What irritates you?

Foreplay? Just make sure to do it in the first 13 minutes?

you can rest when your dead!

chop! chop!

Again?

Oh, OK. I guess. When you say it like that. :pbpt:

Heh - This seems to be in the wrong thread. :chagrin:

My computers processor just deciding to stop and start working again whenever it feels like doing so. :angry: :angry:

That's what happens when you get older, Mikey, things process on their own time.

brides - or rather bridzilla has struck again.

friend(?) of mine - who is not a close friend, but a friend, when she worked down the street we met for lunch a few times a month - is getting married Saturday.

I wasn't invited to the wedding (no big deal) or any of the other stuff - bridal shower / bachelorette party yada yada yada... (again, no big deal)

She just emails me (it's um WED!) with this sweet :eyeroll: little note that starts out all chatty with... Oh hi! Haven't seen you in a few weeks (she's in the cult) been so busy with details for the wedding - yada yada... we should do lunch soon.

and um... do you think you can get me wine @ your discount for about 350 people?

Tacky, tacky, tacky.

what's that old saying....... "Just say NO!" :eyeroll:

I did.

I guess what gets me is I have 12? (maybe more) engaged friends right now - and 8 or 9 of them are still the same great people they have always been.

3 (one is boarderline) are nuts. completely nuts. 2 have friggin websites where you can view every little detail - of the up coming event.

and gawd forbid you ask one of them to coffee and to chat - without asking the BOTH of them.. or worse yet, you get the friend sans fiance and you get 2 hours of ... catering / flowers and deciding who sits where chat.

blah. I just want my friends back. The intelligent, funny women who would send me cute jokes and were open to sushi on a thursday night.

Thinking I fixed my computer problem and still have the new one on the way.

weddings were invented to screw up life for everybody else... not so two people can be happy... thats just a common myth...

I'd like to see how many of those guys are giddy :eyeroll:

I guess tradition is one thing, but I'd be curious what types of weddings the not-so-consumer-driven countries have. :eyeroll:

Call me what you will but I see a lot of that as a big fricken scam. Every year there's one more thing a wedding just needs to have or it isn't considered special. :eyeroll: :eyeroll:

I'm not what you say giddy, but I'm enjoying how things are turning out. We're not going for this big spectacle. We want something that us and our guests will have fun at. It's insane watching some of these wedding/bridezilla shows, how much they're spending on crap. Hell, we're going with flowers from Sam's Club. If it's your wedding, it's going to be special regardless. Having friends and family there helps make it more special, not getting some ice sculpture of an intricate design that dispenses cake.

We saved a ton of money on our wedding. We splurged on the honeymoon.

Like you said - it's special regardless. And besides do you know how many people I've met that divorce before they've even paid off their wedding debt?

I'm sure alot of the younger people thought our wedding was plain and unimpressive. But my mom said more people (usually older) came up to her and said what a nice traditional wedding we had. They were glad to see that some people knew the true meaning of the day rather than spend a small fortune trying to show off and impress people.

We saved a ton of money on our wedding. We splurged on the honeymoon

Exactly! Our wedding was part of our honeymoon. We used it as an excuse to splurge on a nice long trip to Hawaii. Call us selfish, but it's our day. No one elses. The small reception we had when we returned was for the family and friends. And that was paid off before we even gave it. The money we received went to our camper and not to paying off the wedding.

We even had Don Ho at the ceremony. :cool: :wink:

thats what one of my cousins did.... her and her guy got married last year in Vegas, and then came home and had a small reception...

I missed both... couldnt afford Vegas, and was kind of "uninvited" from the other, for reasons I'd rather not disclose

another cousin on the other side of the family, who resides in Texas - and his fiance, actually rented an island resort deal down in the carribean.... and did the same thing, once they got home.... threw a small reception for people that couldnt make the trip

either of those would have been great.... If I hadnt of been laid off right before-hand

Its funny how all this wedding talk, is all in the irritation thread, by the way... :goofy:

good stuff. :eyeroll: :wink:

2 grand?

