counting down

Seeing that it's November and my wedding is getting closer and closer, I figured I should probably tell you how we're managing the countdown to the big day. We haven't been counting down days (though I'll probably start once we get down to about twenty or so). Rather, we've been measuring time with expiration dates on food. Any time we go grocery shopping, we search the store to find the food that has expiration dates around 18 December. We've even found things that expire on the very day we're getting married. We're slowly progressing toward more perishable foods. Currently we are on refrigerated Jello cups, fancy (Milano) cookies, store-brand pastrami, and a random jar of honey mustard that we found. It's so much fun counting down this way because we aren't getting caught up in the number of days. (I'm a firm believer that counting days makes time go by slower, and who wants that?) We're excited for when we're finally on meat and milk and bread, and other really perishable foods. Also, any time we find an expiration date for 18 December, we buy that item. We're saving the labels and are going to make a collage out of them with a wedding picture, as well as clippings from newspapers that have our wedding date on them.