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Day 112 (Or: I am too excited to sleep)

What a day.

Kelli and I are so incredibly blessed. What a whirlwind of a day.

I think I'm not nervous because none of it seems real. Kelli and I were talking tonight about how strange and surreal this all feels. To be getting married tomorrow.

Well, technically today. I stayed up to clean up the town house for when Kelli gets back here (Shhh.... it's a secret! :P)

And I think I may have broken the washer in the process.

But that's life. You take the good with the bad.

This last post should have some sense of finality, but maybe it's supposed to end with a possibly-broken washer, a clean town house, and an overall sense of excitement at the unknown just ahead.

To be married. To devote your life to the service of another. To accept life's not always perfect, but you do what you can, and you embrace the moments, and the ones yet to come.

I hope you all enjoyed these 112 days in between. I didn't always. But I wouldn't change a second of it. What a wild ride. What lessons learned. What surprises along the way.

Goodbye college, goodbye single man... It is time to Love another.

To be married.

Day 111 (Or: The day before the day before)

Work was a blast, honestly. I didn't really do anything. Kevin did my job in preparation for next week when I won't be here. So I was just there to answer questions. But Kevin's a smart cookie, he only needed help like 3 times the whole time I was there :). Kelli came and brought me lunch, and my family (plus Pop-pop and Grandma) came to see where I work. Then Pastor Monica let me off early because she could tell I was ready to get outta there hahah.

Met Miss Phyllis' mom and brother Dennis! I've heard great things about both of them and they all turned out true. Super cool people. Uncle Dennis was a lot of fun chatting with. We showed them the town house. There's nothing like Kelli's face lighting up when she's showing this place off- I'm so happy she feels at home here. It's really a blessing for her to move straight from one place that feels like home to another one. That's hard to pull off, but God orchestrated this whole thing perfectly for her. He knows her spirit.

Ah, so other than that, Kelli and I went grocery shopping for the honeymoon. Probably bought TOO much, but it's enough that we'll feel like we have some options when we open the fridge at the cabin in Gatlinburg :) We had a lot of fun shopping and nervously laughing every time we stuck another item in the cart like this "ha ha....thisss is gonna be a lot of money..." haha. But it's alright. You only get one honeymoon :)

Then back to the town hosue where we looked on the labels for the wedding. Almost done with those!

And holy cow, that's really about it. We're about done with this thing. There's only so many hours left where we have any say about it. We're both ready to just hand it over to brighter minds than ours, and just enjoy this thing we've been working to plan for nearly a year. What a ride this has been.

Day 110 (Or: As things begin to wrap)

Man oh man. It's so close.

My second to last day of work before vacation. I have been so unmotivated. I just goof off all day. Thankfully everyone is on board with that because c'mon who can blame me, haha. But I managed to get pretty ahead today, somehow. So that's good. Tomorrow, I'm actually not even going to be in Master Control except for a little bit in the morning. The guy who is gonna fill in for me is gonna run it tomorrow on his own to make sure he can do it, and I'll be there if he has any questions. Y'know just...roaming the building all day. Loving my job, haha. :P

Kelli and I got a lot done tonight. There's a billion gallons of different drinks in this house right now, all for Sunday. Anddd we got pictures developed for the wedding that we needed. Aaannddd we just ran a bunch of errands and got a bunch of stuff that was needed for the wedding. Still a lot to do, but it's manageable. We have a plan to get it all done, so. That's good.

Anyways, that was today. I'm too excited to sleep. But I'm so beat that I'll probably be able to do it anyways.

OH AND I JUST ORDERED METROID OTHER M YEEESSSSSS

Day 109 (Or: My brother, the winner)

JORDAN WON THE FINAL BIKE RACE OF THE YEAR. He won he won he won! Pretty much the entire day can be summed up in that statement :) And because of his victory tonight, he finished 3rd over all for Cat-5's, and got a place on the podium at the award ceremony at the end of the night. Seriously, so excited for my brother. We were flipping out. He's been training so long and so hard- I'm happy he's finally got a legitimate "victory" to his name. I know he needed it. :)

Anyways, Kelli was hanging with her parents tonight, so she couldn't be there. Happy about the hang out, but bummed she missed the big moment. :( thankfully, we got it on video, and Kelli lent me her 35mm, which I used up a whole roll of film with, haha.

Anyways, once Kelli finiahed hanging with her parents, I went over there but BLESS HER HEART the girl was beat, so I didn't stay long. But we've only gotten to see each other sparsely the past couple of days, and on Monday, we were together but just doing hardcore wedding planning. So... it was relaly nice just getting to chill with her for a bit.

Uh....4 days? How is that possible?

Two more work days. Two more. I've been at CTN since December and I've had two Mon-Fri days off. Two. Haha. Like I worked Christmas and new years and stuff. Two days off. I am going to revel in my total of 10 days off from work :) I love my job. Love it. But I need a break :)

Day 108 (Or: Bachelor Party)

SLOW TO UPDATE sorry one-to-two faithful readers.

After work, I went by Kelli's house. Both of us had parties going on that night in our honor. So she made me some dinner and then I headed out to my family's house. Where I waited around for a while.

And then suddenly Barry and Jared were there with a blindfold. THERE I WAS in Barry's car, couldn't see a thing, basically just happy that after years of Barry talking about wanting to blindfold someone for a party, he was finally getting to do it. We drove for a bit and then I was (not very) carefully walked into a loud building. The blindfold was lifted and I was at GAME GALAXY my absolute favorite arcade. The fellas had RENTED THE PLACE OUT for the evening. So we had total access to the place. And then I was handed a huge cup of quarters and told to go crazy. Seriously, the best party ever. Barry, Jared, Jordan, Ethan, Alex Taylor, David Smith, Benje, Carlson, Ray, and Steven Turner all came out. It was an absolute blast. Lots of Street fighter, Tekken, pinball, etc. The best part was definitely beating SUNSET RIDERS with Ethan, Alex, and Jordan. Years and years and years. We were obviously cheating by sticking so many in quarters in the game, but who cares :P We finally beat it. It was a fantastic evening.

And Mr. Mark, my old youth pastor, showed up when we went to Steak and Shake afterwards :D So good to see him! After that, Barry, Jared, Benje, and Mr. Mark came to the town house because all of them but Barry hadn't seen it. It was fun.

And I rode over to Steak and Shake with Ethan and got to have a chat with my best friend growing up. We don't get to talk very much these days/years, haha. It was great.

And Kelli's Bridal Shower was a success too according to what she told me. We both needed this night. We'd been so wrapped up in all this wedding stuff, we just needed it.

And then I found this out and died. Like it was over for me.

Day 107 (Or: Taxing)

Taxing taxing taxing.

I think there should be some kind of inspirational quote regarding how planning a wedding affirms your commitment to your future spouse more so than the actual ceremony itself. Or something like that.

But there were very, very nice things about yesterday. Pop-Pop is in town :D He and Dad helped me go pick up a gas grill that the Feener's Aunt Becky VERY GENEROUSLY purchased for us. It works great and we're really excited about it. :)

We went over to Miss Amber's to get everyone on the same page with 6 days to go before the ceremony. Then suddenly it was 10 o clock?

This wedding in all of its various forms has been in the works for about 9 months or so now. Kelli and I are both tired. We're so close, but we're exhausted with it. Kind folks ask what they can do to help us out, and we wish we had an easy answer for them. It's mostly just keeping a lot of small things straight and making sure they're all done. We're ready for this adventure to be over, so that we can start the next one.

Day 106 (Or: STAR WARS SUNDAY)

One of my very favorite places in the whole world is the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. I love that place. I could live there. thankfully, my family enjoys going just as much as I do, so getting there is never hard :P We've brought Kelli along with us the past two times which I've really enjoyed. We all wanted to go one more time before Kelli and I got married. So, exactly one week before the wedding (And exactly one week after Kelli took me north of the Tennessee border to Dinosaur World in Kentucky), we headed down to Alabama to enjoy all manners of space exploration.

And we were all really, really pumped for this particular trip, because this summer, the center has had a traveling STAR WARS exhibit. Oh my goodness, it was the best space camp trip yet. They had all kinds of stuff to look at and TONS AND TONS of props and costumes and droids and vehicles from the movies. Like literally the ones in the movies. It was incredible.

(Both from A New Hope)

Kelli and I were both geeking out the whole time. It was so fun.

I got to ride the Space Shot at the end of the day with Mom too a few consecutive times :P And we even got an IMAXdome movie in at the beginning of the day, all about the Hubble Telescope. So cool. Space is so huge and vast and makes me come up with a million questions. I love that space is a mystery. I love that it is seemingly endless.

Anyways, an absolutely perfect day in every way. Quality time with my family one last time before this crazy week gets started, and I got my picture taken next to the real Darth Vader costume. Freaking. Out.

Anyways, mark day 106 as my favorite one so far, probably.

Day 105 (Or: The last weekend)

As a single man, as Adam Brewster so astutely commented on my previous post. LOVE IT.

We got t o n s done today. I stayed up way late playing LEMMINGS it's even more fun than I remember it being when I was younger. Anyways, then I slept til 10:30am WHAT that never happens. And then I played Lemmings for a few more hours hahah and then Mr. Stan and I fixed Kelli's and my bed frame so it's not so flimsy. It's REALLY sturdy now. Thanks so much to Mr. Stan who is doing a really good job of making sure everything in our house is running smoothly. :)

Anyways, then went over to the Feener's where I helped Kelli clear out Hurricane Katrina I mean her bedroom. It was a mess when we started (Some of that is my fault because I just started moving her furniture out while they were in Bristol last weekend, haha) but by the time we called it quits, just about everything was accounted for. She just has a little more to do! VERY NICE.

