a goddamn belated tuesday!

so, i don't usually do this, but because Comcast decided to ruin my life yesterday and NOT show up to fix my internet after a week of it being off, i decided to post my tuesday TODAY because the list is goddamn long and good.

so, i guess i should just go have a quick fag and get on with this, shouldn't i?

brb.

lol.

okay, have a list!

saving lives... so, my main excitement for being on the seaside this last weekend was the thought that i would be able to find many, many dead things... fish, barnacles, mussels... you know, the like. within my first couple of moments on the beach though, i was immediately alerted to the fact that there was a tiny, dying fish at our feet. my first reaction was to pick him up and save his tiny life, which is what i did. i'm pleased with myself for knowing that i saved that tiny little fishy life.
dashboard confessional... yep, they're emo, i'm emo and their lyrics make me swoon.
clam chowder... because PHWOAR! i had the greatest clam chowder in my life this weekend! like, it was SO fresh that the clams had been alive literally hours before i ate it! oh the yummies were EPIC!
water
will farrell
long car trips
the sea... i never, ever fail to become weepy within moments of seeing the sea for the first time. it's such an amazingly beautiful thing. i've decided that Muffin and i WILL retire there one day. i promise you that!
cabins
old hippies...  for they nearly always have the best stories, things in their house and hair. i love them and perhaps am slightly jealous that i'm not more of a hippy.
oregon... i had my first for-realsies experience with oregon this weekend and it was incredible. i find it completely exciting that i could experience the sea AND the forest all in one place.
forests
seagulls
pygmy goats... so, in oregon we were driving home and i looked at a cutesy little fire station and saw a giant kennel sat outside which then led my eyes instantly to a furry creature that was not a dog, not a cat and not very immediately recognizable. it was only after several glances that i shouted for sarah to stop the car as OMGTHEREWEREGOATS! yeah. two goats. tied-up outside of a fire station. i pranced out of the car to play with them and photograph them before moving on the whatever the hell it was that made me squeal next.
sarah luna
randy luna
wine
handmade quilts
tea with real cream in... i don't care how fatty it is, i LOVE real cream and i love tea... mixing the two is literally like drinking some sort of heavenly beverage. i know with every sip that it's clogging my arteries, but i can't seem to go a morning without a big, fat cup or tea with sugar and cream in.
having my internet back... okay, so i actually don't know how i survived without it for the last week. i've had my mobile, but it's tiny and makes my fingers feel like they're gonna fall off. it's wonderful to have the internetz back and to be able to leisurely open twenty tabs of blogs, recipes and photos before finally trolling through them.
pork skins
oranges
my bed
Muffin's man-perfume
glittery nail polish
this feeling... i plan to blog about it, but i need to just say that now, today, things feel good. any hideous emotions i was feeling about Muffin-related things have completely vanished and i am existing today with a complete sense of peace and excitement.
finding new blogs i love... particularly when it's at random. i tend to be odd about finding other blogs because i have so much going on in my own head that i can't usually handle taking in any more information, but recently i've allowed myself to read more blogs and they've offered me a limitless amount of inspiration and glee.
swap-bot... an entirely-too-effective time-consumption hobby! it's amazingly fun and everyone should absolutely look at it and fall in love.
Angry Birds... cough. now, i'm NOT proud that i've completely fallen in love with this game, but hey, i have a LOT of spare time, in between applying for jobs. shut up.
cutting my nails and starting fresh... because for some magical reason, my nails totally adore getting brittle and gross very regularly, so periodically i like to just cut them all completely down and let them grow back in.
Muffin texts... for he is the sweetest, cutest boy in the land.
dollar stores
sitting on the porch, watching the rain
rubber ducks
Muffin's face
newborns
the sound of food coming out of tins
old latches
lambs
sea anemone
furry-looking trees... but only if the "furry" comes from moss. i heart moss an inappropriate amount.
most chowders... currently making bffs with my belly? sweet corn chowder. NOM!
split-pea soup
chocolate-chip muffins
sleepovers
seth rogan


i hope this delighted you. please have a magical week!

big gay weddings and a small amount of disappointment.

a list of things that i did for gem and mel for the wedding?

