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So the wedding was excellent. I wasn't too nervous about it - I know most of the guys pretty well, so I knew I'd have plenty of people to talk to. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pat_brad and I made good time. Between the traffic and stopping for gas, we hit the venue about half an hour early, which was perfect. Keean and Aaron met us in the parking lot, and we also met up with Jamie and Al, who pointed us in the right direction. Dave was standing near the door to the chapel, so we stopped for hugs. Ed, Sarah, and Mike were already in the chapel, which was a pleasant surprise, because I didn't know that they'd been invited. So it was awesome to get to see them. The ceremony was non-denominational, but very sweet. Two readings about marriage from popular 'self-help' type books, and then the lady justice of the peace read Erin's story about how Dave proposed to her. (He set up a big surprise on their anniversary, and additionally made her think that the big surprise was that they were getting a dog. Instead, he ended up proposing to her in a horse-drawn carriage on the shore of Lake Hayward, which is pretty sweet. He's such a softie.) The reception line was a little weird. A strange mix of people I'd never met before, a couple of the girls that didn't remember me even though I'd met them several times before, and the guys that I did know. I have no idea what people thought, but it must have looked pretty funny. Hi, nice to meet you, hi, nice to meet you, OMG Hi How are you? *big hugs* (But only with the guys and Cindy and Erin.) The reception was nice. They sat people together based on how they knew one another, so I was at the table with Mike and Ed and Sarah, Keean and Aaron, Tom and his date, and a gentleman who I never caught his name and his date, Megan. The meal was all-vegetarian, which I was a little leery about, but turned out excellent. I should have trusted Dave more, he's never led me wrong about food before. (The penne in a tomato cream sauce was to die for.) The old crew was out in force; I got to see Jamie and AJ and Robert and Steve and Jon. Al kept coming up and dancing with me randomly, like usual. Tom was ragging on me about not remembering him or how he'd once helped me move, and I countered with "well, you're the only one who didn't hug me." So I got a big hug. :0) Bryan (the guy who owns the Plum Tomato) was there, and he brought his wife over to meet me, which was nice. I haven't seen Bryan since the last time that I was able to go bowling with them all. The bar was open, which is always dangerous with this group, but everyone was in high spirits so it didn't degenerate into belligerency. Sarah was drunk after two sips of martini, everyone else slid into it a little slower. I probably shouldn't have had two screwdrivers back to back, since I felt it because I hadn't eaten much, but I stopped there, and didn't have much else to drink the rest of the night so that I could drive us home. The speech that dirty-bitch Kate made was horrible. Poor grammar, misuse of words, and just totally fake, especially when she started fake-crying. But Jamie's speech more than made up for it. Extra points for making fun of the fact that no one is going to know what to call Erin (who has two fathers, in addition to the whole marriage thing) and ending up going with "Law Firm", and also extra points for working the advice "lots of humping" in. Dave informed me when I was taking my leave of him that he missed me lots, and that he was going to start calling me so that we can have a phone relationship. So I have that to look forward to. Al told me to call him, but as I don't have his number, that would be difficult. So I may have to ask Dave for it so I can text Al random things. Dave also informed me that he was the best thing that Keean ever gave me, and I agreed. Dave and the guys are the best thing that Keean ever gave me, and I'll always be grateful for that. It was a beautiful wedding, and I'm so glad that Dave and Erin made sure that I could be there. (Even if there was a horrible moment when they asked for my name and I wasn't on the list - I was under "Keean Handy and Guest".) Hopefully I'll be able to get them to come up and visit sometime, maybe hit one of our 'random' parties. (Yes, I'll try to drag them all up. Nothing says party like watching Dave bitch Al out during beer pong.) Today is D&D, and then 8_inches_lucid and I will probably do dinner out for the anniversary. It's already been a year! I can't believe it. (I also find it funny that our anniversary is one day after Dave and Erin's, which I hadn't realized previously.) Tomorrow is cleaning for the holiday and a little bit of shopping to make sure we're ready. I'm looking forward to my first Thanksgiving without family drama. :0) Again, if anyone needs a last-minute home for Thanksgiving, let me know! the way we are today::  content
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My company fucking rocks. Not only am I getting paid for the two days when they called me a plague-carrier and refused to allow me to come to work, my awesome team lead went through my paperwork and turned in my overtime sheet while I was out. He's got my back, yo. Obviously, my crazy did not come true - I went in to work to discover that everyone was thrilled I was back, which was much better than coming in to find out that I'd been fired. :0) The new girl, who isn't really new anymore, has taken over phones for the most part, so that I can get emails done! And I might even get to verify tomorrow, when I train the next new girl! It's like winning. Yes, I have to work mad amounts of overtime, but I get paid ridiculously well for it, and they're hiring more help because they've seen how hard we've been working just to stay afloat! (I have a headache, so I'm trying to stay positive.) Holidays are coming up. I'm excited. Halloween party! (You should come.) Thanksgiving! Jack's coming to join 8_inches_lucid and I, and we're already planning out food. It's pretty cool to have someone else who wants to cook. (If you don't want to be at your house for Thanksgiving, come to mine!) I'm off to bed now, since it's overtime every morning from here on out this week. the way we are today:: cheerful
