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Still don't have my laptop in a usable state. I don't even have it in
this state, its still in NE (lol, I'm a huge dork). I accidentally left
it at Melissa's, but that will work out if Mom's friend Joe calls her
back and is willing to take a look at it.
Wedding.... I think it went well. Melissa was complaining about her dress ever since Kate decided which one she wanted. Granted not something I would have chosen for myself, but it wasn't as bad as Melissa made it out to be. I thought it was some stretchy tube-top kind of thing with 3-d flowers on it and a full skirt. It was 2 pcs, but the bottom part of the top covered the top of the skirt well enough, so there wasn't a gap when the girls leaned over. The top was strapless, but only slightly form fitting, and the flowers were embroidered, not 3-d. The skirts weren't full, they were A-line tea length. The whole weekend we were talking about things we would do differently when our weddings finally came along. We both decided that we would pick a color (maybe even a specific fabric) then have the bridesmaids pick out their own style so they all feel comfortable. Oh, and I'm definetly wearing flip-flops instead of heels. I'm already taller than Ben, no sense in making it worse, then complaining of sore feet for a week afterwards.
The only people I knew at the wedding were the bride, groom, maid of honor, and 1 bridesmaid. So I ended up sitting w/ Nancy's boyfriend Wes. He wins the record for irritating me the worst in the shortest time. He was criticizing the preacher's sermon(?) before we could even stand up to leave the pew; he said it was too much about why marriages fail. I said that sometimes people like to use contrasting points of view to drive a point home. He apparently didn't feel that was effective. Then he was saying that he doesn't believe in religion at all because his grandmother tried to raise he and his brother Catholic. Ok, I understand not liking how the Catholic church does things (I've been complaining about it for years myself) but to totally disregard every other religion based on the knowledge of one is ridiculous. I only ever go to mass on random holidays out of guilt, but that still doesn't mean that I don't have any sort of faith at all. Yeah, none of these are subjects that I would have brought up the first time meeting a person, especially while we were still standing in line inside the church for the recieving line. Wes was reading the program prior to the ceremony and noticed that Kate's mother's maiden name was the same as his, so he started babbling all about the geneology stuff to her mother IN THE RECIEVING LINE! I was ready to just push him out the door and loudly announce that today was the first time I'd ever met this moron. He made plenty of other stupid comments, but I'm tired of writing about them.
The reception was very pretty. They rented the Millard Social Hall. The only complaint that I had was the room was "L" shaped so the people in the back (me) couldn't see the cake and head table. Jessica and Matt finally got there around 8 or 9 and brought their new little baby, Ethan. He was soooo adorable! And really good, he was perfectly fine with people passing him around. Since I don't smoke, I got to hold him plenty while everyone else went outside for a cigarette. Yeah, this totally re-affirmed my desire to have children someday. Speaking of children, Kate had a baby when she was 16 or 17. She has an open adoption, so she gets to spend time with little Joey. He was the ring bearer. His relationship listed in the program was "A special little guy" since her grandparents still don't know. Denial is a wonderful thing...
They only had the hall til 10:30, so Melissa volunteered to have Nancy, Wes, Jessica, Matt, and Ethan come over for some pizza and beer. Well, neither of us wanted Wes, but oh well. Once everyone got there, they all decided to have a smoke, so they were pressed up against the screen door while I was sitting under the fan feeding Ethan.
Melissa had decided to ride w/ me to the reception since she was totally exhausted, so we had to drive back down to Bellevue to pick up her car and run some other errands on Sunday. I stopped by Mom's house quick to pick up my mail and other random things she got for me. I'm very glad I looked at my mail since Lithia had mailed me a check for retirement withholdings that never went into an account. Oh man, was that good timing, although the beginning of June would have been a bit better.
I couldn't fall asleep on Sunday night, so I woke up late on Monday, but I was only 10 min late to work, which is actually pretty normal for me. Before I left Omaha, I deposited that Lithia check at the ComFed branch on 88th and Center. They put a display thingy in the teller window and now have little cameras and monitors mounted on top of the tube thingies. It was very weird. All I could see of the teller was the part between her bangs and the rest of her hair, and that she needed to re-color it. I suppose its all for security so people can't rob them as easily, but what's a stupid cardboard backdrop going to do to stop a bank robber? I never really was a fan of that branch.
I loved seeing everyone this weekend, but it just made me realize how much stuff I've missed by staying in Ames for the summer. I didn't see Jessica the entire time she was pregnant and later found out she was severely depressed since she felt like no one was talking to her. It was so bad at one point that they feared for the baby's health. Granted I've never been pregnant, but at least if I was still at ADT with her, she would have had someone to talk to since both Kate and Melissa quit working there. I was in town the weekend she had her baby shower (it was the same weekend as Deanne's bridal shower), but I had to come back to Ames in time to get to work. I was able to see Melissa long enough to give her Jessica's gifts, though. I couldn't afford to go to Kate's bachelorette party the weekend before the wedding. Melissa has told me a few times that she tends to save up all her stresses and tells me about them since she's known m the longest out of the friends she still associates with. It seems like I've abandoned people and don't have the same relationship with them that I used to.
So on top of all this, my paycheck is still fucked up. I thought this time would be smoother since my name is on my account now and that was causing a delay before (even though Marit says she referenced my mom's name). My rent was due on the 1st and we have yet to pay it on time. I don't want our landlord, Randy, to think we're taking advantage of him. When I got to work on Monday, Linda told me that the money still hadn't been deducted from the Wells Fargo account, but that it should be there this week. I started crying. I felt horrible for it. I'm seriously considering finding a different job, one that has to be a little more established with the whole direct deposit thing. The owners, Marit and Richard left for 3 weeks, so she wrote me an actual check today since funds still haven't been deposited.
