? Work is paying for that for me! Apparently this is something they encourage, but it was never made known to me. Go figure. And the email I got from my former boss asking how work was going and saying he misses us all wasn't the least bit awkward. Nope. Not at all.

Ok, now I'm off to try to stop my brain from oozing out my ears and write that summary that is due today.