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In case you were wondering, I didn't give up on my blog. Matt's parents have been in town for the weekend so we were too busy to play on the internet. We had a lot of fun with them, especially once we started playing Canasta. I'm not usually big on card games but Canasta is so fun! We used to play it for hours with my mom when I was in high school but it's been a while. It's better with four people too so Matt and I get bored playing it by ourselves at home.

Other than Canasta we ate a lot of food and bought a lot of stuff...both of which are common practices when hanging out with Matt's parents. Some highlights of my weekend eating are:
-Lemon pancakes filled with Ricotta cheese and smothered with lemon curd and rasberry sauce (today's breakfast)
-Grilled halibut on a sweet corn cake with okra and coffee jus (last night's dinner)
-Cowgirl creamery Mt. Tam triple cream Brie on mini toasts with fig cherry jam (card playing snack)

At this juncture I must also comment on a low point of our dinner last night just because I like to complain and I can't let it go. We were eating at a very well-regarded restaurant here in SF and Matt and I were sitting with our backs to another table of diners. Their table was fairly close to ours and one of the people knocked over a completely full bottle of wine (RED) and it flew and sprayed in our direction. I just happened to be wearing light colored pants and the $70. pashmina shawl that I bought for one of my bridesmaids to wear at my wedding (also a light cream color). Matt was wearing a light blue shirt and khaki's, both of which were completely stained with wine. I was really pissed off by this, and although I know that the people apologized to Matt, they did not apologize to me nor did they offer any assistance with our dry cleaning or anything! The restaurant manager was very nice and he did offer to pay, but I still think that had it been me that spilled the wine I would have offered to dry clean the people's clothes myself or bought a round of drinks or dessert or something to extend my apology. It was truly annoying and it ruined the mood of our dinner completely. But the food was good!

Now I'm just sitting at home and dealing with all of the paper and mail and junk that I've been ignoring. I hate paper, so hopefully I'll be done with this soon.

More Wedding Drama

I'm going to have to postpone my sharing of the current knitting project because I simply don't have the energy to knit right now so I can't talk about it. I know that you've all been on the edge of your seats wondering what's going on with our wedding stuff today? Oh, I guess that I'll tell you then.
Well we had thought that we had our location for the rehearsal dinner all taken care of. We sent out invitations for the dinner to the wedding party and the immediate family and everything. (Can you figure out where I'm going with this?) So when I asked about making a reservation months ago I was told that we only needed to call about a month in advance to set our date. We did that today and it turns out that the location has been booked for months. Of course it has! It would just be too easy otherwise. Now we have to scramble and find a restaurant in San Francisco that can hold 40 people on a Thursday night three weeks from now. THis is an impossible mission, and a most irritating one if I do say so myself. Argh. We're laughing at the drama it has caused but it's still annoying.
On a lighter and more fun note, I spent today helping my friend DeAnna at her hat studio. It was fun. I got to block a men's felt hat that she'll sell at a store in LA and I spent the rest of the day sewing buttons on a women's cloche style hat. I aspire to have a whole two bedroom apartment that is only used as a studio, so you can just imagine how fun it is to spend the day with someone who actually has that. I honestly don't know what I would do in an art studio, but I'm sure that I could come up with something. I really like hand-sewing too and I only do it when I'm making hats. I only make hats when I'm with DeAnna, therefore I don't do a lot of sewing.
Okay okay, I think I need to relax a bit and hang out with my BF (can I still call him that even though he is actually my fiance?) Anyways, he's sitting in the dark living room by himself playing the guitar and I think that means "get off that damn computer and hang out with me!" in passive agressive boy-language. I guess I'll indulge him this one time.

Knitting?

I forgot to mention that I am actually working on a knitting project right now, although you'd never know it by my posts. I'm knitting this little cardigan from Knitty, although I'm changing it a bit by shortening it and whatnot. Essentially I like the idea of the pattern but I don't like the way it looks on the model (no offense intended if you ever read this post!) Hopefully I'll like the way that it looks on me.

