Highly Entertaining....

isn't she lovely?

Intruducing.... Mrs. David Eisan, Jr.

She was beautiful. She was nervous and scared and excited and waited a looooong time for this one special evening.

We laughed, we tried not to *freak out*, and joked about skipping the ceremony and driving straight to the reception.

These pics are c.r.a.p.p.y.... but I can't wait to get my hands on the images from the photographer. Seriously, she was the epitome of "beautiful bride". The dress was georgous, the flowers were amazing, and she is just naturally beautiful.

Yeah, it was a headache at times, and fielding all the "I'm freaking out!!" calls wasn't always on my top 10 list of things to do, but it all was worth it in the end.

Meet the girls:

Ashley, Jessica's sister and MOH.

Chelsea, Jessica's youngest sister.

Donna, Jessica's sister-in-law.

Mel, Jessica's cutie pie friend-since-forever

Then there's me. I need no real introduction, as this blog is all about me ;)

Jessica and I have known each other for 6-ish years. I feel like she's my little sister. I don't think there is anything we wouldn't tell each other.... so don't aske her anything about me. She's likely to divulge secrets, and I'm not gonna try to clean up that kind of a mess ;)

<---- yep, that's me. Someone takes over my camera and tries to take a picture of me, and I give the goofy face. Remember when I said that I can't take a good picture to save my life? Yeah, I wasn't lying ;)

Note: the raccoon make-up. We are NOT talking about the salon experience. I'm not kidding. Don't ask or I'll hyperventilate.

Jessica gave all her girls a lovely necklace, bracelet, and earrings gifty for to wear for the wedding. TOTALLY not the set I would have picked out on my own, but they were freaking amazing with the dresses and flowers. Here's to stepping outside your little comfy box for a while :)

Well, I'm in for a whole lot of chillaxin' with my puppy girl on the couch today.

I must serve my civic duty as a potential juror tomorrow morning, so I had better get my beauty sleep tonight...

AFTER I FINALLY WATCH THE REAL ROCK OF LOVE SEASON FINALE!!!!!!

I *think* I know what happens, after having sneeked a few previews... methinks he winds up chosing Jes (yes!) because he will ask both girls if he can continue to date each of them... Heather says heckyes and Jes says she couldn't deal with that... I think he picks Jes b/c she's the one who shows she wants to date him exclusively instead of Heather who is pretty much trashy stripper.

We'll see if my fantastical powers of guesstimation prove correct tomorrow ;)

you decroded piece of crap!!!

... is what i felt like SCREAMING out my car window this morning as i drove to work. seriously.

SERIOUSLY.

apparently the guy infront of me thought that the signs lining the road reading "28" refered to the speed limit. no joke. from kenyon's market in the east side all the way to the mashpee rotary, i was stuck behind this *decroded piece of crap*, not exceding 3o mph. in a 40 mph zone. FREAKING SERIOUSLY!!!!!

dude, "28" is the name of the road we were driving on, as in "route 28". did you see the dozen signs we passed that said "speed limit 40"??? 

oh, what was that? you were too busy regulating your speed to *snail paced*? i see. well isn't that special... for me and the rest of the LINE OF VEHICLES BEHIND ME!!!

honestly, i'm not the road rage ytpe, but this pushed me over the edge. when we *finally* pulled up to a split lane traffic light near the mashpee commons, i made my move. i pulled up beside this *decroded piece of crap* to    a) get infront of him when the light turned green, and      b) see exactly WHO was ruining my morning commute.

yep, you guessed it. the guy behind the wheel was easily 136 years old... or at least that's what it looked like. as soon as that light turned green, i was off (and so were the other cars who had jockeyed into my lane for their own *sweet escape*).

ok, so i know it wasn't nice to be calling the guy a "decroded piece of crap" (a la napoleon dynamite, for you non-movie-quote-slingin' folks out there)... but that was BEFORE i realized he was just an older gentleman, driving cautiously. VERY cautiously...

