Graduation Dress - Take Three

So, more about the graduation dress. The Target dress happens to look a lot like this original 1950/60s dress. Just thought I'd mention that.

I was invited to a Gilmore Girls party and want to go...but I've never seen Gilmore Girls before. Am I totally out of the loop or something? I just never watch TV. We don't even have cable at my house. But I don't really have an issue with that. I can't imagine that the show would be that good...but I don't know. : )

I hate working out but after actually working out I feel so great and love it so much. But I never seem to remember that when it's time to work out. Short term memory, I guess. I am a complainer though when people make me walk places I don't want to go...like the time that we went on a six hour hike with Vince's family...

We started out hiking this nice nature trail but really had no idea where it went to. But they were all convinced that it would lead either back to the car or to 'the other side'/a road, and then someone would go back and get the car. I - being the total pessimist that I am - was not convinced. So...three hours later, after much complaining from the pennut gallery, the trees above suddenly open up and we see one of those brown wooden bulletin boards marking the trail...and right there, filling the entire valley is one giant swamp. Yeah, way to go. So of course I complained, Vince's little brother, Eric bawled his eyes out (awww!) and the dog promptly got entangled with a porcupline and emerged from a bush with quills in her mouth. And I complained some more. I prayed for divine providence to whisk us away from this dreadful hike, but no such luck. After prying the porcupine quills from the dog's mouth we hiked the three hours back to the car. It was stinky. All of the sites looked the same, I grumbled, and watched my feet the entire time for snakes (on hikes, I always manage to be the one who is leaping sky high into the air and shreiking because snakes mysteriously turn up at my feet - not cool). When we got back I napped for the remainder of the day. Oh - I forgot to add - it started raining on the way back and we had to take shelter in a little hut! Ugh! My escorts had no cellphone (not that it would have worked in the mountains), no first aid kit, no map, no umbrella, no idea where we were going, and no food - not even candy! So that's the story of the longest period I've complained nonstop. : )