• made the bouquet of wonder and flowers for bridesmaids to wear.
• cared for their dog in a hotel across the city because theirs apparently does not like dogs (and as a result, was kept up all night the first night due to his incessant groin chewing and leg licking).
• planned the hen night of delight.
• gave up my house and my husband's cooking skills for the hen night so all the ladies had a place to convene, eat a big fat curry, make themselves pretty and suitably inebriated.
• planned and organised the wedding cake of glory to be as they did not have a wedding cake and it is just NOT RIGHT for someone to not have cake on their wedding day!
• went to numerous dress fittings and took photos to help the beautiful gem be sure that the dress was absolutely perfect.
• left work early several times to meet up to discuss wedding-related things.
• made countless phone calls to make sure everything was just right. (this included people bringing things for the hen night, wedding and for the BBC to send flowers to their room on their wedding day)
• spent more money than i ever should have for food and decorations.
• was the only reason that gem had bridesmaids, as she did not even think to have any until i mentioned it.
• was NOT asked to be an official witness to their wedding.

should i be pissy about it? no, most likely not, but it still feels like a bit of a slap in the face because i REALLY put a lot into this. this wedding stressed me out more than my own wedding did and at the end, when the officiator came out to prepare the witnesses for the ceremony, he called sarah up instead of me.
i am not saying i regret doing the things i did for them, and perhaps it is a wee bit petty for me to be upset about it but it just feels like perhaps that would have been the ultimate thank you for someone who threw their entire life out of whack to make sure your wedding and hen night was as perfect as physically possible. am i just being stupid? when i say it out loud i feel like i am just being a big fat stupid face but mygod, i am only human.

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anyways, all that aside, the wedding and the entire holiday was flipping brilliant. in fact, if i do say so myself, the entire week has been perfect.

it all started last friday when i left work in a big fat hurry to ensure i was home in time to get all the shopping done for the hen night. i tidied like i never have in my life, got all the decorations i could ever need and made all the final phone calls.

saturday was a day of OMG TEH STRESS!! husband was still in a whirlwind of unsure-ed-ness about whether or not he wanted to even come home and help cook. i was running around tidying and answering the almost-constant phone calls from the BBC, trying to figure out when they were arriving. when they finally arrived, it all calmed. i was able to just sit and relax. they helped decorate and we discussed the differences between drinking here in england and america. the crew were amazing. i really enjoyed talking to them.

once everyone arrived i was able to really just chill out. i LOVE playing the hostess and i can say that there is no more satisfaction than pouring your first drink for a guest of the night and watching everyone sit in the garden eating a meal lovingly prepared by your husband...

it went a little like this...

we ate and pranced... once we were finished and we have performed a suitable amount of talking, we then proceeded to take a group photo and run away to another pub of which i am not such a huge fan. it turned out amazing though because SO MANY splendid people turned up.
we were obviously followed by the three from the filming crew for the entire night, but it was so totally fun. cherry, who is in the red top to the right there. she was just like, the funnest person ever. her and i had many a lovely talk that night.

the film crew made a quick stop over to the stag's night just so they could see how much less they are enjoying themselves and we moved on to another pub which sucked balls.


upon arriving, the landlord was incredibly inebriated and therefore the most awkward person on the planet. he decided he would short change husband a pound and when husband mentioned it the guy said that he could make something of it and if he did, he would bar him from the pub. yeah. apparently, he rolls like that. after that incident we decided to finish our drinks off and run away to the next pub where we were to meet the stags.


OMG was this place glorious. i hadn't been there in over a year and since then it had been turned into a gaybar which i had been a bit leery about because it was like, the most heterosexual bar ever in the world before. WELL! let me just say, it was the most fabulous place ever on the planet. and i shall show you!



and OMG the wedding was incredible. i really had a brilliant time in brighton. it was my first time REALLY seeing the sea and i couldn't have imagined it to have been any better.

i am just going to post loads of photos now, as i am completely exhausted.












overall, it was just splendid because i was at at the sea and husband was there and i got to share a really special event with some very close friends. i really, really loved these last few days. they were something i will remember forever. hooray!