tidbits to wrap up the week
August 10th, 2006 @ 9:50 pm | dc, miscellany, wedding | Post a CommentThanks to all for your sweet comments and emails regarding my new High Definition Eyeballs (now seeing 20/15!), which I am loving more and more every second. Several of you left comments about how you wish you were brave enough to go under the laser, etc. Let me just tell you (ya know, if I didn’t already email you in a fit of zealousness) that you should definitely not let a little fear hold you back from getting LASIK. For me, the hardest part was paying for the damn thing; actually getting lasered was a piece of cake. If I had to choose between getting a cavity filled or getting LASIK again, I think I would opt for the LASIK - it’s that painless. Sure, there were a few moments of discomfort, but that was it. It’s like when you get all anxious for your yearly ob/gyn exam, and then it turns out not to be that bad, and you wonder what you were all worked up about? Except at the end of this procedure, you can see every damn leaf on every tree for miles ahead. And the alarm clock. And your officemate’s pores from across the room. And the cobwebs hanging from the corner of your ceiling. Okay, so maybe some things were better left unseen.
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With each wedding benchmark we’ve passed, I find myself thinking, holy crap, it’s real and we are really getting married in X days, the X at this point being 93. Three months. More shocking than that is the fact that we currently have 7 RSVP Yesses and 3 RSVP Nos, and the sweet and wonderful Nos already sent a gift off the registry and holy crap when you get married people just buy you things like $50 spice racks and that is supposed to feel normal?!? I already feel so spoiled and so loved I think my heart might just explode by the time this wedding actually comes. That, and my kitchen cabinets, which are already filled to the brim.
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This weekend will mark some celebrations (happy birthday, almost-sister!) and some un-celebrations (one of my dearest DC friends and a true partner in crime is moving away). Let’s hope there is enough tequila and rum to go around to soothe the happy and sad tears. (And no, I will not subject you ladies to any more vodka smoothies, because I distinctly recall your ungratefulness for those delicious and also deadly concoctions from last time.)
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Update 11:28 pm: I thought some of you political nerds might enjoy seeing the last wedding invitation that is going in the mail tomorrow. Don’t quite understand? Read #27-#34 of my 100 things. If Governor Dean hadn’t run for president, I don’t think we would be getting married. In fact, I would have gone to law school and taken the bar exam this month. Crazy how life changes…
Vodka smoothies with ginger beer?
written by Alli
August 10th, 2006 @ 10:12 pm
Oh I love that you invited Dean! We invited the major of Baltimore to our wedding (I have a crush on him - hmmm is that inappropriate?) but he didn’t come. Did you add a note explaining who the two of you were? (refreshing his memory?)
written by for Joke!
August 11th, 2006 @ 4:43 am
How cool would it be if the good doctor showed up to your wedding?! He was here in DE last week on his 50 states tour. Sadly I was too poor to go see him.
written by jessica
August 11th, 2006 @ 6:58 am
Wedding gifts are truly overwhelming. The generosity of people is amazing. Imagine the kind of gift Howard Dean would bring you…
written by Sarah
August 11th, 2006 @ 7:01 am
You’re giving me wedding fever!! I love buying my friend’s china, even though it’s an expensive outlay for me. My parents still use their wedding china every Christmas 30+ years later and I love the thought that my gift will last for their whole marriage that way.
And, I think your LASIK proselytizing is working on me… I just asked my mom if her offer to foot the bill still stands…
written by Laurel
August 11th, 2006 @ 10:25 am
Two things: I am blind as a bat, and should probably get LASIK, but - also cowardly as . . . a lion? You’re inviting freakin’ Howard DEAN to your wedding!? Lo, you are important!
written by Teacher Lady
August 11th, 2006 @ 12:46 pm
I love the thought of a registry like that - it must be so overwhelming that people are sending you all of those goodies!!!
If I’m not married by 40 I’m getting another cat and putting up an adoption registry on my blog.
written by kris
August 12th, 2006 @ 5:16 pm
I feel like I missed out on so much already! You got lasik?? yay for you, that surgery was the best invention ever. I’m jealous! It is so difficult to spend that much when contacts are so much cheaper…
written by haggalicious
August 15th, 2006 @ 12:56 am
“LASIK proselytizing” is right…my mom has been saying for years I need it, yet minutes after reading that entry I was seriously considering it.
The wedding gift thing never feels normal. It is amazing how generous people are. It is three times as much when you have a baby.
written by Erika
August 15th, 2006 @ 8:31 am
I LOVED LASIK (or the results, anyway)! The only thing I had a problem with was the smell–smelled like branding cattle (I’m obviously a farm girl). Oh, and the fact that I had one hugely dilated eye and one normal eye for like a week. I looked like a crazy crack addict.
written by goldmoon
August 15th, 2006 @ 12:06 pm
WOO HOO on the successful Lasik! I’m so happy for you! My contacts have been bothering me a lot at work lately and I would love to have Lasik. I think paying for it would be the hard part for me, too!
And yes, it is SO awesome that you invited Dean to your wedding. I hope he responds with a YES!
written by Liberal Banana
August 15th, 2006 @ 12:40 pm
Yay! Glad the Lasik went so well. Isn’t it fabulous?
And I love the final invite you are sending out. Wouldn’t it be cool if he could make it?
written by Kelly
August 15th, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
I know what you mean about getting spoiled. And just wait…it’s only going to get better. People are SO nice. It’s amazing.
I love your handwriting. You should charge people to have you write their letters. (Does that make sense?)
I had read in a wedding book that if you send an invite to the White House, they will send you a signed card. So I did it, and I got a signed card.
Probably NOT something you want to do with this Presidency. But still, something cool for your wedding book.
(93 days? Hooray!)
written by Isabel
August 16th, 2006 @ 11:18 am