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Prince William & Kate have set a wedding date – April 29 – and it’s already been declared a national holiday in England and Wales. I don’t think October 22nd was a holiday to anyone but me, Ted and our families and friends who got to take that day off of work. Speaking of, it’s been over a month (by a day!) since our wedding and I’m starting to get a tad bit antsy for our pro pics to come in. I’ve been stalking occasionally glancing at our photog’s website and I nearly leaped over the desk when I saw he posted one photo from our wedding on his home page. I am working on practicing the virtue of patience since he did let us know that it often takes between 4-6 weeks.

Guess what arrived on Saturday! That’s right…marriage certificates! So this morning I went to the Social Security Office to legally and officially change my name. Ted & I put down our new living room area rug this morning before he left for work so I wasn’t able to get there at 9 a.m. when they opened like I had hoped to. I was worried I’d be sitting in line wasting hours of time. I was in and out with a new middle and last name in 24 minutes. That has to be some kind of record! It took me 32 minutes to drive there! Needless to say I was fairly impressed with the effectiveness of Cincinnati’s SS office.

Ted will be working until midnight again and then he gets 4 glorious relaxing days off work! This will be his first real break since way before the wedding. We’ve been going non-stop with the house hunting, wedding, moving, unpacking, new job stuff and this beautiful 4-day weekend we intend to not do any cleaning and actually relax – eat food, watch tv and movies, go shopping, check out some of the sights in Cincy, and spend time with each other and my parents. It’s going to be fabulous and we are both really looking forward to it.

Today I am going to vacuum the unbelievably dusty stairs down to the basement (I seriously don’t think they’ve ever been cleaned) and organize all the boxes in the basement. I’m also going to work on thank you cards and reviewing the Ohio driver’s education online booklet since I’ll have to take a written test to transfer my license from Texas to Ohio. I’m dreading it. I haven’t taken a written driver’s test since I was 17. It sounds awful.

We have gorgeous weather here this week so far but we’re expecting it to get cold and rainy (and perhaps a few flurries) over Thanksgiving and while my parents are in town. They drove to Texarkana last night and today they are on the road to Tennessee. They should arrive sometime early tomorrow afternoon. We can’t wait to see them and show them around Cincy!