yesterday we had somewhere important to be. a wedding. a friend and coworkers wedding. I had asked a few months ago if it was ok for us to film her wedding as practice and she kindly said yes.

well. a couple weeks ago I had a strange dream in which it was the day of her wedding and everything kept going wrong. I was there, but i missed filming her getting ready, then I couldn’t find Albi anywhere, then the wedding started and i didn’t my have my camera all of a sudden. it was a nightmare. literally.

so, yesterday was the day, and it started out… strange. it was one of those… one thing after another kind of days. Albi was in bed with a migraine and  we decided he probably should stay home. then the video light I had ordered and should have been delivered by yesterday still hadn’t shown up. I was running behind and frazzled and struggling to get dressed and all my equipment organized. a few hours later than planned, I was finally ready to leave, and Albi was even feeling better and decided to join. I thought things were going to be ok. But then I couldn’t find my keys.

It’s a giant keychain with our house AND car keys. Albi has keys too, of course, but my key chain also has the key to my sister’s house. where i needed to go. to pick up my brother in law’s camera. the other camera we were going to shoot with. and no one was home.

I have no idea where or how the keys disappeared. I’ve retraced my steps about a thousand times and can’t imagine any possible scenario where misplacing my keys would have made any kind of sense.

SO, basically, at this point, I kind of broke down. we even drove to the last few stores I had visited, thinking I had maybe dropped them somewhere. then, while running around trying to find my keys we found out that due to brush fires near disney world, sections of several major highways were closed. highways we would have needed to drive on to get to the location of the wedding, about 50 minutes away.

DONE.

yesterday was a nightmare, but at least my hair did what I wanted it to do for once.

I hate giving up, and I am not an overly superstitious person, but obviously the universe was telling me something, and I don’t like to challenge the universe when it seems to really want to prevent me from doing something. many will roll their eyes at this, but I should have been on high alert a few weeks ago when I had that dream. at least once a week I dream about something that manifests itself in my waking life in one random way or another, and I should know by now to pay closer attention to what my subconscious is trying to tell me. At the end of all that, Albi (and the universe) convinced me that it was best to stay home.

ugh. Well. thats over now. I still haven’t found my keys and I feel like a really crappy person for not showing up at that wedding. I don’t even know what to do or how to make it up to them. suggestions?

anyway. as miserable as I felt all afternoon and evening yesterday, a few positives did happen.

I had on a really great outfit and my hair looked cute. i was really heartbroken to have to stay home. also, in the morning I had to run out to a few stores just to find a nice top to wear and some comfy flats, but I ended up finding the most amazing shoes, at Ross of all places.

I don’t always have a lot of luck there, but I struck oil with this find.

I just about died when I saw them. wedges? yes, please. also, LOOK. AT. THOSE. BOWS. they are a pretty lavender color in a leather-ish faux reptilian-esque material. best part? only $20.

i looked them up to see if I could find them in other colors. The brand is Penny Loves Kenny , and though their website doesn’t seem to be live I did find this style, “dwight“, on zappos.com in nude, black, and the most amazing teal:

they are $89 online… but… i dunno… I may have to hold a bake sale or something, because these shoes in this color need to be in my life.

Anyway. I wallowed in self pity for a while yesterday, clomping around in my fancy new shoes, all dressed up with nowhere to go. Very late in the evening, around 9, we suddenly realized we hadn’t eaten dinner so, trying to shake me out of my sad mood, Albi dragged me out of the house to go grab some food.

I think we were trying to go to mellow mushroom (there are few funks that a kosmic karma pizza and pint of purple haze won’t get me out of) but as we pulled into the parking lot Albi noticed that The Avengers (aka our new favorite movie) was playing at the aloma cinema grill. IN 15 MINUTES.

we’ve already seen it in imax 3d on opening night, and in a regular theater the weekend after, but we still haven’t gotten our fill. so, sure enough, we ran our asses into the theater, grabbed tickets, found a table, ordered a pitcher of shock top and a heap of deliciously greasy food and enjoyed the most fantastic impromptu dinner date ever. it was great.

so. that’s that. I survived another day. let’s see what today has in store for me…