Bridesmaids Dresses

 I am the oldest of three girls, my parents were awesome enough to have a lot of beauty but not much brawn. Anyways to the point. My younger sister (the middle one, the youngest in still in college for a bit) is getting married this coming Spring (Yippie!) and I am a member of the bridal party... not just any member but the Matron of Honor (Matron does not mean OLD!), aka Bride's Bitch. My youngest sister is the Maid of Honor, to bad she will still be underage for the bachelorette party and wedding. Ha ha ha, sucks you be you sister!

 Last weekend several of us Bridemaids were able to pretend that we were fashion models and try on an array of dresses in several shades, fabric and styles, since my sister had no clue what she wanted. She didn't event have a color picked out, but hey she had her dress and the groom so nothing else matters right? 

I took a dress for Eva to wear too.



 

My youngest sister and I acting silly.



Anyways here are a few of the crazy fun pictures that we took.  I suppose that I watch too much America's Next Top Model because I have some crazy poses. Too bad that I was trying so hard not to laugh that my face looks dumb in nearly every picture.



After trying on about a dozen dresses that have been worn by countless others and then debating how pale I look in every color imaginable, the Bridezilla, I mean my sister, was able to pick a dress and a color!  Just when I thought it was all over the discussion of shoes began. My head already pounding I just wanted to be finished. (Not that I don't love my sister and most of the bridesmaids but we had an hour to drive and I felt yuck.) We shopped in the bridal store and then a shoe store until we found the perfect shoe to go with the bridesmaids dresses....and my sister found a shoe to go with her dress too. Wah ha ha (evil laugh) nearly everything is decided so I don't have to worry about much anymore... until she starts thinking of hair, jewelry, and the bachelorette party.

 

And the winning dress is..........................

The present bridesmaids in the winning dress. We will be wearing the blue.

PS- I don't really think that my sister is a bridezilla but for some reason she thinks that she is and likes to be refered to that way.  ??? I dunno either, she is nuts.

PPS - Sorry if I sounded mean because baby sister will be underage the whole time. But she really does suck... in a loveable way though.  Get your dirty minds out of the gutter people.  :) 

Family Photo Session



Sisters



I love taking pictures and having my daughter's photo taken (mostly by me as photographers are crazy expensive and rightly so).  In most cases when a family is having their picture taken they are all sitting together smiling and thinking what a wonderful Christmas card the photo will make or where the picture will fit on the wall.  However, if you are having photographer/Artist, Ulric Collette photograph you and your family the pictures yo will get will be unlike most of the others hanging in your house.

Collette takes a picture of two closely related people (siblings, parents/children) and merges them in the middle. This shows the differences and similarities of the two family members, some more outstanding than others. The portraits in my opionion look the best when both the subjects are adult as the size of their faces line up better and look more "natural".  As I am always hearing how much I look like my sisters and parents I would LOVE to be a subject for this guy. Perhaps then I will finally start to see what others already tell me... or perhaps I will disagree even more because the differences will be more apparent.

So Sisters! If you are reading this... Find this guy and get him to do our next family photo session. I hear he is from Canada.



Daughter/ Mother

Information on Collette taken from Shine:

Collette's "Genetic Portrait" series, began in 2008. "I was trying other things with a picture of me and a picture of my son and this happened." Instead of aging his son using his own features as he intended, the result was a fascinating mash-up of two faces that share much of the same DNA. He posted the image on the photo sharing website Flickr, and it went viral. "I started using pictures of other family members and the project took off from there."



His latest series of images will be on display from October 2 to October 28 at the Centaur Theater's Seagram Art Gallery in Montreal.

For the orginal story and to see more photos on Shine click here. 



Cheating gets you nowhere

So while patroling the internet earlier I found the following story on a cheating ring at Harvard that is currently under investigation.  Click here for full story.

So I read the story and here are the facts:
A Harvard professor gave his/her students a take home exam. Upon grading these exam the professor found similarities in the words used. Based on this information the professor "assumes" that students, worked together to complete their exam with the possibility that they also used their textbooks and internet as a source for their knowledge.

The comments below the article mostly consist of two types of comments.

1) people hating on the Ivy League as this proves that all Ivy Leaguers are cheats and thus no better than everyone else as they are wont to think. - really? everyone is a cheat because of this?

2) those who are hating on our countries politicians, saying that now they know where those in government learned to lie and cheat. - perhaps a bit of a stretch.


