tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76383033108796786812024-03-13T03:22:38.734-07:00With My Dogs By My SideBriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13912537536873172352noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638303310879678681.post-5179376842035585542012-11-19T18:49:00.000-08:002012-11-19T18:49:02.205-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The weather on Friday morning. Damp, dewy, cool.</div>
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Still adjusting to the manicure. (Even today, I'm still adjusting to texting with it.)</div>
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Trader Joe's for flowers. My plan: buy a bunch of bouquets that were roughly in my color scheme. At Trader Joe's, they are about $3.99 a bouquet. Divide them up. Start anew. My budget: $150. The price we were looking at when we were going to go to a florist: $400-500. Ah, but I worked in a florist shop for years as a teenager. I figured I knew how to arrange some flowers. Despite the best efforts of half of my other vendors, I was <i>not </i>intimidated. (If you're wondering, the final tally was $70. You'll see the results shortly.)</div>
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The flowers waited in the car while we stopped for breakfast at Hardee's/</div>
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My assistant florist had a lot of input about what flowers worked together.</div>
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My bouquet, in progress.</div>
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Ta-daaa!</div>
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My other florist assistant was also helpful.</div>
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I made bridesmaid bouquets special for each one. Left to right: my sister's MOH bouquet, Nikki's, Granny's, Renee's.</div>
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Nikki's.</div>
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Mine.</div>
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Katie's.</div>
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Granny's.</div>
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Katie's.</div>
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Nikki's.</div>
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Katie's.</div>
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They ended up safe and sound in my mom's fridge overnight.</div>
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And on to the rehearsal. It was interesting. Rebecca (Julie Andrews) led it, and it was weird and kind of pointless because the room that it was in was nothing like the actual ceremony room, and we went through the beginning, middle, beginning again, end, middle, beginning again...I spent the rest of the night and the next day fielding questions from people that the rehearsal had <i>created</i>. Even I was clearer before it. Everyone left with questions. It was weird, stressful, and confusing. It was supposed to last half an hour. It lasted an hour and a half. Eric's mom was at the community center that we'd rented for the rehearsal dinner setting up and getting very lonely.</div>
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Rehearsal dinner.</div>
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Thursday was the day that things <i>really </i>got real. First order of business was bringing all of our stuff like centerpieces, signature mat, ring-bearer pillow, etc. to the venue for the drop-off. There we met Rebecca, a coordinator who looked a <i>lot </i>like Julie Andrews, and she had the stern/efficient demeanor down. I won't lie, I was kind of scared of her. The couple before us pretty much got told to go home and start over, because they had done their shopping <i>on Wednesday</i>. Nothing was assembled, they'd forgotten half their stuff, had too much of other stuff... Luckily, we had all of ours "right" and got to go about our way without being yelled at by Julie Andrews.</div>
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Today was the last day of pre-wedding classes, and I just wrapped up my last pre-wedding homework assignment. I am too exhausted to get into a breakdown of today, but tomorrow is the first day of nothin' but wedding. Effective basically right now, 100% of my life for the next few days will be about wedding. I'm elated, overwhelmed, on top of it, stressed, anxious, impatient, excited, thrilled. So many things. But mostly, exhausted. I'm going to bed, at 9:28. That's all, folks.</div>
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<li>Home, cleaning, stress, frustration, family members not playing well with one another. One time Eric's family had some general drama and his mother not-seriously said that she wanted a stiff drink. Still being fairly new to the family, I asked semi-earnestly, "Is it because your family sucks?" It became a running joke, and I've been thinking about it all day long. Then sorting out a quadruple-million booked Thursday, then a 1.5 hour final phone meeting with the DJ. He has a guest request thing on his website where guests get a login code and can request songs they'd like to hear at the reception. Some highlights: Gangnam Style. Uprising, by Muse. Motivation, by Kelly Rowland (my sister owned up to that one). Some of these songs...they got vetoed.</li>
<li>Failed attempt at coordinating bridesmaid schedules for the day-of.</li>
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<li>Kind of a disaster overall, but I guess it's all technically settled.</li>
<li>A walk with the dogs. Eric's idea. I protested it due to the freezing cold, but it may have been the best part of the day. Admittedly, the standards were not high today. Tomorrow's a new day.</li>
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<li>Went to church. Today was technically our last new member class - there's one more on the 11th, but we won't be there, so this was both our last new member class and our last time at church as an unmarried couple. I had serious ants in my pants during church. Signed the fellowship pad and told Eric that it was the last time I'd sign it for us with two last names.</li>
