vehicle accidents.

A funny thing happened on the way home yesterday.

I was hit by a semi. In the car. The car…. was hit by a semi.
Everyone’s okay. It was just a fender-bender, but what the heck?

AND I found out jon’s plane was hit by lightening on his flight home from Japan. Why didn’t that come up before, jon?! He says it was no big deal and stuff like that happens frequently. *I’ve* never been on a plane that’s been hit by lightening. And furthermore, how did it take nearly a week to tell me? Wouldn’t you mention something like that when we have the standard “hi honey, how was your flight?” conversation. Sigh. Boys.

I suppose I am uncommunicative in other ways.

So back to the semi. We’re both sitting at a red light in south-downtown (1st and spokane), waiting to turn right, when the semi starts backing up. Now, I’ve never known cars to randomly back up at a stop light. I’ve never seen this. I didn’t know it was a possibility. On a hill, with a standard transmission, sure – there may be some rollback. But at flat red light, to physically put your car in reverse? No, I just didn’t know that was a possibility.

So the car doesn’t have any majour damage, though it will definitely need a new grill and perhaps a new front bumper. It’s unfortunate that a few deep scratches could cause an entire bumper to be replaced, but i suppose that’s the drawback to driving around in plastic cars.

In other news, we’ve been home for exactly one week now and life is officially back to normal. We’ve (just about) finished unpacking, jon’s going out to see Star Trek tonight with Kyle and Will, and I’m cooking dinner for some friends.

Actually, I’m looking forward to cooking dinner. It’s great to look through my recipes, find something with ingredients that I KNOW i can just go to the store and buy (you’d be surprised how hard it was to find things like cilantro in japan. it was there… sometimes. but let me tell you – it wasn’t called cilantro.) and cook in a kitchen with nice pans and sharp knives.

Mini-Golf

On the ferris wheel, we saw a mini-golf course on the top of a building and decided that we should check it out at some point.

Mini golf, or put-put (depending on where you’re from), is an entirely different sport here. I don’t use the term “sport” lightly. This is serious business. Half the people at this course carried their own satchels of balls. I wonder what each one was for….

Set up on the 7th floor of a building, we had a great view of the city.

Notice the lack of children? This course was owned by old men. They were everywhere – shooting holes-in-ones, staying as long as they liked, and offering helpful advice (with a series of hand gestures and approving claps).

All in all, we had a really good time. We noticed that there was a cafe overlooking the golf course, so we stopped in after our 18 holes and watched the old-men some more. They were so entertaining, friendly & helpful. I think they made the experience awesome. It was good.

Herbs.

I’ve been thinking about table pieces. And… kind of stuck on a few ideas:

• I think it would be fun to use food in the centerpiece. There’s something really cool about the flower-alternative, and something very organic and bountiful about the idea to me.
• Antique pink pots / vases.
• Something that can be used again. Incorporating sustainability into the wedding is really cool to me. Buying a 2nd hand or donated dress, doing away with a lot of the kitch that will (likely) be thrown right away, getting married in nature, etc.

What if we potted different herbs in little pink pots that we find (yes, i mean you. get to the thrift store! find me an old pink pot!) and invited everyone to take them home afterwards. Or eat them. Or hell, I’ll take them home afterwards. It should only take me a few weeks to kill the lot of them.

After a few minutes of GoogleFu, I found out that herbs have mythological meanings associated to them. How… pertinent! Love, Endurance, Devotion, etc, are all things that would be awesome to have symbolized on the table.

For the skeptics in the room…

I’ve heard a little bit of concern from family and friends about the colours. I’m really confident about them, and I want you to be too! So, I have a few examples:

Granted, my wedding party won’t all be cute-asian-girls:

My mom was worried about the black suit / brown dress combo, but i think it looks great here:

and please don’t judge me for being so girly, but isn’t this incredible?

paper! paper, my dear friends.

Please refer back to this post, where I’m talking on and on about how much more important the paper is than the dress.

And folks, today we have The Paper. I’m thrilled. I won’t tell you what it is, but I am excited about it.

Also… a cookie to those of you who have an idea flowers / table pieces. I want to incorporate food into the table pieces, like… grapes maybe? (thanks for the idea, mom!).

eeh!