We're off to Jeff and Anne-Marie's wedding this afternoon, but there's tons to do before we leave. We have 100 wine glasses and 100 water glasses that we're bringing to the event, which are left over from our wedding in 2004... and haven't been washed since. Blech!
When we were married, our caterer called us two days before the event and told us we wouldn't have any glasses -- she didn't provide them. So we had to scramble to rent some glasses from an event planning service. The services were quoting me 3-4 dollars per glass, for a 36-hour weekend rental. We could get the same glasses at the Dollarama for $1, or sometimes $0.50, and we could keep them.
So my brother Andy and sister-in-law Pam went to 4 different dollar stores and bought two hundred glasses. Moms and aunts spent hours washing and packing them, and by the end of the day we had glasses for everyone.
At the end of the wedding we asked everyone to take a glass or two, but not enough people did. So we've got 4 cases of glasses on our back porch, which we've never bothered to wash or deal with. When Jeff called and asked about them, I told him, "You can have all the glasses you want, but you have to keep them!" He went for it.
Jeff and Anne-Marie are friends from our Tuesday-night dinners. Their first date was our wedding party, and they've become closer and closer since. Both are fantastic people; Jeff runs 2 (3?) record companies in Montreal, and Anne-Marie is a statistics and programming genius and rock-and-roll goddess. Both have crazy gleams in their eyes -- they're just fun and cool. I'm really glad they're marrying each other.
The wedding is going to be near Mont Tremblant, so we'll be staying in the mountains over the weekend. We also signed on to make quiches and hummus for the buffet. And we have to pack the baby up. Fun times! Weddings are so great.
tags: wedding jeff anne-marie glasses dollar store weekend
Manif
We went to our friends Teodora & Alain's house last weekend, just before leaving for Mesh, and we left our fancy Heart to Heart baby sling there. Much to my chagrin, in fact, since as a non-nurser just about the only way I can get the baby to sleep is to put her in the sling and walk her up and down the hall about 200 times, usually singing whatever songs I can remember (campfire songs, 80s pop, Eek-a-Mouse, Velvets, whatever).
So I had to get the sling today, and managed to leave the Plateau just as a giant teeny-bopper demonstration wended its way down rue Lanaudière to Parc La Fontaine. According to CBC, it was a youth protest calling for more unity and awareness worldwide. Frankly, it sounds kind of vague to me, but I like it when kids take to the streets, so good on them. So-so-so! So-li-dar-i-té!
I went and got the sling (thanks Alain!), got back in the car and was stopped by a cop at Mont Royal station; no through traffic. Crap! Down to Rachel -- blocked at av Christophe-Colombe. Double-crap! However, I managed to wend my way onto ave Bureaux, the alley behind our house, and crossed 6 streets to get back home. It was kind of tough, and probably not very nice, to push my way through the manif when it hit a slow spot, but what could I do?
Anyways, it's raining like cats and dogs here. And washing old glasses and making hummus is really taking its toll. Gar.
tags: rain hummus manif youth alleys sneaky
Wonderment
Why is Quinn's blog so good and Danny's blog so pants?