Canoes + Booze + Beans = Hilarity

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Dude! You totally gotta check out Brian's latest story! This dude totally gets his...well I won't ruin it for you, dude. It's hi-freaking-larious! Chah!
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Wedding Dress Fitting...Oh Boy!

I went to IL this past weekend to have my first wedding dress fitting. I was SO excited! I spent the weekend hanging out with my sister who is home from college; Monday was the big fitting appointment. We were planning to go to the fitting at 11am, grab some lunch afterward and then Ashley was going to drop me off at the airport because my flight was at 5:30 in the evening.

We showed up at the bridal store and they remembered me. All the ladies who worked there got all excited and went in the back to get my dress. They hung it up in its opaque pink garment bag in the dressing room and I went in to try it on. My wedding dress! How exciting! I unzipped the bag and.....

...it was not my dress. It was some completely different dress that I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE. OH GOD, WHERE THE HELL IS MY DRESS?! So, attempting to be calm, I went over to the woman who was ringing up another bride at the counter and informed her that that was not my dress. She proceeded to look horrified (as did the woman odering her dress!) and go look in the back to see if something had been switched while I tried not to cry in public. It turns out that the factory transposed the dress number. Instead of sending dress #672 they sent dresss #762. Fan-freaking-tastic. And, oh yeah, they don't have a dress #672 in stock in my size, so the earliest they can get it to me is mid-late July. Keep in mind that the wedding is August 12.

So, at this point the ladies who work there are totally freaked out. I can tell that they are genuinely upset about this, and the woman who owns the store offers me two options:

1) They will order the new dress in my size and when it comes in they will ship it to me in MD and pay for me to have it altered out there.
2) They have a floor model of the dress I ordered in the store that has only been tried on a couple of times and is one size smaller than the one I ordered. They can have their seamstress let it out a bit and I can come back that afternoon to see if it will work and if I take that one, they will give it to me for half price.

So, I took option 2 with contingency plan 1. I tried on the smaller dress which mostly fit except for being a bit tight in the waist. Ashley and I stayed in the area. We got some lunch and hung out at the mall until they called us at 2:40 to let us know that the dress was ready for me to try on again. It did fit, actually, and so they took the measurements for the hem and sent us on our way.

Now, Ashley and I had to make it to O'Hare airport in time for me to make a 5:30 pm flight, which was a bit dicey since it was, at this time, 3:10 or so and we had to stop for gas on the way. Plus, we were coming from a different suburb than usual so we had to take a different route with which we were unfamiliar. Oh, and on the way we encountered a bad accident and a major traffic jam.

It all ended up okay...actually, it ended up better than okay since I made my flight AND I am getting my wedding dress for half price. Still, it was an extremely stressful day to say the least! *sigh* I should have gone with a Greek theme and worn a white bedsheet...I mean toga.

I'm Fast and This Makes Me Furious

I learned just this weekend that a third entry in The Fast and the Furious series will be opening this month. This one's set in the Japanese drifting subculture. I've said it before---and before before---and I'll say it again: Who ordered that?

Ah, the Bachelor Lifestyle 2: Revenge of the Bachelor

Alison has gone out of town again, leaving me to my own devices. Apparently, "my own devices" means "bike, visit the bike shop, buy groceries, clean the house, work on the bikes, watch Family Guy on DVD, bike again, clean the house some more, 'forget' to mow the lawn, and blog."

Cntrl Z

Alison and I have often spoken of how we'd love to have an undo button in real life. Well, the latest Frazz addresses this fantasy.

Turks and What Now?

I recently learned that Todd is getting married on a Caribbean island. Why didn't we think of that?

Gorram, That's a Frakkin' Good Script!

Jane Espenson, former screenwriter for Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, and DS9, among other shows, is writing an episode for the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. I think this is likely to be a true chocolate-meets-peanut-butter situation*.

* Two great tastes that taste great together. Duh.

Mmmm...Batwoman

It appears that Detective Comics is bringing back Batwoman, whom DC killed off in 1979 and whom you shouldn't confuse for Batgirl. But there's a twist: Batwoman is now a lesbian*.

Now, I've always been a detractor of the various Bat-family characters: Batwoman, the various Batgirls, and especially all the Robins. I feel that they undermine the central character of Batman. Further, I'm always irritated with female characters that are simple knock-offs of male characters**. Despite my own misgivings, I expect that this new, black-clad lesbian Batwoman---compare this rendering with these of the original, purse-carrying version---will be embraced by the fanboys. I mean, she's a lesbian, and look what she's wearing. In fact, I predict that, after Batwoman's initial success, she will "turn" Catwoman and there'll be an issue devoted entirely to the two of them making out.

Mmmm...Catwoman.

* This change seems to be part of a broader, ongoing effort by DC to increase the ethnic and sexual diversity of its superfolk.

** See also Spider-Girl and all the versions of Spider-Woman.

Yay! I'm done!

Wow...that level of exuberance just took a lot out of me.

Hello again, everyone. You may recall that I, too, am a contributor to this blog. Although, you wouldn't know it based on the past month or so. Sorry for my long absence, but after finals (which were pretty horrendous this term) I had to prepare for my written comprehensive exam. This was a two-part exam spanning two days, the second part of which I completed approximately an hour and a half ago. Woo hoo! I am really happy to be done, although I am not sure that it has completely sunk in yet. Mostly I just feel reeeeeeally tired. My main objective for the rest of today is to not think. Therefore, I should probably stop writing and go veg. So, in conclusion I promise to write more soon, but TTFN.

Blast From the Past

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the primitive people of 1995? Well, this article from The Onion answers your question.