What's "shoulders"?
Got the hair cut last night, short. Not drastic, but above my shoulders. Wanted to do a cute little style today, so put in like 4 separate styling products. Wearing a black shirt. So now I have shoulders reminiscent of a Selsun Blue commercial. NOT a good day.
Tonight, Jason and I are joining my friend Renae (the girl from Choir) and her fiance Neil, and going together to the magazine launch party for Southern Wedding Style Magazine (www.swsmag.com). It's being held at a place in downtown Peniscola called MY SPAYCE: The Event Place. It's owned by an allegedly native New Yorker, so let's see if he can't put his money where his mouth is.
If they catered bagels, we'd have our wedding there, regardless of the ambience, I swear it.
I'm wearing that same ivory tuxedo cocktail dress tonight, which was planned all along, and which turns out to be rather fortuitous, since I have various Tigi and Matrix products raining down on me in Colorodoan proportions, and no time to wash and re-style before the event, which starts at 7 (I only get home btwn 6:30 and 7 to begin with). Ends at 10. Good that it doesn't cut TOO much into my sleep time; I'm a crotchety little old lady, you know.
Also, my Dad gets these weird ideas into his head about things he hears on the news. He's a handful these days. More on that later.
We've had business visitors (why did I feel the need to specify "business"? As if we occasionally have carnival visitors instead?) at work on and off for the last two weeks, which has been nothing short of a joy. No, for real. I love being under a magnifying glass all day, every day; it makes my job so much more fulfilling. Truly.
Jason's buying us this colon-cleanse thing, as he is convinced that "colon blockage" is the reason both he and I have frequently disruptive tummies. This oughtta be interesting.
He started playing EQ again on Saturday night, with my blessing; I needed time to catch up on reading and wedding planning and my organizing of stuff (the latter of which is ongoing for life. If I am ever Canonized, I will be known as Our Lady of Perpetual Motion). So it's worked out so far... easing into the EQ on a case-by-case basis.
Our Moms both made us colossal Easter baskets, and so we have jelly beans and Whoppers up to our eyeballs. You're all welcome to come grab some. Or all. We're not picky (whatever neither of us will touch winds up in the kitchen at my office anyway).
Pretty positive I've found the perfect reception site for the wedding, so am stoked about that. Caterer must be in-house, looking for a work-around to that one, though it's not bloody likely. My friend Jessica's family owns a bakery; they gave us a cupcake tower as an engagement present for our party, and it was amazingly good (I ate waaaay too much red velvet cake!), so they'll do our wedding cake, I figure. Got the photog, videog, cake, reception site and caterer all lined-up then (got to go over caterer's menu/pricing), my own dress and shoes... Now I need a veil, the bridesmaids' dresses, flowers, groomsmens' suits/tuxedoes, etc., etc..... And probably a gazillion other things I'm not even considering at the moment. And not making another move until I finish reading the 8th ed. of the Bridal Bargains Book, which is a great resource for info on how to save money and what scams and "pitfalls" to look out for. Great book, but so heavily laden with typographical and spelling errors that I emailed the authors to alert them to the shoddiness of their editing (my closing line was, "In short: good idea to skimp on wedding flowers; BAD idea to skimp on copy editing." The email bounced back, so I called the phone number listed on their website, and left a voicemail (their msg said they were on vacation). That was last Wednesday-ish. Yesterday, I got a phone call from one of the authors (a husband-and-wife team) apologizing profusely for the lousy editing job, saying that it was their fault for rushing to get the book to print before deadline without taking the time to edit it. I've got to touch-up the email with more specifics, and he asked me to send it to his email addy again (don't worry, I'm not editing their book for free; there are so many mistakes per page that the 3 specific instances I'm pointing out to him -- as in, a girl who will allegedly "be" the dress, rather than "buy" the dress -- will be a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the book, which needs to seriously be edited with a fine-toothed comb. 'Cause combs are so good at editing! :)
Evidently there are 2 traffic accidents on the easbound side of I-10, meaning my commute is about to suck royally. Jason called to warn me. I love that man. He went to dinner with his Parents and brother last night, to celebrate his Dad's bday (which was Sunday), and they were done by the time I got into town after work, so he met me outside the salon just before I went in, just to give me a hug and a kiss! So he says... I truly and honestly believe he just wanted one more chance to say goodbye to my hair. I cut off about 8 inches last night, which is apparently what everybody's doing (I keep seeing friends noting in their Facebook updates that they're cutting off all their hair), so I don't feel cool or trendsetty at all.
