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HI iluvcarats! Thank you for the hot ticket compliment. It made me grin, cause honey... I am so not. LOL. But it''s lovely to be thought so! How''s the kids?

Hi Sarah, WE WENT TO FONDUE at the Melting Pot. It was SO much fun and good too! The dessert (we got dark chocolate and Grand Marnier) was just flat out fad. We got one of the Big Feast things and it was very yummy. Weird thing was all the things I thought I would adore... not so much, and the things I thought I would just try and move on... I loved. Like the Filet Medalions. We did the oil fondue, and what a waste of lovely filet. But the pork tenderloin... OH BABY! And the duck! Shrimp were very good. And the lobster was good, but next time we''ll share a tale instead of getting two of them. And the thing I thought I''d love the most... not so much: the Swiss cheese fondue. I thought they''d have to tear me away from the cheese, but I kinda just wasn''t into it at all. Weird. We''ll have to try a different cheese next time. Thanks so much for the recommendation we just laughed and talked and had a great time over the fondue. It was a great memory, and a button popping good time food wise.

SO.. how''d the party go? Did you have it yet? I forgot to ask Fi''s B-day date, sorry!

Aww, Lisa, you are hands down one of my favorite PSers too. I gotta hunt up this board (I have never read any of the threads on here, can you believe that!) and see if there is one on you! Thank you for the compliments and well wishes.
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Okay so... I was thinking about this thread and wanted to update you all on a few things:

Ya all remember crazy interview lady? Well when I started working there she began a campaign to become my new BFF. But well, I was wary after the interview, and I also noticed that her interpretation of things I witnessed and experienced was... skewed. I started thinking of her as an unrealiable narrarator and double and triple checking everything she told me.... ANYWAY, long story short (too late). She resigned (really freaking long story, suffice to say she showed her full blown crazy before she left) and is now GONE. That of course means more work, but hopefully it also means a better work environment cause I gotta tell you guys the last couple of months have been WEIRD. To the point that I was avoiding my office daily, and working in one of the conference rooms or the atrium at work.

I did talk to John about 5 year plans and jobs and stuff. And I think that my five year plan is to NOT be doing what I am doing now. It''s starting to get to me, the conflict and I want something a little more ''harmonious'' and more creative so we''ll see.

I have been thinking about my book, or Ari''s book, and I still haven''t figured out a way around the corner I wrote myself in so I think I''m going to start re-reading the book and then maybe just chop some sections out and re-write the last couple of chapters to unblock myself.


A rare ''harmonious'' pic of Duncan and Hally (who fight all the freaking time recently)...
 
Okay so... I guess I can''t add pics to this thread either? Hmm. It''s a cute pic too. I''ll ask the Andrey and Ali if they will do it for me.
 
I love reading about you Gypsy! Your posts are always so helpful and good-natured. I look forward to reading more.
 
You should be able to post pics! Try again!
 
Date: 9/1/2008 4:20:23 AM
Author: Gypsy
HI iluvcarats! Thank you for the hot ticket compliment. It made me grin, cause honey... I am so not. LOL. But it''s lovely to be thought so! How''s the kids?


Hi Gypsy! You are a hot ticket in cyber space anyway. Kids are fine, thanks for asking. School starts Wed. (them
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Hi iluvcarats.

I would be
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too! LOL. It''s funny as an adult now I look back to all those summers and wonder how frustrated my parents were when I was around ALL THE TIME, and how relieved they must have been to have me back in school.
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It''s great to be a hot ticket somewhere!

Everyone is okay generally. My mom is... she seems stronger physically and says she is. And I''m very thankful. She certainly looks better than she has looked since before her fist surgery-- despite the disability. Emotionally my mother is a bit of a narcisist so... it''s all about her this wedding. But then it''s always about her. John was so funny about it actually. My mother is famous for saying to me, whenever I express frustration or stress about anything: "What do you have to be stressed about? Just stop stressing." The irony is my mother is a champion stresser. So with the wedding the sum total of what she''s had to do is: increase my guest list exponentially with people I don''t want there, and store some of my stuff (my veil comb, favors), and since their wedding present is to help us with some of the wedding costs... to help with some of the costs (which is very generous PLEASE don''t get me wrong, but doesn''t involve planning on her part... it involves writing a check), also she planned a lovely shower for me (which was also generous and really lovely of her). But the shower has passed, we wouldn''t have taken any funds from ANYONE (let alone our parent''s who are near retirement) that they can''t very comfortably give, and the stuff in her house takes up VERY little space. Tonight I did give her my first draft of the table assignments for the reception and ask her to proof it, but again... largely complete project, she already told me that she has only 3 people she''d like to shift around.

