Prom 2016

Before I begin this "catch up" post, I have two current complaints about my job.

And to be clear, it has nothing to do with my boss, my co-workers, my office, or even my actual daily grind except that I have to deal with these two things repeatedly in my daily grind:

1. The double meeting.  As in, can the Mayor participate in this event for us?  Yes?  Great.  We need a meeting to tell him more about it.

No you don't.  You do not need a meeting to tell him about the meeting.  Please just send me the information via email.

Thanks.

2. Entitled constituents.

We've all heard the rant about entitled politicians that only work for themselves, and that's true, they do exist.  However, I happen to work for a genuinely good politician who is in it for all the right reasons (and takes a lot of rebuke for it), so when I get a call from an angry constituent that goes something along the lines of, "I live in the County, I pay my taxes, I'm a voter, I refuse to speak with anyone else, I will not share my information with you, only the Mayor, and he owes me this," and they're speaking very heatedly and their words are dripping with contempt, then I just want to politely tell them that if they can't "help me help them," then there's really not much I can do for them, because frankly, paying your taxes and being a registered voter, does not enable you to be a pompous jerk.  Period.

And with that my rant is over.

I want to catch up on a post from prom. Prom from 2016 that is.  I posted about how Max asked Casidee here, but never followed up with actual prom pictures.

Seeing as Casidee will be attending Prom 2017 tomorrow, I suppose it's only proper to get Prom 2016 on the blog so I can move on.

We learned a lot about dress shopping last year.  That prom dresses cost upwards of hundreds of dollars (are you kidding me?), and every dress that caught her eye far exceeded the cost of my ( I thought) generous budget of $150.  However, we did eventually get tipped off to a cute dress "shop" that rents dresses out of a lady's basement.  The basement is packed full, and I mean full of dresses to rent, and all were $150 or less.

So there you have it, choose any dress you desire.

We went back there this year and they do not disappoint.

Max and Casidee have been good friends forever.

For. ev. er.

If you're missing the Sandlot reference, we can't be friends.

Max wanted to take someone to prom that he could just be chill and have some fun with.  It was perfect.  And they decided to have some fun with the flowers while they were at it.

It fit them perfectly.

They went on a hike, toured around downtown, took pictures, ate at The Roof, went to the dance, and then bowled.

And now an onslaught of pictures.