Baked goods, bads, and morally ambiguouses.

Things that are awesome:
- Nine Mountain retreat center and their very laid-back approach to weddings.
- The weather this weekend.
- My family, especially my dad, who composed a sonnet for his toast, and my mom, who fed a houseful of happy people this morning.
- Seeing my eighty-something great-aunt dancing to "Rock Lobster"
- The Velveteen Rabbi, for many reasons, only some of which have to do with this last weekend.
- ltlbird, wavyarms, cute_fuzzy_evil, ethicsgradient, yaoobruni, bobsquatch, rissymonster, and many others whom I have undoubtedly forgotten to add (on account of no brain), for helping so much. I mean, house-elves are saying you guys make them look bad.
- sal_sal, for agreeing with me that the Charlie's Angels bridesmaid picture was an excellent idea.
- thomascantor, because yeah. Damn.

Things that are so incredibly awesome they might just implode:

- sigerson and sen_no_ongaku, the newly married couple.

See that? That's the face of the earth. Here I am, down here, having fallen off it.

It's been a very busy month so far, and I'm only now starting to take a breath. I had three weekends in a row that were packed to the gills with Stuff, I've been trying to get the Awful First Draft of Provisionally Titled Gate Novel complete so I can stop disliking it, and the busy season has started at work. To top it off, I somehow came up in the rotation for my writers' group again, so I had to cobble together the vague short story idea I'd had into something readable. Still don't know whether I've succeeded in that.

( Weekend 1: San Francisco and Tahoe )

( Weekend 2: Wedding (not mine) on the Cape and lots of fire )

( Weekend 3: Viable Paradise reunion )

Next weekend looks blessedly unbooked, which is a very, very good thing, because the weekend after that, we're hosting a dinner party. The apartment's currently a pit, and I'll be doing some serious cleaning and moving-of-furniture (shut up, wavyarms) over the next few days. I also need to learn how to make a decent mole sauce. Rendering Templars down does not seem like the best option, plus they're hard to find these days. Maybe I can substitute Freemasons; I hear they're recruiting.

Today sigerson and I went to several places to try to find a bridesmaid's dress that would look good on me. I had several styles picked out, a good idea of what I wanted, and a very relaxed, fashion-conscious sister.

It was hell.

I intend to cleanse the bridal salons of Newbury Street with fire. Who's with me?