Randoms 8/16

[eponinepontmercy]

winecat , I'm on it.

It might be a good assignment for my three best friends who are invited, especially the one whose husband builds houses.

The wedding venue is a country club in North Jersey so I am sure they are used to ridiculous bride requests. The restaurant for the bridal shower might be more of an issue. Once we get closer and see if it actually gets built, I'll figure it out with the other MOH.

ETA - Okay.  The shower venue is a restaurant and banquet hall that also hosts weddings and events.  There should be room for it.

[winecat]

Aug 19, 2021 10:05:39 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Aug 19, 2021 9:53:28 GMT -5 winecat said:

-ish.  Things like this are way too much for one person to be able to do, especially in a MOH dress, so that's why the catering staff usually gets suckered in to helping which can throw off the timing for the rest of their setup.  The other scenario is "setting it up early, before hair and makeup."  There's a good chance that where she wants it to go has another use for part of the event so it can't get set up early but that info isn't usually found out ahead of time because the venue sales manager will say "no problem!" because they're not going to be there.  Maybe she's got all that figured out but in my experience, I've seen that happen once.  

I went to a wedding (as a guest) once where the flowers were to be transported from the venue to the reception (same location, but different buildings). I was there early since DH was part of the wedding party, and happened to talk to the florists as they were setting up. No one had thought about WHO was moving the flowers. I ended up doing it while the wedding party was taking pictures. 

Where's my shocked face?  lol  Nonsense like this happens ALL the damn time at weddings.  

[Vespasia]

That job posting I keep bitching about has officially reached 100 days active. It's been a week since the person turned it down and we still have no new applicants. There's also a whole bunch of other staffing drama that I don't want to get into going on. This coupled with the complete and utter inability of people to read communications has me incredibly freaking annoyed.

Thankfully I just have 5.5 more work days before I get to (mostly) unplug for a week. 

[rubytue]

Update to my contractor situation. I have made calls. I’ve even had two show up. Both took one look at our mess and noped outta here. Like under 10 minutes because it was more than they can do. 

H started ripping things up to investigate. And it’s far worse than we expected. Bonus, now not only is my sunroom rotting away, including structural elements. But also it’s exported to the elements. With no real timeframe for fixing it. Hell, even if I can find someone to fix it, what 6-12 weeks out from getting me on the schedule?! FML

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[1confused1]

Northern California is on fire and the smoke is so bad. It is so sad 😞

[mskitkat]

I wasn’t going to go to the Alanis concert tomorrow, but the Lolapalooza data makes me think it’s safe enough. Now I need to come up with an outfit for tomorrow night - one that won’t make me melt from heat.

[babsbunny]

Aug 19, 2021 17:31:33 GMT -5 mskitkat said:

I wasn’t going to go to the Alanis concert tomorrow, but the Lolapalooza data makes me think it’s safe enough. Now I need to come up with an outfit for tomorrow night - one that won’t make me melt from heat.

Toga

[rubytue]

Mind blowing video of the day for gen-xers. youtu.be/-k_P0eB-sns

See if you have listen without reading what it is. I played it for my H this morning and I could see the 🤯 when the vocals started.

[AJL]

I'm registered for all my grad classes this semester. My field placement starts in another week. I'm going to social work school! Yay!

On the "boo!" side, because UT is a state school, they are refusing to mandate masks for everyone on campus because of Abbott's assholeish EO. Ugh! They are asking professors/instructors to "lower class density" for the first three and half weeks so some of my classes might be online through September. But I hate the lack of balls in decision making around here.

[StrawberryBlondie]

I made rosemary olive oil bagels this morning and it's taking most of my willpower not to eat the entire batch.

DH thinks they taste really strongly of olive oil. I'm pretty sure what he's tasting is actually rosemary, but surely he has to know the difference, right?

[NewOrleans]

rubytue, 😧

[ellipses84]

Aug 20, 2021 13:06:18 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Mind blowing video of the day for gen-xers. youtu.be/-k_P0eB-sns

See if you have listen without reading what it is. I played it for my H this morning and I could see the 🤯 when the vocals started.

I heard a song on the radio in my car which showed the artist’s name - Olivia Vedder - of course she’s related! Guess who co-wrote ALL the songs for the soundtrack and had her sing a couple of them?!

[rubytue]

Aug 22, 2021 18:38:07 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Aug 20, 2021 13:06:18 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Mind blowing video of the day for gen-xers. youtu.be/-k_P0eB-sns

See if you have listen without reading what it is. I played it for my H this morning and I could see the 🤯 when the vocals started.

What am I missing here?

It starts out sounding exactly like REM, and then… Eddie’s haunting voice instead of Michael Stipe.

[rubytue]

mofongo, at least for me, it was suck a weird mind fuck. Same with H. I put it on and he said “oooh. REM. Old school this morning?” And then, a “whoa?! WTf?!” 🤯