Whatever was he thinking?? and Wedding Plans

Steve and I went out on our weekly breakfast date this morning. Because it was almost 11 before we got there, he decided to have soup and a bun while I had a breakfast favourite – Eggs Benedict.

On the way home, we passed a bakery so we went inside. Steve got some Russian Rye bread, a pretzel and 2 vanilla slices/Napoleon/milles feuilles.

After we got home, I started to clean house but I decided to start in the laundry room because it needed it. When I came upstairs , Steve said he wasn’t feeling well because he thought he had too many carbs – Ya think!! He ate 2 slices of bread and an entire vanilla slice himself! That doesn’t sound like much but when you are diabetic, this will never be found on any recommended diet plan.

I am beginning to wonder if he even wants to be able to attend Melissa’s wedding!

Speaking of the wedding, I met with Mel for lunch yesterday. Lake Louise is now out and a downtown restaurant is the current choice. She and Ryan are hoping to keep the attendance down to 60 people but that may prove to be rather challenging. Ryan’s dad has a whole list of people/relatives he thinks need to be invited so….

Mel is planning to order her table centre pieces online from Die Blume. I think it is a great idea because she can order now so they can be paid for long before the wedding and that is just one more thing out of the way. The prices seem quite reasonable and apparently she is willing to do custom orders. Mel has decided she wants peonies, hydrangeas, and dogwood so her colours, at least this week, will be light pink, light green, ivory and chocolate brown.

She is currently thinking about getting a “tea length” gown rather than a full gown. With having a breakfast wedding and planning to have pictures taken downtown around lunch time, I think that is a good idea because trying to get around with a full length gown is a challenge at the best of times, let alone when you are trying to avoid the lunch crowd.

Because of her accident, she was not able to get much, or any, exercise this summer so her goal to lose a bit of weight and trim up was not met. She is hoping that this fall she will be more successful. Unfortunately she has to do four courses before February in order to graduate with her class – three new classes and one she failed. She’s not quite sure where she will fit in wedding fittings until that is over so her selection might be limited – she simply won’t have time for a 6 month wait.

It is hard to admit that I have a double standard but this week, for no particular reason, I realized that I do. One of the things I find charming about Melissa is her HUGE plans for anything. A few years ago, she kept saying she wanted to rule the world from Saskatchewan – we had great discussions about how she could go about that. Now there is a wedding to plan and once again, she has huge plans – many of which will never come to fruition. I just nod my head and go along with it. But, when Steve does the same thing (at least I know she comes by it honestly!), it just aggravates me. When he talks about redoing the back yard or painting the house or making a million dollars (well, I don’t quite believe that one), I have great hopes that he will then I am disappointed that it gets started and never finished. For example, we have a partially done mural on the kitchen wall that he started about 10 years ago but has not finished. When he partially repainted the kitchen 4 years ago, he painted around it but he still hasn’t finished it.

He gets mad at me because I do the planning in my head so by the time I say what I want to do, I am going to do it – I am not looking for input, I am ready to go ahead. He likes to discuss matters which drives me insane because I see it as a waste of time if you aren’t going to do it anyway. They say that opposites attract, and at least in this case, that is really true.