Idiot!

Boy, do I feel stupid.

So last night (at my mom’s house), I decide to hand-wash an item of clothing. I put it in the laundry room sink, put some Woolite in, and turn on the water. The sink is pretty big and I’m impatient, so I left the laundry room. With the water running. You know where this is going.

Soooo, I go off, check my email, brush my teeth, pack up stuff to bring home, la dee daaah. Then I think, hmmm…the water…is running…yeeeahhh.

And so I run towards the laundry room and am met by an ever-increasing puddle heading my way. Ooops!

What makes it even funnier is that my mom was sitting in the study, not five feet from the laundry room sink the whole time, and she never noticed. In her defense, the washing machine was also running, so any water sounds were assumed to be coming from that.

Ah well, what fun to mop up water, and dry out cabinets at 11:00 at night! At least my mom thought it was funny. Apparently, I’m not the first to do it.

(And yes, I told George, and yes, he still wants to be married to this idiot!)

Married life?

Okay, okay, time for another post. I can’t promise I’ll post from London, so no complaining! A honeymoon is no time to be updating a blog.

So, how is married life, you might ask? I wish I knew. I don’t feel married yet, I’ve been in Baton Rouge since Monday (and let’s face it, Sunday we were all too hungover to feel anything but like crap.) I still have been unable to use the “h” word, except for one time today, when I managed to choke it out to a Countrywide telephone operator. Go me! Poor George, he’s starting to take it personally, though he knows it took me a while to be able to say “fiance”, so he shouldn’t be surprised.

I can’t wait until Friday, when I get to go home to New Orleans to be with my h-h-h-hu-uh-George.

And then Monday, on a plane to London!

PS I boycott US Air (or I will after we get back from our honeymoon.) They cancelled our flight home from Charlotte (on the way back from London.) So now we have to pay for a hotel in Charlotte, so we can catch a flight home the next day. Jerks. JERKS! I hate them.

PSS I also boycott the Sheraton for not giving us a free breakfast coupon for the day after our wedding. They gave one to Lindsay. Hmmph. Stupid Sheraton won’t cough up $7.95 each for two of us? For our first breakfast as a married couple? I guess it was just as well that we were, um, as I said earlier, extremely hungover.

PSSS I feel guilty that people came from all over the country and I barely had time to talk to them at the wedding. This is normal, right? If only the reception had been ten hours long, that would have been much better! Oh, and while we’re in dreamland, if only I had eaten one of the oyster appetizers. Dang…

Ellie day!

Ellie-day is here! Yay! Ellie! Ellie! Ellie!

And today’s my last day at work before the wedding! Yay! Yay! Yay!

Last night was the first time I didn’t get a really good night’s sleep. I’m actually happy about that. I was kind of worried because I was sleeping fine, and not really nervous or anxious or anything. Not that I was nervous or anxious last night, I just kept thinking over and over and over “I have got to go to the gym.” Ah well. I’ll have time tomorrow for sure, but there’s no way I’m taking time away from Ellie today, just to exercise! Anyway, running all over my mom’s house, getting things together for 6 hours has to count for something.

So the excitement begins…Ellie (and Evan and Jennifer, and Jennifer’s dad, Rick) come today…Jenny comes tomorrow…Kristina and Marianne come on Thursday and we’re going to stay in New Orleans (I can’t wait to take Marianne, who lives in London, to the pub. Let me pause to tell a quick story. When Kristina and Anne and I first got to London for our six-month stint, we went to visit Marianne at her university in Canterbury. That evening, she took us to the campus pub and got the first round of drinks. Boy, was she proud of herself when she announced she had bought us good ol’ American Coors! Yeah…too bad the pub doesn’t serve the British equivalent.)

So then on Friday is a lunch for my girls and my friend Betsy from high school comes in and the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner and then um on Saturday…hmmm…I know I have plans on Saturday….mind…going…blank…tee hee!

11/04/05

Eight days! Eight days! Eight days!

Hard to believe it’s this close, eh? So exciting!

And yet, I still have not much to say. I think unless you want to know about centerpieces and cakes and flowers and programs etc etc you wouldn’t find what’s floating around in my brain very interesting.

And you know the only other thing I’m thinking about right now…FOUR DAYS TO ELLIE!

11/01/05

Okay, okay, sorry Renny for not posting more. I’ve been busy! Sheesh!

I can’t remember where I am when I wake up in the morning – New Orleans? Baton Rouge? Don’t know where my clothes are. Can’t find things. This is very difficult. I can’t wait til it’s all over and I can go home for good. Not that it isn’t nice to spend time with my mom – it’s awesome. But it’s getting to be very stressful. Sigh.

