A General Shout

[tealin]

To everyone who has emailed me in the last month or will do so in the next week:

I AM REALLY BUSY. For once, this is not to do with work (well, not entirely). My friend is getting married this weekend and I'm a bridesmaid so I have to help with all the preparations and there are a lot. When I'm not at work or in transit I am either working on wedding stuff or wiped out and not wanting to do anything that requires active thought. I hope things settle down after they move away and I'll be able to catch up on email, updates, and other stuff ... until then, please grant me a little leeway in reply time.

Thank you...

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good luck

[(Anonymous)]

i hope you guys get it pulled off without a hitch. my aunt got married last weekend and although i wasn't in the wedding my mom and i (my mom was also a bridesmaid) helped her decorate her hall and do everything the maid of honour should have done. wedding stuff is very tiring..lol..i was the photographer...lol...once again the best of luck and congradulations to your friend :)

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

I will personally maul anyone that nags at you.

Just saying.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No one's nagging me yet, surprisingly, but I thought I'd explain myself before they start ... at least those who visit my livejournal, anyway.

I will be most glad when this is all over.

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

Hah, I probably would've nagged you before anyone else; I am pathetically attached to my friends' list like that.

Hope things go easy for you!

[tony-cliff.livejournal.com]

Marriage! Bah! You've been selected to be a bridesmaid, so you have to do all sorts of work? Who came up with that? Presumably you're to treat it as though you've been given some sort of honour, but how are you going to feel about that "honour" when you're twenty feet off the ground on a rickety ladder trying to string up streamers?

Also, please please please make sure that noone at the reception tries to make "honeymoon night" jokes. Those make me want to puke. And even though I won't be there to witness their tackiness, I will sense the terrible disturbance in the force.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think the whole bridesmaid philosophy is that one is the friend of the bride and therefore must help out with her Special Day ... I'm not sure there's any sort of 'honour' involved, just friendly obligation. Hah, I'll be exempt from the streamer-hanging because I'll be folding napkins! Huzzah for a childhood spent obsessively making oragami! That will actually be fun. And the location is nice. (Positive thinking, see?)

On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of crowd who will be making 'honeymoon night' jokes the whole weekend long – one half of the wedding party are the people whose crass company I find hard to tolerate for one evening when they're sober and with no obvious context for tasteless humour, so it will be ... interesting. And I will be stuck at the head table so I won't be able to duck into Sketchbook Land, alas.

But it's a lovely location. It's got trees and everything. And interesting moths. And stars, if it's clear. I really have been complaining far too much.

Have fun!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure you'll have a great time at the wedding! ^_^ I hope everything goes okay! And take your time on updating and stuff because your life comes before people's wants (did that make any sense?). Plus, we're your fans! We understand! ^_^

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hahah, if the folks in high school only knew that there'd be people who called themselves my 'fans'! HAH! This is just too amusing.

Come to that, it's pretty weird just to think on it myself.

THERE ARE WAY BETTER ARTISTS OUT THERE! SHOO!

[maladroitness.livejournal.com]

Hope you have fun! Weddings are always so beautiful--whether big or small. Though, small ones are usually the best.

Of course, that could also just be my dad talking (he told me that he doesn't want to pay/deal with a big wedding and will pay me like 10,000 dollars if I elope xD)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I am a wedding Grinch, I'm afraid. No one believes me when I say I try to hide it.

Small weddings all the way, man. This is the third big wedding I have been involved with in four years, and in the extremely unlikely situation I ever get married, there will be twenty guests tops. And maybe a handful of decorations, if any. Guh.

[maladroitness.livejournal.com]

That sounds perfect to me. That's what my parents did...just a few guests (and I mean a few--probably less than ten). It was in their house and they just had a nice little dinner afterwards instead of a huge party.

I would love a small wedding (and to quote you: in the unlikely event--i can't even imagine that happening to me!) but I would kind of like a party afterwards, just so everyone could dance. I love dancing, do you?

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you have a great time! Tell your friend congratulations from me.
I was a bridesmaid when my aunt got married. The weird thing is that my aunt got married to my best friend's dad, so now my best friend is now also my cousin! Weird, huh? Anyway, have fun!

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Weddings, oh tes.... I know about those. A friend of mine is getting married to this fella she's been with for 3 months, and it's all she ever talks about. She's kind of rash, so I fear she may do something to ruin everything, then flip totally and spend the rest of her life walking around in her wedding dress like the lady in Great Expectations. That would be cool, in a tragic way.

Luckily I'm not made maid of honour, though she claims we're best friends. That job went to two bester friends, who are both fretting. Boy am I glad to be off the hook.

Good Luck!

[rebekah-weasley.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I hope you get some much needed rest!

Les Miserables

[(Anonymous)]

PLEASE!!!!! Draw a pic. of Eponine before she died.....i LOVE that musical!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Les Miserables

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for being difficult, but ... any pic of Eponine, alive, is a pic of her before she died. ; )