Love Tree Delivery

So as a wedding present to Whitney and Todd, Pete and I decided to get them a tree. Not your usual present, but it seemed very fitting for Whit and Todd, and I really liked that it wasn't something off a registry, or something that wouldn't get used very often. This tree will grow as their marriage does, and every time they look at it they'll be reminded of their wedding day, (and of course, of their two bestest friends) and I thought it would be sweet and corny and fantastic too, and so, the Love Tree was born.

Pete's Dad hooked us up with an awesome tree, and before the delivery I had only seen it from a distance and so when my Mom asked how big it was I shrugged and said "um, like 5 feet or something?" Yeah, totally NOT five feet, this tree was HUGE!

HUGE right?!

Then we had to pick a place to park it....

So we had Todd stand and act like a tree to see if it was a good spot...

Good!

So then it was time to dig...

And I actually dug some, swear! Did not just man the camera the whole time, I probably dug, three or even four big scoops!

We jumped in the hole, because it was too hard to resist...

Then we found a Grub, which is a word I have yet to use in reference to any other bug before today, but look at this thing...full fledged GRUB.

And then it was up!

The whole process really wasn't as hard as anyone had anticipated, not too bad at all.

Yay for the Love Tree!!

Okay, time to go back to Twilight...slowly getting addicted...

Fridays can't get more happenin' than this!

This town blows a BIG ONE. VERY EXTRA LARGE BIG.

Although, it's not likely I'd spend my Friday any different than this if I was, say, living in some fantastic place with loads of Cool Stuff for Cool People to do, but I doubt it would hurt my situation...that is for shore.*

Lately I've felt like I am just existing....breathing, eating, sleeping, and doing all the necessary life sustaining functions, but nothing more than that. I'd like to blame it on the town, because there really is NOTHING to do here, but I think that'd be too easy.

Whatever it actually is, it's leaving me very unhappy.

Anyways....

I started reading Twilight.


So what!

It's just ALLright so far, I'm not thrilled with it, but it's good enough to keep reading. Really, it's too soon to tell, I'm only three chapters deep, not far enough in to have a solid opinion. The book is very LARGE, and LARGE books usually discourage me, much the same as the state of the inside of my car currently does, both seem to be obstacles too big to tackle and conquer....but yeah, big books....I don't know how I ever finished reading The Meaning Of Night and all 700 pages of it, but it probably had something to do with the fact that I had to keep up with my boyfriend and our Book Club. Yeah, we had a Book Club, we're just soooo adorable like that. Or we were? We should bring the Book Club back, and all it's adorableness.

Tonight sucks ASS, but tomorrow night should prove to be better as I am going to Orlando to visit the Newlyweds and snuggle up good with them in their hot tub (that wasn't supposed to sound so creepy....or was it...), and then Sunday Pete and I are planting their Love Tree (wow that sounds pretty creepy too, I should probably stop myself now).

Hopefully we'll take some pictures and this will all make a lot more sense.

Well...my Friday was LAME, how was yours?

*I know how to spell "sure" I was just going for that rhyming effect, just so...you know...BUT I did have to think very hard today on how to spell "utility"...perhaps my brain has slowed to the speed of this town?

Whitney and Todd's Wedding, a picture recap.

Todd wore some very shnazzy shoes:

Whitney looked absolutely stunning. She was probably annoyed with all the "OH MY GOD YOU LOOK SOOOOO F-ING GOOD!"s I gave her, but seriously she looked amazing. Her father was probably the one who cried the most during the ceremony, but I blameWhitney, again, for looking so beautiful.

Then they were married...

And everyone cried like their most favorite puppy had just been hit with a Mac truck.

Hurray!!

Then Jamie started drinking a little too much wine, to kill some of the nerves over her big speech.

And then she was drunk.

And she was suddenly very drunk, and as she was going over her speech (a few hundred times by herself at the table), she found that the words started to get a little blurry, and her words were a little slurry and oh crap did she have to shove a million bread rolls down her throat to try and sober up.

Notice the crinkled, and yes, ripped speech in my hand, the paper a victim of my overwhelming anxiety.

But then I gave my speech, and did not, hopefully, come off too plastered, and then I could relax and enjoy myself completley.

And then everyone danced!

And they lived happily ever after.

Congrats to Titney!!

Totally excited because....

I HAVE THE NEXT FOUR DAYS OFF!!

and also,

MY BEST FRIEND(S) ARE GETTING MARRIED THIS WEEKEND!

Okay, enough with the caps.

I feel like I have a million things to do before the wedding (probably because I DO have a million things to do) and I haven't started any of them yet. That's okay though, because most are things I can't do until tomorrow anyways. I feel like this weekend has crept up on me so much and even though my friends seem like they've been married for years, they are OFFICIALLY getting married this weekend and it feels very surreal.

