conversations
weekend conversations
January 12, 2008 in Life, Marriage, Men vs. Womenme: can you call bath and body works and ask if they still have the fun frosted cranberry? joe: nope. me: why not? joe: because i refuse to say fun frosted cranberry. me: will you ask if they have winter candy apple? joe: i’ll...
bath and body talk
June 13, 2007 in General, Life, Marriage, Men vs. Women, Shoppingwhen joe stopped by the station on his way home from work today, i was checking out the items on sale during the semi-annual sale at bath and body works. me: “now they have the sweet cinnamon pumpkin in lotion and body spray, so...
men and women on clothing
February 20, 2007 in General, Life, Marriage, Men vs. Womenlast night: joe and i were both inadvertantly wearing red sweaters and blue jeans. joe: i have to change. i’m wearing the same color as you. me: so? this morning: i was unaware that joe was wearing his boston t-shirt. joe: dangit. i have...
and the celebrations begin
August 12, 2006 in Family, General, Life, Memories, Men vs. Women, Wedding Planstomorrow is my bridal shower. yippee! i’m pretty excited. i have a lot of people coming: my mom, my future mil, my future sil, her mil, a friend of joe’s parents, friends from kiwanis, and several of my girl friends. it’s going to be...
sales, sales, sales
June 7, 2006 in General, Life, Men vs. Women, Shoppingi love the bath and body works semi-annual sale. i would have completely forgotten about it if i hadn’t been reminded by lisanne. the only bad thing is that it is only a three-day sale and ends today. i had to work late last...
the boys’ wild night
March 7, 2006 in Family, Friends, General, Life, Memories, Men vs. Womenlet me just say that our girl’s night out was *much* tamer than the night the boys had in athens. first, dave was fitted with a “bachelor gone wild” t-shirt. all night, the boys stopped people (read: women) everywhere and anywhere — on the...
lazy afternoons
February 4, 2006 in Engagement, Family, Food, Friends, General, Men vs. Women, Sports, Wedding Plans, Writingall three cats and one fiance are sleeping. i am bored. and so i blog. tomorrow we are hosting a superbowl party. somehow we always get stuck hosting, although that means i don’t have to go to someone else’s house, so there is a...
holding the power
January 24, 2006 in Engagement, General, Men vs. Women, Wedding Plansa man from the wedding chapel where we’re hoping to have the wedding called me today to set up an appointment for us to see the location and talk about services and pricing. “i just talked to your fiance. he said to call you...
why i almost broke up with joe
June 12, 2005 in General, Life, Memories, Men vs. Womeni woke up this morning and rolled over to tell joe about a dream i had just had. “i just dreamt that we got engaged and…” joe looks at me with compassionate eyes as he interrupts. “why do you keep having these nightmares?!” “you...

