Sorry, it may be Friday but since it isn't quite HH yet (<-----BS, it is ALWAYS HH time) I am going to need to vent for a sec. So after finally getting around to sending out my STD cards, I felt like less of a slacker. When I started planning all of this fun I thought I'd be sending 30-40 invites. HA! Enter the Mothers, and their lists of "I know they won't come but we just HAVE TO send an invite to ENTER NAME OF ANCIENT/DISTANT FRIEND OR RELATIVE HERE. Fine. Handmade invites for 115 instead. Even though we are paying for it, a wedding slightly larger than we want is a small price to pay to keep the maternal ones happy. So, since the STD have bottle cap magnets in them (yes, I am cheesy, I readily admit that) I figured it best to wag them down to the post office to determine postage. I went ahead and took the invites too so I could buy stamps for all of this shit at once. The verdict on the damage? .70 (now .71 since this month's hike) on the STD and .91 (now .93) on the invites. Fine, I'll bend over, my choices.
Sooooo, I send the STDs. Then the fun part. I get about a dozen back in the mail. INSUFFICIENT POSTAGE, complete with all of the awesome stamps/nastygrams that they use to shame the cheapasses trying to chintz the good ol' USPS. Apparently .22 more postage needed. It is marked for 2 ounces and is 1.23oz, but since there is a damn magnet in it, it must be hand sorted, thus the extra ounce postage requirement. FINE, but don't you think that since I bothered to drag my lazy ass down to the Post Office to have you TELL ME how much it was going to cost beforehand you could have sold me the correct postage? To add extra insult, when I went down to find out WTH happened (which requires finding a ride since I can't currently drive my gimpy self there) the smug woman explaining this is the same damn idiot who sold me all of the postage in the first place. Her explanation: "I can't recall but I don't know why I would have missed that". So when I grumble about the wasted postage on all of the envelopes that will be cancelled and returned (I can only assume that many more of the 115 are on their way back) Ms. Helpful assures me that it doesn't have to be wasted. I can simply affix the additional .22 to the returned envelopes and resend.
Yeah, thanks, this is what I want my guests to receive. Guess it's a super fun weekend of new envelope making for me.
*This is MY vent damnit and if you dare disagree with me I shall have no choice but to start a post about what insensitive bitches you all are. Obviously we are all meat to help each other here as we sing Kumbaya and harshly judge our bridal parties.