Day 89 - Saturday, May 5, 2012

Today was busy and full of fun things to do. First, Julia picked me up and we adventured to Courtney's apartment for Lauren's bridal shower, where we helped set up, tried to stop Lauren from helping to set up, and moved tables in many different orientations until we figured out how to arrange people best. We'd kept forgetting things (I perhaps was not as prepared as I should have been) and Courtney and Laura kept calling JT and Daniel to bring us things like chairs and CDs. Because it was a scrapbooking party, there was a ton of random paper/scissors/stickers/etc that Courtney'd inherited from someone stacked in a giant pile that I'm surprised didn't fall over at some point.

Since we were asked to bring photos of Jeff and Lauren that we had, and lots of us have been friends for a while, we had lots of repeat photos... especially the "julia, play twister with us" series. I'd gotten lazy when ordering prints from Walgreens, so that's actually the only photos I brought, but other people had other ones. My stickers and bag of personal scrapbooking items was super popular and impressed all the ladies Lauren's mom's age... apparently they thought that owning a lot of scrapbooking supplies in a nice bag equals BEING AWESOME AT SCRAPBOOKING. While I'm not terrible at it, nothing I make looks super professional/neat either.

Went home after helping to pack up some of the paper and stuff, and did my baby bottle of magnesium before Allie's wedding. Since I had two parties I got to wear two of my new nice dresses I bought online since my dresses from before I got sick don't really fit very well. Hooray for gift cards! 

I wore my floppy purple hat to Lauren's shower to get her mom used to the idea that I don't have hair and am wearing a hat to the wedding (her mom's kind of particular, so just wanted to make sure she wasn't going to freak out), but I wore my blonde wig to Allie's wedding, which made for some interesting times. Especially when Whitney sat down in the pew behind us and asked Patrick "Where's Gillian?" I guess the last time she saw me I did have a brown buzz cut kind of haircut, but still. Why would Patrick bring someone else to Allie's wedding?

Got to see a bunch of phils and danced some before the dance floor got too crowded and had lots of fun. I'm super glad I got to go, especially since Kyle's moving to DC in a couple of weeks so it was one of the last times I'll get to see him as a Houston resident, and Payton was in from Dallas but will be starting his Fulbright program in Mexico soon (and I won't be able to visit him there). Alayne and Whitney are both in DC as well, so I will hopefully get to visit them at some point.

My toes are sore from dancing and heels, which I haven't worn in a while. Not much of a use for them at the hospital.