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Still searching for videographer. Graham doesn't mind, it can just be someone that uses a point and shoot camera that has video. It may end up being just that! My cousin's girlfriend's daughter has ties to the film and tv industry, she's going to ask her if she can do it or knows someone that can and I have a second cousin that has film editing experience and I've asked his mother to find out if he can take video. I can't imagine he couldn't if he can also do editing and things. But he works 6 days a week and might not be able to get the day off though I'm willing to pay him to do it, same with my other cousin's girlfriend's daughter. She was made redundant last week and my second cousin usually needs money too so either may be willing. He may be willing to forgo a day's pay if i'm paying anyway. We'll see. I don't know if either one has a camcorder but even using the point and shoot won't be too bad as it does decent video. Usually.
I think that's the last big thing.
Little stuff includes making bits and pieces for decor and for the cake, picking up pantyhose (or knee highs if i'm feeling lazy), getting a pedicure and a manicure and maybe gel nails put on.
I made a homemade sugar scrub for my face yesterday. It did feel smooth after! Apparently that's a good thing to try if you have problem skin. It's got olive oil in it but you clean it off and I used an astringent as well to get the traces off my face. Otherwise, you don't really want oil on your face but i don't have oily skin to start with. The woman at the spa that did my facial the other day mentioned a sugar scrub for exfoliation. Maybe i'll try that once a week or so.
Dentist tomorrow. I delayed my appointment to have it closer to the wedding so my teeth would be fairly freshly cleaned and polished.
Had fun at the retirment party on Saturday night, excellent to see the old school crowd. I always thinks it's so great how we've all kept in touch over the years. Most of the women are joining me for a pre-wedding lunch in a couple of weeks and most of the group will be at the wedding.
Books:
29 - The Substitute: The Wedding by Denise Grover Swank
Standard issue chicklit about a woman who is totally cowed by her mother, so much that she didn't tell her family that she and her fiance split up and is flying home for the "wedding" which hasn't been cancelled in order to tell them then. She meets a handsome stranger on the flight who's trying to save his company and coincidentally, her father's company is the one that seems to be the problem. She takes gravol and combines it with drinks and gets totally out of it. He helps her off the plane, is mistaken for her fiance whom nobody has met. He takes advantage to get an "in" with her father though he finds her attractive just the same. No guesses as to what happens, right? Light, easy reading, mind candy, though she's a bit annoying in her ability to stand up to her family through most of the book.
30 - We'll always have Paris - Jennifer Coburn
Mother and young to teenage daughter take trips to Europe every few years to make memories. Mother is scared of dying young like her father and wants her daughter to have those special memories. As much about her relationship with her late father as it is about her experiences traveling with her young but wise daughter.
31 - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Tells the story of a post-pandemic world with flashbacks. Young girl, an actress, is on stage when a famous male actor dies onstage during King Lear. That night a pandemic starts as an infections virus proceeds to wipe out most of the world's population. Jump forward 20 years to that same young woman, now an actor in a traveling troupe. We revisit the actor's life and several other related characters both before and after the "apocolypse". It's about survival. The actor seems to be the key that connects all the others in various ways. Well told, well written. Liked it a lot.
32 - Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
Another hit. Really liked this one too. 1922, a spinster and her mother must take in lodgers due to reduced circumstances. Her brothers died in the war and her father died leaving them in dire straits, having botched up the family finances. The young couple they take on are slightly lower in the social pecking order. There is a lot of adjustment on both sides. Spinster turns out to be a lesbian who had an affair during the war but ended it to stay and look after her mother after the family deaths. She falls for the wife lodger and she returns the affection. Eventually everything hits the fan and tragedy ensues. The ending kind of leaves you hanging, but otherwise very good book.
I think that's the last big thing.
Little stuff includes making bits and pieces for decor and for the cake, picking up pantyhose (or knee highs if i'm feeling lazy), getting a pedicure and a manicure and maybe gel nails put on.
I made a homemade sugar scrub for my face yesterday. It did feel smooth after! Apparently that's a good thing to try if you have problem skin. It's got olive oil in it but you clean it off and I used an astringent as well to get the traces off my face. Otherwise, you don't really want oil on your face but i don't have oily skin to start with. The woman at the spa that did my facial the other day mentioned a sugar scrub for exfoliation. Maybe i'll try that once a week or so.
Dentist tomorrow. I delayed my appointment to have it closer to the wedding so my teeth would be fairly freshly cleaned and polished.
Had fun at the retirment party on Saturday night, excellent to see the old school crowd. I always thinks it's so great how we've all kept in touch over the years. Most of the women are joining me for a pre-wedding lunch in a couple of weeks and most of the group will be at the wedding.
Books:
29 - The Substitute: The Wedding by Denise Grover Swank
Standard issue chicklit about a woman who is totally cowed by her mother, so much that she didn't tell her family that she and her fiance split up and is flying home for the "wedding" which hasn't been cancelled in order to tell them then. She meets a handsome stranger on the flight who's trying to save his company and coincidentally, her father's company is the one that seems to be the problem. She takes gravol and combines it with drinks and gets totally out of it. He helps her off the plane, is mistaken for her fiance whom nobody has met. He takes advantage to get an "in" with her father though he finds her attractive just the same. No guesses as to what happens, right? Light, easy reading, mind candy, though she's a bit annoying in her ability to stand up to her family through most of the book.
30 - We'll always have Paris - Jennifer Coburn
Mother and young to teenage daughter take trips to Europe every few years to make memories. Mother is scared of dying young like her father and wants her daughter to have those special memories. As much about her relationship with her late father as it is about her experiences traveling with her young but wise daughter.
31 - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Tells the story of a post-pandemic world with flashbacks. Young girl, an actress, is on stage when a famous male actor dies onstage during King Lear. That night a pandemic starts as an infections virus proceeds to wipe out most of the world's population. Jump forward 20 years to that same young woman, now an actor in a traveling troupe. We revisit the actor's life and several other related characters both before and after the "apocolypse". It's about survival. The actor seems to be the key that connects all the others in various ways. Well told, well written. Liked it a lot.
32 - Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
Another hit. Really liked this one too. 1922, a spinster and her mother must take in lodgers due to reduced circumstances. Her brothers died in the war and her father died leaving them in dire straits, having botched up the family finances. The young couple they take on are slightly lower in the social pecking order. There is a lot of adjustment on both sides. Spinster turns out to be a lesbian who had an affair during the war but ended it to stay and look after her mother after the family deaths. She falls for the wife lodger and she returns the affection. Eventually everything hits the fan and tragedy ensues. The ending kind of leaves you hanging, but otherwise very good book.
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I have that Bullet Maker's Daughter on the ereader in the next batch of books to read!