On Our Own

Last Saturday our roomate and bestest friend Jessica left us alone for good. She and I have been living happily together since 2001 and we've been friends since 9th grade, so it was a bit traumatic for me (I don't know if it was for her or not, but it was for me.) Anyways, she's gone and here I am living with Matt for ever and ever.
I don't want to give the impression that we were happy that Jess left, but the first thing we did after the movers were gone was open the sliding doors that seperated our living room from her former bedroom. This was an exciting transformation because it doubles our living space and allows alot of light to come in that was otherwise blocked by the sliding doors. Once the doors were open we realized that we don't own enough furniture to fill up the space (and I thought my 84" couch would fill any room!) But anyways, we moved the dining room into the area that used to be the living room and pushed all of the living room furniture into Jessica's old bedroom. I hope I didn't lose you with all of those details, but I think you can get the idea based on the above picture.
Now the dining room is my new "office" and I even have my own craft closet!

As you can see I sort of just threw everything in there, and for now it contains my wedding boxes and files as well as yarn...but it's still exciting to have a place for my stuff.
We also got a new stereo the other day since our old one belonged to Jessica. I think Matt is going to return it though because we just realized that although it holds 5 cd's it doesn't allow you to shuffle all of them at once, just one at a time. That sucks. Since I don't have an ipod (that's a hint to all of you out there wondering) I have to create playlists the old-fashioned way. Poor me, I know.
We also lost our tv to the divorce, so our friends Syrette and Koa were generous enough to give us their tiny tv. The screen on it is seriously smaller than my miniature laptop screen, but it's cute anyway. It doesn't actually get any reception, but we set it up so that it can look like our poor little entertainment system with the new stereo. I think it's funny but when Matt's parents come to visit us this weekend we're sure that his dad will be so desperate to watch television that he'll run out and buy us one...we can only hope. We do actually have bets going that he'll do this, but we'll see.

I can't believe how much I have to say! Is this interesting to anyone out there? I have a feeling that my babbling posts might be a turn-off to some of my readers, but then again there are only about four of you anyways! (And I love you all dearly, by the way.)

Is this a sign?

So Matt and I have been relatively on-time and organized with all of our wedding planning, except for the florist. This is my fault because I waited and waited to call around despite the fact that I already knew who I wanted to speak to about it months ahead of time, but that's not the point. Tonight I called Ricardo (the florist that I really want to work with) to follow up on the quote that we're expecting. This is how the conversation began:
GL: Hi Ricardo, I just wanted to follow up on our proposal and see how it's coming along.
R: Oh, well you must already be aware of my situation.
GL: (uh) No, what happened? Are you okay?
R: Well let's see, um, last Tuesday I went to take out the trash and I had too many bags and they wouldn't fit in the trash can so I was jumping on the trash to try and make room when the can rolled out of underneath me and I fell on my face and broke both of my wrists in three places. I've been in the hospital on morphine all week, I just got out on Sunday.
GL: Oh my god!

I think you get the picture.

I think that this is one of those situations that will show my true colors as a bride. Will I turn into a crazy stressed-out freak or will I stay calm and work through it? So far Matt and I have just laughed at how entirely typical this is...and it definitely makes for a good story to tell later. For now I feel terrible for poor Ricardo as he sits at home with a cast on each hand. I hope he gets better soon because I can just imagine how stressful it must be for him since he is the only one that can do his job. Everyone, take a moment to wish Ricardo a healthy recovery....

I promise that this isn't going to turn into a wedding website, but it's only three weeks away! As of this weekend every phone call I get begins with "Are you ready for your wedding?!" or "When are you and Matt going to start having kids?" I don't know which one is worse at this point but if you're planning on asking me one of these questions in the near future these are my answers "Let's not talk about it because it gives me anxiety" and "I think we need to get jobs before we can have kids."

