How I Spend My Evenings

It's 9:30pm, and I'm at work.

Now, my job is 9-5, so why am I still here? To be honest, I'm only here because of my printing needs. I've been working for the past two weeks on the order of service / information leaflets for our wedding.

I've gone on my merry way to work each morning hoping that it would be ready to print, and each day I've found a new problem with the document. The main issue was that I'd started it in Excel. Excel doesn't let you have different sized fonts unless it also increases the row height. I didn't want a crazily formatted booklet, so I figured I would have a play with fancy fonts in Photoshop on my laptop, save the text as JPEGs, and do a simple copy/paste into the Excel document when I was at work.

Well, it didn't work, because apparently my PC at work doesn't like the format that my laptop saves its images in. I had a bitter argument with each computer, and eventually decided to upload the Photoshop images to another blog I have running, and copy/paste them into the booklet.

Finally it worked, and I'm so relieved. There's five days left before the wedding, but only two more evenings I can stay late to use the printers, binders and other supplies.

Come on, did you really think I wouldn't rely on my work for a couple of freebies?

Anyway, I've been here since 5pm, printing and sticking and binding and in total silence. I did take a break to have a Feast though, and it was sooo worth it.

This is the finished product:

Sorry to have fuzzed out the text, but it's just his name on the left, my name on the right, and our married surname in the middle. What do you think? Can't believe it took four hours, right?

That's a "before" photo of me by the way, when I weighed about 170lbs. I'm glad to say I no longer look like that, but this was the photo that was used on our invitations, so it seemed fitting to use it on the wedding day itself too.

I kinda like looking back at this photo actually, because Hubby and I have both lost weight since then. Many people haven't seen us yet this year, so they will still know us like in the photo. I'm going to love walking down the aisle 2 stone lighter :)

Now I'm just sitting here waiting for Hubby to finish work and collect me on the way home. La-la-la...