your kisses are soluble

Baby got back

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:56:00 +0000

Alicia and I got take out from the Greek restaurant down the street. This is the second time we've done this and its so smart. The food is so good and even though we order from the dinner menu they always give it to us for cheap. It's become my new favorite thing to do.

Yesterday I had to drop some stuff off at the apartment before heading over to Metro town to do some shopping and while I was running from the front door to the car I could feel my ass giggle, but more then usual. I think it's growing. I think its taking my thighs with it. I know Chad always says hes marrying me for my 'Baby Making Hips' as in I look like I have have and hold a baby quite nicely in my hip region (I guess that's something guys look for) but I don't know at what point that gets a little out of control.

I have this issue with not being able to fit in pants because my mind plays tricks on me and makes me think I always need a size bigger then I really do which leaves me with a baggy crotch, a waist that doesn't fit and an overall bad look. That and sometimes people make pants with zippers that are too small and the opening isn't big enough for me to get the pants over my ass. It's annoying but something I really shouldn't complain about.

I tried to make my wedding dress a little bootylicious and at first it worked out but it didn't really end up that way, which is fine with me because I prob. shouldn't be whorey in a Church and in front of old Italian people.

I wonder what it would look like if my ass and my thighs became like one big unit and you couldn't tell them apart? That would be weird. Its bad enough that I already have a second ass. That is what I call the small bump of fat I have between my butt and my thighs.

And I know I am skinny and all and it looks like you can break me in half but even skinny people have a place on there body where bits of fat compile together. Mine just happens to be my butt. I love food and I can't help myself and I am going to have a huge ass because of it. Thank God Chad likes big butts and he can not lie.

Ummmm food.

I think I am going to go eat my Greek leftovers.

Your boyfriend called to hear your voice

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Welcome to Monday morning.

I have given up on caring at this exact moment. Work wise that is. I am just too exhausted and lazy and tired of telling everyone I am exhausted. I need a vac cay and even though it is two weeks away that is just not quick enough for me. I still plan on doing the things I need to do everyday but I will no longer hustle my ass. I will be a moderate employee this week.

I had my first bridal shower yesterday but my mom has the pictures for that and hasn't given them to me yet so I won't blog about it.

Saturday I finished my dress. Yes that is right it is alll done! Aside from some things I *might* change if there is time near the end (because I am picky). It was quite the experience in making this dress, especially because I haven't really made anything to this caliber before, aside from my grad dress. The lace was the tricky part because its see through and there are difference ways in which you can sew the seams and I really didn't know what I was doing so, yea. I don't know what to think about that yet. But I do love it and it did turn out the way I wanted so I am pretty pleased. I am also thankful I don't have to look at it again until the wedding. It was getting very frustrating.

As you can see we got our engagement photos back. I am more then happy with them! I love them! I am so glad that we chose to spend a little bit more money then anticipated on our photographer. I think for us that was one of the most important things. We wanted someone who's photos stood out. Yes the poses aren't 100% natural but they are beautiful. I love the colours and the settings. If you will remember it was a very stressful thing trying to find the right photographer but I am more then thrilled with who we chose.

Scott was great to work with and I can't say enough good things about his pictures. I am super excited for the wedding now and all the pictures that will come from it. We are bloggers, we are narcissists, so it only figures that we would choose someone who fits our style.

Less then 50 days bitches!

Scotts website - Here.
All our engagement photos - Here.
Our slide show - Here.

Chad need to find black squishy pads

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:24:00 +0000

The office is getting silent as everyone leaves for the weekend. Phones keep ringing and there is no one here to answer them. After a stress filled week I can't wait to get out of here. Its my Dads birthday today and we are having Fish n' Chips for dinner. They aren't may favorite but hopefully these ones are good.

This weekend I've got my first bridal shower. Chads aunt is throwing it for me. I'm excited to get presents but I dread having to open them in front of everyone as they watch me. I really am not a fan of opening gifts in front of people. I hate all the staring.

I am actually looking forward to tomorrow and all the wedding stuff that I am going to do because it won't be 8 hours straight of dress sewing. It will be little projects that hopefully wont take as long. I've even been working overtime once a week to save up the hours so I can take some time off aside from all my holidays. Chad and I have design some pretty wicked wine labels. Lets just hope I can execute them properly.

I am tired and totally out of it and doing everything in my power to make the time go buy quicker while ignoring work. So far so good but I am warring thin. Facebook is only so interesting.

I've got bloggers block and I don't know what to write about. My mind is mush.

Crap I just kinked my neck and now I'm in pain.

This is what you call a pointless post.

Last weeks Firday Lunch Date.

Can I steal you for a minute?

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:26:00 +0000

Alright all my impatient readers. Finally a post. I know its all over due but we are approaching the season of stress, both a work and in life and so the last thing I have time to do is blog. But none the less here is a post.

Saturday was another day of dress drama but in the afternoon I took a break and joined the crew at Confederation Park for some BBQ'ing and Bocce of course because we are Italians and must integrate Bocce into every event.

The only problem was that the boys planned this event and told us girls at the last minute not giving us enough time to properly plan for it. There for it was a bit of a mad rush at the end.

Someone needs to get this man some sleeves. I much preferr t-shirts or wife beaters but these in between shirts...um no. But again thats just my personal fashion opinion.

I thought Dario was going to bring a little camping BBQ but really I should have stopped and thought 'this is Dario we are talking about' hence the full fledged BBQ he strapped to the back of his truck.

I bought this hat from work a million years ago and I've been saving it to wear to Mexico but I thought I would bust it out to give it a test run. I heart it greatly even though Chad says its too manly for me.