They are one of the most well fit couples I bet I'll ever know. It's almost disgusting, but in that "I'm actually only disgusted because I'm really jealous you guys work so well, but not the I want to scratch your eyes out jealousy, but the I'm really happy for you jealousy" kind of way. Yikes, get all that?

Anyways here they are:




Aren't they cute? This picture was take just a couple weekends ago at my 25th birthday/Halloween party, he was a brick layer, she was a, well, isn't it obvious?

These guys and I have been through SO much over the past years, and I've been right there from the start of their relationship(even played a part in their getting together in the first place) so writing my Maid of Honor speech should be a breeze.

You'd think.

I have a lot of stuff written actually, but it's just so hard to really decide on what to say. One version is super sappy and sounds straight out of a Lifetime movie, and one version I'm trying to be quirky and funny, which, I really doubt I can pull off. There's SO much I can say, and so many different ways I can say it, and I CANNOT DECIDE. Crap.

So tonight is dedicated on just that, deciding what stays and what goes, and then maybe even practicing it because HOLY CRAP I HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF 100+ PEOPLE.

Maybe I should have stolen a Xanax from work just for the occasion (I kid, I kid). But seriously.

Dear Computer,

You are the biggest piece of donkey crap right now. You are taughnting me...making me wait ten years after every click for something to happen. And then? You give me half loaded pages and then freeze up on me!

This isn't 1997! You're supposed to work a LOT faster now, what is your problem?

I hate you.





I'm sorry, that was a little mean. But all I want to do is upload a video of me looking completely retarded doing a little tap combination I made up for tomorrow night's class, and you deny me? And then I had bonus video of my cat Hobbs, rubbing and loving on my tap shoe because it smells oh so gooood, but noooo don't want to load that one either do ya?

Sorry friends no videos for you tonight.

On second thought...a video of me tapping and my cat and a shoe? Maybe Computer you're doing whats best for me after all? Perhaps a little bit of tough love? If that's the case maybe you shouldn't let me post this blog either...

Get faster or I'm destroying you,

Jamie

A Mellow Day

This blog isn't very pretty right now, but the thing is I got a little motivation to change it....and then it died. Which is pretty much what happened to all my Sunday plans today, motivation to do...laundry, dishes, bike ride, shopping....and then? SPLAT. I spent a good part of my day wondering around my two houses (mine and my mom's) wondering what to do? And not coming up with a thing.

I did find enough motivation to go to the grocery store and put together something in the crock pot (a meal inspired by the very crisp air I felt early this morning, walking over to my mom's, coffee cup in hand). So hopefully it will turn out tasty delicious and I can feel some accomplishment from at least that.

Blob. That's what I feel like today.

Ahhhnyways (that's an anyways with a sigh)

My BFF is getting married in like what? SIX days?! And I'm excited about all the festivities and nervous about giving the big Maid of Honor speech. At least I won't be the only one (that means YOU Pete) and at least I'll be several drinks deep to kill some of the nerves. I'm excited though. This week should be lots of fun, to say the least!

On a side note, my niece has started to properly pronounce her "Rs" so "watuur" now sounds like "waterr" and she sounds like a different child. WEIRD.

Quite possibly the most all over the place random blog ever. You be the judge.

I really feel like changing the look of this blog. I do that a lot, want to re-arrange. New hair cut, new hair color, new bedding, new furniture arrangement, new blog look. I have a friend who has not TOUCHED her MySpace layout since the day I haphazardly made it for her three years ago. Back when just changing the background color was totally awesome and "how did you DO that?!". I have NO IDEA how she can do that. I used to change the look of my MySpace more frequently than I would change my bed sheets. I've gotten lazy with MySpace over the years, but I still manage to change the look of it like every couple of months or so. I don't know...anyways, point is I'm feeling the urge to change again, but I'm also feeling the urge to be lazy, so it might take a few more days to build motivation.

I should probably worry less about the look and more about the content of this thing, and maybe upgrade to writing a post at least TWICE a week instead of the once/week I've got going now. I really do wish I could keep up with this blog more, take less effort into thinking whether or not something is worthy of a post, and just write anyways.

I think I'll work on that.

Hanging above the computer are my two sister's and I's high school senior pictures, all 8x10's wooden framed lined all in a row. From the view I have here there appears to be a mysterious George Washington head growing on the side of my sister Coral's face. It looks like the picture has started to stick to the glass, and you can only see it when the light hits it juuust so, but when you can see it, it really looks like freaking George Washington's profile.


Oh and by the way, I turned 25 on Thursday. I'm officially in my twenties, like for real. WEIRD. I got a really pretty ring from Pete and we had a Halloween costume birthday party which was a lot of fun. Maybe one day when my laziness subsides I'll post some pictures.