Monday, December 12, 2005

Stupid EBay

j. and I went Christmas shopping in Park Slope on Saturday. We didn't find any presents for anyone, but we did find 85 antique postcards to use as our save-the-dates. That left us some forty-odd postcards short, but no matter, I happen to finally win an ebay bid I had in for 100 Maine postcards from the 1950s-1970s. j. and I spent at least an hour in that dusty shop sorting through hundreds of postcards for ones that were reminiscent of Maine and had no writing on the back. I was feeling a little ill and dehydrated afterwards, but I negotiated the lady down to charging us for 75 postcards instead of 85 - I can be a real hardass when I want to be - and we stopped for a beer afterwards, so all in all it was okay.

Then I get home to discover I'd won this ebay auction. I'd lost four already, how was it possible I'd finally won this one? So now we have tons to choose from.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

The Hardest Part

Over Thanksgiving, we were standing around the kitchen of j.'s cousin house talking wedding with various members of his family. "How many rooms at the inn?" they wanted to know. Around 30. "How are you going to fit everyone?" they asked. We're not. "We get a spot, though, right?" Um, yes?

The deal with Newagen is we have to decide where everyone goes. We have to send Newagen a list with who exactly is staying in each room. When people call to make their reservation, Newagen checks out our list to see where they're going and how much to charge them. Which means, we have to know soon who's coming. I think. Is ten months out too early to send the invitations out? Even before the save-the-dates? I just don't know how to do this.

Which is why I will be consulting my wise mother when we're home for Christmas. Ideas welcome.

Saturday, December 03, 2005

My Wise Mother

Oh, leave it to my mother to settle the debate:

There is no "most important day of your life" and no day is "just a day".
Everything in life is a balancing act.

This is also works when trying to decide how much chocolate to eat.