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I kept meaning to post, but never seemed to sit down in front of the computer. Many things have happened in the past week! We projected last weekend, and my computer is now running dual monitors. Where one monitor is a 40" flat screen TV. (It's so hot.) I got the flu! Then I went to the doctor, and he told me that it was, and I quote, "swine flu". How lucky am I? I haven't even traveled anywhere, and I'm the one that comes down with it. I was feeling human by Wednesday, and even though my doctor said I could go back to work on Thursday, I made the mistake of telling my company what I had been diagnosed with, and they told me not to come back until Monday. So I've been out of work all week. Lots of HGTV and orange juice, and by now, I'm climbing the walls. Today I actually started cleaning around the house. Organizing my clothes and culling out stuff that doesn't fit me anymore (I've actually lost weight!), and cleaning the kitchen. I can only hope that everything works out for the best - taking a week off was not in my plans, and I'm hoping I can do enough overtime the rest of the month to offset that loss of income. ::sigh:: I kind of wish I hadn't been so honest with my office, which is horrible of me, but at the same time, this really sucks. I was finally doing well - paying everything on time, with actual money left over for things that were necessary, and now this? Sometimes it feels like every time I get a few steps ahead, something pushes me backwards. Anyway, we're off to pick up 8_inches_lucid's car from the shop, where it needed all new brakes...and a software update. (The boy, of course, skated through this whole episode without really getting sick at all, a fact which kind of makes me want to sneeze on him, since he's mostly spent the week laughing at my plight. [And bringing me tissues and juice and Pizza Hut breadsticks, so at least it wasn't all bad.]) the way we are today::  bored
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...I don't actually have a Halloween icon. (I'll be remedying this soon. Not tonight though. Too much time in a car this weekend. No brain left!) Anyway, we've put it on the calendar, so I can invite people now! We'll be throwing a Halloween party on October 31st. It will begin around 7/7:30ish, and the entire party will be themed - 'Alice in Wonderland'. Now, this doesn't mean you need to dress up for 'Alice' - wear whatever costume you want! But the food/drinks/etc. will be (hopefully) fun and themed. So. To recap: October 31st 7/7:30ish, until the last person falls over asleep Wear costumes! Expect silly games (bobbing for apples, donut-on-a-string eating contest, musical chairs, etc.) All of you guys are welcome to join in the festivities - if you need directions/address/etc., please let me know - sylverice AT gmail.com RSVPs are always appreciated for the food/drink headcount. the way we are today::  tired
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So I left work early yesterday because I didn't feel great. (Allergies + beginnings of a sinus infection = headache, fatigue, & inability to concentrate.) I was driving home, and something started to sound really bad on my car. Now, it had been making a weird noise (foom-foom-foom), which 8_inches_lucid and I both thought was a belt beginning to go; I was planning on taking it to the shop on Saturday. Then something went BANG and I felt like my seat was jerked, and the FOOMING noise got louder, and then I heard the joyous sound of metal clanging on concrete. I pulled into the Gold's Gym parking lot, and made calls - Bryan, AAA, etc. When I looked under the car, a big pipe was hanging down. Which leads to my muffler. Which, thankfully, was still attached. Long story short, my car got towed to my shop, and they've informed me that my middle exhaust pipe 'let go', and they're replacing it for me. Which meant no car today. Okay, I'll call out sick, sleep in some, call the doctor & make an appointment. Yeah. I hate doctors. So instead of calling him, I've run a load through the dishwasher, wiped down all the countertops, and scrubbed the stove. I'll probably go and fold clothes in a few minutes. Procrastination = win? Who knew? the way we are today::  accomplished
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I'm feeling good today. Had a nice quiet Saturday hanging out at home, and then 8_inches_lucid and I went out to Libby's to celebrate her new job with her. I hate having to go to new places, or to parties where I may not know everyone, but I did it, and it ended up being fine. Mostly because it was Libby, her boyfriend, and then Kath, Jack, and Stephanie. No strangers, just a strange place, and that's always much easier to deal with. Tomorrow I'm home to CT for a few hours, to pick my desk up from Keean and get the shelves for the TV stand from Mom. Then I'm driving right back up, so that I can veg out for an evening before work on Monday. It's fairly early, but I want to remind people that if they're not planning anything for New Year's, they should come to my party. We're doing a big gathering this year - party on New Year's Eve, and then an after party on New Year's Day night. Come for one, feel free to stay for the other. Or just pick one to come to. Either way! :0) We're also doing Thanksgiving at my place in MA this year, so if anyone is going to be around and doesn't want to be alone, let me know, and you can come and eat all the delicious food that I'll be cooking. :0) the way we are today:: content