So she says to me tonight that she''s starting to get really stressed about the wedding. And John says to me in an undertone, "what do you have to be stressed about, stop stressing," and I LOST it, just started laughing and she''s totally oblivious and then she says to me all of the sudden, "Of course honey, YOU shouldn''t be stressed. For ME, it''s different. But you need to stop stressing." Peals of laughter. Yes, partially hysterical laughter. But it was just SO my mom.

So, for those of you reading. I love my mother. She was a single mom and raised me the best she could. But my mother can be difficult and she has the unique ability to just get on my last nerve and tweak it. My photographer, who I have met in person only twice, once with my mother and once without my mother, said to me with absolute amazement coloring her tone, " You are a COMPLETELY different person without your mom around." And she''s right.

Wedding prep is coming along. I am learning to delegate a little. It''s helping. I gave the favor assembly to one of my aunts along with the card box project and just told to use her judgement, my other aunt is (thankfully) gonna take my grandmother dress shopping for the rehearsal and the wedding (it''s a painful job and I was volunteered for it a couple of month back and have been dreading it), I sent John a To-Do list half a page long today, and so... I''m TRYING to only do the things that *I* really have to do. I do need to order parasols tomorrow though. I''ve been procrastinating that one and my mom and John think it''s done-- so I can''t really delegate it.

Okay well... my endless nattering about me is come to an end tonight. I''m off to bed. Good night all.
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You can post pics in this thread. In fact, I have a gazillion in mine. Sometimes the titles get in the way, like the time I tried to post 80''s hair shots and it didn''t like my '' in the title.

Post away, we want to learn more!
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Date: 9/2/2008 2:14:53 AM
Author: Gypsy
Hi iluvcarats.


I would be
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too! LOL. It''s funny as an adult now I look back to all those summers and wonder how frustrated my parents were when I was around ALL THE TIME, and how relieved they must have been to have me back in school.
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It''s great to be a hot ticket somewhere!


Everyone is okay generally. My mom is... she seems stronger physically and says she is. And I''m very thankful. She certainly looks better than she has looked since before her fist surgery-- despite the disability. Emotionally my mother is a bit of a narcisist so... it''s all about her this wedding. But then it''s always about her. John was so funny about it actually. My mother is famous for saying to me, whenever I express frustration or stress about anything: ''What do you have to be stressed about? Just stop stressing.'' The irony is my mother is a champion stresser. So with the wedding the sum total of what she''s had to do is: increase my guest list exponentially with people I don''t want there, and store some of my stuff (my veil comb, favors), and since their wedding present is to help us with some of the wedding costs... to help with some of the costs (which is very generous PLEASE don''t get me wrong, but doesn''t involve planning on her part... it involves writing a check), also she planned a lovely shower for me (which was also generous and really lovely of her). But the shower has passed, we wouldn''t have taken any funds from ANYONE (let alone our parent''s who are near retirement) that they can''t very comfortably give, and the stuff in her house takes up VERY little space. Tonight I did give her my first draft of the table assignments for the reception and ask her to proof it, but again... largely complete project, she already told me that she has only 3 people she''d like to shift around.


So she says to me tonight that she''s starting to get really stressed about the wedding. And John says to me in an undertone, ''what do you have to be stressed about, stop stressing,'' and I LOST it, just started laughing and she''s totally oblivious and then she says to me all of the sudden, ''Of course honey, YOU shouldn''t be stressed. For ME, it''s different. But you need to stop stressing.'' Peals of laughter. Yes, partially hysterical laughter. But it was just SO my mom.


So, for those of you reading. I love my mother. She was a single mom and raised me the best she could. But my mother can be difficult and she has the unique ability to just get on my last nerve and tweak it. My photographer, who I have met in person only twice, once with my mother and once without my mother, said to me with absolute amazement coloring her tone, '' You are a COMPLETELY different person without your mom around.'' And she''s right.


Wedding prep is coming along. I am learning to delegate a little. It''s helping. I gave the favor assembly to one of my aunts along with the card box project and just told to use her judgement, my other aunt is (thankfully) gonna take my grandmother dress shopping for the rehearsal and the wedding (it''s a painful job and I was volunteered for it a couple of month back and have been dreading it), I sent John a To-Do list half a page long today, and so... I''m TRYING to only do the things that *I* really have to do. I do need to order parasols tomorrow though. I''ve been procrastinating that one and my mom and John think it''s done-- so I can''t really delegate it.


Okay well... my endless nattering about me is come to an end tonight. I''m off to bed. Good night all.
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Hi Gypsy!
I am glad to hear that your mom is well. The narcissism is probably a good sign that she''s getting backk to her old self! LOL Mother love is, well, complicated at the very least.
Mommy iluvcarats is well, a character....

