The Wedding Biz

As I get ready for a full day of sewing wedding gowns, meeting a potential client and spending my weekend doing fittings, I realize that every weekend I have in June is already booked.  How did this happen?  I guess it's just one of those things that come with owning your own business.

As much as I would love a whole weekend of rest and relaxation, it's always business even when I'm not trying to do business.  For example my meeting today with a potential client comes by the way of my very supportive husband.  He receives a text a couple weeks ago from a friend that he just asked his girlfriend to marry him and may need my services in making his new fiance's wedding gown.  He sets up a meeting today at a happy hour, so he can chat with his buddy and I can chat with his fiance.

I think it's funny that I can mix business with friendships and I think it's funnier that my biggest fan (my husband) does my bidding for me whenever possible.  However, sometimes I feel that I talk too much about what I do.  I only hope that I don't monopolize the conversation, because it's really about them as a couple and I want to celebrate their new engagement and not take away from their happy news.  I guess, they are also killing two birds with one stone if they are taking care of business and celebrating.

I have to mention about how I have been feeling with my vegetarian experiment.  It's been 9 days as a vegetarian and I have slipped only 3 times eating imitation crab meat and shrimp, but I have not eaten any animals just the seafood.  I still felt bad for eating the shrimp, I know they were living at one point.

I know some people don't understand this lifestyle change I'm undergoing and I completely accept that.  But after my vacation and some much needed rest and relaxation, I started to think about life in general.  How I do feel a lot of empathy towards people and animals.  I even start to cry when I see grown men in sports cry.

Don't get me started on the Little League World Series, I see those poor kids cry after losing a game and my eyes start to water instantaneously.  So as far as meat eating, I officially say good bye.  I know they taste good and what not, but I'm to the point where I see the meat and all I can see are faces of the animals.  That and I don't want them to haunt me.  People who know me the best know I've had weird ghostly things happen to me and perhaps I will be haunted by one less thing.

(Picture is my husband and I cutting the cake on our wedding day)