I finally got my invitation to the last shower. The shower is less than a month away. You know, the shower I don't want to do. The one on a day that I said didn't work for me, many times, but it didn't matter. As a result, my daughter won't be able to go because she has her dragon boat races all weekend. Yeah, the shower is the huge weekend of the Rose Festival here in Portland. My hula group will also be performing that day at the Rose Festival and I will have to miss that, too. I know, I should be grateful for another shower, but it's hard to be grateful for something you didn't want on a day that doesn't work for you. Plus, I'm bummed to be missing my daughter's races and the hula performance.
So the invitation came on Saturday. Before it came I had told Drew his mom was going to make the invitation herself to be to put her "art work" on it so she could tell everyone she made it and sign her name on the front of every invitation. Sure enough, it was a picture she had taken of a pineapple and she signed her name all big on the front of it. Oh, but it get's better.
Inside the invitation is all hand written. She loves her handwriting and writing really big and twirly, so I wasn't surprised to see this at all. She writes out everything. Even if we ask her to email us something, she won't do it and has to write it out. It says the shower is for me, but with my full name. No one except for my co-workers call me by my formal name. Almost everyone else calls me Kimmy. Than it explains who I am- (Financee to Drew his last name.) Yes, written just like that.
First I think it's weird to have to explain in an invitation who I am. If they don't know who I am then they shouldn't be invited. If you have to explain to everyone who I am, then you shouldn't be throwing me a shower full of strangers. And why use my formal name that no one knows me by, but use Drew's nickname?
Then I noticed fiance is spelled wrong. Wait? What? I must be misreading this. I check again and sure enough it has an extra n and an extra e. I check my daughter's invitation and it's spelled wrong there, too. It's not a typo, but an actual misspelling done over and over. I can't believe it. And to think, she was a school teacher.
I pointed this out to Drew and now we can't stop making jokes about it. We are now each other's financees. I know, we are horrible. But, it's just too easy! Especially since when ever I type it auto correct and spell check want to correct it.
We had his parent's over yesterday for the Mother's Day. I made a brunch for everyone. She never once brought up the shower. When they were leaving, my daughter told Drew's mom that she wouldn't be able to go to the shower. His mom acted like she had no idea that I had told her that wasn't a good day for the shower. Aww, yeah. I'm sure she won't have anything I can eat at the shower, either. It'll be interesting to see how this goes....