More wedding madness
Alrighty, so to address the comments left on my last post:
I was planning on doing what I do for every trip to the spa, which is buy a massage and then spend the rest of the day there. I love massages, and I’m in desperate need of one. I just thought it was weird that my future s-i-l was saying that nobody could afford it, yet I hadn’t heard any plans about the spa other than that’s the reason why I had to spend the night at the hotel…so that I could be there early in the morning to do the spa with the rest of the girls. The other reason why my brother wants us to stay out there is so that nobody has to drive home. I don’t drink in front of my family, so it’s not like I would be too drunk to drive.
So then I get home today and there is an email from future s-i-l discussing wedding topics. The first thing she asks is where everyone is staying on Friday and Saturday night. Umm…I thought we were being forced to stay at the hotel?? If the rest of the girls don’t have to stay there, then why do I??
Then she moves on the shoes, and how we should go purchase cream colored shoes once we get our dresses. We are to go pick out any pair of cream colored shoes. I suck at picking out shoes. This is going to take me weeks to decide. I might post a picture of my dress (once they come in), and have y’all help me.
So I gotta stress about shoes…and then I come to find out I have to fend for myself when it comes to hair and makeup. She said we can wear our hair however we like, and that we can do it ourselves or go somewhere and do it. Same with makeup. Either pay someone or do it ourselves. I thought that normally a hair stylist/makeup artist comes over and does everyone at the same time, but I guess not. So now I have to figure out who to do my hair (and how) and makeup…b/c I suck at both of those things, too. I don’t know how to do rollers, or curlers, and my hair gets too sweaty and frizzy when left down. And my makeup is usually gone after 2 hours. Oye. Have y’all seen “27 Dresses”?? “What? The bitch said up, so it’s up!” haha!! If you haven’t seen it, then this quote isn’t that funny.
Then she moves on to the morning of the wedding. She goes on about how she’s getting a mani/pedi and her hair and makeup done. Then she asks what we plan on doing. She would like us all to meet up before going to the church, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we have to be at the hotel with her.
I’m so confused. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of me staying at the hotel?? And if I have to get my hair and makeup done on my own, why would I stay in Lakeway if I have to come back into Austin to get it done??
And I’m also confused b/c in her email she says “I know my mom and sister have sent y’all lots of emails and have told y’all some stuff”…I’ve never received a single email prior to this (minus the bachelorette party emails) about anything wedding related. I think that since the matron of honor and maid of honor are s-i-l’s sisters, and the rest of the bridesmaids have been her best friends for years, I’m kinda being left out on all the details.
I dunno. Just tell me where to be. I might post hairstyle ideas so y’all can tell me if it’s a good style.
Toodles!
A bit unreasonable
So my brother’s wedding is getting to be a bit dramatic. They booked the Lakeway Resort and Spa for their reception. They are making it this big, extravagant evening, which if that suits them, then okie dokie. However, I think it’s a bit unreasonable that my brother expects me to spend the night at the resort. He said that I have to be there early on Saturday morning to do “bridesmaid things” at the spa. The room is $200 a night. Not only does he want me to spend the night on Friday, but also on Saturday. I live about 20 minutes away…and I have a dog that I can’t leave alone for two nights.
They didn’t block rooms at any other hotels. They said it’s best if people just spend the night there. I think it’s crazy to spend $400 for two nights. And some people in my family can’t afford that, so my mom is covering the cost of their rooms. Cheesus.
I declined the invitation to the bachelorette party in Vegas. I love Vegas…I really want to go. But the simple fact is that I can’t afford it, and then a trip to Hawaii a few months later. Plus, I don’t know any of the girls that are going. I met them all at the engagement party, and they’ve all been best friends for years, and I was the odd girl out. I don’t care to fly to Vegas and be left out of all their reminiscing. No thanks.
So then I was just on myspace and was looking at my future s-i-l’s sister’s page (the maid of honor), and she (s-i-l) was complaining that nobody could afford the spa the morning of the wedding. I haven’t even heard any plans for the morning of the wedding, so I feel like I’m just going to be told the plans the week of or something. But of course nobody can afford it…Vegas, $400 hotel rooms, and then a spa…all within a month’s time.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s unreasonable?? I also know that it’s their day, which is why I haven’t said anything directly to them. I just think they can’t expect people to be able to do all of this.
Anywho.
Yabba dabba doo
I’m wasting away this beautiful day inside, waiting to leave for the UT bball game. I figured a random posting would occupy some time.
So I forgot to say that I ended up joining 24 hour fitness. I’ve gone to a couple of classes this week. I really only wanted to join for the classes, which is good b/c I’ve gone to cardio types and then today was a lift class so we did weights. I need to remember to grab next week’s class schedule when I go in tomorrow.
