La Vida Roja with Crazy Red
Crazy Red
The Wedding Reception Afterglow
Saturday we held the wedding reception for my second born daughter. This is the daughter that back in July took the cash option offered her to elope rather than have a traditional church wedding. (See my previous posting.)
I thought she might do one of two things, take the money and break off the engagement OR stop fooling around and plan the damn wedding! To that point the only dress that had been purchased was mine! (Which was killer, BTW.) Little did I suspect that she would take the $$$ and run. To Las Vegas in August. August 13, 2008 — which is also the doomed and disastrous anniversary date of yours truly and the father of second born daughter. My state of pissed off over this turn of events lasted only as long as it took me to realize that she had just saved me a ton of pain, suffering and aggravation not to mention the $$$!! I had met the future in-laws, finally after many months of the issue of our meeting being sidestepped and avoided and now I know why. Let me just say this one thing about them and then we will leave it alone, for now. ... Everything that I am, they are the exact opposite... Think "The Birdcage" with me in the role of Albie, if Albie were a real woman and not a drag queen, and you have a fairly clear idea of what we were up against.
So, I had a complete change of heart and there was much singin' and dancin' and chortlin' with glee in CrazyRedLand at my good fortune to have given birth to at least one child who was sensible until... once again fate and a pissed off mother-in-law interceded and on October 25, 2008, the previously planned for marriage date became the date of the wedding reception to honor the happy couple and I was back in wedding planning hell once again. My daughter, without discussing it with me aforehand and, in effort to appease her new mother-in-law who had not taken the Viva Las Vegas wedding nearly as well as I did, had made an offer in compromise, hence, the wedding reception. Of course, she was right once again and I set to work planning a home grown variety using harvest/fall colors as my jumping off point not only because of the time of year but mostly because those colors look great on me and coincidentally my killer dress was a killer shade of rust orange and I was determined to wear it come hell or high water. Which I did.
So, the month of October has been devoted to two things... cleaning my filthy dog hair laden house in time for the party AND dealing with my mother and her knee surgery...etc... etc... Everyday since I set foot back in Texas, I have been kicking dirt's ass, cleaning like a woman possessed, the white Tornado, have Dyson - will travel. No, seriously, several times last week it was all I could do to keep from loading my dog and my Dyson in my Tahoe and running away to join the circus or become an itinerant vacuumer or something.. I love my Dyson!! That fucker will suck the dog hair out of the air. If I could just get my dogs not to run from it I would vacuum them... go straight to the source.. what I was talking about? Oh yes...
Therefore, falling under the heading of "Take a picture it lasts longer"... I took pictures of my clean house. I tried to take pictures during the party, but at one point set my camera down and wasn't able to find it again until late yesterday afternoon. Therefore, I have no pictures of myself in my killer orange dress, no pictures of my sisters and I together...dammit! No pictures of the food, which was fabulous and cooked by my son the professional chef, his friend the professional chef and my Beloved, the amateur but really good chef. And only a couple of pictures of my beautiful daughter and her new husband and I was forbidden to blog those. What I do have are two amazing sisters that showed up on time, took over our mother for me and then kicked ass on pulling my house together, fabulous and talented cooks as friends and relations, a beautiful and sensible daughter who can stay calm in a crisis, and a fucking Dyson vacuum cleaner, man! ..... I heart my Dyson!
To sum up, if you are as high, as I am and forgot what I was talking about...
CrazyRed is:
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Still Red
and taking a personal day of rest and relaxation.
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Stevie Nicks performing ``Sara" live
Jefferson Starship performing ``Sara"