Anyways, then we moved the stuff we'd packed from her room over to the town house and I showed her the wonders of Lemmings. Then we went and got some stuff we needed for the wedding. AAAAANNNNNNNNDDDDD THEN PRINCESS BRIDE AND THEN I'M BACK HERE

AND TOMORROW IS HUNTSVILLE FOR STAR WARS SUNDAY AHHH

Day 104 (Or: A funeral and a wedding)

TODAAAAY my oldest friend (going on 20 years here soon!) got married. And what a lovely bride she made! So Bethany is married now. Bethany Stonehall. So weird. And congrats to Shad too. :) I love how quickly he's just become part of the big "family." He's a fantastic guy, and I can't think of a better one to marry Bethany :)

I got to play DJ for the evening, so that was fun as well. Overall, a very pleasant evening.

OH WAIT UNTIL. I got the text. The one that let me know that the board of trustees over at good ole Trevecca voted to sell WNAZ. Thankfully I was at the wedding of a very dear friend of mine to pick me up. Because. It wasn't good.

So, I guess that's it? I don't know. I find it hard to believe everyone will just throw in the towel on all of these efforts. Oh, Channel 2 even did a story about it today (Mentioned my tshirts even! Ha ha it was funny hearing the reporter say "God Save WNAZ" hahaha)... but I guess everything that has been done up to this point wasn't enough to save a station that has stood on that campus for over 40 years. So, admittedly I'm still processing it. I'm not happy about it. It hurts. But I have a strange peace about it. But I don't know. Right now I'm mostly just upset, haha.

Anyways, last weekend ever that I won't be married.

Congrats to Bethany and Shad again :) so exciting.

First weekend at the town house. LEMMINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 103 (Or: Went down to the court house, and to the old church, and to the town house)

Left work around noon today, went and got Kelli and weeee went on down to Lebanon to get our marriage license. It was honestly a somewhat frustrating trip, for various reasons. But by the time we (finally) walked out of the county clerk's office, we had this neat-0 speedo piece of paper that had fancy phrases like "HOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY" and "IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD"... we were thrilled. We took pictures.

so I'm down to just 6 work days left to get the people at work trained on the system we use. Mmmm I'm terrible at training people to do things, mostly because I learn just by doing something on my own for long enough. Ugghhhh so. Wish I could just skip the next week. It's going to be stressful, I know it.

Bethany and Shad's rehearsal dinner was tonight. It was a great time. Danny and Ethan and I set up the sound system for the reception and such. And it was just nice to see everyone.

Then Kelli and I went to PARTY CITY and got some INVITES to our own rehearsal lunch Saturday after next. So we filled them out and put them in envelopes whilst we enjoyed a Kashi pizza back here at the town house. Then back to the Feener's where I dropped Kelli off and then came back here and wrote this literally INCREDDDDIBBBLLEEE blog post.

CAEDMON'S CALL do not forget them.

Day 102 (Or: Another day that happened)

Did anything...happen today.

That WNAZ group on facebook just keeps getting bigger. And there's some heated debate going on back and forth on its wall. I honestly haven't kept up with it but it's cool that so many people are engaged. And I found out that things with the station and Trevecca have gotten more nuts. So. That whole thing is fun to keep up with. It occupies my mind most of the time, not going to lie.

Anyways, Kelli's been working on clearning out her bedroom hahahaha I wrote "clearning." That's awesome. KEEP.

I found out that the Scott Pilgrim video game is not only available in the Xbox arcade online store thing but it's also supposed to be SWEET so now I just need an available day hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha to download it and play it! Oh also I found the original Lemmings for the mac as just a free download. So I want to play that too.... oh my Lord to just get off work and come to this place and for Kelli to be here and for us to just be parked for the night. Eleven days to go.

We went to my family's house for dinner tonight. So that was fun. And then went back to the Feener's where Kelli like straight up fell asleep at like 9:30 while I worked on Bethany and Shad's processional music for the rehearsal dinner tomorrow. Anyways, so then I tucked her in and left.

GETTING OUT LICENSE TOMORROW. Glad Dad found my social security card CLOSE ONE

Day 101 (Or: Josh Taylor vs. 12 Days to Go)

Nice, peaceful day at work! Kelli brought me lunch AND made me dinner on the go after I got off work. What. a. future. wife. A delicious cook too. She knows the foods that make my taste buds sing :)

Then we went grocery shopping for some stuff we needed.

And then we went and saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with my sister and I was expecting it to be pretty good but it was so good, haha. Loved it. That one and Inception are the only two in a while that have kept my attention the entire way through. Loved it. Wouldn't mind seeing it again.

Anyways, as cool as it would have been to say that the first and last movies Kelli and I saw as a "dating couple" were Christopher Nolan movies (The Dark Knight and Inception), it looks like Scott Pilgrim is going to take the latter honor, haha. S'ALL GOOD it was great.

Anyways, then we went and got Alex and Joshie's shirts for the wedding, aaaanddd then went back to the Feener's and ordered their ties.

In just over a day, that resistance against selling WNAZ page on Facebook has ofer 240 people in it. Impressive. Hopefully it'll keep growing. It's been emotional, man. I still can't really wrap my head around it. And I just made a tshirt over at Zazzle, and all royalties (a whooping 2 bucks per shirt, but still) will be donated to WNAZ. God Save WNAZ.

Anyways, that was today.

Day 100 (Or: The First Great Clean)

So I'm feeling better today! Stuffy. But nothing else. Which is the next (and last!) step in my "get a cold" routine. The worst of it only lasted like a day. And even that is a stretch. It was mostly just bracing for what I thought was going to be a bad next day, haha. but it turned out to be all for naught.

But still, I wanted to just spend the evening relaxing just to ensure I'm back to 100% for the wedding, with no hint of this pretty-sure-it-was-brought-on-by-work-stress-and-not-eating-as-great-as-I-have-been-this-week when the wedding rolls around. :)

Instead, I got here and Kelli and I decided to do a little cleaning, and then it was ten o clock. But this place looks about as great as it can in its unfinished state. It's exciting :D And a lot less stressful to walk around, haha. A lot less of this walking passed a lot of unfinished projects all throughout the place, hahah. So that was good. It took a while but it flew by. I'm happy with the progress we've made. It's very nearly a home! All it's missing is Kelli :P

Ooook I'm going to bed. ONE HUNDRED DAYS wow

Oh and I haven't commented on it but once on here, but seriously, Trevecca is making a huge mistake in selling WNAZ. They final decision hasn't been made yet. A couple of kids who used to be big fans of The Evening Blend started a fan page titled simply "The Resistance Against the Sale of 89.1 WNAZ" If you're on facebook, please join it! Really, our only hope at this point is for the news to get so wide spread (Trevecca tried to keep the whole thing quiet but...yeah right, haha) that enough people voice their opposition, resulting in a reevaluation of their inevitable decision here. From everything I've been told, the situation is really bleak. So. That place has been such a big part of my life for the last two years almost. It'd be so weird for it to just...be gone. It's been at that school for over 40 years. I just don't get it. I don't get it.

Day 099 (Or: Two years and two weeks)

Two years ago tonight, I asked Kelli Ranae Feener out. Years of will-they-won't-they were finally answered. It's been a great two years. This post won't do anything justice because I'm exhausted.

I'm glad I'm starting to feel a little cold coming on now instead of in two weeks, haha. TWO WEEKS. That's when I'm getting married :D Two weeks from right now, we'll be husband and wife. Ahhhhh it was all we could talk about today.

So I was driving on our date day today, but Kelli was mapping the path. She took me north of the Tennessee border into Kentucky! BUT WHAT WERE WE DOING THERE?

Mammoth Cave? The National Corvette Museum? Abraham Lincoln Memorial Expressway? We kept passing everything that looked like something Kelli might try to surprise me with...but then.... one mile from the exit...there was a sign for....

DINOSAUR WORLD. It. was. awesome. Kelli knows me so well. I had such a blast... it was the perfect day. I'd expound but seriously I just need to get to sleep. Suffice it to say, today was perfect. I'm so thrilled Kelli surprised me so well with something so out of left field that I absolutely enjoyed.

Anyways, day trips with Kelli are probably my favorite thing in the whole world. We always make an adventure out of it. And it was fun going out of the state just the two of us for the first time :P even if it wasn't even two hours away.

Okay praying that tomorrow this stuffiness will be GONE. I don't need to start feeling like dump now... I have to train people at work on how to use the system we use for Master Control so things'll run smoothly when we're on the honeymoon.

And for those of you that read this that are my mother, I took the pills you gave me today OKAY?!?!? :P I love you.

TWWWWOOOO WEEEEKKKKSSSS

And two years :) Man what an adventure.

Weekly Weigh In: 148 lbs. Honestly I think this is about where I'm going to stay now.

Day 098 (Or: Moving, moving, moving)

I woke up to a call from the tv station that we were off the air. Thankfully it was taken care of quickly and not a big deal. But I didn't get back to sleep.

I'm so exhausted. Kelli gave me some melatonin tonight so I can sleep for a long time, haha.

Well anyways, today was busy. I went over to Erika Bengtson's family's house and helped them move some of their grandma's stuff into their house. I got a free treadmill and book shelf out of it ;P. After that, dad came over to the house and helped me get the treadmill inside. It took a while, but we did it. Then he left and I went over to the Feener's while I had the truck to get Kelli's desk from her family's house. But once I got there, I just decided to dismantle her bed and get that taken care of too. i probably shouldn't have done that alone, but. Anyways, so I got her bed into our town house for our 2nd bedroom YES!

There's still so much to put together and organize and do, man. Oh my Lord. I just need like a week off from everything so we can figure it out. It'll be easier once Kelli and I are actually living there and stuff isn't just strewn everywhere because there's no place for it yet.

Anyways, once the Feener's got back into town tonight, I went over there, and Kelli and I went grocery shopping for our (secret) 2 year anniversary date tomorrow. I don't know what Kelli's got planned, but apparently I'm going to love it. :P So I'm really excited.

Day 097 (Or: My heart is in Bristol)

This was the first pleasant day of work all week. Everyone was fianlly in a good mood all at the same time, so that was very, very nice :D.

All of the Feener's went to Bristol to drop Joshie off at King college. I miss them. One of them in particular. They'll be back late Saturday night, I think.

