wedding songs?

Question for those of you who are married, or plan to be married someday…  Did you have a first dance song?  If so, what was it?  If you haven’t been married yet, what would you choose?
J listens to punk.  I listen to Indie, which is kind of vague, but basically neither of us listens to [...]

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the complete set

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brideorexia?

I came across this term recently.  It is used to describe a bride-to-be who becomes obsessed with losing weight for her big day.  Of course, the warning lights went on in my head, but I’m past it.  I’m working on maintaining my weight now, not losing more.  (Especially after J started in on me for [...]

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I finally got it!

My engagement ring!  It took so long because we had a local artist make all three rings as a matching set.  They all have this carved-in, vine-like design on them, although only my engagement ring has diamonds set into it.  The band on the engagement ring is pretty wide, so we had her make a narrower band [...]

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For Teeni

For background on this one, please see this post over at the Vaguetarian Tea Room.  In essence, Dan at dcrblogs attacked Teeni’s meez, and Teeni has asked her readers for help with retaliation!
I didn’t ask if I was allowed more than one submission, but if I’m not, I’ll let Teeni choose her favorite among these to [...]

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seven

The lovely Javaqueen tagged me for this meme a while back and I hadn’t gotten around to it yet.  Today seems to be a good day for catching up on things like this, so here goes…
According to JQ, I’m supposed to share 7 random and weird facts about myself.  I have seen this elsewhere stating [...]

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poodle makeovers

Yesterday was black poodle day at work.  I had two black standards and one black toy poodle to groom.  They were all pretty messy, especially the standards.  They were matted and extremely dirty! 
The owner complained that the last groomer shaved one dog’s ears and topknot last time.  Since both dogs were very matted, I suggested [...]

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attic update

I loved reading all your responses to my attic post!  I thought I’d share with you this odd coincidence that (almost) put an end to my attic curiosity…
The other day, like the day after I posted the pictures, the fan in J’s bathroom stopped working.  He thought he’d have to get into the attic to [...]

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