November 15, Fall, year 20

Wow… what a week. I've been running to Mineral Town almost every day to help Jill with her marriage preparations. Thanks to Lauren, we've got a beautiful dress for her, and we even managed to convince Gray to remove his hat for the wedding!

And… I got dragged into Bridesmaid duty… somehow. I'm still trying to figure that one out. But I guess, I shouldn't complain too much, it is my little sister's wedding after all.

I'm currently spending the night at Pony's, along with Muffy. We're going to help her get ready in the morning. However, she and Gray left a little while ago to go and do the Bamboo float, so it's just me and Muff. We've been watching movies pretty much all day, and going over the lists of everything that needs to be done.

Gods, from flowers, to guest lists, to cards… I think I never want to be in charge of helping with another wedding. At least not one that takes place a week after the engagement.

Oh, and I'm up to fifty five Sprites now! I've got this feeling that I'm really close to releasing the Harvest Goddess. I'm saving up to remove the curses on the tools I found in the mines, but it's been pretty slow going. What with helping pay for the wedding, still buying flour for the Harvest Sprites—which I'm going to stop with soon—and stocking up on food for the winter so that Uncle T won't have to cross the mountains as much, I'm just as broke as when I first started.

On the plus side, I've been able to see Skye almost every day. He lets me vent about the panic Pony keeps going into, and teases me into a better frame of mind. I won't deny that I've started thinking… started wondering if maybe, just maybe, he might look at me like that soon.

I mean, I'm not stupid. I know that he cares about me. Not only do I see it, Pony constantly teases me about him. Which is only fair, since I teased her mercilessly about Gray, but still.

Beyond the point.

I can't quite help wondering it. PoM or not, slightly arrogant or not, he's still the sweetest guy I've ever had the fortune to know, and I… if I could get the opportunity to spend even a little of the time he's got left here with him…

Ah, I'm getting maudlin and Muffy's giving me weird looks. Time to think of something else.

Well, Jack will be here tomorrow morning, with Eve. Who is, I've learned, quite pregnant. Which answers my questions quite nicely about where she's staying, and whether they were going to put it off until after the wedding.

Figures. It's funny! And mildly ironic on top of it. I wonder how they managed that, and haven't gotten in trouble? I thought… well, no, Aunt Sasha and Uncle Jeff probably don't know, now that I think of it. Now the grandparents on the other hand probably threw ten kinds of fit.

Karen thinks it's awesome as all get out, that her big sister is pregnant. She's gonna get a little niece or nephew probably in mid-May, and while she won't get the chance to hold it—Karen, by all rights, probably would not make a good mother, for all I love her—she wants to have pictures. Lots of pictures.

…I keep getting distracted by the TV. Maybe I should just watch the movie.