After work, I tried to organize Kelli's bedroom at her family's house to kind of help her start packing. But I couldn't figure out where to start. So I just started moving big furniture out. I somehow fit a dresser into the little Taurus all by myself. And then got it into our new house all by myself. That was really dumb, but I did it.

Anyways, then I came home and just bummed around the rest of the night with my family. Very good :)

Day 096 (Or: The much better one)

Today started poorly, but ended wonderfully.

Remnants of yesterday lingered, but by day's end, all was resolved.

A co-worker called me to apologize for making my life stressful. It was muchly appreciated. I'm hoping work will be smooth from now until I leave for the honeymoon. It's going to be crazy though because I'm still the only one there that can efficiently run the system that all of our programming is currently running on. So I've got 2 weeks to get a few people all the way trained. We'll see how that goes. I'm happy it's very nearly the weekend :P

Kelli was an angel today. Pull of grace and patience and love. When I got home after work, she was cooking me some INCREDIBLE cooked potatoes with carrots and garlic cloves. It was so so so very good. Kelli is an excellent aspiring cook. I'm so happy I get to be the guinea pig ;)

Went to the Musgroves for a little bit tonight. Caiden is getting so big. It's so nuts that my oldest friend and I are getting married within nine days of each other. So nuts how that just worked out that way. I love it. Anyways, Bethany and Shad and I talked wedding stuff :)

Oh the RCA 4-in-1 switcher thing FINALLY came! YESSS so I'm trying to get all the video game systems set up. I made a little progress tonight. Oh well, that'll be something I try to accomplish this weekend.

Wow, nearly one in the morning. Goodnight.

Day 095 (Or: The not so good one)

Taxing.

Work was stressful. I'll leave it at that. And it'll remain stressful for a while, I'm pretty sure.

And it's supposed to be on the down low, but it's all over facebook now so- Trevecca is probably selling WNAZ. There's a growing resistance. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. So that hit me harder today than it probably should have. But, it did nonetheless. I had finally gotten to a point where I could speak positively about my very-recent-alma-mater. But.

Anyways, so those two things dominated my mind today.

But, on the plus side:

My little brother placed 4th in his race tonight, wearing his new Cumberland jersey to boot. I couldn't be more proud of him. He's doing so well.

Grocery shopping with Kelli is one of my very favorite things to do.

The Xbox came and it is fuuuuuuuuuuun. :) I'm fighting the urge to stay up all night playing it.

But alas, I must go to sleep so I can wake up tomorrow and do it all over again.

When we get married, I'm locking the door and turning off the phone for a good month. And I'm just going to sit. And hang out with my wife. And read books and play video games and fall asleep together and cook fun meals. And no one is invited.

Day 094 (Or: Training Programs)

Today at work, I trained my manager on all the ins and outs of the system I use to run master control. I guess she just wants to know how to use it in case there is an issue while I'm gone on our honeymoon. It makes sense. And she picked it up quick. I have a really cool manager who is really approachable and isn't like most managers I hear people talking about, hahah. I'm very thankful for her! And I also trained our engineer on the same thing at the end of the day. Training training training. It's kinda funny because I've only been there for 7 or 8 months and I'm training everyone there on how to use the new system we're on because I'm the only one who has really used it, haha.

After work, wedding programs. That was literally it all night. And. It's going to be a multi-day ordeal. We didn't even get through half of them. We're doing everything cheaply and creatively for this wedding, but at the cost of time, haha. Everything for the wedding is very time consuming. SO. But it was fun. My brother and sister came over to the Feener's, so they and Alex helped Kelli and I out. It was a good time. We watched like 100 episodes of Veronica Mars while we did it :)

AND my mom and sister picked Kelli out some dresses at Ross today and Kelli just tried them on so I could see them and oh. my. goodness. she is a knock out in red. It is unbelievable how pretty Kelli Feener is in red. Literally destroyed.

I feel so lame wanting to complain about how slowly time feels like it's going right now. The wedding is only 19 days away hahah. Come on Josh. Get it together! I still have to write my vows hmmmmmmmmmmm

Day 093 (Or: Arcade Fire!)

Whew I'm just now getting my ears back. Nuts. I don't think I've ever been to something so loud.

But it was good! Arcade Fire puts on a great show. And it was really fun getting a night out with my siblings. I wish Kelli could have come but it's her brother's bday today, so :)

It's shaping up to be a really busy week, it turns out. MEH. So close........... come on. So much to do still, I guess.

The Bengtson's are giving us their grandma's old treadmill SWEET!!!! Just straight giving it to us. So I'm two for two on asking for stuff via Facebook statuses hahaha. (We're getting Age of Empires 2 that way as well :P) And unless someone comes through on a Vitamix for Kelli, she's a distant oh-for-one. Boom.

I'm so tired from last night going to the station. Wimp. I've been tired all day. I'm going to sleep.

Day 092 (Or: long productive tiring fun tiring)

Yesterday was really, really nice. Kelli and I got a lot done, including moving out bed frame into the town house, with the help of her parents. Turns out it's really flimsy (It's only ever been a fixture in model homes)... so Mr. Stan said next week he'll try and see what he can do with it.

So we did that, and we took stuff back to Target and Walmart that we'd been meaning to take care of for weeks now. So that was good! That was kind of looming...

I bought an Xbox 360 because I found one on ebay with 100 bucks. And my family has old xbox games that I still like, so. Just. Buying stuff now that I know I won't buy once I'm married, hahah. I'm pretty excited, not gonna lie.

So we accomplished much. Nothing really wedding wise, which we were talking about yesterday- we're doing all this stuff to get our home ready, and we've sort of neglected wedding planning, hahah. Home stuff is way more fun anyway. Wedding stuff is just stressful.

But yesterday was really fun. I really enjoyed it. It was a great weekend.

Then at the end of the night, I sat down to write this post, and turned on CTN.... and it was off the air. And it was midnight. So...I drove over to work to get us back up. It's a win lose. On one hand, it's super cool to see a TV station in black, and be the one who gets to fix that, haha. But on the other hand....... it was midnight. So. Whatever. I live a blessed life. I'm just very tired today.

Oh yeah and Weekly Weigh In: 148 lbs. But I weighed myself Saturday and I was 146. So. We'll go with Saturdays and say I lost 2 pounds. But even then, I'm not exercising so I'm probably just losing muscle. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

That was yesterday :)

Day 091 (Or: Literally the best day of the week)

Nothing much to report today. Shouldn't we be like getting all kinds of last minute wedding stuff finished? I'm..guessing that mad dash will start here shortly.

Kelli had a headache yesterday AND today :(. So we didn't get to hang out all that much... I mostly just goofed off, biked, played video games, went to the arcade, etc. I was at the town house for a little bit :D. Made Kelli breakfast when she woke up! BEING MARRIED IS GOING TO BE FUN

That's about it. I just showed Kelli how cool Time Crisis is.
And I think it's funny how I'm getting back into (leisurely) enjoying playing video games again, now that we're getting married. It's like the four years I was in college I always thought "Man it'd be fun to play that game" or "man it'd be fun to go through that game again" etc. So it's kinda fun. And Kelli likes playing some of the stuff too, so that's cool.

Anyways, it's really nice being with the family for the weekend. And I'm happy Kelli's over here.

Gertin' close.

Day 090 (Or: The complete ensemble)

Alright I got some dress shoes. I guess I just need a belt now. I forgot about that. But I have what I'm wearing for the wedding :D So that feels really good... and it looks pretty good too.

I didn't do much else this day. I'm at my family's house for the weekend. I played some video games and stuff. Hoping to get a lot done this weekend.

Day 089 (Or: Are days even happening anymore?)

Oh my lord it's like an elaborate limbo. Days come and days go...none of it is anything like what it will be.... it's just this elaborate limbo. By the way, since seeing Inception, I have had two dreams that I would not have been able to have before I saw it. Like levels of dreams that I can control and stuff like that. So neat man.

Nothing really happened today. Kelli came over for breakfast, so she waved from the door as I drove off to work, and then she was at the house when I got back from work. So that was a taste of things to come. I liked it.

We went to my family's house for dinner. Met Jessica Doss' BOY. He's cool. We liked him.

Turns out I was right about what was wrong with Kelli's car which was pretty rewarding... so she's car-less for another day or so? So we're borrowing my family's '93 taurus. The one I drove around for years. I drove it to the Feener's just a few minutes ago. Felt so good. That is THE car. If I write songs about my childhood when I'm older, I'll sing about how good that car was, and all the memories attached to it.

Friiiiiiiiiiday. Is bittersweet. Because I get to go back to my family's house for the weekend, but Kelli's working literally the entire day so I don't get to see her at all. Win lose. Win lose......

But this is what...the third to last weekend before the wedding. God. Please.

Day 088 (Or: Thank you, thank you very much)

I've got all kinds of fun records lately :D. House of Heroes "Suburba" and (DON'T JUDGE) Linkin Park "Meteora" came today :P. Pretty fun.

And initial reactions indicate that I am LOVING Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs"..can't wait to see them on Monday THAT'S GONNA BE GOOD

Got off work and Kelli was here at the town house doing patent drawings. She's picked it up so well so quick. So we tested our toaster oven with some salmon and had our first official "dinner" here our on the back porch. It was good :)

And then we went to the Feener's and wrote lots and lots of thank you notes :D It was fun. We watched Liar Liar whilst we did it because Kelli had never seen it.

And Kelli's car is at the shop because it won't start. I just want to take it to a mechanic and say "please don't cut corners and please don't do it cheap. just please fix this vehicle because we're about to get married and i don't want to worry about it breaking down at any given moment or putting a quart of oil in it every week when she barely drives it anywhere in the first place." That'd be good.

To bed? To bed.

I also think it's important to note how important this video has become in our lives. I want to play it at the wedding but what would they say?

Day 087 (Or: IS IT DONE????)

