Sunday, June 29, 2008

new specs

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andrew got his first pair of glasses today.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

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special thanks to my second family for a great weekend.
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flo tea room

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jason park! this one's for you: trendy, super affordable asian (fusion?) restaurant on granville and 64th. entrees come with soup of the day, they have a wide selection of bubble teas with the option of mango stars in lieu of the commonplace black tapioca bubbles, and i particularly enjoyed a grilled salmon dish that was moist, delicious, and under $10. in fact, we ordered four plates to feed the five of us, and even with three bubble teas and the fancy mango stars, our total was seriously $50. this restaurant is such a find. not only that, but i got to eat off my very favorite plate that you can barely see in the photo above - brown on the outside, blue on the inside, with intentional crackling.
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[mă-dee]

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madie [mă-dee]: noun given name for boistrous young female.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

a dress for the rehearsal dinner

DSC_0423i thought with the final decision on the bridesmaid dress, we`d seen the last of my dress orgies...but i was wrong. there are more dresses in the world for me to try on! and it turns out that andrew is a pretty darn good photographer! this blueish-green one is perhaps even more stunning in this photo than when i tried it on. the color is gorgeous and not garish, and the yellowy-peach details go so well with my skin tone. in the end i chose a dress that i'm going to save for a surprise. it's totally me, and it's going to be custom made to my size! i've never had anything like that before. so a big thank you to andrew's mom for what's going to be the sweetest and best fitting dress i've ever owned.
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finally! a dress in a store that`s my size. it even fits around my butt perfectly - ignore the one inch thick underwear line - they`re my super comfy american eagle undies.

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it fits so well i have to hike it up just a couple inches in order to sit down.
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cheong sam

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yay! mom number two (the mom of the mister) bought two hot little numbers for herself. it`s so nice to see our mothers in dresses. so here`s her very own tribute on my blog in the few photos i was able to snap of her. this particular store in vancouver`s chinatown had tonnes of dresses that were in the $50-99 price range and alterations seemed to be complimentary!





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back room

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my bridesmaid bears the same name as a bridal head accessory.

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very special thanks to my very best friend that i've known since i was twelve years old. if i were to be unconventional and include a man in my wedding party, he would`ve been my "man of honor." amidst his whirlwind time off between las vegas and, ironically, being the best man at my ex-boyfriend's wedding, he made the time to come see me in seattle and brought bridesmaid number 2 along. so, jason, thank you so much for coming! your rock band version of my sharona still has me laughing, and despite all my googling, i can't seem to figure out what family guy episode you were totally pulling a peter griffin about. "da dada da da, da dada da da, MY SHARONA!" this comes close perhaps:


so without further ado - tiara`s mini photo session - a considerably abbreviated version of any and all dress orgies the rest of us went through. she`s so gorgeous!
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

begonia

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is this what $3500 worth of dresses looks like?

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jun08 002finally i've posted photos from my $3500 nordstrom.com purchase - the store with an unbeatable and unlimited return policy (i better not hear any comments to the contrary!). i bought several different styles of dresses, each in several sizes, and brought the store to their door. when i had asked my girls what size they were, jenn said she was size X, and vanessa also said she was size X. i knew from our previous adventures in dress shopping that they weren't the same size, so one of them had to be crazy. so i bought jenn sizes X and Y and i bought vanessa sizes W and X. turns out vanessa was actually size U. tiara was a size T, so in the end i had to make another nordstrom.com purchase to get vanessa's size. $3500 garnered me 26 dresses (had i known the number was that high, i would've bought a twenty-seventh). oh. and yes, vanessa is sporting leggings and complimentary airline footies.

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ajun08 611i loved this combo. haha, vanessa, somehow anticipating the occasion, wore her turquoise bra. the turquoise didn't turn out to be as garish as i thought it would on jenn's fair skin, and pockets! pockets! need i say more? needless to say, i concluded it was a bit too mod for my venue, and didn't remotely go with the green flowers i'd already chosen. not that it would matter that much considering my choices so far reflect a complete lack of color coordination; perhaps that's not true, because i can put together beyond wicked color combos for purses - perhaps i just have poor planning skills: my invites are currently being inked in navy (no other color looked quite as nice), my flowers are green, and the potential centerpieces i bought are yellow and red.
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ajun08 584this dress had gorgeous pleating, but it was an awkwardly long length. like, mid-calf. but it would have made for an amazing twirling dress. i'm happy to say i finally decided on a bridesmaid dress, after what must have been hundreds that they'd each tried on since last spring. tiara's not completely off the hook though - one third of my $3500 purchase is in size "T" so she's going to get her very own runway session with me behind the camera in a couple day's time. if i was a little more organized, i'd have a $3500 order of shoes from zappos for her to sample from, but maybe that'll just force her to make a second visit.

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