Long time no blog!
Well, it hasn't been that long but pretty long for yours truly....
Happy Halloween everyone! Has it already been a year since last halloween? Go sit out in a pumpkin patch and wait for the Great Pumpkin already!
Anyway.
So, speaking of Peanuts (indirectly!), Jamie's wedding was this past weekend. Omg, it was so so so much fun!! It wasn't a traditional wedding in the sense of traditional weddings - ie, no big reception with everyone very drunk afterwards, but hell, I don't think I would have had the energy to drink anyway, so it's probably good that it wasn't! Haha. :)
I had a very long weekend though, because of the wedding, starting right after work on Thursday when Andy picked me up and we drove to Milwaukee (via 43 instead of 41...hey, I wonder if hwy 42 connects 41 and 43 at any point...hmmm...okay a mapquest search reveals that hwy 42 does not, in fact, connect 41 and 43. that's kind of sad)....then got up at too-fucking-early on Friday morning (5:30 am!!!) to leave for Sandusky. It was a nice drive (lots of fall foliage! haha), but long. The wedding rehearsal was at 4pm EST, but we got to Sandusky at 3pm (we technically left Milwaukee around 6:15am CST, so getting to Sandusky at 3pm EST - 2pm CST - wasn't too bad. Lots of traffic in Chicago though- and outside...ew).
So, Friday night was fun, sort-of, went to get last-minute stuff (toothbrush, hairbrush...yeah, I forgot), as well as safety pins and a sewing kit for my dress because I forgot (surprise!) that there was, in face, something that I had needed to do for my dress before I wore it - make the straps shorter!!! Whoops...I ended up pinning it, and then putting tape over the pins to keep them hidden (sort-of worked).
Jamie looked awesome. Her dress was SO amazing!! I remember when she bought it and told me the size (a 12!), which her seamstress got down to a ZERO. I was very impressed, becaue I wouldn't have even known if I hadn't remembered that she had gotten it altered (aka, a huge chunk cut out....). She had a tiara in her hair and everything. It was so nice. I was choking up when she walked down the aisle. I'm such a sucker for hallmark moments. It was a really sweet ceremony too. I have to say I was somewhat doubtful about her getting married, because they're both really young (I was the oldest in the entire wedding party at the ripe old age of 22...yikes), but I can tell they're good for each other, and if they're sure about it, well, more power to them. I am positive they will be fine. Good luck to Jamie and Johnathan!!! :)
Saturday night was really low key, since there wasn't a reception, we had cake and a toast in the church afterwards and I had to do an impromptu maid-of-honor speech which I didn't do too badly on it. Megan, Andy, and Megan's friend Jeremy thought that I should try and throw something into the speech about Charlie Brown because that would have just been hilarious, but I couldn't think of something clever on the spot. Plus, I wouldn't have been able to keep a straight face.
Speaking of Charlie Brown, right in the middle of the ceremony, the minister (who's last name was Schroeder, NO JOKE) was talking about a friggin' Charlie Brown comic!!! NO KIDDING!! I almost cracked up laughing. Jamie looked at me out of the corner of her eye and smiled, I could hear Jessica snickering behind me. Jamie, Jessica and I all worked together at Snoopy Boutique, and the minister didn't even know that!!! I caught Andy's eye at the back of the church and almost burst out laughing. Good thing I didn't catch Megan's, otherwise I would have busted out laughing for sure!!!!!
Anyway, so after hanging out with Megan and Jeremy for a little bit after the wedding (but they had to go back to Ft Wayne because Megan had to work...boo), Andy and I decided to order pizza (after I washed my hair like, three times because of all the hairspray that I had in my hair...if you thought my hair was crispy at my recital....) and we found a place with buy 1, get 2 free. So for twenty bucks, we had three LARGE pizzas. It was great. Yea for pizza. But then since we didn't have a fridge, we couldn't eat the rest (but it was only about half a pizza), although my parents suggested (on Sunday) that we should have put the rest in the car, it was friggin' COLD out in Sandusky!!!
Sadly, after getting back to work this morning, I found out that I didn't win the "lowest gas prices" award for this weekend - Mary did, with $2.14/gallon in Minnesota! How does THAT work??? We got $2.29/gallon in Ohio...and stopped at like, the last gas station on the Ohio Turnpike, which was good, since when we crossed the border into Indiana, the gas prices jumped a quarter/gallon, no joke. Unreal.
So, that was my weekend in a short novel form....but it was a great weekend. Passed a little too quickly, except, of course, the too many hours in the car....
- posted by L. @ 9:51 PM