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<li>Used all of my persuasive powers to convince my sister to stay at our grandmother's with me on Friday night. Potential success! It lies in her boss's hands whether she can have the necessary day off. We'll know tomorrow. A slumber party would be way fun.</li>
<li>Went to the store for more vases for the bridal table, and batteries for one rather complicated display.</li>
<li>Watched Bridezillas and had lunch. Had been worried that I'd become one. Was reassured that I haven't.</li>
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<li>Sorted out the vase/table "number" that goes at the bridal table. It says "mister and missus." Texted my sister a picture. She said, "Did you mean to misspell misses?" Googled it for the second time, since the best man said the exact same thing. Nope, it's missus. I hope everyone there doesn't think that same thing.</li>
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<li>Played some Sims! I've been trying to for days. Stopped frequently to clean. There's no reason to be all stressed out in a messy house, especially this week.</li>
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One of my most recently married-in Sims. This gal is too cool. This part's for you, Lorelei!</div>
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<li>Woke up in quite a bit of pain. My other wisdom tooth is now messed up. Really. Seriously. I cannot even believe this. I feel like I went through this exact hell <i>yesterday</i>, and here we go again. I'm beyond frustrated. I'm on antibiotics and pain pills to try to keep it at bay for just one more week. I can have it removed as soon as the wedding is over...technically, I could now, but there are a lot of issues with doing it now. Took some ibuprofen and stayed in bed while I waited for it to kick in. Watched Seventh Heaven. I don't know if you know, but I <i>really </i>love Seventh Heaven. Just as an aside. Eric has been sick with a nasty cold for a few days. Luckily, he woke up much better.</li>
<li>Finalized the seating chart. If I do say so, I'm rather proud of my seating chart. I have family members grouped in good ways, and for friends who don't know each other, I have people seated with people that I really think they'll like. Finished that, sent it to the coordinator.</li>
<li>Played frisbee with Java. This has become something that he requires on a daily basis.</li>
<li>Had some miniwheats and took my sociology test online.</li>
<li>Showered and up and at 'em. The wedding dress place gave me this weird deodorant - Dove Clear Tones. Apparently it makes your underarm skintone more even, maybe lighter, so that I can do the Miss America wave with pretty underarms. Truly, I never knew that this was an issue. But I've been using it for a while now, and actually, somehow, they <i>do </i>look nicer. Not sure how I feel about this. Have I been running around with ugly underarms all these years?</li>
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<li>And off into the cold, terrible rain. I was pretty excited at the 10 day mark, because it meant that the wedding day would be visible on the weather forecast. It's varied in its predictions from 58-61 degrees and from a 10-20% chance of rain. Not bad odds. Right now, it stands at 58, 10%.</li>
<li>First stop: my grandmother's house. I have day-of timelines for all of the VIPs (wedding party, parents, vendors...) and I needed to give Granny and Gramps theirs. She didn't know I was coming, and her very cool neighbor was over and her bridesmaid dress happened to be out and being passed around. So our arrival seemed timely.</li>
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Their dog, Chloe. Chloe will probably forget who I am and kill me in the night on Friday night. She's not particularly nice.</div>
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<li>Gramps said, "What's your favorite color?" out of the blue (he is famous for out of the blue questions and picking up conversation trains hours after the fact). I said, "Purple. And green. And brown. Why?" He motioned for me to follow him to his closet and said "What shirt should I wear with my suit?" I picked him out a nice sage green dress shirt, and a tie to go with.</li>
<li>Next up: our final haircuts. Scissors near my hair always scare me, times a billion seven days before my wedding. My hair lady turned out to be amazing on several levels. My hair looks exactly like it always does, minus split ends, which is exactly what I wanted, and actually exactly what I always want, but somehow I end up losing an extra three inches every time. She gave me some advice that turned out to be, unexpectedly, extremely meaningful. I can't help but think that God put us in the same place at the same time for a reason. Fact is, I was supposed to get this haircut five weeks ago.</li>
<li>On to the store for some hair supplies. Ran into Eric's cousin who I work/volunteer with at the daycare in the restroom. Talked wedding. What else? She will be there. Small world.</li>
<li>Eric finished the kids' favors with some Goldfish and Skittles while I ate lunch.</li>
<li>Had a little "discussion" about whether to have my wisdom tooth out today. He votes yes, I vote no. I see his point (if it gets worse in the next seven days, it will ruin my wedding day), but ultimately I am going to wait. I am on antibiotics to prevent any major health threat, and if I have it out today, I'll be down for days. I don't have days right now. I am going to have to hedge my bets.</li>
<li>Went back out on another shopping errand and to mail out the last timeline to a bridesmaid and groomsman that we had hoped to see before the wedding, but every single time we make plans, one of the four of us gets sick.</li>
<li>Finished up the venue's online "planner," submitted it.</li>
<li>Attempted to pack up the entire load of stuff that will be dropped off with the venue on the 8th. Toasting glasses, ring bearer pillow, favors, centerpieces...all that stuff. We are having bubbles where there would traditionally be rice.</li>
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Java demanded neck scritches while I tied a million tiny bows. He seemed of the mind that my time could be spent in any number of superior ways. Hard to argue, but still.</div>
