Uh..umm... We.. uh... hope this one works out"

im at a hilton resort in sandestin, florida with my family for a wedding that i played cello in. the wedding was tonight and it was really a beautiful ceremony. plus a lot of the guests were former teachers of mine which made me laugh

the resort is a riot. last night, during the rehearsal, we were competing with not only one, but two jimmy buffet-esque live musical performances being broadcast resort-wide on mostly blown out, cheap, water-proof speakers.

today i looked out at the beach at the staggering number of people playing there and at the pool, too crowded to even swim in and was just baffled. i've decided places like this are basically just cruises, on land. and being that i am not really a cuise kind of person... this i definitely not my kind of vacation spot. i would take boring, quiet, holden beach, north carolina over sandestin, florida any day of the week.

non-ideal resort aside the wedding was really gorgeous. at the reception the groom's 2 sons got up and did a toast and just said, "congraulations dad and paula on your new marriage... uh... we hope this one works out."

-- thank you xavier and dante... heartfelt and to the point. people went wild

i left the reception around the time people, my 9th grade biology teacher included, started throwing themselves down on the ground and pretending to have a seizure dubbing it their new dance move... "the gator". things were getting a little slur-erific
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all i know is i can't wait to go to friend's wedding. open bar and bad dj --- bring it on, i'll dance till the sun comes up.

maybe i'll be invited to peter gillette's nuptials. yes, he's engaged, to lorraine perrin -- a fact i'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around. not that i'm not happy for them it's just i've never though of peter gillette as husband material. he is among the funniest people i know so lorraine probably has the right idea. that would definitely be a great wedding to attend. i'll keep my fingers crossed.

i'm sleeping on a pullout couch mattress on the floor. let me tell you how my sleeping arrangements digressed to this point. my mom got a hotel room with 3 beds. she was not informed that 2 of these beds were bunk beds built into the wall. the beds are to your immediate right when you walk into the room. judging by the location and miniscule size of said beds i am going to venture that they were originally a closet. stuck on the ladder to get up to the top bunk was a warning label pointing out that the weight limit for the top bed was 75 lbs which meant approximately 1/2 of my sister or i could have slept there. so that was the end of the bunk beds. then there were no empty rooms so i volunteered to sleep on the pullout couch. due to the metal bar cutting my spinal column in 1/2 i had a minor freak out and pulled the mattress onto the floor. and the only blanket they had to give me was one of those gross, stiff polyester motel blankets. you know the kind im talking about. the good news is i think it is entirely fire-retardant so if there is a midnight blaze i'll simply wrap myself in my bedding and escape unscathed.

carrie ann is coming to dallas august 17th.

hokay, back to chicago tomorrow. one more week in the windy, windy city. i can't believe it's almost august. but am quite okay with the fact that it is.

i can hear the ocean from my bed.