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Remember when you were growing up and you’d come home from school, and ask your parents to help you with your math homework because you hated math and it was awful and made you cry? And your parents were all like “Sorry, that is some new fangled shiz math, I can’t help you with that”?
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Yes, I remember that too. Also a couple of years ago I was consulting in a classroom and they were literally doing multiplication in an entirely new way, and my mind was totally blown. I mean, I could get the answer…but totally only in the old way. The new way was weird and different and only like one-bazillionth of a second quicker. What’s the point?
This is how I feel about technology.
I have a laptop, an iPhone, and an iPad. I’ve got Facebook, Twitter, Google+, like twenty seven of my own personal, work, and/or wedding blogs, another bazillion blogs I don’t have time to follow as fully as I would like, three email accounts, and a virtual partridge in a pear tree. Ok, that’s a joke… it’s really a virtual pet.
It seems as if all this technology should be useful in wedding planning. Like, there should be some magical app that organizes all my wedding vendors’ contact info, timelines, deposit due dates, and all that stuff…but apparently I have to enter all that info myself, which is totally lame. I thought the iPad was magic? Oh wait, that’s just me!
I spent a bunch of time searching for apps online, and then realized that I hate making virtual lists anyway. I want a paper list that I can mark through or cross off in actual reality…clicking a trackpad to put a virtual check mark is not as satisfying. So here it is, my completely old school wedding checklist.
Photo taken by me and my new fangled iPhone in bad light.
On this awesome extra large sticky list, you can see exactly what needs to be done and what has been accomplished. Exactly one thing has been accomplished. What can I say, I’ve had the ennui (which I am recovering from, thanks for the concern and comments!).
Anyway, I’m curious…has technology aided you in your wedding process, or is technology like “new math” to you too?
I love lists! But while I like crossing things off with a pen like you I need to have my list with me at all times and that piece of paper would be mangled in no time. I settled on Task Pro App for my iPhone. Each item on a list can have sub-lists like you have above for “reception music”. It is awesome and even when you check something off it just puts it at the bottom in a “completed” section so I can still marvel at the things that are DONE.
Magic, you are probably the funniest bee ever! I literally had to force myself to stop laughing at your math analogy since people were walking by my cube wondering what could possibly be so funny about taxes. (The answer: absolutely nothing. Which is why I am changing careers!) Anywho, SO hysterical. But I agree with you on electronic checklists. The only good thing about them is that it is easier to carryforward a task that you just haven’t accomplished yet. So you know, maybe that aids in procrastination? Hmmmm…
The Knot’s stupid checklist is the bane of my existence. I would rather write everything myself than get 50billion reminder emails to meet with my non-existent florist by next Tuesday. I Have a master To Do list on my desktop (courtesy of Rainlendar–oh how I love that little program!) and I break it down into smaller ones when I’m actually working on wedding stuff away from the computer. That reminds me; gotta make a wanted pics list for our photography meeting! Good luck with your list, Magic!
Magic, I like crossing things off in reality too. Much more satisfying! And when I was trying to help kids do their new fangled multiplication… they kept doing it wrong and I just kept showing them the OLD GOOD way. That gets the right answer. HMMPH.
i <3 spreadsheets…excel or open office, it doesn’t matter. it’s like your list, only easier to add things you forgot later and still be able to read it, lol. plus you can put in equations that add up money spent and see what’s left in your budget…i’m a total spreadsheet NINJA!!!
thanks for the lol!
Seriously, why is up with ‘new math’ in schools? I totally don’t get it or electronic checklists. Pen to paper FTW!
Baaaahaha. Love the new math stuff. My parents TOTALLY used to say the same thing… uh, we never learned THAT…
I did a mix of both, lists on the computer and some written with a normal pen and paper.
I’m too overwhelmed by all of the technological options out there. I did the same as you! Old fashioned list in an old fashioned binder. I would have put it in a Trapper Keeper if they still made them. Now they just have iPad cases. Crazy kids.
Wedding website checklists definitely drive me crazy. Stress me out way too much haha. Microsoft one note and excel, though, have made my life soo much easier. If I was doing stuff with actual paper nothing would be organized or in one place.
Like Elephant, I did a mixture! Definitely had a lot of hand-written ones like yours though!!!
Until you posted this, I was not aware there was a “new math.” I’m going to keep pretending there isn’t one, because the old math was hard enough! 
this is freaking hilarious…. and yet I am so tempted to make a big ass sign like that for my own wedding at the end of this month…. JUST so I make sure I havent forgotten anything!
YES, on the new math haha! i tutor afterschool at the library and these kids come in with some new way of doing multiplication that i cannot figure out for the life of me and i feel so stupid trying to help them. i, too, revert to the “old way” and get the right answer, but that’s no help to them when they don’t understand how to get there themselves…sigh. my sister who is two years younger already did math differently than me back when we were in school and i could barely help her with homework…i agree, what’s the point?
YES, on the new math haha! i tutor afterschool at the library and these kids come in with some new way of doing multiplication that i cannot figure out for the life of me and i feel so stupid trying to help them. i, too, revert to the “old way” and get the right answer, but that’s no help to them when they don’t understand how to get there themselves…sigh. my sister who is two years younger already did math differently than me back when we were in school and i could barely help her with homework…i agree, what’s the point?
I love how under your post there is another post about a Microsoft 2010 giveaway with virtual seating charts and all… made me L-O-L
I love how under your post there is another post about a Microsoft 2010 giveaway with virtual seating charts and all… made me L-O-L
I also love paper lists, but I don’t often carry around paper and pen. If I don’t write my to-dos down, I don’t remember, so I’ve gotten really used to my 2Do Lite iPhone app, and actually like it quite a bit. It’s not as satisfying as scribbling things out … but at least I’m less forgetful!
Post-wedding I caught up to the 21st century and finally got an iPhone. I agree with Mrs. Hyena that it’s not quite as satisfying as scribbling things out, but it saves paper and is always with me! Pre-wedding I just used a giant white board.
oooooh I need to make e a list like that! I love the traditional paper & pencil.
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Mrs. Magic, Chapel Hill, NC Age and Occupation: 30, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Researcher Engagement Date: December 1, 2009 Wedding Date: October 2011 Venue: Barn at Valhalla About Me: I’m a tall drink of water (5’10”!) and a Southern bride with an enormous appetite for Mexican food, good deals, anything French, and all things wedding! By day I am lucky enough to work with individuals with autism and their families. By night, I’m even luckier to be able to spend time hanging out with awesome friends, crafting, shopping, thinking about exercising, and kicking it with Mr. Magic and our two cats. I tend to have sudden, intense cravings that will not be denied (seafood enchiladas! new jeans!) and I’m prone to being a disorganized mess of anxiety and stress. After waiting (and waiting!) to get engaged, I am finally planning the colorful, fun, fabulously awesome Fall wedding of our dreams. In an effort to share the fun and craziness that is wedding planning, I’m gonna blog about it for y’all---the good, the bad, and the pretty!
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