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And now, I am exhausted. I had hoped to kick back with some Sims tonight, but I am too tired for even my most enticing household.</div>
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It's surreal to think that in 8 days, I'll be married. I'll be surrounded by everyone I love. I'll be a bride. I'll be walking down the aisle to my best friend. I'll be getting a cheese tray when I get dressed. And man, I really do love cheese trays.</div>
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My sister is doing my hair. She has a very scary contraption that does big, loose curls.</div>
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My grandmother came over for it, too. She's one of my bridesmaids, which I know is technically strange, but my sister is one of my best friends and <i>had </i>to be my maid of honor...but my grandmother is way too close and important to me to not have a formal role in the wedding. Someone suggested that she could be the something "old" when I was looking for something old, new, borrowed, and blue. Hardy har har.</div>
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Shoe shopping with my sister: one more good excuse to see my perfect nephews.</div>
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With the wedding 19 (!!!!) days away, it may be no surprise that I have been a crappy blogger.</div>
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For a couple of months, one of my molars had been hurting, a little and then a little more and then a <i>lot</i>. I was going through NSAIDs like they were M&Ms and frankly was very, very, very afraid for my liver. Ibuprofen, acetaminophen, naproxen, etc., had all gone from working for 6 hours to working for 4 to working for 2 to I was still waiting for them to kick in 3 hours after taking them. Dental insurance is one thing that I do not have, and while we could afford an extraction, a root canal was going to be into the thousands and that was pushing it. Also, I was afraid that I was going to have to have my molar pulled and look like a hillbilly, I won't lie.</div>
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Ultimately, it hit a point where I could think of absolutely nothing but the blinding pain I was in, enough was enough, I really didn't even care anymore if I did look like a hillbilly anymore, and Eric drove my crying self to get some emergency care.</div>
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Turns out I get an F on the "Identify the Painful Tooth" exam, and what I thought was a molar kind of toward the front was a wisdom tooth of all things. It had cracked and developed a ping pong ball sized abscess above my wisdom tooth that was so evil that it was putting pressure on the nerves of four of my upper molars, and radiating into my cheekbone, eye socket, jaw, everything. They said that it could've ruptured into my brain, which would've been a very, very scary thing. It had to come out then. It was excruciating, but hey, I don't look like a hillbilly and I don't want to die from the pain and we didn't bankrupt ourselves. Win-win-win.</div>
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That aside - I had a bright idea to begin a relationship boot camp with my camera. I've fallen into a slump of "It's a birthday party/special occasion/planned photo shoot, bring the camera." My mom is sending me text messages of ridiculously cool pictures that she's taken<i> with her phone </i>of just any old thing that she sees, and that used to be<i> my </i>style, too. I'm over my lighting issues, I'm over my ISO issues, and I need to start bringing my camera everywhere again. So I decided - for a week, I'm going to photograph everydamnthing. Just anything and everything. Catch the cool, arty, unexpected, quality photos, and catch the moments that are going to take a flash that I just don't catch because they won't be "good enough." All of it, and go from there. I was set to start that the day after the wisdom tooth removal, and in spite of everything, I actually did do it that day (results to follow). I fell off the wagon after that (Vicodin...), but I'm starting it again soon.</div>
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So here you have...my life, for a few days. In pictures.</div>
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And can I just say - microsuede looks <i>weird </i>in flash photos. We recently got an essentially brand-new microsuede couch, and it does not look mottled and weird in person.</div>
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Shortly before the wisdom tooth expedition, my amazing friend Chelsea (more on her later), who is doing my wedding makeup, came by to do a trial run. I was in blazing agony, but I felt like a million bucks. She did the most amazing job. </div>
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You think your tooth hurts, mom? Oh yeah? What if I crush your kidney with my foot? Take your mind off your pain? Ha, ha, ha.</div>
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So back to my awesome friend Chelsea. Among all of the other awesome things that she does (professional makeup, anyone? Being mom of the year and general badass? Activism for several extremely worthy causes?), she also owns a successful business making nail polish. Amazing nail polish. You need to go check it out. <a href="http://www.prettynpolish.com/" target="_blank">Pretty & Polished</a> - go ahead and click that. Look around. Buy yourself something nice. I'll give you a moment.</div>
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Back? Okay. Well, she made me this amazing custom polish in my wedding colors (purple and black, with some lavender and grey in there too). I've known this gal for about 5 years now, and she gets cooler every year. Truly, you need to be jealous. You wish you knew her and you wish you had my nail polish. But, take heart. You can go buy your own! It's <a href="http://www.prettynpolish.com/" target="_blank">Pretty & Polished</a> if you need the link one more time.</div>
