Went to the tasting today for the reception. Yum! My mom was really pleased with it, which is the key thing (since she’s ponying up for this puppy) but it really is a great place. I was very full afterwards, though, so much so that I could only eat ice cream for dinner tonight! Bad Pam. Especially since I think I found my dress. (Shouldn’t I be saying “I FOUND MY DRESS” like it’s fate or something?) Well, I do looooove this dress I found. It’s gorgeous. I’ll post some pictures. Sure, in a year!

Anyway, Regan and I hung out all afternoon after the tasting and after my mom went back to Baton Rouge. We went to jewelry stores and tried on jewelry and to a stationery story and to another dress shop and she even tried on a bridesmaid’s dress for me. What a trooper! (She hadn’t shaved her legs, see, so it really says a lot about her that she’d do that for me. But darnit, she can fit into the samples!)

Oh yeah – weigh in – I gained a mere 1.6! That’s good. (Go back and re-read what I ate in Durham if you disagree. Then you will agree.) Am still under 180, which is my holiday goal. Will be extra good this week (ice cream excluded.)

Oh yeah also when I was at the mall this evening, an exciting thing happened…I ran into this girl I went to high school with who now lives in London (lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky) and who I last saw the last time I was in London. Very random. She’s in town visiting family with her new baby, who will grow up with a real British accent. Her child will call her “Mum”. How strange would that be? How envious am I? (Very.)