Wedding Du Jour

David, Meagan, Debbie and I went to his cousin Miki's wedding this morning. David and his siblings call her Teeny, which David says is short for Christine.

The wedding was in the clubhouse next to the motorcycle racetrack at the Sports Park. Several bikers were racing around the track when we got there. Every time one of them zoomed around a curve, their knee skimmed an inch or two above the ground. It's amazing they didn't wipe out.

Miki's new husband Daniel seems nice. Her sister Vikki's husband Nick of 13 years was nice, too. David and Debbie call Vikki "Lizard," which is short for Elizabeth. I'm pretty sure we went to Vikki and Nick's wedding, too, but it may have been Miki's earlier wedding. Between them, Miki and Daniel have 7 kids.

Daniel gave Miki a Marc Chagall print of a woman in a veil and a goat playing a fiddle. He talked about a Julia Roberts movie that said something about life isn't complete until you have a picture of a fiddle playing goat in your house. I must have missed that movie.

Daniel said Marc Chagall was a Russian painter. I thought Chagall was French. When I got home, I looked him up in the encyclopedia. Turns out Chagall was Russian. But he lived in France half his life, so I was kind of right, but Daniel was more right. So, there's your Art History lesson for the day.

Lizard and Lita talked to us during most of the luncheon after the wedding. We figured the last time we saw them was 8 years ago at David's Mom's funeral. It's sad we don't see them very often.

We got to meet Aunt Lita's 22 year old boyfriend who looks like a blonde Donavon. He seems nice enough. And we got to see Lita's tatoos and ear gauges. She told us she took out her nose and eyebrow piercings for the wedding, because Miki doesn't like them. Aunt Lita certainly lives life on her own terms.

Aunt Lita totally loves David. Every time we see her she tells everyone about the first time she and David met. David was 4 or 5 when Uncle Wayne brought Lita to the house. Everyone else held back and stared at her but David ran over and hugged her and said, "I love you!" Ever since then, David can do no wrong in Lita's eyes. David totally loves Lita too.

When we got home, Meagan and I went to the credit union to deposit our paychecks only to find out it was closed. Oh yeah, it was a holiday today, wasn't it?

Yesterday I worked 9 hours. I spent about an hour putting together a checklist of everything that needs to be done for the next 2 weeks. At first I put names on the checklists and assigned things to each of us. My list was 4 times longer than Lorry's. Then the light came on. That's why work's still overwhelming! I took the names off the checklists. From now on I'll get as far as I can on the checklist, then when Lorry comes in I'll hand everything off to her and she can get as far as she can.

After my 9 hour workday, David, Amber and I picked up dinner at Panda Express, then headed out to pick up the boys from EFY. The boys absolutely loved EFY and were sad to leave. They had fun and made lots of new friends. I'm glad Christy talked us into sending them.

After that, we drove to Mom and Dad's to watch fireworks. We got there about 5 minutes into the show, so we got to see most of it. Amber, who supposedly wanted to see the fireworks the most, watched them for a couple of minutes then disappeared inside the house with Katelyn.

We got home around 1:00 am. I was exhausted. This morning, someone knocked on the door and rang the doorbell at 7:00 am. It was the scoutmaster, wanting Cameron and Jarom to help put up flags. I got them up. Sort of. They opened their eyes but didn't actually get up. After the scoutmaster came by 2 more times, I couldn't sleep.

I took a nap this afternoon, after I sat on Thor who was sleeping under a blanket on the couch. I thought someone had left their bathrobe under the blanket until I looked down and saw a pair of green cat eyes staring up at me. Oddly enough, he didn't make a sound when I sat on him. Luckily, I didn't hurt him. I apologized several times, but he was a bit wary of me the rest of the day.