4 posts tagged “wedding”
I think I am actually looking forward to when school is back in. Summer is great for relaxing and sleeping in, but I am starting to find that I need some sort of daily routine to keep my mind from.... taking off on me and not telling me where it is going!!!
Also I get daily showers when I have a routine too!! And I am not in my pyjamas half the day.
The weather has cooled off and it rained finally. We had temperatures in the high 30s (Celsius) for so long there, and in British Columbia, that means forest fires. Fortunately our area is unique, probably because of the large lake, so we don't get them close very often. But the areas south and west of us tend to get them often. They are much dryer areas. We wind up with all the smoke coming up the valleys and settling on us however. Some days it's rather stinky outside.
But the weather has helped the 2 largest fires in the province, which have been threatening homes and such, but not as bad as a few years ago, when a fire leveled all sorts of new development in a town south of us. Many people lost their very large, uninsured houses...
Anyhoo,
Kids are enjoying their summer but I think they are looking forward to getting out more too.
One morning, we got up, made coffee, and saw this:
Two horsies! Charlie is the dark brown one on the right. The light blond one on the left is called Roy, short for 'Royal'.
They're both very nice and the girls love to take apples from the few apple trees we have in the yard to them. Now some days I find 2 horsies staring at me through the window.
What else...
The business is going great! The guys are very busy. Lee is able to bring home some money every month. However the office that I still work for, that I hate working for, (I think i mentioned them a few times in my rants), has basically ignored me all summer, so I haven't had much work. I keep pestering, and It's always an excuse. They're waiting on some other project blah blah blah, they will have more work later... blah blah blah.
So I haven't brought much money home the past 2 months, and I'm looking for ways to cut spending. Including unplugging all counter top appliances in the kitchen when I'm not using them. Shutting power bars down at night for all computers. Trying to stick to cereal and apples for breakfast and lunch so I dont spend much on food...
Supposedly they have work for me in PHP, which is what I have been doing for the web page work our business gets, so at least it's something I know. And they're suppose to get to me before the end of August... wheee...
It's a nice dress, cost me over 900$.
I know many people have them packed away and preserved in case their kids might want it someday. But how do I know they will like the style?? I'd rather sell it to someone who really wants a dress, but can't afford to pay some of the prices out there.
I also half considered selling some jewelery. But I do not have much that is very nice, except for my grandmothers pearls (wearing in that photo), and my mom's grandmothers gold ring. I just can't sell those 2 things. They mean too much, even if I do not wear jewelery.
So that's where we're at...
I'll have to explain the title another day. It's an inside joke with me and Lee.
Whew. The weekend is over, the wedding is over. In a way its a shame. It turned out great. The weather cooperated for pictures. Her dress was gorgeous!!! But I am so glad its all over.
I might have mentioned some of the things we had to do this weekend. Well. I did get the manicure and pedicure after all. And it felt weird to have someone inches from my foot, cleaning and scrubbing away the dead skin. But it also felt good to have them soak and my feet massaged. Same with my hands. The color I picked is a color that complimented the dress, and would be a color I would normally wear. If I did wear it. My toes match my fingers too! hehehe. Although, all weekend I could feel the polish on my fingernails. Even now they feel... thicker... and heavier. I guess it's because I don't wear polish... at all.
Sunday morning was hair. And I had my hair all done up before at least twice, so it wasn't a big deal. My oldest did well over the course of the day. She got bored, but was looking forward to wearing her 'princess' dress and going to the 'party'. After hair was makeup... and I swear they've invented more products in the years since I even bothered with it.
- I washed my face with one product, then applied 2 different ones for sun block and some sort of moisterizer / primer.
- I swear she put on 6 different items and colors on my eyes, not including mascara... it started to hurt after a while.
- Then there were 4 products for foundation: a primer, the color, and a bronzer around the edges to make my face more oval, and a lightener on the sides of my nose and under my eyes
- Then I think 3 on my lips, including another primer, and a very goopy lip gloss something or other that my hair kept sticking to
That was more makeup in one day than I wear in a year total!!!
The Mary Kay lady was asking me what my routine was, and what I wear and how often. I said "well, whenever we get a babysitter, so 3 times a year maybe"
It felt so good to scrub it all of. I could feel all that foundation.
I may not have enjoyed all those things that are customary with weddings, but for my friend who I have known since Grade 2 and we've been best friends forever... I would never have refused any of it.
:)
I've pretty much completely forgotten about Vox for like 2 weeks.
I've been so insanely busy, and I keep forgetting to do important things like finish my taxes, that I just kept glossing over when it came to Vox.
The wedding is this weekend. We leave tomorrow afternoon to drive down, and I took the car in today to the shop for a quick tune up before hitting the high mountain highways.
I still have lots of stuff left to do, but I did get my dress back all fixed up. I still have to find the right shoes, and a stick on bra cause the back of the dress is real low.
Once we get to Vancouver I have to balance the stuff my friend planned for us and visiting my parents... Theres a rehearsal i need to take my oldest too cause she's going to be a flower girl, and a manicure/pedicure session on Saturday morning, which I dont really want to go to. I've never had either, and not fond of the thought of someone fixing up my toe nails. Not like they are awful, but it seems a little like invading my personal space. Wierd huh?
Friday night there is the batchlorette party, which I think will be fairly tame. we might make it down in time for me to meet them for dinner and afterwards we're going to a comedy club!
I have 2 fairly complicated web sites on the go, and a new one about to start up.
And Im getting some work from the office I hate working for, and every time I see an email from them with some ridiculous bugs to check out at the last minute cause no one is organized there, I die a little inside.
But one good thing about the past few weeks has been Mothers Day weekend. It was wonderfully relaxing. The weather was very warm and clear (unlike the rain of the past few days). We spent most of the weekend in the garden. We built our contraptions for doing Upside-Down-Tomatoes this year. And then on mothers day went on a hike to a local waterfall. There are several around here. nice thing about living in the Rocky Mountains :)
Well, my friend asked for the bridesmaid measurements this week.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Crap.
My will power sucks great big hairy balls.
Sorry for that visual.
But, the dress is nice, and she wants each bridesmaid to wear a different color: dark red, dark purple, royal blue and dark green. (That link is to the closest example of the dress she chose) Fortunately, I like all the colors, and 2 have been taken by the other girls, which leaves the royal blue, and a dark green (called Patina) to me and her sister. I could go with either one actually. They're both very nice. I did note a preference for the green in my email back to my friend.
So this weekend I take my measurements, and send them off. And for my oldest daughter too actually. She would like her to be the flower girl. With the girls and her outgoing attitude she is hard to resist actually.
I still have time to lose weight. With that style of dress it should be easy to take in just the waist part if it ends up too big on me by the time the wedding rolls around. So I'm not too worried. Just yet.
Sigh
