I think we spent $7-9K on my wedding. Mom paid for everything and wasn't that upfront about the actual costs. We cut some places to spend more in others. My dress did cost about $1K.

My sister spent half that for her dress recently. They're keeping the wedding small but splurging on the reception (dinner for 200 people) so they will most likely spend somewhere in the range of $10-12K.

Ailleann, I just mix a bunch of fresh fruit together. Am I doing it wrong?

Ailleann, I just mix a bunch of fresh fruit together. Am I doing it wrong?

Yeah, I always just do "bunch of fruit and yogurt"

t sits in simple fruit salad corner w/cashmere

I do apples, oranges, and bananas, maybe nuts if I have them lying around, other fruit if it's handy and sounds good, cut into bite sized pieces and then tossed with a dressing of yogurt and lemon juice. It's my great grandmother's recipe, though she made it with mayonaise instead of yogurt. I could dig up precise measurements, but they really aren't necessary.

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Ailleann, I just mix a bunch of fresh fruit together. Am I doing it wrong?

Ok, this made me laugh out loud. And, kinda feel like a jackass, because I'm stressing out over making a damn fruit salad. Which is, you know, fruit. How much do I suck?

I need a nap.

That is not sucking or jackassery, Aillean, that is caring too much. And having a yummy fruit salad in mind that you can't duplicate.

You might need a nap, though, most people do.

Ok, this made me laugh out loud. And, kinda feel like a jackass, because I'm stressing out over making a damn fruit salad. Which is, you know, fruit. How much do I suck?

No sucking! Just find whatever's on sale (Kroger had strawberries, blueberries, apples, pineapple, melons and pineapple, I think). Clean, cut & toss. Then nap.

I think I'm going to go with the "cut a bunch of fruit and put it in a bowl" method. Cut the bananas tomorrow (maybe apples?), dip in a little lemon juice, easy peasy.

Cut the bananas tomorrow (maybe apples?), dip in a little lemon juice, easy peasy.

Come to think of it, my Mother's yogurt use may be serving a brownification deterrent function. Huh.

Someone should invent a phone that will hear me yelling "I'm coming I'm coming I'm coming" while it's ringing and tell my caller not to hang up.

You answer the phone? There's your problem.

My sister is always making little passive-aggressive remarks about how she calls me all the time and I never call her. I just left a message on her answering machine pointing out that I do call her, but she's never home, she doesn't turn on her cell phone, and she never checks her messages. In fact, her recorded greeting on her cell phone is, "Don't leave a message, I never check." What. Ever.