wedding road trip

Running Out of Time

This morning I received an email from TripIt that said, “your trip to Eugene, Oregon is about to begin.” Yes, indeed it is.

Gulp.

It’s T minus five days and counting and my Wedding Road Trip to do list still has more than seventy things on it. Add to that three freelance assignments due tomorrow and you’ll understand why I am desperately hoping that if I can just find the magic stopwatch, the world will pause for a moment.

This kind of time crunch inevitably leads to fights. Yay! Nothing like taking stress out on the one you love. This particular fight was brought to us by the Wedding Road Trip Kickoff Party, which will be held at the Red Devil Lounge on Tuesday.

INT. WALGREEN’S CANDY AISLE. LATE AFTERNOON.

JAIME and her roommate’s seven-year-old brother NOAH are busy dropping boxes of candy into a basket. CHRIS stands nearby, his face growing more and more annoyed.

Chris: Do we really need all of that candy?

Jaime: Yes. How else do you expect to inspire 100+ people to dance on a Tuesday night? Alcohol can only do so much.

Chris: What do you mean 100+? I think less than fifty will show up.

Jaime: Have you seen the list? It’s not just the one that’s on Facebook. We’ve got 150 people coming, and that’s not including plus ones. You need to be optimistic.

Chris: I just think all of this candy is way too expensive.

Jaime: Seriously, we’re arguing over forty dollars worth of candy? Are you saying that our friends and family are not worth twenty-five boxes of Swedish Fish?

Chris: I’m saying that fifty bags of Pop Rocks is a bit excessive.

Chris reaches in the basket to pull out some of the Pop Rocks.

Jaime: Oh no. You can take away the gummy mini cola bottles, but you WILL NOT remove the Pop Rocks. I have a reputation to maintain.

Chris: I thought we agreed that you’d leave that “reputation” in the Tenderloin, where it belongs.

And off we went. In the end, the candy won (yay!) but I won’t if, say, only fifty people show up on Tuesday. Sigh. I’ll fight that battle after I take care of the other 69 items on my to do list.

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