So cute!!!

Ooohh!!! I had a sample of these bombonierre boxes sent to me in the silver (right) and they're so cute!! We're not looking at having almonds in them, rather small foil chocolate hearts.

I put it together, so happy!! Now for the chocolate samples to arrive and the test will be complete!

Dreams

I had the funniest dream last night. I think it was particularly hilarious as it highlights my obvious anxiety about the wedding. Call me crazy but that's funny....

Anyway, so it was like real life, as you do, and I had done as much wedding prep as I've currently done. Ie, some but not a lot set in stone. The problem being, that instead of getting married in less than 160 days, I was getting married in like 2 hours. Hahaha. So wedding day dawns and the bridesmaids are all running around like headless chooks, (somehow Erica was back in Oz) with vaguely dark Purple looking dresses, but not the ones we're having made! I had about half a dress I think and the BM's were all doing their own makeup and hair, when I had the brainwave that we would all go down to Myer and the girls could have their makeup done at like the Clinque counter etc, except that when I went to go in they were closing so i couldn't get my Makeup done! I also toyed with the idea of having it done by the Napolean counter but discounted them when I thought they were going to make me fuschia and electric blue. And somehow I ran into Jess in the shopping centre toilets and she was only half dressed and I was going out of my mind!!!!

It was so distressing while I was in the dream, but as soon as I woke up I realised it wasn't really happening and after I calmed down I thought it was so funny. One of the things I found funniest was the notion that one day I woke up and after telling people that it was fine and we had lots of time, we suddenly had no time at all. Hahahaha.

When does an Ex stop being an Ex and become your friend, and is it fair to make your partner deal with it?

I'm trying a slightly different tactic here, and opening up the floor for discussion on what I feel might be a controversial topic.

There's a girl at work who's getting married in September and she maintains a close friendship with her Ex-fiancee (now thats a whole different story...). Now her current fiancee isn't terribly happy with this arrangement and I feel this is totally justified. She has told him that if he forces her to choose between the two of them that the ex will win and he'll lose her.
Now I would have thought that the man you were marrying was a little more important than the the ex? Or is that just me? I'd like some active discussion here people. I think she's being unfair, but at the same time, should we have to choose between friends and boyfriends? I will also allow here that the friendship you have with Jimmy Joe from high school that your partner "doesn't approve of (maybe because they make you do stupid things etc)", is entirely different to friendship with Exey. From my perspective she should be taking his feelings into account and distancing herself from this damaging friendship.
I would hope in this position that I could take my partners feelings into account and that he would also take into account my desire for the friendship to continue and we could come out in a balance for the two of us. Is that possible? Who wants to take up the baton?

Template Change....Again....

*sigh* I was having difficulties with the Sidebar on my template so I've had to change templates.... which is a massive bummer cos I really liked that template.... : (

Envy? No way man

I LOVE this dress. Love it Love it. Wouldn't wear it to get married in (sorry hah) but I love it. I could wear it somewhere else perhaps. At least I could if I wasn't worried my bosoms would topple out of it like an erupting Vesuvius.

Gorgeous though.

Various-Disc 1 & 2

Saturday night we had a small informal gathering at home. Robbie and Todd came over and Alicia and Lou rounded out the evening well. Unfortunately, in true Yvonne style I passed out (quietly) as soon as everyone left. It was all too much. So yeh, that was bad.

Friday night we had dinner at a place called Ceruti's in Manly with friends from Bovis on Mark's old team. The company was excellent but I was a bit disappointed with the food. It was Italian, and even with Entertainment Cards, Mark and I didn't think the price was terribly good. Food was merely ok, not stellar. But the waiter had the most divine think Italian accent, which went a little way to making up for it.

We've come a little closer to making the invitations for the wedding also. We took ourselves to Balloons Balloons successfully and have got a concept and some paper colours we really like. Now we've got to cost it all out, including Order of Service and Thank you cards.
And while we were there I got all inspired for bombonierre again, cos I really liked some of the things they'd done : )

We've hit a snag with rings though which we went on Sunday morning to do. I had hoped we could make some concrete decisions, but myself particularly, I'm even more lost now. I thought I wanted a narrow band, just plain. And now I'm thinking of something like 3-3.5mm wide instead. it's a difference. Hmmmm
We're kinda thinking of maybe having matching bands thought, which would be nice I think. All white of course. But, hmmm.

Musings

Check it out people, Uh huh, posting on a Saturday. Yeh, getitindaya!

Mark's gone off to work this morning, poor baby. I have a big morning planned of having my haircut. But, the exciting thing is that this afternoon we plan to visit Balloons Balloons to investigate stationery ideas. This one's a fun one.

