Stamboul! Okay, only part 1 of 6...

So I was in NY this weekend, and the two people who read here regularly certainly heaped it on me for not having posted in at least a month, and I sit here, chastised but unbowed. Actually, I sit here, thoroughly lazy and immobile after taking stupid @(42z7(_)W(_W)@@&*#*# Amtrak back from NYC at the crack of dawn this morning. But I digress. So much to discuss, and I'll put it all in this post and promise to get to details later. I'm asking you, Fearless Reader, to acknowledge at least the well-meaning intentions of that last sentence - at this moment, I do actually mean it. I'm totally lying.

So, crazy trip to Istanbul with now-Doctor Bub. Well, first we had a wedding in Tribeca Labor Days Weekend and I was on call all weekend with bridesmaid-y duties. Fortunately it was for an old friend who is veeery cool; so cool, in fact, that we had this exchange two weeks before her wedding:

Me: "I just got the cutest dress for the bridesmaids' luncheon! It's red and white and I bought it in the same store where I got my dress for the rehearsal dinner a few weeks ago."

Bride in 14 days" : "That reminds me...I should probably go shopping for a dress for the rehearsal dinner, shouldn't I" (if I could indicate with type that the inflection in her voice did not change at all, I would do so here).

Me: "Um, I was stressing about not having that dress two weeks ago--and I'm not the one getting married. Dude."

Bride, unfettered: "Well, we did just pick out the cake, so all in good time."

This story and this bride are especially noteworthy when compared to the saga my mother has been through over the past 18 months, as her assistant plans the Greatest Orgy of Excess in White that has ever been planned. I make it a point not to ask this girl a damn thing about this circus and no matter how much I duck and jab, she manages to bring it up within 5 minutes of my seeing her.


Me (not even directed at girl, talking to my mother in her office): "So I'll send you that thing by Wed-"


Scary Bride: "Did you use a word that starts with W? Wedding starts with W too! We just booked the dancing monkeys."


So I took a certain amount of glee in relaying that my friend who was getting married in 14 days had just picked out her cake. I honestly thought Scary Bride was going to choke.


Some wedding photos...it was a really lovely event.





ok, maybe not - blogger is acting all wonky. More photos to come!