I bought a multi-vitamin today. I couldn’t choose one, so I ended up getting Flinstones chewables. Lame, I know. I just couldn’t decide…I hate having too many choices. I’ll go back and get a Centrum or Women’s One-a-Day or something later.
I need to up my workouts if I’m going to be in swimsuit shape, particularly for November. Derek and Denise have decided to get married in Hawaii, and I’m super excited about a) my first destination wedding and b) going to Hawaii!!!
That’s a good time to escape work b/c my fall scholarship dinners will be done, the football season will be complete (minus the A&M game), and then scholarship applications will start back up in early December.
Oh…and everyone should mark their calendars for October 3rd or 4th. For the past couple of years I’ve been talking about having a Sweet 16, 10 Years Later party for my 26th birthday, and that is happening this year. I had originally planned on just mocking the show and keeping it low key but funny. However, over the Christmas break I decided to have a real party with a real theme. I’ve always wanted to be a teenager in the 50s, so I’m going to have a sock hop. I’ve been waiting forever to wear a poodle skirt and saddle shoes!!!!!!!!! So everyone needs to start getting their best 50s outfit together. We had a Board & Council meeting at the Alumni Center a couple of months ago, and there were mini-cheeseburgers and root beer floats. So I’m going to keep the food simple like that. The White family band is my “celebrity” performer, and Dylan and Taylor said they would work on some 50s songs. Plus I’ll have all my Malt Shop Memories CDs going. I’m trying to find a jukebox to rent, but that’s not working out all that well. Details are definitely not set yet, though there’s a chance it will be at the Alumni Center since I can probably get a discount on the food and stuff, but I wanted y’all to be prepared for the fun that is to come.
One of my 2007 New Year’s Resolutions was to stop biting my nails. I’ve been a perpetual nail biter for as long as I can remember. In December I randomly stopped biting my nails…at least I did it before the New Year. Anywho, I have yet to bit my nails, and they are quite long. They are already past my fingertips!! I was going make an appointment for my first manicure EVER next week, and then this week at work two nails on my right hand broke. I hope they grow back fast so I can get them all nice and neat. It’s very weird having nails…it’s a different feeling when I type. And when I try to take out my contacts.
As for my 2008 New Year’s Resolutions…I really only have one, and it mainly has to do with people. Right now I’m trying to reconnect with old friends who have moved away. At the same time, I tried an experiment with my current friends. I pretty much stopped calling/emailing/IMing because I was noticing a trend…that trend is that I only talk to them when I initiate the conversation. What I’ve found the past month is what I knew to be true…unless I make the first contact, they don’t contact me. It’s kind of sad, but at the same time I’ve been saving lots of money by not going out, I’ve spent more time with Gigi, I’ve done some reading, and I’ve overcome my fear of going to the movies by myself. I just think it’s funny that I hear that these people have been asking others about me, wondering why I haven’t been around, yet they don’t contact me personally to ask. I’ve just been sitting here…watching my nails grow. And the final part of the resolution has to do with getting better at mingling with people. I’m going to a few Young Alumni events over the next few months, and I always end up talking to someone I know who is there (a friend or a co-worker). I need to learn to strike up random conversations with people. How can I meet new people if I stick with the people I know at these events. I’m just extremely shy when I first meet people. I need to get over my shyness and also my fear of talking to people. I’m passing up on so many opportunities to meet people. Ugh.
Okay, I’ve passed enough time. Gotta get ready.
Toodles!
Short people need lovin’ too
I was going to update last night, but I was really heated and decided I needed to calm down first. I know to most of you this entry will appear dumb, but it’s personal to me. Last night was my final volleyball game at Townlake YMCA. Our team finished first, so we played at 7, won, then played in the championship game at 9, where we lost to the 2nd place team (who was much better, considering they had 3 really good guys compared to our 1 guy).
Anywho, for the past few weeks I’ve felt useless on the court. The person in charge of our team has been putting me as middle blocker. 5′ tall people don’t play middle blocker! Then this same person doesn’t even set me the ball. Or on the random occasion that I get to play outside hitter, she still doesn’t set me the ball. My only chance of really getting to play and getting set the ball is when she’s not there. And when I do get to play outside hitter, I actually do pretty well considering my height. I played in 4 matches last night and got set the ball only once.
For someone who acts like they are all-knowing in volleyball, I still can’t comprehend why she puts me at middle blocker. That is just dumb.
I was really upset yesterday, and after the game I started crying on the way home. It brought up memories of when I was in high school and the coach cut me b/c of my height. She replaced me with a taller girl who wasn’t very good. Everyone on the team was upset and tried telling the coach that I should be on the team instead, but I didn’t fit her mold of what a volleyball player should look like.