OK now here are my thoughts on this:

1) to the people leaving comments-  back off, you probably did the same thing at least once when you were in school. They made a mistake but we can't blame our governments entire political system on this one incident that has no "actual" ties to our politicians. It’s all speculation.

2) to the students that got caught- really? If you are smart enough to get into an Ivy League school shouldn't you have realized that writing pretty much the exact same thing or something so similar could get you caught? Think next time.

3) to the professor- duh! If you administer a test where the students are not monitored they will find a way to get the answers. There are so many ways to do this: in a study group, textbook or online. If you want to make sure they don't use these things then you have to monitor them. Get off your lazy butt, this is your job.

What do you think?

Most Excellent

I just heard some stellar news! "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K," ... and they are coming out with a third installment of the Bill and Ted movies.  This information is based on a story from MTV Blog.

For those of you who have never watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure or Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey I urge you to go out and rent them, I am sure it will only cost $1 for both.  Some cities even have them showing in the theater according to IMDB. There was even a short lived animated show voiced by the same actors, called Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures, which was made between the first and second movies (some of these episodes are available to view on IMDB).

While not thought provoking, I love these movies because they are funny and mindless 80's movies, but also include jokes that you would appreciate if you know your history. Sometimes a good laugh is all you really want and need.

According to what I have read, the third movie will continue the story of Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves).Their band is supposed to hit it big and write a song that will save the world according to the first two movies. Apparently they have not done this since the end of the 2nd movie, which was released in 1991 and are desperate to live up to their destiny. Apparently in following suit with the first two films their will be some element of time travel or perhaps another journey with the Grim Reaper, in order to fulfill this quest.

The obvious glitch to the third installment will be the absence of Rufus (the late George Carlin), unless of course the character is re-cast, in that case the actor has some large shoes to fill.

Until they release some more information regarding the project one can only speculate as to what is in store for us. So while waiting for that remember "Be excellent to each other!"

Fairy in the Garden

Sorry for lack of posting, things have been a bit crazy here.

I just wanted to post something quick that makes me smile. So here are a few pictures I took of my daughter over the weekend.

Time Machine

"Life happens while you're busy making plans" ~John Lennon

Sometimes I long for the days when I didn’t have to wake up early, get dressed, take care of 2 dogs, get a 2 year old ready and to the sitters, just to go to work for the next 8 hours where I have to deal with difficult people. 

Normally I love my life but it's often a job that never seems to end and you just feel the need to take a vacation. I sometimes would like to take a break from "real life" and jump in a time machine or a hot tub (Hot Tub Time Machine) and go to another place or time. I could jump in the Tardis with Dr Who (2005 Series) and be off to have an adventure like Rose or visit a time and place that I have already been to.

What could be a better vacation than going back in time and spending a week as your younger self (suggesting of course that you could pick where you end up) ?  You already know whats going to happen, you could be in your favorite place with your favorite people or have an experience that you consider one of your favorites. 



So IF I could go back in time (to my younger days) for a small vacation here are a few stops that I would like to make, in no particular order:



#1





1) Hanging out with my Besties in College - most are married and have their own lives and are happy, which I am thankful for. But sadly most of us have moved from the city we went to college in and are not geographically near each other, so we don't get to hang out and see each other often enough.   



#2



2) My Honeymoon in San Juan -  a little over 5 years ago my hubby and I had our first vacation as a married couple. We spent a wonderful week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The atomasphere, people and foods were all wonderful and we hope to one day make it back again. Hopefully next time I won't get sunburned.



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3) Christmas - any year.  I love Christmas, but not because of all the presents... although they are a plus. I love it because I get to spend the day with the people that I care about and they are happy and having fun riping paper away from their newest "toys".  Granted I am exhausted after the whole day is spent going from place to place but I always think it's worth it in the end.

I think these would all be wonderful "time machine vacations" but since I have yet to develop a time machine and the hot tub doesn't seem to work no matter how much I drink before I get in it, I guess we will just keep on moving forward and looking at the pictures instead.



I'm A Water Personality

Real Simple Magazine had this quiz online that would tell me what my color personality is. I have no idea what that means but since it was only 10 questions long I figured, "Hey why not?"

After making the choices my answer was calculated. I am a Water Personality.  Here is the screen shot:

Hmm... Does this sound like me? We do have a lot of blues, greens and greys in my house's paint scheme.  People do relax with me, since I am usually calm, happy and usually lazy after a long day.  I guess this sounds like me, but since I haven't been diagnosed or read any of the others its difficult to tell if this one is the most spot on... maybe another day.

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