Yesterday was weddings times two. I didn’t end up going to the Apple store opening because I was under the weather. So I ended up meeting Bj and Sciarrino in Salem at my mom’s. We headed to Dallas for Tracy and Jeff’s wedding. Jeff’s vows were so good, there was hardly a dry eye in the place. After words we went to a little reception at the church. It was fun because a bunch of us crew girls were there since Tracy was a rower herself. After that wedding Karen, Sciarrino, Tex, Marin, Bj and I all drove up to Bridal Veil Lake to go to the end of Ang’s wedding reception. It was so beautiful up there. I took a bunch of photos, so I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking:
from the left: Karen, Tex, Ang, Me, Sciarrino
Me and Beeg, photo opportunities abounded!
Tex, Martin, and Karen on a canoe ride on Bridal Veil Lake (really like a little pond), later we had a little race, leave it to crew girls to get competitive on the water.
See isn’t her hair just great. Today was the final showing of her graphic design work at OSU, it was senior portfolio day in the ballroom today. I think her stuff looks so great, it’s amazing how much we both learned here in five years. I especially love that her outfit matches her portfolio, gotta love the matching. After the portfolio showing we went to a lingerie party for Settlemeyer. Check out all her goodies:
Don’t worry they all aren’t all tinted green, that’s just the color of the awning. 🙂 So another couple weddings tomorrow, and an Apple store opening! Fun stuff, I think I’ll bring Scully (did I tell you that’s what I decided on for Blythe’s name?).
Okay so today I’ve been a lot in my head. I had to do a lot of driving around and I was by myself and my thoughts always get the best of me. So I thought a lot about how things would be so much better if everyone was just nicer. I mean, just polite, and caring, instead of short and rude. What made me think of this? Well things are going pretty smoothly on the Ribbon Jar front except for one thing: a package got lost. This was from the second order. The person contacted me and said she didn’t get it, only not so nicely. I felt so horrible. That’s one thing I hate about internet shopping, no instant gratification, and then to have to wait longer than you are expecting, that sucks. So I apologized profusely and resent everything as soon as I could (which unfortunately had to wait until Tuesday morning since I didn’t find out about it until after I could ship out on Saturday). So I shipped it, and the person hasn’t gotten it yet. It will still take a couple days, but I got this e-mail, that made me feel like the worst person on earth. I really want to make things right, to be the best and show her that I care, after all that’s what she deserves, she’s the customer. But… couldn’t she have been nice? I mean, I was nice. I guess you don’t always know who’s on the other end. So my thoughts kind of spun off from this.
How could I be nicer? I think I’m pretty nice, but not always, I mean if someone is wearing leopard print spandex in public, I can’t help but share the story, right? Well maybe I could. I hope I’m not getting to cynical, and pessimistic and well, gross. I’d rather come home and share some kind of amazing thing I saw someone do or something. Or something funny that didn’t hurt someone. I’d rather everyone did that, like the news and everything, I just wish it was nicer. I don’t want to cover up the grittiness or anything like that, I just want it to be fair. Wouldn’t you say the news is mostly bad, and things in this world are mostly good? I mean there are more than 360,000 babies born a day, and isn’t that happy? Couldn’t we all smile a little more? I bet we could people. I bet we could ease off the gas and not follow so close on the freeway, and let people in a with a little wave when they need to get over, and then maybe they’ll wave back to you. And I know we can’t change everything and everyone alone. But there is a much better chance that if you smile at someone they’ll smile. Maybe they won’t. Maybe it will take like five more people smiling at them, but they’ll get it eventually, they’ll feel the love, I know they will. And then they’ll be nicer, and not write mean emails to nice girls on the other end who are just as frustrated as they are.
So here’s something to make you smile today, something silly I saw, just driving along:
I like to make up stories, so choose one:
A) The foliage is for a new bird who is really picky and won’t stop squawking unless he has a big nest.
