Sam and anyone else who’s interested, Here is how you pronounce the French curses and epithets I posted above.
Oh, and Good Morning and Happy Valentine’s Day to you all.
Happy happy joy joy (and heya Chris indeed!)
thanks Michael!
chris, the card accompanying my roses this morning said ‘yeah I know it’s valentine’s day, but I would’ve been thinking about you anyway.’ Which I guess sums up G.‘s attitude. :)
I buy most of my cards at a place called ‘Avant Card’ and I don’t mind paying $$$ if the cards are by local artists or are otherwise cool.
my wife got an ipod shuffle and diamond studs. i don’t think im going to get roses on my way home the roads are horrendous. i do hope i get teh sex though.
see thats how i feel sam.
I think I’m going to make a VDay card out of old catalog cards. And then, I’m going to go home and make giant steaks with gorgonzola cheese baked on top.
i got a shuffle for my bday and my boy doesn’t see the value of things like diamonds. I think it’s just the flowers and dinner for me, which is fine.
and also the sexing. (and molly’s steaks, pls)
See, I’d rather have diamonds than flowers because flowers just die and then I have to figure out how to dispose of them. Also, diamonds are small and will not clutter up the house.
I am not expecting diamonds, though; maybe a book or something. I think last year A. got me a bunch of See’s Candy, which I love.
(Oh yes, and happy Valentine’s Day to all of you!)
HVD all y’all. xxxx
*I’m* not opposed to diamonds Sara. :) G just thinks they are a waste of money. damn, there goes my grill.
flowers are nice but yes transitory. I really just want steaks. and sex.
Happy vday luna!
Someone at work put a little bag of candy hearts on my desk. This one was of them. I am afraid to eat it, for fear I will hallucinate.
And yes, happy VDay everyone!
haha, yeah that’s totally x!
my coworker brought girl scout cookies. i’m about to snag one.
god, am i going to work today? all the work i’ve done so far is massively annoying which makes me not want to carry on. i have to find something more interesting.
Mmmm girl scout cookies. I love the Samoas!
(xpost to Sam) Well, diamonds could be considered a waste of money, I suppose, but so could almost any other gift. (books—you can get them from the library; flowers—gorgeous, but they die; chocolates—gone too fast and also lots of calories...). Actually, I’d be happy with any of the things you mention, though!
Also, I’m happy that I can stay home tonight and not have to spend the night in class. Oh, and I’m excited to hear about the kids’ V-Day parties at school. They were both really excited about it when they left this morning.
we saw Bob Saget as our Valentine’s treat (so romantic to be told not to fuck ostriches). Tonight will be a regular night plus some angst over some houses we’ve been looking at.
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the girl scout cookies are thin mints, bleh. I got the peanut butter patties the other day. num num.
I’m surprised to hear that kids have parties in school anymore! I thought most of them had been banished.
Do they sell girl scout cookies door to door anymore? I doubt they’ll be selling them outside the grocery store today, not in this weather.
At least in Northfield, the kids have Halloween, “holiday,” and Valentine’s Day stuff for sure. I have no idea about other areas, though.
As for the Girl Scout Cookies, we have several Girl Scouts come to our door every year and we buy a box or two from each. Even in last weeks’ insanely cold Minnesota weather! (Ahem, then we buy a case of Samoas from A’s boss’s daughter and stick them in the freezer so we can eat them all year).
Is it Girl Scout cookie delivery time? Where are my 2 boxes of Samoas?!
All right, cool, thanks. There’s tons of kids in this neighborhood, and I bought like forty dollars of band candy in the spring (I didn’t eat it, it’s horrible). I’m sure the cookies will come to me.
Oh and Sara, my friend got the peanut butter for me but it hasn’t arrived yet. He said it’s amazing, though. I’m picking up bread and celery and Fluff today just to have, like, a day of peanut butter.
For some reason, Samoas are called Caramel Delites out here. Is this an east/west thing? We ate the last box of last years’ at the weekend. I might get away with not buying any this year, now that I have moved away from the land of obligatory co-workers w/kids purchases.
It’s not specifically east/west, but yeah, there are two different companies that make Girl Scout Cookies, so some of them have different names (and some cookies are available only from one or the other).
I did not know about this! I assume they’re of equal delicious and divine quality? (I love my samoas)
describe the samosas to me? I think I used to get some sort of other peanut butter-y one but now I just get the patties.
Oooh, thanks for the peanut butter news, Tep. I was at MOA on Sunday and walked past, but it was late in the day and we just had to get out of there with the kids. What kind of peanut butter did you get? (mmmm peanut butter day!)
