So the past two days have been filled with wedding stuff. Tomorrow it will be exactly two weeks until the big day and I cannot believe it. Tuesday I came into work early again so I could go with my mom to her dress fitting. Her dress is absolutely beautiful and she looks gorgeous in it. And I’m not just saying that. When she first got her dress we spent a lot of time trying to find shoes that were pretty and comfortable which is no easy “feet” (ha). My sister had gotten her own shoes from Stuart Weitzman and while we were in the store my mom tried on shoes that she absolutely loved. But, as a mother of three girls, she’s always been pretty thrifty and that’s why I was totally shocked when she purchased the $385 shoes. And after all that searching for the perfect shoes, you can’t even see them under the dress. Even when she picks it up a little bit to walk, there is so much material you can’t see a bit of the shoes. I guess she’ll just have to get more outfits to match them. The fitting went really well and I think she’s pretty happy with the dress. She picks it up next week. Our dresses will be picked up on the 24th.
Anyone that is close with our family knows that we make or has received a bottle of our Anisette. That’s right. We make, bottle and give away homemade Anisette. The recipe is fairly simple but is pretty time consuming. Grain alcohol, sugar, anise, boiling and stirring until it feels like your arm is going to fall off. My sister was at a loss for what to give as favors and someone had mentioned the Anisette. Since she had decided on that, our weekends have been spent making batches and batches of the liquor. Tuesday night was spent bottling it. After all those batches, we are still short about 50 favors and so the bootlegging continues. Prohibition would have nothing on the Sacco’s. Last night was spent doing our semi-weekly drive around. It’s funny because when we were sixteen and we first got our licenses, we would go for coffee and “drive around” for hours because we had nothing to do. Now we are 24 and we are still doing it except for the complete opposite reason. Now we do it because we all have so much going on it’s the only time besides the weekend that we can see each other. I thought, as a lot of people do, that everyone goes to college for four years, comes home, gets a 9-5 job and moves out. Mistaken? I think so. In fact, I constantly feel like I am the only one with that schedule (minus the moving out). A lot of my friends are in school or have jobs with opposite hours or work on the weekends. And so the weekly drive around came about once again. Of course we see each other on the weekends. But the last thing we all want to do is talk about work or school or our issues with still living at home when we’re in a bar. First of all, half of what was said wouldn’t be remembered and second of all, it’s usually about something serious. Drunk advice might be the most honest but it doesn’t help if you can’t remember it the next day. About mid-week we come together to vent and rant and rave and so far it’s been working out pretty well.
It’s been a pretty uneventful week but I’m so looking forward to this weekend. Saturday is one of my favorite days of the entire year- the Lake Avenue Tournament- and Sunday will be spent at the Yankee game.
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