Busy Weekend

It's 9:30 in the morning on Friday and already I feel overwhelmed by the weekend. It is not often enough that I have a weekend where I feel *relaxed* after the weekend.

Tonight - J.T. and I are going to a charity event "Boxing in the Ballroom" benefitting the Boys and Girls Club of Fort Worth. It is a black tie gala featuring dinner, professional boxing and live and silent auctions. According to the Fort Worth Business Press: It features "hand-rolled cigars and six bouts of boxing by professional fighters. Five of the bouts will be male fights, and the fifth will be a ladies’ fight. " This will be my first experience with boxing - I'll let you now what I think!

Once again - this cinderella feels that she has nothing to wear. I've learned that the phrase black tie - has one meaning for males, and a plethora of options for females: Long dress or short? Strapless or more concervative? Demure black or more colorful? And the list goes on. Is it sad that I've started compiling a list for different events? What's that...you think I'm kidding? No sir. It's currently a word document titled "Attire List". Although I'm beginning to think Excel might be a more efficient format. Column for I Wore, column for I Felt (example: over-dressed, under-dressed, perfect), Others Wore. Etc.

Saturday night we are going to a wedding in Dallas - friends of J.T.'s. Apparently most people from Lake Highlands marry other people from Lake Highlands and settle down and live in Lake Highlands. And send their kids to Lake Highlands Schools... I'm so very glad that J.T. broke the mold! But of course he's always been one to follow his own drum beat.

I remember when I was getting married - someone made a "helpful" comment about the invitation -

Don't bother spending a lot on the invitation... it just goes in the garbage anyway.

Well, I am here to say that I cannot bear to throw wedding invitations away. I have file folders - "Wedding Invitations", "Shower Invitations", "Wedding Programs". And if the invitation for this wedding is any indicator - it should be a great one! Apparently she is a designer of some sort (graphic?) and designed the subtle patterns on the invitation to match her dress. Now *that* is attention to detail!

It should be fun - J.T.'s parents and his brother David & girlfriend are going. I'm expecting it to be a Lake Highlands reunion.

Now as readers - you may be thinking "That doesn't seem like such a busy weekend". In addition to the event & wedding, I'd like to make it to tennis drills on Saturday morning at Colonial. Also - at some point during the weekend, J.T. and I will go to a Bikram Yoga class. One of J.T.'s college friends, Kyle, will be in town for another wedding. He'll be crashing at our house both Friday and Saturday nights.

Then Sunday night, my best friend Sarah will be coming in town. She's moving to Germany on Monday for 2 years. We'll spend the night on Sunday at a hotel in Denton near the Vehicle Processing Center - so we can deliver her car on Monday morning by 8 a.m. to be shipped overseas. Then I'll drive her to the airport. I feel very fortunate to get to see her off but also feel very heavy hearted to say "Auf Wiedersehen".

Have a great weekend! Guten tag!