I will always call the Samoas “Samoas.” I will have to check what the box says this year, though.
Samoas have holes in the center. They are topped with a delicious layer of coconut and chocolate.
Samosas are Indian pastries with spicy meat or vegetables inside, right?
They seem the same in quality to me, but I always get the peanut butter ones (both peanut butter ones, the Tagalongs — peanut butter patties — and the other ones, I forget what they’re called but the sandwich ones). I know only one company does the lemon cookies, though, for instance.
Peanut butter: cinnamon-raisin, and sun-dried tomato! I’m opening one and saving one and haven’t decided which.
Also, they do samples of everything at PB Loco, so if you go and the kids haven’t exhausted you, pop in. Apparently it’s a very friendly place.
Right! (OMG that cookie looks so good right now.)
(I know! Now I’m hungry and craving them. Where are my cookies, Troop Leader who works in my office!?)
You know, I’m never really aware of how much I love peanut butter until it comes up and I realize that any time my option is “peanut butter” or “not peanut butter,” I go with peanut butter.
I think the cookies arrive in March. That seems a long time from now...
I will eat peanut butter on a spoon, plain. Oooh, maybe I should make peanut butter cookies. Or chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. Hmmmm. I’m STARVING now.
I wonder if peanut butter cookies sandwiching a little Fluff would be awesome or not awesome.
I love the Tagalongs too. I always want to call them “Tagalogs.”
Weird admission of eating habits: I like to scrape the PB and chocolate off the Tagalogs with my teeth first. It’s a once a year event.
No, I do that too!
Me three.
xpost re: PB Loco—either peanut butter sounds good! It looked like a friendly store and there was even a sample lady at the front, but we’d been at MOA too long already. And A. has this flu that is hanging on and he wasn’t feeling well. Next time though!
Hi, TITTWISers. It’s fun playing catch-up.
For the record, I’ll be spending my Valentine’s evening making (and eating) Asparagus Jack Quesadillas and cupcakes and watching Lost (with Nick—108 days to go!).
well my valentines was nice, i got home and snowblowed while wife was on a conference call. when she was done, teh sexing commenced. after the 3 minutes of sexing we opened cards and i gave her flowers. then i cooked tagliatelle with a mushroom ragu’ and we watched Eddie Murphy Delirious.
no sexing for me as I fell asleep watching AI and went to bed early. But when I pulled back my covers I found a new pair of vans and a new hoodie, hurrah!
argh, what happened to my links?
vans must have been the universal valetines present this year! i got a pair too!
hooray! what kind are yours?
I love vans and want a whole wardrobe in different colors. The other day I was lamenting not having any in solid, neutral colors for “business” wear. (since I’m crazy web developer I’m given lots of leeway in attire but feel funny going to meetings full of directors in my hot pink skull head vans.)
just plain old school slip ons.
im really missing spring and summer now that i have a yard to enjoy. i can’t wait to sit on the screen porch or in the hammock with a cooler full of icey suds.
..and get your grilling going, huh?
I miss sweating. Weird, huh? I mean, I sweat at the gym sometimes, but I need to get my tank top and flimsy skirt sweat going (accompanied by an Icee of course).
Those sound like awesome presents. Nick and I decided not to do presents for V day this year since we’re shelling out the big bucks for our wedding rings this weekend, but damn were those german chocolate cupcakes ever delicious.
I’ve been grilling all winter too...i just miss the outdoors. i used to despise summer when we lived in our condo. now i miss it terribly.
ah the wedding rings. its nice that mine cost $400 and hers cost $2800.
xpost old school slip-ons are the best! right now I have brown with pink embrodiered dots, hot pink with skull helixes, and plain black. all canvas. Wah, only 3 pair! I want more!!
other weather has been bizarre. bitterly freezing in the morning, 60s and springlike in the afternoon. bah.
i would kill for 60 in the afternoon, its been in the teens for two weeks here.
yeah, couldn’t deal with that. But wait a few months and I’ll be bitching about 30 consecutive days above 90. I should really move to Hawaii or something.
I want to move to Bermuda. Our Bermuda cab driver had us convinced to move there last May. This wanker that used to live above my best friend in college lives in the Bahamas now..he was a prepster lacrosse trustafarian who we hated. He used to come down to T’s room and tell him to turn his bass down. We would tell him to fuck off.
Ms Misery, that mooninite plush toy is awesome. Great job.
thank you! It’s going in his cube.
We would tell him to fuck off.
Unfortunately, it seems he fucked off to the Bahamas.
