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The wedding…and not announcing the winner.

June 15th, 2008

It just dawned on me that I never chose a winner for the Zune giveaway. What’s up with that? But I can’t do it, yet, because I am still reading through the comments and then I’ll choose the winner and I won’t be choosing the winner based on the answer, I’ll be choosing the winner randomly. I just love reading all of your favorite songs and why you love them.

The wedding went well, despite the bride losing her keys and running late by thirty minutes, my feet having FOUR blisters before the wedding even started and a man riding a motorcycle getting hit by a car at the wedding site. After I watched his body flying and then hitting the road, I ran towards him while calling 911 and that’s probably where I developed the awesome blisters.

Don’t worry, the man was fine, (well, fine as in maybe some broken bones??? I actually have no idea how’s he’s doing, but I think he’s fine.) probably because he was wearing a helmet.

So, now we are off for family fun while eating Dunkin’ Donuts.

The winner will be announced tomorrow.

Happy Father’s Day.

Chapters

June 13th, 2008

Five years ago tomorrow, I was in a strapless purple dress, my hair was shorter and brown. I was a new Mommy to Ariel, who was just a little baby, maybe four months old, and I had a tiny little baby inside of me, but it was a secret, very few people knew.

The wedding was outside and it was fabulous, not a cloud in the sky, pure sunshine, not too hot and no humidity. I was the bride’s matron of honor.

Since then, so much has changed, so much, in fact, that I started to list all of the changes right here on this post and I just had to stop because there is too much too list. Most things I am grateful for, some things I can not understand and others, just break my heart.

Tomorrow, exactly five years to the day, I’ll be in a wedding, as a matron of honor at the exact same place. Oh and I’ll be wearing purple.

But this purple? Is deeper and more vivid, it’s strong and makes me feel confident. I’ve been reflecting on my life so much these past few months, I smile at the happy things and I cry at the heart breaking things, but there are no regrets.

Tomorrow I need to break free of my own sorrow that sometimes swallows me whole, even in the most joyous occasions, If I cry, I want it to be out of happiness for my niece, if I laugh I want it to be pure and without darkness. And in those quiet moments, if there are any, I want to feel James. I want to feel Jake. but I do not want to feel sadness, I’m not sure that is possible as I’m thinking those three things go hand in hand with each other.

All of my brothers and sisters will be in town and I can’t wait and I already dread their departure. But the last time I saw them was the weekend of James and Jake’s memorial service and so now when I think of being together that is what I think of, after making memories with these siblings of mine for 31 years, my thoughts turn to the last time I saw them and it scares me and makes me sad and I’m so scared of going to "that place."

But there is nothing I can do, I guess, except to love my family, feel the sunshine, savor these sweet moments that also make up our lives.

Life and all it has to offer, the good, the bad, keeps me on my toes. This life has made me deeper, more vivid, stronger and more confidant. And even though tomorrow scares me, the next chapter of my life, well, most of it anyway, does not.

Huge. Huge. HUGE GIVEAWAY

June 12th, 2008

Head on over to my review blog because I am giving something away – and it’s big. real big.

I am giving away the Zune Action Bundle! FOR FREE! RIGHT NOW! This bundle is available for Father’s Day at Best Buy for $199-$214.99.

Go, hurry, the giveaway ends TOMORROW!

Random & Miscellaneous

June 11th, 2008

-First, I blogged over here today.

-Second, I have been watching a lot of old episodes of Friends, does anyone else find it creepy that Ross had a monkey?

-Thirdly, I’ve been watching some Jon & Kate Plus Eight, and don’t get me wrong but there is something about that show that is bothering me to the point where I can hardly watch it anymore. Why won’t she let her kids use the bathroom like on a toilet rather than in a potty bucket in the mud room? It’s like her children are cats and that’s where she keeps the litter boxes. Did you see the episode where Jon had the hair transplant in LA and Jody and I think Kate’s brother (??) stayed at their house to watch the kids and he has to empty their pee buckets out every night and he talks about how disgusting it is? Between the hair transplant and the pee and whatnot, my stomach was turning.

Whenever I watched Jon & Kate Plus Eight, I always felt like a wimpy loser because here she is with eighty-sixty gajillion kids and her house was still clean. And here I have two kids and I haven’t cleaned my bathrooms in two weeks, but I came to the realization that she knows when tTLC is coming to film episodes and she cleans like a mad woman (probably with help) to put her house in tip top shape before the crew arrives. Am I right or am I right? Well, at least that makes me feel better, anyway.

