Numbers

Happy Pi Day! Get it? It's 3/14... I wish I could claim that I realized that on my own, but have to admit that I heard it on the radio on my drive from the airport to my hotel this afternoon. I love the fact that I was able to travel on a weekday rather than on Sunday. I originally thought I'd be able to fly out on Sunday, but it was absolutely wonderful to have the day to recover and do things like laundry.

What a weekend! It started as I left work at about 3:30 last Thursday to go to our friends' rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. Donna has done an excellent job of summarizing the wedding festivities (including an Owen Wilson sighting), so I'll send you there to read about it. You'll also find a picture of the HUSband there.... a first in the blogosphere since I haven't posted any pictures.

More numbers to mess with my mind - - we stayed in room 418 on Friday night at the hotel where the wedding reception was and I checked in to room 419 this afternoon.

25% Makes Quite a Difference

After an afternoon of shopping for a dress to wear to the wedding on Friday, I decided to take a spin on the recumbent bike at home. I discovered that there is a HUGE difference in the program that supposedly takes me to 85% of my max heart rate compared to the one that is 60%. I know you're out there thinking I shoulda known, and of course there's a difference. I just hadn't exerted that much energy in quite a while. That could be the reason that I came home with a dress that isn't the size I wanted to buy. Maybe I'll have to have it altered by the time my sister-in-law's wedding in June. I generally like to buy one dress to wear to special occaisions a year. . . but losing weight would be the best reason to have to buy another.

Registry Quandry

Dagnabit! The item that I'd selected from the registry to take to the shower this weekend is out of stock at all three Foley's in Austin. Hmpf! I could order it online, but then won't be able to take it to the shower. I suppose I'll be making another trip to Crate & Barrel. Looking at the C&B registry, I've noticed that there are quite a few purchases for items that were not requested although some of the selected ones haven't been bought yet. Does that seem odd to anyone else out there in the blogosphere?

Last night I went with my friend, K, to what she had hoped would have been her final fitting of her wedding dress. The wedding is next Friday - - so soon! The dress is beautiful, and she looks beautiful in it.

Another friend has just ended a two and a half year relationship. He proposed (as expected), she freaked out, he moved out. That’s the short version of the story, to be sure.

All of this relationship talk seems to have seeped into my subconscious. I had a bizarre dream last night. I was married, but there were people there from the past that I had once been in a relationship with. There was one in particular that I feel like I hurt very badly and I felt a strong need to explain myself, and apologize. Is this my brain’s way of telling me that I should reach out to a guy I haven’t seen in 10+ years? I doubt it. I feel more like the message is that I should look back on that time and that relationship and learn from it. What do you, dear internet, think?