Congested sinuses and pretty dresses

Hi. I’m still not feeling great, but I’m back at work. I didn’t have much choice, since we’re understaffed already due to a training session, plus my usual backup is out sick too. I’d like to thank all those pharmaceutical geniuses who invented decongestants, and I’d like to shake my fist in rage at those jerks who make meth out of them and therefore make me have to sign away my first-born child just to buy some damn Sudafed.

And yes, we’re still going to Trivia tomorrow. That’s the 50-consecutive-hour annual Trivia contest. It’s very important to Denny. It may well be the last one; there have been some changes with the way the contest is run that may or may not work out very well, and not to count clichés before they’re hatched or anything, but a year from now I might be gestating a human and not feeling inclined to attend.

We did get a hotel room; there’s not a chance I’m sleeping on the floor under these circumstances.

What else is on my mind: I know that I don’t actually get to choose Sara’s wedding dress for her, but wouldn’t she look pretty in this?

Or this?

Or this?

The whole Pronovias line makes me think of Sara: kind of antique (she was a history major) and artistic (she’s currently studying arts management) and elegant (just because she is).

4 responses to “Congested sinuses and pretty dresses”

1. map says:

   1/26/2006 at 10:09 am

   It could just be me, but that second model’s left arm looks really…weird. Her dress is the prettiest, though. I don’t like the lace shoulders on the first one…too Hot Topic. The last one looks like a Peter Jackson re-imagining of a J.R.R. Tolkien wet dream. Kind of Elvish.

   And, I’m a big fan of strapless.

2. jack says:

   1/26/2006 at 11:31 am

   Are these pictures from shotgun weddings? Because these ladies all look pretty hostile. The first one is so despondent, she has to cling to the wall just to maintain verticality. Also, next time they should get married somewhere air-conditioned, because they’re all slimy with sweat.

   I think the arm on angry bride #2 fell victim to overzealous retouching; it looks like a shadow-line got removed, leaving her looking double-jointed at the elbow. Or maybe she’s just double-jointed at the elbow.

   Pretty dresses, though.

3. Aprille says:

   1/26/2006 at 12:07 pm

   Yeah, I don’t really understand the whole angry-face thing in the fashion world, especially for wedding dresses. Isn’t the whole point of marketing to make people believe that they, too, will find joy if they purchase product x? The message I’m getting here is that I, too, could be an angry bride with weird arms.

4. emily says:

   1/26/2006 at 4:03 pm

   I almost always picture Sara in something with an empire waist.