We cheaped out on a lot of stuff and it still cost us 10 grand!

me either.

you all spent a lot!

lets see - license $35

dress (beautiful on clearance rack was $120 - sundress) $25

flowers $15

silver milking bucket to carry my flowers (which now holds the ashes from my fireplace) $20

Officient $65

Total cost $160

oh and dinner after (my mommy picked up) was about $60 - we were drove into Reno from being out on the truckee river.

my inlaws the next summer threw us a little BBQ to meet the other side of the family, but I don't think they spent more than $200 on that either.

I've worn the dress about 10 times since, it's perfect actually to wear as a guest at a summer wedding.

should I ever re-marry...

It's gonna be me, him and a trip to either belize or cancun or somewhere warm and tropical for a few days.

Barefoot, sundress, skip the flowers...

the only thing I think I'd splurge on this time is I'd hire a photographer.

and when we come home, a BBQ to see our friends.

We spent no more than $500 on everything. Of course that was 35 years ago and we only had immediate family, my maid of honor and her fiance.

We had an open house reception a couple weeks later.

Perfect.

We had a very small ceremony and including the reception which was about 20 people we spent less then $1000. The most expensive part was paying for the translator for the paperwork. My sister in law did the translation for the service. It was easy for us too that if you wanted to come you were more then welcome, but you had to fly to Germany. So it made the stress factor ZERO!!

yeah, I don't get these 'all out' weddings. One of my best friends from LA just called me (sobbing) she had to spend *choke* $480 on her bridesmaids dress for her sisters wedding.

Mom and Dad are spending over $25K and it's "so hard" to keep it @ that, they could easily spend $35k.

bleech. no thanks.

ours was 8 grand.

the most expensive was my dress ($800) and the dinner for 65 people.

We tipped $100 on top of the $75 to our woman justice of the peace.

Feels strange that we didn't get married by a pastor. Our 'vows' were written by me - there was no 'for richer or poorer' or 'to death do us part'.

I heard this story once about a couple who got married. They gave the pastor a pair of gloves for performing the ceremony. He didn't want to be ungrateful so he graciously/disappointedly accepted the gloves. One day, like years later...the pastor actually put the gloves on... he couldn't get them on... turns out there was a $10 bill stuffed up in each finger.

One of my mom's boyfriends in the 1970's - was a bigwig of some legal institute in NY. When his daughter got married, I was the flower girl - it was held @ the Plaza and was like a fairy princess dreamland.

My mom said he paid about 70k for the wedding back then - and she didn't even stay married for a year.

fancy wedding does not make the marraige.

fancy wedding does not make the marraige.

amen to that.

there was no 'for richer or poorer' or 'to death do us part'.

OOOOohhhh - Do I see a loooophole?!?!? :worried: :ooh:

completely irritated right now... gonna have nightmares...

for the past....however long, we've been skipping out on Phalen, and walking Nokomis, Calhoun, and Harriet.... so tonight, our lil group of late-night walk team members decided to make a triumphant return to our "home park"....

And what did we find?

Naked people! :angry:

lots of them.... like 7 guys and a few chicks too... all hanging out on the island, drunk out of their minds, being loud as hell and chasing everybody else out of the park (for 1:00 AM there were alotta people there, for whatever reason)

I almost had to hit one of them in the face, cause he came too close, with his "i'm naked, and i own this park" shpeel that he was preaching to passers-by

jesus, that sucked....

good time to call the cops I suppose, if they're not too busy chasing down fake WMD toting zombie wannabes....

none of us had a celly-phone on us for whatever reason...

although I think somebody else may have called them... when we were on the other side of the lake, we could see all kinds of tail-lights, and flashy "cop like" lights in the park....

hopefully they got that dude that tried to step to me... he got damn lucky.... I aint been in the best mood lately....

then again... beating up a naked guy probably wouldnt be all that cool anyhow...

somebody should have directed them down the path to Keller, where all those other freaky, naked people got busted a few summers back....

