Wedding Blog

I have had so much fun reading all of the “Secret” posts! Here are some secret and/or random facts about me:

#1 Our wedding day will be the second time I wear a wedding dress. The first time?

Homecoming, senior year of high school! I didn’t intend to wear a wedding dress. When I found out that I was chosen to be on homecoming court, my mom and I went dress shopping. I couldn’t stand the typical pastel cupcake dresses that girls on homecoming court wore, so I picked out a white one. A white one that happened to have a train… and a bustle. The price was the same as the pastel dresses, and the shop owner insisted that it wasn’t a wedding dress. Whatever it was, I loved it, and my mom split the price with me. I ended up using my money from my high school job to pay my half. In the picture above, I’m wearing a tulle shrug that was detachable!

Here’s the back-

Did you catch my date’s awesome vintage tux? That tux was sweet! He got it at a thrift store. Here’s our official portrait, high school style!

What a cheesy background!!! Here’s my other portrait, taken with my homecoming escort:

My dress was huge! The skirt barely fit into the frame. That was the first time I wore a hoopskirt; after that I was hooked.

Can you see the lovely three carnation centerpieces? Ah, high school dances.

Here I am getting my hair done before the assembly. This was the first time that I realized the importance of wearing a button down shirt to the salon!

#2 I donate blood as much as possible, and have an obsession with discovering people’s blood types.

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I try to donate blood as much as I can. Needles do not bother me in the least, and I believe that it is very important to donate if I am able to. Also, my experience with the Red Cross “poking” is great—even though my veins are really difficult, they get me right away, every time!

Blood Types- My weird obsession with blood types came about when my mom disputed the type that the Red Cross gave me. My mom is O positive, and my dad was AB positive. I’m A negative, and she just didn’t believe that I could have a negative RH factor. To prove her wrong, I did some research, and became fascinated with the blood types and their ratio to the population. I started a survey among my friends and was surprised that most people didn’t know their blood types! If you are willing to donate, knowing what blood type you have can be even more incentive to get you in. O positive and O negative are the universal donor types, and if you are O negative there is even more reason to give, as people with a negative RH factor can only receive negative, and there aren’t very many of us! For example, as a person with A negative, I can only receive A- and O-. Only 6% of the US population has A-, and only 7% has O-. That’s slim pickings for the blood bank! Of course, all blood is needed. My dad was AB+, the universal receiver, and donated regularly. If you know your blood type, leave a comment!

When Mr. Taffy and I went on our first date, I was at the height of my blood type obsession. I didn’t bring it up so he wouldn’t think I was a weirdo. I was shocked when he brought up blood types during dinner without any prompting from me! He was talking about how blood types are used as a type of horoscope in Japan. He had no idea how many points he got on that first date by bringing that up!

#3 I was Valedictorian of my Kindergarten class.

The boy next to me was the Salutatorian. I went to a private school for Kindergarten. It was a full day of classes, and we did a lot of work! When I went to public school for 1st grade I had already been through our books. I had no idea what being Valedictorian meant, but I remember getting excited to wear the special gold sash. My sister graduated high school the year that I graduated Kindergarten, so we took some pictures together. I love how we switched caps and my sash!

Here I am giving my speech! I have no idea what I said; I should ask my mom if she remembers.

Things went downhill from there. I was only tenth in my class in high school! I still wore a sash!

By pure coincidence, the guy next to me is Salutatorian. I didn’t realize that until I started typing the post!

#4 I dressed up as cartoon characters and book characters at Borders for Saturday story time.
I started working at Borders my junior year of high school, and they always bribed me with gift cards to put on costumes for Saturday story time. Well, you already know that I love dressing up, so it wasn’t that hard to convince me!

Here I am waiting in the stock room before my debut. That head was so heavy, it all was resting on the bridge of my nose and I thought it was going to break!

Here I am as Bunnicula, the vampire bunny. This was by far my favorite costume. I loved the Bunnicula series! The little ones even brought me carrots. It was so cute.