Tomorrow we plan to have a serious decision made about wedding bands. I really want to get these things out of the way so they're done. Hmm well thats a bit of a truism isn't it?

Anywho, check out Lou's blog, she's updated (I know-Shock) and its funny. She manages to be witty and clever, while I gave up all pretense of actually attempting either of those things many many posts ago.

Btw-for those trying to comment (mum), click on the little comment's bit at the end of this post and it should be relatively easy from there. Otherwise I'll just show you when I'm there next.

Only in America...

This shit is insane!! Scary beyond all reason!!

Christian Virgins Are Overrated Think sex and drugs destroy America? Try naive chastity. Oh, and "Purity Balls" (full article)

There are these things. These unholy events called "Purity Balls" and you should probably fall to your knees right this minute and thank a merciful and lubricious and happily polyamorous God that you do not know what they are and that you have access right this minute to vast quantities of wine to deflect their nasty karmic arrows because, you know, oh my God. But hey, free country. Purity Balls. No, not some sort of newfangled spherical chastity device to be inserted using vacuum tubes and pulleys, but rather fancy creepy dress-up rituals taking place in towns like Colorado Springs and Tucson and Zoloft Jesusville, in which Christian dads rent a bad tux while their daughters, mostly teenagers but many as young as 6 or 7, get all dolled up in gowns from JCPenny and they all drive out to the airport Marriott and prepare to, well, lose their minds. It begins. At some point the daughter stands up, her pale arms wrapped around her daddy, and reads aloud a formal pledge that she will remain forever pure and virginal and sex-free until she is handed over, by her dad (who is actually called the "high priest" of the home), like some sort of sad hymenic gift, to her husband, who will receive her like the sanitized and overprotected and libidinously inept servant she so very much is. Praise! Would that I were making this up. The dad -- er, high priest -- in turn, stands up and reads his pledge, one stating that he will work to protect his daughter's virginal purity that he has so carefully and wickedly drilled into her since birth, since she was knee-high to a disturbing dogma, that he will protect her chastity and oversee it and help enforce its boundaries, which might or might not involve great amounts of rage and confusion and secret stashes of cheap scotch, although his pledge claims it's with honor and integrity and lots of bewildering Godspeak. Which, in many households, is essentially the same thing. It's true. Purity Balls are happening, right now....

When Dr Suess gets married!

Marty Blase, the author of these vows, writes: "My fiancee and I agreed a long time ago that we wanted to write our own wedding vows, and as a spur-of-the-moment idea, I suggested the following. To my disappointment, she didn't quite go for it..."

Pastor: Will you answer me right now
These questions, as your wedding vow?
Groom: Yes, I will answer right now
Your questions as my wedding vow.
Pastor: Will you take her as your wife?
Will you love her all your life?
Groom: Yes, I take her as my wife,
Yes, I'll love her all my life.
Pastor: Will you have, and also hold
Just as you have at this time told?
Groom: Yes, I will have, and I will hold,
Just as I have at this time told,
Yes, I will love her all my life
As I now take her as my wife.
Pastor: Will you love through good and bad?
Whether you're happy or sad?
Groom: Yes, I'll love through good and bad,
Whether we're happy or sad,
Yes, I will have and I will hold
Just as I have already told,
Yes, I will love her all my life,
Yes, I will take her as my wife!
Pastor: Will you love her if you're rich?
Or if you're poor, and in a ditch?
Groom: Yes, I'll love her if we're rich,
And I will love her in a ditch,
I'll love her through good times and bad,
Whether we are happy or sad,
Yes, I will have, and I will hold
(I could have sworn this has been told!)
I promise to love all my life
This woman, as my lawful wife!
Pastor: Will you love her when you're fit,
And also when you're feeling sick?
Groom: Yes, I'll love her when we're fit,
And when we're hurt, and when we're sick,
And I will love her when we're rich
And I will love her in a ditch
And I will love through good and bad,
And I will love when glad or sad,
And I will have, and I will hold
Ten years from now a thousandfold,
Yes, I will love for my whole life
This lovely woman as my wife!
Pastor: Will you love with all your heart?
Will you love till death you part?
Groom: Yes, I'll love with all my heart
From now until death do us part,
And I will love her when we're rich,
And when we're broke and in a ditch,
And when we're fit, and when we're sick,
(Oh, CAN'T we get this finished quick?)
And I will love through good and bad,
And I will love when glad or sad,
And I will have, and I will hold,
And if I might now be so bold,
I'll love her my entire life,
Yes, I WILL take her as my wife!
Pastor: Then if you'll take her as your wife,
And if you'll love her all your life,
And if you'll have, and if you'll hold,
From now until the stars grow cold,
And if you'll love through good and bad,
And whether you're happy or sad,
And love in sickness, and in health,
And when you're poor, and when in wealth,
And if you'll love with all your heart,
From now until death do you part,
Yes, if you'll love her through and through,
Please answer with these words:
Pastor and Groom: I DO!
Pastor: You're married now! So kiss the bride,
But please, do keep it dignified.