Marlee, Krystal, & Dario chatting away before dinner.

We then decided to throw the football around. I was too paranoid of it hitting my ring or my glasses so whenever it came at me I would kick it down or use my legs to block it. It was funny. At least I thought it was.

I was really in love with my outfit. I put it together in a matter of 5 minutes. Those are always the best outfits.

I love men. I love BBQ's. I love men BBQ'ing.

When we got to the park I realized I had forgotten my camera and I felt like a part of me was missing so Chad drove me back home to get it. Thankfully I literally live 5 minutes away.

We were all snacking before dinner. We are obsessed with food but I think that goes without saying.

Marlee made a pasta salad. Unfortunetly both Chad & Dario belong to the 'We don't eat cold pasta' club. It's wide spread amoung Italian men. I just dont understand it. Its pasta for the love of God!

Showing off his BBQ skills & his arms. He is multi talented.

Fetching of the food.

Have I ever told you home much I love Hot Dogs? Sweet Jesus that are my favorite. Chad even went out and bought me my favorite buns. Score!

Ahh. Heres a story. So Dario bought these hot dogs with Cheese & Onion inside of them. Once they were cooked Marlee goes to take a bite of it. All of a sudden I've got burning cheese on my hands and my lap and Marlee is freaking out. Turns out the cheese on the inside was ready to burst so when Marlee bit into it, it exploded everywhere burning both her and I. Somehow Dario worked his way around having his hot dog explode but it was pretty funny when Marlee did it. Minus the grease burns.

We were all done but Chad was still cooking up his Heart Attack burger.

Bacon Double Cheese Burger anyone? Apparently his excuse is that he bought the wrong patties from Costco and these ones are too thin meaning he gets to eat two in one burger. So gross.

After being stuck on the bridge for half an hour due to an accident Steve finally joined us for din din.

The start of the Bocce match. Girls vs. Boys agian. We played on retarded ground which affected us greatly. Chad was loving it tho. Some how he always wins on the shitty ground and I always win on the good ground.

Classic.

We then took a break after the boys beat us 11 - 0. Yea it was pathetic. Dario ended up going through Marlees purse and found some bubbles. That entertained him for a while.

Who looks hotter in the hat?

We ended the night with bocce by moonlight on the good grass which means we won because I rule on this grass. EVERYTIME. But then at the end there was a measurement discrepancy and we were tied but Marlee thought Dario was measuring wrong and then it was 'Dario vs. Marlee in Who Can Measure Better?' Its so funny when they get into there little squabbles of who is better at measuring.

After everyone left we (Chad, Steve & I) sat in the park in the dark and chatted about Steve & Ashleigh's trip to Vegas. It was a good night.

Sunday we were busy running around and then headed out to White Rock for some Birthdays where I somehow got 6 bug bites on my legs and am still suffering from then now.

Monday was dinner on the beach with the girls from work. Tuesday was anxiety attack over the dress and all the needs to be done, which then carried over into this morning but thankfully is now gone. Tonight we are doing a handful of things around the house and then taking the night off from the gym to relax for 5 minutes. I'm looking forward to that.

Tomorrow we are going to pick out our new mattress! GUESS WHO'S EXCITED!?

The Night the Measurements Took Over...

Soups & Salads

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:15:00 +0000

He is coming to take me out for lunch since he is at home today and I am alone at work today. I am so excited!

Then tonight he is going to express his love by giving me one of his very coveted Keg Steaks that Ryan got for him. Apparently he only shares steaks with those he truly loves. Score!

After dinner we are going to go see Wall-E because it relates to our relationship. Chad is a love starved trash compacting robot and I am the emotionless plant finding robot who he falls in love with. I don't think there has ever been another couple in all of the movies that describes us this well.

My only hesitation to seeing this movie is that I am going to become to emotionally involved in it and will most likely cry my eyes out because of how bad I will feel for Wall-E who has fallen in love with someone who can't love him back. I have this thing with intimate objects that have feelings. Remember this guy. Exactly.

Ok its time to finish up before Chad gets here!

Wednesday morning. Le sigh.

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:58:00 +0000

I was ten minutes late this morning because I wasn't feeling good and it took me forever to get my lunch together because I couldn't think of what I wanted to eat because all I wanted to do was puke. I'm crampy which makes me crabby.

I then forgot that I needed to get gas just as I passed the gas station I was going to fill up at. Then my gas light went on and I started to panic because the next gas station en route is by work and I have a history of running out of gas before getting to a gas station. This made me quite anxious. I made it though and tried to ignore the construction men filling up their trucks and creepily staring at me. I was not in the mood.

And so I am here now and the bright hot sun that was out this morning has now turned into dark grey clouds clearly signaling to me that I wore the wrong outfit today. Just not a good morning.

The only positive note was that I had a very nice and unexpected email from a blogger that made my day.

Last night I cut out some lace trim for my dress but then got distracted by this idea I had for the church programs for the wedding and I was going crazy trying to figure out the layout and everything exactly the way I wanted it. I was also trying to look for some ornate curly scroll clip art pictures to use and it feared next to impossible. I finally found some on this website that supplies clip art for websites and you can sign up and buy the actual things you want which I seriously considered. Remember I am a freak for details. Anyways, I was actually able to copy and paste some of them that didn't have a water mark on them. My only fear was that because it wasn't the original file if I tried to re size the art it would become all pixelated. So I kept everything the same size and laid them out like I wanted (they make everything looks quite gaudy but I still like it) did a test print and they were friggin pixelated. Bastards. It doesn't look HORRIBLE but it doesn't meet my standards. I'm not sure what to do about it, but after spending 4 hours working on it I've gave up for right now.

