Friday, July 31, 2009

Wedding Dresses and Wizard of Oz

Today I realized that I hadn't tried on my wedding dress this year. Which is normal for most normal people, but I'm kind of a freak. Every anniversary (not necessarily on the very day) I dress up in my wedding dress and flounce around the house for a few minutes. Here's the evidence.

I love this dress. I know that if I got married today instead of nine years ago when I was a silly 21 year old, I would pick a different dress, but that's kind of why I love this one.


I also stopped by Staples (and resisted the urge to buy more pens and binders even though I love them) to pick up the DVD conversions of my ancient VHS copy of Wizard of Oz. Not the Judy Garland version. The Kincardine Theatre Guild circa 1996 version. And then I watched the entire thing, giggling at the bad singing and sloppy choreography. We were all so young and silly. I think the star was the dog though. I sat there watching and thought, "My god! That dog is reacting to everything in the scene." I'm flouncing around (apparently flouncing is not a trait you grow out of) and moving completely unnecessarily and the dog is quietly emoting his Toto-ness, probably thinking "I'll thank you to not upstage me, human." (The sound won't really work because I did a screen cast of it running on my computer.)



I also had lunch with my good friend and former associate teacher, Wendy, who has my life all planned out for me which is very helpful!

All in all it was a great day full of fun, kitsch, and nostalgia.

Tomorrow I'm going to check out the street painting and all local BBQ at Covent Garden Market. I love summer!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Okay, so i love this blog. I get that tingle feeling when i think about you frolicking around in your wedding dress. It's very die-hard romantic of you.

now, another question....

How do you insert pictures in the middle of your blog?

Thanks, Mrs Barker. :)

Danika Barker said...

Oh Jessie you're so funny! When you're writing your post, at the top of the box there are a bunch of little icons. One of them looks like a tiny little landscape picture. If you click on it you can browse through your computer to find the picture you want to add and then upload and paste it. You can also add video by clicking on the one next to it.