Things I did not do at my wedding: take my husband's last name, toss the bouquet (It was pretty and I wanted to keep it), have DH toss the garter (It was pretty and I wanted to keep it), jump the broom, light "unity" candles or any other such thing, do the cake in the face smash, have a money tree/bag/pin money on the bride (although this I might've liked), ask anyone to make any sappy reception speeches (although that didn't stop my cousin from making one anyway), get announced as Mr. and Mrs. X (due to the whole no name change thing).
Same here. Well, we did have a money dance. That was fun, if only to watch the bidding wars.
Could be as early as next week.
Awesome! We should have a Buffista party on the day Shrift gives notice.
I started the looking-for-a-new-job process by sending a whiny email to a former cow-orker who may have some advice for me. Gotta make a lunch date.
We ate cake and Nora had a full complement of old, new, borrowed and blue.
I think that's about as far as we went on traditions.
No wonder we still fight about Macaroons.
It helps that most Scandinavian-American family names were assigned at Ellis Island, and therefore don’t have much history attached to them.
While mine didn't get assigned at Ellis, it was pretty much chosen at random a generation or two before. And given the number of people with it, I've come to the conclusion that the swedes of that era were not a particularly creative lot.
Ok, so what is it with the thing where you hear a word that you've never heard before, and within 48 hours you'll hear it again? I've never heard of Bakelite until someone mentioned it in GWW... and now it was just in the book I was reading over lunch. I'm mildly wigged.
It's not a wedding reception until the Electric Slide has been danced.
And I'm afraid it's a personal peeve of mine, but I must correct that the store's name is IKEA, all caps, and it doesn't stand for anything.
Ailleann -- I just learned 'aubade' but it hasn't come round yet.
There are things I need to do before I get fired on Friday
Okay, see, no you don't. You don't even *officially* KNOW that you're getting fired on Friday. As far as your bosses (good and bad) are concerned, you think Friday is Just Another Workday.
I am petty and spiteful, but I don't think you need to do anything more than you would do on Just Another Workday.
Also? Oatmeal cookies go with raisins (and nuts). Tollhouse cookies get chocolate chips and walnuts. Chocolate does not go in oatmeal cookies!
