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Hooey here’s hoping my life gets back to normal here shortly.  I wish you all knew how much time I’ve spent scouring the internet for used wedding dresses.  I take that back, I don’t want you to know, because it’s sick how much of my life I’ve wasted doing this!  I bought a dress today!  Relief!  And a little (or a lot) of anxiety because I’ve never actually tried on this style before.  But it’s different and pretty and I’m excited.  The best news is that it’s a used replica of one of the $6000 dresses I’ve been eyeing so it was only a fraction of the cost.  From the pictures of the bride who sold it to me, it looks to be a pretty close match that’s well made.  We shall see when it arrives.  Hopefully it fits (*fingers crossed*).  No photos here because I don’t want Matt to see.  But it’s pretty, I promise

I got to scrap a little this weekend!  And I worked on my dad’s wedding invitations a little (don’t worry Leigh, there’s still lots to do ).  That project is on hold as I broke my printer with the ingenious idea I had to print them.  Not so ingenious now is it.  Anyway, here are my latest creations:

I also got to finish a book this weekend.  There are few more awesome feelings to me than finishing a book.  It’s called The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.  It’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, and has references in it that are way smarter than I am (apparently Oscar’s name is intended to be similar to Oscar Wilde – totally wouldn’t have gotten that reference if I hadn’t read the New York Times review).  Excellent novel about a nerdy Dominican-American kid and his family history and the struggles they’ve lived through both domestically and abroad.  Learned some Dominican history.  Learned some new offensive language in Spanish.  Excellent read – I recommend it.

I’ll sign off by wishing my Mateo a very happy 26th birthday.  He’s in his man room playing with his birthday present to himself – a sweet new Specialized road bike.  He’ll be there for a while.