{"id":95,"date":"2007-10-09T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethbrenneke.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2007-10-09T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:19:16","slug":"life-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Life is insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe this past month has been so crazy!  Let&#8217;s see what I&#8217;ve been doing:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n-September 22 I had a wedding with Lisa.  It could have been a lot worse, but it wasn&#8217;t great.  It was Lisa&#8217;s brother-in-law that was getting married, and everyone in the wedding knew Lisa.  They thought that meant they didn&#8217;t have to listen to her.  Needless to say, she was pretty upset by the end of the wedding, and with good reason.  We got some great pictures, which I&#8217;ll post later, but I was so happy to go home.<br \/>\n-The next day, I headed to the Irish Heritage Festival at Frontier Park in St. Charles.  My mom went with me, and we had fun.  Not really a whole lot there, but the entertainment was good (we saw dancers), Guinness flowed like water (yum!), and the fish and chips were excellent.  My mom got me a bracelet to put back for Christmas, and I bought a St. Brigid&#8217;s cross (meant to ward off evil) and a GORGEOUS necklace.  I will definitely go back next year.  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n-The next weekend I went to the Pirate Festival with Laura, and we had a great time.  We went on the last day, so a lot of vendors were gone, but I can definitely see the potential for it to be great.  I think I&#8217;ll go in garb next year, and see if I can get some pirate friends of mine to come visit (that means you Marlies!).  Saw some sword swallowers, Laura bought a cool flag, I got a small knife.  It was all good.  \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n-This Saturday I had a bbq at the parents (they bought a grill on clearance and wanted to try it out before it got too cold&#8230;.like it&#8217;s ever going to get cold!), and had a mini photo shoot with my brother Zack (again, I&#8217;ll post those later).  It&#8217;s really freaky how much we look alike.<br \/>\n-Sunday I had a small wedding at The Conservatory in Old Town St. Charles.  Gorgeous location, but the mosquitoes SUCK&#8230;I have a bite on my head!  Ugh.  Once that was over (we didn&#8217;t do the reception), Lisa and I went to Louis and Clark&#8217;s for lunch (the club salad is GINORMOUS).  Then, I headed over to the Grappa Grill for Tara&#8217;s shower, which I was late for.  I talked to Aimee and Abby, two friends from high school.  We planned Tara&#8217;s bachelorette party, then went to the mall for some shopping.  Ended up buying Jane Austen&#8217;s complete works in hardbound leather for only $20!  After that, hung out at Tara and Robert&#8217;s to sit in at their meeting with the DJ.  Busy day, but lots of fun.<br \/>\nThis week is crazy as well.  Tomorrow alone, I have 6 phone calls to make, 2 meetings to set up, about 750 pictures to edit, and somewhere in there try to get some shopping done for the Halloween party.  And I have some secret plans for Tara&#8217;s bachelorette party that I can&#8217;t reveal because Tara is probably reading this. \ud83d\ude09  And I really need to clean too.<br \/>\nSleep, I don&#8217;t need no stinking sleep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe this past month has been so crazy! Let&#8217;s see what I&#8217;ve been doing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}