Eternal....Something

Yesterday my sister April got married! Congratulations to her! It really was a great day. Busy, crazy, tiring, and slightly chilly...but great. This was wedding #6 for me. (Not quite 27, but I'm on my way!) Each of them has had a special little twist.

Two weddings ago, my best friend who is a little over a year younger than me had a reception in my home ward where we grew up together. Those who knew our age difference gave me looks that said, "Wait, aren't you older than she is?" or "No hope for you then, I guess."

The last wedding I was in was in a completely different state where I knew no one. The only problem with that was that I still stood in line, but being at the end and from out of town, nobody cared to shake my hand. (Although, I'm not sure I'd consider that a problem.)

The catch for this particular wedding was that all of the guests know us both and being the younger sister...expect me to follow soon after. Through all of the "You must be next!"s and the "When will this be you?"s and the "I wouldn't give you more than a year!"s I came to a definite and liberating resolution:

Weddings are totally more trouble than they're worth. When I do finally get married, it'll be a total surprise to everyone!!! Close relatives* will receive invitations to some exotic temple ceremony with flight itineraries enclosed one week prior to the marriage. I will send out anouncements the day I get back from my honeymoon with an address listed to which friends may send gifts should they so wish. NOBODY will have to stand in line next to me and receive consolation comments and unnecessary pressure. I believe THAT is what makes me a true friend.

*If you would like to be on the "free plane tickets" list rather than the "find out sometime later and send gift" list I will need to know. Not any time soon, however...

Life or Something Like It

I've been getting a lot of flack about not updating my blog often enough. My first thought in response to this is, "Geez, sorry people...I have an actual life." Of course, I never get around to saying it because it doesn't take too long for me to realize how ridiculously untrue that statement is. In an attempt to illustrate this whilst giving you all a legitimate update on my life right now, I'll give you a rundown of the usage of my time this week.

Work: 15.5 hours (I was off today.)
Cooking: 3 hours
Eating: more than 3 hours
Shopping: 6 hours
Sleeping: 20 hours
Making sarcastic remarks to my 6 year old nephew: 1 hour
Feeding the baby: 1 hour
Watching movies: 6 hours
Working on my sister's wedding: 3 hours

Okay bottom line: I work a part-time job that requires me to be in bed by 10pm in order to be at work the next morning at 5:30. I don't date and have few hobbies. I know the names of every character on All My Children. Heaven knows I have time to update my blog more often. We'll get there...you'll see!

Fancy Free?

Some of you may be thinking to yourselves at this moment, "Was Ami's blog always this fabulous?" No. It wasn't until this evening as I sat at a friend's house watching her create a blog for my sister that I realized how ugly and simple my humble blog has been. My deepest apologies to my readers.

It was in that same moment (when she asked if I had a blog and I was sincerely embarrassed for her to see it) that I began a deep and thorough investigation of the simplicity of life that I've settled into. What other details have I let slide? What lovely little happinesses have I left out? The investigation went as follows:

--- "Wow. My blog is lame. Have people actually been reading that? When was the last time I painted my toenails? Do I shave my legs all the way, or just to the knee? Holy smokes! Look at these split ends! I should eat salmon more often. I love salmon. Why don't I own a pair of hot boots? Would I ever wear boots? I need a new library card. I love photos! I ought to own a camera. I could post the pictures on my blog! Man. My blog is lame." ---

And so we see that this new and improved blog page is not merely a small piece of cyberspace set aside for the rantings of a moderately sarcastic and everlastingly single young woman...but the gateway to a higher level of living. It is my belief* that quality of life is directly related to blog aesthetics.

*This theory has yet to be proven.