*sigh*

in non-road-rage related news, i posted my entry to the LSS challenge at the dare site today... it's totally NOT innovative whatsoever, but it's pretty cool and i like how it turned out. there is some SERIOUS talent going on from the other girls who have signed up to try and be the "last scrapper standing"... go check out the yahoo group and watch the slideshow... it's wickedly amazing.

rumor has it that there may be a "LSS" album hangin' out at the store... we crazy girlies are gonna continue to work all the challenges, even if/when we get our a$$es voted off the island. come on in and check it out, yo.

So, I suck...

... and was w.r.o.n.g. in believing the Rock of Love season finale was lastnight. WTF?? Apparently it's going to be on Sunday at 9... you bet your bottom dollar i'll be tuned in.

on the not-so-noteworthy front:

1. i have noticed the lack of capitalization in my blog posts recently. hope it doesn't bug ya too much... i'm sure this passing phase will end soon adn you'll be back to your gramatically-correct blog reading.

2. spell check, what? yeah, about the typos in every post... life is too short for me to catch all of the misspellings. apparently there is a spell check icon that i could click if i wanted to, but in all honesty i'm too busy for that. my time is precious, people. i think the typos lend to my quirkiness... that and i'm beginning to think i'm turning a bit dyslexic. is that possible? after 28 years on earth, for one to *suddenly* become dyslexic??

3. LSS. waiting for instructions on how/where/when to post my spectacular LO i made using 8 transparencies. right now, it's still top secret, so nobody else can peep my work for inspiration... i'm just cocky like that. what can i say?

4. got my scrap on today... made a few cutie LOs that i'll share another time... didn't get a chance to photog them this afternoon before heading to work.

thats the news for now, don't say you didn't hear it from me :P

so i took classes with donna downey this weekend..

...and apparently all i did was take a million pictures of erin. hey, have i not commented before on how freaking photogenic she is? whatever. one of these days i'm gonna actually take a crappy photo of her and blow it up poster size and stick it on the bathroom wall at the store... just to prove that one time she wasn't being totally adorable.

who am i kidding? that's never gonna happen... she's on perma-cute mode, 24/7.

<---- this pretty much sums up the {dd} at {cc} experience. donna was very cool, and her style of teaching is so great... i actually find myself trying to impart on my class-signer-uppers (a.k.a. students) a lot of the logic donna was rattling off to the ladies during her classes.

chill out. it doesn't have to be perfectly measured or trimmed or adhered. so what if your stamping is off a bit? go with it and make it work. chill out. if it was supposed to look *perfect*, you'd buy it at the store, not make it yourself. chill out. get my drift??

of course we had to take the obligotory bazzill-corner-group-photo, with ej as photographer and 50 million cameras. it's part of the game, just deal with it. there will surely have to be some photo sharing amongst the camera owners, as miss donna switched positions throughout the "shoot" to spice things up a bit... and as usual there are some pretty fantastical out-takes. :)

peep this picture of melisseR. at some point during the class, she had a run-in with a smurf and came out of it with a blue thumb. i'm *slightly* grossed out by it, and don't really want to know how it happened.

warning: if you are a smurf, or know someone who is, stay away from this woman. she is a dangerous, smurf-thumbing individual. she won't hesitate to defile you with her thumb, then pose for pictures to document the event. seriously, i'm not wearing blue around her anymore, nor will i be hanging out with anyone named "papa", "handy" or "gargamel". it's just not worth it. ;)

aside from being TOTALLY PSYCHED to watch the season finale of Rock of Love tonight (9 pm... jayne, you'd better be watching!!), i'm geared up to work on my LO for the LSS challenge at the dare site. after a day at the store, i'll be in full on create-something-cool mode. watch out ladies, i'm on fire!!

another one bites the dust

there goes another weekend [waving hand sadly as it passes]... but it was all good (which means jayne owes me $10, right ji??)

Friday night I enjoyed a nice dinner out with my girls representin' the east side, Tania and Crystal. We dined a la Bobby Byrnes, then stopped for a drink at Dinos...

...which only reinforced the fact that I am NOT the sports-bar type of girl.

Too many grodie after-work guys, trying to chat me up as I flash them my blingin' diamond wedding band/ engagement ring ensemble in their faces as I order drinks for the girls.

<---- (lame excuse to show off a recent pic I took of said rings... how lucky am I to have scored these *sweet* babies??!!)

