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Monday, 04 September, 2006
(Meant to blog this a while ago. It starts from 19th August.)
| Discover last Tuesday that on Saturday you will have to fit two weddings into your Saturday because a guy from your year in college is getting married and your husband only found out today. | |
| On the other hand, you're very happy that this guy is getting married, considering all he's been through. |  |
| Looking at the state of the weekend, you start to realise how packed it is. |
| You and your husband decide to go out for breakfast before Wedding #1 to off-set the stress (somewhat). | |
| You wake up on Saturday and realise you haven't made a card for Wedding #1. | |
| You and your husband are running late—well, late if the two of you were to have a nice leisurely breakfast in Newtown together. | |
| You opt for Urban Bites because Phuze is too far away from the church. You have bacon, eggs, thick toast and a side of sautéed mushrooms and all for under $10. | |
| When you get to the church, it is reasonably full of people—most of them from college. The buzz is one of excitement. Plus you get to sit next to a girl from your year who you haven't seen in a little while and you use the opportunity, while the bride is running late, to catch up. | |
| Your friend compliments you on the fairly amateurish card you just made for the bride and groom (and you had to leave off writing their names on the front because you needed to see the wedding program first in order to learn how to spell the bride's name). She says that she personally likes the fact that friends went to the trouble to make something unique, all covered with stickers and writing in gel pens, and didn't just go out and buy something pre-made from the shop. | |
| The bride is half an hour late and you have to leave for Wedding #2 fairly soon. | |
| The bride finally arrives, walks down the aisle, and she and her groom say their vows first so you do actually get to witness them get married as well as hear the minister give his talk (which was about suffering and Romans 8—highly appropriate for a wedding, even though some may not think so). | |
| You and your husband slip out after the talk just after the talk. You wish you could stay for the lunch afterwards but oh well. | |
| Your husband already knows the way to the Harbour Bridge without needing directions. | |
| Despite your excellent navigational skills (which are unusual as generally women aren't very adept spatially), you miss the turn to the church. | |
| You take the next one and find an excellent unmetered parking spot within two blocks' walk from the church. | |
| The Mary MacKillop museum is open so you can both use the bathrooms. | |
| You're half an hour early for Wedding #2. | |
| Your husband is stressing out about meeting strange people. | |
| You're worried that the priest is going to make you bow before the altar before you go up and read out the prayers for the marriage service because you don't want to and you don't know what to say to him if he asks. | |
| You meet the other guy who will be reading the prayers, and his fiancée. They both work in publishing (legal publishing but publishing nonetheless—he even finds your comment about American spelling in the program amusing). Plus they are both interested in knitting (she taught him to knit). | |
| Everyone is in the church on time. (The bride's email during the week about the difficulty of parking probably helped in that matter.) | |
| The bride is on time, the bridesmaids look fantastic (two of them you went to school with, the third you went to primary school with) and the bride is radiant. You get to see your friend from school get married, looking so happy. | |
| The wedding service, despite being Catholic, is extremely biblical. (The priest's homily is quite wishy-washy but anyway ...) | |
| The congregation has to rise to sing one of your favourite hymns. | |
| Reading the prayers goes off smoothly and the priest doesn't ask you to bow before the altar. | |
| There are photographs outside the church in the sunshine and then the bridal party are off and away for photos. You and your husband drive home, and you spend the afternoon watching television and knitting on the couch. | |
| You get ready to go to the wedding reception and stress about the strange people you're going to meet. | |
| The wedding reception is at the same place as your cousin's wedding last year. It's even in the same room. So you know the way. | |
| You're nervous that your wedding gift seems really amateurish (after all, you could only afford to give them two plates and they weren't even big plates at that. And you wrapped the box in blue cardboard and tied it with a silver ribbon. And the card, which is an Ellsworth Kelly of a red square and a blue square [which you thought was funny because it reminded you of the stop-motion plasticine TV show, The Red and the Blue or was it The Blue and the Red?—and you're afraid they won't get it]—the card is stuck on with yellow tac because you didn't want to bring sticky tape in the car with you). | |
| You're on a table with some girls you know from school. The other people turn out to be the bride's friends and they're nice. Plus there is a couple sitting next to you who might be going to college next year, and you chat about MTS together. | |
| The food is delicious. | |
| The groom's speech is hilarious and full of West Wing allusions. | |
| Nobody forces you to get up and dance, and nobody expects that, just because you've been married for 6.5 years, that you actually know how to dance together. | |
| The following day, your husband goes off to preach (it's at a church where the parents of a girl in our Bible study group goes). You spend the day getting the laundry done and you think about blogging. | |
