gkr: @John_J_Ryan@shegeekshow I successfully talked my wife into couch co-op. She's never played Diablo before! It's going to go super great! 6 days ago
gkr: @ForrestTheWoods Joshua Jackson ⇔ Fringe, James Van Der Beek ⇔ Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. I've never seen Dawson's Creek either. 1 week ago
gkr: Two of the most entertaining shows on TV are that entertaining in part because they feature one male lead each from Dawson's Creek.
Huh. 1 week ago
gkr: @MrPope@taswell Of the ~80 developers I have in my contact list, only 2 of them are using AIM. Should I go ahead and pack up my things now? 1 week ago
gkr: @smgrissom That'd be perfect if I wanted to hate myself more than I already do. I've pretty much got it covered without any apps! High five. 2 weeks ago
gkr: I would have used "whilst" in that last tweet, but I want to, you know, go to heaven when I die. 2 weeks ago
gkr: I'm all about workplace dental hygiene, but it just CANNOT be worth brushing your teeth while someone is currently pooping five feet away. 2 weeks ago
gkr: Sometimes I just long to hear those three little words. The most beautiful words in this, or any language:
"Out For Delivery" 2 weeks ago
gkr: @shegeekshow Depends on how many times you count 2D vs. 3D. I guess... two and a half times? I don't know how it works. 2 weeks ago
gkr: @Jkooza A few years back, some friends and I took a train to Arashiyama to see MONKEY MOUNTAIN (Iwatayama Monkey Park). Beautiful area, too. 2 weeks ago
gkr: Saw @cheapassjames and @kuraine while walking around Ballard today. Neither spotted me. Cloaking technology seems to be fully operational. 2 weeks ago
gkr: Glasses fell off my face and landed lenses down on the sidewalk. I now have one tiny scratch in the center of each lens. #glassesstigmata 2 weeks ago
gkr: And that was the day I learned that if you haven't been syncing apps through iTunes, you can't transfer them from one iPad to another. 2 weeks ago
gkr: @WillingBlam Still working on getting your fabulous wife's Avengers Black Widow work in there, too. But no matter what, we're all winners. 2 weeks ago
gkr: RT @DamonLindelof: Me: "I may not be able to eat this large popcorn by myself, but you can be damn sure I'll avenge it."
Concession Dude: "$7.50 please." 2 weeks ago
gkr: @WillingBlam And in case you didn't know, only a few weeks until Avengers Hulk (voiced by you) shows up in @SHSOgame. It's a magical time. 2 weeks ago
gkr: @John_J_Ryan Us too! We should have a rumble. It'll be "East Side Story". Dibs on being the Jets. 2 weeks ago
Garrett of Aderyn Productions just uploaded our little highlights video — so very cool. The “big” video is being edited as a generous gift from a very generous and very busy friend, so we won’t see that one for quite some time. But we’ll post the rest of the pics once we get them.
For now, enjoy!
Yesterday marked the arrival of our first wave of family and friends visiting for our wedding — yay! We also just received some cool news from local vendors that we’ like to pass along to our wedding guests.
–Clover House, located in the courtyard across from the Pan Pacific Hotel, will give a 10% discount if you mention our wedding. (I urge you to use our first names instead of our last here.) This is an adorable shop with cards, gifts and cool souvenirs, many of which are from local artists.
–Vida Spa, also located in the courtyard across from the Pan Pacific, is extending a 15% group discount to all guests of our wedding. Just be sure to mention the Culler/Roberts wedding when you book.
Can’t wait to start celebrating with everyone soon!
We got our invitations out, but there were the expected number of foibles. Yikes! Sorry for a couple of them getting out later than intended.
If any of you would like to just call or email us your RSVP info, we would be more than happy to take it! You can also just touch base with our families if that’s easiest.
As we draw nearer to Valentine’s Day, red hearts get a bit old. Not this one, though: Grant snuck this image on to my laptop after I went to bed, so when I inevitably woke up before him and opened up my computer, this is all I saw:
Nice to be reminded that I’m marrying the right guy.
