good vs. evil

So yesterday was a mixed kinda day.
It was great in the fact that I got to go to the cities with southerncanadian and M to look for bridesmaid dresses. We pretty much found it at Wedding Shoppe Inc. on Grand Ave. in St. Paul. It's a Bill Levkoff dress, under $150, and has detachable spaghetti straps so the girls can wear them for dancing and wandering around at the reception if they'd feel more comfy doing so. I had southerncanadian try on the bridesmaid dress I have posted below, and it looked gorgeous, but it was above the $150 ceiling I'd like to put on these things, and I'm not sure how the cris-cross boob thing would look on some of the girls. The bottom was not form fitted, that model is just standing dumb like I thought. Anyway, back to the current dress, the dress color will be an ice-blue, and the sash will be a darker blue.

Now for the bad part of yesterday. I got home and picked up the mail. What did I find? A thin letter from University of Minnesota. You guessed it, rejection letter number one. I got so pissed that I kicked a dent in the wall downstairs. Apparently because of that, I signed myself up to patch it and repaint that hallway. Woopee.
Not helping matters, my mother is now dating someone new and told me she wants to invite him to our family's Easter to introduce him to everyone. I told her straight up that this was an inappropriate time to do that, that if she wanted to introduce him, she should take him to Hudson out to dinner to meet her siblings that way. I then told her if she wanted to bring him to Easter after introducing him elsewhere, that would be fine. She apparently doesn't see a difference in this and considers me the selfish one in all of this.
I hate my life this week.