(look at me with my outrageous, tabloid-like headline)
How bad must it be in Iraq? So bad that an entire unit of 17 soldiers may face mutiny charges for refusing to participate in a mission. Yeah, I’d say pretty bad.
On the one hand, I want to say to these people, “good for you.” If your government isn’t going to look out for you, you might as well look out for yourself. On the other hand, it’s a pretty sad day for the American military when our soldiers are refusing to do their “duty”. I admittedly have a pretty weak sense of “duty” but it’s so unsettling to hear that your country is losing control of its military. Not that there’s any way in hell I would even go near Iraq, much less put on fatigues and get sand in my pants trying to put the place back together. Uh… what a mess.
Meredith sent me this link: nerdy linguistics blog analyzes GWB’s first debate performance to determine whether or not W was wired. The conclusion? Not wired, but aren’t phonetics fascinating?
OK, not a great link for a Friday afternoon, but the Internet connection was down today during lunch, so I couldn’t really come up with anything else.
In other news, we’re going for beer and schnitzel and accordian/tuba music this weekend for Octoberfest at Bavaria Hof in Schaumburg.
Hey! It’s poison girl! It was getting a bit too flowery in here, so I changed the template. You may recognize Poison Girl from Geektastic’s third template, back in 2001. After the chicken head and pink glitter templates, but before the hell-vetica or Chicago templates. I like her.
So I decided that a wedding blog is a horrible idea. The original thought was that I would write about wedding stuff, and that would help me get it out of my system so that I wouldn’t become a complete bridezilla. Not Even. In fact, the opposite was beginning to happen. I was becoming obsessed with all things wedding, spending sizeable chunks of time on theknot.com browsing through dresses, hairstyles, and china patterns. Puke.
So it’s back to a regular blog for me. I hope you like it. Okay, I don’t give a crap if you like it or not.
What in the hell is a Tussy Mussy? It looks like some kind of baby rattle. Possibly meant to distract the stressed-out, drooling, bride-to-be?
I think this one says “I threw out my back carrying all those boxes of $250 per place setting china that I got at my 18 different bridal showers.” Or else, “where did my ass go?”
So what does 0.71 carats of Sierra Leonese blood look like? Well, when it’s mounted in platinum with 14 0.22 carat side stones, it looks a little like this. Pretty nice, eh? That’s not the actual ring, but it’s similar. It’s not yet on my finger, but a ring with my name on it (metaphorically) is now in existence.
I didn’t expect that buying an engagement ring would be so much like buying a used car, but… It was a lot like buying a used car. We went to jeweler’s row in Chicago, where I think we got a good deal, but who knows? At least it doesn’t have a transmission to worry about.
Anyway, my Daily Candy Chicago e-mail for today was about WeddingPoints.com, which is some kind of frequent-flyer-miles type program for people getting married. Weird coincidence? Perhaps the Daily Candy people are stalking me?
By the way, I know this new incarnation of Geektastic is bound to alienate part of our “base” but I want you to know that I don’t care. The Chicago blog was too much work. A personal blog is much easier, even if it’s less interesting. So suck it, bitches. This is what you get.
Welcome to the new blog. Bride of Geektastic: the wedding blog. Although I am not yet engaged, Jay and I will be shopping for rings tomorrow. So I apologize if the launch of the new blog is slightly premature, but I’m pretty sure this won’t be falling through. Of course Jay, always the Cubs fan, will likely see this site as a massive jinx, although he probably won’t admit it.
So what can you expect from Bride of Geektastic? I’m trying to cut back on my use of the word “snark,” but it’s hard to separate me from my snark, you know, especially when it comes to serious things like, say, plastic wedding cake toppers and bridal showers. In case you’re concerned about Geektastic straying too far from our snark-infested legacy, I now present you with Five Words That You Will Never See In This Blog Again, Except in the Context of Sarcasm: (List culled from a short sampling of other wedding-themed blogs)
1. Cherish
2. Aubergine
3. Pampered
4. Tulle
5. Cash bar
Alrighty then?
