Two Months

Part A)

Yep, it is exactly two months away from the wedding.

To celebrate this occasion, a guy stole my wallet and spent a lot of money that was not his, or mine for that matter. Luckily I am not responsible for these charges so no real harm done except for the loss of a whole lot of other stuff inside the wallet and the beautiful wallet itself that Lisa got me for Christmas. Plus, I am angry. I once had to go to the hospital because I refused to give two guys my wallet in a parking lot and they severely beat me. Remember mom? So this may tell you how much I value wallets... or how much I hate going to the DMV.

Oh, but there is good news. I guess. The website http://08-22-08.blogspot.com/ is up and running. This is a basic wedding FAQ site that enables us to tell people where we are registered and other facts without being "tacky" as Lisa put it. I wanted to just send out cards reading "Buy us stuff here!" the list the places we are registered but I guess that would also be "tacky" and would make me "a huge jerk".

Part B)

Currently I am working the front desk at a wedding being catered by Vibrant Table and I have to say we really did get a good group of servers as well as some pretty decent food. Quite the spread. The decorations also look amazing, very simple and very elegant. I also must say they are unbelievably patient. As I was typing that first sentence a friend of mine who works for Vibrant Table was stabbed in the arm with a kebab skewer by a drunk elderlyish woman reaching impatiently for another drink.
I got her a bandage. I am that type of guy.
Oh my, that old drunk woman just finished the drink. That took less than 3 minutes. If she wasn't so rude I would be impressed.

Also, I must confess, I am a little nervous about the big day due to how beautiful the woman I am marrying is. Let me explain. This wedding I am doing desk duty for is being celebrated by a fairly attractive young lady and a man in his late thirties who reminds me of a grown up version Dudley "Booger Dawson from Revenge of the Nerds. If you don't know what Booger looks like, here you go:

Needless to say the woman clearly outshone her husband, that is expected. What I am worried about is that when I stand next to my gorgeous bride, people will be thinking "How did that oaf get her?" due to Lisa's obvious radiance.

Note: I know that I am, at least, a bit more attractive than Curtis Armstrong's character in Revenge of the Nerds. I just wanted to compliment my stunning bride-to-be on the internet and fish for compliments of my own at the same time.
I probably could have said, "Lisa is purdy" but that would be lacking in creativity and not kill enough time at work.

Anyway, Lisa, I love you. Moms and Dads, I love you too. Grandmothers and the like, guess what? I love you too.

Bye, family!

Ian

Happy Holidays

Hello all,

So I am killing time at work and I started thinking about the holidays, mainly the big ones at the end of the year that rhymes with Hank's Living and Isthmus (Isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger masses of land) and it occurred to me that I will have two families at this time. This was pretty exciting to think about. What was more exciting is that this enabled me to used cheaptickets.com to plan a fake trip. Now, many people find that planning trips to be boring or frustrating, but I love it.

Let me run down for all my thought process. This will help you see how much I love problem solving in regards to taking time off work and celebrating with food:
1) "Where are we going to go and when?"
2) "How about one family for Thanksgiving and the other for Christmas?"
3) "Thanksgiving isn't as good as Christmas"
4) "Plus the cost of two trips around holidays will break our bank"
5) "How about one giant Christmas trip because I believe the Hunt family has their giant Christmas gathering before Christmas Eve and the Senkowskis (or Janiffs) do their party on Christmas Eve?"
6) "Ian you brilliant and handsome man!"

So just to let all of you know I have found a deal that will let Lisa and I visit both, yes BOTH, families on Christmas for just over $700 a piece. That may seem like a lot but check this out, to fly to only South Bend would cost us over $500 and to Palm Springs would be around $450 (prices are similar for both Christmas and Thanksgiving). So by my logic, by visiting both families at Christmas, we would be saving $250. Makes sense, right?

Sorry to be so off topic but seriously, my job drains my soul if I don't preoccupy my time with more fun ventures. I guess I could use this time for wedding stuff but I think I heard Lisa wants to do all of that on her own with no help from me.

I love you all.

Ian

Just to let you know

Invites are taking forever but they are beautiful. Everyone will see when they get them in the mail early next week.

Not much new news on the wedding front. We are just touching up some details with the music (we have a first song!) and getting this honeymoon sewn up.

In non wedding news, I shaved my 3 months of beard off and look ridiculous. Here is what I looked like before:






My toast was great.

The kitten is becoming a young man, yet remains adorable:











and Lisa is a lush:









Love,
Ian