Voter-Constituent

Suddenly, I'm interested in this election. I didn't care until now. Probably there wasn't anything funny enough. Yesterday the mayor of our metro city finally resigned after months of arrogance and denial of corruption. He admitted guilt, and boldly swore he'd make a come-back. He'll be doing his 120 days in November, so he can't run this year. Maybe next year.

At the same time I saw t-shirts touting the super-powers of Baracktimus Prime; my kids played with Transformers. I also remember the tagline for those toys: "more than meets the eye!" So what's he hiding?

And then of course, there's the GOP VP, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She looks exactly like Tina Fey. I keep expecting something hysterical to come out of her mouth. Turns out, I'm not disappointed - she's a hoot! Baby Mama is her tagline.

MOG Reflections

It's over, and it was a slam bang, awesome, rocking wedding. We had so much fun! I think everyone did. Every detail worked perfectly. Prince Dan married Princess Laura at the high school where they first met. The officiant was a friend of a friend. There were 14 attendants and the marching band. Rev. Jacque announced them man and wife and asked for "the drum roll please..." and then came the drum line and the cadence, and they kissed and left the stage with everyone following behind. The entire band was waiting outside playing music from The Blues Brothers, where a trolley picked them up and took them around for more pictures.

At the reception we did every line dance and I danced with my son to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man with a trio of Dan's rock band pals serenading us. Cakes decorated every table and ampersands perched on top. Dan did most of the work transforming the hall into a reflection of the delightful people they are.

My biggest surprise of the night, and second most prideful moment was Prince Mike's toast to his brother and new wife. See for yourself...http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=580853208568

CONFESSIONS OF AN MOG

OH MAN -- THREE DAYS!!
I am keeping up with all my projects, but the house is a disaster area. Prince Dan says the groomsmen may be staying here Thursday night through Sunday, and we're having all the families over for brunch (leftovers) on Sunday. I've washed some sheets and pillows, and lots of towels. There's sofa space and mattresses in the basement where they can crash. I'm loading up on cold cuts and bread, need to get more snacks and beer because my boys keep eating everything that's here.

The kids showed up this afternoon with a big box. I thought it was a wedding gift to add to the store that's in the basement. It wasn't. They got me the scrapbookers dream machine! I am so excited to get it going, but I have to learn how to use it. That would take way too much time that I don't have right now, so I'll concentrate on mastering the art of the cricut once they've left. Maybe it will keep me from being sad. My other MOG and MOB friends tell me it's like post-partum all over again. I guess I'm looking forward to scrapbooking the wedding!

MOG Confessions: The Countdown

12 Days To Go!

Wedding number 4 starred Brent, former teammate of Prince Mike from peewee football to
AAU basketball and Prince Dan for high school football, and his beautiful bride Erin. We've known this family the longest, and I teared up the most at this wedding!We danced and drank like we were kids, and went back to our hotel and passed around a bottle of Boone's Farm provided by the Groom's aunt and my stylist until about 2 in the morning. I took just a snippet of the MOG dance and had to wipe my eyes during it.

Here's all the girlfriends in our finest:

Confessions of an MOG

Got fake fingernails put on today, now I can't type! Wedding number 4 is tomorrow so I thought I would get the nails now and just refresh before our big day.

Don't know if I can do two weeks.

I think we have all the big things done now. Turned in the final count to the caterer. Here's a lesson -- if you have a minimum dollars or people, you better invite 30 percent above. We invited 310 and will have 220.

I've found myself distracted very easily lately, maybe from overload. I was looking for guest books on the Hallmark site, when it occured to me the similarities. So I spent a couple of hours creating the Queen's new logo.

Confessions of an MOG Episode Six

Invitations are out, halleluia. The little packages became increasingly complicated as the bride and groom insisted on adding embellishments including:

• not one but two ribbons around the reception, response, driving directions cards and return envelope.
  
• a trinket tied to the ribbon; some were ampersands, but there weren't enough so they turned to small hearts - same as were used on the shower invitations.


• a wax seal in blue of an ampersand closing the inner envelope. Here's a picture of my son with the seal.

Luckily there was nothing fancy added to the outside envelope because as they were, they were nearly a dollar to mail.

They are lovely, and the kids are thrilled. As the responses come in they are alternately worried there will be too many people and they'll owe more money; or worried they won't meet their minimum of 225 people.

Here's the final product! And the bride printing the envelopes. Wedding planning is not for the faint of heart.

Scrapbooking

eOn my list of links to the left, I've added the blog for my favorite scrap shop. The girls who own it and run it are so cute and I want to help them in their quest for small business success. My scrappin pal Coco and I are weekly croppers.

I've been making a book for my friend Sandy's birthday. Here's a couple of pages I did the other night at the scrapbox.