I'm sorry for your loss, even if it is not a close personal one.

Nah, it's not really my loss. It's a loss to the discipline I study, and to my university. So I feel it, in a way - but it's not mine.

could someone give me a Drew update?

I would appreciate one too, if Pix will have the time and the energy to post.

I haven't heard anything since Drew got the PIC line put in. They plan on keeping him a few more days, and his numbers are improving.

Also, nobody makes delivered flower bouquets that are appropriate for ND.

I'm thinking of getting a dressmaker to make something for me. Don't know where I'd find a pattern, though.

I'm not at all crafty but I think you can find old patterns pretty easily on ebay. And, not to be all OFFBEAT BRIDE OFFBEAT BRIDE, but it is a really great source of information for anything interesting wedding related. There seem to be a ton of UK brides on the boards there too and if there isn't a thread for finding vintage patterns already, it's easy to make one.

I could not fall asleep last night due to wedding monkeys in my head. I can't be this way until December! I know it's partially a way to sublimate work stress but still. I can't waste precious sleep time obsessing over how I should have made a Wedding (Microsoft) Project schedule months ago and now it would be too hard to organize because so many tasks are partially completed and gah! It cracks me up though so there's that. And we are really really lucky we have no big family or friend dramas to contend with.

Also, nobody makes delivered flower bouquets that are appropriate for ND.

Snerk. Surely someone is fashioning bouquets from cable and pleather? We should check Etsy.

I hope we get an update soon on ND. And that it's a good one.

I think the ointment is helping wih the itching, so I'm going to keep using it for the time being.

Vintage patterns - check the Dress a Day blog, from our v. own erinaceous (hope that's the right Erin). Every pattern she posts, she posts where she got it from. I'm pretty sure she talks about UK suppliers, too.

Okay, time to synthesize some HUD regs! My meeting went well, I may talk more about that later.

Is there a way to affix fangs to a Get Well Bear?

The Get Well Bear could be easily upgraded to Watchmen Bear with a little red paint.

Or there's this, along the same theme.

Gah!

I don't know what it is, exactly, but those happy face flowers are creeping me the hell out.

lisah, could you remind me which wedding forum you're talking about? I'll have a look - sounds useful. Ebay might well be a good idea for patterns. Would be a lot easier than trying to find a dress. I'm one of those exceptionally dull people who hates the aggravation of shopping. (Sorry, clothes fans.)

Once again, we are not going to complete on our house today, despite having been promised we would. Something about missing certificates which the vendor had previously said were in his possession and which we thought someone's lawyer had seen and which apparently don't exist. We have a builder coming tomorrow to look at the house that does not yet belong to us. The Girl is still leaving for Israel on Monday. It's still going to be at least a week before I can get upstairs at the house that we don't own yet, so I can't oversee any building work while The Girl is away.

Is it time for vodka yet?

Clearly I need to start a flower arrangement company that does funky, unusual, geeky, and goth flowers.