A modification and a cake

A very good early morning to you readers. I've just finished washing the dishes, and am waiting for my water to boil for delicious morning coffee. The sun is just starting to turn the sky a beautiful deep lavender and kitty is perfectly silhouetted against the window. He looks like a perfect EA Poe cat. What a good kitty!

Anyway, wasn't Tim's post great??!! I'm grateful that he posted and that it was quite amusing. I'm nothing if not entertaining and full of adventure. I've had a couple tough nights - nothing wedding related thankfully. Just some not so fun things to deal with. So, I hope to be more upbeat than I am feeling and remember that things will pass and to focus on the fact that Saturday starts the t-two week date!

So, this post it called 'a modification'. I found out yesterday that my dress will be white, not the lovely coffee cream color. I could be super bitchy about this, but I really see not point to be. It's the same style, just white. I'm pretty sure that I can pull this off because I already have a natural tan and dark hair and glasses. In a moment, my brain turned from my marie antoinette shoes, to maybe some kick ass red shoes. And maybe some red flowers in my hair. It's Valentines Day after all! Or, possibly snowflakes?! In a moment, my brain turned a tiny twinge of sadness into possibility. I wish it could do that all the time. (BTW, doesn't this model look intense? She is staring into your soul - mwahahahaha!)

Readers, now we have a mission (since I think just about every other area of planning is complete). Red shoes! Hopefully, we'll head to Brooklyn Flea or Beacon's Closet this weekend and look for some awesome shoes. If you have suggestions - send them this way. If red seems silly, let me know that too.

So, part two. The cake. Initially, I had no idea how much we won when we won this contest. After we got the congrats email, I began looking at dresses and cakes. It's like when someone goes into labor - we need towels and hot water!! I thought dresses and cakes. Didn't really find out about the cake until maybe last week? I think? Anyway, I was planning on making our cake, since I took a super awesome cake decorating class at the Brooklyn Kitchen last May. Um, will upload photos of my decorated cake later... cannot find them, too early, not enough coffee... I'm a zombie! (Let's hope the Bennett sisters don't accidentally mistake me for a real zombie and form the pentagram of death!)

Turns out, I don't have to do that because we get a cake made by the Cake Boss, who is apparently a guy on a show on TLC (we don't have cable and I'm looking at the website for the cake boss for the first time right now to get an image). We have to sign releases tonight and will out another questionnaire about colors and flavors. Life should be all about questionnaires about colors and flavors. I know my favorite color changes often and I usually have several favorite colors at one time. And flavors, fugeddaboudit. Delicious food can make me cry it's so good. My inner fat girl gets sad, no that's too mild a work, clinically depressed when I've finished the last bit of something truly tasty. Oh boy, I should not write this when I'm tired.

Anyway readers, as always, thanks for reading. The sun is just about to turn the sky a blue gray and I believe that I seem some tiny snowflakes pepper my back garden.

Dress and shoes

Hello readers. It's early in the morning - I've got a purring kitty on my lap and I'm listening to Will Shorts (z) Leann Hansen do the crossword challenge on Weekend Edition Sunday. My coffee is getting just a little to cold to drink, but I think I can finish it.

So a brief explanation of the photo here. This is the first time Tim and I dressed up super fancy like together. This was taken before Washington College's Birthday Ball. The college was named for George Washington who donated money to start the first college in the new nation in 1782. So we named the college after him and every year, we celebrate his birthday. BTW, George Washington has a really cool story about his birthday because calendars changed and such. But, not the time for a history lesson.

Timmy returned yesterday from a week long trip to the lovely state of Ohio! He returned to a lady with a new sassy hairstyle! Yes, I changed my hair three weeks before the ceremony! Again, not the most traditional of people. But it's super fun and I love it. Hooray for Kay at Ringo's Salon! But I didn't post last night and I want to make sure that I do at least two posts today. So look for one later in the evening too.

Anyway, I realized that I have not posted pics of the dress. Here it is:
Hooray. It's tea length and really pretty. Click on the photo and you can look at additional photos.

Hurrah. Another thingie out of the way! Just have to get measured - this should be an adventure - Tim will be using the measuring tape today - and Sienna asked about the Marie Antoinette shoes. Well, this isn't a great photo - it was taken with my phone - but you'll get the idea.

I have to take them to the cleaners and I might swap out the current lace for ribbons to make them extra fancy. They have blue, green, and orange stripes and are really, really comfy! I think they will work right? I certainly don't need an excuse to go shoe shopping - but my closet will be really unhappy with me if I do. Although, I did see some killer shoes at Beacon's Closet the other day... I smashed all these photos together so you could get the idea. It's a bit wonky to look at, and in the future, photos will be a little farther away from each other.

So good news all around. Pretty not white dress, 1950s style to go with my 1950s style hair, I won't fall (or at least, I won't be able to blame it on the dress) when I walk around in the dress, it won't get dirty scraping the floors of the NYC subway, AND I get to wear a favorite pair of shoes. Everything's coming up Morales! (soon to be Geaghan)!

Dress, vows, and rings oh my!

Hello friends. It's been a few days. I've been making tissue paper flowers, filling out forms, and thinking about wedding vows. Lots on the mind. Not to mention going to the post office - if you know me, you know my horror stories with the post office in my neighborhood. I have a rage stroke every time I have the unfortunate need to visit. Anyway, that is not what this post is about.

Dress: I was sent a list of dress choices today. I knew the maker of the dress a few days ago and visited several websites that had their dresses. And I haven't really given too much thought to the dress. I almost said to hell with the free dress and bought a beautiful one at Brooklyn Flea over the weekend. But luckily, I didn't. I knew that I wanted a tea length 1950s style dress, and I wasn't sure if that would be one of the choices. The dress maker had exactly one tea length non-white wedding dress. But it is in the spring 2010 line. Why would anyone give away these brand new dresses - especially that just went off the runway (am I using all of these fashion-y terms right Cosmopolitan magazine?) So, lo and behold - it was one of the choices. I'm super excited! And, my super awesome stripey marie antoinette shoes will go perfectly with it. I think. Now I have to get measured. Things are coming together. I'll post a picture of the dress soon - I'm waiting to see if my husband to be and my dandy of honor like the dress. They are both in Cleveland right now, I'm sure, eating pretzels and drinking beer and eating snausages somewhere. Lucky.

But that leaves me plenty of time to think about what I get to vow on February 13. I have some ideas, and they are working together pretty well. But, do I mention things like my wizard star? This is our ceremony and so far, it has been very fun and silly and very us. So, why not mention that right? I'm not a terribly serious person (ok, so right now, I've been writing this whole post using the voice of the British reader who read Wuthering Heights on books on cd. Yay, I'm an adult!). So, I suppose most of it will be serious. I'm just trying to get through the vows without bursting into giggles, tears, sobs (of joy of course) or having a panic attack (because I have to be in front of people and talk about personal things). But I must say, I am quite happy with how the vows are coming together. No samples there!

And finally, rings. Who would have ever thought that photographing a ring would be so hard. Poor Tim tried to send to me several pictures of the rings that he liked but they were blurred or the flash or light just took over. I told him to go with what made him happy. I knew the ring that I wanted to get for him the moment I saw it. I concentrated so hard on finding a ring for him that when he asked me what kind I wanted, I didn't even know. So, surprises abound!


That's all for tonight. I'm quite tired and there has been a lot to think about and do today. More to come tomorrow night.