First… as many of you may have seen on the news today, ‘The Southeast is hit by its first ice storm’. When they say folks down here can’t drive on wet leaves… well, imagine ice. I stepped out this morning with a heavy fall jacket, gloves and a scarf and walked right straight into an apocalypse. Seriously, traffic everywhere, on the highways, main roads and even the side streets. Why is this you may ask? Well apparently Atlanta power lines can’t handle a bit of ice, so the traffic lights were out all over the city. This also produces a strange thing which is the level of Southern hospitality increases to fever pitch as a major three lane road actually stopped for me to cross the intersection. This leads me to believe that most of the accidents are probably caused by yankees and their aggressive driving style getting out in the middle of intersections and hitting each other, not Southerners. Everyone at the office was saying that we were really going to have to buckle down because it was going to be a frozen tundra like this all year. Hah, and I was worried I was adapting too quickly. I do fear that I will begin to miss snow quickly, as all they seem to get here are occasional patches of ice, and lots of rain.
Second… I cancelled all of my wedding vendors today. The good news is that if they can rebook the date I can get a credit. The bad news is that I get a several thousand dollar credit at places I can never use. Unless of course I throw myself a rather large party, or decide to eat catered food for a year… oh yeah and have some really amazing portraits taken of me and my cats. I also loved the fact that the dress place said they would have my dress on a mannequin the day I wanted to come pick it up… that way I suppose I can better envision what I would have looked like. I think I’ll be sending mom in for that one.
Third… so after much haggling and fighting for tickets it appears I will have my wonderful gay friends to go with to see Brokeback tomorrow. It was good we got the tickets ahead of time because, and I quote “Honey, the queers will be lined up all the way to Piedmont Park… this is like our Titanic”. I’ll give my review shortly.
Uh… weren’t we promised a review? Helloooo??