I want to move to Hawaii; no one I know is willing to go, though.
Sam, your robot guy turned out really cute! The termite damage... scary.
A. gave me some books and some chocolates (no vans) for Valentine’s Day. Very good stuff!
This year, I’m just glad the whole vd thing is OVER.
Hey!
Chocolate half off now, like I was saying yesterday. Go nuts.
What? I went home to an empty house, got five phone calls from various drunken revelers which included three marriage proposals and one pregnancy, there was nothing on tv, and I went to bed with my dogs. Woo.
(THat sounds bitter, doesn’t it? It’s not meant to, I’m just tired.)
Wait, these marriage proposals were announcements to you, not requests, right?
Ned, I’m thinking seriously of going to the store to buy more chocolate. We wouldn’t want our supply to flag before Easter...
Mmhmm, announcements. It’s good, though—all three of them were surprises (to the chicks—I knew two of them were happening, and in one case, helped pick out the ring) and everyone is blissfully happy.
Damn! So some people had a good V day!?
(xpost to luna) Well it was nice that they thought to call you; it sounds like you had a calm evening. (It wouldn’t have been so calm if three people were proposing to you; that would be awkward).
so much proposing! I think proposing on v-day would just be too much.
Most everybody I know, really!
I didn’t mean to imply mine was bad at all, I just had a little too much to drink myself and got a little ‘gosh I wish my Valentine wasn’t so far away...’
Two of the girls were also born on VD, so I think it was kinda ‘what the hell, we’ll go for broke.’
Three bridesmaid’s dresses people. Three.
make them all choose the same color.
That would be so, so good.
I’m with you Sam; Valentine’s Day proposals would be too much. (A. asked me to marry him in a dorm room and I had a paper due the next day. That also might not have been ideal.)
Long distance relationships are difficult, I think; good for you for keeping one up, luna.
There’s a woman at my son’s school who is pregnant with her fourth baby; she’s excited because this one *wasn’t* conceived on Valentine’s Day. (Mommies tell each other weird stuff, don’t they. I don’t even know this woman’s name!)
luna, you have to... er I mean get to be in all three weddings? Wow!
Can you talk them into black bridesmaids dresses? (My bridesmaids wore black!) My sister made me wear a sage green dress with spaghetti straps and an empire waist. I looked like the Statue of Liberty.
Yep. Two as maid of honors and one as bridesmaid.
One already decided she wants black (she’s had her entire wedding planned for the last 5 years), and the other two I’m not sure of yet, but Jill’s favorite color is hot pink, so I’m not holding my breath.
Black for a wedding?
Of course.
Okay hot pink... good luck with that.
Also having a wedding planned for 5 years?! That is some obsessive organization. Maybe I just think that because I hated wedding planning and mostly let my mother take over (which was annoying in a lot of ways, but it kept her happy).
Black for a wedding is great! Very elegant. The bridesmaids at my wedding had black velvet dresses and carried red roses.
ew. I love pink but hot pink. . .on formal dresses. . .
I’ve never been a bridesmaid. :(
oh that’s so not true! you’ve reminded me!
my friend got married during a set break during her band’s show, on stage. Me and the other two bridesmaids wore vintage black dresses of our choosing and carried a single lily. Mine was silk and from the 40s.
so let me correct myself, never been a bridesmaid in a church wedding.
Sam, I was only a bridesmaid the one time, for my sister. (“Matron of Honor,” actually. Doesn’t that sound STERN?) It would have been more fun if I hadn’t been pregnant at the time and recovering from a month of influenza. Also, she had NINE bridesmaids, so her whole wedding was huge and exhausting.
I would like to be a bridesmaid again, I think—but not in a hot pink dress.
A catalog of ugly dresses:
My mom’s 2d marriage: a floor length revolting blue dress with sheer flowered sleeves and crystal buttons, very 70s. And hideous.
Jill & Bill: Startlingly electric blue strapless, with lace overlay and HUGE BOW at the hip. Ugh.
Dee & Jeff: Forest green puffy thing, plus white elbow length gloves. Yuck.
Savannah & Robert: A fucking orange dress with white lace, hoop skirt + parasol. Dear lord, we looked like Gone With the Wind barfed on us.
Susannah & Greg: Hot pink satin with tons of underskirt, another big fat bow, this time across the ass, plus a hat. I do not wear hats because they make me look somewhat like Debbie Gibson. Dreadful.
Sarah & Joe: Baby pink strapless tea length satin thing with black polka dots—actually not too bad.
Sharon & Al: pumpkin orange horror. Puffed sleeves, huge skirt, lots of lace and bows. I felt like the Bride of the Great Pumpkin, and not in a good way.