Also last night I decided to do a little somin-somin for my feets. I read this article the other day that if your feet are dry and you need a quick fix you smother them in lotion, wrap them in cling wrap, put some socks on and let your feet be for the rest of the night. So since I was staying home to obsess over curly scrolls I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to do this. Other then waking up at 3 because I can't stand wearing socks to bed it was a very nice experience and my feet feel amazing today. This is definitely something I will be doing more often!

So now that I've gotten all that off my chest here is the real post I was going to do...

Monday night we headed out to Confederation park for some bocce playing. Somehow the boys beat the girls even though Chad usually sucks at bocce most days, he some how pulled out all the stops this time. Here are some pictures and a little bit of their story.

You gotta love Italians. Why buy a hat when a paper bag will do?

Chad and I were post showers that why our hair isn't done and Chad is scruffy and my face is naked.

I love Confederation park for the simple fact that every night you will find loads of old Italians down there playing bocce, playing cards, hanging out, chatting and crowd watching. I've already told Chad that when we are old and retired that is exactly what we are doing every night.

Bocce Bocce Bocce

Claudia hates me because I didn't tell her I have a blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:32:00 +0000

So Canada Day pictures are finally here!

The view from Burnaby Mountain.

This is where we had our picnic.

My Sammich - Roast Beef, Spiniach, Tomato, Blue Cheese.

Chads Sammich - The Italian Special.

Fruit! We were trying to be healthy, minus the bad of chips to the right. Ha. At least they were baked!

Thats me.

Making plans as per usual.

So white. This was the first time I had been out in the sun.

He's gettin greasy.

I actually burnt my legs.

I heart trees.

Summer waves. Finally figures out how to manage them.

On the road to Right Walk.

Alex & his Fraser.

Giant Paw.

The view from the top of a hill.

Beach drive by before dinner at the in-laws.

I love the houses on the beach.

Chad being nostalgic.

Me being cute.

Summer Outfit.

The train is a comin.

Chad makes the Sun Set.

Pinks.

Blurry Me.

Blurry Chad.

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After dinner we headed back to the beach to watch the fire works. They were most lovely and I was most ill prepared for how cold it got. Then there was this kid about 10 feet behind us who was screaming the national anthem at the top of his lungs all by himself. Once he finished that he then began to yell ' I LOVE CANADA' over and over again for the entire time the fireworks went on. I was going to kill him. I understand that you want to be patriotic but stop being so friggin annoying!

Over all though it was very nice to spend the day solo with the husband to be. I was so tired by the end of the day tho, that I passed out in the car on the way home. Thats what you get for too much sun exposure when you are a vampire. Ha.

All the pictures are posted here.

Ok I'm going home. See you tomorrow bitches!

The Wedding...

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:03:00 +0000

is exactly two months away.

Sweet Jesus.

My Nonna is down stairs in the sweat shop sewing the zipper onto my dress. Shes been at it for 2 hours. Ha. So glad I'm not doing it.

This dress has caused much frustration in the past few weekends. Its not that the design of it is wacky and hard to sew its just trying to fit three layers of fabric to my body so that it looks right has turned out to be next to impossible. Le sigh. It is FINALLY starting to look like it should. Its almost done, but there is a LOT of hand sewing I need to do on it once my Nonna is finished with the zipper.

I also realized that I have the prefect Nip Slip prevention plan. Due to the large scar left from my mole removal on my right breast I have realized that if I can see the scar then I need to pull up my dress, preventing it from falling down or having my barely there boobs pop out. Perfect!

Because I am retarded I have decided to hand bead 12 meters of lace to put on my veil because I like time consuming products that no one will notice. As you can tell I'm all about the detail.

I've been to weddings before where it kinda looks like things were done last minute, to me anyways. Like the bridesmaids didn't wear all the same shoes or colours that were used in once place were repeated else where but where a shade off. I know it doesn't really matter and that I am most likely the only person who notices these things but its important to me. An so I will spend 10 hours beading lace that me and maybe a handful of people will notice. Plus I am only wearing the veil to the ceremony so its even more pointless to bead it. OH WELL.

Chad has gone to Calgary this weekend. Its like the closer we get to the wedding the less I see him because I am tied away at home sewing this and ordering that for the wedding and I just don't have the time to go and hand out anymore. I guess that will all change in September.

Ok I got to go try on the dress. Check it.

Oh and if you have an invitation to our wedding and you have not replied yet please do so or I will hunt you down in a fit of rage. Just kidding. But seriously.

Don't make me steal your cheese burger

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Alright, so with a few minutes to spare I will attempt to re capture the majority of the weekend. I hate having this back log of posting to do and no time in which to do it. But people are expecting this post so I better get at it. This is a huge ass post so you better love it 'D.A.M.M'.

So like I said, Chad decided to go on a one night camping trip on Friday so us girls finally got together for some chit chat and so I could stuff my face with amazing food.

Alicia White Wino

Melissa & Marlee mid conversation. It's always awkward when you take pictures of people mid conversation.

Ok so for the food. Alicia brought home made Salsa, Melissa brought Fudge, Marlee brought Ice Cream Cheese Cake (which we saved for later on) and I did the usual Cheese galore. So friggin good.

We never ended up watching a movie because between the four of us we could not shut up. We chatted about everything and everyone. It's very interesting to find out what everyones views and feelings are about certain things and its even more interesting when you find out that they match yours. No sluts please. Haha.

