Part of him is very youthful at heart and I love that about him. But I am starting to have some concerns about a new hobby he has picked up. Let me give you some background.
Last summer we went to the Essence Festival in Houston. Terrible place to hold it but the music was good. Earth Wind and Fire preformed one of the nights we were there. And they were great. Now we were fans before we saw them live and enjoyed their music. Ever since then the fiancée listens to them at the very minimum once a day, when I am not there I am sure its more like 5 times a day. He has been playing his “air bass” regular now for months. He has Verdine’s moves down pat. Then he started talking about taking lessons, which I am cool with. I mean really there are worse things he could be doing.
Well the time is now. He purchased his bass guitar last week and since then there has been nonstop talk about practicing, cords, tuning and amps. I told him all the time he spends on this bass (who I think has been named Sheila) he better play a solo at the reception.
Remember that episode of Sex in The City when Carrie and Miranda went to try on wedding dresses just to have a good laugh. And when Carrie put on her dress she started to freak out and broke out into a rash. Well let me tell you about my moment.
Over the weekend I had my first dress fitting in which my mother attended with me. And she has some strong feelings about the more tradition style wedding dresses. Like she wanted me to have a pure white dress but my actual dress is Candlelight White, which she is now okay with. But the other thing that she wanted was for me to have a veil with a blusher (which is that part the comes over your face). I already knew I didn’t want that mainly because I am a bit clumsy and I don’t want anything obstructing my view.
Once I had my dress on my friend Russian dressmaker helped me try on veils. I quickly say I just want a single tiered veil and my mother more quickly says well at least try the other one with the blusher on. No soon did they pull the veil over my face did I start to freak out a wee bit. Next thing I hear my mother saying is get it off of her she is shaking. I had not noticed till they took it off but my hands where shaking and I was hot as hell.
Now I am not saying I have a fear of getting married but I am saying I don’t like feeling so confined behind that veil. I don’t care if it’s just netting. I don’t like it one bit. We did find a beautiful alternative that is perfect for me and makes mom pretty happy also.
Have you seen the movie? Well I have watched it a couple of times and I plan to go and buy it today. For those that have not seen it here is a brief description – Jennifer Lopez’s character meets a guy and they move in together and decide to get married all in a pretty short amount of time in HIS mothers opinion. So all throughout the movie the mother of the groom is doing stuff to try and sabotage their relationship. J-Lo character started to daydream about ways of getting back at her mother-in-law. Once she thought of slamming the mother-in-law’s face into a cake or smacking her in the face with a cast iron skillet and even smacking her across the face when she showed up at the wedding in a white dress trying to up stage the bride.
So I have decided this movie is going to become my new theme movie. I want it to serve has my way of release. Why do I need to release you ask? Because I am about to inherit a monster-in-law. Instead of me getting mad and chocking her, I will pop my DVD in and laugh my ass off when J-Lo mashes her mother-in-laws face into a cake.
There is a weird bond that happens with mothers and their boys. My oldest brother has the best wife. My sister-in-law is great, patient, loving and one of the kindest women and she is great with their children. But I think she had a hard way to go initially when it came to my mother and now they are cool as peas in a pod. In talking to my sister-in-law over the weekend I think she put it best when she said my soon to be mother-in-law is just “pissing on a fire hydrant”. And that is exactly what she is doing, trying to mark her territory with me. She also suggested that we move out of state quick fast and in a hurry. LOL
