Withdrawals

I thought I’d be all happy and relieved when the wedding was over. I’m actually kinda missing all the planning and shopping and net surfing and such. It’s like there’s a void I need to fill. Maybe I should become a wedding planner. On second thought, NO WAY. As much as I enjoyed it, it was one (if not “the”) most stressful things I’ve ever been through. But I must say, it turned out really well and was beautiful. And the bride was exceptionally beautiful.

I have deleted all the hundreds of bookmarks I had saved on centerpieces, reception food, pew markers, ideas, suggestions, talk forums, etc. There are a couple of websites I still like to look at though. Theknot.com and Brenda’s Wedding Blog. Doesn’t hurt to look.

Well, we do have Halloween coming up. We’ve already been looking at costumes. Right now the redheads want to be pirates. Then there’s Christmas, then birthdays, Easter. Actually now that I think about it I’m sure my void will be filled.

Cheesy Tot Replacement

It took quite some time but I finally found a replacement for my cheesy tots for breakfast.

Plus a 16 ounce Mt. Dew.

I had stopped drinking regular soft drinks completely but for some reason these garlic chips just need a “real” Mt. Dew with them.
So far, I have only found them in one store. But it’s a fairly new store, nice and clean, and it's right on my way to work. So I’m not having to drive all the way across town for them.
And apparently I’m not the only person that likes them. When I first started buying them, every Monday morning they would be out. I’d panic but make do. It would usually be Wednesday or Thursday before they restocked them. The store manager finally figured out that they need to stock more. They now fill FOUR of the hanging racks up. I don’t think they will run out now.
They are a bit pricey, $2.19 a bag but I munch on the bag off and on all day. And if you don’t mind garlic breath they taste absolutely super fantastic.

Not quite as good as those warm, cheesy, creamy tots, but they’ll do.

Spam

Yes, it's been forever since I've written.  I've been bogged down in a wedding.  That's over.  I'll tell you more about that later.

So HOW do you all stop the crazy spam comments?  I think I have the captcha thingy set up (don't I?) but that hasn't stopped them.  Look at my last post.  Tons of weird comments.  I started deleting them at first then I just gave up.

Any suggestions?

RIP Mamie

It’s a sad day today. When I walked into work I was told of the passing of a long time co-worker/friend. Single car wreck on her way to church. She’d been with our employer as long as I can remember and I’ve been employed by them for 29 years now.

She was always talking, always smiling.

Even the plant is eeriely quiet as if it is mourning her passing.  There is usually lots of noise, machinery, clanging of metal, tow motors, seeping through the office walls but I don't hear anything but an occasional door opening or closing into the plant.

She was here during the “good ol’ days”. When the plant ran at maximum capacity with several hundreds of employees. The employees respected the company and were proud to send out a good product. Plant management knew how to run the business and was good to the employees at the same time.

We still have several of those, or should I say “us” old employees but many are gone. The new hires have a completely different attitude. They tend to expect more out of the company than they want to give back. 

We’ll surely miss Mamie, as an excellent employee but mostly as a sweet, kind friend.

Peculiarities

The redheads have hit a few peculiar stages. Right now big sis in on a “pink” kick. She will only drink out of the pink cups, only eat the pink wrapped Hershey’s kisses, pink m&m’s, pink smarites, get the new pink toothbrush…and so on. I told her she was a pink fanatic. “Yeah” she said “I’m a pink natic”.

And lil sis has decided she has to pick out what clothes they wear all the time. And she hasn’t got the “seasonal” thing down pat yet. I’ve had to hide some summer dresses cause she kept wanting to wear those. And please, make sure the training pants match. She went into a spasm one morning because her panties didn’t match her dress.

We laughed our heads off last night at them “shaking their booties”. At least they can entertain us. American Idol certainly isn’t entertaining this year.

My daughter has their flower girl dresses picked out so we’ll get those ordered when payday rolls around. I hope I have enough paydays before this wedding gets here.

I just hope the girls will actually walk down the aisle come wedding day. They are very shy at first so I just don’t know. There is an older niece from the groom’s side of the family that will be a flower girl also. We are hoping she will be able to coax them to follow her. But if they don’t, they can come sit with Mawmaw. That will be okay too.

The List...

is slowly but surely getting smaller.

Cake. check.

Bridesmaid dresses. check.

Dress #2

Okay, I honestly debated as to whether or not I even would share this with anyone because when you read it you will say either I'm the most insane person in the world or the best mother in the world.

We have bought another wedding dress.

There. I said it.

And no. We cannot cancel the other one.

A couple of weekends ago we went to a local bridal store to look at bridesmaid dresses. Well, they had gotten in the new Allure spring line. And there it was. "THE" perfect dress.

Seriously.

I liked the first dress she ordered because she did. It just didn't "wow" me though. This new dress "wowed" me big time. And...it fit to a T. No altering needed. That kinda was a "sign" to me I guess.

So, the dress is at our house.

I would love to show you the picture but I'll wait until after the wedding.

Go ahead, call me crazy.

Thank goodness I only have one child.

By the way, I have a beautiful Allure Couture Bridal gown, ivory/silver, size 5, I will sell very reasonable. Very, very reasonable.

*sigh*