The two M's ended up going home and Alicia stayed and slept over. We were woken up pretty early by the sun blasting through the windows and by 8am the apartment was already getting warm. Really need to invest in some blinds for the sliding glass door.

Saturday day I spent sewing my dress which was very frustrating but thankfully Matt was there even if he did pass out on the couch.

By the time I headed over to the apartment for dinner it was so friggin hot out that I didn't even want to move. I was super cranky, one because of the dress, two because of the heat, and three because Chad left camping stuff everywhere. I don't even remember what we ate for dinner.

Post all of that Marlee came over as we were heading down to the one and only Mirage for a friends birthday. Chad wanted to go to see how many douche bags still hang out there. It just so happened that Chad ended up turning into one of those douche bags.

Oh that reserved sign. So like I said, we were there for a friends birthday, a friend who I have know for a million years because of all the Italian stuff we were involved in as kids. I don't hang out with Juliana every weekend and go to clubs with her all the time which means I don't know the majority of her friends who she does go to clubs with every weekend.

So before we left I phoned her and she said to head down there early and grabbed the reserved table as she was coming a little later in a limo with all her friends. So we do so and grab some drinks (from the most retarded server ever) and chat chat at the table as we wait for people to come. Out of everyone that was coming that night we knew maybe 3 people.

So everyone shows up, Juliana introduces us to some of her friends and yadda yadda. So the three of us are still siting at the table when one of her friends comes up, looks at the sign, looks at us and says 'Hi yea, um this table is reserved for Juliana, its her Birthday'. To which I respond 'Hi yea, we are her friends so we're allowed to be sitting here', giving her just as much attitude back. I was like, you srsly think we would randomly sit at someones reserved table? I dunno maybe that something that happens frequently. She looks at us again and then turns around and leaves. 5 minutes later the exact same thing happens with another one of her friends. Again I reply that I am Juliana's friend and I am here for her birthday as well. I was really starting to get pissed off because I mean I know you have prob. never seen me before but there is a possibility that I know your friend as well.

Anyways we carry on with our night and I get called to the bathroom for a fashion emergency. While I'm in there helping out the first girl who gave me attitude was in there as well with Juliana. She sees that I am clearly helping out and that I obviously know her so she says to me 'Omg I am really sorry for being rude before. I didn't know you were Juliana's friend and sometimes there are these slutty girls that steal our tables here'. To which I replied that it was OK and I understood. Then I thought to myself, did you just call me a slutty girl?

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Anyways.

Chad was really greasy, surprise surprise.

This is when the Mirage Douche Bag came out. I know its sad to admit but he looks friggin hot here. The only douche bag I could ever love.

M.A.R.L.E.E

I look like a lion or a cat here. I dunno Chad took this picture. Its a little weird.

Juliana the birthday girl!

After the club we went to McDonald's where I experienced the most amazing cheese burger of my life. 2am drunk cheese burgers are always the best and most satisfying thing in the world.

Sunday was busy with wedding stuff.

We met with our organist and chose our music for the ceremony. That was easy because I wanted it all to be traditional music.

Then we went to get our wedding bands. I ended up going with the one that matches my engagement ring because it didn't look as small as I remembered and everything else either looked too big or just didn't match. Chad got his white gold band as well.

Next we went and got our marriage license. Omg so official. That was pretty exciting.

We headed to my parents for dinner and then over to the apartment for cake.

Marlee's Hang Over Cure. I didn't have a hangover but it was a million degress outside so it was my heat cure.

Stab Stab.

Just look at that goodness.

There is still the whole cake left so if anyone wants to come over it and help us finish it you are more then welcome.

Our Sunday night crew. Chad and Ryan were going out for beers post this and Marlee and I were there for the cake.

Effing amazing on a hot hot day.

I am actually wearing contacts and non prescription sunglasses in this picture. Thats pretty epic for me.

Chillin with my Gnomies.

Chad doesn't like this shirt because the pink lace makes me look too childish. I still love it.

Yea ok so thats 3 days so far. I will save Canada Day for tomorrow. I apologize again for not having the time to entertain you all and for having to back track weeks at a time.

Its a busy life I lead these days.

And now its time to go home for a home made meal where I don't have to do anything. I gotta enjoy these while I gottem!

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Oh yea I forgot to link all the photo albums...

Girls Night
Julianas Birthday
Deck Times

There ya go!

Happy Canada Day!

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Yes so I was suppose to blog yesterday about the weekend but I didn't seem to have a minute to do so and so I was going to do it today but now Chad is running late and I have to help him wash his car (joy) so that wont happen. We are going for a picnic this afternoon and then out to the in laws for dinner and then drinks at the beach in White Rock. I am most excited. If only I didn't have to wash the damn car. Oh well. I need to paint toe nails before he gets here. Lata.

Happy Canada Day Hose Heads!

You are hairy. Like animal.

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:30:00 +0000

The other night I had a shower and shaved my legs and then moisturized them with some lotion/sunless tanning cream. When I woke up the next morning it looked like I hadn't even shaven my legs at all. I was so confused. I couldn't figure out if I had dreamt about shaving them or if I had actually done it. I was really sure I had but by the looks of them it was like I hadn't touched them in a week. I'm still really confused over the matter.

Because it is technically Summer and I was told it was suppose to be hot yesterday I wore my new brown linen skirt with a white t-shirt and sweater. Now in the mornings I am always freezing cold but figured by lunch time it should warm up nicely. Wrong. At lunch time it decided to rain. Hahaha oh Vancouver I am going to strangle you.

