The Big Wedding

In addition to the last post wherein your humble narrator tells you the story of the shiner, many other things happened. 

Apologies for no posts, for anyone keeping score at home, but I am with one of the real human people who is not an AI bot who reads this blog and the other one just left to head home yesterday, so if you are a human and you missed our posts since last week, I apologize. 

Last Wednesday, Lin and Ron arrived at the hotel super late. In the morning, Lin and I had breakfast, we asked for late check out so we'd get an extra hour of coordination time. 

Then, on Thursday we headed over to mom's for a visit. She had PT, so everyone got to meet the dude, and he got to meet us, and watch mom be sassy with me and my sister. 

We all chatted about the masonry work, the walkway, everything. It was drippy and rainy, so we didn't do a lot of outside work or anything. 

After PT, we went out to lunch with her at the Familiar, had a wonderful time. 

She's hard to read but I think she was happy having us there. 

After we ate, it was kind of on the late side of things and headed north to C's cabin so we'd be able to have some fun there and not go straight to sleep. Ronnie had a great time with her little dog. And we had a great time with each other. 

There was the realization at some point that Linda and Ronnie forgot their garment bag, with their wedding attire and everything - especially Ronnie's new suit. Oh no. I guess we have to go shopping! 

Then I tripped and landed on my face in spectacular fashion. 

C went to the office on Friday morning, we drank coffee, and we got our plan together. Ronnie needed a barber shave, so he left off to do that first. When he got back, it was in time for Doug to go meet Jess to get their car out of the shop. Lin, Ronnie, and I headed to the mall. 

We bought me another dress, just because there were more options at this store than the one where Jess and I went last week. And we got me shoes for the rehearsal dinner and wedding. I have not bought any new shoes or dresses in years. Lin has a good eye and picked things out for me. She also got her dress, not what she wanted because what she wanted was hanging in the garment bag at home.... but she looked fantastic. Ronnie got his suit situation secured. A successful mall trip for all!

We also stopped and got me an eye patch at a Party Store, and some shiny doo-dads to bedazzle upon it.

Doug got to the hotel we were all staying at just minutes before us. 

Checked in and getting readied up, we were invited to the rehearsal dinner, even though we weren't in the wedding or rehearsed anything. M & D think of us as family. So, family comes to the dinner. 

We had a lovely time, wonderful visits, Jess' former roommates Liz and Ashleigh were there. Liz & Jess were in the wedding party. I hadn't yet met the groom in person, but I feel like I've known him forever and my heart was very full from just being there. And Miss Molly. Oh my girl. So beautiful. 

I had never met the groom in person before, but when we met the first time on Friday afternoon it felt so organic, like I'd known him my whole life, or his whole life. 

Friday night was great, we happily collapsed into bed. Here are some more pictures from the rehearsal dinner. 

I have to admit, even with the black eye, I didn't look too shabby. And we all cleaned up nice.

Saturday, we had the whole day to ourselves as the wedding was not until 6pm (Molly put 5:30 on the invitations to trick anyone who is persistently and consistently late to be there on time for 6pm). 

Lin and Ronnie set out into the mid-NH universe to drive around, look for some brekkie, and find a place for Lin to get a mani-pedi. 

Doug and I got up around 9:30, and slugged about until we felt like going for lunch in Manchester. We were about to get on the highway when Linda called to say their car was dead. Somehow, Ronnie had left the down-window button engaged/active while he waited in the car snoozing while she went in for her beautification treatment. 

Ooops. 

We turned around, to Doug's dismay (again, why I didn't call him on Thursday night to come help me because sometimes he doesn't understand when/why someone needs help and he questioned why they didn't have jumper cables, why there wasn't someone else there in the parking lot who could jump start them, why they don't have AAA.... this is why I don't call you for help, friend, and why people do call me). 

We got to them, they went to the auto parts store and got jumper cables, and we had the car started lickety split. And all it took was a half hour of our time.

They drove off to go get a replacement battery (smart) and we went to Manchester for lunch. Doug wanted to try Stark Brewing. Good choice. We had a couple beers, I had a great burger, and I think he downed a Reuben. 

We took a walk along the river, and there was some sort of artist/community fest where we bought some cute octopus things for Jess and got the hard sell from some community based businesses that we had no interest in but they were tenacious. No, I do not want life insurance from you, guy. 

Back to the hotel. Shower, dress, ready. Wedding. 

There are a lot of pictures to go through, but I have to go to bed. Ha. 

More tomorrow. I'll just post this fave of Jess and their friend (and my other "daughter" Liz) who were in M's wedding party. Besties since eighth grade or some shit. 

Digits below! And please love on Jess' shoes becaus they are so badass!

Monday digits

By the way - for all the days we were away (Fri-Sun) I did very well with the steps and the glucose. I just didn't keep track of it all. Starting fresh and new on Monday here.

exercise: 12/12 hours.  gardening in the yard/walk about, 10 min/.55 mi. Get the last steps for the night, 18 min/.85 mi. 10k+ by bedtime

blood glucose:

8:30am: 115
4:30pm: 167
10pm: 153

food & meds:

8:30am: jardiance + phentermine
10am: mini bagel w/pb
12:45pm: turkey and colby jack on Keto bread w/mayo. met+glip
3pm: slab of Tiramisu
6:30pm: scallops and mixed grilled veggies, coleslaw, 2 beers
7pm: met+glip