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Where did you get your wedding dress?

It was worse than the teasing. And boy-howdy did it inspire more teasing.

Dad was sufficiently frightening to the boy who had picked on me that apparently word went out that "Jilli's dad is CRAZY, don't mess with her", because I didn't get harassed much for the rest of my school career.

Where did you get your wedding dress?

igigi.com, but I don't know if it's still in stock.

Thanks, love! I'm looking at dresses for my future SMiL. I'm trying to convince her that structure is good. Tenting is bad. No matter her age.

There are some gorgeous dresses on that site, and not a tent to be seen.

And she needs to know "structure" doesn't mean "wiggle dress", unless she wants it to. There's a reason my dress had a fitted bodice and a big full skirt (and that reason is my ass). She can have structure in one area and flowy-ness in another.

Eat, Marley, eat! What's the problem, furry one? My Leo refuses to eat if another cat is too close to him, Murray doesn't like to eat in the kitchen (it's too narrow, my big ape feet are too close to his tail) (it happened ONCE, Murray, FFS), and Percy wants to eat from a flat surface, not a bowl. I think he doesn't like anything touching his whiskers while he eats. I found some cat food bowls that are oval instead of round and he likes those okay. Most cats won't eat much if they're stressed, and Leo has been stressed recently by an impudent feral cat who stares in the windows.

(Hell no, I am not taking in any more cats.) (Not that the feral necessarily wants to come inside. This may be more like a trip to the zoo for him.) (He's a pretty black cat with a white throat and big orange eyes.) (I don't want another cat.) (This house ain't big enough for another cat.) (Leo will kill me in my sleep if I bring another cat into his territory.)

That's what I keep trying to tell her. I want her to wear what she feels good in and comfortable, but she keeps pointing at these ... drapey, tenty dresses.

My onerous tasks were interrupted by actual paying work. But I have showered and eaten lunch, and now I am going to take a break to run to the library and the gym. Then more work when I come back, and a handful of onerous tasks.

That's what I keep trying to tell her. I want her to wear what she feels good in and comfortable, but she keeps pointing at these ... drapey, tenty dresses.

Is she the bride?

She is. And therefore, gets to have what she wants, my opinion be damned. But she asked me to not let her look only at her "usual" style. So, I'm trying to point her to stuff I think she'd like. Ultimately, she's going to look beautiful if she loves what she's wearing and is comfortable.