This week-end my sister and I went to Salt Lake City for the LDS storymakers Conference and Whitney Awards dinner. This award dinner is to authors, like the Oscars are to actors.
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Now the funny thing is that when packing for the Whitney Awards dinner (a fancy affair) I searched my closet for something dressy enough to not make me feel like an ol' farm girl (which I am) and something that I haven't out-grown (which is almost EVERYTHING). I found a glitzy gold blouse that I wore to a fancy affair once before, but I couldn't find the skirt I wore with it so I went and got a fancy pair of slacks and modeled for my husband and he said he liked them really well. Long story short - I went to press said slacks and forgot to check the setting and put iron marks all over the slacks! Grrr!!! Going back to the closet I found and tried on a fancy dress I've kinda grown out of - but decided it wasn't TOO tight and stuck it in my travel bag, grabbed a slip and pantyhose to go with it. The shoes I thought I still had that I bought with the dress were missing so I grabbed a different pair that sorta matched but weren't quite as fancy. Oh well, you can only do what you can do.
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Getting dressed the night of the Whitney's the slip I had brought hung below the skirt! So fancy dress with no slip. Then the pantyhose couldn't be worn with the shoes, because they had a toe divider. So fancy dress with no slip AND no hose. I put on my make-up perfectly. I fixed my hair as good as you can when you have the natural curls like I do. I put on my gold necklace and got two pair of earrings - putting one of each in my ears I asked my sister which pair looked best. When we got to the Hotel where the Whitney's were being held I realized I had on only one earring, I had forgotten to put the other one back on! So here I am at a fancy dinner in a fancy dress with no slip, no pantyhose, and only one earring on! I had no pockets so I couldn't take the earring off for fear I would loose it and it is very sentimental to me - so...
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I took my camera with me to take cool and amazing photo's of the fancy affair and when I sat down I decided to start my photo session with a picture of the salad and dessert that were set out so beautifully on the table. I took out the camera and took a lovely pic of the salad. I then zeroed in on the yummy dessert sitting there begging me to take a bite, click I took a picture and beep my camera battery went dead, I had left the case in my hotel room because it wasn't matching anything. So, end of photo op!
Some days everything goes perfectly and some days they don't!
~Joyce