I THINK EVERYTHING THE GUYS ARE WEARING IS FINALLY SETTLED ON. Anyone following this drama will be very disappointed to find out that what the guys are wearing is actually pretty...normal. I guess it's sorta like a "wait this took a month of drama to figure out?" YES ok it's just how it turned out. But it's done now. Well, I need to go buy some dress shoes. But I mean, the facebook messages letting all the groomsmen know what's up have been sent off.

I have been enjoying work a lot this week. Kelli prayed over me Sunday night that things would become less stressful there, and that I'd be able to have a good attitude, and that's exactly how it's been, so. :) Yeah, very very thankful for that!

Being alone at the town house is still really lame, but it's not like this :( :( :( that it was initially. I'm just used to being in a house populated with people ALL the time. I was very very rarely at my parent's house alone, ever. So. Just an adjustment. But in 26 days, it'll be all over anyways, so. :P

We had other stuff we meant to accomplish today, but the guys' clothes took over the evening. Oh well. That's what Wednesday is for. And we're overjoyed to have ALL the clothes finally figured out. Man what the mess. The ladies' clothing was a huge freaking ordeal, and then the mens' just took a really long time to get sorted out. So. All done now. Thanks to Miss Barbara at JC Penny for all the help and kindness tonight. Sorry we didn't sign up for a Penny's credit card.

Mmmmmmmmmk. Another day done.

Day 086 (Or: The stress-relieving one)

Work lately has honestly been kind of stressful. But I got to sit down today with my manager and get everything worked out. It was wonderful. I love the people I work with, and Pastor Monica is the best manager I've ever worked under. She had a lot on her plate but deals with it all with grace and kindness. I'm very thankful for this time that the Lord has me placed in that position.

Kelli and I shot this incredible video yesterday. It's a tour of the town house for those that have talked about wanting to see what it looks like. It's actually pretty trippy to watch if you've been there before because the mac does that whole "mirror image" thing with the video, so everything is in the opposite direction as you see it here, but it gives you an idea of what we're working with :) We love it.

So work was great, now Kelli and I are just hanging out because she worked all day and so did I. We reaaaally really need to go find a tie so that we'll be done with the guys' attire for the wedding. Oh, I don't even remember if I mentioned on here, but like 8 or so days ago, we ordered what I'm gonna wear. And then we decided the color wasn't going to work, and then re-decided we were going to just go with it anyway. So. Hopefully it'll be here tomorrow :) I look like a stud.

OK OK OK movie time! 27 more days to go-- It's almost crunch time man. We're enjoying delaying everything we have left to do, thank you very much.

Oh yeah so I'm going to do that thing where I write a scripture verse at the end of my blog ETERNALLY TRENDY

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
-1 Cor. 15:58

Day 085 (Another weekend concludes.)

BYE, weekend. :( But HELLO only 4 weeks until the WEDDING :D

Kelli and I spent a lot of today organizing the town house, so that felt really good. It's still a mess, but it's a much cleaner mess, haha. And Dad sent me a patent drawing so I could show Kelli how to do it and she did THREE FIGURES OF IT I was incredibly proud of her :D That's be great if she could work from home, I know she'd enjoy it. WHO WOULDN'T.

Oh, other than that, not much for today. Kelli's a really good listener and a wonderful friend to me. There's that too :)

Weekly Weigh In: 148 lbs. I forgot to weigh myself before breakfast, but that's what I weighed an hour after. So no change this week. But I biked like a baller today. Rode up Brantley in gear six WHAT DID HE SAY

Day 084 (Or: I love the weekend. so much)

The weekend is so good. I savor every moment of it.

Woke up and played some video games :P Fun fun fun. Got in a game of Mario Party with Amy and Jordan :D :D :D such good times.

Then Kelli came over and we went over to The Wild Cow in East Nashville and got lunch with Barry and Emily. That place was delicious! I hadn't been there before but man did they make a mean taco salad. I'm loving how much I've seen Barry this last week. Just like the good ole days. And Emily is awesome. I love having her here in Nashville now. I feel like we've all known her a lot longer than we actually have. She's great. Her and Barry together are great. I'm excited that we all will have gotten married within a few months of each other and get to take on this new adventure together. Love it.

We were gonna go look at ties for the wedding after lunch and before we met my siblings up to see Inception, but we had such a good time hanging with the MacD's that we didn't have time, haha.

Then...Inception again. Even better the second time. So good.....

Then back to my family's house and Kelli played Mario Party for the first time, and she was pretty darn good. I was impressed. She picked it up quick. So we had fun.

And then suddenly it was ten o clock :/. I'm loving these last few weekends before the wedding. I normally want things to hurry up so we can get to the wedding already, but man I just... the weekends have been so fun lately. So good.

OH AND DAD GOT THE FAMILY TITANS/BRONCOS TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 DAD

I get a whole other day of the weekend tomorrow :D! And four weeks tomorrow! WHAT

Day 083 (Or: The final Evening)

Went to work. Went to the radio station for my final FINAL night of the Evening Blend. That was weird because I didn't have the rest of the summer to think "they'll probably give me a call to ask me to cover sometime" this time. This was probably it for good. It was so weird. I'm... going to miss that place. Barry came to enjoy the evening with me. We played one last round of "What's in the Blender?" and I think it was Barry's favorite round ever :P. He was happy with the winner contestant for knowing his old school DC Talk tunes.

Once that chapter of my life closed (Even though Heather assured me I'd "be back," to which I couldn't really argue with her, knowing how my life usually goes, haha), I came back to my family's home for the weekend. But I wasn't here long before I just decided to go to sleep. So I did that. But it's really nice to be around here again. Miss this place and these people.

Day 082 (Or: Wedding Shower!)

I am so beat. But what a fun evening.

We are blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives, man. We had a blast at our wedding shower. A lot more people showed up than I expected, and they did a great job of making it look nice at Belmont Church :) It was a fun party! Thanks to everyone who put it on and everyone that came. And it was GREAT seeing all those people. Man it'd been too long since I'd seen a lot of them. :) I'm hoping once all this wedding nonsense is over, we can catch up with a lot of people....

Barry and Emily came back to the townhouse after the party to deliver a table they're giving us. So we got to hang with them tonight too :D. We discussed our 100 acre farm land that we will one day own together and it is a genius idea that gets me through most days.

I guess that's about it. I'm ready to hang with my family this weekend, man. I saw them tonight but I barely got to talk to them. ONE MORE WORK DAY AND THEN IT IS HERE!

Day 081 (Or: Nothing happened today)

Literally nothing.

We were going to go to Jordan's race but then we didn't.

I haven't seen my family since Sunday with the exception of my father whom I saw yesterday. I miss them. I'm really glad that I've got such a close family that after only 3 days, you're kind of feeling that void.

Hickory Hollow Mall has the best arcade ever and I'm taking some coins on Saturday morning and I'm going to play some games. This, I promised myself today at work.

For dinner, Kelli and I have what was literally the healthiest salad I have ever ingested. Name a vegetable. Any vegetable.

And I had a big bowl of fruit too yum yum. :) I'm not going to be able to be as strict about it as Kelli is because she's got the master list of stuff she's supposed to be eating, and we're not living together yet, so I mean...I can only do so much. But I'm loving encouraging her with the foods she eats and in exercising. She jogged today AND trampolined I was so impressed.

Co-ed wedding shower tomorrow night :)

Day 080 (Or: My dad, the hero)

Also, Or: I HAVE THE INTERNET!

It seems like everything is some kind of ordeal, but after a day of struggle (mostly for my dad), the town house now has internet. WIRELESS to boot. Day was here starting at 11AM this morning, and he didn't leave til...geez, after 7PM, I guess? A lot of that was waiting for the cable guy to come (He volunteered since I'd be at work) and then once the guy finally got here, working through all the inevitable issues, etc. Once it all finally worked, I was off work by that point, so Kelli and I came over here and we three hung drapes and stuff. We still have work to do on it, but. We're getting there.

So yeah, pretty exciting. Then Kelli and I went to the radio station so I could voice track for tomorrow and Thursday. I don't even remember if I wrote on here that I'm doing The Evening Blend this week. I think I did. Anyways, so that was fun too.

Then it was nearly TEN but we went to Kroger so we could get all the stuff that Kelli's doctor wants her on so she can do this cleanse. So lots of raw veggies and juices and stuff. It's gonna be fun. I like grocery shopping together haha.

Then back to the Feeners where we both discussed how tired we were for a while but didn't really do anything about it. Then eventually I left.

And now I'm writing this at the town house because it finally has internet :D THANK YOU DAD.

Day 079 (Or: Kelli went down to Alabama, she was looking for a body to heal...)

It's nice having the computers set up in the house. I can listen to tunes while I get ready for the day. The record player is upstairs so. It works out that we decided to put the computers downstairs.

THURSDAY IS SO GOOD TO ME. The band. I don't know. I just really like there sound. Maybe it just reminds me of those old emo/rock Tooth & Nailish bands from the early 2000s. Anyways...digging on them right now, haha.

Work was good. Kelli went and saw the naturalist doctor in Alabama today. So her and I are going on a strict diet here really soon. Lots of juices and raw veggies (And not much else). So, we'll see how this goes. She's more determined this time than I've ever seen her. It's a big life change, obviously, to completely switch your diet. So. I'm really proud of her. I've had a lot of fun tonight looking up the different supplements she needs to be taking, and looking through the different books she got today, lying on the floor and talking about the future.

Growing up, I always figured that I'd one day find a nice girl, but that I'd one day have to compromise on my diet because no one ate healthy like I tried to (Abstained from cokes, strayed from lots of sugar, ate organically, fruits and veggies, supplements, vitamins, etc...). But right after Kelli and I started sating, she found this doctor she's been going to, and since then, she's COMPLETELY changed her diet, and now she's really excited to try her hand at cooking so we can have fun with these new diet restrictions and treat it more like an adventure than a challenge. I've loved cheering her on as she's been working to eat healthier these last two years. I'm very thankful to God for putting a girl in my path that is as health conscious as I try to be. So, we're both learning together. It's fun :) And we've got good family and friends around us when we have questions along the way. God is very good to us! :)

Keener's had a long day of driving and organizing and figuring this stuff out. I'm gonna stop using her internet and get out of here soon so she can sleep. :P Hey the internet guy is coming to the town house tomorrow YEAH

Day 078 (Or: Another super fast weekend)

I guess I should be thankful that time is moving as quickly as it is. It's just that it mostly feels that way on the weekend :P.