-Fourthy, regarding my dress for the wedding this Saturday…I am dressless.

-Fifthly, do the words random & miscellaneous mean the same thing?

-Sixthly, did you know fifthly and sixthly are actual words? I didn’t either.

-Seventhly, (seventhly is not a word, apparently) I had a dream last night that I was pregnant. In my dream my doctor was doing an ultrasound and she said "you sure have a lot of boys in your life." Because I was having a boy and I was also having twins except on them vanished and he was a boy, too. In my dream, I laid in bed after that and felt that beautiful movement of a moving baby, I pictured James and Jake in my belly moving and kicking me with their perfect arms and legs. In my dreams I love that baby so much. I have felt pregnant all day.

-Eighthly, did you know I still have not answered all of the questions you all asked me back in March? What’s up with that?

-And finally, we are scheduled to close on both houses on June 30th. Have I mentioned that Brian is going out of town for work this Sunday and won’t be back until June 27th??????

Misadventures of a Sweaty Lady

June 10th, 2008

Today, I ran around like a crazy person. I spent 3 hours looking for a dress for a wedding that I am in THIS SATURDAY. I’m the only attendant, the matron (read: old lady) of honor.

I spent 3 hours looking in mirrors and hating how I look.

I spent 3 hours covered in tummy sweat, boob sweat and mustache sweat. All while wearing spanx. I was very, very attractive, kinda what an old hot dog looks like sitting out in the sun on a buffet table at a barbecue.

Yes, that’s exactly what I looked like.

First, at the mall, I dodged 10 associates trying to make me smell perfume or cologne. Why do they still do this? Did you know they wear regular clothes now? I was tricked, I thought the first lady was a friendly customer but instead she shoved a piece of paper doused in COLOGNE into my hands, which I carried around for so long that I got a headache and never did find a garbage can so I slid it into my back pocket which means the smell is stuck on me forever because you know how often I wash my jeans.

Also, did you know that at David’s Bridal, they don’t even have mirrors in their dressing rooms, so you have to GO OUT IN PUBLIC to look at yourself in the mirror? Torture. I think I’ll write the company.

Dear Mr. David’s Bridal,

I entered your store today, hoping to find a dress for a wedding I am in this Saturday. Yes, I know, it’s very last minute, your associate acted like I was a lunatic. I shopped in your store and walked out feeling like crap. Why? Because for one, your size twelves are actually size eights, and that alone makes me want to punch you in the face. And secondly, you made me walk out into the center of the store so I could look into the mirror – without even knowing what I looked like. So, while parties were waiting for their brides to try on dresses in their mirror-less dressing rooms, they stared at me in a dress, that I couldn’t zip, my legs are pasty white and the sweat all over my body made it look like I was in the middle of the boxing match. And sometimes, I felt like I was in the middle of a boxing match because some of your dresses are SO complicated. Once, I put my head through a sleeve and couldn’t get it back off, another time I tried to pull a dress over my head to get it over my shoulders and the same dress I tried to pull up from the bottom but it wouldn’t slide over my hips and it was a SIZE 12.

At one point, I honestly thought I was stuck in a dress forever, which would have been bad because it was half on my body and half off of my body, and I would not have been able to call Brian from my cell phone to come rescue me because my arms were sticking straight up in the air.

No lie.

I wonder, do you have video cameras inside your dressing rooms? Because if you do, I provided you with hours and hours of side splitting laughter. Perhaps consider serving margaritas and ho-hos and I could join you with the laughter. That would be grand.

And one more thing, there is no doubt that A MAN started this business. Because Dave, I kinda think you are a jerk. No offense.

Love,
The Sweaty, Pale, Size Ten, Old, Dressless Bridesmaid

The only good thing that happened during my shopping trip is that I thought I was being hit on by an older gentlemen, except he wound up being homeless and asked me for a quarter. I was kinda bummed. It felt a little like when you go to a restaurant and you get carded and you say something like "wow, thanks! I love being carded!" And the server responds with "I know, I’m sorry, I have to card everyone under 40."

Buzz kills all around.

Enough of this depressing fat girl dress talk, let’s talk Father’s Day…I have dusted off my good ol’ review blog and decided to do some reviews once again. I have decided to become much more particular about items that I review – which means I will only review items that I would actually use or buy in my everyday life. So – head there, because I have a new fangled techie thing that I am reviewing and also? on Thursday, come back to that same review blog for a HUGE GIVEAWAY.

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