I keep thinking that people should be thinking up favors to ask my dad.

You know, because he can’t refuse them on this, the day of his daughter’s wedding.

🙂

Yes, it is 7:22am on the morning I will be wed, and I am blogging. I woke up a few minutes ago to a silent house (alarms due to go off in 10 min) and the rain falling outside. I don’t mind the rain. Those who know me know it is my preferred weather. I’m just worried about getting from place A to place B IN the rain. But secretly I’m glad it’s raining and not hot and sunny…this kind of day is really “me” and seems so peaceful to me. I could do without the hayfever though.

I went to pick up my cake last night and I can honestly say it was the first thing from this whole wedding planning to not go smoothly. We only had the top tier of 3 made, as the other two are cardboard and I only wanted the cake to bring home and freeze for our 1 year anniversary. So I went to Patisserie Gascogne to get it and it’s all wrapped up in a box tied with string. The girl hands it to me and I asked if I could see it. She says “ok” and pushes back the corner of the box. The cake seemed fine, but I wanted to see the whole cake before I accepted ownership of it. Good thing too…it was broken!

I have a photo at home that I forgot to send to myself to post, but sue me I’m a little pre-occupied. 🙂 The hard icing shell covering the cake was literally dented in with 3 cracks broken in it on one of the “corners”. (Hmmm…does a round cake have corners?) So they say they will rush bake one tonight and deliver it to the hall tomorrow (today). They wanted to know what time the wedding was at. I lied and told them 3pm instead of 5pm. I don’t want to have to worry if they are late or anything.

So in about 30-60 min the hair and makeup people will arrive, along with those of my bridesmaids that will be having themselves made up.

Around 10:30 Yannick and I will see each other for the first time, and then leave to go find a place to take (indoor) photos, then meet everyone else back at the hall for 2pm for the bridal party photos.

Signing the marriage certificate at 4:30 and then 5:00pm is the ceremony during which (as is usually the case in Jewish weddings) I will already be married. Cocktails at 6:00, then dinner and party at 7:00. I’m so excited to try the food! I hear the Italian halls have amazing meals.

The alarms are starting to go off so I’ll sign off for now. My next post will be as a Mrs.

So I’m at my aunt’s house where my Toronto family has gathered for a little dinner the night before the wedding.

Had a nice shock and surprise as all of a sudden my cousin Mark walks in the room…Mark who has been attending school in Scotland and Paris and who has told us since we got engaged in Oct/05 that he couldn’t attend the wedding. My mom and her sister Mimi were in on it, but Mark’s mom Fran was blown away. She literally stood there, stunned into shock for about 5 minutes before realizing that her son was in the room. It was a great surprise because my uncle passed away last year and even though a wedding is time for celebration it was hard that Mel wasn’t here, that Mark was out of town and it was only her and Jon at home. Great surprise!

Soon I’ll head back to my mom’s to sleep, and at 8:30am the hair and makeup parade begins.

I won’t have time to say it tomorrow so to Yannick on his day, so in advance…

FOR TOMORROW, SEPT 3RD…HAPPY BIRTHDAY YANNICK! (and happy wedding too)

p.s. I created a hotmail account that I will check if I get a chance, so if anyone needs to reach me during the next 3 weeks email onmyhoneymoon@hotmail.com

So I’m at my aunt’s house where my Toronto family has gathered for a little dinner the night before the wedding.

Had a nice shock and surprise as all of a sudden my cousin Mark walks in the room…Mark who has been attending school in Scotland and Paris and who has told us since we got engaged in Oct/05 that he couldn’t attend the wedding. My mom and her sister Mimi were in on it, but Mark’s mom Fran was blown away. She literally stood there, stunned into shock for about 5 minutes before realizing that her son was in the room. It was a great surprise because my uncle passed away last year and even though a wedding is time for celebration it was hard that Mel wasn’t here, that Mark was out of town and it was only her and Jon at home. Great surprise!

Soon I’ll head back to my mom’s to sleep, and at 8:30am the hair and makeup parade begins.

I won’t have time to say it tomorrow so to Yannick on his day, so in advance…

FOR TOMORROW, SEPT 3RD…HAPPY BIRTHDAY YANNICK! (and happy wedding too)

p.s. I created a hotmail account that I will check if I get a chance, so if anyone needs to reach me during the next 3 weeks email onmyhoneymoon@hotmail.com

So I’m at my aunt’s house where my Toronto family has gathered for a little dinner the night before the wedding.

