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More bullet points:

The dress is almost finished. At any rate, it is at a stage where it could be completed with staples and duct tape if it had to be, so there is no danger of me not having a dress. Yay!

We have a marriage license. I had a dream where we got into the wrong line and ended up with a fishing license, but this did not happen. We also have a nice friendly booklet about genetic testing and not getting AIDS and not doing drugs while pregnant. Um, thanks?

We have a rental car. We ended up with a PT Cruiser, which makes me feel like a cartoon gangster. We'll be driving that to Disneyland next week. Cue the Capering Music.

I have good news about my car - I finally got it in to Russ the Wonder Mechanic (anyone who wants a great mechanic in Redwood City, email me!) and it turns out that I have a cracked fan belt and some heat shield or something came loose and was making that horrible noise that was freaking me out last week. So I will have a happy beetle again and it won't be incredibly expensive. Whew. [update: actually, the noise wasn't coming from the loose thing - it was coming from a Giant Bolt which was loose in my car. It didn't come from my car; I probably picked it up on 880 and it got kicked up and stuck and was rattling around inside the body of the car. Which is good in that nothing was actually broken, but it's just so, so random. It did get me to take the car in so that the deteriorating fan belt could be discovered before it snapped, which is a good thing. I saw the one he took out, and it was not pretty. I also finally have two working headlights.]

I seem to be holding together pretty well, although I did snap at Dennis when we went to get the marriage license, because the parking garage was confusing and he wasn't going the right way and it was just so very very stressful. And, of course, that was all about the parking garage and not at all about being sort of squirrelly because we were going to get a marriage license. Fortunately, Dennis knows me very well and let me be snippy and then encouraged me to do it more this week if it helps, right down to suggesting phrases I might enjoy using. So then I just started laughing. If I can hold on to that, I think we're going to be just fine.
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