Wedding Blog

You guys have heard of Baby Brain, right? The way I understand it, it’s a condition that one may find oneself in while pregnant. Basically, you might become absentminded, spacey, and just generally out of it.

I think I’ve developed Wedding Brain. We’re five weeks out, and my head’s all over the place. I can’t focus – on wedding-related issues or otherwise, and it’s driving me (and Mr. Magnolia!) up the wall. (And no, I’m not pregnant… I’m sure of that!)

Yesterday afternoon I had a five minute conversation with our friend David about how he was hoping that I might puppy-sit for a few hours. This wasn’t a problem at all, so after work I ran over to his house to pick up the dog. I was a little distracted while I was there, because I was on the phone with my Maid of Honor, but I gathered Millie and her leash and had her tinkle before loading her into the car. Then I happily headed back toward my house, thinking about how we were going to run around in the backyard and play in the leaves. (I’m dying for a dog of my own, if you can’t tell…)

Halfway home, the dog started whining…. which was when I realized that I could not, for the life of me, remember if David had asked me to feed her or not. Seriously, I know that we talked for at least five minutes, but all I remember from our conversation was, “get Millie.”

I turned around to go back to his house and get Millie’s food and dish, simply because I figured it was better to do that then to let her go hungry for the evening. It turns out, David did forget to ask me to feed her (I don’t know what his excuse is!), but still - I could not believe how completely out of it I was!

Has anyone else noticed an increase in absent-minded behavior as they near their weddings? Because I need to know if this is going to get worse – I’ll have to start transcribing every conversation I have!