Below are the 18 most recent journal entries recorded in Shari's LiveJournal:

Friday, July 2nd, 2004
9:01 am	Oh My GOD I NEEEED Sleep!!!!! So, its been a while since I have written. We have been so busy. Today we close on the purchase of our business. We have moved to Louisville and are puchasing a MotoPhoto. More later. WhenI have sleep and can put entire thoughts together. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 18th, 2003
6:40 pm	Princess I took Princess to the Vet today to get her shaved. It was just like any other time I had taken her. I knew something was wrong when the Vets office called around 3. They told me that Princess had passed away while she was under ansthesia. Tk said that last night Princess had been acting weird, her head was shaking. I am going to miss her very much. So, this evening we went out to the Greenville Humane Society and picked out 2 new kittens. A boy, Sebastian and a girl, Bianca. I will try to post a picture later this week. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 21st, 2003
11:04 am	So, a few years ago I had a pilontial cyst removed from the base of my spine. At that time I noticed another cyst at the top of my spine, where my head meets my neck. The doctors told me not to worry about it until it either got bigger, hurt, or abscessed. Well, over the weekend it began to hurt and seemed bigger and came to a head. I called my doctor on Wednesday and the quickest he could see me was on September 2 -- the same day as my bridal portrait. So I called the surgon who did the surgry and he can see me next friday. I hope that he only gives me antibiotics because with how long it took to heal from the other cyst I have no desire to go through that during the wedding. Oh well, I will give updates as they come. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, August 1st, 2003
11:05 am	My mom's nextdoor neighbor was just diagnosed with utern cancer on Tuesday. She has to go and get a hysterectomy on next Tuesday. The doctors say that if you had to get a type of cancer this was the one of the best to get because you can usually beat it. (Comment on this)
9:55 am	I can’t believe I spent all that time getting ready for dinner club last night and only 3 people showed up. I had so much leftover food it was obscene. We had a good time though Karp, Toby, Brandon and I. It reminded me of times in college where I was the only girl with a group of guys (there was a reason I joined a sorority – more female interaction). We actually got to sit at the kitchen table and eat and talk. It was the last dinner club I will host before I get married in 6 weeks!! So, where was everyone? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 28th, 2003
9:08 pm	I am so excited. I just got back from Kentucky where TK and I had a shower and a party held in our honor. We got some great presents. I received 2 acceptances to the wedding, so I know that there will be at least 24 people (including the wedding party and parents). (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 24th, 2003
2:11 pm	I just wanted everyone to know that I have today mailed almost all of my wedding invitations. I can't tell you how relieved I am to have them out of my living room. Now maybe people will go back to normal and quit calling me. I know that sounds funny, but every time I was emersed in the invitation pile ( I mean literally trapped beneath the mounds of paper and crap that goes along with the invitations) I would get a phone call. Not just telemarketers, but people I genuinley care about, would call me. All I could think about during these conversations was "man, I was on a roll". It just seemed like Murphy's law was in high frequency at my house. Even this morning when I went to deposit the invites in the mail (imagine me with 4 boxes precariously balenced getting out of my car) I got a call on my cell and could not ignor it because I had the office phones forwarded to my cell. It was my mom looking for my dad. He was at home, not with me. Oh well, now I am sure my phone will ring only once a night (perhaps while I am in the bathroom). (Comment on this)
2:02 pm	I learned some sad news yesterday that pulled at my heart. THis woman, Christy, that I see a few times a week at the jail has a daughter that is getting married a week after me. Christy and her husband had been divorced for several years, but had kept in close contact over the years and remained friends. I learned last week that Billy was really sick and was at Kennestone Hospital and was not expected to live for very long. He died on Monday night. It really makes me sad to know that 2 monthes before her wedding her father dies and will never see her on her wedding day. It is things like this that make me glad for everything that I have. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