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Where Java lives when I'm on the computer. #1 Velcro Dog is what his coffee cup says.</div>
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The Collie loves my nephews. They were as recently as a few months ago afraid of dogs. She was as recently as a few months ago presumed to be a little to rambunctious to socialize freely with toddlers.</div>
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<br />Briannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13912537536873172352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638303310879678681.post-30364045362456722502012-09-17T16:46:00.002-07:002012-09-17T16:46:44.253-07:00A Rare Mischief Monday<div style="text-align: center;">
I don't usually participate in Mischief Monday, because let's be real here, you guys would get bored after a month or so of pictures of chewed up paper towels, toilet paper, and Kleenex, because each and every one of these dogs is absolutely helpless in the face of a stray paper product.</div>
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A few days ago, I was letting the dogs into the backyard. Java was a little bit charged up, but nothing outrageous. He stepped on my bare foot with one of his back feet and kicked his 65lb. self off and into the backyard. We wondered for a while if it was broken, but no. Just magnificently bruised.</div>
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This picture was before the bruises had fully bloomed and in no way does them justice, but it does at least partially convey that my foot was purple from where my toes start all the way to my ankle.</div>
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Oh em gee. Ouch.</div>
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So let's review the list of injuries inflicted by this dog:</div>
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<li>Canine tooth jammed so far underneath my thumbnail that it was <i>almost to the nail bed </i>and forever altered the shape of that little crescent where the nail extends past the nail bed in his exuberance to take a treat.</li>
<li>Split, bloody bottom lip from a very hard Doberman head that was way too excited to be getting a hug.</li>
<li>A bite from an excited frisbee game that left a scar on my hand.</li>
<li>Countless scratches and bruises on my hands, arms, and legs.</li>
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Almost every one has been because he was way too happy. Damn happy dog.</div>
Briannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13912537536873172352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638303310879678681.post-61473169753161870752012-09-16T09:14:00.002-07:002012-09-16T09:14:43.927-07:00Black & White Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Briannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13912537536873172352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638303310879678681.post-34798362465344551782012-09-13T12:57:00.000-07:002012-09-13T12:57:47.924-07:00Violet is a Spokescollie!<div style="text-align: center;">
So, just a couple of days ago I got a Facebook message from Marilyn, a fellow Indy volunteer for <a href="http://www.tristatecollierescue.net/" target="_blank">TriState Collie Rescue</a>. She is also the treasurer of the organization, and I've met her a few times for hand-offs while transporting. Very, very nice lady. It just said that she had just left me a voicemail and it was urgent. I'd been lolling around on the couch, dying and doing homework (I have a cold), and the phone was buried in the couch cushions.</div>
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So I called her back and it turns out that TSCR was going to do an interview for a local news channel and they needed some Collie representatives. Marilyn was having hand surgery the day before the interviews, so she couldn't handle her dog as far as traveling is concerned, and her dog was also a Collie mix. I moved around a wedding dress fitting a little bit and said sure. Violet got recruited, along with two other Collies owned by a volunteer.</div>
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I won't lie, I was nervous. Several reasons, like:</div>
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<li>Now and then, Violet hates people. 90% of the time she is your normal, happy, loving, gentle, sweet Collie, but occasionally, she meets someone that she just can't stand. Of course she's never aggressive, but she will bark, she will back away if they approach her, and she will not accept treats from them. There is no rhyme or reason to it. She hated the photographer for our engagement pictures, and I can tell you that the photographer was a very, very nice lady. I do not know what her deal is.</li>
<li>Violet has anxiety. We've found that melatonin vastly helps her remain at an even keel, but I'd be lying if I said that she didn't have a couple of issues.</li>
<li>I hate being on camera.</li>
<li>Oh, also I hardly have any voice. I've been sick all week and now I sound like a teenage boy at puberty.</li>
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Oh my gosh. I have never been more proud of that dog. We were there for nearly an hour before shooting, and she was calm, focused, working her commands, doing tricks, being sweet and friendly and perfect. She started to spook halfway through filming because a <i>giant </i>camera-thing on wheels (not attached to a person, just a free agent camera thing) started moving right toward the stage, but come on. She's a herding breed. Other than some jitters when we first started - she'd had tons of time to acclimate to the building and people but only about 45 seconds to acclimate to the actual room - she was so perfect.</div>
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You'll note that I had absolutely no idea where I was supposed to be looking, so I just looked everywhere, basically. Oh well. It's not an interview about adopting 24 year old social work students, so it's okay. The video:</div>
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<br />You'd better believe, she got <i>every </i>last cocktail weenie when she was done. I feel like she's come a long way.</div>
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