Trixie

OH my poor rat. She has been pretty sick the last few months and I decided I would help her give up the ghost today, because whatever she had was starting to really pack a punch on her little old blobby body. She was a good pet, and I euthanized her at home tonight using a homemade co2 chamber and some benadryl. I cried a lot but stayed with her until her last breath. I know it seems weird because she's is JUST A RAT! but she was my sweet pet, she was always happy to see me ( I think it was all about the treats). I don't think I'll get another rat for a while, if my kids want one then maybe. I just get too darn attached!

Here is to 75 long rat years!!

So long my sweet girl! You were the cutest rat ever.

Wedding Stuffs Update

Andrew doesn't read my blog (or anyone else's) so I'm not worried about secrets escaping. Plus I tell him everything ANYWAY so I'm sure he'd find out sooner or later.
I'm a terrible secret keeper.

I FINALLY finished my bouquet this weekend! Let me tell you, I know why people charge 400$ online it's hard work! But worth it.

First you start with a pile of brooches.

Then for each one you wrap 22 gage wire either once or twice to create a strong stem, then wrap in green floral tape.

After you got what seems like hundreds of brooches wrapped and taped its time to assemble!

After you get it all pretty and round you wrap it in more green tape! I put little white flowers underneath to hide the stems, I also had cool glass leaves that I added and the rest I'll use for boutonnieres and corsages for Andrew and our parents.

After green tape comes the ribbon and pearly pins!

All done! *sorry for the quality of photos all I had was my computer at the ready*


Semi assembled

 Wrapped and ready to go!

Wedding Dress

I went wedding dress shopping and it was a shenanigan  fun! Bless Wendi, Smashley, and Ann for coming along and telling me I looked pretty. To be honest we found some really beautiful dresses! But they were ALL sleeveless, and though I'm getting married in the Temple and couldn't go strapy anyway, I couldn't help thinking of all the chubby girls who hate their arms. Even if I was able to wear sleeveless I would want sleeves because my arms aren't cover girl tone. People of the wedding world PUT SOME SLEEVES ON DRESSES!
 The dresses were mildly affordable at 5 and 600$ but to add sleeves was another 300$ tacked on to that. Plus I couldn't really find my "dream dress" and though I loved the way I looked in a corset I just couldn't see my self enjoying my special day and breathing at the same time.

As you may know I wanted a 50's style dress. I always have loved the pouffy skirts with petticoats and pockets. They're darling! And usually modest. Enter Ann, she saw my distress on dress shopping day and took charge (I love that woman) she offered to make my dress from a pattern of my choice. And here is what we found!

The solid blue green one in front is what I choose. I LOVED IT! We bought fabric on Thursday, a swishy cream polyester for the base of the dress and a cream lace to cover the top, and a cream sash to flatten it out a bit. Basically it's pretty similar to Kirsten's (future sister in law) dress seen here  so same ingredients different presentation. Mine will be more lacy and more party than classic. We both have similar styles so it's been interesting planning our weddings and trying to keep it unique. Though I think Kirsten wins, her wedding was phenomenally vintage.  Mine will be simple with a few glitzy elements, though as things get closer I get more ideas.

Engagements:

Well we had them! Here are a few that Scott posted on his blog. I should be getting them with in a week or so!

If you want an invite email me at applecomb@yahoo.com

Loves!

More Scott and Kirsten....

OK!

So these are the last I'll post because I know that Scott will be able to do a much better job editing these than I. Basically they're the appetizer before the main course!

Highlights of Scott and Kirsten's wedding!

OH boy...I hope I don't get in trouble for this but I must post a few of the thousands of pictures I took today!

Mostly for Amy Wilson (bff) who called me this morning wondering where the pictures were! I told her the wedding was today!

Today Scott and Kirsten got married! It was wonderful. I'm very tired, but it was truly a great celebration, and I now know why photographers cost hundreds of dollars. It's hard work! But worth it for family ;)

My future husband!

 I'm known for awkward pictures :)

 I don't really know what's going on here...

One last crappy roommate...

Recently I had an experience with one of my very new roommates which could possibly go down in my history book as either one of the most interesting experiences  or enough to piss you off that you go bat-$#*! crazy.

I was the latter.