It was still kinda warm out but the rain made it a little nipply so I decided to go out to the local bakery Uprisings to get some of their much talked about soup. I opted for the Minestrone and went back to work to eat my soup and sammich.

The soup was so good and hearty that I could barely eat it all, especially with the huge prosciutto sandwich I had to accompany it. Omg I was so full that for the rest of the day I couldn't eat a thing because of how full I was.

We went to the gym last night which was good because I was feeling fat because of how full I felt all day even tho what I ate was healthy and not fattening, I just still felt gross. I still kinda feel that way now and don't know what I should do for lunch. In a last minute scramble this morning I grabbed a thin crust pizza but its not sounding too appealing to me right now. I'm thinking about sushi, but the last time I went there it wasn't really all that good which threw me off and now I'm scared to go back. I also don't really want to spend any money. Plus tonight is going to be a fattening night.

Chad is off on a one night camping trip and so me and the girls - M, A, & M are getting together for a Wine & Cheese night at the apartment. God knows I am going to pig out like there is no tomorrow because I can't handle good food, especially cheese and red wine. So excited. Alicia is going to pick up some girly movies and we will chit chat and gossip and probably all pass out together in our frilly panties. Hahaha. Yea right.

So I guess since I've got some time now I should catch up on some work stuff so if we get the opportunity to leave early today I can. God knows that apartment is a disaster again and I need to clean it all before the girlies come. Clean clean clean!

***Update

The boss just bought us lunch! Green Salad Wrap. Healthy & Free!

An affluent Italian fashion designer

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Photo explosion because I feel like it and because I haven't posted since Friday.

Saturday was wedding number 2 of the season.

The Bride and her parents

Fabiola & David (who is my cousin)

Outfit #1 for the day (yes you better believe I do a costume change half way through the day!)

I told Chad he looked like a Commissioner. It was all because we spent Friday night watching the NHL draft and everyone was wearing suits.

Contrary to what he says, I bought the tie.

We look good together.

After the ceremony we had about 4 hours to waste until the reception. I decided to go get a manicure so my nails would be all pretty for the reception and for our engagement photos the next day. That ended up turning into a disaster.

I made an appointment at this nail bar at the local mall. I had never been before but I always saw it full of people and figured I would try it out, I mean its just a manicure no one screws those up. Ha. I was wrong.

So I go in and the lady at the front tells me to go to station one. I sit down and it is disgusting, so much so that I didn't even want to put my hands down. Two seconds later an older chinese man comes out and sits infront of me. "White or Clear?" he says to me. Ahhh...White. Next thing I know he grabs the nail clippers and cuts off all my nails which I had specifically grown out for the manicure. I sat there in horror. Then he grabs a grinder and starts to grind my nails. At this point I'm thinking WTF. I've only ever had a manicure done once but I am pretty sure this is NOT how its done. So I pull my hands away and I say to him "I'm getting a manicure right?" To which he replys "oh manicure" in his broken english.

So he then carrys on in the most retarded fashion. He attempted to moisturize my hands but it got too greasy so he told me to wash them. Then he did the WORST french maniucre on me I had ever seen. Even I do a better job then that to myself. I was fuming. All I wanted to do was get out of there.

I was so pissed off the whole rest of the afternoon that the only thing that made me feel better was a quarter pounder with cheese, medium french fries, and a coke right before the reception. I'm still pissed at it. After having a shower on Monday night all the nail polish came off. I'm so glad I paid $25 bucks for the worst service in my life. Fack.

Anyways back to the reception...

Hi, this is my white, gangter wanna be, fiance.

Here they come!

The "I've never eaten squid before" Crew

They make such an adorable couple!

My mother was all over the place, as per usual. She then tried to prove to me that she wasn't drunk by calling me a "Sslooser". Yea Mom, I'm sure thats a word.

Chad was lucky enough to get the first beer of the night. I don't know how he does it.

Salad anyone?

Anthony was the man behind the fetching of Chads first beer. I don't know how hes turned all my cousins into his minions.

I always have to take one like this. I was quite blinging that night.

Outfit #2. This is my 'Hi I am Italian' dress that actually came from France. I told everyone to call me Donatella Versace.

Damn those bug eyes. He ruins all good pictures. I am terrified to see how our engagement photos turned out.

Elise decided to budge in for this one.

Me & Papa Rossi.

This is Laura. This is her chicken. You aren't allowed to eat it.

Elise had like 500 glasses infront of her. I have no idea where they came from.

I decided to eat some salad.

My drink was very free and very neon.

He looks like an old Italian with that hat on. Wait until he tells you all the story of the run in with the little Italian man in the washroom. Priceless.

Fabiola got her dress from the same store I wanted to get my dress from. Instead I just, kinda, stole there design. HA. But my dress won't even look the same as their dress so its ok.

Aww look, Cousins.

We ended up leaving the reception at 1:30, 5 minutes after the bride and groom did. It was a damn good night and makes me think that every Saturday night there should be a wedding.

With all these weddings coming up this summer I'm starting to freak out more and more about mine. At the beginning of the ceremony when we were waiting for Fabiola to walk down the isle I was having a panic attack because I was thinking about me and how nervous I'm going to feel. I hate attention and walking down the isle is like the most attention ever. Ahhh.

In the end I know everything will turn out fine and everyone will have a blast, but its still just that walking down the isle thing that gets me.

Thankfully there is one more wedding to go to before I freak out about ours.

All the pictures from the cerempony & reception are posted here.

ALICIA

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:53:00 +0000

Calm down! I will post something hopefully soon. I'm swamped right now and the post I am working on is LONG. OK!? SO IMPATIENT.

