So I never thought that I would be the type to go crazy over something as girly as a wedding dress and shopping for shoes, bridesmaid dresses, hair, etc… It somewhat surprises me even now that I’m feeling completely giddy and excited about the fact that I tried on my dress, although it’s in a different color, today, and then ordered it!!! I didn’t even bat an eyelash when my mother unexpectedly decided that she would pay for the dress!! I’m not going to complain considering it was over a thousand dollars that I definitely do not have… Of course, this afternoon I ended up spending four hundred on my car, but that’s something I’ll talk about in a little bit.
So Crystal, Kayla, Mom, and I all went to The Enchanted Bride, a shop off of Olive in St. Louis and I tried on my dress for the second time. I was as excited about the dress this time as I was last time, which is what I figured when I tried it on the first time, so I decided to order it. We also tried on a veil, which is beautiful and I think just the right length and I received that one for free along with the dress. Then as that shop did not have the bridesmaid dress in stock that the girls wanted to try on, we decided to head out to Brides by Demetrios in Clayton so they could see if the dress was there to try on. It was!!! The atmosphere was ok in there, not as busy as David’s Bridal (which I couldn’t stand), but not as customer-oriented as The Enchanted Bride either. The girls really liked the dress and in comparing prices, we decided to go back to the Enchanted Bride after lunch to order their gowns.
For lunch we headed to the Cheesecake Factory as it’s one of my favorite restaurants and Crystal had never been before. The service was completely atrocious!!! I love the restaurant and I’m even tempted to not return. The service was slow (40 minutes to receive our food), and then Kayla received the wrong pizza and they took it back promising a new one in 3 minutes, but fifteen minutes later we were all ready to leave and the pizza hadn’t returned, nor had our waitress. This wouldn’t have been as much of an issue if mom didn’t have an appointment to be to, but it was very frustrating. I finally went up to the front desk after another ten minutes and asked for someone to come and help us. Either way I felt really bad that the service was so horrible the one time I brought my friends. Whatever, I don’t even want to go back there for quite a while.
Mom cut her massage a little bit short and didn’t seem too disappointed and Kayla, Crystal, and I headed back to the dress shop to go and get them fitted. It was really quite amusing to see the look on the lady’s face when we all walked back in to get the dresses ordered!!! She was very nice though, and got us taken care of right away. They received 10% off their dresses because I ordered my dress through them.
After all that was said and done I dropped Crystal off at her truck (which was at my house), and then went to go get my oil changed. Dobbs said it would take them two hours and although I had my book I was not willing to waste two hours of my day sitting in that little waiting room for them to scratch their butts so I went over to Jiffy Lube, which seemed slow anyway, and it only took them 40 minutes to get my oil changed, flush the transmission, and take care of a couple of other maintenance issues I asked them to take care of. I though that was pretty nice rather than having to wait until five to get my car back and start in on my homework.
I got my presentation for Marketing pretty much finished but I want the group to look over it anyway. I will memorize what I have until told otherwise and then adjust as necessary. I still haven’t started studying for my Social and Cognitive finals yet, but I think I will do fine as I’ve been to pretty much every class and I’ve done well so far. I can hope anyway.
On another note, work has been somewhat crazy. I think we’ve resolved the issue we had with one of the managers not cooperating with the rest of us, but now we’ve got to look forward to a major executive coming into town next week. My personal life totally does not need this right now, but such is life.
Andrew’s been working late very frequently but he’s about to get a big promotion so it’s all going to work out for the best. This will mean more stress and probably more work for him, but that’s a fair trade for him getting ahead and getting to do what he wants to do. If I didn’t think he would enjoy the advancement opportunity I’d be more worried than happy, but I think this will be a very good opportunity for his growth.
That said, I’m going to bed as the insomnia has finally worn off apparently and will hopefully allow me to sleep now. Good night. By the way, keep in touch!! J
