oh life
"I get so tired of listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there....it's so petty."
-Imelda Marcos
Thanks for all of your congratulations and whatnot! Planning this wedding is funny so far, because it's over a year away, so it's easy to just sort of go through choices of things and laugh off a thousand dollars here, a thousand dollars there, more champagne for everyone! I'm the most excessive person evvvvveerrrrrrrrr. Not that I have the bank account to backup my three hundred person guest list, or even anyone I'm related to has the bank account to back that up. But at this point, it's nice to just brainstorm.
Today we put down the deposit at the Andover Country Club, and I think it will be good. The wedding planner actually got married there less than a year ago and showed us her wedding album, and my mom cried. I was like, Mother, they're strangers.....but she still cried. The planner looked at me pointedly and said, 'You know, on my wedding day, I made sure my mom had all the hard drugs she needed.' I was like yeah, I get your message. Sedatives are in my mom's future, I'd say. She's pretty emotional. Know anyone else like that?
J and I are going on a cruise tomorrow morning and that will be fun, I hope. I think I will probably drink a lot and tan a lot and hopefully not get stuck in a Mexican jail for any reason. I have a real fear of foreign jails, I think it's because of that Claire Danes movie, Brokedown Palace. Is that what it was called? I think so.
Anyway, I'm going to miss the Lowell Folk Festival, so everyone go and eat something weird for me. It would actually be funny if you did, because whenever I'm at the folk festival, I'm starving and always just looking around for someone who's selling nachos. It's always cabbage and hummus and baklava and sausage or whatever. Yuck to ethnic variety!