Brides and stitches

[smokingboot]

Following the advice of itsjustaname and larians I joined my bridal friends in shopping yesterday.


People are gorgeous, they just don't know it. What is it about British brides? Why is there this deep need to blend in with a Constable landscape? White's no good for the pasty, the pink, and the speckled, so blend it with a little mud and we'll call it beige, or a little yellow and we'll call it cream or a little salmon and we'll call it champagne, or a little grey and we'll call it filing cabinet silver, and then we'll wear the horrible stuff. Urrgh, the very thought sends shivers down my spine. What bloodless, half-hearted passionless rubbish to put against one's skin!

Give us scarlet dresses and big black hats with poppies and very dark roses on them, give us ocean colours, glorious blues and seashell bouquets, give us verdant dryads fresh from the woods, give us rich purples and pinks, gothic burgundies, top hats, medieval crowns, mighty mantillas. Down with moderation and modesty and hideous apologetic clothes fit only for shamed puffins. And down, down with pastels, down, I say!



My dress-seeking chums are not as exuberant as I, but we found styles full of elegance and pizazz, and I have no doubt that they'll be exquisite brides.

Stitches came out too.


Pathology for excision 2 is clean. All Sauron's evil has been scooped up, and there are no malignant cells left as far as they know. Small downer, apparently Sauron may attempt a return, for which reason I shouldn't put henna tattoos or any other skin dye on the area - one symptom of recurring naughtiness is a change in skin pigment, so they need to be able to see it. They want to photograph all my moles! They say it will be a reference should any moles play up in the future. I think it's because they know my entire body is a 3D grid map of the galaxy. I'm not sure Oldham Royal Hospital can be trusted with this information.



Apart from endless check-ups, it is over. I have had so much support from friends, and especially from larians my love and my best friend.
Thank you for everything.

Tonight is the night of St Brigid, Candlemass, night of the Bride, appropriately enough. Most of the seeds I planted this time last year died, but the heathers and herbs survived and are still going strong. The Samhain season is often very good for me; this one has been hard and weird. I am glad to feel it give way to the time of Brigid, lover of snowdrops, protector of early lambs. A friend is about to give birth, another has just told me she is pregnant. Time for new beginnings.

And another cup of coffee.

Comments

[falco-biarmicus.livejournal.com]

So glad Sauron has gone.Thats the best news I've had for a while.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*grins* thank you for having always been there.

Now it really feels like a new year!

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

Vikiy had the baby at 0.54 this morning. He weighed in at 9lb 4oz and they are both doing well according to Bruce.

*happy smiley dances*

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*happy smiley dance back* This would have been fantastic news at any time, but there's something especially sweet about Imbolc's child!

[rebby.livejournal.com]

Is this Bruce & Vikiy of the lions lt?

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

Yup. Proud parents of a baby boy, Garrett Thomas Myers

[rebby.livejournal.com]

Great news.

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

Ray for the Death of Sauron, Ray for returning of light.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Ray indeed *beams*

[thru-her-lens.livejournal.com]

Great news, sweetheart!
Glad to hear it.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Me too! It's so good when a problem's gone, isn't it?

[thru-her-lens.livejournal.com]

Tis indeed!

[rebby.livejournal.com]

Good new about Sauron.

I agree with red wedding dresses.
In fact a red elizethan corset with gold fleur de lie just can't be beaten.

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

I had a blood red wedding dress... so I thoroughly approve of them too

xx

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Red is the colour. Red is my colour. Red is the colour of the funkiest things. All the red things in the world belong to me!

Corset sounds beautiful. Is that what you wore?

[rebby.livejournal.com]

Yep, Amanda (H's wife) made it for me, along with a waiste coat for Ric. I made a red satin skirt to match.
It was a lot less money than conventional grounds & I get to use it for lrp(& have a big grin 'cause of the good memories it has). I'll show it to you at some point.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I look forward to seeing the dress/piccies of it.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the death of Sauron, and hurrah for red dresses! We must celebrate on Saturday!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Indeed we must.

You realise of course that after all this rouge jubilation, the only red dress I currently own is decidedly summery and not at all Jilly-gear.

Still I have a red leather handbag, and I can always pretend.

Looking forward to seeing you very soon!

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Red corset?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

True. I had forgotten it.

Hmm...*looks at the scar* My arm's looking a bit lumpy and strange...might detract a bit...I'll see how I feel in the gear. Truth is, while I am relieved and can't wait for a bop, I don't feel remotely attractive right now:-(

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Boo hiss, but to be honest neither do I. We don't have to dress up Saturday night (although I think John will kill me for saying that as he has a new leather coat and is dying to tart about in it).

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Then tart about he must! Leather coats are just so sexy. Even Gareth (of 'tits of a goddess' fame) looked good - well, improved at least - in his.

I can feel Larians' face fall at the thought of us not dressing up;-) In the end, it'll be down to our moods and what we feel like on the day. Camo's or corsets, we'll be filthy gorgeous!

[larians.livejournal.com]

I love you regardless of what you wear - you are indeed be filthy gorgeous!