Saturday, August 26, 2006

Bar-Check!

Since Ms. M is at Walmart as I type, I will post this for both of us: we passed the bar!!!!!!
All the blood, sweat, and tears paid off and we are now lawyers (or will be when we are sworn or get our licenses or something).
Woo-hoo!!!!

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Myspace and Stupid People

Generally, despite having both an undergrad and graduate degree I am not a degree snob and I don't think you have to have one to be interesting or worth my time. That being said, I had when stupid people message me over Myspace. The lastest was a short one liner from some guy 6 years my elder stating simply, "your a cutie." Grammer error all his. Ok. Seriously? So I take the compliment and look at his profile. No high school degree. Less than $30,000 a year. Works as a photo person. No skill involved. Seriously? What made you think I would write him back? I mean my profile clearly shows me as highly education and the guy can't even bother to write a sentence using proper grammer. I mean really? Thinking all this might make me a complete bitch/snob but really in this particular case I am willing to own that.

Really, if the guy had used proper grammer and said something mildly intriguing I would write him back. I am friendly like that. But we had nothing in common at all. So why waste my time or his?

How not to throw a rehearsal dinner...

As was obvious from prior posts, I was in a wedding this past weekend. Due to more important things in my life I haven't had time to post (whine and bitch) about it. Shocking, I know, that something else could be more important. So here is the first of many to come on the comments about how not to do a wedding.

The rehearsal at the church went pretty smoothly. The priest rambled but having been going to that church for some time when I lived in town I was not surprised. So afterwards, we headed to the dinner. Very loose interpretation of the word dinner. I am not an overly classy girl but this was far less that I expected. Literally, all "dinner" consisted of was pulled pork, hamburger buns, that nasty vinegar slaw they serve with NC BBQ, chips and the best part--ice cold hush puppies. Ew. Drinks consisted of pops and bottled water. Serving dishes: to go type boxes, styrofoam. Plastic glasses.

Next Location: As a rule it is never a good idea to ask your guests to drive into the ghetto for dinner. Now exceptions can be made for really good hole in the wall places but this was no such thing. It was a rec center at a local middle school. Folding tables, no table clothes. And the best part: name tags for all. Yes this was a classy affair.

The real kicker tto the whole situation was that half of the bridesmaids don't eat pulled pork, a fact the bride was well aware of. As were the groom's parents in warning the vegetarian in the group that she "might was well stop and get something to eat because there would be nothing there for her" Yeah way to accomodate your guests. I understand money can be an issue but there were ways around that, that would not have had half the girls in the wedding toting in take out fast food to the rehearsal dinner. Tasteless.

I would love to blame the bride for this but really she looked annoyed and had not control over the food because it was left to her soon to be inlaws. Craziness. Definitely not what you want to do to your closest friends. And certainly not to ones that have driven some distance to be there for you. More to come on this weekend...

So, the wedding

The wedding had a start time of 2pm (actual start time 2:10) and lasted until about 3:30, it was a Catholic wedding, so that was to be expected.
The reception however did not start until 6pm, nice lag time of 2.5 hours. Just glad I wasn't an out-of-town guest and could go home and grab something to eat. In retrospect, it was a good idea to go hang out in the a/c as the reception site could not be bothered to adjust the setting as to not make the place sweaty and hot for 100 or so guests, including men in suits. It's the middle of August in the South, how can you not have the air set at least 65 to accommodate loads of people in dress clothes?
Not a way I would chose to spend a Saturday, but the things you do for friends...
It was nice to see Ms. M this weekend and a few others, but I'm glad wedding season for us appears to be at an official end.

**There were other things besides the temp and time of the reception to bitch about, but I thought Ms. M might like to share her insider's view.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Stupid people annoy me

Today I ran over to Subway to grab some food for lunch. I had this gift card for subway so it seemed like a logical choice. And it wouldn't take all that long since I was in a hurry to get back to lounging on my couch. So they make up my subs and ring everything up. Enter giftcard. Then they actually ask me if i want to use it to buy my sub. My sarcastic self really wanted to say "No, I just thought I would take it for a walk then pay with cash. Why the fuck do you think I handed it to you??" Well, clearly they are not the brightest crayons in the box so it takes 4 of them to figure out how to run the gift card. And then they look at me like i am stupid when it is short of the total even though clearly laying in front of them is the balance in c ash. So after about 5 minutes of them struggling with the thing they give me a free cookie. yay cookies. Still not pleased. So finally they decide just to ring it up as a cash sale and figure it out later. I mean if the company offers giftcards is it too much to except that they would actually know how to redeem them when someone wants to use them??

Monday, August 14, 2006

More Wedding Blahs

Is it wrong to go the lovely couple's registries and be amused at all the zeros for gifts fulfilled? At least the $1,000 plus things have been removed.
Another friend was married a short bit ago and her registry was nearly complete when I got around to purchasing her gift. Quite a contrast between the two.

In other news: when the groom was asked about seating at the reception, he first told me there won't be a seating chart (no biggie there), but he then informed me that there will not be enough seats for everyone and that fits into his plan about people not all trying to sit at one time. This should be interesting...

Grrr

So this coming weekend is the wedding from hell. Ok, so really it will be fine. But my annoyance right now is that I currently live 2 hours from where the wedding is being held. Not any great distance all things considered but it is Monday and I still have no info on the rehearsal dinner on Friday. Out of curtesy to the friend who so sweetly said I could stay with her since I no longer have an apartment in town, I would kind of like the details at this point so that I could let her know when I will be there. Besides that, there are people I would like to see in town while I am there. But I can't make any plans because the wedding dictates the rest of my weekend and I clearly don't have all the info. Blah. So inconsiderate! I mean I think a week's notice atleast would have been appropriate. But apparently I have too high of expectations of other people being considerate of their friends.

Monday, August 07, 2006

I am such a bad person!

My husband is out running errands for me, among his list of things to do is "Pick out the crappiest thing on their registry" for the friends whose wedding was the beginning of this blog. We'll see what he comes back with, it should be interesting.
It presents quite a quandary for the lovely bride and groom. I mean they did register for whatever said item is, but they probably expected it teamed with something nice on their registry. I could have picked up some random piece of "art" from the hippie shops in Asheville, which could never be returned and politeness would dictate displaying if I made it to their house. I wasn't that mean.
The wedding itself is in a few weeks. Can't wait to see how that goes...

Friday, August 04, 2006

Myspace

I get a kick out of looking up people from my graduating high school class on myspace. It beats the hell out of actually going to a class reunion. On the other hand, people at a class reunion can't give themselves bizarre names and change into a cartoon. Is it really so hard to put your name on the profile somewhere or an actual picture?
Now, granted, I probably still wouldn't know who some people were even with a full name and picture. And there are some people I know didn't graduate with me by just doing simple math. And there are those people who even with the goofy names and cartoon pic, I still have managed to figure out who they are based on the fact that they haven't changed one damn bit since high school.
I just have to say, seriously people???

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

To be continued...

Eventually, I will have a full size post about everything that sucked about taking the bar. Let's just consider this a brief recap until the full size one goes live:
  • 3 hours from required check-in until start of actual test
  • the lights went out
  • the bathrooms were like a mile away
  • the line to the pencil sharpener
  • the line outside in the rain (not that I had to stand it, but still)
  • the guy in charge who was a complete tool

This and more when I can manage to get up the energy to post all of it. Did I mention I started work on Monday?