Heartache/Sales Leave

Japan is so kooky. A company has instituted "heartache leave" that allows you to take up to three days off after a break up. They also give you paid time off to go shop the sales.

信じられないい

Read the article here.

Countdown update...

Only 200 days to go. After a lull for a few months, I think our wedding activities are going to pick up a bit much to B's chagrin. I looked at our calendar and come August, the wedding will really take over my life.

Shout out to BFD (Best Friend Debbie as B calls her) - happy birthday!

Wedding Night in Jail?

That is how this couple spent their wedding night - in the slammer. Click here for the article. The story basically is that they were drunk and arguing at the hotel, the groom got physcial and caused $1,000 worth of damage to the Holiday Inn, broke a guy's thumb and knocked out a tooth. Let's hope this doesn't happen in Brooklyn.

Cocktails, dinner, and dancing!

Reception cards on done and they are my best work ever! Seriously, I hope the actual invitations come out as nice. B was here to help me place the cards out for drying after I inked them. You can tell I had help since they were placed in order and not scattered like the response cards. But these cards are smaller and there are aout 15 less.

Here are the reception cards:

Birthday shoutouts to Jackie and Cake Baker Extraordinaire Kristin.

Respondez S'il Vous Plait

Here is POTFRK drinking his first of 1 million decaf coffees of the day.

After my first attempt at the invitations didn't go as planned. I went back to the drawing board and found a new design on istockphoto and redesigned the invites. So on Friday night, I sat with POTFRK to print the rsvp cards. I set every thing up and burned the screen. I started to ink the cards and POTFRK went to get us dinner at Anna's (BEST burritos ever - seriously even TLS in San Diego loves them and she is really close to the border so she knows good burritos). When POTFRK returned, I was inking my last card. Here is what my dining room looked like when B returned home from work about a minute after that.

Pictures forthcoming

RSVPs are done and pictures of the mess that is my dining room will be posted once I download them. It is not pretty but my RSVPs are.

Back to the drawing board

I got a semi-surprise visit from Prayer of the Faithful Reader Kevin (or POTFRK for short). He called on Tuesday to tell me he was thinking of coming to Boston later in the week. I got a call from him on Wednesday saying he was on his way up. Pretty typical POTFRK behavior.

So last night I pulled out the gocco machine to make the response cards. I figure May/June are the optimal months to make the invitations because of the low level of humidity. Anyway, we burned the master screen, inked up the master and printed. I HATED HOW IT LOOKED. B was telling me it was fine but then said "You don't like it. We can find a new one." I was so saddened. So today I have to find a new design that I like. Oh well.