:eyeroll: :chagrin:

work....

seriously....

being told one thing....and getting the shaft 2 days later....

bastards....seriously.....I'z ticked right now...

I'm laughing my a$$ off (sorry WN) naked people? OMG! I love it! We encounter groups like that occasionally in one of the parks here at sunset - doing yoga and praying to ??? anyways, they are kinda wierd - and we tend to stay away from their crop circle.

Also at Bay to Breakers there is about 500 or so participants that go naked. I think it's kinda cool.

I think it woulda been kinda funny to know they were there before-hand and then show up armed with megaphones, or maybe air horns, and some of those giant spot-lights that they have in the camping aisle at Target....

just scare the crap out of them all...

I wish we would have just went with our original plan to mess around with the sprinklers on the golf course, instead, though....

word to the wise: golf course sprinklers are NICE, when its this hot.

next time, bring a video camera and super soakers filled with baby oil and then tell them thank you for showing up to the casting of oil wrestlers gone wild.

begin filming, while other people soak them with the oil, and someone shouts "rub together now!" or 'on the ground and roll like you mean it'.

OMG! priceless

parking ticket :frown:

I need a pickmeup ....

are we going tonight or tomorrow night to Ribfest? either is fine with me

looks like Tim and Becksie are going with too ...

R U not playing in tonights poker champions tourney @ JR's?

uggghhhh... So here I am, getting the new business software installed and setup. Trying to get people trained in how to use it. We have a 2 hour online class with the software company, and the only person that paid attention was me. Mostly it was hard to, because everyone else was yapping about stuff other than learning the software.

Translated. In two weeks when we go live with the new software, everyone is gonna be asking me how to do their work, because they don't know how.

Yes, I know it's boring to learn, I'm not all excited about it myself, but at least try to remember you're gonna be using the stuff every day you work here. Maybe it would be in your best interests to learn it?

....going into work in the middle of an office move....

now I don't have a mousepad, headset, pen, paper,

quarters, wtf....I feel like I'm sitting here nakid....

at least on monday I've got a new spiffy office about 2 miles away....which is on a lake with a walking path....(sounds like a new cache location)

but, you've got Google

thats all you need :sillygrin:

On Survivor you used to be able to bring 1 item with you to where ever the location was.

I can see kitch saying "I can't live without my google" :goofy:

one item??

hmmm.....

is a pc hooked up to the internet an item?

I think i'd bring a bottle of Everclear...

Its good for starting fires, and when the other contestants start to piss you off, you can just drink it...

I was going to bring a favorite 400 percale sheet as my luxury item on Survivor. A sheet would serve so many uses: to keep cool, to keep warm, as a towel, as a tent, a flag, a dress/toga, or even just as a snugglie soft crying towel, :pbpt:

irritates: (list is long today)

Computer system deciding to double everything in my inventory - on the day when I close month end.

bigger (more scary irritation) this weekend when I was @ my BF's we went to a dinner party, and my dogs (mostly my big dog) ripped down his brand new fence and gate - to get out, and the big guy was lost for about 6 hours in an unfamiliar area.

Thank gawd for micro chipping - got a call @ 3am he had been brought to a scanning center by the neighbor 3 doors down - so I could go get him.

He's ok, and was fed bacon and balony - I on the other hand... was really tramatized.

your dog escapes and when you get him back ya feed him people food?

Isn't that gonna teach him to try and escape again?

as someone who's had plenty of dogs figure ways out of yards in my lifetime... I can honestly say that after they get out, and I cant find them after a couple of hours... Ive found that if a neighbor, or animal control, or whoever else hasnt picked them up - they usually end up coming home on their own, several hours later, very dehydrated, very hungry, and very ashamed that they left in the first place....

and wont try to do it again.... atleast for a week or so... :eyeroll: :goofy: