Belated Vacation Update

So, on Friday, the main mission was to buy Walt and Nicki a wedding present. Easier said than done. Most of the stuff on their registry at Target was already bought, so off we headed to Linens-n-Things (or as I kept calling it, "Linens-n-Sh*t"). Plenty of stuff all still on the registry there... but all of it was either little stuff (kitchen utensils, napkin rings, wine glasses), or too large (furniture-type stuff). We wandered around aimlessly for a while, picking out glassware and deciding that her plates were too ugly for me to support (Sorry, Nick, if you're reading this from Aruba. Oh, and if you haven't opened your gifts yet, don't read the next paragraph!).

Finally, it dawned on me that towels would fit much better into a gift bag... and would be much lighter for Cory to carry into the reception. So I polished off the towels on her registry, threw in a couple placemates, bought them a set of cute shot glasses, and called it good.

We did other stuff on Friday (at least, I'm pretty sure we did), but mostly all I remember doing is shopping and doing my nails (silver on my toes to match my wedding shoes, french manicure on my fingernails to class it up a little).

Later that night, we headed out to meet my friend Susan, who I only see about every three years. We met her for a pitcher of Labatt Blue and talked about the "good ol' days" for a while, but we couldn't stay out too late, because I had to get my hair done at 9am for the wedding.

It was great to see Sue (my only still-single friend from Michigan), and she reminded me of a lot of funny stuff that I'd completely forgotten. My favorite? The time that I got Joe Kocur's autograph on a birthday card and sent it to her. She opens her mail on her birthday, and there it is, a birthday card signed "Your Friend, Joe Kocur."

Good Times.