So I feel like I should devote a good post to my wonderful wedding dress.

No sir– I did not get the wedding dress of my dreams. Though it may help that I didn’t ever really dream about my dress before my day. I’m not much of a dress person so in simple terms. It was a strappless, beaded corsage with a ballgown waist and fluffy lumps. (that is the scientific term for it, ‘fluffy lumps’). When the photographer showed my mom and my MIL the bustles on my dress– they flipped bananas. (and actaully, looking at the pictures later, I thought it was pretty damn cool)

So let me tell you as story.

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Trying to catch up with wedding news, and– if you haven’t been able to tell: am failing rather miserably about it.

For those who are in the loop (which, if you read this blog, probably means you are) I got hitched about a month ago. We had a very short engagement– Early July to late November… four months.

I’ve heard shorter.

When I made the announcement that I was engaged to be married– so many people asked this question first: “HOW DID HE DO IT?”

I almost always look/feel/get nervous to explain the details of our engagement story. Largely because I thought it was perfect– but my perfect/romantic/special moment couldn’t really be summed up in the engagement story; what was the pinnacle of perfection in our engagement day was so much more than a proposal story….

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I really ought to put up stuff about my wedding. But I’m so damn busy. It’s been … well… so damn busy.

So… I really want to buy a live lobster from the local grocery store. (And by local, I mean ‘Texan’  and no where else).  I want to cook it and eat it and it will be happy.

To prepare for my happiness I wanted to look up the cost of the lobsters online. So I googled the store name and then live lobsters. The third or fourth option down the list was titled the following:  ”Stop the Selling of Live Lobsters! – The Petition Site.”

I thought to myself: “There is possibly a good reason as to why this person would want my lovely grocery store to stop selling live lobsters,” so I clicked the link and read the petition.

Some people are so dumb.

I do realize that it is fashionable to state the protection of animal rights and I do not believe in testing makeup on rabbits. But, really, said person has never considered where their food came from before writing this singular petition.

But then again, maybe it’s the Chinese in me, where we get all our live market meats in crates the size of shoe boxes and piles upon piles of eatable critters stacked on more piles of eatable critters. The Lobsters in the tanks at the grocery store can swim around, wave their rubberbanded claws, and comment about all the dumb people at the supermarket store that they live their last days in.

The tanks are not in-humane….

Anyway, the petition was set to expire in 2008. It has gleaned 85/2500 signatures. I think it’s safe to say that the lobsters in those tanks won’t be going away any times oon.

okay, yeah, score another point for the pointless blogs.

I went ahead and bought the Lobster anyway. The guy at the grocery store called him Larry and he was about three pounds. I realized when I got home that I didn’t have any lobster hammers or other fun things like that, but I went ahead to cook him anyway.

Would have gone off without a hitch if my lobster buddy didn’t decide to do handstands inside my not-as-big-as-I-thought soup pot. So his tail was sticking out most of the dying portion of the cooking experience. I flipped him over and cooked it the other way around after ward. But as a result, may have over cooked it slightly. It was still tender and juicy. And anyway, I like my shellfish a little tough.

now, the question is: What to do with lobster butter….

The whole thing went well. Thank God for my family. Really. The epic Thanksgiving degree of ‘thank God’ for my family.

Despite all the early panic and naysay from SOME people, my planning was just right. Not too busy, not too broken. I honestly think we surprised everyone.  The families had the same reaction that Greed had when we first went to visit our venue. The moment of ‘oh god what is going to happen next’ followed by “DID YOU BUY THE WATERFALL TOO?”

We even had a stork watch the wedding ceremony. How effing cool was that?

Everything went along so well and the atmosphere was so nice that not even that bitchy couple on the bridge got me down. Funny story about that– for later. ha ha.

Anyway…. Play-by-play when I get my computer back.

It’s just safe to say for now:– It was a good weekend. =}