Trees and premieres and invitations, oh my.

So, it rained all weekend, and particularly hard on Sunday evening and all through the night. The culmination of the storm was at 4:30 on Monday morning, when Torsten and I were awakened by a huge thud that I, in my half-asleep state, thought was a garbage truck slamming a dumpster back onto the ground in a particularly ferocious manner.

But no. It wasn't a dumpster. It was a tree. A very large tree. Landing across the residential street behind our building, and crushing about six cars in the process. In the morning there was a police car out there, and some car owners taking photos of the damage for insurance purposes, and one dumbass trying to climb over a waist-high downed power line to get to his car rather than walking around the block, until the cop stopped him by turning on his siren.


Anyway, as of this morning the tree was still there, surrounded by Do Not Cross barriers with two crushed cars underneath it. Crappy way to start out the week, huh?

In other news, I know I don't normally get all pop-culture here on the blog, even though I do love Red Carpet Fashion Awards for its non-ironic, very interesting take on fashion and read it every day. But as you probably already know, I adore Sex and the City, and I can't wait for the movie to come out, and last night was the premiere in London. (And also, um, why London? Wrong city! But let's move on.)

So anyway, Sarah Jessica Parker being known as somewhat of a fashion icon, and her three co-stars attempting to keep up, I was dying to see what they all wore to the premiere. And they did not disappoint. I knew SJP would be outrageous (I swear that hat is almost as tall as she is), but wow, was I ever not expecting to see quite so much boob from Cynthia Nixon. My. Goodness. The only one who disappointed me was Kristin Davis--that neckline is way too Charlotte.


Oh! And also yesterday? My sister and I assembled a mock wedding invitation, and it looks SO GOOD. It has wrong colors and crooked cutting and everything, because it was just to get an idea of how it would all work, and yet I am in love with it, because it is so nice and it is also OUR WEDDING, for REAL like IN PRINT. So we went to Paper Source and bought all the supplies, and even with unexpected things like 12 rolls of double sided tape and a circle cutter and all number of random other extras, it still came out to way less than what we would have had to pay for a very simple invitation from an actual store.

AND this invitation includes all sorts of amazing little details that wouldn't have fit our budget if we'd ordered them pre-assembled, like vellum envelope liners with silver leaves, and a pocket with scalloped edging and polka dots, and oh, it's perfect, just perfect. And I know I totally rolled my eyes when people talked about how your invitation matters because it is the first picture that people get of the wedding, and therefore it's representative of you and your wedding plans. But actually? This invitation is so perfect, and we both like it so much, that now? I totally understand that concept. And I feel like we totally nailed it.

Even though the assembly is going to be SO MUCH WORK and I'll probably be posting in a month about oh my god WHAT WAS I THINKING is it too late to just order invitations from a store and have someone else do all the dirty work? And that's when it will be YOUR job to point me back to this post and remind me why I'm doing all this work. Because they are perfect. And that is worth the work. So once I'm knee-deep in hole punchers and bone folders, remind me of how great the finished product will be, would you? You guys are the best.