10:01 am	... so its been a while The last few times I have tried to update my journal it has been lost during spell chack, therefore please excuse any mispelled words. It seems that once I have written my entry, i have gotten it out of my system and have no desire to rewrite it. Wedding plans have dominated my life recently. I have in the past two days learned how to do caligraphy. As long as I have my cheat sheet printed from the computer I seem to do ok. TK and I are almost done with our Sponson COuple thing. It has made me look at what type of family I come from and how i have developed from it. We also went over our expectations for the marriage. Who is to do what and so forth. Redheadedgirl and I have the same views on babys at this time. They are cute but I still like to give them back to their parents when I am done. We moved my dining room up to Greenville Friday. Next time I move we are hiring movers. I lvoe my father, but he makes moving things very stressful. I got so mad at him friday he thought we were not going to have fathers day, we did only because I already had everything. After he ticked me off he went to the lake and pissed off my mom. He was on a roll this weekend. I asked Mrs. B to ahrink her side of the guest list some. I have 225 invitations to send, 100 for my side plus all of my and TK's friends and Mrs. B had invited 171 couples. Do you have any idea how many people that would be if everyone showed up ... over 500 people. I don;t want that big of a wedding. The church can handle the numbers, but the reception hall can't. Oh well, this has been my bridal moment for today. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 8th, 2003
1:17 pm	THANK YOU I just wanted to thank everyone who showed up for dinner on my birthday. It really meant a lot to me. A special thanks to redheaded girl who set the whole thing up. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 26th, 2003
9:10 am	So last week I got the estimate for the repairs to my car. At the dealership, where we have gotten most of our work done, they said it would cost me $1525.00 to get it repaired. I told then thank you for their time, but i am going to shop around for a better price. I know I am a girl and this is about my car, but I was not born yesterday. I know that I can get the work done for less somewhere else. SO, Tk's roommate Zac said he would do it, after I called him to verify what the dealership said was wrong with the car (I do not trust car service people further than I can throw them). He said parts should run me around $300 and that he would do the work for cost. I think this is great since it saves me over a thousand dollars. So, while I am away in The Bahamas ( I leave tomorrow morning) my car will be being fixed. The only glitch seems to be how to get my car back to me. Oh well, small problem in the grand scheme of things. I will miss dinner club this week. Every time I hear Benji is cooking it always seems I am out of town. Better luck next time. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 20th, 2003
12:21 pm	Rantings and Thoughts for today I hate having something explained to me multiple times. I took my car in to the shop today to get the emissions test done so I can get my sticker. My Check Engine light has been on for a few months, but the service tech said not to worry about it. I know that my car is going to fail only because it has the check engine light on, so I told the tech that it was on. Well, my father told me to only get the inspection done. So I am, but they are still going to have to fix the check engine light (one of my sensors is out of whack in my catalytic converter). So, I told the tech to run the emissions test and then when it told him what was wrong to fix that problem. He said that the test would not tell exactly what was wrong and so he needed to run a diagnostic test (at $80). I said to do this only if it fails. Well, none of this was good enough for my father and he had to call and check to make sure that I had done the correct thing (I had). And then he proceeds to tell me why these things must be done in this order. The tech already explained it to me yesterday on the phone and today, so hearing it again perturbed me greatly. On a lighter note... Christine and I went to look at fabric for the brides maid dresses. I found some really pretty ones. Christine said she thought that hot pink would not be complete without the Clemson orange boa's to go as trim. So, this weekend my Mom and I will make the final decision. For those of you who read my journal and travel... I am looking for an inexpensive flight to Newark in June for a Wedding I am in. Does anyone have websites or agencies they could refer me to. I refuse to pay as much to go to New Jersey as it costs to go to The Bahamas. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 5th, 2003
12:43 pm	I feel like a chicken with its head cut off. I seem to run around all the time and still don't get things done. I am not like a lot of people I know, I cannot stay up late doing things (my mind shuts down after about 8pm for work stuff). I still have to write my thank you notes for christmas. I have a bunch of wedding things that need to get done so that other people can begin working on them. I am now only 2 days behind at work, compared to a week behind on friday. Everything just keeps piling up. I am ready to go away for a week. My mom and I are going to stay in the bahamas after the funeral for a few days to relax, so that should be nice. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003
