born this way.

i'm at work... and while i really DON'T enjoy lady gaga... this song is the first pop song in a long time to have such a positive message. and i can get behind that.

this week has been a write off for me and getting anything done. i got really sick on tuesday and after that i mostly just hung around the house and felt awful. first it was a sore throat and achey feeling... followed by some serious congestion. and i was so careful to avoid ALL DAIRY as soon as i felt like i was getting sick. i hate being congested to the point where you can't hear things people are saying to you. its sooo annoying.

but today i am feeling a lot better... good thing i am stuck at work all day, right? haha. next week is the last week of dance classes - luckily i managed to finish the choreography with both of my classes this week so next week will just be practice practice practice. and then the following week we will have a dress rehearsal and performance! woo! and then... NO MORE DANCE CLASSES UNTIL THE FALL!.. what a relief. don't get me wrong, i have enjoyed doing them very much (both my classes are awesome girls), but it will just be one less thing on my plate and that is always good.

so i have set tentative dates for our honeymoon. sept 5 to oct 10. just over a month. i don't know WHY i picked those dates... they just sounded like good ones. haha.

tonight's goal is getting the flower pots that i bought painted so i can fill them with flowers. my neighbour jordi was supposed to help me... but i don't know if she will be able to. i might just have to paint them myself... i am SO not artistically talented... so... they might just be plain white or something boring like that. oh well. it will look better than the colour they are now. and they will match the house and stuff if they are white... so... no big.

i'll probably work on rhiannon's dress after that. maybe i can get it finished minus hem and zipper (which i don't actually have yet...). i was debating between a zipper and buttons... but... i made the bodice up (i tried the pattern and it looked AWFUL), and i can't quite wrap my head around an easy way to do a bracket and buttons and all that jazz because it has to overlap... plus, as my mom pointed out, there is less of a chance of a zipper coming undone at an inopportune moment - we don't need any wardrobe malfunctions at the wedding.

tomorrow is work all morning, and then meeting with the cake lady in the afternoon. i hope she isn't going to charge a small fortune for a cake... i realize they are expensive... but... it IS just a cake.

someone gave me a tip (slightly too late...) for making a dress for someone and having it fit (or i suppose even for myself...). duct tape dress form. GENIUS! i can't believe i have never heard of this before. basically you wrap yourself with a couple rolls of duct tape, and it can go from your shoulders and collar bone all the way down over your butt and your thighs. and you just cut it off up the back (probably smart to put a layer of paper under the tape so it doesn't actually stick to you) and then you stick it back together, and stuff it with news paper. take measurements and measure the dressform to make sure it stayed the right dimensions... and VOILA.... let me tell you... a couple of rolls of duct tape and some news paper are MUCH cheaper than a dress form.

i should have done that. kinda late now... but that would have made me much less nervous about not having them here to make alterations and make sure the dresses fit. agh.

anyway... i should actually do some work. that's where the progress is at...