wedding woes

It's been a really long time since I posted anything, but I'm in need of venting so here I am. Wedding planning fucking sucks. Alex and I have looked through pretty much every "wedding location" in the NYC area (including Long Island, excluding New Jersey) and have not found a single place we both want to get married in. We're not asking for much.

1. Reasonably priced (less than $125/person)
2. not a wedding factory that cranks them out 2+ at a time
3. no mirrored walls or ceilings
   
4. no lace or doilies
5. no nasty carpet or wall paper
6. windows!!!
7. some place memorable
   

I spoke to a catering director from one of our "finalists" out on Long Island (which we are now reconsidering) and the worst thing he said was "all the brides LOVE the pond." Fuck you, catering guy! I don't care what other brides love. Actually, the fact that a few dozen (hundred?) brides have come through there and had the same exact ice sculpture and fruit display, makes me want to vomit. The complete lack of effort and creativity that our wedding would require of them makes their price seem even more absurd.

Totally bummed.

overheard at a meeting

Scene: small conference room in small generic hotel. People are schmoozing before the first presentation begins.

Miss K and Ms. L are sitting next to each other at a small table. Mr. J is standing facing them from across the table.

Mr. J: Hey, I haven't seen you before. What's your role?
Miss K: I'm the new intern at Workplace X
Mr. J: Great! Interns are so hard to find these days.
Ms. L: Especially good ones.
Mr. J: I had this great intern once. Then she got cancer.
(group sighs in unison)

the good life

After a nice dinner at the Stanford Shopping Center (salad with lightly grilled tuna fillet), Alex and I went to the gym/pool. I did 3 miles on the elliptical while he swam laps, followed by hanging out in the pool and hot tub.

I love my job.
I live in a great area and a very nice apartment.
The weather is always perfect.
I have lots of friends around.
I own a Wii.

Pittsburgh can kiss my shiny metal ass.

(oh, and Pirates 3 sucked)

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bummer

Got up at 8am today to wait in line at the local Best Buy for a Wii. The store opens at 11 on Sunday and we got there around 8:55. We didn't know how many they had, but there were already quite a few people in line. Another car pulled up at the same exact time as us, and those people (a guy and girl) made it to the line before us. A store employee arrived shortly after and announced that they had 18 consoles in stock.

A guy in line behind us, who had waited in line unsuccessfully on 4 previous occasions, did a head count of who was getting wiis. The couple before us were getting Wii's # 17 and 18! After they found out that particular fact, they didn't face us for the rest of the time in line. I can't be sure they were actually a couple. I suppose they could've been friends who just drove in together, but there was a guilty look about them.

There were, in fact, several couples/families in line who were each going to get a Wii, most likely to resell on Ebay, or for other friends/family who couldn't bother to get up early to wait in line with the rest of us. The very sad guy behind us (#20) offered $325 to anyone in the line ahead of him to buy their wii. Turns out that the first people in line had set up a chair for a friend of theirs who wasn't sure if he was coming. They were "saving" his place. The lady made a call to her friend who decided to take #20's $75 extra bucks and sleep in instead of coming out to wait in line. Another "gentleman" in line ahead of us happened to have a wii in his trunk, which he walked around and offered to the people behind us for $365, and then went back in line to buy yet another wii to resell. ARG! These people have no sense of fairness or decency.

So the hunt goes on.