I am wedding etiquette challenged--what's the difference between "save the date" and an invitation? Is it a timeframe difference? And if you receive a "save the date", is it automatic that you're going to get an invitation?

Invitations tell you what time to show up, and where, and what to wear, and all those details. Save the date tells you when the nuptials will be held.

I can't see any reason you'd tell someone to block it out on their calendar if they weren't going to be invited.

Yes and yes. The save the date typically goes out as soon as a date is confirmed, so that you can then take six months dithering over the design of the actual invitations (and location and details and such) without freaking too much.

I would be surprised (and find it pretty rude) to get a save the date without an invite to follow. (Almost used an acronym there but thought better of it, though I guess that would also be surprising and rude.)

I'm working a half day today so I can go to the funeral this afternoon.

Today is just generally miserable.

I wish someone hadn't sent me the link to the story about my friend's kid. Giant picture when the page loads. Could've done without that.

I'm kinda hungry, but forgot to grab money and really shouldn't do lunch what with leaving early and all, and I'm not even sure what I'd want.

Can this day be over now?

Ouch. I hope the day is, well, as non-awful as it can be, I guess.

My boss did bring in yellow with chocolate frosted cupcakes this morning, so that didn't suck.

And if you receive a "save the date", is it automatic that you're going to get an invitation?

We've only sent them to people who will be getting invitations later.

DJ, wishing you an improving day from here on.

My boss did bring in yellow with chocolate frosted cupcakes this morning, so that didn't suck.

That is definitely one of my favorite cake combos, and I prefer it to choc on choc.

Dammit. Now I want a cupcake.

{{{DJ}}}

I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon with my supervisor, the first one since she's been back. So I have just over a day to get my shit together. I've been behind since, oh, Thanksgiving, and have let some time-sensitive stuff slip by.

I have this terrible habit of picking at my nails when they start to peel. That nail hardening polish really did a number on them, and now I have really done a number on my thumbnails. ::sigh::

That is definitely one of my favorite cake combos

Me too.

But what flavor is the yellow?