Shower

Had my shower this past Saturday, which I'm sure everybody who reads my blog already knew. It went really well. I had a good time, although it was warm and I didn't get to move around much so I got a little uncomfortable occasionally but that's ok. We played some games, I chatted with a lot of people, opened wonderful gifts (which I still need to write thank-you's for) and had some delicious food. The way my aunt did it was really fun too-everybody brought a spice that started with the letter of their name and a recipe that has that spice in it, so now I have a ton of spices which is really exciting since I love to cook! The recipes look great too, and I got some that I really wanted to have, such as the beef stroganoff recipe and this salad my Gramma makes, which she also brought-yummy! I can't wait to try out my recipes! One of the games we played was sortof silly, and I ended up with this ginormous wad of gum in my mouth because of it. Eric was asked some questions well before the shower, some about me and some about him, and I had to match my answer with his. If I got it wrong I had to chew a piece of gum. Actually, about the first 10 I answered exactly right, and then I started doing very poorly. It was somewhat unfair though-one or two Eric didn't know the answers for and obviously I did, so if he got them wrong and I didn't match whatever he said (even though my answer was the correct one) I still had to chew gum. One of them he purposely gave an answer that I could not ever have known just to be a butthead. Oh well, it was a fun game, and I think people were kindof impressed that I knew so many and that I could stand that much gum in my mouth for so long! I had the taste of it in my mouth though until we ate, which was after gifts and that took a long time. Speaking of, wow, I got a lot of really awesome and useful gifts that I'm so excited to use in my apartment! We only had to take one thing back and that was because it was a duplicate. It was a really good time and it was fun to celebrate with my relatives and some of Eric's who will soon be mine too.

Onto other wedding stuff-Eric and I started our invites. We printed the actual invites on Sunday at Gina and Josh's, as well as our rsvp's which all got smudged somehow so we have to reprint those. We also have to print directions and one other thing and then this weekend we'll put everything together, address them, and send them. Anyone want to help? Erica came over last night and is coming over again to do the actual making of the invites, the punching and stamping and gluing, but she'll be gone this weekend until August so sadly she can't come over the weekend. Seriously, if you have nice handwriting or don't mind stamping or sealing envelopes, let me know, Eric and I would be glad to have the help and the company.

Finally, whoever wants to join the Brothers Karamazov reading group, we will be getting together this Friday it looks like, sometime in the evening after the golf tournament is done. Read through chapter five, and it might help if you write down the main characters or names of the characters and maybe a short description to help you keep track of them. I'm definitely looking forward to this; it should be really fun. So far we have Eric Peterson, Eric Famoso, mom, and me, but we welcome anyone so please feel free to join!


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