Mawiage

“Mawiage is what bwings us togevver, today!”
It’s official!! Kathy is fully hitched to her love of nine years (!!), Nick. They’re a freaking adorable couple, I’ll have you know. Oh, and Hi! I’m the guest blogger, and not Kathy, lest you think she’s suddenly gone all third person on you. Kathy is unable to be [...]

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I’ll Be His Missus

The RandomTomorrow I get married.
I’m getting nervous about walking in and having people look at me and having to walk up an aisle.
Ack! Married! I can’t believe it!
Have I packed everything? I have no idea. I think so. Should I pack my yoga mat, or will I not use it? Maybe tomorrow morning? [...]

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Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough

Our wedding reception playlist is looking like a middle-school dance. We have a lot of Billy Joel, some Def Leppard, Don Henly, Roxette, Lita Ford, Nelson (“I can’t live without yooour love and affection!”), Kenny Loggins, Motley Crue, The Bangles, and ABBA. And of course, Lou Gramm (you’ve probably never heard of him… the one-hit-wonder [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mom!

I don’t have any new pictures of my Mom, so here are some lovely ferns I saw on my regular walking/running loop. My Mom likes ferns. My Mom also likes organization, tiger lilies, raspberries, punctuality, pretty dresses, and smooching my Dad.
Happy Birthday, Mom. I love you.

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Secret

My post-wedding knitting is all set up.

But I can’t tell you what these are all about, because it’s a secret.

Let’s see… we’ve got alpaca, merino, and Cascade 220. This will be the best wedding-recovery ever.
In other secret news, the bachelorette party was Saturday. Some pictures may make it to the blog, most won’t. What [...]

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Happy Birthday, Husband-to-be!

Today, my Beloved turns twenty-eight. Twenty-eight! Hooray!
He kept forgetting that today is his birthday (mostly because today is the bachelor/bachelorette party day). Plus that whole wedding thing.
He doesn’t mind that I totally blanked on the physical card, and I’m tickled that I get to post about him, with pictures of him, on [...]

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Unexpected

My brain has gone numb these last few days. Consequently, posts are going to be in list form from now until August (most likely). This is a list of things that made me go “Hmmm.” Like the song. Which I now have stuck in my head. Damn.
1. I am missing one 7″ size 4 (US) [...]

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Happy Birthday, Maribeth!

This is Maribeth, my youngest sister. Today is her birthday and she is TWENTY years old.
Maribeth is the happiest girl I know. She has been ridiculously happy since babyhood (which seems not very long ago at all), and she brightens up the lives of everyone around her.
Maribeth is a nursing student and CNA, [...]

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Dear Miss Manners

How should one decipher the following card, sent in response to a wedding invitation?

Do we assume that …(a) we sent this invitaiton to math geeks, and this is their way of telling us that no one is coming (0 x 6 = 0)?(b) the recipients are too shy to include their names?(c) names on response [...]

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Numbers, Camping, and Sock Progress

I went camping over the long weekend (Sunday to Tuesday is a weird weekend, but it works for me) and came home to insane blog stats:
(clicky-clicky for big)Behold the power of the Harlot, who mentioned me on Monday. One thousand seven hundred seventeen page loads for my wee little blog. I about fell out of [...]

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