Todaaaaay...well, actually first, this morning I was moving more stuff into the town house and accidentally locked myself out. I know right... how do you do that. Well, somehow I did it. and my phone was in the house. What better time to meet the neighbors! So our neighbor to the left is this awesome older lady who never liked the Japanese after WWII, haha. She had all kinds of stories. She was fun to talk to while I waited for Kelli to come get me in. We went to Jordan's bike race and he placed THIRD! He did so well, I was so proud of him. Def his best performance.

After that, back to the townhouse where we built our TV stand and stuff. Set up the computers, etc. It's starting to look like a home in there.

Anyways, then to JC Penny UUUGHHHH but we probably got it all figured out. What the guys are wearing. Hopefully. We can't find what we're looking for on Penny's website. I don't even care anymore man. Help.

Another week starts tomorrow........ five more to go.

Weekly Weigh In: 148 lbs! WHAT. I didn't exercise at all this week. I went for a short bike ride yesterday but I mean....AH. So exciting :) 14 pounds in all, so far! Doing well, doing well :)

Day 077 (Or: ERRAND ERRANDS ERRANDS)

Days where Kelli and I are setting up the town house are so fun, but go by so quick.

It was all we did all day. We bought things we needed, we cleaned up the place, we discussed different ideas for ways to set it up on our way to various different places we bought supplies. It was a wonderful, dream-filled day. Days we get to spend all day together are awesome. I love the weekend.

We didn't end up eating dinner til like 9 o clock. After that, we watched Willy Wonka (which for whatever reason ALWAYS makes me fall asleep. It's one of my favorite movies. I think it just makes me feel peaceful, haha). I don't remember much after that. Kelli woke me up to give me a kiss and tell me she needed to get going because it was getting late :) Good day.

Preparing for this wedding, and getting this set with this town house have defined our relationship now for so long, it's going to be so weird when it's all done. When the wedding is over, and all that is left is to decorate the place. I'm crazy about that idea, haha.

Day 076 (Or: Another day.)

I'm back at my family's house. It feels really nice. Apparently Kelli is sleeping at the town house tonight since I'm not there :P Excited much? Her first night there!

I'm hosting my old radio show all next week. I did tonight too. But only for like an hour. Eventually sitting in rooms by yourself all day gets to you. I used to have a much higher resilience so it, but at this point... I just can't anymore, haha. So I voice tracked as many days in advance that I could, and I just came back to my family's house, where I'm staying this weekend.

Barry and Emily came over. We just watched TV all night. It's Friday which means Dad watches Whale Wars. So we watched that with him. It's the only show he gets really excited about, hahah. It's pretty cool. It was nice to see Barry and Emily. Definitely just really chill, but I'm happy to have friends where that flies. I was tired tonight.

We have so much to do this weekend. Man I'm just ready for this whole thing to be over. It's just dragging on and on. We're so close though. So close. Hopefully we'll be able to accomplish all of our goals this weekend, and get some chill time. We'll see.

I'm tired.

Day 075 (Or: Lonely.)

Still a day behind, due to no internet.

I don't know how people who live alone do it. It makes no sense to me. When God says "It is not good that man should be alone" He's exactly right. It's just weird being in that house all by myself. I'm going home for the weekend.

But I'm sleeping fine there, my alarm had to wake me up yesterday morning. I was going to go with AT&T for internet, but I canceled it because Comcast ended up being a better deal. I kind of hate that, but it's real life. So I signed up for that yesterday and should have it hooked up by Wednesday.

After work, I went to the movies with Kelli and Alex. We saw Despicable Me which wasn't as good as I was expecting, but it wasn't bad. It was a cute movie. Then we went to Kroger and got some food, and came home and ate it. And then we just laid around and hung out until like midnight, talking. I'm ready to be married.

Time feels like it's slowed down since I moved into that house by myself. But as long as I don't have to be out this way in the morning, I'm going home for the weekend, so I feel like I'm some place populated, haha. And I miss my family. I'm happy to be so tight knit with them.

So that was yesterday.

Day 074 (Or: Continuing On)

This is hard to keep up with, without internet at the town house.

Yesterday was alrighty. Sleeping came easier my second night. Got up and had dinner with Kelli at her family's house. Came to work. Went back to the Feener's. Kelli was tired so she opted out of going to Brentwood to help shoot a skit. but she made me dinner before I left :)

Seeing Julian was really nice. Rain was kind of a problem with shooting the skit, but we got it done. It was fun doing that again. And getting to hang with an old bud. It'd been too long. So nuts that everyone's getting married.

I'm lonely at that town house all by myself, man.

Day 073 (Or: Transitioning)

I slept alright my first night at the townhouse. The couch wasn't as comfy as I thought it would be. I don't really want to sleep in the bed 'til I have someone to share it with. We'll see.

Waking up in a new place all by myself was weird. Getting ready without having other people to interact with was weirder. But Kelli let me call her and wake her up so I had someone to chat with while I ate breakfast, so that was really nice. She guards her sleep carefully, so it was a real win for me.

Work was nice, then Kelli and I went to my family's house. We found out today that our cousin Greg was killed in a motorcycle accident. I haven't seen him in a really long time, but it still hit pretty hard. His wife is 7 and a half months pregnant with their first kid together, so just be praying for them right now. I can't even imagine that.

When we got to my family's house, there was that going on, and then I guess a bug had flown into Jordan's eye? Or something? And he had the wings of it stuck on the inside of his eyelids? So here I am, excited to see my family after my first night away at my own place, and these people are running around trying to figure out why Jordan's eye is completely destroyed, and eventually they went to the eye doctor. WHAT ABOUT ME??? Just kidding... I was happy when they got back and my brother was okay. We had a pleasant rest of the evening.

I showed Kelli how to use Corel Draw so maybe she can start doing patent drawings for my dad and earn us some extra $$$. That'd be nice. Plus I think she'll enjoy it. She picked it up really quickly, like I figured she would.

Well, anyways, that was about it for today. I'm about to leave the Feener's so Kelli can enjoy some of that heavily guarded sleep I was mentioning earlier. Night two at the townhouse!

Day 072 (Or: A home's not a home if you're all alone)

I don't have internet at the town house yet, hence the day-late update.

Yesterday was a pleasant day of work, a Fulin's date with Keener, Inception finally, wonderful chats with Keener, and then my first night at the town house.

Inception was fantastic. Everything it's made out to be and more. I can't wait to see it again. Christopher Nolan is a genius. He's made like...what seven films now and every single one of them is incredible? Amazing. Other adjectives.

Yesterday was hard too. It's weird living in the same place pretty much your whole life, and then all of a sudden one day, you're supposed to live somewhere else. So it's a strange transition. And it's a little harder because right now, I'm there all alone. So I just stayed at the Feener's chatting with Kelli until I got tired enough, and then I left for our eventual home. It was a really good night just being with her, reflecting on how far we've come. I can't wait to marry her.

And that was yesterday.

Day 071 (Or: The Last Man that hasn't seen Inception)

I always write these right before I go to bed so I don't know how to affects how these turn out. This weekend flew, man. I woke up and went over to the town house and put together the computer desk we bought yesterday sweeeeeet. It took me a while but I'll be a handy man yet.

Then over to work to do something I wasn't able to complete on Friday. The over to the Feener's, then over to JC Penny for yet another fruitless effort at trying to figure out what the guys are wearing at the wedding. I don't even care anymore, haha. SIX WEEKS.

So then back to the Feener's for some salmon and potatoes. Kelli and I are so good at those, haha. THEN back to the town house with Kelli and her parents to show them the place with all the stuff in it now. We rearranged the living room. Excellent.

Theeeen Kelli and I went to the Willis' house to talk to Miss Amber about some wedding stuff. SIX WEEKS.

Then back to the Feener's. Then home. I think I might sleep at the town house tomorrow night. Maybe. We're seeing Inception tomorrow night so I don't know how much time I'll have to like go buy food for the morning and other stuff I'll need. Eh. I don't know. I just really have to see Inception okay. Every freaking person on Facebook has something about it as their status. So I don't read anything.

Oh, and not one but TWO old friends called me today :D Adam Brewster called me and we talked about marriage and the like, got caught up. So that was really good. I hadn't talked to him in a long while. And then Julian Smith called. He's coming into town! YEAH. I've missed him since he left for CA. Kelli and I are gonna go help him shoot a skit on Wednesday night. Looking forward to that :)

Mmmmmmm another week. I can't believe in 6 weeks I'll be married. That's so WEIRD and i think i say that every week now....

Weekly Weigh In: 150 lbs BOOM

Day 070 (Or: Moving day)

Even though I'm still at my family's house, haha. But pretty much everything that I hold claim to is at the town house now. Whew what a day. Bought a mattress, moved all my stuff in, etc etc. I'm really tired. But I got all kinds of exercise today AND I biked this morning! Yeah! Anyways, so it was a fun day with my parents. :D It was just Me, Kelli, and them most of the day, and we had a lot of fun. We actually ended up taking the sliding back door completely out since we couldn't really get it to open, haha. So we could move the big couch in. So that was an adventure.

Anyways, I'm not really doing this day justice with this post, but. I'm really tired. I sweated like all day and I hope I lost all kinds of weight.

