Happy Birthday Kristen!

Hope you had a great day!

A Quick PSA... and a photo challenge... (on a non-protected post... oh my!)

First, the PSA (Public Service Announcement):  For those of you who are home owners (well, renters too if you have a washer and dryer)... did you know that you need to have the vent to your dryer cleaned at least every other year?  We didn't.  We have lived in our condo for almost 8 years, and we never had it cleaned out.  Our dryer was needing more and more time, almost 5 hours, to dry a single load.  And the dryer is only 4 years old!  I figured out that the vent must be blocked when the vent hose was disconnected.  My dryer suddenly worked, but I had lint flying everywhere.

Sears cleaned it out for $126.  My dryer has never worked so good!  It takes just one cycle to dry my clothes.  I have done 2 loads since I got home from work!  Yeah!

Ok... on to the photo challenge.  I thought this would be fun.

I mentioned in my last blog that the last movie I had seen in the movie theater was "27 Dresses."  When I saw the movie, I just about fell out of my chair laughing so hard.  I had a bridesmaid dress that was shown in the movie!  In my adult life, I have been in 4 weddings.  2 of those wedding dresses were rather awful!  One I did wear again... FOR HALLOWEEN!!!!  The other two bridesmaid dresses are in my closet still... if I ever go to a formal Christmas party I may wear one of them again (depending on my weight).

So... Show me your hideous bridesmaid dresses!  I am sure that between us all, we will have more than 27 dresses.

Myself, my dad, and my poor friend.  We had all threatened to get big red dots, as we called this 7-Up can green.

In her defense, this was 1991.  But still... we all HATED our dresses (sorry J).

So... this became my halloween dress.  This was as redneck of a wedding as you could get.  Only thing missing was a horse and guns.  They did try to have a horse... but couldn't get permits for the park.

Gotta love themed weddings!  This was around 1998.