Your wedding sounds divine, and it sounds like you''ve got it all under control (sounds that way anyway) I am really looking forward to your pictures! Sounds like you need the honeymoon NOW!
Where are you going BTW?
 
Hi Miracles! I will give it another shot.
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iluv... feel free to share mom stories. LOL. We aren''t taking a honeymoon this year. Next year, hopefully on or around our 1 year anniversary we''ll take a trip somewhere. But this year, we both started new jobs, don''t have a lot of time off, and with the wedding and needing to move to a (much) more expensive area to cut down on my commute... it would be flat out irresponsible for us to do a honeymoon. We are doing a night in SF at the Ritz and a 5 star dinner followed by brunch at the Ritz the next morning though. So we''ll have a quick get away. And we are both off 3 days following the wedding.

Okay... take 3 on the cat pics. YAHOO I think it worked! Thanks MIRACLES!

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Duncan, my angel, alone.

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Meow....now I have to go run out and pet my cats....

They are darling.
 
Hally sitting on Daddy!

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Frodo in his old cubby in NJ. They need new cat furniture:

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Hi Gypsy!
Not much to tell. I don''t want to take over your thread.
My mom suffered from severe depression when I was a kid. I am the youngest of four, and we are all within six years. She was in bed most of the time, and hospitalized a couple times. It was sort of like "Lord of the Flies" but set in suburban Massachusetts.
Being the last, there wasn''t much positive energy left for me. I don''t even know what I looked like as a baby or little girl - no pictures until I was 5 and went to school.
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It was sort of like growing up without a mom. She was emotionally absent.
She was often abusive and unkind, but has no memory of that now.
She is who she is. She is a very limited person. I see her, but not often.
She''s not a bad person, but she has issues.
 
Hi Gypsy,

Just wanted to ask, did you hear from those people you asked not to bring their children or whatever to your wedding?


Linda
 
Happy Birthday Gypsy!!!
Today''s my anniversary!
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Gypsy,

I used to have fondue in Los Gatos at a place called The Cellar or The Wine Cellar, can''t remember which. It probably isn''t there anymore. It was fantastic. I loved the Swiss Cheese with the french bread. Yummmmmmmmmy.


Linda
 
Such cute kitties!!!!

I only have Miss Maya!
 
Gypsy-

Happy belated birthday! I love fondue. My favorite memory of it is some place hidden off an alley in Paris, where they served fondue and wine in baby bottles at communal tables. Only in France!

On your writing yourself into a corner- have you just tried writing different endings? I take writing classes, and one piece of advice that really freed me was to write multiple paths/endings. At first it felt "wrong" because "that isn''t the way the story is supposed to go", but in actually doing it, I freed myself from that line of thought. It helps you figure out what is actually authentic and what isn''t. Don''t stop writing!!! I need a good new "chick lit" book!!!!
 
Happy late b-day!! How are things with you Miss. Gypsy:?
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I thought about you today because my melting pot is running one of those deals and I am going to take my Mom for her b-day. So exciting eiurh3URHiquhiueh3!
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Did you post where you ended up going for your bday? I can''t seem to find it..I hope you had a great time and things are going well in wedding count-down world! I read your thread earlier about the 3893838 calls you are getting from family, and I think it''s sweet that they want to be involved, but I could totally see how that gets annoying.
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It''s kind of funny though that they call John, too. Poor John!
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I know my fi would be a bit tiffed if my parents did that, haha. But he''s afraid of getting in trouble or something since he''s still relatively new at his job (one yr this month). Anyway, hope all is well, update us soon!
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You are just too cute, Layla, and those kitties are precious! Thanks so much for sharing with us! I''ve loved learning more about you now that I can "see" whose talking!
 
Saw the non-pro pics, the wedding was gorgeous!! Can''t wait to see your pro pics! Congrats and I hope your honeymoon is amazing!
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L, cute kitties and your wedding looked amazing! Can''t wait to hear all about it.
 
Gypsy! How''s life? What are your plans for the weekend?
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Hi Gypsy!
I miss you! How is married life?
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I miss you too, Gypsy.
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I hope you''ll log on over the weekend and bring us up to date.
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Just wanted to add my hello and say I hope all is well.

Linda and I were wondering if you were planning another GTG soon...we would love to meet everyone!
 
Layla, I just read through your thead and you have been so much fun to read about! I look forward to hearing more once you and John get settled in to married life! Take care!
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Gypsy how are you doing? Haven''t talked to you in forever!
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I am currently doing my law school apps well..I am in the waiting period and trying to decide if I want to last minute apply to Georgetown and I though of you. Anyway, happy new yr!
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Gypsy: I enjoyed meeting you and John today. Thank you for joining us at the Northern California GTG even though you weren''t feeling tip-top! I hope you''ll be feeling better soon.
 
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