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2007-01-24 - “How Are You Doing” “I’m Planning A Wedding”

A friend asked me how I was doing today and I responded with “I’m planning a wedding.” I knew what they were asking, but it seems like the wedding is the only thing on my mind at times. The wedding is important, super-hyper-mega important at that, but it’s not the only thing happening in my life.

I try to balance my thoughts when I feel overwhelmed by the wedding. For instance, I’ve called the town of Piermont, NY multiple times with no response as of yet. There are certain things that I shouldn’t think of between e-mails, when things are out of my hands, they are out of my hands. I can double check things, like if they got a check or if they are on deadline, but I can’t badger them into doing things faster than they are used to. Everyone’s a professional that we are dealing with, we’re almost done with vendors, but I’m not a professional.

How do I stop thinking about the parts of the wedding that are out of our control without stopping caring about it? I’m not sure yet.

Is it bad to look forward to the wedding being over? I’m struggling with that a bit because it seems like the wedding has been eating my brain for months now. I know that my constant worrying about how things look or what I think they should be like is annoying to Amber, but I told myself that I would care at the beginning and I still do now.

OH well. I love my wife-to0be and that’s the important part. The wedding will be great no matter what happens because I’m gonna be married to Amber on Mat 5th. 2007. She’s the best and I know it. Every day with her is awesome and I’m looknig forward to putting another ring on her finger soon.


2006-12-29 - Holiday-less

So what? We might have freaked out a little bit on Christmas Eve day because we were pretty “over” the whole holiday thing. I say we were over because we were contemplating hiding in the basement or attic by candlelight to not acknowledge to anyone that we were home or existed.

Yeah, the holidays are a bit stressful and I can’t blame anyone else who also wants to hide during them. This year we got a tree on December 3rd and decorated it on the 10th with some friends. It was fun to decorate and fun to have this thing that looked like a piece of art in our living room, but at the same time, I’m not going to miss sweeping up the pine needles and vacuuming them once I’m done sweeping.

As much fan as it was, I’m also glad that the fighting the emotions of making Amber didn’t open any gifts to “ruin” Hanukkah or Christmas (I might have said that to make sure she didn’t open anything, but let’s be honest- one open gift isn’t going to ruin a holiday. It’s not about the gifts anyway.) This is how I feel after the holidays are over, not before. If I felt that way before I’d be knee deep in debt and Amber would be knee deep in earrings.

Now our living room goes back to normal, there’s no tree inside the house, no candles to light every night unless we get super religious and even then it’s only twice a week. There isn’t even that much cleaning to do anymore.

I remember the gifts I got Amber a little better than what I’ve received because of the amount of thought (and hiding) I put into them.

Canon Powershot S2 IS, The Little Mermaid DVD, The Fox and the Hound DVD, Crayola 96 pack of crayons, three coloring books - one optical illusions, one patterns and one 17th century clothing, A PEZ necklace (it’s silver, not candy), a personalized bracelet, Curly Girl, a subscription to Real Simple magazine, a snowman cake plate and one awesome apron.

Goodbye Christmas and Hanukkah, until next year anyway.

Check out Amber’s Flickr account here


2006-10-31 - The Pumpkin Video

as promised…



2006-10-31 - Happy Halloween

This year, we carved an apple and two pumpkins.

Time Elapsed video of pumpkin carving later

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