Why does it cost so much more to eat moderately healthy food? Seriously, this is bugging me. My boss warned me about the pre-wedding “I’ll eat whatever is easiest” fast food munchies that afflicted him when he was getting married, so I’m trying to eat good things. Unfortunately, my efforts are being hampered, to some extent, by the selection around here.
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One of my favorite buildings is gone. It was an old brick apartment building near the medical campus. It probably had terrible problems with old electrical wiring, leaky plumbing, poor ventilation and all sorts of stuff, but it was a neat old place. It had a very 1920’s look to it. The facade was red and yellow brick and it had a red tile roof with ancient green copper gutters. There were all sorts of bizarre little decorative accents in tile and copper on and around the balconies and the windows. For all I know, the place was abandoned and vacant for years. I never knew anyone who lived there, and I never saw any lights on, but the place was oddly beautiful and I’m going to miss seeing it.
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I’m interviewing the wedding DJ while I’m at work…
Actually, that’s a lie. But sort of not. Oh it’s all so complicated…
Basically, my Fiancee and I put together a huge playlist of cocktail, dinner and dancing music on my old reliable first generation 5-Gig iPod. I’ve got it piped through the sound system at work to make sure that it’s all what we expect… I’ve already found one song that got into the dancing mix that ought to have been in cocktail hour.
This doesn’t mean that we’re all going to to turn into freakishly dancing black silhouettes at the reception, does it? I hope not…
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Ok, so you all know that my brain is full of wedding plans and all the rest of the pressure that comes from organizing a party for a couple dozen family and friends from out of town… So I haven’t really mentioned that I’m also in the midst of doing Smithee preparation. The U-con Mini-Smithees are a week after the wedding, so, you know… no pressure there…
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The wedding rehearsal was a couple of hours ago, and things went great. Everybody knows where to stand, how to walk in, how to hand people off and so on. The groomsdudes and brideschicks have been briefed on where they need to stand and the readers have had a chance to look at their readings. The pastor and I went through and worked out which hymns go best where, and we’ve arranged things so that my Sis (who has a key to the place) will be able to let the florist in and get things situated.
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