Victoria & Steve: Beige satin and lace sheath THING, with elbow length gloves and gold old lady shoes. Gross.
Cyndi & Tony: Black floor length with huge weird rhinestone ‘design’, skirt big enough to smuggle an entire refugee village across the mountains, and we all had to have the same hair, makeup and jewelry. I had to burn the pictures, we all look insane.
Candy & James: We were all in pastel nightmares—mine was baby blue—lots of lace, too many bows, also with a parasol.
Sherri & Toma: Vile green tulle netting. I can’t talk about it.
Jenn & Travis: Strapless red floor length, probably my favorite among them.
Laurie & Carol: We got to pick whatever we wanted—probably my favorite wedding.
Do you see?
Ned, I’m thinking seriously of going to the store to buy more chocolate. We wouldn’t want our supply to flag before Easter...
Wise.
I have never worn a dress to a wedding. :-/
Well Ned, next time someone asks you to be a bridesmaid, you know who to ask.
Isn’t there a website somewhere where legions of humiliated bridesmaids can commiserate over their humiliation?
Well Ned, next time someone asks you to be a bridesmaid, you know who to ask.
I AWAIT THE DAY.
Hmmm. It should be the weekend, frankly. I am tired.
that is just insane.
wtf is up with big bows, parasols and elbow-gloves? Do weddings just bring out the 8 yr old in women?
Darlin, I wish I knew. I’ve always said that one of these years I’m going to start throwing an annual party to which women will wear their old bridesmaid dresses or wedding dresses.
ooo, I wanna come! I’ll wear my old wedding dress which is stuffed in a bag somewhere in the garage. I keep saying I’m going to make pillows or something out of it but I’ll wait until after your party. ;)
I know, right? I have mine, too, and what else am I gonna do with it? I should have sold it to my friend when he wanted to buy it to wear for Halloween one year.
My not-for-much-longer-now roommate — who is also my brother’s ex — left her never-used wedding dress in the bedroom closet in the couple months she wasn’t living here. I thought that was a little creepy.
OMG that list of dresses. Terrifying! Parasols?!
My wedding dress came with a butt bow; I had them cut it off. I don’t understand the propensity of dress designers to ruin a perfectly good dress with huge bows.
Also, I want to come to your party, luna!
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I haven’t sold it or gave it away b/c my grandmother bought it for me. and she’s passed away. :(
But I certainly can’t imagine doing something like passing it on to a daughter; “Here’s a dress I wore when I married someone who wasn’t your father.”
I am not inviting her...
Of course you can come, Sara. I can’t decide if it should be a weekend of events so there could be costume changes, or just the one night.
I just kinda felt bad about getting rid of mine, but it’s not like Spencer will want it. I should probably get it cleaned and drop it off at Goodwill.
Costume changes, ha. Sadly, I’m more likely to fit into the bridesmaids dress than the wedding dress, although I suppose since I was pregnant, the waist would be awfully big. After having two kids, I suspect my hips and my wedding dress are never going to feel comfortable together again.
My wedding dress is hanging in the closet in its bag. I’d like it if J. were to wear it someday, but I think it’s unlikely because she has Coolidge genes and is apt to be a lot taller than me—and have a long waist instead of a short one.
I wore my mum’s wedding dress. It was awesomely plain and fitted me really well, also wedding dresses be expensive and I hate spending money on clothes. I used to use it for dressing up as a kid, and it was crumpled and messed up, but a bit of tailoring, a new lining and some industrial-strength pressing and it was good as new.
I keep wanting to start a “what do you look like in your wedding photos” thread on ILX, but I think I’ll wait until we get back to the other place. Mostly because if I’m going to post more photos of me, I’d like them to be on the day I had my hair and make-up done by a professional.
There is no way on earth I would ever post my wedding pictures—I had clown hair and the photographer sucked ass.
Having said that, of course, I love to look at other people’s!
I would totally post mine (assuming I could get to a scanner)! My hair looked decent (done by a professional!) and I actually wore contact lenses. (I never wore contacts again after that day, btw).
I looked. . .not me. But not bad in the scheme of things I guess.
Don’t have any of mine anymore. I wouldn’t really care to see them anyhow.
I looked not me either. It was pre getting my eyebrows un-unruly. My hair was its natural colour. But there are some good photos there. Also, yeah, despite being the ungirliest girl ever, I really like looking at other people’s wedding photos.
Thread’ll just get hijacked by people wanting to go on about how marriage is the worst thing ever, won’t it?