Had a nice shock and surprise as all of a sudden my cousin Mark walks in the room…Mark who has been attending school in Scotland and Paris and who has told us since we got engaged in Oct/05 that he couldn’t attend the wedding. My mom and her sister Mimi were in on it, but Mark’s mom Fran was blown away. She literally stood there, stunned into shock for about 5 minutes before realizing that her son was in the room. It was a great surprise because my uncle passed away last year and even though a wedding is time for celebration it was hard that Mel wasn’t here, that Mark was out of town and it was only her and Jon at home. Great surprise!

Soon I’ll head back to my mom’s to sleep, and at 8:30am the hair and makeup parade begins.

I won’t have time to say it tomorrow so to Yannick on his day, so in advance…

FOR TOMORROW, SEPT 3RD…HAPPY BIRTHDAY YANNICK! (and happy wedding too)

p.s. I created a hotmail account that I will check if I get a chance, so if anyone needs to reach me during the next 3 weeks email onmyhoneymoon@hotmail.com

I found a Warning Label Generator on someone’s blog. I decided to enter my blog name: JELOCA.

THIS is my warning label:

Username:

From Go-Quiz.com

ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

This is the Harlequin baby blanket that I knit for the MKG’s charity drive this coming year. I believe that the blankets will be raffled, and the knitters will have our names put in a hat, and the person whose name is drawn gets to pick where the raffle money goes…to which charity.

The yarn is Tessin by Muench. I’m not too keen on the colors, but love this yarn and the way it works up in garter. It’s so nice and floppy and a child will love it…I want to buy some of this yarn to make something for my future children! I’m so glad I chose to ask for a yarn pack. This yarn is a great example of something I would have seen on the net or in person and NEVER would have picked up to buy…to garish and the colors are just not me. Yet I love the final fabric it creates and am eager to work with it again…in the right project.
It doesn’t seem that big when you’re knitting it…squares of garter knit as one piece with no seaming in the end. But when I laid it down on the bed to photograph…it’s huge!
Thanks to V. for sending the link re: the good wife article:
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp
What a relief!

So the wedding is Sunday and I still am not freaking out. I’m frantically trying to get the house clean for our guests Thursday night, and trying to remember to pack everything for our honeymoon, and to get my brother moved in, and stuff like that…but not about the wedding.

I have had 2 dreams so far about stuff going wrong at the wedding, so I think my subconscious is a little more worried than I am.

I can’t believe this was ever spewed into the female consciousness. How much do you want to bet that a man wrote it?

Article from Housekeeping Monthly, May 11 1955. Click on it to make it big enough to read.

What timing. I made the mistake of reading it out loud to my dad and Yannick. To say they were amused is an understatement.

I know I’m slacking off. I’m running around trying to get the house cleaned up for the cake & coffee we’re hosting after the rehearsal next week, Y keeps going up north then coming back then going and driving me nuts, there were car issues to deal with and I’m just generally exhausted.

I can’t believe I’m getting married next weekend!

I don’t have photos of the car, but I got a ’98 Malibu. It’s in great condition, no body work to be done but minor (tres minor) rust spots. Didn’t know until AFTER we bought it, took it for a car wash and filled up the tank that the gas tank was rotted and started oozing gas right away. In 30 hours I lost 3/4 of a tank of gas! Luckily the dealership honored that we didn’t know about the problem before purchase, and they replaced the tank (the actual tank, not the gas) for me free of charge. So now the car is great and I’m loving riding around in it. I’m loving having cupholders(!!!) and that it has a tape player and not just CD because the audio book section at the library is 90% on tape and I can now get a zillion more books to listen to. Yes, I did just say that I prefer my ’98 to my ’87 because I now have cupholders and a tape player. LOL. But I will miss my Celebrity big time, she was my first car and I love her!

I’m rushing to finish the Harlequin blanket before next week. I’m 1/4 of the way through the last group of 3 blocks, then just one block after that and crocheting the border.

Since I have no images of the car to post, nor of the knitting, I’ll put up one of me as a kid. Enjoy!