OK, I have nothing fun to contribute, other than that Jennifer is visiting tomorrow!!! And we're music-swapping, which is always a good time! :)
Have a good night, folks!
Tonight, Jason and I are joining my friend Renae (the girl from Choir) and her fiance Neil, and going together to the magazine launch party for Southern Wedding Style Magazine (www.swsmag.com). It's being held at a place in downtown Peniscola called MY SPAYCE: The Event Place. It's owned by an allegedly native New Yorker, so let's see if he can't put his money where his mouth is.
If they catered bagels, we'd have our wedding there, regardless of the ambience, I swear it.
I'm wearing that same ivory tuxedo cocktail dress tonight, which was planned all along, and which turns out to be rather fortuitous, since I have various Tigi and Matrix products raining down on me in Colorodoan proportions, and no time to wash and re-style before the event, which starts at 7 (I only get home btwn 6:30 and 7 to begin with). Ends at 10. Good that it doesn't cut TOO much into my sleep time; I'm a crotchety little old lady, you know.
Also, my Dad gets these weird ideas into his head about things he hears on the news. He's a handful these days. More on that later.
We've had business visitors (why did I feel the need to specify "business"? As if we occasionally have carnival visitors instead?) at work on and off for the last two weeks, which has been nothing short of a joy. No, for real. I love being under a magnifying glass all day, every day; it makes my job so much more fulfilling. Truly.
Jason's buying us this colon-cleanse thing, as he is convinced that "colon blockage" is the reason both he and I have frequently disruptive tummies. This oughtta be interesting.
He started playing EQ again on Saturday night, with my blessing; I needed time to catch up on reading and wedding planning and my organizing of stuff (the latter of which is ongoing for life. If I am ever Canonized, I will be known as Our Lady of Perpetual Motion). So it's worked out so far... easing into the EQ on a case-by-case basis.
Our Moms both made us colossal Easter baskets, and so we have jelly beans and Whoppers up to our eyeballs. You're all welcome to come grab some. Or all. We're not picky (whatever neither of us will touch winds up in the kitchen at my office anyway).
Pretty positive I've found the perfect reception site for the wedding, so am stoked about that. Caterer must be in-house, looking for a work-around to that one, though it's not bloody likely. My friend Jessica's family owns a bakery; they gave us a cupcake tower as an engagement present for our party, and it was amazingly good (I ate waaaay too much red velvet cake!), so they'll do our wedding cake, I figure. Got the photog, videog, cake, reception site and caterer all lined-up then (got to go over caterer's menu/pricing), my own dress and shoes... Now I need a veil, the bridesmaids' dresses, flowers, groomsmens' suits/tuxedoes, etc., etc..... And probably a gazillion other things I'm not even considering at the moment. And not making another move until I finish reading the 8th ed. of the Bridal Bargains Book, which is a great resource for info on how to save money and what scams and "pitfalls" to look out for. Great book, but so heavily laden with typographical and spelling errors that I emailed the authors to alert them to the shoddiness of their editing (my closing line was, "In short: good idea to skimp on wedding flowers; BAD idea to skimp on copy editing." The email bounced back, so I called the phone number listed on their website, and left a voicemail (their msg said they were on vacation). That was last Wednesday-ish. Yesterday, I got a phone call from one of the authors (a husband-and-wife team) apologizing profusely for the lousy editing job, saying that it was their fault for rushing to get the book to print before deadline without taking the time to edit it. I've got to touch-up the email with more specifics, and he asked me to send it to his email addy again (don't worry, I'm not editing their book for free; there are so many mistakes per page that the 3 specific instances I'm pointing out to him -- as in, a girl who will allegedly "be" the dress, rather than "buy" the dress -- will be a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the book, which needs to seriously be edited with a fine-toothed comb. 'Cause combs are so good at editing! :)
Evidently there are 2 traffic accidents on the easbound side of I-10, meaning my commute is about to suck royally. Jason called to warn me. I love that man. He went to dinner with his Parents and brother last night, to celebrate his Dad's bday (which was Sunday), and they were done by the time I got into town after work, so he met me outside the salon just before I went in, just to give me a hug and a kiss! So he says... I truly and honestly believe he just wanted one more chance to say goodbye to my hair. I cut off about 8 inches last night, which is apparently what everybody's doing (I keep seeing friends noting in their Facebook updates that they're cutting off all their hair), so I don't feel cool or trendsetty at all.
OK, I have nothing fun to contribute, other than that Jennifer is visiting tomorrow!!! And we're music-swapping, which is always a good time! :)
Have a good night, folks!