OK so I realize I have been gone for well over a week, and while I wish I could say I have been on a deserted island with no internet or human contact, that would be false and the truth is I have just been avoiding the mental exertion of blogging (sigh). Starting at last Friday, I will commence this blog-a-thon and try to summarize a week’s worth of mundanity so that you don’t have to be here for a whole week just trying to catch up.
Last Friday was Stockton’s and my engagement party hosted by my parents at a nice restaurant in town. I was too busy flitting and floating around Cloud 9 to get any pictures but my Matron of Honor and Pregalicious sister was the picture queen (in more ways that one as you will see in a minute) and documented the evening quite nicely right here. It was such a great night with both families represented and Stockton and I were so blessed by everyone. We got a few gifts, among which was our first shared luggage set that matches a suitcase Stockton already owns so we are ahead of the game in the packing department. One of them is big enough to fit my entire extended family as well as any rapper’s Nike collection, so we are in great shape for our honeymoon. We got several amazing gifts that I can’t wait to use (a two-tiered fruit basket, some tools, and corn holders!! Yes, Corn Holders!!!!) but the one we will be using most immediately is a photo session that Kaley and Rob bought for us. Kaley and Rob had some maternity pictures taken a few weeks ago by an old colleague of Rob’s and she is AWESOME. Her name is Joanne, she’s really pretty, she knows a thing or two about photography and thanks to my sister and bro-in-law, she’s going to capture some seriously romantic footage of a very realistic walk along St. Mary’s campus for Stockton and I. OK, probably not realistic, but it’s professional photography for crying out loud, and it’s is awesome simply BECAUSE it’s so unrealistic. We are so grateful and excited. Love you guys, and thanks for the bomb gift.
In other news, I have been spending my working hours rearranging the store and it is looking fresh!! New items have been coming in from the ACRE show which you can read all about here, but there are a million things to see and touch and love and buy! In that order. Come in and visit.
We have broken a movie-going record this week by going to two movies, of two different genres, two nights in a row. I would like to tell you how unheard of this is. We are lucky if we make it to one movie per quarter, and we are all of a sudden Movies 14 Frequent Flyers. I feel like I’m in middle school all over again. On Wednesday we saw The Proposal, and while I thought it was cute and at times, funny, it was just so-so. Every 16 year old I talked to loved it, but apparently as I age, so does my taste in movies because I kinda felt like, eh, been there, done that, Hollywood. Oh, really? She’s the wicked witch of NYC and he’s her pageboy and they fake a romance and then fall in love for real? I TOTALLY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!!!! Hit me one more time, Hollywood, these romantic comedies just keep turning new corners with each script! It was really not bad, just predictable. We had fun, and it was a good date. I like dates, so I would go see Veggie Tales as long as I get to chow some movie popcorn, drink a barrel of Diet Coke and be with my beau for an uninterrupted 2 1/2 hours. So that’s what we did again on Thursday (remember, I said we did back to back movie action, cause we really know how to cut loose and all). Only no Veggie Tales here, we saw Public Enemy instead and it. was. AWESOME! Seriously, so good. The hard part for me was keeping up with the history involved because going into the movie, I didn’t have a lot of context on that era of thugs. You know, I mean, I’m more familiar with the Crips, Bloods, and Latin Kings. Well, ok, not true. I’m just REALLY not familiar with Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger, but now that I’ve seen the movie, I feel like an expert. I also feel like I need to sleep with one eye open and always use the side door and keep some sort of a shiv with me at all times. You know, just in case.
During the movie, Stockton was playing with The Ring (you know, the one he slipped on my left ring finger when he asked me to be his sidekick for the rest of his life) and he noticed it was kinda, well, wiggly. Which threw me into cardiac arrest. First thing this morning, he took it to a jeweler where I was accused of hitting the ring on something. Yes, hitting it on something, like, as if I tried driving a nail into a 4 by 4 with my new flat head diamond hammer. BUT THAT IS FALSE! I have not been HITTING things with it. Even though I admit to being a major oaf, I didn’t even stumble into something and try to break my fall with the ring. IT ISN’T MY FAULT, I SAY! Nonetheless, I am feeling naked and vulnerable without my Precious and I guess I just need to be super duper careful with my hands (even though I do manicure them daily and take my ring off for any mildly dangerous activity, like jet skiing and shampooing my hair). Stockton is seriously a genius for getting me the setting he did because it is reputably the safest setting for a diamond, and for homegirl who runs into things and manages to damage, well, everything, it was a definite winner choice. The jeweler assured us that it would be out of my ability of destruction to lose that diamond, and that the greatest damage I could do would only result in the wiggle that it is currently at the doctor for. Whew. I can sleep again.
Other stuff happened since last Friday, but I can’t seem to bring myself to talk about everything I ate on and since the 4th because I think that is one of the reasons I have been in a slump all week. Summer is halfway over, people. I can’t decide if that solicits a moment of silence or a quick panic attack that HOLY MOLY THERE ARE UMPTEEN MILLION THINGS I WAS GOING TO DO THIS SUMMER AND NOW I ONLY HAVE A FEW WEEKS TO DO THEM AND STOCKTON LEAVES SOON AND I MIGHT CRY THINKING ABOUT IT BUT I DON’Y HAVE TIME TO CRY, THERE ARE BEACHES TO GO TO AND COUNTY FAIRS TO EAT AT AND THE SWIMMING POOL HASN’T SEEN NEARLY ENOUGH OF MY PALE BODY YET THIS SUMMER. So lest I should launch into that panic attack right here and right now, I’m going to sign off until something more positive pops into my head.
Like the fact that it’s Friday. Ahhhh.
Have a good weekend, and I don’t care if you aren’t thirsty, you stop at that Lemonade stand because in six weeks, there will be no more lemonade for an undetermined length of winter that will soon ensue!! I need a raft, a pool and a drink with an umbrella in it, pronto.
3 Comments
July 10, 2009 at 7:11 pm
That was the longest post. Ever. Go ahead and take a breath now.
Is Public Enemy a boy movie? I know you know what I mean by that. Because I could use some popcorn, and maybe a movie to watch along with it.
July 11, 2009 at 2:50 am
Hey, when you’re done with it…I need to borrow your diamond hammer. Thanks.
August 12, 2009 at 1:04 am
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