Ms. Ferris Wheel's Wild Ride Begins!

*deep breath*

...  and away we go! 

image by Idle Type via Wikipedia

So hellooooooooooooo hive!  Can I even tell you how surreal it is to be writing this post for you?!  I'm trying to find the words to describe the crazy shock and disbelief I feel right now, but to be honest I'm still a little bit worried that someone's gonna realize their mistake and yank my Bee card before I've even gotten started.  (That doesn't happen, right?  Right?!?)  Because I was just having this incredibly normal morning, waiting on hold with an incredibly normal telephone representative, when I decided to multitask (per uzsh) by checking my incredibly normal email.  I thoughtlessly clicked on the newest message in my inbox, but at the same moment I saw the words "think you'd be a great addition to the Weddingbee team" I was also hearing this representative woman insistently asking me for my employer identification number and password, so I didn't at all get to process what I was reading.  When I finally got off the phone and re-read the email (oh, only about a zillion times), that's when my morning became decidely not normal.  It all started to sink in.   

I... am... a... Bee!!!!!!!!  (Still shaking my head as I type that.  Wowza!)

And just who is this Bee, you're wondering?  Oh, I'm so very glad you asked.   

{the Ferris Wheels, on the Matterhorn at Disneyland}

By day (and some nights and about half the weekend {workaholics unite!}) I'm a psychologist working in a university counseling center with a part-time private practice.  By night I'm an absolute hobby fiend who always has my eye on the next craft/talent/skill/project du jour.  (Mr. Ferris Wheel would like to add that my hobbies include "planning the future" and "running the numbers" - not mutually exclusive.)  As you can probably already tell, I love ellipses, parentheses, hyphens, asterisks, brackets, and any other grammatical device or punctuation marks that will let me continue with ridiculously run-on sentences without the point being completely lost in all my wordiness.  To top it all off, I'm an optimist with a snappy sense of humor (if I do say so myself) and a meticulous eye for detail. 

Mr. Ferris Wheel is a psychologist as well (except kinda not quite because he doesn't graduate until May - small details), and by the time our wedding rolls around in November we will have been together for 6 amazing/stressful/formative/love-filled years (cue collective "aww...").  After slogging through 2 doctoral programs, 2 dissertations, 2 internships, 1 post-doc, 1 funemployment, 1 surgery, and 2 moves we decided we finally felt "ready" (whatever that means) to make our commitment all official and such.

For 11 months now we've been working to create a non-traditional, fun, chic, handmade wedding in a fairly typical hotel ballroom in downtown San Francisco.  (Don't worry - I'll explain all of that in more detail later.)  And I'm so glad to have y'all along for the ride!

{this time inside the Haunted Mansion}

Oh, and before I forget...  Why Ferris Wheel?  Well, the icon is adorable, I love carnival rides (Mr. FW could actually be convinced to ride a ferris wheel), it kinda fits with an unintentional circle-y wedding theme that's started to develop, and I happened to see a ferris wheel the day before getting my acceptance email (it's a sign!).  But Mr. FW had his reasons as well, and to prove it here is the verbatim list he sent me over Gchat:

[Mr. Ferris Wheel]:  i like ferris wheel for the follwoing reasons:
1. "Ms.Ferris Wheel" sounds better than all but a couple others
2. The picure is easily the coolest
3. The icon is representative of things in our wedding
4. It is something at the carnival that we could actually do together.  Because if you ever take me on one of those spinny things again i reserve the right to throw up on your shoes
5. i think ferris wheels are romantic-sounding
6.  I think Ferris Wheel IS actually something almost everyone would identify as being associated with a carnival.  Unlike, for example, bunting
7. Now I also know you're leaning towards it too
And 8. I think it lends itself more readily than some of the others to be incorporated into our wedding somehow
WHEW!
me:  Awesome
I'm gonna be Ms. Ferris Wheel
!!!!

Who could argue with such logic?!  So Ms. Ferris Wheel it was.

{celebrating at our favorite restaurant with a homemade ferris wheel card, given to me by Mr. FW}

Hang on tight, Hive, cuz I have a feeling this is going to be one wild, bumpy, and thrilling ride!  Whee!

P.S. Only after I sent many an excited message to other people did I realize that Ferris Wheel looks a lot like Ferris Whee! and that makes me infinitely happy.  Don't you agree?