I think I need an extra day off. I've shopped, I've socialized, I've laundered, I've cleaned, I've done taxes, I've even dusted.

And somehow this took two days and I still have ironing to do. And the other half of the dusting.

Wedding dress shopping was pretty fun, as I recall. Plus, pretty dresses. I still remember the reaction in the store every time I tried on the dress I eventually bought.

Except I already designed mine, lo these 20 years ago.

Ha! Every step of the wedding preparations, someone would ask me about the "wedding I always dreamed of." I was aghast. Dude, when I was 12 I wanted a dress that looked like something from LotR. To say my tastes had changed would be putting it mildly.

I don't think I ever had a particular "wedding I dreamed of." I did play dressup for just about everything (including being a professor. Which meant dressing in my dad's clothes and raiding the shelves of Harvard classics and making weird scribbles on graph paper) so I'm sure I played at that at some time. But nothing that stuck. Current hypothetical is courthouse and alert the relatives BEFORE HAND, unlike my brother. Who waited months. But it isn't really much of a priority. Or a concern.

Also? I just noticed I got COMMed. Apparently for being cheerful or hopeful or whatever. This amuses me, in a disturbed sorta way.

This is cross-posted with Buffistechnology:

I'm setting up my mom's TiVo, but I want to be able to connect the TV, cable box, TiVo, VCR, and dvd player in one long set.

Okay, I have a new problem. I only have two sets of AV cables. Is it possible to hook them all up in one long system? I did find two long cables that look like the AV cables, but they only have one little plug on the end, not three. One of them has little black plugs, and the other one has little red plugs.

I'm sorry if this is irritating. I'm beginning to get frustrated, so I'm not sure if I'm even asking correctly.

ETA:

Okay. Will all the machines function properly if the setup goes like this: TV --> cable --> VCR, cable-->TiVo -->DVD player?

The TiVo is not directly connected to the TV, like in the picture, but I didn't have an extra AV cable to make it happen, and the coaxial cable thing on the tv was already attached to the cable box, and I didn't want to undo it to attach the TiVo there, in that way, unless I had information that it would be a good idea. I don't even know if it's a good idea to attach it by coaxial cable, when it says to do that only when you don't have AV jacks on the TV.

Grr. I'm beginning to hate TiVo.

Also, the smell of pot emanating from my brother's room is giving me a headache. And it is about two degrees in my house. Grr grr grr.

Alibelle, my experience with TiVo, was basically taking the phone, while dh stopped talking to the cable guy, long enough to check connection. We were on the phone with our cable company for a couple of hours one night, because we couldn't get it all to work right (with the vcr, etc). Ugh. My sympathies. Make your brother help.

Has anyone seen savetoby.com? [link]

Mine was ... well, restrained for the 80s. No sleeves, Mandarin collar, sheath down to mid-thigh, where there was a poof of tulle to mid-calf. Pearl buttons all the way down the front of the sheath, and knee high boots with pearl fastenings on them too. And gloves that go up above the elbow.

I flirted with other dresses, but really, it was always this one. I also had designed dresses for my mother and sister. Once I saw Casablanca, I knew the groom's jacket would need to have the same cut as Rick's tux, and I was done.

But there was no wedding planned. Just clothes. Every piece of scrap paper was filled with either women's dresses, or pictures of women fighting, until my mid-twenties. Mostly the dresses.

I've never planned my wedding or my wedding dress, but I did get to pick a wedding dress (for other reasons) when I was in high school, which was AWESOME (and I still like the dress) and my mom has the wedding file, so the planning should be OK.

Make your brother help.

I wish. He's got a couple of girls and a friend up there, and they're blaring music, and smoking. So, he's basically busy pimping out. He's not allowed to smoke in the house (though he's encouraged to not smoke at all), which is the part that really bugs me. He completely ignores any requests to be considerate, although I've finally had to beg him to ventilate, since my requests to stop were getting exactly nowhere. I think he's cracked a window, because it is now colder than ever in here. Also, they dirtied up the kitchen I spent time cleaning last night when I got home from the airport. So he's like a particularly obnoxious roommate. But thanks for the TiVo sympathy! Honestly, it helped tons with lowering my frustration level.

ita missed her calling in life as a fashion designer. Clearly, she should've been the next Vera Wang.

Nobody looked at the save toby site?