Giants won! Consider it a Giants leap for marketing and a great reason for our son and his Giants fan fiancee to register at Macy's -- they could put a Waterford Crystal Commemorative Football on their registry wish list. That's what I'm talking about!
Seriously -- within three hours of the New York Giants astonishing 17-14 upset Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots, Macy's online was emailing ads to crystal-collecting football buffs, inviting them to get their own Waterford Crystal XLll Super Bowl Champion Football for $185.
"Larger than life! On football's ultimate proving ground, one team stands alone – the New York Giants have won it all! Commemorate every bone-crunching tackle and triumphant touchdown with this limited edition Waterford Crystal football."
In case you were concerned about imitations, no worries: each individually engraved and numbered piece includes a certificate of authenticity, certifying that it is a real, authentic, genuine, top of the line crystal football from Waterford. http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=298539&EXTRA_PARAMETER=ZOOM&CURRENT_PAGE=0
It is lovely -- engraved with the Giants' M&M-looking logo and "Champions", it looks kind of like a real expensive two-ended pineapple. http://www.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=298539&PartnerID=email
Now, if you could get your hands on it, the real collector's item might be the New England Patriots version -- it's crystal clear they must have had two made up just in case, one for each team, especially considering the Patriots were heavily favored to win by everyone.
You don't suppose the real reason it will take 6-8 weeks to get the commemorative crystal football is because Macy's went with the pundits and only pre-made ones with the Patriots inscribed as champs?? Naaah...
(In case you haven't heard, here's a message to you now that you're back from outer Mongolia, which is the only place on the planet you could have managed to evade the news: With half a minute to play, the Little Football Team That Could ruined a perfectly good season for the New England Patriots, 17-14. There was no getting stunned and jubilant fans and well-wishers off the field for the final two seconds of Super Bowl XLII.
See the New York Times account: http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na
Read it in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020301882.html?referrer=email)
Giants fan John Travolta, who gave 34-24 odds on the Patriots prior to the game, must have been delighted by the Giants win. Unless, of course, he actually cash bet on those more likely odds.
Where's a crystal ball when you need one? -- J. Louise Larson http://jlouiselarson.blogspot.com/
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Monday, February 4, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Family Accommodations Survey for the Wedding
Here is a real survey that was sent by MOG (Mother of the Groom) J. Louise Larson to groom's side family members in preparation for wedding accommodations.
1) Our son's getting married and we're planning accommodations for his wedding. If you were going to spend between a few days to a week at a rented vacation home, maybe with a couple of your dearest siblings and perhaps a couple of their kids -- what would your preferences be?
A - seaside place with water -- maybe a dock, maybe a kayak, depending, out of doors
B - quaint historic-type home in quaint history-filled city, walk to museums, dock, restaurants
C - quaint place in town in quaint seaside village
D - Neither -- my family drives me crazy, why would I do that? I'd just as soon smack myself on a bruise repeatedly
2) How likely are you to come to the wedding?
A - I'm not coming unless you have the wedding in Paris, France
B - i'm not coming unless you have the wedding in Paris, TEXAS
C - I'm allergic to weddings and sentiment of any kind. Sniveling women with hats on aren't my bag
D - I'm a single chick hoping to catch the bouquet. Will there be eligible groomsmen?
E - I'm a single dude and I just watched Wedding Crashers. Will there be eligible bridesmaids?
F - I'm single and above such sexist comments. Will there be a buffet?
G - You couldn't pry me out of this town with a crow bar. Have a nice wedding
H - Very likely
I - Not at all likely and that doesn't mean send them an invite anyway so they'll at least send a present
3) How long would you be interested in spending at said place?
A - Since we'll go to the expense of getting there, and there may be free food, might as well stay a week
B - I can't be away from my own bed hardly at all -- rehearsal night and wedding night is all
C - I wouldn't dream of shared accommodations as my family offends me or I am allergic to everything and everyone or I just need plenty of down time
D - I need to get out of town for a month as I've absconded with club funds. Count me in for as long as I can mooch
4) There will be meals provided for the rehearsal dinner, and for the wedding. Otherwise, which option appeals to you?
A - Take turns cooking
B - Restaurants; I want a break from cooking
C - I have all the money in the world -- bring in Wolfgang Puck
D - I plan to catch my own crab in the bay and cook it over a fire I start myself with two sticks like Tom Hanks in the movie Castaway. Can I do that in there?
E - I am a fruitarian; I believe food has feelings and I only eat fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts that have fallen to the ground and so are dead already. Don't eat that carrot salad -- it's been murdered
F - Just give me a crate of Kraft Mac and Cheese boxes to gnaw on and I'm good
5) There are a lot of historic and interesting places withing 15-55 minutes. How much sightseeing are you interested in?
A - Out of doors free/cheap: hiking, kayaking, crabbing, strolling and taking the air
B - Historic cheap -- free monuments, national museums, anything historic and free
C - browsing for antiques at a quaint historic cute stores
D - I want to see everywhere George Washington slept
E - point me to the mall
F - Set me down in front of the TV, I think there's a Monk marathon on
6) One last question. Which of these last questions do you want answered?