Wedding.... I think it went well. Melissa was complaining about her dress ever since Kate decided which one she wanted. Granted not something I would have chosen for myself, but it wasn't as bad as Melissa made it out to be. I thought it was some stretchy tube-top kind of thing with 3-d flowers on it and a full skirt. It was 2 pcs, but the bottom part of the top covered the top of the skirt well enough, so there wasn't a gap when the girls leaned over. The top was strapless, but only slightly form fitting, and the flowers were embroidered, not 3-d. The skirts weren't full, they were A-line tea length. The whole weekend we were talking about things we would do differently when our weddings finally came along. We both decided that we would pick a color (maybe even a specific fabric) then have the bridesmaids pick out their own style so they all feel comfortable. Oh, and I'm definetly wearing flip-flops instead of heels. I'm already taller than Ben, no sense in making it worse, then complaining of sore feet for a week afterwards.
The only people I knew at the wedding were the bride, groom, maid of honor, and 1 bridesmaid. So I ended up sitting w/ Nancy's boyfriend Wes. He wins the record for irritating me the worst in the shortest time. He was criticizing the preacher's sermon(?) before we could even stand up to leave the pew; he said it was too much about why marriages fail. I said that sometimes people like to use contrasting points of view to drive a point home. He apparently didn't feel that was effective. Then he was saying that he doesn't believe in religion at all because his grandmother tried to raise he and his brother Catholic. Ok, I understand not liking how the Catholic church does things (I've been complaining about it for years myself) but to totally disregard every other religion based on the knowledge of one is ridiculous. I only ever go to mass on random holidays out of guilt, but that still doesn't mean that I don't have any sort of faith at all. Yeah, none of these are subjects that I would have brought up the first time meeting a person, especially while we were still standing in line inside the church for the recieving line. Wes was reading the program prior to the ceremony and noticed that Kate's mother's maiden name was the same as his, so he started babbling all about the geneology stuff to her mother IN THE RECIEVING LINE! I was ready to just push him out the door and loudly announce that today was the first time I'd ever met this moron. He made plenty of other stupid comments, but I'm tired of writing about them.
The reception was very pretty. They rented the Millard Social Hall. The only complaint that I had was the room was "L" shaped so the people in the back (me) couldn't see the cake and head table. Jessica and Matt finally got there around 8 or 9 and brought their new little baby, Ethan. He was soooo adorable! And really good, he was perfectly fine with people passing him around. Since I don't smoke, I got to hold him plenty while everyone else went outside for a cigarette. Yeah, this totally re-affirmed my desire to have children someday. Speaking of children, Kate had a baby when she was 16 or 17. She has an open adoption, so she gets to spend time with little Joey. He was the ring bearer. His relationship listed in the program was "A special little guy" since her grandparents still don't know. Denial is a wonderful thing...
They only had the hall til 10:30, so Melissa volunteered to have Nancy, Wes, Jessica, Matt, and Ethan come over for some pizza and beer. Well, neither of us wanted Wes, but oh well. Once everyone got there, they all decided to have a smoke, so they were pressed up against the screen door while I was sitting under the fan feeding Ethan.
Melissa had decided to ride w/ me to the reception since she was totally exhausted, so we had to drive back down to Bellevue to pick up her car and run some other errands on Sunday. I stopped by Mom's house quick to pick up my mail and other random things she got for me. I'm very glad I looked at my mail since Lithia had mailed me a check for retirement withholdings that never went into an account. Oh man, was that good timing, although the beginning of June would have been a bit better.
I couldn't fall asleep on Sunday night, so I woke up late on Monday, but I was only 10 min late to work, which is actually pretty normal for me. Before I left Omaha, I deposited that Lithia check at the ComFed branch on 88th and Center. They put a display thingy in the teller window and now have little cameras and monitors mounted on top of the tube thingies. It was very weird. All I could see of the teller was the part between her bangs and the rest of her hair, and that she needed to re-color it. I suppose its all for security so people can't rob them as easily, but what's a stupid cardboard backdrop going to do to stop a bank robber? I never really was a fan of that branch.
I loved seeing everyone this weekend, but it just made me realize how much stuff I've missed by staying in Ames for the summer. I didn't see Jessica the entire time she was pregnant and later found out she was severely depressed since she felt like no one was talking to her. It was so bad at one point that they feared for the baby's health. Granted I've never been pregnant, but at least if I was still at ADT with her, she would have had someone to talk to since both Kate and Melissa quit working there. I was in town the weekend she had her baby shower (it was the same weekend as Deanne's bridal shower), but I had to come back to Ames in time to get to work. I was able to see Melissa long enough to give her Jessica's gifts, though. I couldn't afford to go to Kate's bachelorette party the weekend before the wedding. Melissa has told me a few times that she tends to save up all her stresses and tells me about them since she's known m the longest out of the friends she still associates with. It seems like I've abandoned people and don't have the same relationship with them that I used to.
So on top of all this, my paycheck is still fucked up. I thought this time would be smoother since my name is on my account now and that was causing a delay before (even though Marit says she referenced my mom's name). My rent was due on the 1st and we have yet to pay it on time. I don't want our landlord, Randy, to think we're taking advantage of him. When I got to work on Monday, Linda told me that the money still hadn't been deducted from the Wells Fargo account, but that it should be there this week. I started crying. I felt horrible for it. I'm seriously considering finding a different job, one that has to be a little more established with the whole direct deposit thing. The owners, Marit and Richard left for 3 weeks, so she wrote me an actual check today since funds still haven't been deposited.