So, besides the family tree thing, I've been MIA the past few days due to just plain old being overwhelmed.
Mr_Box gave me a good suggestion about how to find a photographer for little or no money for the wedding. I tried a few inquiries at the local college and didn't get any takers, so I posted an ad with craig's list. I got 5 responses right off the bat. I've been talking to them and yesterday I met one lady. She's actually a psycologist, but does photography as an amateur. I really like her as a person, but there's some question left in my mind. There was one pro, but his arrogance and an attempt to hold any pictures he takes hostage for more money down the road don't make him much of an option. The last of the viable responses I'm meeting at lunch today. It is a relief to have options, but at the same time this particular few days has been very trying for me emotionally. I don't feel competent to make a decision.
My Dad dropped in on me tuesday night on his way home from my grandmother's memorial. He spent the night. I'm still pretty mad at him for giving family heirlooms to my brother and not my sister and I. He was fishing around for the fiddle, which I took some place to be stored outside the apartment when he called to let me know he would be stopping by. I feel awful about that, but I'm just not ready to give it up yet. I did send him off with a couple of boxes of things I had picked up from gramma's. I also got him to sit down and help me sort out some of the pictures I've already scanned. He brought my gramma's birth certificate, marriage license, will and my grampa's pardon from the governor of california, which I scanned. The whole visit left me so emotionally upset that I spent most of the day yesterday sick to my stomach. A girl shouldn't feel that way about her father.
I have to go in next week for more doctor's visits. Nothing wrong with me, but my doctor needs to run some tests that I've been putting off. I hate having blood drawn. It's worse because it's a fasting test and I won't get coffee until after I have the draw.
