Some of you may know, but for those of you who do not and to provide future contact details, I wanted to make a post regarding my name change. I will be taking Matt's last name and will become Corinne Elizabeth Coates. Some nicknames and phrase regarding this new name have begun to emerge already. Mostly courtsey of Sam and Aisling, but other suggestions are welcome.
I have a new Gmail account already and you can begin using this if you would like:
coates.corinne@gmail.com
30 October 2009
16 October 2009
A Gregorian calendar
365 days in the majority of years, approximately 76 years in a lifetime.
We have 42 days (or approx 0.0015% of life) until the evening before the big day and everyone asks how things are going..... Those who are married usually ask with a look of knowing intimidation, those who are not married are probably going and just overwhelmingly excited - awesome.
We've also got a Birthday today. Corinne is now 25. A quarter century. There is applause in the air and I am thinking of inventive ways to celebrate, determined that a respectable cricket score is not lost in the build-up to the 28th of the Eleventh.
Corinne is also working every hour of the day, her routine at the moment is crippling and I'm carefully monitoring her frame of mind and physical condition, I'm working her hard. Any day that starts at 6am and does not physically stop until 10pm is asking a lot. It usually begins with her classes at Boston Latin. Her skills have turned her from an observer in the classroom to being requested by the kids within just two weeks and she's basically a full time teacher during her training. I delight in the stories she comes home with, telling me of her interactions with kids and staff alike - it reminds me how many social etiquettes are formulated in an educational environment and brings me back to my own fun times in school. It also reminds me how tough continual testing of knowledge can be on a student and the teacher.
Corinne is also working at an Orthodox Jewish School and has just as rich story from there. Completely different environment but all the same interactions - children are fascinating and I feel as though I am only just out of that age.
People have also been asking about our Registry and although link have been posted, they are a little older in the posts now.
http://corinneandmattcoates.blogspot.com/2009/08/registering.html
the link is above to bring it to the front again.
More to follow on activities over the weekend of the 28th November but for those reading this and attending think of the following
Wedding, drinking, talking, eating, drinking, dancing, travelling, drinking, eating, talking - then we go to the after party ;-)
more soon.
We have 42 days (or approx 0.0015% of life) until the evening before the big day and everyone asks how things are going..... Those who are married usually ask with a look of knowing intimidation, those who are not married are probably going and just overwhelmingly excited - awesome.
We've also got a Birthday today. Corinne is now 25. A quarter century. There is applause in the air and I am thinking of inventive ways to celebrate, determined that a respectable cricket score is not lost in the build-up to the 28th of the Eleventh.
Corinne is also working every hour of the day, her routine at the moment is crippling and I'm carefully monitoring her frame of mind and physical condition, I'm working her hard. Any day that starts at 6am and does not physically stop until 10pm is asking a lot. It usually begins with her classes at Boston Latin. Her skills have turned her from an observer in the classroom to being requested by the kids within just two weeks and she's basically a full time teacher during her training. I delight in the stories she comes home with, telling me of her interactions with kids and staff alike - it reminds me how many social etiquettes are formulated in an educational environment and brings me back to my own fun times in school. It also reminds me how tough continual testing of knowledge can be on a student and the teacher.
Corinne is also working at an Orthodox Jewish School and has just as rich story from there. Completely different environment but all the same interactions - children are fascinating and I feel as though I am only just out of that age.
People have also been asking about our Registry and although link have been posted, they are a little older in the posts now.
http://corinneandmattcoates.blogspot.com/2009/08/registering.html
the link is above to bring it to the front again.
More to follow on activities over the weekend of the 28th November but for those reading this and attending think of the following
Wedding, drinking, talking, eating, drinking, dancing, travelling, drinking, eating, talking - then we go to the after party ;-)
more soon.
11 October 2009
Bachelorette Party!
This weekend I headed to NYC with my friend Marissa and my cousin and maid of honor, Rachael. My friends Aisling and Brianna live in NY and volunteered to throw me a bachelorette party. The two of them have known me for about 15 years through the best and toughest times and I love them like sisters. I knew they would put together something amazing so I was more than thrilled to have them take on that task. I also was not quite sure what to expect, but that always makes it more exciting.
We drove down on Friday night late to Astoria to stay at Aisling's. Saturday we went to Alphabet City to visit Brianna in her new neighborhood and have brunch. We went to a great little place and then decided to take a little tour of the area and go outfit shopping for the evening in Union Square. We each found something cute and proceeded to head back to Queens to meet my friends Leanne and Caitlin who had just arrived from Boston. We got ready and headed to our first stop, Brother Jimmy's. Aisling works here and it is a really fun and friendly BBQ place that did a great job taking care of us with "fish bowls" and frickles (fried pickles). I then was told we would be going somewhere for a "show" and our main meal. The place we went to was called Lucky Cheng's and if you have not been there it is definitely an out of this world experience. It is described as a "downtown drag cabaret dinner theatre", but it is also an interactive experience for parties coming for birthdays, bachelorette parties, etc. Needless to say I became a part of the show on more than one occasion. Details will be left a mystery expect for a select few. I would not say it is the ideal place for all bachelorettes, but I had a great time and it was a hilarious, fun, completley unforgetbale mid point to the evening.
From there we headed out dancing at a place called "The Dark Room". We spent the next couple of hours getting down to our favorite guilty pleasure pop songs before calling it a night jamming out to some Punjabi dance music in the cab ride home. Overall, it was an awesome weekend and I could not have asked for a better group of people to spend it with. We were missing some of our dear ones (Katy, Laurie, Johannah, Brittany Malitsky, Holly and Alexis, etc.), but there is another mini bachelorette party, Boston style, that will hopefully include some of those who could not make it. Otherwise, bring on the wedding festivities! All of my amazing friends are going to be together and I am so excited and touched I will have so many of my loves together with me on my big day in the near future. Thanks so much to all of you made this weekend the best time a bachelorette could ask for! I love you!
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