that rosebud girl

it’s official …

i’m married, biatch!

more on that later…let’s just say i’m writing this from canada….

no turning back now!

and everything comes down to this…..

it’s wednesday…..three days, more or less….this is kind of crazy…..

my parents are here, so this feels a little more official. still plenty to do, but my to-do list is shrinking. just need to pick up a few more things and tie up some loose ends and it’ll all be good. rizza comes back late thursday, so i get my partner in crime back.

this is all so nuts. there have been some hiccups, some bumps, some unexpected things, some miscommunication…..but i’m still pretty excited. and we’ll pull this off. it’s going to be one of those last-minute deals where people find out what they’re doing at the last second and then it all comes together. it’s like improv theater. or one of the many productions i’ve been involved in.

we have to pay for this whole shebang today…..then there’s really no turning back….

meanwhile, i got up at 7 a.m. today. what the hell was i thinking? at least i actually got things accomplished…..

worst. week. ever.

a crappy end to a crappy week…..but at least it all worked out in the end…..

i’ll start with last friday….we have a tree that hangs over our driveway, and it drops these small branches and things every so often. but i was about to go somewhere and saw that a huge limb fell on the yard….and i was thinking, “damn, that’s quite a branch.” i went and kicked it and it was pretty heavy….and i was like, “damn, i’m surprised that didn’t break anything.” so i open the driver’s side door to my car and there is glass all over the place. the branch put a small hole in the windshield and some big cracks everywhere. it’s just what i need — a shattered windshield. and i had a crapload of stuff to do. so i’m freaking out, i’m trying to rearrange my schedule and things and i’m thinking about the major wads of cash that i’m going to have to drop on replacing the windshield of a car that’s two freaking weeks old. so i’m not the happiest person in the world.

i went to a hyundai dealer first and they told me they didn’t fix glass. um, okay. but a mechanic happened to hear of my predicament and told me of some place up on kirkwood highway that was cheap. of course, i had just been up that way. and i was low on gas. sheesh. but i went up the place, and it was still open at 4:30. and they said they had the parts in stock and i could bring it by the next morning and it would be fixed. sweet. so it got fixed on saturday, took about an hour, and cost me a mere fraction of what the parts guy at the dealer said a new windshield would cost. sweet.

so i went through the rest of my week…..not enough time to do jackshit…..just not enough hours in the day…..barely enough time to eat….crap….but it was okay….i got through it….though i was pretty tired….and not in the greatest of moods…..weddings are stressful….

but i get to friday. and i’m off to LA, right? well, first of all, i slept through my shuttle pickup. luckily, the guy came back to get me and take me to the airport and i wasn’t late or anything. but someone almost hit the van on the freeway on the way to the airport. so that wasn’t fun. but at least i got to the airport and got on the plane, went through a small spot of major turbulence and got to LA okay. but…..

….one of my suitcases was lost!

now, that really was the last straw. i was pissed. my camcorder and all my toiletries were in that suitcase. and i cried. and i went on a rampage. i threw a tantrum and swore and was on the warpath. i almost ran some guy over with my luggage cart (it was empty; i’d shoved it to the wall). so that sucked. but at least they found the suitcase later and delivered it to ed’s parents’ house at 3 a.m.

so i guess it all worked out. even if it all kinda sucked along the way.

now i am in san diego, awaitng the bachelorette adventure to begin. fun.

hopefully nothing else gets lost along the way….

beating the bush …

away messages i’ve seen today from some of my friends:

“anyone down with england?”

“lady liberty weeps”

“a sad, sad day in america”

and, one of my personal favorites, courtesy of kim:

“not having voted is a worse sin than voting for bush”

amen.

stupid conservatives….we get four more years of this crap?

so far, i am 0-for-2 in presidential elections….oh, well.

it’s election day!

did you vote?

i did. and i’m very proud i voted. it’s one of the coolest things to do, i think. i mean, i’m not overly political or anything like that, but the whole voting process is cool. i mean, i grew up in a place where you couldn’t vote for president and now i can. sweet.

meanwhile, i am here at the office and everyone and their mother is here. it’s crazy. we had a huge spread of food (subs, cookies, chips, etc.) and i ate plenty. ugh. i feel very full right now. but it’s cool working with all this craziness happening around me. i worked during the last presidential election and it was more or less the same thing. i don’t think we’ll have a president by the end of the night. but it’s fun watching all these returns come in.

geez, i’m such a nerd. oh well.

back to work…..