Alan: I suppose coming to a lawyer’s office can’t be much fun.
Marissa: Actually, everyone seems friendly here.
Alan: Well, they’re given an unlimited supply of donuts. -Boston Legal

Brenda: I mean, didn’t you guys used to have nightmares about taking your driver’s test?
Kelly: God, no. I passed with flying colors. I think some people are just born to drive. I mean, I think it’s in my genes.
Donna: Oh, please! You should have seen Kelly when she first got her license. For the first month, I felt like a crash test dummy.
Kelly: So, I had a few fender benders. That’s how you learn. -Beverly Hills, 90210

I’ve never been a big fan of Mondays, and today was a big reminder of why. I was on my lunch break headed to a wedding accessories shop to look for a guest book, and to a consignment shop to try to sell a few of my old dresses. On my way there, this lady pulls out of a parking spot, doesn’t bother to look, and plows right into the passenger side of my car!! I swore like a sailor and then pulled into a nearby parking lot and went through the whole insurance exchange routine. Luckily the driver was a very sweet woman who completely admitted it was her fault. We inspected the damage and her car had a tiny scratch. My car had a big dent in the side, and a scratch down the complete length of the car, but it was drive-able and the dent didn’t cause the fender to rub against the tire. I kept reminding myself that it could have been so much worse. Oh, and the topper? The consignment shop only took one of my dresses of my hands instead of all three. GRRR.

Losing the big V. This story is pretty cringe worthy. I would love to hear your stories. I can look back and laugh now, but at the time, I was mortified!!

*Changes. A decision, so intimate. I am no longer innocent. * No, just incredibly dramatic.

-Metal Head and I have taken our relationship to the next level. I am no longer a virgin. Really, him? There were so many expectations, so many preconceived  notions about what my first time would be like. Never did I imagine I’d be in the backseat of a regal, red-faced and embarrassed, handing my ID to a cop. Yes, you can go ahead and cringe. I’m blushing just thinking about it. We were at the beach lookout point and we got carried away. MH was the epitome of sweet and caring. I have never felt a pain so bad as that though. He was careful and yet it just hurt so bad! Then the cop pulled up. He was just making sure I wasn’t there against my will. Now this was possibly the most mortifying experience of my life, but it wasn’t all bad. MH proved to be everything I thought he was. Kind, gentle, compassionate. But I still felt pretty terrible about the whole experience. Ok, first, he wasn’t that gentle, because it HURT! And second, he wasn’t that compassionate. The back of a car for crying out loud. Caught by a COP?! So.Freaking.Terrible. We lived in a small town. Everyone knew about it the next day…

So today was much better. I came over to MH’s early in the morning, and this time we did things right. I consider it to be our real first time. I enjoyed myself but I couldn’t bring myself to relax completely. I think this whole experience is just so new and somewhat frightening that I just tensed. Now that the deed is done, our real test, or should I say mine, is to see if we can withstand it. Metal Head is acting the same, but to me he feels distant. After such an intimate moment, I think it made me oversensitive to him the rest of the day. But I trust us; I’m a lot more confident than I used to be, and I’m not going to get all spazztic and clingy on the poor boy. We have a very cool thing and I don’t regret making love with him at all. Making love?! I can’t think of anyone as understanding as he is. Right…with the head banger. The guy who instead of spooning after jumped up and started playing bass guitar. Yeah…that guy. Life is complicated, but I do know that I’m happy. I don’t think my relationship with MH will change at all. It’s great, relaxed. Oh you poor naive little girl. I wish I could hug you. Tune in next Saturday to read about how things most definitely changed for me and the Metal Head.

Helga : Me, Mom and Dad are supposed to visit my grandma in South Dakota.
Arnold: Sounds like fun.
Helga: I’d rather have a root canal. -Hey Arnold!

This week has been incredibly dull and also painful! I had a root canal on Wednesday. It was pretty awful, but the endodontist I went to tried to make it as nice of an experience as one can have while be tortured while awake. He let me pick out a dvd, they set me up with headphones and I was able to watch a movie while they drilled away at my molar. I watched The Holiday, one of my favorites, and tried not to think about the fact that he was poking a giant needle into the roof of my mouth (shudder).

Besides the torturing, things have been fairly uneventful. Work has been so slow. My coworker did help me come up with a cute wedding favor idea. Taking some labels from the office, we created these adorable circle labels from a picture of me and Match smooching, with our names and the wedding date below our faces. We found some old plastic gift baggies that the office didn’t need, and so she came up with the idea of slapping the labels on them, and filling the baggies with hersey’s kisses, tying them with chocolate colored ribbon, and voila! Instant favors, that didn’t cost more than a costco bag of hersey’s kisses! I didn’t even waste ink because we printed the labels on our office’s ls4278 scanner/printer. I know I know, using office supplies for personal use is bad, but I hate my job so I don’t really care. Plus, the labels were old, and so were the baggies. So the only real crime was the ink.

Other than that, not a whole lot has been going on this week. The highlight was going to happy hour with Match and our dear friend The Reverend. That’s his nickname since, you guessed it, he’s getting ordained online and marrying us! I love that we’re having a close friend marry us and not some stranger. We had a great time visiting and catching up over margaritas and beer. The Rev was cracking up at me and Match and the way we tease and joke around with each other. He said we need to get our own reality show because we’re entertaining. The sad part is we weren’t even trying. Match was just being incredibly silly because he hasn’t been out in public in awhile. I have to say that margarita really helped me forget my mouth pain from the root canal, at least temporarily! Guess I’m going to have to go out drinking all weekend til it heals. Oh darn.

What have you been up to this week? Anyone out there ever have a root canal?

Robin: [Lily walks out, wearing her wedding dress] Wow, Lily, you look so beautiful!
Lily: I know, I’m beautiful! I’m a fairy princess! [She lifts her arms up and the dress falls down to her waist, exposing her breasts] I’m too skinny for my dress!! -How I Met Your Mother