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So I spent yesterday zipping around the house trying to get things done. I managed to get a bunch of pictures printed out, put into frames, and then 8_inches_lucid helped me hang them up. I got cleaning supplies put away, the bedroom mostly picked up, and a bunch of dishes done. I tidied the office, and we got things hung up in there. All that's left is a final sweep of all the rooms to get rid of clutter, finishing up the kitchen, and putting away two buckets of laundry. His mom gets in tomorrow at 3. This is going to be an interesting weekend. We've moved beyond being really nervous to just wanting it over with. It seems bigger than it probably should, but Bry's the first person I've ever dated who's had an actual good relationship with his mother, so it feels important to make a good first impression. But at the same time, I detest being judged, so that feeling makes me cranky. To be honest, I'm looking forward to our "Busy Doing Nothing" weekend. Yes, I actually scheduled it on the calendar. We're just going to lounge about and do whatever we feel like. It feels like we've had more to do since we moved in together, rather than getting to spend more time together. Summer is usually busy, though, so hopefully things will wind down as we get closer to Fall. I feel accomplished, though, because I also had time yesterday to sort out my stupid external hard drive. Now, once I get the material off of the other external drive that Keean currently has, I'll have all my stuff accessible! Plus, I reformatted the drive, so I've got an additional 186gb of space for stuff. I can finally clean off the laptop so that I can ask Jack to make it run better. (And hopefully fix the card reader. And the dvd-burner.) Now I just need to figure out why my dvd-burner won't open on the desktop. It appears to be jammed somehow. Isn't that awesome? the way we are today::  busy
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We're feeling a little restless today. That's probably because I only have four days to get everything done that we need to, before 8_inches_lucid's mum arrives on Friday. It's mostly easy stuff - getting more of my clothes stuffed away into the closet, cleaning the kitchen, hanging curtains - but I want to be home getting it done, not here answering dumb questions. So I'm making lists, and wishing I were home being useful, and thinking about what to make for dinner tonight, and oh my god I'm so settled it's rather sickening. I've never been this domestic before ever. I have a home with a theme. A theme! I still don't quite know what to do with that. My weekend was eventful - Jack and Kathleen came over last week and got my computer spruced up, so Friday night we played some City of Heroes. Saturday was my birthday party, which involved being at Six Flags on a really nice day (incredibly hot, too). It went quite well, and I had a lot of fun. Plus I now have a puppy dressed up like Batman. He's watching me, right now, sitting in a corner of my desk. Brooding. Sunday was completely dedicated to City of Heroes, with a brief break in the middle for my mom to drop off my TV stand and some other stuff. (I went from Level 17 on Friday to Level 21. That's incredible, considering it took me almost three years to get to level 17!) I'm totally itching out of my skin here. ::sigh:: I should have been smart and taken a bit of time off this week, too. I'm actually looking forward to hitting the gym tomorrow. I'm feeling all out of sorts and out of shape since it's been over a month since the last time I got there. I have nothing to say, but I don't want to get work done.... the way we are today::  restless
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I would really appreciate just one week without a disaster of any kind. First, we had the fridge not working properly. Then the breadmachine didn't make dough and instead just leaked all over the counter. Now, somehow, the newly-refilled olive oil bottle broke in the cupboard, leaking olive oil all over the cabinet, the microwave, and the countertop. It's everywhere, soaking into things and ruining things and generally being oily and horrible. We discovered this when we got up this morning, and of course, I had to go to work, so poor 8_inches_lucid is having to deal with it. Seriously, just one week with nothing going wrong. Bry and I were just talking about how it seems like as soon as we moved in together, we stopped having any leisure time. It's been nothing but either problems or social activities ever since we signed the lease, and we're both getting a little burned out. But we scheduled a couple of weekends to be "do nothing" weekends, so hopefully that will help. the way we are today::  annoyed
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It's my birthday, and thus far, it's going fairly well. The very sweet 8_inches_lucid got me chocolate-covered strawberries to have for today, in addition to his making dinner tonight. Last night, I ended up at the mall with Kathleen and Stephanie, shopping for wedding presents for this weekend, and with the help of some excellent coupons, managed to snag an outfit I can wear to both weddings this year, and some yummy chocolate. The only thing that would make this day better is if it would stop raining (I hate pumping gas, doubly so in the rain), and if I could just go home now. Done with work for this week! It's not to be, however, so I'm mostly just glad that it's almost noon. Soon, I'll get to eat my bento and it will be afternoon, and thusly closer to getting to go home. I managed to finally figure out my NCSoft account password, so that I could reactivate my City of Heroes account. For now, I'll only be able to play on Bryan's computer, but hopefully someday I'll get my desktop up and running. ::crosses fingers:: Then we'll be able to play together! This weekend is far more packed than I wanted it to be, but between Steve's wedding and my family/friends back home wanting to see me on Sunday, I'll be all over the place. Next weekend a birthday party has apparently been planned for me, and then we'll have Sunday to get more work around the house done. We've only got a couple weeks until Bryan's mum comes to visit, and I really need to get cracking so that things look nice! the way we are today:: busy
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planning.
excited
amused
working OT
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