It bothers me b/c volleyball is a game I love, a game that I’m good at when my strengths are put to use, and I hate that people think that my height is a hindrance to the game. I don’t like when people assume that I can’t do something. And I don’t like that the person in charge thinks her way is the only way to go. I’m not a placeholder on the court. So I’m through.
I think that I might sign up with Austin Sports and Social Club. Their next season starts February 11th, but it’s already full. But maybe that will give me time to come up with my own team rather than joining a random team. Terri, would you be interested? I’m pretty sure my little Katie would play…she’s been craving volleyball just as much as she craves turkey legs.
Power to the short people!!
Toodles!
Need to make a lifestyle change…STAT
Can anyone help me eat fruits and vegetables? This is a serious question. Can you, or can you suggest someone that might be able to help me? And I think I’m going to go join a gym tomorrow…or at least see how much it will cost me. I need to start doing something soon.
I just found out that this past week my mom was in the hospital. With a combination of stress and high blood pressure, her artery in her eye burst. The doctors ran some tests to see if she had a stroke. They said she’s fine, but I dunno. She likes to hide her health stuff from us.
Anywho, I figure I need to change my lifestyle fast. My dad was diabetic, had a stroke (which paralyzed him), and then died from an aneurysm. My mom has high blood pressure, is anemic, and possibly had a mini-stroke. Things aren’t looking too good for my future.
I need to go buy some vitamins tomorrow. Do you think it’s better to get individual vitamins for all the ones I’m lacking, or just buy a general multi-vitamin?
Crazy weird dream…
Last night I had a bunch of crazy dreams. I won’t get into the details of them all, but there was one that ended up being funny.
So this guy was stalking me at my apartment, but not the apartment that I live in now…it was the apartment that I lived in by myself when I was in high school. Some of the details get kind of blurry, but somehow he tried shooting me (I swear it will end in a funny way!!) I ended up with his rifle (not even a little handgun!) and fired back, which scared him off. When I came home each day, I saw his car parked in the parking lot, but he would try to hide it behind a dumpster. I would drive off and go stay with someone else. I kept calling 911 and told them someone was stalking me and had already tried to shoot me, but for some reason they wouldn’t come to my rescue. So one day my family and I were at a festival and we set up a sting. We saw the guy’s car in the lot, so we called the police. When I pointed him out, the cop goes “oh yeah, that’s so-and-so…we’ve been after him for awhile now.” The crowd starts moving, and he starts coming my way. The police grab him and it’s over. Or so I thought. His girlfriend was with him, and she stood in front of me and slid her hand across her throat, as if to say “you’re dead.” We got into a scuffle and ended up on the ground. She started to pull something from her pocket…I thought it was going to be a knife or a gun. Then she goes “you bitch, I’m going to kill you” and pulls from her pocket a pair of nail clippers with the nail file sticking out. HAHAHAHA!!!
Okay, maybe it isn’t that funny to any of you. But this was the kind of dream where I kept waking up, afraid of what was going to happen next, yet each time I fell back asleep the dream continued on. So it was interesting when it finally did end, and the chick was trying to kill me with a nail file. HA!
It got worse…
You have got to read this. The topic of this essay is Leadership Ability Short Essay.
“Once, in Key Club, Marilyn, our wonderful president, brought in brownies for everyone. Only she brought it uncut in a pan, and none of us just happened to have a knife on us. Pressed by the disappointed faces of hungry high school students and unwilling to just scoop pieces of it out with my hands like my friend suggested, I had to come up with a solution. I thought for a moment and noticed the plastic wrap on the brownie pan. Something sparked. I took out a ruler from my backpack, wrapped the plastic wrap around it, and used it as a knife to serve perfectly cut brownie squares without getting my hands dirty. I believe, through years of experience, mostly obtained through teaching little kids, I’ve learned to stay calm even in the worst of situations.”
Are you f’ing kidding me?? A $10,000 leadership scholarship and you choose to write about brownies and how you stayed calm and came up with an idea on how to cut them???
This is f’ing unbelievable.
I have to share…
So one of the scholarship committee members didn’t pick up his packet of applications to read and rank, and they were due back today. I got the job of reading 20 applications and ranking the top 8. I’m only on the third application because I can’t get through this one student’s first essay. The topic is “Life-Impacting Person Essay” and here’s a sampling:
“Oh. It’s Rhett, permeated my mind like an earthquake ripping through my conscience. With the intensity of the situation, the room began to boil with the blood purging through my eleven year-old veins. The cool breeze that dried the foliage outside to maroons and hues of fire foiled the sweat rolling off my hair and down my spine. Although my perspiration began as the yield from a toilsome soccer practice, anxiety divulged a new aquifer inside.”