OH OH OH AND JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO I FOUND A WEBSITE WHERE A GUY WAS SELLING SO LONG ASTORIA FROM THE ATARIS ON VINYL FOR 29 BUCKS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Day 069 (Or: Doin' the deals in 100 Oaks)

I've been telling Kelli forever that I'd love to buy her darkroom equipment at some point so that she could have a set up wherever we lived that she could use to develop her own film and do her own prints. She enjoys that 100 times more than just dropping off a roll at Wolf. We assumed it'd be extremely pricey and something we'd budget for and maybe somewhere down the line have the money for. Well, she finally started researching it today, and it turns out it was extremely affordable. She found a girl on craigslist who was selling the whole kit and kaboodle, man. Chemicals, enlarger, pans, canister... I'm not as well versed as Kelli is in the art but it was literally everything you needed for the whole process, just like we used to back in Kelli's Lipscomb days and those nights in the darkroom basement. I mean a ton of stuff. And this girl was moving and had to get rid of it all. We met up with her at the 100 Oaks Wendy's, and for a few hundred dollars, we've got a whole set up. We are hoping to convert our bedroom's walk in closet into a dark room space. We'll see! Anyways, I was super excited about that for Kelli.

Other than that, we hung out at my family's house, and chatted with dad and mom about moving plans, and money stuff, and life after marriage... figuring out what we'll be able to afford and whatnot. My parents are incredibly generous, man. We're very, very thankful for them. They're taking some of the edge off while Kelli and I figure out what kinds of foods to populate our home with. The kind of food that Kelli (and honestly, me too) needs to be eating, which is an incredible relief to me. So, very thankful for them.

I'd forgotten that our back door at the town house is actually locked shut in a way that we can't open it yet, haha. Our landlord is trying to get it fixed, but until then, because of the awkward angle our front door is at, we can't really move big furniture into the place. So... instead of the big couch, we're just going to move smaller stuff in tomorrow. I may still try to squeeze that sucker through the front door, but I haven't much faith.

OH DUDE I finally got a couple of Thursday CDs after all of these years. So pumped. So good.

I have to wait to see Inception til Monday because we can't get in free to the theater until after opening weekend HHHHHHHH I mean it's a small price to pay, I'm just like UGH I keep hearing how good it is STOP PEOPLE.

Yep, so moving stuff in tomorrow. We're gonna go to Sam's Club and look for a matress too. Yeah! Also a computer desk. And maybe I'll get to show Kelli how to use Corel Draw. So that's tomorrow. Today was good. Excited to get to try out that darkroom stuff we bought today, at some point.

Day 068 (Or: The one where we took a day off)

We did nothing weddingy today. Well, Kelli went and picked up our confirmation that we completed premarital counseling so we can get some money off of the marriage license. But when I got off work, we did nothing weddingy. We didn't talk about it, we didn't plan for it, we didn't accomplish anything, and it was glorious.

I've gotten to stop by the Feener's two mornings in a row before work. That good morning hug and hello hit the spot and put me in a wonderful frame of mind for the rest of my day.

Kelli was scheduled to go to the doctor early tomorrow morning, but it go moved to early August = she and I got to celebrate our 23-month-anniversary in style. My friend Ashley at work just GAVE us a really sweet, excellently crafted and in great shape, black shelf that will be perfect for DVDs, books, and records. THANKS ASHLEY. So Kelli and I took that over to the town house today. Carefully maneuvered it up the stairs and into our bedroom it looked SWEET and fit perfectly where we were hoping a shelf would. So that was a blessing :) From there we went and got some anniversary dinner at panera MMM MMM <3 that place. And we've got sweet connections there! YEAH

And then we finally finally got to go see Eclipse and it was e p i c. Def the best one so far. Sue me for enjoying those movies. So anyways then on the way home, I got to hear about all the places it differed from the book, hahaha.

Ahhh today was wonderful. We needed it. It's almost the weekend! Lots to be moved into the town house. Ok, bedtime.

Day 067 (Or: Is this wedding toll-free?)

No, it is not. You can prepare your mind for the fact that weddings are stressful. You can say you're aware that it's going to be stressful, and hope that that makes it less tolerable when it inevitably is stressful. But the reality is, you really can't have any idea about wedding planning until you're actually in the midst of it. The fact that "the wedding is happening no matter how much is planned by that date" is equal parts reassuring and exasperating, haha.

But I was thinking about it on the way home tonight, and the fact is that its a wonderful thing that planning a wedding stretches you so thin. It's good practice for married life. It tests your resolve, because there are points when neither of you want to do anything more and everything is overwhelming and there seems to be no end in sight. Those are moments ripe for the "living sacrifice" that I talked about yesterday.

The Good Lord is pounding into my head this week that the stresses in life are the things that bring us closer to Him. As my dad always likes to say: "I love my problems." So true.

Yes, this wedding is taking its toll. But thank God it is!

Day 066 (Production, programs, and a living sacrifice)

I got to be in production today for like 3 hours. It was awesome. I love running cameras, man. Love it. And I'm not half bad at it, so it's fun :P

We finalized our wedding programs. The design, at least. We did some test printings and they look great. We put together the skeleton last night, and Kelli had done a fantastic job designing it and making it "us" by tonight. I love it. And she even integrated some of my ideas into the final design :D I'll keep her.

And along with that, we settle on a final schedule for the actual service, which felt really good! And I like the way it turned out. I don't want to give it all away, but it'll be very nice. Uh, but don't read into that and think there are going to be goofy surprises along the way. There won't be. It'll just be a nice service that I'm proud of. AND we figured out all the songs that are going to play during the service. THAT felt REALLY good, let me tell you. It has been looming for like 6 months. Anyways, we had a lot of fun with that. The songs we've got are great :P BOOYAH

My buddy Andrew Wommack today reminded me that being a living sacrifice isn't a one time decision. It's something you decide on pursuing and then spend every ten minute for the rest of your life course correcting along the way. So that was encouraging. I needed to hear that today. I often just feel like I'm a failure in that regard. So, thanks Andrew. I hope I get to shake your hand one day.

Anyways, pumped for the bike race. I am renting a town house that I'm not even sleeping in yet, haha. Oh and I paid my first bills today. Snaaaap. Night.

Day 065 (Or: The New Home)

I got off work today and drove over to the town house, where Kelli and her mom were working in the kitchen and getting stuff ready for when Kelli and I live there. It was neat. Kelli was having a blast. And Miss Phyllis bought us a lot of essential stuff (toilet paper, soup, detergent, a stepping stool, etc) so THANK YOU to her :) So we hung out there a while. That place already feels like home. I love it.

Oh, and I got our renter's insurance inacted starting at midnight tonight, so. I'm gonna start moving stuff in for real this week. Where to start...

Anyways, so then Kelli and I came back to my family's house and eat some dinner and worked on the wedding program. Pretty fun. Then we watched some This American Life and waited for the storm to pass, and then she left. And now I'm going to sleep.

Day 064 (Or: Bridesmaids and Groomsmen)

Today was fun.

OH YEAH first off I've been listening to lots and lots of Thursday on myspace, hahah. YEAH. I ordered a couple of their CDs off half dot com sweet today.

Came over the the Feener's and we had our bridesmaids and groomsmen over. They were all here sans Jared Snyder (In Indiana), Ethan Willis (At camp), and Josh Feener (.....world cup...). It was a lot of fun getting everyone all caught up. We haven't had that whole group of friends together in a really, really, really long time. Like years. So it was fun.

We took everyone over to the town house :) This was Kelli's favorite part of the day. Everyone loved it! And we got in a circle and prayed over the place. It was really, really good. We have good friends and family. I wish my parents had been able to be there for that, too. But sometime this week, I'm sure. Anyways, it was really fun.

After all the festivities, Kelli, Jordan, Amy, Abby Lomax, Alex Feener, and I all piled in the car and went down to this flea market. Also fun. Gotta keep that place in mind!

THEN THEN once my brother and sister left, Kelli and I made pad thai and SUSHI and it was fun AND delicious.

Then freaking we got the SPIDER BALL on Metroid! But it was really emotionally exhausting fighing the Spider Guardian (We play the whole fight in the morph ball in confined spaces WHAT) so as soon as we got it, we found a save point and called it a Metroid night.

Now I think we're gonna unwind to some Arrested Development and then I'm going home and to bed. I'm tiiiiiired.

And I don't want to go figure out what I'm wearing for the wedding........bleh. I mean. It's important. I just don't want to. I don't like clothes shopping....... I feel so lost.

ANYWAYS good day :) seven weeks from right now, I'll have been married for about 6 hours. :O

Weekly Weigh In: 151 lbs! BOOYAH one fewer pound than last week... if I break the 140s I'll be very happy...

Day 063 (Or: Fiddy 'til the wedding)

Went on an EPIC bike ride with dad this morning. It was fun. Lots of hills. I think we went like 9 miles WHICH isn't really that much on a bike if you really think about it, but all those hills, man. I got a work out. I can really feel the pounds coming off. I should have started biking sooner into this whole weight loss thing, considering how much I don't really enjoy running anyway, haha.

Ohhhh then Kelli came over, and we just talked about all the stuff coming up, and trying not to be overwhelmed that all that needs to be done. We will both be happy when this whole thing is just, over. haha. Just completely done. But we're making it. 50 days to go isn't so bad.

Then we went to the library, and then to the TOWN HOUSE :D which is completely painted now THANK YOU MR. STAN. It looks really great. So now I'm free to start moving stuff in whenever I want..... boy oh boy....

Then we went to Kohl's looking for attire for me for the wedding. It was somewhere fruitful. We weren't really into it, but we both knew it needed to be done. We found some pants that we think might work. They look good. They'd look good with the lodge. They're casual which is nice. So.

Then we came back home and TRIED to watch stupid "1984" but there was all kinds of naked people in it so we just turned it off. Stupid. So we watched "Laws of Attraction" instead and it wasn't very good.

Thaaaaaaaaat's it. Meeting with the bridesmaids and groomsmen tomorrow.

Day 062 (Or: Painting, Cheating, Insomnia, etc)

Had another meeting for the kids show we're working on at work today. It was fun. Decided on a title and brainstormed ideas. I enjoy the people I work with. You'd be surprised how many people at the Christian Television Network are under 30, haha. We're a revolution.