| Your husband comes home from preaching and crashes. | |
| He's not up to going to church so you don't. | |
| You go to bed way too late, and then get up the following morning way too early. | |
| It's Briefing thinking day and you still don't have access to the File Server. | |
| Simon can't fix your File Server problem. | |
| You spend the day working on Teaching Little Ones which involves formatting text, inserting pictures and positioning the pictures in the right place. The document you're working on is 161 pages long and you only get up to page 38 by the end of the day. | |
| Grey's Anatonomy is on TV. | |
| You get a message from the girl you're doing Just for Starters with to say that she can't make it tomorrow morning. | |
| You go to work for Greg and the forms you make to allow people to pay for stuff online actually work. | |
| You realise how much other stuff there is left to be done on the website. | |
| Since you are only working half-days for Greg now, you get to go home after lunch. | |
| You navigate your way to Gladesville (somewhere you've never driven before—and certainly not by yourself) and drop off the DVD player to get fixed. | |
| You make a start on your tax. | |
| College dinner is on tonight. | |
| The book you ordered from the US has arrived. | |
| Your husband is really depressed. | |
| You go to bed later than you should, as usual. | |
| You spend the day at work on Wednesday procrastinating about editing The Daily Reading Bible Volume 9 (you don't like editing Bible studies), and then bravely ploughing into it and getting at least half of it done. | |
| The advertising manage wants you to send out another e-news but you've got Daily Reading Bible Volume 9 to finish editing by the end of the week, plus editing for the next Briefing, plus the leader's notes for The God Who Saves need to be put online by next Monday. | |
| Your husband shows up in the afternoon to talk to Tony. | |
| He's still feeling really down. | |
| You start to feel really down. | |
| You go to bed too late. | |
| On Thursday morning it occurs to you that one of the articles slated for the next Briefing is not referenced properly. Plus the guy who wrote it is busy and doesn't have time to chase them up before your deadline. So you start doing it (and thank God for Google Print and Google Scholar in the process). | |
| Simon fixes your computer so it has access to the File Server again. | |
| During your morning meeting with Tony, he gives you an extra week to do Daily Reading Bible 9, an extra day to do Briefing editing. Plus he gives you permission to completely reformat e-news. | |
| You spend the day reformatting e-news so that it's no longer in stupid fiddly tables but instead it's powered entirely by in-text CSS. It even works in the bulk mail program that your company uses to send out e-news. | |
| You go out to dinner with your husband and have cheap Indonesian for dinner (yum!) | |
| You're half an hour early for the circus so you wander around Moore Park's entertainment complex. In the LoveSac store, you make your husband sit on one and he starts to understand why you want to buy him one. | |
| The circus is wonderful and magical and everything you thought it would be. | |
| You're worried your husband won't enjoy the circus and that he'll think it's stupid. | |
| He think it's great and he even lets you buy a program. | |
| You wish the circus would go on forever and when you come out, you can't stop grinning. | |
| On Friday morning you send out e-news and everything works fine. | |
| You start editing The Briefing for October and don't make much headway. | |
| You realise in the late afternoon that e-news isn't Internet Explorer compliant (and of course 85% of the users of your website use Internet Explorer). You curse Microsoft for making such a stupid browser. | |
| You cannot fix it by the time Elsie shows up so you waste half an hour of her time trying to fix it before giving up. | |
| You and Elsie can't concentrate on Bible reading. | |
| You find out Elsie is going to the city tomorrow and want to go too. She says yes you can. | |
| You go home and realise how much you have on this weekend and that going to the city with Elsie is not a good idea. You cancel. | |
| You keep wrestling with the Internet Explorer problem, appeal to your husband for his help, and realise that you've got the float: right thing wrong again. | |
| You discover that Internet Explorer will not let your divs sit side by side right next to each other; it wants to leave 3px of personal space between them. | |
| Your clever husband finds a workaround to the problem and puts up with your overtired Friday evening whinging. | |
| Bron is speaking at Women's Fellowship and you really want to go but you're also tired and cranky. | |
| You make yourself go anyway. Her talk is very good and very helpful. And you don't snap at anyone but you make polite conversation with everyone. And Rosey brings coconut for supper. | |
| You sleep in on Saturday morning. | |
| You finish off your tax and realise you owe the government a lot of money. | |
| You spend the afternoon blogging, watching television and knitting. You finish your latest scarf/shawl. | |
| Your husband feels down. | |
| You go to the church social in the evening and play SingStar with friends. You even get Total SingStar for Belinda Carlisle's “Heaven is a Place on Earth”. (Incidentally, what would Nick Hornby make of SingStar?) | |
| You go to bed relatively early and sleep for a long time. | |
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It’s the red and the blue; an italian claymation show.
Hey,
You came to gladesville! great place - and not because I live there…
Great post.
Dave: always a fountain of information!
Thanks Drew!
You finally played SingStar!! What did you think of it?? I haven’t played that game that you played yet.