I know, I know. I haven’t posted in about a week. I don’t really have an excuse, except the following excuses:

1- Monday through Thursday general: I’ve been knitting some stuff for hire, and couldn’t blog about it, nor post photos of it. Let’s call it Torch.
2- Tuesday specific: went to the hall where the wedding will be and finalized stuff with them. Stayed there late, had a late dinner after, then crashed.
3- Wednesday specific: didn’t work as I had a last dress fitting at 11:30am, then went to the jeweler about my ring and some jewelry, then to the place that is doing the flowers and decor.
4- Thursday night: way too darn tired to even knit, much less think or talk or type about knitting.
5- Friday night: don’t even remember what I did Friday. Oh yeah, went with Yannick to see the minister who is marrying us. Finalized some stuff for our ceremony, which we wrote ourselves. (Not the vows. The entire ceremony).
6- Saturday: went for my hair appointment at 8:30am until 12:30pm. 4 hours to do the color for the wedding. Then went for a manicure, just ‘cus. Then Yannick came home and made dinner, then went back to work at my mom’s, so I stayed home, watched some TV and crashed again. Worked on the Harlequin Baby Blanket at the hair dresser. Too lazy to take or post a photo.
7- Sunday: Got up lazily while Yannick went to quote on a job, and watched about 3/4 of the movie Garden State while knitting the Harlequin. I had to stop because Yannick picked me up for a late lunch, as we had to go over what stuff to do before the wedding and before the honeymoon. Had a late dinner too, then watched Scary Movie 4 before passing out on the couch during the special features and having to drag my butt upstairs to bed.
8- Monday: didn’t go to work as I bought myself a new car! Yes, I got a new car. I love it, but will blog about it later because a) I’m tired. b) I haven’t eaten supper yet. c) I need something to blog about tomorrow. 🙂

Yesterday Yannick and I went to the Old Port of Montreal for the afternoon. We had such a fun time going around and visiting the exhibitions. We went through the Science Center but while there was some cool stuff to see, it was mostly geared towards kids. I remember the Toronto Science Center being cooler. We went to the Imax and saw Deep Sea 3D which was AMAZING. It was a 40 minute, 3D view into the underwater lifeforms deep in the oceans. When we left there we ran into an old friend from my B’Nai Brith/USY days who now is married, pregnant and lives in the West Island.

From there we went to the promenades and walked around, and watched one of the street performers put on a 30 minute show involving many jokes, a unicycle, juggling, fire, tape and children. Very original and very funny. He performs a few times a night so if you are in the area and see a crowd forming, please go watch, he’s well worth the time. After the show we went to do the Shed 16 Labyrinth (which bugs me because a Labyrinth has only 1 way in and 1 way out…whereas the Shed 16 attraction is a maze) and were determined to beat the average time for getting in and out of the maze, which is suggested as 60-90 minutes. Once inside, you have to go around and find different rooms with clues to the final code, and along the way you have to deal with the maze itself, weird floors to walk on, some walls that are all like seatbelts hanging down, some corridors that are all sandbags to navigate, and many forks in the path that you have to climb through a jungle-gym of elastic ropes before you can pass. Do NOT do this if you have a bad back or knees, as you will never get through. The guy at the end couldn’t believe that we did it in 30 minutes, but I have to say, Yannick has a really good sense of direction.

We were going to go to Ma’s, a Caribbean restaurant on Sherbrooke O, but when we got there it was 8:30pm and it had closed at 8pm. So we started walking down the street looking for a new place to try, and found La Louisianne. We’d never been there, but anywhere that has Sweet Potato Fries is a place I’d try! Oh my it is now one of my favorite places to eat! We sat on the terrasse and enjoyed some amazing Cajun food. We shared an appetizer of alligator- I ATE ALLIGATOR. And LOVED it!!! Did you ever eat calamari, and enjoy the flavor (with garlic and spices and stuff) but swallow it right away because the texture is really chewy? Well, picture the same kind of taste, but with a texture like chicken. In fact, if I didn’t know it was alligator, I would have sworn it was seasoned chicken. Delicious, I’d go back for that in a second. I made my meal of appetizers, and had the Sweet Potato Fries with Chipotle Mayo (oh my god good), Red Bean Soup (good, but I don’t need it again), and Grilled Vegetable Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette (self-explanitory, and delicious). Yannick had the Crawfish Ettouffe, and he adored it. I can’t wait to go back and try the crab cakes, they looked delicious too.

After dinner we watched the rest of the Jerry Springer Opera. Wow. Um. Weird.