7 Quick Takes #10

1. 99 days til the wedding! (Yesterday was exactly 100!) O EM GEE. This is delightful but also kind of scary. 43 days until the bridal shower! The invites went out, the registries are now complete, I have my bridal shower dress and shoes!
   
   
   
   
   
2. I finally heard back from our priest Fr. Anthony and we are meeting with him next Friday! I cannot wait! (Thank You Lord, I have been awaiting that call eagerly and with much distress!) Fr. Anthony is an amazing priest that came to our parish over 6 months ago. He is as fluent in Polish as I am and he's not even Polish! He learned it, from scratch! He probably speaks it better than I do and it was my first language for me! I admire him for that. It's coming in handy for him in Chicago with the huge amount of Polish Catholics and Polish Catholic Parishes around here!
   
   
3. I heard back from our photographer and we scheduled an engagement session on the Tuesday after finals. We are having our session downtown Chicago....right in the beautiful city, then finishing off on North Ave Beach at sunset! So romantic.
   
   
   
4. I have been way too busy with exams in the past few weeks! I think we had like 13 exams within 3 weeks. And I have 7 final exams in the 5 days of next week. My Monday exam (is first of all, at 7AM) is a comprehensive pharmacology exam that covers material not only from this whole quarter, but from the whole year!!! That means I have to review hundreds of pages of material, going all the way back to fall 2012. I think it covers 400+ drugs. Insane, I tell you...insane. I took off work this weekend b/c if I didn't, I probably wouldn't get any sleep either.
   
   
   
5. I finally found an amazing and relatively cheap make-up artist for the wedding. And she was free to do a trial makeup session right on the day of our engagement session, which is a nice bonus!
   
   
6. I booked our honeymoon in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic earlier this week! That will be a nice getaway that will hopefully bring us closer together! Praise God that we can afford such a getaway!
   
   
   
   
   
7. As you can see, everything with the wedding is slowy coming together. I had to put the planning semi on-hold over the past 3 months because this was my most DIFFICULT quarter in all of pharmacy school. Just thinking about this past quarter (and the exams I have yet to tackle next week), gives me shivers. Needless to say, I am exhausted, stressed, and sleep-deprived. But come next Friday, ALL THE EXCITING THINGS START in my life! I will be finally able to shift my focus from pharmacy school to my wedding! I am planning on reading a few more catholic books on marriage and to study and pray more about marriage. My biggest challenge for this summer: I will have 3 months to LEARN NFP. I get out of school May 17, and the wedding is August 17...so exactly 3 months. Lord help me, I need Your Help for sure. I don't know what I'm doing at all. I hope it all comes together in time! Pray for me!

Check out my post on Chastity and Marriage


God Bless You All!


P.S. I will soon be posting pictures from our engagement session (which is in 10 days), so keep a lookout!

7 Quick takes - Facebook Status Edition

I've been super duper busy and stressed out over the past few weeks, hence no posts for a while. This is just a quick update for you guys. I decided to cut and paste my FB statuses - which is the quickest way to get everyone updated on what's been happening in my life. So Enjoy.

In summary:

•  Bridal shower coming up in 1.5 months, we're registering, sending out invitations, working on favors etc
• I have 11 exams in the next 3-4 weeks...so I am studying, studying, studying...sleeping little....I'm stressed out..and I have no life :-(

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HAPPY FRIDAY AND PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!1

Super Quick Quick Takes

 

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I PICKED UP MY BRIDAL GOWN YESTERDAY! 

I went with my mom and spent some good mother-daughter time in the fitting room of the House of Brides, trying on the dress, the veil, different hair styles, and taking pictures! It was a good day with my mom and I'm excited to finally have my dress! One bonus: it actually fits me almost perfectly..my seamstress that's making my bridesmaids' dresses will just have to adjust the length because I'm a bit vertically challenged :-)

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My Bridal shower invitations arrived last week! 

They're pretty darn cute I must say. I order them from vistaprint and got a 50% off deal, so they were a little over 50 cents each! What a deal!
While I was studying last Sunday, Greg put the invites inside of the envelopes and got them all ready for mailing. Well, not quite ready, because I am still in the midst of gathering everybody's addressess.

This is the shower invite. I blurred out all of our info but at least you can see the design. The aqua color is the color of our wedding.

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This coming Sunday, Greg and I are going to Target as well as to Bed Bath and Beyond to register for our bridal shower gifts. 

I'm excited to pick out kitchen and dining stuff for our new house! Exciting! Since I'll be queen of the kitchen, it's ok to demand nice pots, pans, silverware, and appliances haha. Afterwards, we are going to a baptism party for a daughter of a friend of ours. And then, of course, I have a bunch of assignments to do for pharmacy school. It never ends.

#4 These are some hairstyles I found on pinterest that I really love for my wedding.

As you can see, I love curls...probably because my hair is naturally wavy...and it curls when it gets rained on or when I put some mousse in it. 

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I wrote a pretty personal post about chastity, marriage, trusting God in difficulties, and how God taught me to trust him through Psalm 27. Please read it.

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Also, check out my post about my favorite quotes from last week!
Here is one:

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And finally, I wrote a post dedicated to my favorite Pope John Paul II, in commemoration of the 8th anniversary of his death. It is full of pictures of him...all the pictures I gathered throughout the years!

Have a Blessed Weekend!

In memory of my favorite pope and hero John Paul II

As you all know, today marks the 8th anniversary of the death of our beloved John Paul II. 

John Paul II is very near and dear to me and has always been, not only because he is a pope from my dear mother country, Poland, but also because his life and his writing have changed my life completely...And maybe also because THANKS TO HIM, the WALL OF COMMUNISM in my country and in Europe fell down and the system collapsed! Yes I believe it is all thanks to him and because of him! He's that amazing! He is the one that taught me THEOLOGY OF THE BODY and LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY....and answered the most fundamental questions about marriage and sexuality (via summaries by Christopher West, this book, and this book) and even shared some profound knowledge and secrets about the SONG OF SONGS. He taught me some of the most important and fundamental things in my whole entire life and he opened my eyes to the truth like no one has ever done before. I have at least 10-12 books either by him or about him. I have countless pictures (many of them hanging around my house), I have a few movies as well.

I miss him so terribly. . His love was comparable to that of Christ's...and so was his perseverance in suffering. His smile just amazes me everytime I look at his pictures. His wisdom even more so. I ask him to pray for me and Greg and for our marriage all the time. John Paul II is my go to man. My spiritual father...even though I never actually met him, or talked to him, or seen him in person (well, once, I caught a glimpse of him riding by in his pope mobile during his 1997 pilgrimage to Poland).

So, in his memory, here are some pictures of him that I collected over the years on my computer...

Polish for "I am joyful, you should be too"

In upper right corner, written in Polish: "You called us, so we came"

In Polish: (My own translation so may not be perfect) "I am with you and I will remain with you even from the house of the Father - and you, be with me in every prayer, and fulfill your vocations until the end"

in Polish "It's hard to say goodbye"

OUR POPE, OUR HERO, OUR SAINT, JOHN PAUL II, PRAY FOR US!