Because I'm behind ...

I bet you thought (or hoped) it was impossible to read about mold and a wedding dress in the same post, but this is what happens when you get busy. You're in for a random, picture-filled, multi-purpose post!

Part 1: Fourth of July
Pictures from my family reunion. The ranch where we had it is so cute!





























Remember this couple?















Part 2: Not a good way to make friends with your neighbors
So the lovely lady who lives upstairs and seems to have no idea that the floor she pounds her feet so heavily into with every step happens to be my ceiling also seems to have no idea that when something's leaking in her apartment on the third floor, it can mean bad things for those on floors beneath her. Imagine my surprise when I went into my laundry room last weekend and saw water dripping from my light in the ceiling. I called the emergency maintenance line, and they went upstairs to stop the leak. I was told they'd be back in the next day or two to repaint the walls, since they were slightly moldy.

Well, that was a week ago, and it's much worse now. This is what it looked like until this morning, when they gutted the closet (which, thankfully, is off my balcony, away from the rest of my apartment so I don't die from breathing in black mold). Now, thanks to my lovely neighbor, I can't do laundry tonight, which I'd planned on doing so I could start packing for seeing K this weekend. Needless to say, neighbor's not on my good list tonight.



















































































Part 3: The Dallas dress?
I think I found it. And my veil. When CG was here, we went dress shopping. I'd seen this one in the catalogue and online and had really liked it. It was a lot like the dress I really liked the first time I went shopping, only this one had the two elements I'd wished one of the dresses that day had had: the sweep train and the lace-up back.

(FYI: This dress is a size too big, so the front will look better when that's fixed.)
























































The thing is, though, that this dress is only in ivory in stores, with the champagne detailing. It's pretty, but I'll want white. I like the contrast, though, and that would be lost with white-on-white. Will you even be able to see the pretty bow in the back if it's white, like the rest of the dress? And white with champagne would be pretty, but the champagne would clash with the yellow flowers I'll be carrying. That's not good.

Or I could get the dress with blue details. I normally don't like color on wedding dresses, but is this good color on a wedding dress? (Keep in mind our colors will be that royal blue and a pale yellow.)