Progress, Of a Sort

R is off work this week, so she came by yesterday afternoon and we ordered her wedding gown online. YAY! Looks like my kid is actually getting married!

I was in Nordstrom the other day, which I may have mentioned, and looked over their mother-of-the-bride type dresses and they had nothing, but they still show a lot online. Looks like they have a special wedding department, with consultants and such, so I may give them a call. (Sadly, there's no wedding department in the Nordstrom that is one mile from my house.) I'm leaning now towards a jewel-tone type brown or dark bronze, but of course I'll have to see what's what when I'm ready. Seven pounds to lose and then I'll start looking.

It is an ugly day in the neighborhood today, and will be so well into next week. Yuck. It's a raw, cold rain, although the temperature is actually in the forties, and will continue to be in the forties and fifties. (Otherwise, four or five days of precipitation in the form of snow would bring all life to a standstill, I think.) This is not a pretty sight out the library window.

Even so, I'd like to see if the Sibs is up to lunch tomorrow or Sunday, or anything to get her out of the house. She's starting to feel a lot better and is getting out on her own, but I'd like to get in on it and spend some time with her, too.

In the meantime, the annual spring invasion of ants has begun, except I haven't seen them in the kitchen; they're upstairs. K couldn't even sleep there last night, so I'm off after school for industrial strength ant repellent. I've read that the brand to use is Terro, and certainly I've never really found anything else that does the job. I'm hoping this does. I think ants are fine and I love nature and all that crap, but they've got the whole outside of the earth and I've only got inside my house, and that is my space, and I do not want uninvited creatures in it. So say we all.

Fish for dinner tonight, which means I am the cook. Got to pick that up after school, too.