Supermodel
Title courtesy of Jill Sobule, not RuPaul. You know the song, I think it was on the Clueless soundtrack.
Anyway, the title doesn't refer to me, it refers to Missy. To make a long story short, two Sundays ago, I think while we were at her parents house watching the AFC and NFC championship games, her mom shows her the wedding/bridal section of the Long Island newspaper, Newsday and in it there was a call for all soon to be Long Island brides to enter in for a chance to model for the next photo spread they do. They were asking for all kinds of girls, various heights, weights, ethnicities, and whatnot. So Missy decided to enter. Almost two weeks went by and she didn't hear anything, which upset her a little bit, but it was understandable, I'm sure they got flooded by responses. Cut to yesterday when the woman from Newsday called and left her a message to get in touch with her. Missy called back and the woman explained that they had narrowed it down to 9 brides, and that the final cut was going to be 6, so she had a 2 in 3 chance of getting picked. The original entry was just 50 words on why she'd be good for this thing, but last night they needed her to e-mail a little bit more of an explanation, along with a few pictures. So we spent like an hour last night pouring over digital photos of her to find a few we liked, and then we spend even more time writing a paragraph summing up why she'd be awesome for this. We sent it off, and it was late so Missy went home.
Today she e-mailed me asking me to check her AOL mail, since she couldn't do it from school but nothing. I left class and hopped on a subway to Penn Station and when I got out I received a text message from Missy saying that they called and she got it! How cool is that? My fiance is going to be a model, if only for the local paper's Sunday bridal section, but still, how cool is that? I wonder if there will be an article to go along with it? That would be cool if my name could get in the paper too. She is beyond excited about it and I couldn't be prouder of her. I'll be sure to scan in the articles and pics and whatnot, or just post a link once its done. She said she's got to meet them at a bridal shop on Tuesday or Wednesday to try on a bunch of stuff (good thing she's already got her dress!) and then the shoot is the following Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever day the 12th of February is. How cool is that?
Alright, just thought I'd share. My fiance is a model!