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Name: Lauren
Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
Metro: Edmond
Birthday: 9/9/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: This thing they call life; making music; laughing; photography; stress-free wedding planning; blackberry merlot and cold margaritas; new york yankees baseball; big bouquets of lilies and roses; basketball with my girls, two-on-two; venti decaf iced white chocolate mochas; understanding the finer points of the corpus juris and black's; but mainly just enjoying time goofing off with my soon-to-be-husband and our puppy. It's the simple things.
Expertise: I am profoundly good at putting my foot in my mouth, and even better at doing things the hard way.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Legal
Message: message me
AIM:  mezzopianist
Yahoo:  keynote715
Member Since:
12/9/2004
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| NEW XANGA!!!!!
canto_avvocato ... find me there!
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| I bought my wedding dress today .... and the veil, tierra, slip, and
corset. It's not the one I'd originally planned to get - it's
actually a dress that was about twice what I'd wanted to pay, but was
on sale for the same price as the dress I was planning to *settle* for
(in a manner of speaking). It's not pure white, it's somewhere
closer to cream, but not quite ivory. Long train, like I
wanted. Beading on the bodice, and at the bottom of the dress,
all the way around, and up the train with a sweep-over in the back and
3 shimmery rosebuds. It's absolutely perfect. I didn't want
to take it off - me, who hates dresses, and I liked this thing. A
lot. I have pictures, and as long as your name's not Peter, you
can look at them 
But now it's bedtime.
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| To clear up any confusion, ahem *clears throat*
For the last time, no ... my grandmother's best friend's sister's
niece's former roommate's mother's dental hygenist's cousin's surrogate
brother's mother who remembers me when I was six months old can NOT
come to our marriage ceremony next month. 20 people was
intimate. FIFTY is not. I'm sorry ... I really don't want
to offend people, but at some point I have to put my foot down.
It just isn't appropriate to have all these people at the ceremony when
all we wanted ORIGINALLY was about 5 people total at a
courthouse. The wedding in November is the place for people we
don't know as well. "But some of these people can't make it to
Connecticut," says my well-intentioned and very understanding
mother. I realize not everyone can make it. Be glad you
don't have to pay for 600 people to eat at the reception, cause that's
what would be happening if they could ALL make it. "They just
love and care about you and want to be a part of your marriage," says
mother. Understood, and appreciated ... but still not
appropriate, unless we were going to have two WEDDINGS instead of a
simple ceremony with a wedding later. And there's no time for
that. So, no. I hate to be a bitchy or mean bride who
excludes people ... but good lord! Somewhere there has to be a
limit. This first ceremony has grown by leaps and bounds in the
past couple of weeks - literally quadrupled in the number of
guests. Some people, such as my good friend Abby, may NOT be able
to make it to the wedding, but I still want her involved ... that's
great!! Absolutely she can come to the ceremony in Texas.
Peter's best friend and his wife live in Wichita Falls ...
perfect!! Tyler and Laura can certainly come. But some old
lady that used to know my family and hasn't seen me in almost twenty
years? Thanks, but no thanks. I need to find my backbone
and turn some of these people down. After all, I am the bride ...
and the bride has spoken.
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| my roommate said it best:
"the mere fact that this is the last set of weeks that i'll have to be without him just makes it that much worse."
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| My roommate, who got out of class early, just walked in to tell me that
it's ungodly frigid outside. It's also grey and cloudy and windy
again. This does not make me look forward to traipsing out there
in an hour. I love rainstorms and thunderstorms, but this grey
and cloudy thing
really gets to me sometimes. If its not gonna give me a big, loud
storm, I'd really like to see the sunlight.
Last night, we had a chorale concert that began at 7:30, but since the
touring chorale and non-touring chorale hadn't been together in almost
2 weeks, Dr. A in all of his infinite wisdom, saw fit to make the call
at 5:30 instead of the 6:45 he normally would have called for. I
spent 4 hours standing in uncomfortable shoes, under hot lights,
sweating, with no food, and I was already exhausted. It was a
pretty long concert too - almost 2 hours. For the first time, I
really started thinking about how much work we put in for one hour of
credit. There have been so many times that my weekends have been
halted for long rehearsals and performances, for weddings, for
performing in church services. I'm very glad that I spent 4
semesters in chorale, but for the first time last night, I realized
that I probably won't miss it as much as I thought. That could
also be largely due to the fact that I know that I'm going exactly
where I need to be (and, just as importantly, exactly where I want to
be). It'll be nice to see Peter every day, not just on the
weekends and over the occasional break.
I was actually productive yesterday afternoon, though. Kimi
wanted another piercing in her ear, so she wanted to go to the
mall. I needed to get my ring sized, and I wanted to look at
wedding rings for Peter, so off we went. I found a place that
would size my ring in 2 hours for $22, so I took it. I was
paranoid for a couple of hours, but at least I didn't have to worry
about them shipping it out, sizing it, and then shipping it back and
not having my ring for a week or two. So while I waited, we went
into Kay's (since I like their selection of men's rings) and I found a
few rings that I think he'd really like. Since we had some time
to kill, Kimi and I just sat in the store and talked to the saleslady
for a little while. In the end, I wound up buying him the ring I
kept eyeing, and I think he'll really like it. Here's for hoping
it fits (since they can't size it up, they'd have to order a ring in
his size). I'm not sure how long it takes for Kay's stuff to come
in, but by the time Peter gets to try it on, we'll be down to about 4
weeks till we get married. Ah well, it'll work.
Anywho, I should get up and make some breakfast and get ready to go brave the bitter, icy wind. Stay warm!!
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