A - Where are the happy couple registered?
B - Who on earth are any of these people and why did I get this email?
-- J. Louise Larson http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/
1) Our son's getting married and we're planning accommodations for his wedding. If you were going to spend between a few days to a week at a rented vacation home, maybe with a couple of your dearest siblings and perhaps a couple of their kids -- what would your preferences be?
A - seaside place with water -- maybe a dock, maybe a kayak, depending, out of doors
B - quaint historic-type home in quaint history-filled city, walk to museums, dock, restaurants
C - quaint place in town in quaint seaside village
D - Neither -- my family drives me crazy, why would I do that? I'd just as soon smack myself on a bruise repeatedly
2) How likely are you to come to the wedding?
A - I'm not coming unless you have the wedding in Paris, France
B - i'm not coming unless you have the wedding in Paris, TEXAS
C - I'm allergic to weddings and sentiment of any kind. Sniveling women with hats on aren't my bag
D - I'm a single chick hoping to catch the bouquet. Will there be eligible groomsmen?
E - I'm a single dude and I just watched Wedding Crashers. Will there be eligible bridesmaids?
F - I'm single and above such sexist comments. Will there be a buffet?
G - You couldn't pry me out of this town with a crow bar. Have a nice wedding
H - Very likely
I - Not at all likely and that doesn't mean send them an invite anyway so they'll at least send a present
3) How long would you be interested in spending at said place?
A - Since we'll go to the expense of getting there, and there may be free food, might as well stay a week
B - I can't be away from my own bed hardly at all -- rehearsal night and wedding night is all
C - I wouldn't dream of shared accommodations as my family offends me or I am allergic to everything and everyone or I just need plenty of down time
D - I need to get out of town for a month as I've absconded with club funds. Count me in for as long as I can mooch
4) There will be meals provided for the rehearsal dinner, and for the wedding. Otherwise, which option appeals to you?
A - Take turns cooking
B - Restaurants; I want a break from cooking
C - I have all the money in the world -- bring in Wolfgang Puck
D - I plan to catch my own crab in the bay and cook it over a fire I start myself with two sticks like Tom Hanks in the movie Castaway. Can I do that in there?
E - I am a fruitarian; I believe food has feelings and I only eat fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts that have fallen to the ground and so are dead already. Don't eat that carrot salad -- it's been murdered
F - Just give me a crate of Kraft Mac and Cheese boxes to gnaw on and I'm good
5) There are a lot of historic and interesting places withing 15-55 minutes. How much sightseeing are you interested in?
A - Out of doors free/cheap: hiking, kayaking, crabbing, strolling and taking the air
B - Historic cheap -- free monuments, national museums, anything historic and free
C - browsing for antiques at a quaint historic cute stores
D - I want to see everywhere George Washington slept
E - point me to the mall
F - Set me down in front of the TV, I think there's a Monk marathon on
6) One last question. Which of these last questions do you want answered?
A - Where are the happy couple registered?
B - Who on earth are any of these people and why did I get this email?
-- J. Louise Larson http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/
Monday, January 28, 2008
Momzilla: A Groom's Mom's Code of Ethics to Counter Horror Stories About Monster-in-Laws From Brides Everywhere
Delighted that my oldest son popped the question to a young woman we instantly loved (see the happy couple in New York, on the left), as a firm believer in internet research I set out to Google my way to being the ideal mother-of-the-groom. (That's MOG, for those who don't do Wedspeak.)
The tales of woe I found online were disheartening. Diva Mamas, petulant parents who can't just let their grown children enjoy the wedding planning. Groom's mothers in serious competition with the villainesses of fairy stories -- sniping about the bride at the engagement party, taking out a contract when she's not invited to help shop for the bride's dress, snarling about how much the reception will cost. Just generally being, oh, impossible to please. http://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/index.php/chatroom/topic/39709
When I got married, my mother-in-law told me she had been told her job at the wedding was to "wear beige, show up and shut up." I love her more every year, and I am grateful that in addition to adding no negative notes to our special day, she has been a blessing at every turn. Perhaps one benefit for my son's bride is that, like my mother-in-law before me, I live far away from the wedding planning epicenter -- to paraphrase an old phrase from Fiddler On the Roof, "God bless and keep the mother of the groom ... far away from us!"
Near or far, it's my plan to err on the side of caution lest I spoil the wedding bliss of my son and my daughter-in-law-to-be (that's DIL2B in Weddingese) or as my friend Polly calls her son's wife, "daughter-in-love." So maybe it's time for a sort of a Code of Ethics for the Mother of the Groom -- a last-ditch effort to keep us from becoming Monster-in-Laws like the wretched Viola Fields character played by Jane Fonda in the 2005 Jennifer Lopez movie of the same name.
It could go something like this:
*I promise to help in any way I can to make their day special, so long as it's a way the bride and groom have identified as being helpful and it has been delegated to me. I promise not to pout or write my son out of my will -- instead, I will enjoy the day.