10:59 am	There is nothing that can prepare you for the passing of someone you love. My father and I flew down to Nassau on Thurs. to see my aunt. She was not in good condition when we got there. She couldn't talk above a whisper. I showed her pictures of my brother and of myself in my wedding gown. She had been planning to come to the States for my wedding, her first time on her native soil in over 10 years. Thursday night she went into a coma and never woke up. She was on great amount of morphine. We were all sure she was going to die on Friday (she was only taking 2 breaths a minute, too slow to get much oxygen to your brain), but she was such a strong lady that she defied medical opinion. I didn't sleep well that night and went down to sit with her around 3am. On Saturday she was much more alert opening her eyes, but she was still in a coma. Finally at 10:55pm she drew her last breath and was gone. Everyone else had already dealt with the fact that Sari was dying, but I had only known for 2 weeks and was not prepared to have so little time with her. I had been planing a trip to visit her in London this Winter. Now I have to plan another trip down to Nassau for the Funeral. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 16th, 2003
12:04 am	I regret to inform you that I will be going away for about a week. I got a call that my aunt will not last much longer and wants to see my dad before she dies. So he and I are flying down to Nassau later today to be with her. I want more time to get to know her since she has always lived so far away, but time is fleeting. I am sorry that I will have to miss Benjy's first attempt at dinner club, but I know he will do a fantastic job. My thoughts will be with you all while I am gone. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 13th, 2003
1:18 pm	I had a great weekend. TK and I decided to spend this one apart so we could both get things done at our respective houses. I heard that the Mikasa store at Perimeter was closing and they were having a huge sale. SO I went to the sale on my way home from work Friday. I found some cute Christmas desert plates, a center piece bowl, and an angle candle holder. When Christine came home and saw what I got she decided that we had to go back Saturday. We got up early (9:30) and headed out there. It was so much fun, but I spent more than I should have. The rest of the day was spent organizing all my papers that have just been strewn about the house and reading the Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. t0bias was supposed to go out to dinner with Sarah and I, but the games that the boys were playing lasted until almost 11pm, so Sarah and I went to Mo Mo Ya at about 7:30. When the boys were done playing t0bias and brYan and brYan's friend David came over and we went out to Intermezzo for drinks and dessert. I was very proud of myself for staying out until 2:30, it doesn't happen all that often. Sunday was very lazy. I read most of the day. Only 150 pages left. MUST FINISH. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 8th, 2003
9:51 am	I just got back to work Monday after having been off for 2 weeks. When I am gone we have someone come into the office and do the letters that are the main part of my job. She goes and gets the addresses and then comes back to the office and uses a merge program to send out letters. Well, this time she went and got the addresses, but she left them for me to do. So, you can imagine my surprise on Monday when I walk into the office and see a stack of over 150 letters that need their data entered and printed and signed...you get the picture. I also have to prepare the books to go off to the accountants (I have only done through July). So, needless to say, my week has been harried. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 7th, 2003
9:31 am	Very Sad News Well, I finally figured this thing out yesterday at work, but my boss came back to the office and I had to sign off. I finally figured out how to put people on my Friends list so now I don't have to go into redheadedgirl's all the time. I did not have a great day yesterday. Over Christmas, Christine tracked me down because I I had a weird msg. on our machine. I was receiving a huge package from my Aunt in London and they needed some information from me. I was a little curious about the 300 pound package, so I called my Aunt. I got her answering machine both on Christmas eve and on Christmas day. It was weird that she never called me back. But the more troubling fact was that none of my family had received a Christmas card from her (I usually get 2 or 3) and I had not heard from her since July. Well, the mystery was solved yesterday after a very emotional call to London. I finally got someone at my Aunt's house, her friend Fleur. My Aunt has cancer and has only weeks to live. She is leaving Thursday to go to the Bahamas with Fleur to die in peace and warmth. This whole thing has been a shock for me. I spent yesterday afternoon crying. I wish I had gotten to see her last year, but school always got in the way. Thats all that I have to say right now. (2 Comments |Comment on this)