If there was an awards ceremony for my weekend, these would be the winners.
Way to Wake Up on a Saturday Morning: Startled out of sleep with a kiss from my cute.
Way to Convince Joe that he Broke My Computer: Don't check to see that the keyboard and mouse are plugged into the correct places.
Way to Waste Time (For At Least the Next 6 Months): Give me The Sims 2 for my early birthday present. (So pretty. Sooooo pretty.)
Thing I Would Do Differently at the PartyLite Show: Order a holder and only ONE candle. ('Bring change' is number two.)
Thing I Would Do Differently if I was a PartyLite Consultant: Spend more time trying to sell my product, and less time trying to sell my job.
Career Path I Hope I Will Never Follow: Shop-at-home consultant. (That includes not only PartyLite, but Tupperware, Stampin' Up, Creative Memories, Mary Kay, you name it.) ;)
Way to Feel Out of Place at a PartyLite Show: Attend amongst women who are all somehow related to each other and have children/grandchildren/nieces/nephews (also in attendance) and be the only one not related and without children in any of the aforelisted capacities. (Luckily all very nice women and if you smile a lot it's not so bad.) ;)
Way to Be On Time for a Wedding: Bring a low-maintenance date who can be dressed and ready in 20 minutes, and can follow a map. (Score one for me!)
Strangest Thing About the Wedding: The ceremony was 2 minutes long. Seriously. And you couldn't hear anything they said.
Funniest Conversation of the Evening:
Joe (pointing to the bridesmaid): That's my cousin's wife... the ring bearer's mother. And I think she's got another one on the way.
Leslie: Already? Didn't she just have one?
Joe: Oh she did?
Leslie: Yeah. On your birthday!
Detail I Unnecessarily Worry About for My Own Wedding: Finding bridesmaid dresses with sleeves in a culture that's gone strapless.
Way to Get Good Pictures: Take pictures before and after the posed shots.
Way Not to Get Your High Heel Stuck in a Grate: Don't wear high heels. o:)
Wedding Idea I Never Saw Before: Separate cakes on each table!
Cutest Couple Dancing: Joe's parents. (Awwwww.)
Way to Kill the Dancing at a Wedding: Play nothing but disco for three hours straight.
Conclusion that Joe and I Have Come to Regarding Our Potential Wedding Someday: We're making our own playlist.
Thing I Love About Joe: His respect for his family.
Surprise About Sunday Morning: An absolutely gorgeous, cloudless, pristine day with no rain!
Way to Start the Day: Go to Mass. :)
New Way of Having Eggs: Over-hard.
Person to Make Me Breakfast: Joe. (The man who once compared making eggs to being in the ninth circle of hell. But he made ME eggs! Isn't he sweet?!)
Place to Spend a Gorgeous, Cloudless, Pristine Day With No Rain: Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Way to Confuse Leslie Near the Falls: Mist that looks like rain coming from someplace you can't see.
Famous Person Visited on my Birthday: Saint Therese. (I suppose I should say Jesus Christ for this one, but I meant 'Famous Person Never Previously Visited'... I mean... oh I don't know. Point is we went to St. Therese's Canadian Shrine and saw her reliquary.) :)
Birthday Gift Purchased on my Birthday: My rosary, and the wooden box to keep it in.
View Seen from the Car: Looking from the green and forested Canadian side across the river at industrialized Niagara Falls, USA. Just like the movie 'Canadian Bacon'. :D
Funniest Thing About the Butterfly Conservatory: The butterfly that landed on somebody's butt.
Irony at the Butterfly Conservatory: All the people carefully focusing their cameras for the perfect butterfly photograph, without realizing they had a winged friend on their shoulder.
Way to Get a Butterfly to Land on You: Don't wear what we were wearing. ;)
Craziest Caterpillar: The one that looks like bird poop.
Strangest Bug Seen: Vietnamese Walking Stick.
New Food Introduced to Joe: Canadian Smarties!
Person Seen Walking Falls Ave: Guy, long-haired, wearing only red flowered boxers and (if I recall correctly) work boots.
Vantage Point for Close-Ups of the Falls: Maid of the Mist.
Sexiest Man to Ever Wear a Plastic Garbage-Bag Poncho: Joe.
Tourist Moment: Being in an elevator full of people who all spoke French.
Gender Not-Identifiable Person Seen: Operator of aforementioned elevator.
Niagara Falls Tradition: Finding the keychains with our names on them at the gift shop.
Dining Establishment in our Price Range: Wendy's. :D Hey, it IS where we ate on our first date, after all. ;)
Way to Spend Time at the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum: Camp in front of the one-way mirror watching the people on the other side (who don't realize you're there) make faces and look stupidly into the mirror. For additional fun, wave your arms wildly at the mirror and laugh because they can't see you. :D
Room at the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum: The one with the spinning trippy walls where you have to try and walk through on the bridge without losing your balance. We must have walked through that 8 or 10 times at least.
Hidden Gem at the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum: El Pollo Diablo. :D
Moment I Wished I Had Extra Film: The raccoons partying in the tree across from Ripley's Believe It or Not. Especially when one crawled down the tree onto the sidewalk and then wandered around looking confused. (Prior to this the only wild raccoons I have ever seen were dead on the side of the road.)
Place for Ice Cream Sundaes: The Coca-Cola/Hershey Store (down by 'our' hotel :D).
Reason to Go to Casino Niagara: To cut through on the way back to our parking lot. ;)
Conversation with Casino Niagara Bouncer:
Bouncer (looking at my license, perhaps thinking I am underage): When's your birthday?
Joe and I together (loudly): TODAY!
View of the Moon: Yellow, setting over Lake Erie and reflected in the water, as seen from the Skyway.
Freudian Slip:
Joe: El pollo gato!
Leslie: The chicken cat?
Way to Fall Asleep on my Birthday: On the floor, next to Joe. :)
And to wrap it all up...
The Number One to Spend my Twenty-Third Birthday With: Sweet, cute, adorable, perfect Joe. Of course. :)