The Invitation

Today is Thursday.
I received the invitation last Friday.
I knew what it was the moment I saw it.
It was 'the invitation' because it came in a silver envelope instead of a boring old white one.
It also has a seal on the back, two love hearts linked together, entwined would be a more apt description. The heart thing was kinda a dead give away.
It is my invitation to 'the wedding'.
You know, the one where I am the 'official photographer', sigh.

Anyway I was so excited to receive the invitation that I 'filed it' in my desk draw, unopened, underneath a pile of other 'very important things to attend to'.
There was no rush I told myself, the wedding is months away, isn't it?
And, I haven't given it another thought until tonight.

I found the invitation tonight as I was ... well I have no idea what I was actually doing... I was in my desk draw for some reason, but for the life of me I can't bring it to mind. So I guess it was also very important, and probably to do with all the other very important things in my desk draw. Thinking, thinking, thinking... nope, no idea....what was I doing in that draw. Grrrrr that is really going to bug me now... what WAS I doing in that draw???

Well we will never know what I was doing in that draw, and I guess no one but me is curious. But I digress. Back to the invitation.

I took the invitation out when I saw it and studied it for just a moment. It is square and it is lumpy. I am curious about the lumpy bit, but not curious enough to open it .... yet. I studied the address, I don't like the way the address is written. The lines are far too spread out. It does not appear pleasing to the eye. I like things to be pleasing to the eye, don't you?

And the stamp, the stamp is far too small, now why didn't she buy pretty stamps? There are pretty stamps out there, I have gone to the post office and asked for pretty stamps before. Of course the lady behind the counter rolls her eyes when I say, 'oh don't you have any pretty stamps?' One time when she didn't have any pretty 50 cent stamps she made the mistake of saying, 'sorry the only stamps that are pretty are these 5 cent stamps!' 'Perfect' I say and ask for a sheet of those for my mail to be posted. Strange, she was not amused at all, she didn't appreciate 'pretty stamps' like I did. All she could say to me was, 'but you are NOT going to place them all over the front of the envelope are you?' 'Yes of course I am' I replied, 'they are prettier than the 50 cent stamp' I said with a satisfied smile on my face. She just rolled her eyes at that again... how rude, I thought to myself.

Oh dear, did I digress again, sorry.

Now where was I, oh yeah, the invitation.  So it is square, silver, lumpy, poorly addressed, love hearts on the back and a teeny tiny stamp squished into the top right hand corner. Ohhhhh and guess what I just noticed, it is missing the postmark! Ahhhh that would make a difference, it would add some much needed definition to the overall composition of the front of the envelope.

I feel better now. I feel better because in my mind, I have improved the appearance of that invitation immensely. I have added possibly 12 new stamps to each envelope, I have fixed the address and I would not have that lumpy bit inside the envelope either. Of course, I can't understand why she is so excited about all this and why she is making such a big hoo-ha over the whole wedding thing in the first place. She is old and it is NOT her first wedding. But that is a whole other story.

The invitation is now tucked safely away, back into the draw with all the other very important things I need to do. It is still unopened and I have yet to decided when I will open it. The problem with opening it is, if I open it then it makes the whole 'official wedding photographer' thing a reality. I don't honestly know if I am ready to think about that yet.

She phoned me a couple of days ago to ask if I liked the invitation.  My other sister sent me a text message which said 'isn't the invitation lovely' or words to that effect. I replied 'It was lumpy', what else could I say, I haven't opened it yet. That reply must have been funny because they both laughed and said things like 'only you would say that', and 'yes, it was lumpy yet it didn't get damaged in the post'. Phew, I got around that one relatively unscathed. How did that happen!

I guess I am going to have to open that envelope soon. But first I will have to 'find' it again as it is  hidden away in the very important things to do draw of my desk. The draw that I don't actually often look through. Anyone who knows me will know that this is true, because as you can see from the photo, there is a block of chocolate in that draw.... a block of unopened chocolate in that draw. I didn't put that chocolate in that draw and didn't know it was there. For had I known it was there, it would be opened and half eaten, not untouched as it appears now. mmmmmm chocolate :)

Chocolate mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm gotta love chocolate, what were we speaking about again, I have forgotten!