You would think it would be easier to coordinate with someone...
My matron of honor lives two hours away. Fine. Not a problem for me to make a day trip to look at dresses with her. Unfortunately, I cannot hold a telephone conversation with her because once she had kids you can no longer get her on the phone because she is joined at the hip especially to her younger one. It's strictly text, e-mail, or Facebook, and even then you are best off sending her the same message by all three means because for some reason she tends to miss messages if you only send them one way. Still fine. I accommodate this, since she is still my best friend and I try to be understanding. We went back and forth over text and e-mail and determined that it would be best for us to make an appointment on a Sunday. Still fine. I told her I would check my schedule and e-mail her a list of Sundays between now and the middle of December when I could come see her, so she could order before the end of the year like the other ladies in my wedding party were planning. So this is what I did. I just e-mailed her since I thought she would be expecting my reply and it wouldn't be necessary to repeat myself.
I thought it was reasonable to expect that she would check her schedule against my list and reply to my e-mail to let me know which day(s) would be good for her. But I received a text message from her this morning asking if I could come on a date that was NOT on the list! I didn't want to be a brat and say "Didn't you get my list?" so I texted back suggesting the next closest date from my list. She texted back with ANOTHER date that was not on the list! I replied with the next closest dates after that. She did text back that one of those dates sounded good, but I'm going to have to make sure she checked her boys' schedules since it's the day before Halloween to make sure they don't have parties or festivals going on.
Anyway...the list should have made things easy enough, right? Life would be so much easier if people followed directions, argh! At least I had the list saved in my e-mail and it made it easier for me to look back at it when I texted her with alternate dates!
Vent over :-)
Whoever said it was supposed to be happily ever after is a big fat liar.