Archive for August, 2008

2008
13
Aug
12:00

shower time!

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special, pix

since it’s been a migrainy and stormy day complete with multiple power outages, what better time to get the pix downloaded and read to post, eh? so without further ado, my pride and joy – the favors!

step one – decorating the box

step two – decorating the other side of the box

step three – personalizing chop sticks
(no, i don’t know why blogger chose to turn the pic the wrong way)

step four – candy coating the contents
turns out fortune cookies and chow mein noodles are excellent when covered in chocolate

assembly complete – commence beaming pride!

who’d’ve thought i could create something so pretty?

pretty as punch

it was such a tasty spread

i should’ve taken a closeup of the picture frame

the guests seemed to have a good time

as did the bride

i am very glad that i was able to put together a shower for one of my best friends. although i’m just as happy that it’s over. party planning is hard, stressful work! i do need to give a huge thank you to my sister’s whole family who all chipped in to help with whatever they could (not to mention lending me their house). also, without my fabulous hubby, i never would have made it. he stuck in there with me until everything was done, even after the guests started showing up. he was beyond helpful!

2008
12
Aug
6:45

more on the praying front

   Posted by: arcanai    in prayers needed

still no time for shower blogging but i wanted to do a quick update on previous prayers and make a new prayer request.

  • coworker’s son cam has finally been moved out of the icu after six weeks. he is breathing on his own four to five hours a day but he gets tired and has to be put back on the respirator. he still has no control of anything below the chest but hope remains that that will change. he has bicep and wrist control but no fingers. with a special wristband that holds utensils, he is able to feed himself.
  • my friend starts his chemo treatments tomorrow. i pray that he is able to get through these treatments with little ill-effects. he just hopes he can keep his hair.
  • my sis-n-law’s mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer. she will be undergoing a radical mastectomy in the next week or so. please send prayers her way as her family has had its unfair share of cancer. SIL’s father died a few years ago from cancer and her sister had a very scary battle with it after that. they are naturally very worried about their mother and i worry about SIL’s genes.
2008
10
Aug
19:37

happy to be home

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

it was an incredibly busy week but things went well. updates and pix of showereing to come. not tonight, far too tired. i’m glad to be home. it’s strange that this is really the first place that we really feel home. i love going to orlando because it’s the only place that we actually have a social life and it’s great to have so many friends to hang out with, but i miss home the whole time i’m there.

2008
6
Aug
19:57

poking was successful

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

both at cards and balls. showering was less than successful but i’m still feeling good about progress for some strange reason.

2008
6
Aug
12:32

random

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

i arranged to take my lunch break at the end of the day today so that i can run errands without worrying about getting back in an hour. i’ve got a few shower things i want to get done before heading to my cousin’s. i need to get all i can off the list since thursday and friday will also be cleaning days. i’m getting increasingly excited about the shower plans. hopefully, my first attempt at party planning will be a success.

2008
5
Aug
19:29

yay! a start!

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

the good news is that i feel like i finally have accomplished something on the bridal shower front (gee, you think it’s about time since the shower is in four days???). granted, it was mostly grocery shopping but that goes a long way toward establishing theme and such. so i’m feeling better about it and i mostly have a plan for the rest of it. who’d’ve known there was so much to party planning? since my sissy needed to make a sam’s run for nephew1‘s party that will also be saturday (night), we left the chilluns with the men-folk and made a shopping night of it. tomorrow night i’ll be taking a fun-time break from showering in order to poke my cousin. when i go home, i greatly miss wednesdays in orlando.

2008
5
Aug
9:44

tootsies

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special, pix

my first attempt at a self-pedicure. i got stiffed on the tip because of the lack of foot/leg massage. maybe next time i’ll do better. in the meantime, my tootsies feel pretty.


2008
4
Aug
12:38

recap

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

my cousin stalked us yesterday by stopping by (nearly) unannounced at my sissy’s. later in the afternoon, we headed to my dad’s for dinner and visiting and then we stalked my cousin back by dropping in unannounced while she was pulling chicken. we had a great visit with her and my cousin-in-law before coming back to find my sissy and BIL up in the renovated playroom playing old arcade cames on ps2. hubby had to join in so that he could show BIL his mad galaga skillz. we stayed up far too late but had a nice evening. i slept hardly any and after hubby left for the office this morning, i discovered that the internet was down. great. now that it’s finally back up, time for cramming some productivity!

2008
3
Aug
8:42

honey, we’re here!

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

we made it to orlando around 23:30 last night to find my sissy’s whole family waiting up for our arrival. turns out that they’ve been doing some serious redecorating and were anxious to show it off. almost every room in the house got some fresh paint so everything looks very nice. some great new color schemes. but the big reveal was the play room. they did a complete t(w)een makeover on it. it is an awesome space now, we were truly impressed. especially when they said that they did all of the painting two days ago and all of the furnishings were done yesterday in order to have it all set for our arrival. i feel so special. so today i’m trying to get woken up get some organization going on these shower plans and we’ve got dinner at my dad’s tonight. i wonder if our friends made it home alright from our place.

2008
1
Aug
8:52

ready for four

   Posted by: arcanai    in Nuthin' Special

i don’t know what the problem has been, but this week has just seemed all but unbearable to me. i’m ready for it to be over and maybe next week will be better. at least as far as work is concerned. after work i’m going to be running around like a headless chicken trying to figure out how to throw a shower. won’t be much visiting going on this trip. unless some of my friends want to help me run around like a headless chicken. 😉 since we’ve been working, we haven’t had a whole lot of fun time with our friends (one of them works with us so it’s the norm). after we three finish up in the evenings, we’ve been going down to the beach to meet the others. there’s been some fancy sand sculpting and a little kayaking. not a whole lot of water-play because there’s been dangerous conditions this week and they’ve been going by in a truck every thirty minutes and yelling for everyone to get out of the water. they’ve started ramping up the warnings and flag-education after a couple more folks died in the water this week (and, of course, dozens of rescues). we’ve also had some good conversation and wii-play after the kids have gone to bed. we should get to spend some good time together tomorrow and whenever they start packing up to leave, so will we. i’d imagine we’ll get down to orlando pretty late but i should get to at least visit my dad on sunday. i’ll have to call my brother and see when we can see him too. i can forego some friend visits for the shower, but i can’t not see my family.