Seriously, wtf is he trying to say???? As he was typing in Word, did he just highlight random words and replace them with a big synonym? I might have to skip this essay and try one of the other three essays. Maybe some people like these kind of essays, but unfortunately for this guy, I don’t.
Worn out
The past few days have been so freakin’ looooong. Starting where I left off in my first post, we went and saw “27 Dresses” on Tuesday, and I’m happy to report that it was cute. Listening to people talk about all the bridesmaid dresses they wore makes me a bit sad that I never had a sister or that I’m better friends with guys than girls. I know there are horror stories about being a bridesmaid, but I love weddings and think that it would have been fun to be a bridesmaid a few times.
Speaking of being a bridesmaid, I went and got my measurements for my dress for my brother’s wedding yesterday. Stupid whore charged me $15 for wrapping a measuring tape around a few parts of my body. I would have done it myself except that some measurements needed to be taken from the back of the neck to the floor and to the waist, so that wouldn’t have been possible to do myself. Last night a few of us went out to dinner to celebrate the engagement of Derek and Denise, and I was informed that I would be a bridesmaid. Yay! So that’ll make 2 dresses…I need 25 more! However, I think my count ends with 2.
The new girl started at work on Tuesday…she is horrible. I’m trying to stay optimistic that things will get better, but right now I’m not so sure. She has been so slow getting things done. Derrick gave her a project to do on Thursday…a little boring project of folding and stuffing 540 letters into envelopes. It may seem dumb, but these projects are part of her job…I did them, she has to do them…it’s part of being an assistant. Anywho, she didn’t finish them on Thursday, even though she spent 5 hours in our office…she didn’t finish them on Friday either…again in our office for 3 hours. She actually had the nerve to spend about 40 minutes on her cell phone…this being her 4th day of work. Ugh…hopefully she gets better real soon.
In health news, my nasty infection on my face/arms/neck is really starting to bug me. The one on my face is horrible…I keep my hair down to hide it. I thought I had an ear infection the past few days, but then when I tried to massage around it, I felt like my cheek was all bruised up. People told me it was probably a case of TMJ, so I looked it up online. Sure enough the exact spot where my face feels bruised is the spot that was circled showing the point of contact for TMJ. Blah. I’ve been feeling so sickly the past few days that on Friday I fell asleep at 6:30 p.m. and didn’t wake up until 7:30 a.m.
Alrighty, this post was a bit boring. I’m going to take pictures of some new things that I bought and start posting them soon. And I’ll come up with some more interesting posts for the 4 people who know about this.
Toodles!
Here we go again…
I miss blogging, but I also want to be more discreet this time around. I don’t think I’ll talk all that much about anything too personal (maybe on occasion). I usually have tons to say, yet nobody to say anything to. So yay for the blog!
So on to my first real post. I thought that most people would be well aware of this, but apparently not: if you’re applying for a job, you should probably set your facebook and myspace profiles to private. Otherwise snoopy people like myself will log on and get the scoop. And if you’re going to lie to your new employer about your whereabouts, then you should definitely set your profile to private.
Target is seriously the best store ever. I’ve racked up so much crap from there the past few weeks, it’s ridiculous! I came home tonight with 5 storage containers, and I couldn’t be happier. You know I live a sad life when it comes to me being happy about storage containers. And there is this super fun $1 section…believe it or not you can find some good stuff in that section!! There are kitchen sponges, and workout water bottles, and sudoku books, and kitchen gloves, and all sorts of random goodness. And the value section is amazing!! 3 bottles of dish soap for $5, 8 bars of soap for $5, etc. Cheesus, I’m a sad person.
Speaking of my sad life, here’s a quick update: I have a new position at work…Scholarship Coordinator. I joined the scholarship department about two weeks ago and couldn’t be happier. It’s about to get super busy and every week is packed with sending off applications, setting up meetings, and conducting interviews. We’re off and running as of today and will be busy until April. This was a good move for me for the present time and also for the future. In the next few years the scholarship department will expand to include about 8 more employees, and Derrick and I have been told that there’s a chance have more of a leadership position once that happens. Other than work, I am a super boring person. I play volleyball on Wednesdays, I have a stack of 6 books to read, I’ve purchased 23 DVDs since Thanksgiving, I have eye allergies, and I currently have a disgusting infection that I would like to not name (nothing horrible, but just the thought of it makes people squimish). I’ve taken to going to the movies by myself, and I get excited about plastic containers and the dollar section at Target.
Alrighty, that’s about it for now. I have a super long day ahead of me tomorrow, and it will include an advanced (free) screening of “27 Dresses” with Caitlin, Denise and Staci.
Toodles!
