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Brief Update: Wedding Ring Workshop was awesome! Will update later with pictures and full step-by-step commentary.

Squee~!

My coworker is awesome. Speakers required, and potentially NSFW.

http://smouch.net/lol/

Oh. My. God. This is quite possibly the coolest movie EVAR. It might even surpass Finding Nemo as my favorite 3D movie. If you have not seen this movie call me before you go!!! This one is worth watching again and again and again. A point of how awesome and beautiful it is-- I went straight from the Regal Manassas to the Borders to hunt up the art book and soundtrack. Alas, they were fresh out-- so nalroth and I drove past our house and onto Borders #2-- which had the art book (*pets the precious*) but no soundtrack. So now I'm downloading the soundtrack through iTunes. Seriously- much goodness!! And it merely reestablishes the fact that Dreamworks is the most superior 2D animation group in existance.

My long-weekend trip back home to California started off really well-- getting a manicure/pedicure with Mom and Brea (and actually enjoying it!) and sushi to celebrate Brea's (my Matron of Honor) passage from 1/2 jakethrash's (nalroth's Best Man) age to 1/2 - 1 year. The next day, though cloudy, was full of enjoyment with a trip to the Strawberry Festival (which I hadn't been to in years--yay!) and a (rather fruitless) shopping trip to San Luis. Sunday was fantastic again as I got to see my Aunt, Uncle and cousins for the first time since Brea's wedding last July. Fantastic middle-Eastern food was had (that's what you get when you have an ex-Syrian Uncle!) and great company was enjoyed. Monday was filled with fruitful shopping (I can has dresses!), make-it-yourself frozen yogurt, a trip to the beach and a lovely dinner at Klondikes with blueangelrock (so pretty!) and _phaedrus_ (always a pleasure!).

Fantastic, relaxing, wonderful weekend was then ruined when I missed my flight from San Luis to LAX, thereby dooming myself to a day of stress and a red-eye flight that landed me safely home (and into a very sleepy nalroth's arms) at 5:35 Wednesday morning. I still haven't recovered!

The rest of the week was a blur of work and mild stress.. I can't help but worry for nalroth on Monday, and I really appreciate all the people who've been supportive of the both of us with comments and hugs. Depending on what time they kick me out Monday night, I may try to cobble people together for dinner and something low key-- if anyone's available and interested, that is. If not, fuzz therapy will be provided by Enki and Freyja.

As much fun as it was to bask in the golden glow of California (and gorge myself on Okui's strawberries and Picking Barn pie... *bliss*) I missed everyone out here-- I hope to see you guys sometime soon!

Graaaaaah~! The only thing keeping me from getting completely stressed out about wedding planning is the fact that at the end of the years worth of planning, there will be a fantastic party that I'll hardly remember and I'll get to take nalroth home with me. For keeps.

At the same time, discovering that the bridesmaids dresses you fell in love with on the computer weren't that fantastic in real life, then discovering the perfect color in another designer, but then finding out they only have four dress styles in said perfect hue, then discovering another designer that had the most gorgeous dresses (ask girlie47) only to discover their color swatches were horrendous.... I have decided that the bridal party will be naked. The end.

This comic is also pretty relevant. ;)

Onward, to the dress shop to beg more swatches and then onto the florist!

... anyone have a polaroid camera that nalroth and I can borrow for a weekend in September?

.. and refuse to take more time off work (at this point, leave work) to go to a Dr's appointment, I have a question for those who've had allergies before:

Are there any over-the-counter things that help with mild asthma symptoms? I fully plan on going to, like, urgent care later today to see if this actually *is* asthma, and I'm 99% sure it's allergy related (I didn't have allergies until yesterday)... Figured I might poll the masses since we have a few medically-minded folks *and* people who already deal with allergies.


In much more happy news-- Happy Birthday to nalroth and piratenolan!

So, I'm taking a belly dancing class through Reston Community Center, and I've recently discovered a few Pros and Cons...

Pros: Learning belly dancing, dancing said belly off (or at least in the process of), having a legitimate reason to splurge on an 'outfit'.

Cons: Getting belly dancing music stuck in your head, and having to constantly catch yourself to keep from doing dance moves to said music in your head.


My coworkers already think I'm strange enough-- it also doesn't help that my office-mate had no idea what WoW was, has no exposure to Harry Potter, and is otherwise generally UnGeeky.

Edit: I've also just discovered there are pros and cons to where my office is in the NMNH. We're on the same floor as a couple of other initiatives, but most of the wing is taken up by the Repatriation Office.

Pro: Being three doors down from a Repatriation Ceremony in progress.
Con: Not being able to work for an hour because you're so fascinated by the sounds of singing and bell-ringing floating up the hallway.

All I want to do is draw today. :( Shtupid work, with shtupid tempting Illustrator right there, glaring at me from the quick-launch taskbar. At least I haven't caved and brought in my little Graphire yet.