pizzahut website is down. how do they think I am going to order a pizza?

Congrats to Uncle Sean!

Hooray for all the good stuff that happened to the MIracleborns {{{for all the other stuff}}}.

I'm sorry you have not the money for no one else would be as beautiful as you in it.

::blush::

Thank you. It gives me a waist and everything! The back is already French-bustled with something approximating a clip of embroidery and crystals.

it is truly fabulous.

Pictures don't do it justice. I know I'm the walking billboard for My Big Fat Italian Wedding, but this dress is just perfect. It's not overly gaudy, yet it's not plain. They were going to add a detachable portrait shawl for the church. It was very Audrey Hepburn-ish.

(10 minutes later)

I just got off the phone with DF. The team lost this evening so they won't advance to Nationals. He's coming home tomorrow morning instead of tomorrow night. Then he asked why I sounded blah. I tried to avoid telling him outright, but he was persistent and got it out of me. The wonderful man I am going to marry offered to buy it as a thank you for sharing the burdens of getting his business up and running. I'm crying again.

Oh, what a darling man, Maria. You deserve someone who will treat you so well.

Hello StuntHusband, it's nice to see you here. I kept forgetting to say hi, too.

Congrats, Sean.

Whee to Aimee on the Joe job and the good audition. Also, you have the most beautiful baby ever.

Oh, I did forget to say OMG CUTIE EMMA. Cause holy goddamn.

Maria, that is an awesome dress.

Maria, you're going to be a gorgeous bride and DF is a sweetheart.

(Sorry the team lost.)

Squee! Maria, that is so wonderful. What a sweetheart.

I don't know if I ever said "howdy" to the StuntHusband. In case I didn't. Howdy!

eta: Not that the team lost. About the dress. Isn't it always about the dress?

You know, I keep forgetting to say hi to StuntHusband as well. So hello and welcome!

Thanks, Deena. I was floored when he offered. Totally unexpected. I feel guilty, though, because I don't want to seem greedy or spoiled.

I hope the babies begin the "treating mom well" portion of their development soon. You deserve it 10x more than I.

P-C's got good taste, too.

I think Maria deserves to be a little spoiled.

gorgeous dress!

Feeling blah about family stuff. I feel like I'm in (and have been) in the shithouse with some family members but no one says anything so I don't know if I'm being paranoid or what. And before ya'll say I am being paranoid, let me add that I found out that I'd been unwittingly selfish and thoughtless a few years ago over drinks with a family member, or at least percevied by other family members as such. It was just expected that if I didn't know what a cow I was, then there's just no hope for someone as rude and gauche as I am.

I try really hard to be as thoughtful and kind as I can, even more so, now. But I can't shake the feeling I'm still being shunned for whatever head-up-my-ass moves I did a couple years ago. It's frustrating, because there's a part of me that wants to yell and scream and shake things until how people really feel comes tumbling out. But then I realize that a) it would never happen that way and b) even if it did, do I really even want to deal with that passive aggressive BS? Or am I just paranoid that someone's mad at me, even for stupid reasons that reflect worse on them then on me?

To sum up, I wish I were at Teppy's wine tasting right now.

OK, vent/rant over!