Sadly, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to make it…I think I’ve got a family commitment that weekend. We’ll see!
Thanks to Jen 14221 for creating the nifty flyer. You can contact the other Jen (allthingsjennifer AT yahoo DOT com) to RSVP.
Last week’s photo day at Create a connection was “love.” I didn’t take a new photo, but instead, created a flickr set of photos that said “love” to me. (It has 27 photos in it! I can’t add or take any away…hee)
Kelly and Ben, dancing at their wedding
Rand holding Noah, our friend Chris’s baby
Rand’s nephew Aiden, looking up adoringly at daddy
Rand and me in a photo booth at Darien Lake
My engagement ring. I thought this one had an “artsy” feel to it!
I like many of the others, but most of them either weren’t taken by me, or were taken with my phone, or had some other flaw that prevented me from posting them…but do check out the whole set if you’re so inclined!
Gripe of the day: Ringback tones.
What on earth makes you think that I want to listen to this song when I call you? Or any song, for that matter? Do you really expect anyone to take you seriously? Gah.
Just a little more than three years ago, I came across a profile in Yahoo! personals. Before I even read the whole thing, I could see that this profile was different from the others. He could spell, for one. 😉 Upon closer examination, I saw that this man and I had a couple of important things in common…among them, a love of music and a love of books.
What really grabbed my attention, though, was the mention of one of my very favorite musicians: Toronto’s Ron Hawkins, frontman for Lowest of the Low. I’m pretty sure that’s what took me from “hey, this guy looks interesting” to “hey, I’ve got to meet this guy.”
That guy, of course, was Rand. In one of our very first email exchanges, he asked me about the last concert I’d gone to. My last concert happened to be Lowest of the Low, and we began exchanging stories about seeing Ron/the Low in concert. Rand started using Ron’s lyrics as the subjects of our emails, and we’d go back and forth, searching for a lyric that seemed appropriate to the topic of our conversation. After a few dates, he sent a message with the subject “you nearly kissed me blind,” and I nearly swooned. 😉 I go back and read those early messages now and then, and they still make me smile.
When he took me out a couple of days before my birthday, he played his guitar and sang for me. Among other things, he played both Subversives and Black Monday. If there had been any doubt in my mind up to this point, it was gone. 😉
Now, I’m not saying that we wouldn’t have gotten together if it hadn’t been for Ron, but it sure didn’t hurt! Thanks, Ron!
And I’m still every bit as smitten now as I was three years ago. (look for a list of things I love about Rand, ala Debbie Ohi, in the near future!)
(Just a little! Kind of scary thinking about all the things I have to think about in the next little bit…)
And so here’s a discussion topic. To my married readers…tell me about your wedding. What did you do? Where? Big and lavish? Small and intimate? Share as much or as little as you’d like. 🙂
I subscribe to a daily horoscope in Bloglines. It’s fairly unreliable, in the sense that I don’t actually get it every day. This one is technically for tomorrow, which makes it more than a little bit late…
Something big happens in your love life and you can hardly think about anything else. It could be someone new, or maybe a milestone of sorts with your current partner. Whatever it is, keep smiling!
😉
So Jen called me on Saturday on her way home from Rochester to ask if I wanted to go see Superbad with her and Mark. I said sure. She called me a little while later and asked if I’d rather come over to her place, drink champagne and watch bad TV/movies. I said sure. 😉
So I headed over to Jen’s place, and then we went out to buy the celebratory bottle of bubbly. We first went for the supercheap bottle of Ballatore, and then decided that, being grownups and all, we’d opt for the Martini and Rossi.
And then, a toast:
We had Mark there to take photos for us, so that we didn’t have to do this:
Ah, much of our college experience was documented that way… 😉
Jen’s got a few more photos here and a post about meeting up with me for coffee on Friday and then hanging out Saturday here.
I brought my laptop with me to Jen’s, and showed her some of the dresses I was looking at. We planned on watching Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (one of our favoritest movies from way back!), but with the drinking and the chatting, we never really got around to it!
Anyway, it felt really, really good to hang out and celebrate like this. It was exactly what I needed. Thanks Jen!! 🙂
Oh, let’s face it…the search had already begun when I found that lovely (cheap) dress on eBay. The more I thought about it, the more wary I became of making such a purchase. It’s not that I don’t believe the sellers are on the level. The feedback is overall very positive, but there are lots of whatifs. What if I don’t like it, what if it doesn’t fit what if the fabric/colors are wrong, etc…and then I start writing sad short stories in my head about the twelve-year-old Chinese girls who are sewing the dresses…but I digress.
No, we haven’t set a date yet, but that’s not stopping me from looking at pretty things!
Anyway, I did some homework and identified the dress I’m so enamoured of as a Maggie Sottero Eleganza style.
I haven’t been able to see this one in person, but I did venture out (by myself) yesterday to try on a few dresses. I did see the strapless version of Eleganza:
It’s beautiful. Also, it’s discontinued, so its not too crazy expensive. I think I like the off-the-shoulder version better, though.
I also tried on Grace Kelly:
Which is also quite lovely. Very elegant. And heavy… 😉
And finally…a few years ago, when Susan was looking for her gown and bridesmaid’s gowns, I tried on one that I thought was pretty, just for fun. I was in that shop yesterday, and that gown that I tried on? Is in their $99 room. I’m kind of tempted to buy it just because, hello? $99! It could be sold on eBay if need be. Obviously, it’s an older style, so I can’t find a photo of it online.
So yeah, I don’t know. 😀