Beautiful description of your wonderful day, Seska! May it be a long and beautiful life for you together!

Oh, Seska, what a beautiful wedding day report! And I'm so beyond glad that both sets of parents stepped up with graciousness and love and were able to just be joyful for their daughters. Lots of rest, comfort and recovery~ma to your FIL (and for you, too; you sound utterly wrung out). And a long, joyous life brimming with love to you and The Girl

I don't think I can say it better than JZ did. Can't wait to see the pictures!

Shir, are you talking about the Syrian border stuff or something else? I'm kind of out of touch right now with the news.

Thanks for the sleep~ma. As often happens, I had to formally acknowledge my freakout before it could start to subside (anyone remember the children's book There's No Such Thing as a Dragon ?) Anyway, I have been overwhelmed and freaking out and sticking my head in the sand, but at least I've pulled my head out of the sand and am surveying the landscape.

So glad to hear your day went off so well! Can't wait to see pix!

My wee dinner party went well. I made a lemon-rosemary roasted chicken, roasted cauliflower, and roasted potatoes (I guess I kinda hosted a roast, huh?!)

And what is becoming my signature dessert -- chocolate stout bundt cake.

And wine. Lots of wine. Went to bed v. late. But had a great low-key night with friends.

Today will be work, leftover cake for breakfast, work, color hair, work while it's on my head, shower, work, laundry, work, grade, re-do my nails and sleep.

ETA: smonster, you have accomplished more than you think you have.

You have a fab new resume, a cover letter, and interview, you've been decluttering, you have moving prices, living situation possibilities, and goats.

Don't discount all you've done because of what you still have to do, bebe.

TTYL

In completely random me-news, I'm thinking of cutting my hair. It's the longest it's been in probably fifteen years, but the texture has changed and it's neither stick straight (the way it used to be) nor has it developed enough wave to give it body to do interesting things.

I think shoulder-length may be my one true length.

I like shoulder length on you, Barb. On a similar note, I am growing my hair out again -- I like the way it looks on my in a bob, but not being able to wear pigtails or a chignon really annoys me.

It's nearly time for the yearly haircut, my compromise between Hubby loving my hair long and my hating all that hair on my head and neck during a high desert summer. Good lord that man is possessive of my hair.

Heh-- mine literally doesn't care. He loves it long, short, whatever. I think if I ever went platinum he might raise an eyebrow and ask what I was smoking, but otherwise, he's good with whatever I want to do.

I just got my hair cut on Friday and had the weirdest thing--she was chopping off the back (I like it short and it had been three months since my last haircut) and another hairdresser wandered past and said "Ooh! That's a great hairline!" (and then demanded my hairdresser not shave it (which she indignantly said she wasn't going to)). I had to laugh--I don't think I had ever contemplated whether my hairline looked nice!

D. likes it off my neck, for reasons I will not detail, but he never says a word about my hair decisions.

He is a wise man.

I have a problematic hairline! It comes to two little v's, like the bottom of a batwing, so there's always some confusing bit going on back there. They often do shave it, but then it grows out doofy and makes the back of my hair stick out. And I have two cowlicks, including one at the front which has led to years and years of awkward school photos with unbalanced or much too short bangs because of stylists frantically trying to compensate after they didn't notice. Which is probably why I've always hated bangs. This last cut was no different, even though I discussed it with the stylist beforehand. Which of course soured me on going back in anywhere, but I need to, because my hair is getting dangerously close to mullet territory, and while I will defend my sweet 80's boys and their hockey haircuts, it's not a style I intend to sport myself.