34 days to go…
well, canucks are out of the playoffs. and my allegiance officially goes behind les habitants on their quest for their 25th stanley cup. come on frenchies! you can do it! (that canadiens support is brought to you by my fiance. see what love makes you do?)
so, exciting things in my world: today i’m taking a half day at work and going to get my wedding dress fitted as it just arrived on wednesday. i’m excited. i brought my veil and two pairs of possible shoes with me, neither of which my mom thinks will look good. i don’t get it. the dress is long. who cares WTF my shoes look like? *sigh* being a girl is hard.
i also got my wedding favours in the mail. they look good, i’m pretty happy about them. what i’m not looking forward to is bringing 30 of them in my suitcase down to vegas, lol.
i have a few more recruits on the vegas trip, so that is super awesome. although, i think i’m now officially discouraging people from coming, lol. all i can think when i invite someone else is “$130 a plate for dinner. $130 a plate for dinner” and i’m broke. so like, that’s a lot of money i don’t have. i am so so so broke and this wedding hasn’t even happened yet. i figure all in, i have spent about $6,000 on it, and my parents have kicked in about $15,000 and we still haven’t even had the at home reception. eek.
oh well, i’m doing my best not to think about it… and to avert my eyes when i log into my online banking from the line of credit that i had to take out to pay for wedding stuff, that’s already at $5,500. avert the eyes. look away. it’s not really there. eesch. i’ll be paying this fucker off for another year or two at least. getting married is retarded expensive. and i still have about $2,000 worth of stuff in vegas that needs to be paid. yep. i need to stop thinking about this, ’cause it’s just going to stress me out.
anyways. i’m kind of getting annoyed because only a small handful of people have rsvp’d for vegas and i need to confirm the dinner numbers in 2 weeks. so basically if you haven’t rsvp’d by then, you won’t have a meal. i estimate we’ll have 25 people… but i only know of 16 people that are booked as of today. i have budgeted for 20 people… so every person above that is freaking me out a bit. and honestly that’s a shame, because i’m a “bigger is better” kinda person, and when i throw a party i like for everyone in the world to be there. i don’t wanna exclude. so i’m trying not to stress… it’s just money. it’s just money. it’ll all work out somehow. i just wish i wasn’t going to be unemployed as of july. that’s a bit of bad timing. and that freaks me out financially too. esch. okay. stop.
so this weekend i have a beer festival on saturday (sweet) and then a dentist appointment on sunday (not so sweet) and then a walk planned with my girl mary. but it’s supposed to rain, so there might be a chance that “walk” turns into a walk in the mall. or sitting on my patio smoking. both of which would be a-okay with me. although walking in the mall puts me in danger of spending money i don’t have… but i do need new work shoes… hmmm. well, we’ll see what happens.
i have ordered season one of battlestar galactica on dvd and am waiting not so patiently for it to come… the universe conspired against me on this one, i swear. we downloaded season one two different time, and both times we couldn’t get sound. that sucks, ’cause it takes days to download. so then we went to the video store and actually got a card and rented the first disk of season one. ya, well, it turned out it was the movie, which we’ve already seen. so we go back to get disk two, which would have been the first episode of season one… and the video clerk tells us it’s “missing”. apparently someone rented their only copy months ago and never brought it back. sweet. so finally we decided to just buy it on ebay. it was $30, which is about $20 cheaper than it was at best buy… so now we wait. arrrgg. it’s killing me. i can not wait to get into this series. the movie was soooooo good. < /nerd> sorry about that.
alright. enough bloggy rambling. have a stellar weekend. i will bring you tales on monday.
April 4, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Dentists be open on sunday now? Sheeeyit.
Thanks for the brevity re: The Vancouver CaLazyHockeyTeamNucks. I don’t wanna get off on a rant, but I’m instigating a McCord Family Vancouver Canucks Financial Freezeout until they turn this team around. Seriously – between tickets, pay per views and (especially) mechandise, the McCords pump fucking THOUSANDS of dollars into this team in a year (we’re super fans – if you can put a Canucks symbol on it, we’ll buy it).
So until they cut the fat with the overpriced Swedes and old-timers, start drafting well, invest in a well-balanced lineup that doesn’t have glaring holes in both scoring and defensive respects, and pull their head out of their asses, they don’t get any (ANY) of my money.
Because last time I checked, the goal for any hockey team shouldn’t be “Let’s make the playoffs and see what happens.” It should be “LET’S WIN THE FUCKING STANLEY CUP.” ‘Cause newsflash, fellas – it’s been almost 4 decades that we’ve been in the league and we’ve only been close ONCE. (not counting the 81 series against the Islanders, we didn’t have a hope in hell back then).
So much for not going off on a rant, but am I wrong here? Am I retarded to not settle for just making the playoffs? I want a Stanley Cup and I fucking want one NOW.
April 4, 2008 at 12:36 pm
i 100% agree dude.
i avoided the subject because, well, frankly i’m kinda angry at the canucks for the same reason.
the fact that many of my friends and family actually believe that they’ll never see the canucks win a cup in their lifetime is sad.
the fact that we don’t even really seem to try is also sad.
plus don’t get me started on WTF luongo’s wife was thinking when she got knocked up 9 months ago. who the hell decides to have a kid that will be born during the end of the season race or potentially in the playoffs. what a selfish bitch. we’re paying your husband MILLIONS of dollars to be a dedicated full time number on goaltender. how is he supposed to have his head in the game, when it matters most – during the playoff race, when you’re about to shit out a kid?
i think that is just the worst.
his high salary, that the FAN PAY for, is what’s keeping her in her mansion in florida. the least she can do is time her pregancy around his job.
April 4, 2008 at 8:57 pm
i feel like a celebrity, my first shout-out in your blog! (i think)
if it rains, we will smoke on your lovely patio AND go to the mall. for fuck’s sake, don’t you know me at all by now? can’t wait to sit and chat with you for hours, as we always do. yay friendship!
April 5, 2008 at 12:05 am
What media player do you use on the computer? If it’s an XP machine check out Media Player Classic – it’s 1000 times better than the built in garbage, comes wioth better codecs and stuff. VLC isn’t bad either.