April 20th will. That's the day I'm headed home next, and I just (this afternoon) managed to set a bottling date for our wedding wine that evening. We bottle at 5:00 pm, which means that I should leave here by 6:00 am (just to be on the safe side). I lose an hour on the way back, and should have two hours' leeway Rhonda-drive time, one Al-drive time (I tend to, in good traffic and non-construction days, make it in nine hours, but it takes Al about ten hours). Hopefully, I'll have company on that ride home in the form of Dana and Steph and won't have to rely on audio books like I usually do. That should make the drive seem faster, even if it isn't.
Wine bottling is always fun, but it saddens me that Julie (one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world :)) won't be able to be there. This will be the first time I've bottled wine without her and I didn't realize, when I set the time and date, that she has to work at the ballet school that night. I'll take this opportunity to make a plug for her pilates school and say that you should go to her and bring friends so that she won't have to work insane hours at three different jobs any more. That way it would free up her time for me (when I'm home), Missy Beth (not my sister), and her boyfriend Ben, who would love to dominate her time with other things :). (EDIT, ten minutes after original posting: I really didn't mean that like it sounded. I didn't mean that just Ben would like to dominate her time, and I wasn't thinking anything close to what it sounds like...just meant that the three of us would be happy for her--and us--if she had some more free time on her hands to spend with us.) Of course, she has other friends and family, too. But I think we probably can claim priority. (Wow, I'm being really facetious right now and I hope people get that. I just love my Julie time!)
Anyway, back to winemaking, err, bottling. I'm disappointed that Julie's not going to be there, but I can't really see a way to change the date. Saturday's packed (at least, I hope it will be once I make a few phone calls) with wedding-dress first fitting and maybe cake decorating decisions (mom and sisters, wanna/can you come?), not to mention Danny's debut concert that evening. I thought about trying to fit the wine thing in before that, but I'm afraid we'll run short on time. And on Sunday (Al's only day off that weekend) Al and I have to register for gifts, something that I have a feeling will take forever because he doesn't really want to register for anything (and thus will be indecisive or non-inputty, meaning he won't give me input on much of anything). And then we're off early in the morning on Monday (the winery's closed on Monday anyway) so Dana can get back to work on Monday evening (assuming she comes with me). The next time I'll be home will be May, and that's cutting it very close--not to mention taking up room on Mark and Sherrie's shelves for almost five months fermenting. :(
I am happy that my friends Ruthie and Nikki can come with me, though. They've never been to the winery and I know they'll enjoy it. I don't get to spend enough time with them, so I'm glad I'll get to see them that weekend. And what'll you know? That'll be--what, three times we've gotten together within one year's span? It's a record! That never happens anymore since we don't go to church together anymore. I'm hoping that'll change, but things get understandably hard between school, families, work, and everything else going on in our lives.
I think that's it for tonight. My day was uneventful since I just read a book for class, observed a guy while he worked as a part of a research project, and went to class and talked about postmodernism, neo-Marxism, and feminism for three hours. Talk about taxing your brain. I'm going to watch some mindless television (or a movie, just something) and thus make my brain stop thinking in order to enable me to sleep. Oh, and in case Dana needs a study break during the night and happens to open my blog, hope your creative component is going well (and get back to work! :) just kidding).
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