Wedding Attire, and Q of the D

[apple_pathways]

My brother is getting married, this January we do believe, and my future sister-in-law has asked me to be a bridesmaid. I have mixed feelings about this, but she is a sweetheart and I'm touched that she asked, so of course I said yes. (The fact that my mother threatened me against saying "no" also had some influence.)

This is the color she has chosen for the dresses:



It really is a very pretty color, but it is going to look wretched on my pasty pale skin! Oh, how I can't wait to have framed photos of me looking like a chronically ill prom date plastered everywhere!



Here's another set of warm-up questions I posed to my students; as always, feel free to give them a try for a virtual kudos!



If you're having trouble seeing the picture, it depicts 10 red marbles, 7 blue marbles, and 3 orange marbles. The questions are:

1. How many more blue marbles are there than orange marbles?
   
2. What fraction of the marbles are red?
   
3. What is the ratio of blue marbles to the total number of marbles?
   
4. What percent of the marbles are orange?
   

Comments

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

No, that's just one of the dresses I grabbed off the website; I don't think she's made her final selection yet. And no, I am not a person for whom strapless dresses work! I'm a bit busty, and therefore spend the whole evening hiking the dress back up over my boobs.

I'm pretty handy with makeup myself, but I'd love to get outside input. I'll post a picture of me in the dress once I have one.

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

BOOB HIGH FIVE! Or maybe BOOBSMISH? I am very boobalicious.

YAY that you like makeup. I looove it, particularly eyeshadow. I have a fairly epic collection of eyeshadow. Everyone in Paris seems to wear conservative makeup, which makes me go >_<. Eh, I shall break out the crazy colours anyway, screw them and their French chic!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

SMISH!

Love me some eyeshadow; I have just about every color of the rainbow, and not enough occasions to wear any of it. My job situation is very casual, so if I showed up all glammed up in sparkly eyeshadow, it would look a little odd.

On the plus side, though, I can do it up for Halloween, so look out for that! (Last year I wore a red velvet cape and a long black dress. The cape may reappear this year, if I don't something else I want to wear more.)

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Haha, I take EVERY opportunity I can to wear ridiculous eye makeup. Sometimes I just make myself up at home and take photos of myself like a big camho. I directed a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last year and one of my favourite things was coming up with the makeup designs!! (Not usually a director's job, but anyhoo...)

I look forward to super sexxay Hallowen pics!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Oh, you gorgeous girl, you! I saw A Midsummer Night's Dream for the millionth time this summer, and one of my favorite parts is always the gorgeous makeup and costume design of the fairies.

Don't expect anything too sexy for a Halloween costume, as I will be wearing the costume to work where I tutor children. *disapproving look*

Lol, hopefully I'll have a party to go to! I lucked out the last couple years, but sometimes it's hard to find grown-ups who like to dress up and party. I LOVE Halloween, kind of a ridiculous amount.

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Thank you :D

And I guess you'll just have to be stealth!sexy then. :D