Third shower, first bachlorette party.

That's way too many.

Jess, I asked this in Natter too. A while back you were lusting after some software. Was it Final Cut, and if so, was it Studio or Pro?

I'm 200 messages behind in Natter. I lust after both, but Studio is nicer because that comes with DVD Studio Pro and a few other goodies in addition to FCP. (I have FC Studio at work, and FC Express at home, and I keep eyeing the "not for resale" thing that pops up when the program loads and thinking "But what if I just want to steal it?")

OMGWTFCOBRA Report, sponsored by Major Stuff Up.

So I get an email from HR this morning to meet. I am all prepared to fight for my rights to be covered cause that was the deal and they will darn well do whatever it takes to ... Huh? What was that? Just bring the COBRA bill in and you'll pay it? Wow. Um, kthxbye!

I call Jodie (HR at DxH's work) to get the date my coverage ended there. July 7. How's the weather? And, yes, I need to call COBRA to get the actual enrollment taken care of. Kthxbye!

This is finally getting easy. Whew.

I call COBRA to get the enrollment forms.

They have no idea who I am. But Dottie will "investigate."

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Dottie calls back. I am indeed eligible but it seems DxH's company never notified them. If DxH's company would let them know that I am no longer covered through them, COBRA and Dottie'll both be mighty happy to process the paperwork quickly. Once they get it.

I left a message for Jodie. Two actually. And am about to call back again.

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So really good news that my company is going to pay for COBRA until BC/BS antes up. I should focus on that part. Because that part was really painless this morning.

You're great Aimee, at least that's my opinion.

Third shower? and there's supposed to be a fourth? That's a lot of showers.

I'm 200 messages behind in Natter.

I figured that might be true.

Insent shortly.

I had 3 showers. But one was in Michigan, one was here and one was thrown by my boss at my work. And I had 2 bachlorette parties, one here and one in Michigan. BUT - no one was a repeat guest. I was at her shower in Michigan. Now, I didn't make the trip for it-I was there anyway, but I was there. And sans gift cause I knew I'd be getting something else.

Aimee, you do NOT need to throw her Shower #4. HELL no.

Also, I take such fucking exception to this comment of MoH:

This is a combination bachelorette/bridal shower and yes, there are expenses

Um, no -- people invited to bridal showers are GUESTS, and as such, the person ORGANIZING the shower -- that would be Ms. Moneybags McMoh -- is responsible for providing all the food/bev/entertainment. And by "providing," I mean "paying for." And you know what? Everyone who's ever been to a bridal shower EVER damn well KNOWS THAT.

Aimée, this woman deserves a world of smiting. Whatever old buttons you may still have lying around that she's tromping on and tripping off, she's the one doing the tromping.

Also, the sniffy little Miss Manners in me is sitting here desperately wanting to pimp-slap her with an 8-volume etiquette omnibus. How can she possibly have attained her majority without cluing in to the fact that the host of a party does not ask the guests to pony up for their own attendance, ever? If you want to say, "Hey, let's all get together for dinner next Friday, meet at Café Pricée at 6," that's one thing. If you're organizing and hosting a formal sending-out-invitations Event, your guests are YOUR GUESTS. If you can't afford to pay for the whole shebang, cut the guest list or scale back the event.

I swear. All my social-niceties-obsessed relatives in the East Bay are right now groaning and reaching for their smelling salts and lavender-scented linen handkerchiefs. They don't know why they're doing it, but there has been a dreadful breach somewhere in the Wedding Manners Force, and they can feel it right down to their bones.

That's why God invented credit cards

Such a giant fucking cowhole. (Everything is so much more pleasingly pungent with -hole.)

I'm vibing hard for your friendship with Bride to survive this misery. If that woman is her best friend since childhood, she desperately needs as much contact with actual human beings as possible.

Preach it. Both of and all of you.

Yay! Etiquette cross-post with Teppy!