Medical Monday

The title for today is my sucky news: I think I have a cold. Not a big medical mystery or even a condition under normal circumstances that would elicit more than a "oh, that sucks" comment from everyone, but it's very worrisome to me because we're 12 days out now and I certainly don't want to be sick. If any of you have any surefire cold remedies, please put them in the comments section. I was drinking orange juice yesterday--out of our new wine glasses I might add; I couldn't wait to use them--but it doesn't seem to have cured me yet.

Below is a picture of some of our accomplishments this weekend. The first 2 are pictures of the new blinds for the door to the deck.

I thought they look really good. Mr. had a difficult time hanging them to get the length just right off the floor. It's so nice to have them up. He's had them for just about the whole time he's lived here--5 or 6 years--and had never put them up. I like privacy because I know how nosey I am and I assume others are, too. You could see right into the house through that door without even straining for a look. Now we could walk around naked all day if we wanted to and no one would know--not that we'd do that, esp. with male child in the house, or even if he wasn't because that would be just wrong, but I'm just sayin' we could if we wanted to or got into that kind of thing.

The cupcake tree is turning out great. Yet another thing that I thought was neat, but once it's coming together, I'm really excited about. Mr. bought 24 cupcakes last night at Kroger so we could do a test run. Below are pictures of it with no cupcakes and with the ones he bought.

After I saw the pink and green, I thought it would've been so cute if those were our colors. Anyway, I put the ribbon along the edges. As you can see, I'm not done yet. I've run out of ribbon. I just wanted to use 4 of the layers, but Mr. wants to use them all so I will have to go buy more ribbon. It's a shame, too, because I have enough for 1 of the 2 remaining layers. Not bad for someone who didn't measure a thing before she went to buy the ribbon. We will also have to get more cupcakes to fill the tree out so we will probably be eating cupcakes until our first anniversary. Of course, my cousin's son is coming to the wedding who happens to LOVE cake. I don't mean have one piece and really enjoy it. I mean have about 5 pieces and love the hell out of each of them. We're counting heavily on him liking the cupcakes.

We have our tasting at the reception place tonight. I've already been once, but Mr. was out of town then so I took the male child, the girl child and my mom. It's great that he will get to go tonight so the burden doesn't lie solely on me to choose what we'll be eating that night. It's good food, too, so I don't think we can really go wrong with our choices.

I have to work on putting more ribbon on the centerpiece vases today. They're going well. I will show pictures of those tomorrow--I can't use all my pictures in one posting or you'll have nothing to look forward to! Don't forget to give me your surefire cures for me to knock this cold.