Anyway, Sunday was my lingerie shower. Oooh la la! I certainly won’t be posting pictures from THAT shower! Tee hee. It was so much fun. It was at my Aunt Deanne’s house. We had yummy food (get this – chicken salad WITHOUT CELERY! That’s my kind of chicken salad!) and a really pretty cake and wine and lots of my friends came. It was so nice. My cousin’s wife Lottie, who co-hosted it, even made me (yes, MADE me) bath salts and lotion and soaps, all wedding-themed. They smell like wedding cake, which could be very dangerous. Must remember, it’s not edible.

Today I got four wedding presents in the mail. I gotta say, this wedding thing is really nice. I love getting mail, I love getting presents, and getting presents in the mail? Unbeatable.

I also got our marriage license today. Eeeep!!!

Went trick-or-treating tonight with Teresa and her two year old niece Veronica. She is the cutest thing, just babble, babble, babble. We were both bunnies. I turned her on to Smarties (just go ahead and send me the dental bills.) I can’t wait until my niece is that old and talking!

Speaking of the most exciting thing of all…Ellie’ll be here a week from tomorrow!!!!

Here’s something to hold y’all till then, the cutest octopus ever:

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17 days. That is not that many days. But at the same time, it’s a lot of days. Hmm. I am so very profound.

I think I’ll post one little picture from my bachelorette party, for the world to see. See how innocent it all was?

Thanks to my sister for the fun “Bun-Pincher”.

Wow, I don’t have anything else to say.

This afternoon I’ve to get an eye exam so I can order more contacts.

See how exciting my life is???

My to do list is approximately 43,749 items long. Divide that by 17 days. Hmmm.

Ellie will be here in 13 days! Here’s a preview…

If your heart isn’t a puddle of goo at the bottom of your abdominal cavity (I guess that’s where it’d go) then you have no heart. I feel sorry for you.

Bachelorette party

Okay, I am now recovered enough to talk about my weekend. (Or, more accurately, recovered enough to type on a keyboard.)

Yeah, it was THAT much fun! Ahhhh, I do have the best friends in the whole world. We had such an awesome time. It wasn’t perfect because not everyone could make it but it was still awesome. The weather was perfect, Wilma was nowhere near us, the hotel we stayed at was so nice, I could go on for hoooouuuurrrs. Also, I provided much amusement for my friends and the patrons of the Florabama. Ah.

Kristina and Kristie came in on Friday and that was fun to spend time with them (sober). We even made vanilla ice cream in my new mixer and ice cream maker attachment. (This was after the baking and icing of the rude-shaped pastries, which were very tasty, thankyouverymuch.)

Anyway, now we have less than three weeks. Still waiting on some RSVPs. Ahem. Must start calling/emailing people we haven’t heard from yet…

10/21/05

Right now I am waiting not very patiently for Kristina and Kristie to get here. Their flights were supposed to land within minutes of each other, but Kristie’s was late. How dare Continental be late? I am v impatient! So hopefully they’ve landed by now. And picked up their luggage. And the rental car.

I could be making myself useful by cleaning up the house some more, but if it’s too clean it won’t feel like my house. Hee hee. Hey, I vacuumed. I wiped down counters, did laundry, cleaned the bathroom, changed sheets, etc etc etc etc. I even handwashed all of the million pieces of stemware we’ve had sitting on the counter for the last millenia.

When they get here, we will use my brand new Kitchenaid mixer to make cupcakes in rude shapes. Hey, it’s my bachelorette party weekend! Rude-shaped pastries is what it’s all about!

Three weeks from tomorrow. Crazy, eh?

Bridal shower

So yesterday was my big fancy exciting bridal shower. Oooh, showers are fun! There was a ton of yummy food (can you say cucumbers with some sort of yummy caviar concoction? And finger sandwiches? And cake? And finger sandwiches? I love finger sandwiches.) And there were friends and family. People I hardly ever see. And do I have to mention the presents? (How to write this entry without sounding totally greedy? Impossible.)

Anyway, we got a ton of wonderful gifts. Of course, now I will really be expected to cook. Ulp. Ha ha!

This weekend, Wilma notwithstanding, is my bachelorette party. The best part of all these pre-wedding parties are seeing my friends and spending time with them and just having everyone together in one place. I am so excited about this weekend, especially since there will be so many people coming in from out of town. So exciting!

10/12/05

Never have I been so happy to have gained 3.2 lbs!

But the last time I weighed in was seven weeks ago, and my eating habits went somewhat downhill since the hurricane. So to show a gain of 3.2 pounds is a triumph! Especially since I didn’t go to the gym for an entire month. (Now I belong to one here in Baton Rouge.)

Yay!

And guess what is in exactly one month?!?!?