A crook chook

Not sure quite what caused it, but I've manged to get a naaaasty cold. Blah! I'm meeting up with my buddy Niki from highschool, and her fiancee, Matt, on Friday, hopefully I'll be fully recovered by then. They've been living in England for the past year and I haven't seen them since they left Oz. Looking forward to catching up and showing them a bit of the LA area!

There have been a few pics of Jimmy, and even some of me, posted around on photo websites covering the awards the other night. Apparently the thing airs on Sunday, April 22, on TV Land in the US. Here's a site with a few pics. It was fun to see and hang out with everyone again.

All the bits and pieces I'd ordered for the wedding were waiting for me when I arrived in LA. I'm using this time to get 'em all organised and make the joint decisions Jimmy and I need to do before the wedding. Thankfully, the breakables I transported with me from Brisbane to Taipei to LA all arrived in one piece!! I wrapped them up in layers of newspapers and clothes and hoped for the best.

Had a wedding dress fitting yesterday!! All went well, but I cringed at shelling out even more dough for little necessities like the veil, shoes, alterations, the undergarments... ikkk!! I'm never getting married again!! haha. The dress will be ready for collecting on May 2nd, all wrapped up and ready to take on board the plane.

Gonna go get some orange juice and try to fight this ugly cold. xxx Laura

Pic from Saturday's award show:

Back in the USA

What a whirlwind the last week has been!!! I'm back in the US now, arrived last Friday after a 28 hour flight via Taiwan!! I decided to double the length of my flight to save $500... weddings are costly little buggers!! They gave me the wrong immigration form to fill in on the plane... apparently Aussies don't use the same one as Taiwanese, so after I'd waited in line for an hour, they sent me to the back again to fill in a different form. Booo! Word to the wise.. if you go to the US via Asia, make sure you get the correct form to fill in!! No way was I gonna join the end of the queue again and wait for another hour, I excused myself and jumped to the front of the line... didn't want to keep Jimmy waiting too long on the other side!!! The next morning, off Wanda and I went to go dress shopping for her Matron Of Honour dress for the wedding. We found a gorgeous dress in the perfect colour. So, now Wanda has blue! Janette has her dress in pink, Suzie in green, Hege in lavender and hopefully Tegan is keeping hers in yellow!! I saw my cousin Louise recently, who got married two years ago. One of her bridesmaids, my cousin Jo, was in England at the time, and they co-ordiated their dresses by Louise giving her bridesmaids a sheet of the fabric she wanted. They had a dress of their own style made in the fabric Louise had given them, and voila, everything was fine and dandy and they all looked fab! What a good idea. Hmmm... next time... :-P

After Wanda and I had finished shopping, it was time to get ready for the event of the evening, the TV Land Awards!! Jimmy had been invited as one of the guests because of his work on The Lucy Show, as this year they were saluting Lucille Ball and her TV work. I found out a lot of my buddies would be going, too, fun. Lucie was there to accept the award on behalf of her mother, and so was her brother, Desi. Stacks of people I knew were going... Wanda, Frank, Rick, Irma & Jim, Carole & Tom, Amy, Michael, Dan, Tom & Richard, Garret & George, some people I had met before but didn't know so well... Shirley Mitchell, Bill Asher, Bob Shiller... some people I had never met but who I had heard of... Doris Singleton, Keith T & his wife, Kathy, Gregg & his wife, Marl Young, Tony from the original Desi Arnaz Orchestra, and a whole bunch of others. Will write more later... gotta dash and do a few things!!