This weekend Jim is down visiting for our Thanksgiving. He thinks it is funny to call our Thanksgiving "Canadian Thanksgiving" and the American Thanksgiving "REAL Thanksgiving" but I am not really finding it as funny as he is for some reason. He told some of his co-workers he was coming over for "Canadian Thanksgiving" and they said "WOW! That is sooo weird. What do they call Thanksgiving there?" Seriously Americans??? What else would we call it? Happiness Day? Eskimo Awareness Day? Geesh!
Anyway, we are having a great time and packing a lot of things in this one weekend. One of the things we wanted to accomplish was getting our wedding registry done. Now this may seem a little early to do so, but Jim is only down every once in awhile and it was something I wanted to cross off my to-do list (not to be confused with the honey do list which remains unfinished). I wanted to register at some really cool places, but apparently there are only a handful of places in my area that still do registries. So, Sears turned out to be the winner.
For years I had heard stories from prospective brides venturing out to register and telling of the fun stories of the scanner gun. I had been dreaming of one day going and using that gun. I mean how fun! You want something and you just scan the bar code and voila into your registry it goes! Plus, as a woman who loves to shop, this is a match made in heaven!
So, Jim was a sport and came with me. He held my organized list of things we needed to pick up and his task was to check things off as I went. I told him under no circumstances was he to use the scanner. I mean, I am certain that it had not been HIS dream for years to register.
As the nice lady at Sears handed me the scanner, I couldn't wait to begin. Jim kept cracking jokes like "Why am I even here?", "Does my opinion matter at all?" etc. I wanted to tell him that he was simply there to be my assistant but I didn't. In fact, I was EVEN nice enough to let him scan one thing. Alright, maybe I was holding the item in my hands and couldn't get a good vantage point to scan, so I asked him to do so, but I was nice nonetheless.
Soon, I got on a roll! Jim made a joke that he thought the scanner was going to burn out. Soon after, it actually did! (OK, well the battery died, but same difference!) Anyway, the moral of the story is that Jim is slowly getting a glimpse of what all this wedding planning will be like. I can't wait until next weekend when we meet up in Chicago to go meet with vendors! It will be a blast! (right Jim?)
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