Bless Your Heart

“british movies are always boring”

that’s what husband said last night while we were waiting for something exciting to happen during gosford park. it never did. and we just gave up and went to bed without finishing it which it unusual for us. i’m so disappointed. it had been on my list for so long. oh well. men in black is coming out this week so that will break the boring movie karma. we can not wait to see it!

we did get some excitement last night in the form of a huge thunderstorm. we even had hail! which was strange because it was over 90 degrees yesterday. our pond filled up to the brim it rained so much. afterwards we went to the grocery store and surveyed all the damage. the church in our neighborhood had 2 trees lose huge limbs. sticks and limbs all over the neighborhood. but we sure do need the rain around here. omg- how old and domestic am i that i’m talking about needing the rain??

wedding pics

here are a couple of pics from the wedding. they’re a little dark. once i get my snapshots back tonight i can scan some in. these came from the digital camera.

1st up is the family shot. from left: morgan, hale, mom, sara, marc, me, husband jon.

here;s one of just the couple:

twinkling out

an odd thing is happening to some of the blogs i read. they’re disappearing. 1st it was pocketpig . she started getting all inconsistent with her posts, then just stopped. then today i read that the date project and my blue house are both calling it quits! what’s going on? i take a couple of days off and this is what happends?

going to the chapel

well the wedding went really well. i can’t believe it still. it takes so long to get here then it’s over and done just like that. ok so i’ll hit the highlights:

rehearsal

was sooo long. amy (another b-maid) and i just knew we’d forget all of our instructions. it was a catholic ceremony which runs way longer than mine & amy’s 20 minute weddings. so they rushed us out because the next wedding rehearsal was about to start. this was funny- sara’s new last name is mellander and the next wedding on saturday was the mollander’s. rehearsal was a little late due to vp dick cheney being in town. they closed a couple of the interstates so traffic was a nightmare. after rehearsal we headed over to mama mellander’s for dinner. that was hands down the largest rehearsal dinner i’d ever been to. there were at least 70 people there. marc’s from north tonawanda ny so a ton of people flew in. it was a big ol’ bar b que. very good. after dinner i headed to the hampton inn where mom, sara, morgan, and i stayed together. we all stayed together the night before my wedding too, so it’s sort of tradition. one last girl’s night. of course we stayed up way late talking and the next morning came early.

wedding day

the wedding went well. everyone was beautiful. the wedding and reception all went smoothly. people danced, the food was good, and it was so nice to see all of my relatives. sara all of the sudden looked so grown up to me. but i only cried a little. i was a blubbering fool at my wedding so i was determined to make it through this one without falling apart. the reception was at the nascar speedway here so they opened up some doors for us to go through and see the cars racing around. that was neat. thing with a 1pm wedding though, the reception was over at 6. so we all went back over to mama mellander’s again. then a little later we went over to midtown sundries. they had kareoke and i remembered why i hate it so much. it’s so boring! it was so loud you couldn’t talk to each other and the people singing were not that good and the line to sing was so long we couldn’t participate so we only stayed an hour or so. we didn’t get to bed until almost 2. long happy day.

the aftermath

i lost my bridesmaid dress. i think i left it in marc & sara’s hotel room. oh well, you never wear them again anyway. yesterday husband and i took my cousins chanel & jon to lunch then to the airport. then we went home and napped the afternoon away. i was so tired. after being busy for so long it was so nice to have a day to do nothing. i’ll post pictures as soon as i get them. i hope they’re having a ball on their cruise. they are on an alaskan cruise right now. i can’t wait to see the pictures and hear all about it!

curses



i wish i knew a witchdoctor. just some crazy guy that would look like george clinton that i could drop in on occasionally to request curses, spells, and potions. my list of victims is growing. =) in the meantime i supposed i can just go here and curse someone online. thanks to m for the link. now, don’t look at me like that. i’m not being mean about it. but the lady that ruined my shirt today by spilling highlight mixture down my back where i didn’t notice it until i got home, well, she owes me a shirt. my hair looks cute by the way. today was my 1st real salon visit for the whole treatment ever. cut, highlight & style. she did a fantastico job but now i need a new shirt. the lady in the chair next to me showed my hairdresser lady a picture of herself that she’s sending in to playboy. and it was a nudie patootie picture!! she said she wanted hairdresser lady to see how nice her hair looked in the pic. wha?!

busy busy

last night i stayed up way late filling out place cards for the wedding. my sister totally forgot to do them. good thing she has such a good older sis huh? =) i’m off work the next 2 days but i’ll probably be busier than if i was at work. i’m meeting sara at 9 to hand off the place cards, then going to the doctor, then going to the dentist, then meeting sara at the hair salon, then i have to come home and clean the house. fun times.

they’ve screwed up husband’s schedule again. they sent him in on some sort of rescue mission at another store. today he’s working 6 am to 3pm then he has to go back in tonight at 10 to work until 6am tomorrow!! what is that all about?? he’s going to be exhausted and tomorrow is the rehearsal & rehearsal dinner. poor husband. good thing

i saw what looked to be a rather large bee on the ground in the parking lot here at work. upon closer inspection it was a sweet little hummingbird. he must have flown into a windshield or something. i was so sad. they are so beautiful, and you rarely see them and there he was and there was nothing i could do for him. it was interesting to see him in a non-flight status- usually you never really see their wings because they beat so fast.

when i was a child a humminbird flew into the picture window at my grandparent’s house. my grandfather put some hummingbird food/juice into a medicine dropper. i held the little bird in my hand as my grandmother tried to get it to drink. he was all woozy. but he finally started drinking. then my grandfather took him in his hand and held him up high and he flew away.

beds & bologna

last night husband and i went to my mom’s to get a bed for our guest room. it’s my sister morgan’s old twin bed. it’s easy to forget that a wedding is also a family reunion. we need a 2nd bed in the house just in case a stray relative needs a place to stay. anyway, while there my mom made jon his very first fried bologna sandwich. he was all excited. he loved it. nothing like trailer park food to get your night going! they discussed the yum factor of various fried mystery meats like spam. ew. i just can’t do it. they love it though. i think i heard somewhere that hawaii has the highest per capita spam consumption of any state in the u.s.. i wonder how true that is?

dress rescue

my mom found a lady who could fix sara’s dress and have it finished today. it’s very similar to this dress: and get this…she’s only charging $22!! that is so awesome. she was totally prepared to have to come up with 10 times that. wedding dress alterations can run into the hundreds of dollars. i spent almost $300 just on alterations! so hopefully this will be her only wedding disaster and all will go smoothly after that.

she’s back!

natalie’s back! her new blog is so cute. welcome back!