Sad/happy day

Tis the end of the ramblings of a young woman/her musings and memos.

I was married on Saturday to the love of my life in the Salt Lake City Temple for time and all eternity. My family - mom, dad, brothers and sisters were there and Matt's entire family, as well as dear, dear friends. It was so lovely. A complete dream day. It was more beautiful then I could have ever imagined. I owe so much to my in-laws for putting it all together and being so kind to me and welcoming me into the family. It's wonderful to be a part of it!

In honor of our new life, Matt and I (Matt may or may not actually write, but for sure he will be a huge contributor) we started a new blog - http://mattandangelicanelson.blogspot.com.

So long ramblings! You have been a joy to post on these past two years. But, as the classic song says - the best is yet to come!

Saying farewell to the lovely view outside my office

Would you pardon my violation based on my plea?

City of Chicago
Department of Revenue
P.O. Box 88290
Chicago, IL 60680-1290

April 20, 2010

Dear City of Chicago,

I am writing in regards to a street cleaning parking ticket I received on Thursday, April 15, 2010.

I apologize for the inconvenience my car must have caused the street cleaner that day. I did not leave it there for the purpose of being an inconvenience. I wish to be pardoned from this street cleaning violation as I believe I do not deserve it. I simply did not see any signs posted for street cleaning.

I am getting married this week, and my mind is in my various locations right now. I leave early for work and come home late everyday before the sun rises and sets, and must have missed them in the darkness The day of street cleaning, I had taken work off to complete a few wedding items, and left the house late that morning right as the street cleaner went past my car, as well as the ticket issuer. I would greatly appreciate being pardoned from this ticket.

Feel free to contact me with any questions, or follow-up of any kind.

Thank you very much,

Angelica Wachlin

FYI: The plea has been edited for blogging appropriate purposes. And as much as I'm going to miss Chicago, I'm not going miss the city's ridiculous parking tickets they love to hand as if it were candy. Boo City of Chicago ticket issuers!

Tap Dancing Award

All that hard work in Tap 101 at BYU-I really paid off.

Tiffany, Amanda and I won an award at our branch's variety show for our dance titled, "The Evolution of Dance". We danced to "Let it Rock" by Kevin Rudolph. Amanda and I tapped, Tiff was on pointe, there was about 10 seconds of ribbon dancing and then we finished it off with a little hip hop - whad up.

This dance might have just been the pinnacle of my single life. I can marry Matt happily now without any regrets.

You can check out the dance here.

Dear Roommates,

If you have been wondering where our dishes and utensils went, please do not be concerned. They were in my desk drawer at work. What's that you say? For weeks? Yes, about that...Sometimes I don't check my desk drawers. But, to make restitution, I'm bringing them all back in this Target bag to their true home.

P.S. Amanda - thank you for bringing home the 5 spoons that were in your own desk drawer and purse. Shermeka - thank you for being an example to us all of how not hoard dishes and utensils.

Embarassing

Always an embarassing moment when you spit your gum across your vice president's desk during a recap of your proposal for the agency-wide internal newsletter.

On a more positive note. My cute supervisor at work gave me this cute card along with a wonderful little wedding present. She's adorable.

Wedding plans are coming along. I'm just ecstatic to marry Matt. I wish I could just fill you in on what a wonderful man he is and how funny and kind he is and how he makes me smile every day. I could tell you story after story. A picture says a thousand words. And this just might say it all.

So back to wedding plans. Did I mention we're getting married April 24th in the Salt Lake City Temple? Yeah! I feel so blessed and lucky because everything is coming together and we have received so much help! Compliments of my in-laws, we have a beautiful reception hall, compliments of my good roommate Shermeka, we have a great photographer who is so personable and fun to work with, compliments of my good friend Angela, my flowers should be so pretty. Um, I absolutely love my dress and I can't wait for you guys to see our invitations, compliments of my wonderful professional designer friend, Chrissy. Compliments of my mom and best roommate and friend, Amanda, the invitations will get to you.

I really crush Matt a lot. I think he's handsome. Don't you?

Long Distance

Matt is in Houston and I am here in Chicago. Just for the interim.

Tonight I was in the home of a couple friend of mine. They've been married for 10 years. I was asking them about their relationship. During their story, the husband pulled out four big binders of love letters they had written back and forth during the six year courtship, most of which had been done long distance.

On my drive home, I reflected on Matt and I. We may not be great love letter writers, but we sure love using modern technology to bond us together during these months apart. Two examples of this.

Two: I sent Matt this picture in a text message today during work. My work girlfriends walked into my office carrying these after lunch and insisted I tie them behind my swivel chair. I think they're just as excited about Matt's and my engagement as we are. Look at those awesome balloons!!

One: We Skype almost every night. Yesterday Matt was making funny faces into the Skype camera, so I grabbed a few shots. I decided to post one of his most serious ones.

So basically long distance is treating us real well.

No paper binders for the kids though. Thank goodness for blogs.