Why don't you just figure out what movies we are going to watch on Friday while you wait for me to finish costing Jacket Required.

Also, please remind me to ask Chad how to use the DVD player. He complicates everything.

Ok!

Hearts.

I will try and be speedy!!

Thanks,

<3 Danielle

Grey is my favorite colour

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:36:00 +0000

It really is. Chads mom once asked him if I wore actual colours because all she had ever seen me in was white, black, & grey. Hello monotone! I do wear colours, but I just like my monotone better.

Grey is also a very trendy colour right now.

I'm wearing my new T-shirt from Hollister that is grey and one size too small because I still think I'm 15 when I buy clothes apparently.

Today is a horrible day to be in the office. Everyone got mad at everyone else via emails this morning. I was cc'd on them that's the only reason why I know about it. It doesn't involve me but its like walking on pins and needles around here. I can hardly wait for the day to be over.

The parentals are coming over to the apartment after dinner. I say after dinner but in knowing their timing we will most likely have not even started dinner yet. They are coming to see the bedroom suite we bought and all the changes we've made to date. The apartment won't officially be complete until after the wedding when everything is bought and moved in. The only things that will need to be updated (but at a later date) will be the computer work area - getting Chad a new computer and desk - and adding some more tiles to the bathroom wall behind the toilet. Other then that it should be pretty much perfect.

Right now the apartment is a disaster and I have no idea how I will be able to clean it and make dinner in an hour before they come over. My mother will definitely say something. I was way to exhausted to worry about it last night after the gym so oh well!

The picture above is from a make-up trial my aunt did on me this weekend. She is using the pictures for her website. To see more I've added some here. This is not what I am going to look like on my wedding day. The veil and the hair are just for the website. The make up however, is pretty much whats its going to be. Just to give you a sneak peak!

They are highly visable

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:26:00 +0000

I went to America last night because my mom and I bought some jewellery on EBay and were going down to the mail box place to go pick them up.

I got this. Necklace and Bracelet. Both of them authentic. Both of them no where near the price you would pay if you bought them brand new. It will go down as the greatest find on EBay EVER. Thank God for girlfriends who hate their ex boyfriends and sell the things they got from them for stupidly cheap prices. It came with the box and everything, just like the picture.

My intention was to wear the set on my wedding day however it might be TOO gaudy with the dress (now coming from me that means something) so I will have to test them out once the dress is done. None the less I have always wanted the set so I will wear them and most likely include them in my engagement photos.

After picking that up from the mail box we went down to Bellis Fair for some shopping.

I went insane inside Hollister and picked up two t-shirts and a hoodie. They were all on sale so that was a bonus. It's actually very odd for me to love Hollister as much as I do because I HATE American Eagle for the simple fact that everyone in high school loved them and I wanted to get as far away from AE as possible. So the fact that Hollister is connected to AE should make me hate it but I don't. I think the only reason I don't is because there are no Hollisters here so when I wear something from there its not like I match half of society. What's also weird is that I am SO not a surf chick and do not subscribe to the lifestyle that Hollister promotes so it still baffles my mind that I actually love there stuff. In knowing me you would as well find it hard to believe I love Hollister.

Next we went to Bath and Body Works where they had ALL the things I wanted to buy 50% off. I almost died. The last time I went down there was two years ago and I couldn't find the tanning cream that I bought in New York so I had to get some tinted moisturizer stuff which I didn't like as much. This time they had tons of it so I stocked up. I was so friggin excited.

Last we went to Payless where I found basically exactly what I was looking for as a wedding shoe. I tried on the size 7 and they were a bit snug but not horrible. I tried on the 7 1/2 but it felt like my foot was coming out so I decided to buy the 7. When we got home my mom tried them on and was shocked my foot could actually fit in there. So I tired them on and they were tight but then I started to get all paranoid that they were too tight because my mom thought I was insane for buying that size and I started to freak out. I decided to just sleep on it and figure it out in the morning. When I tried them on again this morning they were still tight. I got so mad at myself for thinking that I could actually wear them all day and night. UGH. I'm still so mad.

Anyways the bottom line is there is no point driving all the way back to the America to exchange $15 shoes so I will keep them and try to wear them (because they are nice and I do love them) and try and get something else for the wedding. Such a disaster. This is the second time something like this has happened to me in regards to shoes and the states. I am never buying shoes there again!

By the time we got home last night I was exhausted so I didn't take pictures of all the stuff I bought. I should tho and I will. I am not spending any more money this month after all the shopping I've done for me and for Chad. I think I have a problem.

Now I get to go make excuses to Lining Vendors who complain that I'm not giving them enough business. Yay!

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Pictures from a random SFU adventure I never blogged about - Here.

Matt is the 4th member of the Jonas Brothers

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:55:00 +0000

It's Tuesday. I don't know what that means other then there is nothing going on a work today and a million things going on outside of work today.

Lets start from the top.

Saturday Matt came over to help me cut out my wedding dress. We actually got pretty far which is good and makes me feel better about the whole thing. He ended up staying for dinner and then we went on an adventure with my parents to North Van. That's what we do when we are together. Revert to being 16. It was most fun and allowed me to fall asleep early. The pictures in this post are from said adventure.

View'em all here.

Contrary to Chads last post I didn't end up going out for dinner and Sex in the City last night. The boss' husband busted his knee and so people didn't want to go if she wasn't going to come (because she had to tend to her broken husband) so we postponed it. This means we will actually probably never see it.