I just dreamt that our wedding crept up on us so suddenly that we still hadn’t finalized the flowers yet. So there were just no flowers. (Even though this time, we actually HAVE booked a florist!) For some reason we also seemed to be missing chairs and tables. My hair wasn’t done and… yeah, you get the idea.
Now that we’re finally back from all the wonderful travels of 2009, it’s time to get cracking! First things first: no more hydrangeas. Brides-to-be, I can’t urge you to do this enough — go to a nice grocery store or florist, buy a few of the different varietals of flowers you were considering having for your wedding, and throw them in vases around your apartment. If, by the end of a week, you HATE any given flower, that’s one you shouldn’t use in your wedding floral arrangements.
Bye bye, blue hydrangeas — my love of a matchy-matchy color scheme has officially been surpassed by my dislike of boring, bushy, country-looking flowers (that wilt and bruise easily) for our sleek, minimalist indoor vaguely Asian venue. Green orchids and deep purple calla lilies are the new golden child right now.
Dress is being made… check. Shoes have been in my closet for months… check. Oh, yeah, in my dream Grant hadn’t gotten my actual wedding ring resized yet (from a 3 to a 7, so not like I could just stick it on another finger!). I better see to it that that gets done next, too. Maybe wedding stress nightmares are a good thing!
The past two nights in a row, I started to have weird zonky wedding dreams, including a completely recast set of parents and in-laws (whom I don’t recognize), and a venue I’ve never laid eyes on in real life that looked like it was straight out of some fictional Hamptons party from Gossip Girl. With fugly carpeting.
The last dream I had (on Thursday night/early morning) involved everyone being like “The wedding’s this weekend, come on guys!” and me being confused since we have yet to pick a photographer or flowers.
Huh.
Guess it’s time to start interviewing photographers and florists. And going to bed earlier.
Ever since reading it in some dumb magazine-suggested wedding playlist, I have had Ce Ce Peniston’s “Finally” stuck in my head. The next man I meet with brown cocoa skin and curly black hair may end up tragically dead.
At least, at full price — I got a giant pile of them from Sarah when we first got engaged, and those have been helpful. But paying for your own ones? Screw that noise.
Case in point: I finally caved and purchased what was maybe my second or third brand-new wedding magazine before our flight home from the engagement party. (Might as well, right? That’s the one thing those airport news stands don’t mark up extra, and we had a long dull flight ahead of us.) This one was InStyle Weddings, I think.
Bleh. Not only are most wedding magazines just ads for engagement rings (which fundamentally DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, as that step should already be taken care of by the time you start wedding planning! Right? Is their target market really the WISHFUL THINKING crowd? God save us!), but they’re also just not realistic — most photo shoots are for inaccessible couture gowns, or NYC-only patisseries, etc. Not exactly your “everyday bride” material. (And don’t even get me started on what a waste those local city-specific wedding mags are — sorry, friends, but so far I’ve found them a) worthless, and b) unnecessary to pay for, since swanky venues try to bribe you by giving you copies for free at their open houses.)
The one notable exception to this is Martha Stewart Weddings. But in contrast, that magazine is so robust with great ideas and affordable cute crafts, etc. (not to mention that they put the full content of all the useful stuff online for free) that a girl can get completely overwhelmed just peeking at a few pages. So it’s kind of a tough trade-off.
I think my strategy for the time being is to go back to playing Final Fantasy VIII with my husband-to-be.
Virginia
Writer, editrix, linguist, polyglot, online dating consultant, software tester, intermittently lazy blogger, natural skincare enthusiast, amateur foodie, wife of Grant.
Enjoys turquoise.
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loveb_ug: Aaaah hahaha. @textinstagram is pretty great, as Twatire* goes.
*Twitter satire -- we're all in agreement about this term, right? 4 weeks ago
loveb_ug: "Don't trust the b----- in Apartment 23" turned out to be a much better show than I expected. Stick with it past the pilot before you quit. 4 weeks ago