hey...
yup, im still here, still alive...
trying to organise a wedding right now, which is pretty time consuming specially when there are so many ifs...

so far we have the following sorted:
a dress
the main reception.
a colour scheme
invites
a rough date
best man etc

we don't have:
a venue,
an actual date.
everything else vital to going any further.

the snags we've hit so far are mainly finding somewhere suitable... Ben is not wanting a religious wedding, and i kinda agree as it would be an insult to a lot of the guests, so that kinda rules out a church wedding. Registry office really won't allow us to do what we'd like to do...
which means somewhere with a licence. the cheapest (nice) place is going to be around 600 quid altogether including the registrar's fees and venue hire etc, and whilst still *slightly* too small, doable. However, we don't have that money and won't for a while yet so we have to wait...
except i'd really like my dad to be able to give me away, and he's ill so i don't want to delay too much... so yeah... it's all interesting right now... really hoping that my fundraising ideas will be able to get us someway towards it at least... but its fun...

sara

some people who still link to me here means i do keep coming back.. however blogger is still being less reliable than LJ for me so im over there, at

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tawtami

in recent news....i may be applying for a new job, in the same company, but means im based in one location rather than several... which might be better for my dissertation which im not looking forwards to at all... to be honest.. but hey... could be worse... anyhow...i need to go and make pudding and then settle down to a film with Ben as it's niuce to see him...


hugs and cake.

sara

for those that read my LJ yoy'll know that things have gone kinda up pooh creek...as such, we now have no means of saving money for moving in July or our wedding so until i can either get a new job or some other way of gettign some money saved up im creating a holding account for anyone that might want to chip in a little... also if more details are wanted feel free to contact me.

sara


I can't make the link work on here... so http://www.livejournal.com/users/tawtami/59849.html is the place to go if you want to use the button... thanks in advance.

sara

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cheeky i know.. but those of you who read my LJ will know that my job has just been axed. Because im a grunt i don't get a deal on it. In itself its not so bad, but when you realise that my wages were mine and Ben's savings for the house we're going to be gettign and the upcoming wedding... it suddenly seems a lot less comfortable to just say shamne... so until i can think of something better... i'm being cheeky...

hey if people wanna update their links to my livejournal...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tawtami

please do.... and the big news for recent would be that im engaged to wed Ben.... :)

i spose that i should probably actually let people know stuff eh??

well the long and short of it is that this blog has moved, ive been happily plodding along at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tawtami for a fair while now, and i feel that, as im about to hit the big 21, and become officially old that that is where my heart lies.

so a final update and the goodbyes...

well, its quite possible that i havent been seen for a while, thats kinda cause ive been engulfed into a new hobby ; roleplaying. Partly bens fault, and partly some of my friends fault ;-) at the moment i seem to have participated in a lot of character creation for various systems, (vampire, werewolf, warhammer, call of kthulu, fireborne, spycraft, zombies for those who are interested) but am playing Mekton Zeta regularly, which is proving to be quite fun- its anime style game, based on d10 system, and if you think neon genesis evangelion you wont be too far off...
my character is now a Sgt Major, Rachel "Raven" Black, a member of morrigan squadron, who save the world on a regular basis during the current war against the enemy imperial mecha.

its quite fun, and seems to be satiating a couple of things i miss doing (acting, socialising for two). Another advantage to it is that it takes place in small groups which is perfect for an unsociable bugger like me. on thursday were possibly going to be starting 'cyberpunk' so i need to nick one of bens books to have a read up of it.

one last thing on this point, i was given my first ever die last monday, its a special 30th anniversary dungeons and dragons d20, special because all the high numbers are grouped together, hopefully ill be playing a system where i get to use it sometime :)

in other news things are generally good, cant believe im almost 21, and a week today ill be able to go to all bar one and such silly places... but hey - oh and abbie got married on saturday, so yeah, if you want to stay tuned into whats going on, then head over to http://www.livejournal.com/users/tawtami and you'll find me and all my crazy friends on there over there. otherwise, its been fun...

:)

im thinking about actually stopping this blog....
im much more likely to be found on livejournal for one... and im not sure that anyone reads this anymore.. im also suffering the whole thing of not having blogged on here in so long (in any real fashion) that i dont know where to begin or what to say...

if there is anyone that does read this then im sorry for the very sporadic updates right now... it may pick up.. it may not. i dont know