I think I could really rant for several more paragraphs but I'll save you from that and give you just one more. I got a lot of crap for my last post, but I think those pictures are cute and I like them! Thank you to my blog friends who commented.

Talk to you tomorrow,
Ginny

Photo Photo

Matt and I did some major shopping today downtown. It was rainy and gross outside which doesn't usually make for a good shopping day, but we did some damage despite the wet weather. Our most exciting purchase: a new camara! Yay. Now we can carry our camara with us at all times. Hopefully that will make us better at taking lots of pictures.
Here is our first go-round.

The Good Old OC

Here I am in the OC! The four of us piled into the Mini with our belongings tightly packed into "the boot" and we were off. We had high hopes of arriving here in six hours...but it took eight and a half long cramped hours to get here. It's always fun in the beginning, but then you reach that middle point and you're soooo ready to be at your destination! Are we there yet?

Now the boys are off to San Diego for two nights of drinking and debauchery and Syrette and I are happy as clams on the couch watching Kept on VH1 and knitting. I'm not feeling worried about Matt at all though, but if anything I'm more concerned about him getting too drunk and doing something stupid like falling in the gutter or something. We'll have to wait and see if he comes home scarred and broken. He's not really the type to want to live it up at the strip clubs, but you never know what the friends are going to make him do!

Road Trip

We're off to Orange County for the weekend. I'll catch up with all of you on Tuesday!

So Tired

I can't even believe how much I've been working over the past few days. I feel like I haven't been home at all! It's been so much fun to work as a Production Assistant but it's alot of work! Or maybe I'm just not used to work in general....
The whole group of people involved are so nice and outgoing, and the biggest ringer is that the photographer helped write Last Minute Knitted Gifts! I was so excited when I learned that that I could hardly contain myself. I love that book.
Now I'm going to go hang with my honey and try to recover from all the ironing and running back and forth that I did today, not to mention all of that hand-modeling! Now that can make a girl tired.
My last note to you is about my grades. I got 3 A's and a B in American Government. To think it could have been straight A's if I'd worked a little harder just kills me!

24 Hours

Just thought I'd give you a quick update of my life while I wait for dinner to be ready. Yesterday I had my first day as a production assistant. I'm working for a publishing firm that does all the cookbooks for Williams Sonoma. The one we're working on currently is called "Easy Entertaining". My job is to organize props, run errands, and do any general task that needs doing at any given time. Yesterday I spent almost 5 hours buying the wardrobe for the models. I have never been so tired from shopping ever before in my life!
Today Matt and have spent almost the entire day watching season 2 of 24. My dad sent us the box and the suspense is just forcing us to watch disk after disk! We have no self control, none at all.
Now Matt's making a scallop salad with avocados and mangos for our dinner. They gave me a huge cookbook yesterday at work so he got it from there. I'll tell you how it is!
Bye for now.

Finished!

I finished Georgine's tank top yesterday. I hope it fits her! I'll take another picture of her wearing it once I see her.


In other good news, my friend Helen at my favorite LYS has informed me that she wants me to work at her shop beginning in August!! Yeah! I can't think of any other way I'd like to spend my days. I can't wait to be shopgirl.

I left my envelope in San Francisco

So yesterday Matt and I went down to City Hall and got our Marriage License. It was a relatively easy task, in fact it only took about 10 minutes once our name was called. We found it really funny when the woman helping us said "now I will put your information in a recycled envelope" and then she gave us an old ratty UPS overnight envelope to keep our precious document in. Only in San Francisco...
The other funny thing we got yesterday was this booklet

"Your Future Together"
Highlights of this comprehensive owners manual are:
-"Folic Acid in Your Diet"
-A description of Genetic Disorders that states: Genetic disorders are not contagious.
-The food pyramid

Matt and I will definitely get a lot of use out of this handy booklet as we embark on our future together....