Seriously, while I was waiting to pay the tab before we left, I actually overheard the two guys behind me having a conversation that went something like this:

(girl they had just been talking to walks away)

guy #1: dude, she's crazy

guy #2: yeah, and she's got Stevie Wonder nipples

guy #1: what??

guy #2: you know, they're all bumpy around the outside so you don't have to even open your eyes, you can just feel where they are with your fingers. it's like those books that blind people read.

guy #1: dude, that's nasty!

I can't tell you how hard it was for me not to turn around and tell the two idiots "THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T GET LAID!!!" Hey, at least I learned something new. I never would have guessed Stevie Wonder had bumpy nipples ;)

On to Saturday... two classes with Donna Downey at the store. I'm too lazy to find my camera and upload the pics right now, but if you want a few snapshots check out e-ho's blog. Oh, while you're at it, congratulate her for kicking fatty anonymous' Weight Watcher's a$$ and losing freaking 9 lbs in her first week. I totally want to vomit on her, in a non eating-disorder sort of way. :P

I took her Year in the Life and Creative Lisence classes, and they were fab. So glad I got my act together and brought upwards of 400 photos with me.. no joke. After hauking all of those pics with me, I still didn't have half the snapshots I wanted to use for the Year class. Guess I'll have to modify the project a lil' when I get around to locating the missing pictures. Just par for the course where I'm concerned ;)

Sunday (bloody sunday... thanks Bono)... a long day at work. The weather was (apparently) beautiful, which I think scared the touristy-types away from Main Street. I'm sure the beach was a ppular place to be today... it was warm and sunny and a great way to bring in the first day of Fall. Although I wasn't able to enjoy the sunshine and warm temperatures today, I did bust out a coolio make and take for Saturday 9/29... so make sure you stop by the store and check it out next weekend.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the Scrap Pink crop next weekend due to previous commitments (a.k.a. Jessica and David's Wedding!)... but it is sure to be a good time reagrdless. If you'll be in the {CC} area over the weekend, make sure to stop by the store and check out the raffle that will be taking place... lots of creative chicks are making goods to be raffled off in the name of raising boucoup dollars for breast cancer.

<-- This is the goodie I made to contribute to the raffle. It's a mini book made from ginormous playing cards and based on the words from the Rascal Flatts song "My Wish".

I've been wanting to make something using the lyrics to this song because it's so freaking sappy ;P

I used the song at preschool graduation the last year I was a teacher, and the parents all loved it. We also played it at our wedding last year... it's just a sweet and inspirational song.. perfect for something like raising breast cancer awareness and supporting those who have gone through the ordeal.

Take a listen and hug someone you love today :)

t.g.i.f.

... in a BIG way!!! today shall be spent pouring through photos and *hopefully* organizing myself enough to be prepared for the Donna Downey classes at the store on Saturday.. there are still a few spaces left, so if you want to be a cool kid, hop on the horn and call the store to sign up!!

I'm also pretty psyched about the Last Scrapper Standing competition going on at the dare site. Will I make it through to the end of the competition? no. Will I even make it past round one of the cuts? no. But it's all good, I'm playing for fun and to challenge myself.

note to self: do not leave Belle unattended. ever.

<---- this WAS my new crown stamp. was. as in before she pulled it out of my purse (which was on the kitchen table... where dogs do NOT belong) and chomped it to bits in the sunshin-y spot she likes to lay in by the slider door.

effing belle.

the good thing is that      a) she didn't actually EAT the stamp       b) i found the rubber image a few feet away from the wood block she was using as a chew toy       c) the crown image has no real tooth marks on it, and i *think* i should be able to mount it to another wood block         d) she's too flippin' cute to get mad at, so i scolded her and she tried to make nice by licking my legs

I think i smell a layout coming on... do you smell it?? maybe i'll use this photo for the first LSS challenge.. using 8 transparencies on one layout. holy hambly, batman!!

arrrrrrrrrrgh!