This however totally worked in my favor. I was able to re work one of the busiest weeks of my life and went out with Marlee last night to buy curlers and a curling iron for our bridal hair trial this coming Sunday. Doing this allowed me to free up Wednesday which means I can now accompany my parentals on an evening shopping trip to America!

I was also able to spend some quality time with Mr. Ciavarro last night. Its been so long since we actually had a few moments to spend together on the couch doing nothing. It was most needed. I have become smitten with him this week.

Today there will only be two of us in the office which will be most boring. The only good thing is it will give me the chance to keep an eye on Italy vs. France.

Its funny how I obsessively blogged about World Cup '06 but haven't said anything about Euro Cup '08. It's partially because I haven't had time to pay attention to it and because I am too emotionally involved and I don't want to write about it on here then jinxing myself. It's a complicated Italian superstition thing. I will say however, that today is basically death match day. We need the Netherlands to win and we need to win against France (my sworn soccer enemy) in order for us to proceed. The catch is that they are playing both games at the SAME TIME, which means I will be crapping my pants for a good 2 hours. Sweet Jesus help us all.

Tonight there is a bunch of stuff we need to do and a bunch of appointments we need to attend to so I really don't know when we are going to eat dinner. I want Hot Dogs for dinner tho because we bought some really good ones from Safeway and they are SO yummy. I know Hot Dogs are more of a lunch meal or a picnic meal but we need something quick tonight so I am putting in my order for Hot Dogs.

Hot Dogs and Hashbrowns please!

It's Sunday and I'm blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:13:00 +0000

Strange I know.

I really don't have anything to say.

I'm just here waiting for Chad to get out of bed.

I've started to clean my room but I can't really move due to the muscle pain I am feel in my leg.

Don't ask.

I hate sitting here waiting for people so I can start my day.

I really should clean this disaster and maybe dust everything since I probably haven't in a month.

Fack.

GET OUT OF BED CHAD.

She wears the pants

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:20:00 +0000

I am officially exhausted. My lower back hurts and my body is aching for some rest. I haven't decided if I will be joining Chad at the gym today or not.

I think its time for a wedding update.

So last night, aside from getting my eyes check, which by the way turned out they only slightly got worse over the past 5 years which means I wont have to get new glasses, I went wedding shoe shopping. That turned out to be a bust but mainly because what my Mother wanted me to get was basically the exact opposite of what I wanted to get so we found nothing. I will go again tomorrow to different stores and hopefully find something.

With less then 3 months to go before the big day I am running into crunch time. I currently have no wedding dress, no shoes, and the bridesmaids dresses have to be altered and adjusted. Thankfully I have been proactive on some things and have both hair and make up trials scheduled for the next two week. GO ME!

In a week and a bit we are going to get our engagement photos done. These I am most excited about. We have decided to go to Stanley Park to get them done because we will have the option to take both 'Nature' & 'Urban' shots there. We just need to pick if we want the west side with English Bay & the Granville Street Bridge, or the east side with Coal harbour and the North Shore.

On Saturday, aside from starting my dress *eek* we are meeting with my uncle to go over the readings and things for the actual ceremony. Then we have to meet with the Organist to pick all the music. Hopefully I will be able to arraigned that on Sunday.

We went Wedding Cake shopping this past weekend. We didn't do any taste testing because we already know what we want - Diplomat cake all the way! - but we did need prices for the actual cake itself, plus a slab. Prices for the cake ran from $750 to $350, FOR THE SAME CAKE. People are nuts. I don't know why you would pay 750 bucks for the exact same cake you can get for $350. We are down to two different bakeries to pick from, that is unless my Aunt can come through and actually make the cake for us, then we will just have to buy a slab and we are all set!

We still need to get wedding bands. We went and looked one day but I couldn't make up my mind because I wanted the big gaudy one (of course) but it was stupidly expensive (shocking) so I don't know what to do. We need to go back again and look and I just need to be reasonable and pick something that will look good but not cost us and arm and a leg. Chad already picked out his band because hes not gaudy like me.

The only real important things left to do (besides make my dress) is to confirm everything we already books months ago. I know the decorations are all set, but the actual flowers need to be finalized, as well as the DJ, and lots of little things. The majority of the little things I can't do until after the dress is finished and the engagement photos are done because I need to use the leftover fabric and pictures to make the 'little things'. I really want to get moving on all those things so I have time left at the end for any small ideas or things that pop up. I can't wait to make wine bottle labels! I am such a nerd.

Anyways, there is still lots to do and it looks like the majority of all my free time will be taken up with the wedding over the next three months. It should be interesting. I'm just really itching to get started on the last bit of stuff so it is over and done with. I need to start making lists and drawing pictures of what I want. Yes that's a good idea.

Oh candles! I need to buy some from Ikea for the head table. Mental Note that one.

I use to laugh like you, but then I stopped.

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0000

The day has come! I finally have my very own parking spot in the underground garage! Sweet Jesus I have been waiting for this day forever. No more parking my car on the side streets. No more cursing at people who take up too much room. No more walking to the front door with a million things in my hands in the rain. All of that, GONE!

The only down side to this is that I will no longer be escorted to my car by Mr. Ciavarro. I thought he would be happy by this. No more walking me to the car late at night when its cold and rainy and all he wants to do is go to sleep. But I was mistaken. It seems that he grew quite attached to walking me to my car all the time. Like it was 'our little thing'. And now his services won't be needed anymore.

I guess its kinda like the mamma bird letting her little baby fly and do it on her own. All this time I 'depended' on Chad to walk me to my car and now I don't need him any more. Aww :(

He made quite the production about it last night being the 'last time' he will ever walk me to my car. SO CUTE. I can't handle it.

