i had no idea it had been so long since i had been on here.  almost two months!  probably no one checks my page any more anyway.  not that i blame anyone, i imagine it gets boring after awhile when there isn't anything new.  spaces looks different.  what changed?   

 

the saddest part of all?  i can't think of anything that i've been doing in the mean time either.  nothing exciting.  counting down the days to vacation. 

 

chris and his brother want to start a ghost hunting group.  like taps?  so last weekend, we went to gettysburg and walked around and took pictures in the dark and it was fun.  totally not creepy but i got to practice night photography.  and this weekend, we went to frederick and did the candlelight ghost tour that they do on saturdays and that was pretty fun, too.  again, totally not creepy but what do you expect when you have to stand outside the haunted building and look in on it.

 

oh, and i'm going to be in a wedding in october.  a friend of chris's is getting married.  i guess he's a friend of mine too since i've known him just as long as i've known chris.  anyway, chris is a groomsman and the bride to be had a "girl" drop out (more than one from what i'm hearing.  i believe she just had her third (!) person drop out) and so she asked me to be in it.  i said sure why not.  i could use another dress that i have to pay through the nose for and will never wear again cluttering up my closet.  um, no offense to those whose weddings i've been in.  yalls dresses were just lovely.  and i totally wear them out every weekend.  :o)  as i'm sure you still wear the ones you had to wear in my wedding.  anyway, this whole thing has been nothing but drama.  drama about the band, about the bride, about the music, place, blah blah blah.  and now, because i told her that i would help her if she needed me for something (thats what you're supposed to say right?) i have kind of been pulled in to the middle of things and have been placed in the role of breaking the bad news about the music to the bride.  yay me.  why these whiny baby asshole men can't talk to this woman and just tell her, "hey - what you want isn't going to happen so get over it and think of something else" i don't know.  its my job apparently to explain to her that the band won't play if she gets a dj and that she will need to talk to their manager and no chris will not dj for her either.  because, well, thats pretty much where the asshole part comes in.  i worked out a pretty reasonable compromise but he still doesn't want to do it because he wants to visit with people at the reception.  i have a nasty feeling its going to be me handling the music just so i don't have to tell this woman that shes not going to get what she wants.  i have a real problem with that.  i don't like to disappoint people.  and really, if someone had told you two months before your wedding that something you wanted wasn't going to happen how would you reacte?  (please don't say shoot the messenger.  please don't say shoot the messenger.)  anyway, it all kind of boils down to the bride and groom are presuming an awful lot that their friends are going to step up and want to do all of these things for them (free photography, free band, free dj) and their friends are getting ready to disabuse them of that notion and, lucky me, i get to be part of the fun! 

oi. 

 

oh!  and i have sad gossip about my old roommate.  she married the navy guy that she constantly fought with (we're talking very jerry springer-ish) and she got pregnant with twins (fertility drugs).  sadly for her, she went in to labor early and one of them didn't make it.  the other twin had a lot of complications and just recently was able to leave the hospital.  i don't know if he has any permanent damage.  i felt so bad for her when i heard.  i honestly don't know how capable she is of handling this kind of thing.  i wouldn't say she lead a charmed life, but definitely a superficial one.  anyway, thats my news about her.  my aunt is supposed to be getting me her contact information but i'm not sure i would do anything with it.  not particularly close/friendly with her.  i didn't have a whole lot of respect for her and was probably not particularly careful about not showing that.  if that makes sense.   

 

huh, i guess some stuff was going on all this time. 

 

on a work note, i have gotten extremely bored of my job.  they need to give me something new to do.