Then after work, went by the town house where Mr. Stan was EXPERTLY painting the entire place for us :D THANK YOU, MR. STAN. The colors we picked out look fantastic. Today was the first time we just went over there without it being any sort of business transaction, so it was fun. It's just an exciting time right now, moving out and getting a place we're going to call home. I know the luster of having your own place to call home wears off with time, but for now, I can't get enough of Kelli's face everytime we start talking about "our" place. She's so excited she can't contain it. I love it.

Ok ok so today was unprecdented because it was the first (And I pray the only) time I cheated at a Metroid game. I just don't have the time I did when I was 15. So we're impossibly stuck on Prime 2. So we just had to look up where the last temple key was that we couldn't find because we had searched everywhere. Of course it was RIGHT THERE in a room I'd explored a few times. Ugh. It was kind of dumb that I had to look it up. But...I want to beat it before we get married. So. There. I confess. I cheated at a video game.... but it was so good getting that key. So good.

AND THEN in honor of the fact that INCEPTION comes out a week from today, we watched the only Christopher Nolan movie Kelli hadn't seen...the mighty INSOMNIA be still my heart. So good... man, if I had to make a list of my favorite movies of his (and know this doubles as a partial list of my favorite films of all time) it's be:

6. Following
5. Insomnia
4. Batman Begins
3. The Prestige
2. The Dark Knight
1. Memento

How could one guy possibly make all of those incredible movies? And why am I still holding out hope that Shyamalan's Devil will even be remotely good?

WELL we're figuring out what I'm wearing for the wedding tomorrow........ I LOVE SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 061 (Or: Keys and Leases)

Signed the lease today :) And got our keys! Then we went to Lowe's and picked out paint for the master bedroom :D Then went back to the Feener's and watched Lord of the Rings.

Now that Kelli knows the colors for the house and stuff, she's been having a heyday picking out stuff for our registry, and editing items so that they match our colors. And today she was reading up on Dave Ramsey stuff for budgeting. She's gone into full blown marriage mode, and it's a lot of fun to watch. She even had me dinner ready when I got to her family's house after work :D I love it. She is absolutely wonderful.

So much is happening so fast. I'll be married in 8 weeks. What?

Ok, well this is short but it sure is concise. Night.

Day 060 (Or: The Days are passing by)

Today was a chill day. It was nice. Work was pleasant and then I came back to my family's house and Kelli was here with a surprise waiting for me :D I love those. And this one was good!

Ah... really not much else went on this day. I got my first bill in the mail (!!). And there was a little confusion with it, so I had to pull out my files and records and figure it out, and I'm not gonna lie, I felt like a grown up doing it, haha. Luckily, my first bill is only like 32 bucks annually :P

Oh yeah and we're completely completely stuck on Metroid. WHERE ARE YOU, SUPER BOMB. You are the key to everything...........

Willie Wonka rounded out the evening, and I think I'm getting the key to the townhouse tomorrow :)

Day 059 (Or: Laying out the game plan)

Oooooookay well. WHEW. So much....stuff. I'm getting the key on Thursday. That's...really exciting. And fairly decently daunting. I've never moved before, minus when I was like...three. I don't know. More on that later, I suppose. Once it has been processed. Just a lot of stuff to think about now.

But I'm not actually probably MOVING moving in until weekend after next or something after? Mr. Stan has kindly volunteered to paint the whole place for us the colors that we decided on (I picked the master bedroom color YEAAHH). We went down there tonight with Kelli's parents to get the paint stuff all figured out. It was nice to walk through the place again :) Home! Home home home...

That's about it for today, I guess! Lots to do, but happy I have a little more notice than like 5 days before it's time to move all my stuff in, haha. I'm guessing it'll end up being a really slow moving process, too. But uh, yeah I start paying for the place on Saturday, haha.

Oh and Kevin Schuck got back into town early so I'm not doing the Evening Blend this week. Which. Is a bummer on one hand, but with everything going on now..it's like, okay cool thanks. Haha.

We're getting married next mooooonnnnntttthhhhhhh

Day 058 (Or: At last, here we go)

I'm just going to bed. There's so much to do.

I'm moving in this weekend. I'm too tired to elaborate on that right now. But all of a sudden it's real and it's crazy and.... there's so much to do. I didn't expect it was going to be this soon. But...here it is.

So, here we go.

PS: Kelli smiled the biggest smile I have ever seen today. Just a note for posterity's sake.

Day 057 (Or: Family Day)

Got the grapple beam in Metroid today YEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

The Feener's had my family over for burgers and salmon today for the fourth of July :D It was a lot of fun, and we talked for a good while about what is left to do for the wedding (Only EIGHT WEEKS TO GO). It was the first time that Kelli's parents, my parents, and Kelli and I all sat down together and talked about it. It's hard to get us all in the same room at the same time, haha. Everyone's running different directions. But yeah! It was a good time. I love my family AND the one I'm marrying into :)

Bethany Musgrove picture mailed me some LIGHTS she knew we were looking for that she found at Target! So Kelli and I high tailed it over there and got like 8 boxes of them so now we have the lights we were wanting for the wedding :D SUCH A BLESSING we didn't even have to go looking for them, it just fell into our laps, haha.

Watched some fireworks, 'cause that's what you do. And Kelli and I ordered a fun calendar from Zazzle. Yes.

And...I guess that's about it for today. So happy for the extended weekend! So happy.

Oh AND Weekly Weigh In: 152 lbs! :D Two pounds this week and ten total! I'm going to keep biking, I guess! Hahah... :D

Day 055 (Or: Setting In)

It's setting in that I won't be here much longer, in this house. I unplugged the mac tonight. Granted, I plugged a PC in right where the mac was, haha, so I can do some corel draw stuff for dad if I want to, but still. It was sort of my first act of "moving out." I guess that kind of sounds weird typing it out, but it's true nonetheless.

Man I come up with all this stuff I want to do when I get home from work on Friday night, but I never do any of it. I just want to chill.

And that's frustrating because I'm trying to get into shape but I'm just tired man. It was a lot easier to lose weight a couple of years ago when I was home more often. Now I work 8 hours and when I get off work, I just want to hang out. I guess I need to find some kind of energetic activity that I really enjoy doing. That I can do every day, haha. uhhhhhh we'll see. I wish I could get paid to exercise OH MAN that'd be awesome.....

THREE DAY WEEKEND.

Aaaannnd I didn't remember that Bill Murray was in Space Jam. Funny and classic.

Oh dude the FC Twin came today, man. You can play NES and SNES games on it and it's REALLY COOL I love it. Amy and Jordan said I couldn't take the SNES or NES with me so I had to improvise :P

I'm exhausted....bed.

Day 054 (Or: Another day)

I'm not going to detail it on here for all to see, but I was reminded of wonderful spiritual principles today. It helped my attitude.

But I didn't overcome a sense of emotional exhaustion all day. So. There ya go.

We had a meeting for the tween show we're cooking up at CTN. Should be cool/something not made in the eighties. I'm excited to see what it becomes.

It was nice to see Jennifer's new place and some old friends tonight. Sorry I was so worn out!

Ahhhhhhh 59 days til I don't have to tell her goodbye anymore. I'm really excited for cars to play less of a role in my existence.

Alright well that's it. I'm going to bed. Another day done.

Day 053 (Or: Restlessness)

I grow RESTLESS. Days come and days go.

It's hitting me that these are the last days that I will live in my family's home. I'm going to miss them a lot. Late nights chatting with Jordan and Amy. Walking into the kitchen to lean on the sink and chat with dad in his office about whatever I need advice about. Sitting in the toy room and giving mom a hard time about having a Facebook, haha. I love my family. I'm so excited about the new family Kelli and I are starting. SO EXCITED. It's just finally hitting me that this is it, man. I'm leaving soon. And it's different than if I was just moving out or something, you know? I'm actually going from one family setting to a new one. So. Anyways.

Found out I'm hosting my old show, the Evening Blend on WNAZ Tuesday through Friday night of next week :) I'm filling in for Kevin while he's out of town. AWESOME.

Jordan got in 5th place in the bike race tonight. He's doing so well. I couldn't be more proud of him, man. He's incredible on that bike.

Anyways, that's it. We're at the Feener's watching Pirates of the Carribean and I'm fixing to leave because Kelli's tired from woooork. Okay alright okay alright okay.

Kelli and I have driven past that town house like a hundred million times, haha.

Day 052 (Or: An Evening at the Willis Household)

Miss Amber Willis has been SO HELPFUL so far with the wedding. Seriously. She's taken such a load off of Kelli especially. I'm so thankful for her friendship. Kelli and I went over to their house and Miss Amber and Mr. Allen made us and Eric dinner. DELICIOUS! Then we talked wedding stuff for like 3 hours or something, hahaha. Got lots figured out. It was very good. Looks like we're in full wedding mode for real, now. And it was fun to be planning the wedding in a house I grew up in. Ethan and Eric Willis have been such good friends throughout the short duration of my life so far.

Then Kelli and I came back to my family's house and spent what little time we had left of the evening just goofing off. Freakin n u t s we had fun haha. I'm pumped that I get to marry my best friend.

Oh boy, so tomorrow the lady will be officially out of the town house we're moving into. That means I should be in there in the next 3-4 weeks, I'm guessing. Oh man. Changes.

TWO MONTHS.

Day 051 (Or: Enough with these metaphorical roller coasters. I want to ride a real one!)

I want to ride a roller coaster so bad right now.

Wedding stuff keeps going baaack and forth, back and forth. I think it's all settling now though. So that's good.

OH YEAH and the next time you are going to watch a movie because it has "that dude from twilight" and "that girl from Lost"....do not watch that movie! We ended up watching "The Box" instead. So weird and potentially awesome but potentially just what?

Found out I'm moving in to the townhouse soon soon soon. Oh boy............ I'm excited. :)

I'm going to bed.

Oh yeah and I got my PIN code for the ChaCha visa debit card and used it at Publix tonight and it worked. It was awesome.

ok for real.

Day 050 (Or: We've got momentum, BABY)

Today was emotionally taxing, but it was a good day.