In other news I am wearing an effing turtle neck today. THE ALMOST MIDDLE OF JUNE. This is what it looked like on Monday night. It rained so much that the man hole covers started popping up in the middle of the streets. Its soooo friggin depressing and its so cold that it actually feels like November. So much so that the Fox keeps playing November Rains. Oh Ma God, let this weather STOP ALREADY. Le sigh.

I'm going to get my eyes checked today (it would have been smart of me to do that BEFORE laying down 500 bucks on new D&G glasses but anyways) and I have a feeling my eyes HAVE changed.

I need to get contacts so that on my wedding day I will not be blind and can actually see who I am marrying. I have discovered that I really do need to wear glasses on a daily basis, which is not a problem excpet when we go out and I want to dress up with out having to wear my glasses, then I either go blind or look like a nerd. This is where contacts come into play.

Hopefully everything will work out with that tonight. Yay contacts!

Thank God we're normal

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0000

So we had Chads birthday party at the Yale on Saturday night. It was definitely better then I expected. The first band that was on had a female lead singer and she was hot and really good. The first set was all original music and the second set was all covers. It was really good music, and thats a pretty big thing coming from someone who is NOT a huge fan of blues music.

I wasn't going to take pictures because it totally didn't seem like the type of crowd who would 'accept bloggers' but the later it got the more people got drunk and the more I didn't care. Plus Neil made me. So here are some pictures.

We got there at around 9 and it was about half full of old men and cougars; which we all excpeted. Then at around 11 or so these young chicks in little dresses came out of no where and it made all the guys happy. It was very odd. The age of the crowd began to shifted as more and more friends showed up. By the end of the night it was about half "old" and half "young". It made for a very entertaining crowd.

The one thing that stood out to me the most was the amount of fashion disasters I saw that night. Omg I could not handle it. It was like these women hadn't left the house in 20 years to go out and party which meant they had NO idea what was fashionable and what wasn't. And at the same time I know that some peoples priority in life is not to have the lastest fashion but there are just some pieces of clothing that should never be worn no matter who you are. For example, jeans that have criss cross leather ties up the front so that when you wear them you have an inch of skin showing all the way down your leg with a leather shoe lace criss crossing down your leg. I almost barfed.

Overall it was a pretty good night. Everyone had fun and Chad wasn't falling over drunk (bonus!) as apose to last year. And even though I was the DD I really enjoyed myself.

Chad owes me fries from Fritz tho.

The rest of the pictures are located - Here.

Modern Guilt Money Pit

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:30:00 +0000

Chad didn't want to go out for his birthday so we stayed home and made pizzas.

Mine - Sun dried tomatos & Red onions

Chads - Ham & Bacon a.k.a The Heart Attack Pizza

Mozza & Romano

I added Blue Cheese to mine.

omg sooooo good!

We couldn't really do anything special for his birthday because...

#1 the Stanley Cup Finals were on so Chad basically ignored everything but the TV and his computer

#2 because he schedualed a Strata Meeting for that night. SMRT CHAD. It was rather retarded.

However, it was nice, for myself, to sit in his comfy chair all alone watching TV and cleaning out the bathroom, kitchen, & bedroom with out someone making a mess of everything 3 seconds after it was clean.

Chad needed some new shirts for special outtings we had to attend a few weeks prior, like my parents anniversary and stuff, so I went out and bought him 5 brand new shirts because all he does is complain that hes got nothing to wear (he is such a girl).

So do to the fact that I spent a pretty penny on all the new clothes he said that it would count as his birthday gift because he both needed the shirts and wanted them, he just got them a little early.

I felt bad that I had nothing to give him on his actual birthday so when I was at the deli I picked up some of his favorite meats knowing that he would full well be VERY excited about them. I was proven right. There is one way to an Italian mans heart and that is through food.

I remember one of the first times he every came over to my house to watch a movie, we were hungry and wanted a snack but there were no chips or anything to really snack on. I remembered that my mom had gone to the deli to get some sliced meats so I figured we could eat those (not thinking how totally random and Italian I was being).

So I grabbed them out of the fridge and layed'em out for us to eat. Chad paused, then turned to me and said, 'This is the coolest thing anyone has ever done for me!'. Not thinking that it was a big deal that we were eating cured meats (since I eat them every day) I was surprised by his reaction.

Apparently no one ever randomly served him cured meats in a social/date setting so he was pretty much blown away by my actions. I guess it also worked in my favore because Chad was going through his 'I want to discover more about my Italian heritage' phase so giving him slices of gabagool was like 'follow me I have all the answers to your questions'. It was basically at that point that I stole his heart.

Give a man a slice of salami and he is yours FOREVER!

Chads Birthday Dinner & Laziness Pictures - Here

Trenta Uno

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:30:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Old Man.

Now you are officially 8 years old then me.

Now I officially look 8 years younger then you.

Congrats on living this long.

I'm sure your liver is about 30 years older then you.

LOVE YOUS!

(EL)

It's like he took a left instead of a right at Compton

noreply@blogger.com (Smelly Danielly) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:24:00 +0000

I went to bed at 9:30 last night and got up at 7:30 this morning.

IT WAS GLORIOUS.

Thats all I have for right now. I forgot to bring my camera cable to upload pictures.

May Alicia has one here.

Anyways, I've got nothing else yet.

But the fact that I went to bed last night at 9:30 and only woke up ONCE during the night made me the happiest person ever.

Thank God for the parentals being home.

Thank GOD!