*I will remember that as the mother, my words have great capacity to hurt or heal. I promise to keep my mouth firmly shut, with a smile on it -- even if I have to use paper clips -- if I am ever tempted to gossip about any member of the wedding, to gripe about anything to do with the wedding, to compare any aspect of the wedding unfavorably to any other event, to complain that anything to do with the wedding is too cheap or too expensive. Even if it looks like the chapel has been swallowed by Barney, I will walk on my lips rather than say it's too purple.
*I vow to dress tastefully for the occasion, and not to outshine or detract from the wedding party; I will defer to the bride and her mother in an effort to harmonize with the day's sartorial splendor, and on this occasion above all others I will not try to wear a dress two sizes too small so as to appear to be wearing twin pigs fighting under a fancy blanket. (More apologies to Steel Magnolias.)
*I promise to be cordial and courteous to the mother of the bride, and to the bride's family. We are now part of the same extended family, and they are the ones who have produced this remarkable young woman who is now so essential to my son's happiness.
*I promise to start my life as a mother-in-law on the right foot by doing nothing that would come between my son and his bride. No guilt trips over not choosing his nephew Horace for a ringbearer; no loud, sighing reminders that I bore him after 21 hours of labor and walked him uphill in the snow both ways to nursery school.
*I pledge allegiance to my grown son's happiness. I promise to love him, honor his choice of a spouse, and to allow him to be a grownup, and to cherish his chosen bride.
*And as I sit in that August wedding, side by side with my own groom and my own dear mother-in-law, I promise to remember it's not my wedding. I'm not the center of attention, I'm not the icing on the cake. I will not indulge in a single hissy fit, shed anything but happy tears, or do anything to inspire a single drop of drama or to put anyone but the Happy Couple in the limelight. I will repeat (under my breath) if necessary "It's their day. It's their day."
And I have my beige dress all picked out ...
The tales of woe I found online were disheartening. Diva Mamas, petulant parents who can't just let their grown children enjoy the wedding planning. Groom's mothers in serious competition with the villainesses of fairy stories -- sniping about the bride at the engagement party, taking out a contract when she's not invited to help shop for the bride's dress, snarling about how much the reception will cost. Just generally being, oh, impossible to please. http://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/index.php/chatroom/topic/39709
When I got married, my mother-in-law told me she had been told her job at the wedding was to "wear beige, show up and shut up." I love her more every year, and I am grateful that in addition to adding no negative notes to our special day, she has been a blessing at every turn. Perhaps one benefit for my son's bride is that, like my mother-in-law before me, I live far away from the wedding planning epicenter -- to paraphrase an old phrase from Fiddler On the Roof, "God bless and keep the mother of the groom ... far away from us!"
Near or far, it's my plan to err on the side of caution lest I spoil the wedding bliss of my son and my daughter-in-law-to-be (that's DIL2B in Weddingese) or as my friend Polly calls her son's wife, "daughter-in-love." So maybe it's time for a sort of a Code of Ethics for the Mother of the Groom -- a last-ditch effort to keep us from becoming Monster-in-Laws like the wretched Viola Fields character played by Jane Fonda in the 2005 Jennifer Lopez movie of the same name.
It could go something like this:
*I promise to help in any way I can to make their day special, so long as it's a way the bride and groom have identified as being helpful and it has been delegated to me. I promise not to pout or write my son out of my will -- instead, I will enjoy the day.
*I will remember that as the mother, my words have great capacity to hurt or heal. I promise to keep my mouth firmly shut, with a smile on it -- even if I have to use paper clips -- if I am ever tempted to gossip about any member of the wedding, to gripe about anything to do with the wedding, to compare any aspect of the wedding unfavorably to any other event, to complain that anything to do with the wedding is too cheap or too expensive. Even if it looks like the chapel has been swallowed by Barney, I will walk on my lips rather than say it's too purple.
*I vow to dress tastefully for the occasion, and not to outshine or detract from the wedding party; I will defer to the bride and her mother in an effort to harmonize with the day's sartorial splendor, and on this occasion above all others I will not try to wear a dress two sizes too small so as to appear to be wearing twin pigs fighting under a fancy blanket. (More apologies to Steel Magnolias.)
*I promise to be cordial and courteous to the mother of the bride, and to the bride's family. We are now part of the same extended family, and they are the ones who have produced this remarkable young woman who is now so essential to my son's happiness.
*I promise to start my life as a mother-in-law on the right foot by doing nothing that would come between my son and his bride. No guilt trips over not choosing his nephew Horace for a ringbearer; no loud, sighing reminders that I bore him after 21 hours of labor and walked him uphill in the snow both ways to nursery school.
*I pledge allegiance to my grown son's happiness. I promise to love him, honor his choice of a spouse, and to allow him to be a grownup, and to cherish his chosen bride.
*And as I sit in that August wedding, side by side with my own groom and my own dear mother-in-law, I promise to remember it's not my wedding. I'm not the center of attention, I'm not the icing on the cake. I will not indulge in a single hissy fit, shed anything but happy tears, or do anything to inspire a single drop of drama or to put anyone but the Happy Couple in the limelight. I will repeat (under my breath) if necessary "It's their day. It's their day."
And I have my beige dress all picked out ...
-- J. Louise Larson http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/
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