In celebration of (what was) National Talk Like A Pirate Day, I hope you enjoy this picture of Belle in her Halloween costume. Belle is NOT of the clothes-wearing variety of Puggle, but she is the *proud* owner of this fantastical Pirate costume, which she isn't really bothered by. Surprisingly enough, she kind of seems to like walking around and trying to eat the sleeves.. the hat is waaaaay too big and flops off her head rather quickly, but you get the point.

Go ahead, the scolding may commence now...

While I know I said I'd never dress my dog up in any sort of clothing, I do think Halloween costumes are an acception to the rule, and I would NEVER subject my little girla to anything she absolutely couldn't tolerate. It's all good :)

You will be excited to know that you will no longer have to listen to me whine about Jessica's effing CD's. We finished them up tonight, with help from Belle and Bobio. After I got over the initial aggrivation of the whole process... even thinking about it was begining to give me a headache... we got down to busines. Belle thought it would be e great help if she perched herself on Jessica's lap while we were trying to tie ribbons around the CD cases. After that failed to get the attention she desired, she resorted to licking Miss Jessica on the mouth, several times. Bobio was a HUGE help, inserting the CD liners and then tying ribbons... what a guy!! I told Jessica that this probably meant that I would have to put out as payment for his services, but in all reality it's 11:34pm  right now and I KNOW he's already fallen asleep upstairs ;) TMI, or humorous anecdote? You be the judge...

*sigh* Another day for the record books... soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad this part of my week is over. Hopefully I'll be able to get my act together and cram for my Donna Downey classes at the store this weekend (too wiped out to post links, sorry!!)... but the chances of that happening are less than slim-to-none.

Oh, if you didn't check out my last post about John Mayer's super powers, you totally should. I'm thinkning about looking into developing some super powers of my own. Not quite sure what they should be yet, but I'll keep you posted.

bon sior!

who knew?

That John Mayer had super powers? I guess you learn something new everyday, huh?

DONE. finished. all set. complete. game over. wave the checkered flag.

it took over 6 hours, with a break to help g with homework, bake some banana bread, and chow on delish steak-and-cheese subs (TOTALLY not weight watchers approved... but it's been a loooooOOOOOOoooooong day). it is 8:02 pm, and i feel like i can breathe.

now, to watch me a little Rock of Love and hope to heck that Jess kicks butt and makes it to the next round. for serious.

PEACE OUT, YO!!!!!

whining

dear bff,

thank you for hijacking my blog and creating the snazzy new banner. it's pretty fantastic. seriously. the check is in the mail.

love, melissa

<---- this is me. right now. it's hour 4 of cd burning (i know, yell at me that i'm commiting a felony or something... it's all good) and i'm HALF done. poor belle has been trotting around upstairs, napping in the sunshine, and chillin' withOUT her mama today. :(

no more weddings. seriously, people. if you're planning on getting married, that's great. just don't ask me to help you out. i'm d.o.n.e.

dear jessica,

no offense. it's not your fault... i can't help it that i'm cd-burner and wedding-party-fun-time-planner extraordinaire. i'd want my help, too, if i were you. ;)

love, melissa

the WORST thing about all this cd burning stuff is that i have wasted waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time online. shopping. for scrappy stuff.

don't worry, it was all at a discount place (i think), and i ordered enough to earn *free* shipping. f.a.b.u.l.o.u.s.

too bad there isn't enough time in the day to actually USE the scrappy stuff i have, let alone the new stuff that *somehow* keeps rolling in. sheesh.

i want to sit at my desk and make stuff. i want paint on my *crappy* manicure and i want to listen to my ipod (which now has a bunch of journey songsd on it thanks to a walymart trip this morning... don't ask) and i want to shut my door and not let ANYONE in. i want to do something for me. not you (although you know i love you ALL). i want to be alone and play with paper. no tv. no helping anyone with homework. no work related stuff (although the stamptoberfest project won't actually create itself, no matter how hard i wish it). i want to eat a pizza all by myself and not count weight watchers points. i want to crawl into my bed and pull the covers up to my chin and take a nap. i want all the stuff i need for my donna downey classes to magically materialize before me so i don't have to aggrivate myself because i don't know where half the stuff i have is, or that i don't have the right stuff, or blah blah blah.

::sigh::

here's to crossing things off of checklists. eventually.