American's love a conspiracy

And the 9/11 tradgedy seems to provide them with perfect fodder-http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm
What I find so interesting about Americans is their ability to turn a tradgedy on its head and turn it into something so much more sinister that it already was! Now they're blaming their own government! Don't these people have any sense? Like they aren't scared enough that other countries are out to get them, that they want to terrify the population that their own government can't be trusted. Freaks I tell ya

Dear god save me from this evil

Louise has just kindly forward me this drivel

>>Hi Everyone,
If you havent realised, its 5 years since high school. And obviously lots has happened since then.We were hoping to organise a reunion of sorts and we need to get in contact with as many people as possible. If you are interested can you please reply to baulko2001@hotmail.com, and could you please forward this email on.We havent set a date as yet, but are aiming for August.
>>Krystal, Gemma and Melanie

Now I know its being harsh, but oh dear god the infinite pain I would be subjected to if I went. Especially seeing as it's being organised by these girls. I mean kill me with a spoon, please. And when I thought about who I could forward this ghastly email to, I knew I only speak to approximately three people from High School and surprise surprise, Lou is one of them! Hahaha. I mean can't you just imagine how they're talking when they were writing it! I actually think 5 year reunions are a bit silly. 10 years makes a lot more sense to me. I like the thought of organising it, but that would require interest in the actual proceedings.

Btw-notice this email is resplendent with Spelling errors.Gah

And Lou linked this article http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/2006/05/school_reunion.html

True Story

I just witnessed my first out and out, full on IT comversation bewteen two employees. You'd think after 8 months I would have seen/heard one before, but surprisingly no. I guess staff aren't too crash hot on hanging round in reception where anyone can hear them!
Yeh there was talk of capacity and terabytes and I was completely clueless! I'm not sure why that facinates me so.....

Fuulllllyyy Siikkkkk

Well it's been solved. Mark's Dad Tom has found our wedding cars. Or so he says. Hahahaha. There were more pics of the groomsmen in them while they did burnouts. Funny. But smelly methinks.
Hehehe. Makes you wonder how they managed to become an email forward as they're obviously someone's real wedding!

Mark and I had serious wedding discussion last night. We have actions plans.

Eca we haven't heard from you for a while....?

Well it makes sense.....

Six degrees...

So bizarre. On Monday I was meant to have a new temp start but we got a call through that she couldn't come in. So she started today, and lo and behold, its Sarah, girlfriend of Jaemus, who Adrian used to be friends with! So weird!!! Hahaha.

For those of you who know....

Just letting you know quietly, I know I took all the "offensive" work posts out, but a small update, that WM and BG have both resigned and no longer work here! Thank god about WM, BG moved levels so I didn't really talk to her anymore anyway, but WM-halleluia!

Well that got royally screwed up didn't it?

I have just looked back over my entries and seen some of the "days to go" calculations were incorrect (around the 185 mark) so I had to go back and re edit all the entries that were wrong. Lame. In other news, it's only 26 weeks away!!!

In other news, we continue the mission for purple Dupion Silk at a fraction of the price. Reanan has been braving the lunchtime Spottie crowd for me. Being the faithful bridesmaid she is, she hid the bolt under all the others when she was not sure it was 100% correct!!

Thanks for the Bill $$ too Eca. : )

I found a great website yesterday and spent hours looking through it all. The Optical Illusion site the pic in one of the previous posts came from. Well worth a browse if killing time.

Hahahaha this is great

I want one!

This is awesome!!

http://mightyillusions.blogspot.com/2006/05/george-bush-vs-bill-gates-optical.html

GAHHH!!! Bloody stupid tele surveys!

Gahh!! I just did this whole ranting post on this stupid caller and then tried to spell check it and the bloody post disappeared! Gah!

I just had this abysmally stupid tele survey cold caller who kept repeating the same line to me over and over again.
" I just had a few general questions regarding Laptops and I wanted to speak to your Senior IT manager"
And when I tried to get him to elaborate, after telling him I didn't have anyone of that specific title as we are an IT Company he just wouldn't budge! Just parotted the same line over and over again. I reckon at least 15 times! And he wouldn't admit that he had a script. And then after all this frustration, he hung up on me!!!

BAH!!!