DONE!!

The shower centerpieces were to look like this one on Pinterest.

After a few glue gun incidents, burn salve and glitter from hell all over the place I am done.
Do they look as good as the picture above? NO. But they are done.
I have yet to put the glass beads on the bottom but I'll do that after all are on the table and lit. I can't light them if the beads are there. The beads hide the battery packs.

I have 30 people who have RSVP'd for the shower. 6 tables of 5. So I needed 6 centerpieces but have 2 extra.  I may need them so I'll bring all the stuff just in case.

I leave Friday after work for my hotel. I will check in and proceed to iron all the satin bows for the chairs and the chair covers. I couldn't pack them if ironed.
Besides what the hell else do I have to do in Pittsburgh on a Friday night?
The shower is Saturday and then I will come home on Sunday morning. 
Not thrilled to have to stay two nights. But I don't drive well at night and the turnpike at night is the worst for me. I also don't enjoy driving and 4 1/2 hrs is just as bad trust me.
I wish Rick were coming with me so I didn't have to drive. 

We were watching our neighbors dog Misty on Friday. This teeny tiny dog made big ole Miss Izzy a very jealous dog! Seriously this dog is the size of Izzy's leg.

At 8am on Friday, there was a knock on our door. It was our neighbor's daughter asking if we could help her with Misty. Her father was in Walter Reed and they just found out that he has lymphoma. We were in shock. Of course, we will watch Misty!  

This is the man who gave me wine for snow blowing his driveway and front walk this past winter. He had been sick with pneumonia and had just gotten back to work and I didn't think he needed to be shoveling. I mean, as long as I'm going down the sidewalk why stop? I just continued to do everyone's walk. Didn't deserve wine for that but it was sure nice of him.

I saw him a couple weeks ago and he looked healthy and fine. We had a few laughs when he began talking to Izzy saying, "I can't give you treats because your mom is looking and I got in trouble with her the last time" He certainly does always give her treats. If we're outside and his garage door is open, she runs down there and he keeps the treats in the garage and the little shit knows it. I hear him laughing and her grunting and they do their little hugging dance. She doesn't need treats. But, it really is funny. Izzy even got treats from him at Xmas left on our door step all wrapped up like a tray of Christmas Cookies.  Oh no, not us, just our dog. We thought it was funny.  I am sure we'll be caring for Misty more often while they travel from Bethesda Maryland out to Loudoun county VA. It's a helluva trip for them so I think I'll also make some food so when all the women come home there will be food for them and they won't have to worry about making something to eat or eating fast food. 
I hope he'll be fine. They said it was aggressive and they were going with an aggressive treatment.  It's all so awful.

In the meantime the little dog Izzy really liked now is making her jealous and she is going to have to learn to deal with this. When Rick was holding this little dog on his lap Izzy ran across the room, jumped onto the sofa and took her snout to try to move the little dog. When it didn't work she got real close to Rick and just put her head on his chest and looked up at him and honest to God we both burst out laughing at the same time. The diva has met her match.