while everyone was riding their bikes at Muir on Sunday, I was busy doing the things one must do to be a bride.
it's funny how, as this process unfolds, all the little traditions and oddities add up to an event as foreign to me as the Indian weddings I watched. O, the protocol!
Either way, yesterday Lisa and I trekked to Milwaukee for a bridal shower, where my sister (the host) was kind enough to pass on the silly games and we instead drank margaritas and made bad jokes and my mother's friends gave me advice and recipes. It was pleasant, and I'm usually a shower-hater. I'm starting to think about things like haircuts and nails and tan lines and teeth whitening. This is me we're talking about- I've never shaved my legs in my life and my nails are for chewing not some decorative item. But it's starting to eat its way into my head, this whole bride thing. It's very, very hard to resist.
It's all so disorienting.
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4 replies:
yeah, we missed you yesterday. I think you just need a good mud race (like last year's Alterra??) to put things in perspective.... ;-)
or else just think of all the "stuff" as a one time thing and enjoy it for the occasion. I have a friend who never does any of that stuff (hair highlights, manicures, etc etc) but did it for her wedding without going overboard. it seemed to work out really well for her.
humm do i hear the need for a message! i can use my gift card and i have never had my nails done for real--can't wait to hear all about it on our run! eww today i eat a beer battered portabello sandwich.let me tell you the idea is better than the food itself
b14
Your teeth look fine - honestly don't add things that don't need to be done to your list! Haircut and nails I'll give you, but nobody is going to notice how white your teeth are unless there are large black gaps where some of them are missing (and then you'd just look hardcore!).
:)
Julie, don't let one day in your life change you into something you are not! You and Ben are in it till the end, marriage is forever, a wedding is just the shell, you know what I am saying? Nails? Why waste the money when the next weekend you may be racing a mntn bike, or running with Molly? Hair - ok, I give you that. But teeth? Like anyone is going to be staring at your teeth?
Go get dirty or something....
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