Now most of this story happened when she first moved in the beginning of September, and as I try to keep my blog tasteful there are times where I just need to vent. The woman makes me so crazy mad I just want to spit at a stranger or her for that matter.
I didn't want to blog about this because it's kind of un-classy to do such things but after tonight I just GOTTA!

She moves in and immediately makes one roommate so mad she moves out the same day. Red flag 
She decides to let her cat roam around the house alone her first weekend here while away on some road trip to who knows where....Her cat is in heat.
She comes home and I try to get to know her, some how the conversation turns to weight and she starts talking about how important it is to her to be skinny, and how she used to be REALLY fat LIKE REALLY HUGE just a bit bigger than me. When I retorted that I'm not my body and kind of felt a little put off, but she reminded me she knew lots of fat people and some of those fat people were smart. Lucky me.
During this conversation I mention in jest that I should be on bi-polar medicine and sometimes I can be high anxiety...*Mistake*

She starts writing annoying notes and I protest to another roommate about how much I hate notes, the next day upon coming home from another 15 hour work/school day and getting in the shower and out without a towel, I dash to my room dripping and within seconds this girl is at my door demanding to talk to me. She's in my face about talking bad about her behind her back, I tell her to her face that I hate notes  so then I'm not talking about her. BUT SHE KEEPS GOING! Just round and round about how she pays rent (she's been living here a week at that point) and deserves to be told things to her face (I'm rarely home) la la la....well the argument escalates because she's escalating me and I'm vulnerable because I'm not dressed. Finally she says "I don't know why this is such a problem for you, obviously this is due to your mental condition"
 WRONG THING TO SAY.

So I get right up in her face and precede to hiss at her to get out of my room and my space.

She does! And promptly calls the police.

Yep. I had the cops called on me!

Best. Day. Ever.

She is of course the victim, after she tells the officer all about how I threatened her physically and she generally feared for her life. I was asked to talk with him and by the end of the whole ordeal he was joking with me and giving me marital advice. When I came back in the house I looked at my victim and thanked her so sweetly for calling such a nice man.

Her cat bit my cat and now he's sick, and she yells at me every time (very hatefully) that nobody saw her cat do it so I can't say that it did,Even though when I got home Em was inside and covered in fresh blood with a tiny puncture wound in his head. Not that this matters to me, they're cats and her cat is a jerk so whatever.
She leaves every light on and the T.V on all day and our power bill has gone up a ton and brings home strange men at 3 am.

I feel as though this is some kind of cosmic joke!

Dear Laura,

It has come to the attention of the heavens that you're getting hitched! Congratulations! To prepare you for this next chapter in life we have given you a most precious gift, a difficult roommate. Please use this gift because it is temporary, kind of like a coupon, expiring the middle of December. This gift will give you lots of stories to tell your  friends & co-workers, meanwhile making you bat-$#*! crazy.

Lots of love!

-The Universe


This may be my petty blog, BUT I'm feeling petty and VERY annoyed with her at this point.

Petty party...table for 1...

Project Practice: Spending time with the cat

My poor kitty! We recently got a new roommate who also has a cat, and I had mentioned that they may fight but she assured me her cat would keep to itself...well it didn't. They got into a little kitty altercation  and Emerson got bit, I didn't think much of it when I picked him up on monday for a snuggle and got covered in blood, I did wash it but then pretty much forgot about it....and it got infected.
I noticed he didn't smell as nice as he usually does last night and saw that it had gotten really inflamed he also seemed lethargic and so I figured it had gotten infected. I took him to the vet this morning and they cleaned the wound which promptly burst draining a bunch of icky rancid fluid, they gave him a ton of antibodies and medicine for me to administer. He still has a fever I think and is sleeping a lot, man I hate that other cat! She has scratched me a few times when I scooted her out of my room! Anyway, tonight was Priesthood session so I got some homework done and hung out with Em.

In the time it took for me to wake up from my 3 hour nap and prepare to actually do something, it had just rained so I took a few pictures.


I love Scott's camera! I violently dislike the fact I have to give it back.

I do however like sunsets, webs, big spiders (outside!) and fall colors!

OH AND PEACHES!!!!! I LOVE PEACHES!

 Boo!