Oh, my Loyal Readers! You have certainly been Living Up to the Challenge! Here it is, first “official” day of March Break and I was Stumped By The Request!
Alianora, from SilverSpiral.net, challenged me to perform ” A headstand in your front yard. Handstands or somersaults can also be substituted. “
Well, guess what? It’s all snowy in the front yard! And cold! And I didn’t wanna be outside! But aside from all that, I have never, ever in my life, ever been able to perform a handstand, cartwheel, somersault, headstand, or anything else that required me being upside down for long periods of time. I have really bad balance (along with semi-deafness from all these stupid childhood illnesses) and basically almost fall over all the time just walking through the house (how I managed to figure skate for years is beyond me). But oh people I tried. I tried and tried. Basically I ended up doing a weird sort of half-handstand in the kitchen with my feet braced against the wall. But you can’t see the whole picture, because my shirt was doing things and, well, nakedness started to happen. AND THIS ISN’T THAT KIND OF BLOG.
Here you go, though:
So Day One’s Challenge is only semi-completed, in the messy kitchen. Ah well.
OTHER NEWS!
I went over to Mom’s to talk about the Wedding (From Hell!). Basically, she wants for us to spend $3.00 on the entire thing, and have change coming back. One of her suggestions was to only invite the wedding party to the reception, and have it here at our house, in our basement.
Yeah, uh… no.
I understand that she’s concerned about finances, and Lord knows so are we– we’re not planning on anything extravagant here, which is why we’re basically doing everything ourselves. But yeah, I don’t think having guests over and making them eat in the basement with the laundry sink would be quite the romantic evening we’d envisioned. We’d be glad to accept any financial contribution that either of our families wants to make, but we don’t expect it AT ALL. I mean, we’re almost 30 years old. I can understand expecting your family to pay if you’re 20 (my parents paid for my sister’s wedding when she was 20 and I think they think we’re expecting that too– which we are NOT) and have never been out of the house but yeah. No. After I explained this to her things got a lot less weird.
And! Excitement! Next weekend? Rob and I are going to go pick up the stuff to make all our invitations with! (the prototype I showed you was just one that I’d made to see if it would look nice before we actually paid for other things).
So there, a picture of me upside down with half my butt showing, and wedding blahblah. DO YOU LOVE IT?!
I promise I’ll try to do better tomorrow. No, it’s true!
Actually, I LOVE the picture! A little booty action makes up for the fact that you didn’t do it outdoors (I think. Let’s see how Alianora feels!)
My sister did a neat thing with her wedding. Our family is absolutely HUGE, and no one would expect to be treated to anything – because there are so many of us. So my mother bought and cooked a couple of turkeys and hams, provided all the meat, and simply asked people to bring a small salad with them. Then again, my sister’s wedding wasn’t very traditional. But people liked the opportunity to help. All our family functions are pot-luck-esque, so it was no biggie.
Louise, I love love love that you threw this challenge out.
You entertain me more than my luggage.
hee! im extremely amused, even if it WAS in the kitchen.
but im not cruel enough to demand that you go do a headstand in the snow anyway.