Finally the dress fitting....

It hasn't actually happened yet...but, failing another poorly timed snowstorm, I should be doing my dress fitting this coming Thursday. It just so works out that I can also do a trial run of my hair that day. Its going to be a very short trip to the cities (drive down Wednesday after work and be back in time for work 5pm on Friday) but I think it will be worth it for those two things.

Crossing my fingers for no bad weather or mishaps on anyone's parts.

Not such a whirlwind of a weekend

So this has got to be one of the periods of time I have been at my parents house in a long time. Got done Wednesday night. I'm either leaving Monday night or Tuesday morning.

Wednesday I got a ride from the person who answered my Boreal ad and it turned out I vaguely knew. That got me to Duluth two hours before my shuttle. Read a really cheesy romance novel about a time travelling Viking....which I heard about in one of my favorite webcomics, Questionable Content. I'm not a big fan of romance novels but they are easy reads...and the premise was too goofy to pass up. Apparently everyone else thinks so to because there was at least 5 holds on the book before me.

Anyway, got to the Mall of America around 3pm, locked my suitcase in a locker and wandered for the hour or so until Mom got there to pick me up..but we didn't want to tackle traffic and wandered the stores for another hour and a half or so.
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We printed all the sheets of vellum for the invites and let them dry just in case. Cut them all on Friday. Got the layout for the other piece figured out today and we hope to print and put together on Sunday. After that we just need to do the RSVP cards....and stuff envelopes (and label them).

My SIL came over today and played with makeup. I don't normally wear it. In fact it is possible that the last time I wore anything other than costume or stage makeup was probably at her wedding slightly over 3 years ago. So after we finally got that figured out we ran to Ridgedale and bought the things she wanted me to have my own of. Also took care of a couple other things.

Once we got back again we hashed out a basic timeline for the day of.

Jumping back a day, yesterday we went to the venue in the early afternoon to ask questions and  look again and then went to buy fabric for my flowergirl's dress......I swear the pattern looked easy but when we started trying to figure out what we needed, we got confused. And the first saleslady was really freaking snippy with us. Not cool.

Anyway...I think that's most of it for now.More in the next couple days..

Update on the car and wedding prep

Well, my car should be done getting repaired in the next day or two. In the meantime, I made myself drive Nathan's car to work on a couple days, even though stickshift makes me nervous, doubly so in winter. It was easier than getting rides. I hate making people go out of their way for me. Then there was the added "bonus" of my coworker getting stuck on our 1/4 mile ice sheet downhill driveway. I had told her I'd meet her at the top, but ran behind so she started down cause "it didn't look that bad". Obviously it was bad, cause her truck got stuck. Thank goodness for the sand in the back. The good part that came out of it though....my landlord, who is also my neighbor, was stuck behind us for a few minutes while we tried to get moving. Before this episode the only spot sanded was the turn to their place. Now, according to Nathan, the whole thing is sanded...why they couldn't have done that before, I don't know.

Anyway, to get to the cities, I had Maureen post a request on Boreal....by that night I had a ride offer to Duluth, from where I will then catch a shuttle to the Mall of America and hang out until my mom can come get me.

Shortly after I posted last time, I did order the Spectators. Will test them out when they get here and see if I want to go with them or not.

Our wedding rings came a couple of days ago....here's what mine looks like. Its an Irish-Gaelic phrase that means My Soul Mate.

I could have sworn I had more to write but I'm not thinking of it right now.