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It’s been a good while since my last post here. As you’ve probably figured out if you’re a follower of The Adventures of Raquel™, most of my lack of time has to do with my upcoming wedding.

This Saturday is the big day and the arrangements have bitten quite a chunk off my free time. Plus a bunch of other stuff which has a timing that has converged to coincide with these days.

My bachelorette party was awesome. Thanking my wedding godmother and my godfather again here for planning the whole deal. Also thanking who attended for their very nice company. It was the best time I’ve had in quite some time. And if I’m not mistaken it was the first and only time anyone but my parents ever planned an event for me. Did I mention it was an awesome party? Because it was, and not only saying this because of the hot male stripper or waiter. The whole day was fun, and I finally went to a Luso-Nippon bakery where I’d been wanting to go for ages and ended up never going.

Last Friday my mother was scheduled to do an intervention at a hospital and I took the day off to be with her. She ended up not being allowed to do the medical exam because of some complications, probably to do with the fact that they left her without eating for almost 17 hours straight, and her liver isn’t the best working organ in the block.

So anyway, Friday was a different day, spent mostly on the hospital, but also with my dad, who I had lunch with, and trying my wedding dress at the store for the last time. The wedding dress tryout was the only excuse I could think of to convince my mother not to freak out because I tooka vacations day to be with her.

My aunt passed by the hospital and we chatted a bit when my mother was already taken to a place where visitors aren’t allowed. I hadn’t talked to her in ages, and I realized that I shouldn’t let so much time pass between meetups with her. She’s cool (and somewhat insane :P).

After my father passed by the hospital (a novelty that was surely influenced by my taking the day off to be with mom), we stayed a bit longer but ended up leaving him with her at almost 7 o’ clock, until the visit hours were over. We headed toward downtown on foot, but not going through the main avenue, instead through some less travelled streets. Found two interesting stores on the way downtown: a goth shop and an… well an ‘indie shop’ which had a ton of original, one-of-a-kind items and clothing, accessories, the works. The shop is called Crew Hassan (check out their website).

It was also my sweetie’s birthday last week and we had a family dinner on the day itself and then a dinner with friends this Saturday. My friend Ana and I expelled him from the kitchen all of Saturday afternoon, and made him a cake, of which I shall put some photos online some time. Learned a ton of stuff regarding cake-making from Ana, who’s slowly becoming a baking goddess.

Gave kitten three gifts, one of which were boxers I bought at Springfield with some origami instructions. The other two were Street Fighter IV (so he can kick my butt as vengeance for getting his kicked by me at Tekken repeatedly :P) and also Guitar Hero: Metallica. I think he liked them though we’ve only had the time to try out SFIV and the rest will have to be played later.

A bunch of other stuff has happened this past month but I’ll stick to talking about these more recent events.

This week will prove stressful since we have to take care of some things that couldn’t be handled before due to logistics and timing issues. My Google Calendar looks like a superstar’s calendar would look like. Tons of stuff to do on these next few days. I’m trying to keep it together despite being very tired of all the planning and scheduling/rescheduling, and to be quite honest, just wishing it was the day already so I can stop planning stuff, and no longer have to run around like a mad person to take care of so much stuff, and so on.

This is probably my last written post before I’m officially a married woman, and possily even the last one before I’m back from my honeymoon in Thailand. So wishing you all a nice Summer. Have fun.