A Ranch Wedding

It's been a while, so I'll try to catch us all up. :) Piper's spay was last Wednesday. I got to watch and it took all of 25 minutes. It was very cool. She had to stay overnight, so I was all by myself that night as Mom and Dad and Murphy had gone to the ranch. They came back the next day so that Dad could leave to go skiing with some of this boy friends at Beaver Creek. Mom, Carolyn, Piper, Murphy, and I went down to the ranch on Friday to work on preparations for my cousin Julie's wedding. It is taking place at the ranch tomorrow. We were joined on Saturday my mom's sister Lisa and her daughter Katie (10 years old). We worked on centerpieces and wove grapevine cut by Lisa around the arbor where the ceremony will take place. Katie and I rode horses. Piper did well at the ranch, and she enjoyed Carolyn's attentions - Piper is actually staying with Carolyn this weekend while I'm at the ranch. On Sunday Uncle Mike and Mike Shannon came to move their boats out of the workshop (where they had been wintering and where the wedding reception will be).

We came back to Dallas on Sunday afternoon. I didn't have to rush off to work because I was working the overnight rather than my normal 4-midnight shift. Instead I got to see Matt! We had dinner and watched the first half of the Academy Awards (which I thought were very disappointing this year). I trundled off to work at 9:30pm. The night was uneventful: I had three cases to keep me occupied but nothing came in during the night. I helped Raye-Jean work on crossword puzzles, and I finished the first book of The Wheel of Time series. I ate breakfast at 4am. I wasn't even very tired when I drove home around 8:45. After my previous overnight experience, I'd decided to not even try to sleep when I got home. Instead, I stayed up and played WoW in a semi-stupor. Piper had been pulling out her stitches starting on Saturday, and Monday afternoon I noticed that she was swollen internally under her stitches. Dr. Myers thought I should go ahead and bring her in to be checked on, so Mom was nice and drove us out there so I wouldn't hit people in my sleep-deprived state. Piper was fine - it was swelling from the internal stitches but nothing to worry about.

On Tuesday Mom, Susie, and I went and ordered the wedding invitations. We'd already picked out the style, but we had to decide on the wording, font, and other options. There was something about seeing the invitation words in print (and the next day when the proof came in over the fax) that made the wedding finally seem to be closing in. After Julie's wedding, it will really be imminent, which works for me!

The rest of the week I've just been working on school stuff and playing WoW. Zetarg turned 49 last night, and I plan to hit 50 on Monday. I'm glad things are trucking along for him (I hit a rut around level 45 that was annoying), because Blizzard will release more content for people who have maxed out on levels (top level is 60) soon, and I'd like to be there when they do. On Wednesday night I had a play-date scheduled from a week before to go through a dungeon in a group. Unfortunately they are all on PST (my server Silver Hand is a Pacific sever) so we didn't get started until midnight CST. I got to bed about 3:30am...but at least I had planned for it!

This morning I had to get up early (before 8am!) to take Piper to get her stitches out. All two of them. When she started with seven. *Sigh* She also got her last round of shots, so now she's all registered and legal! She's doing well, and I won't miss having to yell at her to leave her stitches alone. Dr. Myers gave me some liver biscotti to give to Murphy in celebration of his and Oreo's tenth birthdays (Oreo is Murphy's sister and Dr. Myers dog), which is right around now (we pretend it is February 28, but I think Dr. Myers has Oreo's at March 5...we didn't know the actual date when we got them).

In a few hours I'm heading down to the ranch to help out with wedding preparation. I'm staying at the Pous' with Mom and Dad because Julie, Phillip (the fiance), and the wedding party are staying at our house. I don't have to be at work until 8pm on Sunday thanks to the kindness of one of my co-workers, so I can make sure the ranch gets cleaned up and everything before I come back to town. And that's the update!