Dress Shopping, Again/Still

Last week, my cousin TT took me wedding dress shopping. I tried on this dress (among others) and really liked it.

Except for a couple things. It's strapless. I need sleeves. It looked stupid with a shrug. It's too sparkly. I'm fairly ok with the sparkles along the waistline, but they're all down the front and back of the dress too. I am anti-sparkle for my wedding dress (but sparkles on your wedding dress are ok). It has a train. I am way too clumsy for a train.

But, I loved the ivory color. White-white makes me look like death. Not even death warmed over. Just death. And I loved that it made me look skinny (believe me, that takes a pretty spectacular piece of fabric architecture to do that!). And it made me feel like someone who is getting married to a man I love more than anything. Which I am. In the summer. (At least, last time I checked.) It was the only dress in the place that I put on and said "I could see myself wearing something like this."

I think this other one might be an alternative though.  (You'll have to click over to see it because the site won't let me put the picure over here.) I need to go to Utah to try it on...since I want to go to Utah soon anyways. I need to know how many dollars I need to save, after all.

Oh, by the way, the dress I originally bought for my wedding two years ago, my sister A is wearing to her wedding next month. And this dress? Turns out it's too short.

Dear Sisters,

Please stop telling me life altering news on Facebook. Seriously. You have a phone. You have my phone number. Use it.

Also, is it too much to ask that I get a little of the familial attention/excitement next year?



Love,
me

PS, Yeah, I should be really happy right now, especially for both of you. But I'm not. I'm probably jealous.

delimma

You want to know something ridiculous? I stressed all weekend about whether or not I should buy coffee for the "Bribe the Teachers to Come to the Book Fair Teacher Preview" breakfast thing this morning. I went back and forth, back and forth.

 

"The teachers will expect it."

 

"I don't know anything about coffee!"

 

"But if there's coffee, they'll come!"

 

"But I would have to buy it made because I sure as heck don't know how to make coffee. Where do you buy it made? Starbucks? That would be too expensive."

 

"The teachers love Starbucks. That's why they all have Starbucks cups every morning."

 

"But I'm Mormon! I can't go into Starbucks and be like 'I need coffee for about 15 people.' There will be someone in there who knows me! This IS Ridgecrest after all. I can't go ANYWHERE without seeing someone I know who would be like 'OMG, Rachael is buying coffee! She's a sinner!"

 

"But the teachers want coffee!"

 

"Not Mrs D. Besides, they all know I went to BYUI. Pretty sure they know that means I'm Mormon, especially since they also know that the D kids go there."

 

"But the others will want it!"

 

Finally I decided not to buy coffee. And I don't think it made a difference. A couple teachers showed up. They had their own coffee.

 

My book fair started today. We've already sold $100 dollars worth of stuff, and we were only open for 1/2 an hour before school. I'd say we're going to do pretty well.

books

I didn't know people missed my sparkling conversation and spry wit. I'm making no promises, but look at me, posting two days in a row! Yay!

If you ever come to my actual blog, you'll see that the background is bookcases. And you may know that I am a librarian (if not, now you do, I am a librarian at an elementary school). And yet, I never talk about books. Should I? What do you think? Do you even care what I'm reading? I read a lot of middle-grade lit (3rd-8th grade reading levels), trying to be able to reccomend books beyond what I vaguely remember reading in the 4th grade.

So.
Most recently read: The Giver
Currently reading: Little House in the Big Woods and The Red Pyramid
Most favorite book I've read in ages and ages: The Mysterious Benedict Socity and sequels (it's a trilogy)

What, I have a blog?

Oh yeah. Sorry. I have been super busy since school started. How busy? B has gotten 1.5 letters in the last month and a half (.5 is an email :) ). And my cousin CC, who has been on his mission in Georgia for a month now, has gotten exactly 0. I know. I'm a horrible person. So last night I took an hour and drew CC a comic strip. Because that's what we do. And thanks to the wonders of the scanner, B gets a copy, and you and my facebook friends get to see my fantastic stick-figure drawing skillz.

The background is that last week, some of my other cousins and I picked pomergranates after dark. If you've ever picked poms, you know that while they are delightful, their trees/bushes are not. They are thorny, nasty, evil things.