We're meeting with Miss Amber to talk about our "vision" for the wedding on Tuesday night. Just the three of us so we're not getting the opinions of outside influences, so that Miss Amber can know exactly what we want. :)

We hit a bump in the road with bridesmaid dresses. We might be going with something else. We'll see. We'll figure it out tomorrow, so we can have it all decided and whatnot for when we talk to Miss Amber Tuesday night. She's making us dinner :D

Bethany and Shadrick's wedding shower was today. Kyle Hyde and I were the only significant other/husbands that actually came but y'know what NUTS TO YOU wedding showers are fun, especially when they're for old and great friends :) I'm looking forward to ours that I hear is currently in the works...!

Wheeeeew time to start another week. Only nine weeks to go, man. Nine weeks from right now, I'll be married. That's so surreal. Gah. Still not the slightest bit nervous. ??? Just excited.

Weekly weigh in: 154 lbs! YEAH I'm back on track and lost a pound this week. Very good. I'd like to be able to hit somewhere in the mid 140s before the wedding. I hope I can pull that off. I'm being a lot more liberal in my food intake than I was during The Great 3 Month 30 Pound Weight Loss Journey of 2008. But back then I was at home a LOT more than I am now. It's a lot easier to get into a routine of eating weight-loss-type meals when all your meals are at home, haha.

Oh YEAH I beat the Boost Guardian today FINALLY. And then once Kelli got here, we got through this puzzle that was kinda like....we just stumbled on the key to it even though neither of us really had any idea what we were doing for the 25 minutes we were trying to do it, haha. And then I got this..other weapon thing that I need to open some locked doors. Sweet. But that was all we could take today.

Ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ACV and then to bed.

Day 049 (Or: A productive one)

I decimated my face shaving this morning. DECIMATED. Like shaved a whole layer off a section of my upper chin/lower lip area. I don't even know how it happened. It just hurt.

I watched the rest of The Rise and Fall of Five Iron Frenzy that I didn't finish last night. It was LONG but it was good. Made me reminiscent, man. All the bands they talked about touring with were all the bands I used to listen to, haha. Ace Troubleshooter, Bleach, Squad 5-0, etc. I miss 90's Christian rock haha. Back when it was fun and awesome. Anyways, a good documentary.

Kelli and I got a little further in Metroid Prime 2 today, after a few days of hiatus from the game. We're stuck on the Boost Guardian. That fella is TOUGH.

THEN we went and picked up her developed black and white film from Wolf. I'm pretty sure it was the first roll we got developed with that 35mm that I got her back like...a while ago. Maybe a year, but probably a little less. Anyways, so there were some oooollldd pictures on there, haha. But the camera took GREAT shots. There's a great one of me down at WNAZ DJing. Kelli's so good with a camera, man. (I'm hoping that getting a really great roll of film back will inspire her to take pictures more often.....shhhhhhhh)

THEN we went bridesmaid dress hunting. It was an all day process. And when it came down to it, after trying on countless dresses, she kept coming back to the first one she really liked that she found online. So we just went with that one. It's lovely. Simple and lovely. The girls will look great in it. So it's really good to have that taken care of. Now, on to the groomsmen........

Anyways, then we went to Madison and picked up Kelli's re-sized engagement ring, which fit very nicely and she was happy to have it back. :)

Then we went back to the Feener's and still couldn't freaking beat the Boost Guardian. Gah.

Then I came home and my ChaCha debit card came YEAH. I'm still waiting on a PIN number though but STILL SWEET

Time is passing so fast I don't hate it

Day 048 (Or: You know how Fridays go)

They are usually just preludes to Saturday :) THAT'S when the weekend really starts.

I haven't done much tonight. I exercised moreso than usual. That felt good. My family got me a jump rope for my bday, so I used that. It was fun.

Kelli's working. So. I'm just chilling. A nice quiet evening with the family. I'm going to miss living with them. A lot. But I mean. The trade off is more than worth it :). I'm ready for that townhouse with my wife.

Speaking of, I'm still waiting to hear about what's going on with it, for those that have wondered/asked exactly when I'm moving in. I have no idea yet. At this point, it's just antsy impatience. The longer I don't move in, the easier it is on my wallet, haha. So it's really a blessing. Kelli and I are just getting tired of just turning off Lebanon Road just to drive past it- we're ready for me to move in! :)

OH YEAH and this could potentially by the best thing ever but it could also hover somewhere near the worst hahahah. So uh we'll see.

That Five Iron Frenzy Documentary is like nearly three and a half hours long dude. I'm about an hour into it. It's really interesting so far.

Aaaaand the Wii is at the Feener's. So there's that.

I feel like all I do is stare at television and computers screens all day. I want to live in a small cottage out in the middle of nowhere.

OH YEAH I printed out a list of every single episode of Adventures in Odyssey so I could mark off all the ones I have...I'm just over half way to having them ALL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's for the children.... and me.

TOMORROW'S SATURDAY

Day 047 (Or: I am still so young)

My last birthday as a single man.

You feel like at some point you'd start feeling like a grown up or something. But it's more like just learning to daily take what comes at you maturely and trusting God to guide your steps along the way. I'm learning. I still have a lot of growing up to do. I am still so young.

Today was my very favorite birthday, of all the birthdays God has blessed me with.

I don't really dwell on these kinds of warm fuzzies on this here blog, but- There's this neat thing that happens when you're in love. Sometimes you're in the middle of some kind of minor task or trivial conversation with your significant other, and an almost out of body experience suddenly envelopes you and thrusts you outside of your current situation; and you are suddenly made aware of how happy you are, exactly where you are. You can't help but start to smile, and your only defense upon questioning is a simple "Nothing, I just love you." There's nothing quite like that.

I got stuff from Target for my birthday that Kelli and I had registered for. :) It was a lot of fun. I had a great night with my family. Jessica Doss, AN-NA, Liz, and Ravi were here too! It was a very good evening.

They made me a cake at work, and a card with Gospel Bill on it! YEAH. And I got to run camera. :D

All and all, the best birthday. Now, Friday can hurry up and be over with already.

Day 046 (Or: Who cares I'm going to bed)

Work, race, Jordan ate it:

Thrifting with Kelli, her house for wedding chatting/planning with Miss Phyllis..... chatting with Kelli, drive home, sit in truck and chat with Kelli on phone, go to bed.

Day 045 (Or: THE OTHER MEETING!)

The new A Great Big Pile of Leaves CD is my new favorite thing. Love it. You can (legally) download it for free right here! Love it.

Okay so I had pervasive ringworm that started on my back and literally wrapped around both of my sides and was close to completing the circle around my stomach. But two weeks of applying apple cider vinegar to the affected areas (i.e. basically my entire back, sides, and stomach)...and it's pretty much completely gone. Boom.

Got an RSVP card from Carlson Swafford today that said "To What Can I Liken the Kingdom?" and then had an arrow to the section of the card that said "Josh & Kelli" hahaha.

ANYWAYS the big thing today was that Kelli, Miss Phyllis, and I went downtown to meet with the photographer who is doing the wedding and reception. He was a great guy- we all enjoyed chatting with him. He takes great photos, has lots of experience with weddings, and is fantastic with lights. So everyone was happy. Check out his stuff here.

I'm tired. And I feel like between work, and getting things done, I don't have enough time in the day to try and get in shape. At least I'm eating better. I'm still treadmilling in the morning, just not for as long as I'd like. Okay whatever I'M GOING TO BED

Day 044 (Or: THE MEETING!)

Wheeeeeeeew today was definitely a Monday.

Okay freaking I need to find my belt. I am experiencing the only side effect of losing weight. Oh awesome the right arrow button on the keyboard doesn't work either.

ANYWAYS so I got to Floor Direct and episode of Bridges at work today! YEAH. I hadn't done that in years. It was slightly intimidating, but I mean..come on. I'm a baller. So I nailed it. Hopefully I'll get to do it again soon.

We met with Miss Amber, Miss Connee, and Miss Deb tonight about wedding arrangements, decorations, etc. It was a looong and very enlightening and informative meeting. I had a great time. Still lots to do, but a lot of it should fall into place decently easily. We're in the home stretch!

All of the disposable cameras came today! SWEET. I'm excited about this portion of the wedding.

A Great Big Pile of Leaves Have you Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? came today too! SWEET love this band. This CD sounds great.

Man I guess that's it. I'm going to bed. Meeting with a photographer guy tomorrow night.

Oh yeah and I got to the Feener's today, and it turns out that Kelli had transformed from a faithful watcher of my Metroid adventures, to an active participant. She figured out what the heck we were supposed to do next in Metroid Prime 2. I barely even played it today. I let her do it. It was really, really impressive. I hope I dream about it.

Goodnight.

Days 043 (Or: Arts Festival And SUCH)

Father's Day! My family went to Centennial Park to that Arts Festival thing they do every year. I'm not sure what the actual name of it is. ANYWAYS it was a lot of fun. And I lucked out since it's almost my birthday and I haven't really asked for much, haha. Check out what I got...

I haven't had any puppets in a long time. Haven't named them yet, I'm still figuring out their personalities before I do that. So that was exciting, hahah. HANDMADE. I love Nashville. I got a hat too.

That record player speaker I got at Goodwill for 5 bucks is s w e e t. Love it.

Weekly Weigh In: 155 lbs. Lost a pound this week! YEAH. Here's a chart to track my progress:

Eh, so, slowly but surely. I'm back on the treadmill. A couple of years ago when I lost like 30 pounds in 3 months, I was a treadmilling fiend. So maybe that'll keep helping.

Okay, I'm off to the Feener's for some Metroid :)

TEN WEEKS TO GO. Oh my gosh. And somewhere in there I'm moving into our new home.

Day 042 (Or: Drive In!)

TOY STORY.

I remember going to see the first one when I was seven. SEVEN. So it was somewhat surreal sitting in a car at the drive in with the girl I'm marrying in 71 days watching the third one. Toy Story movies are so good. Obviously this one didn't have that sentimental "I've watched this movie so much since I was seven years old" thing going for it, haha, but it was really good. :) Kelli took me to the drive in since it's my birthday on Thursday YEAH. I had such a good time with her today.

Weeee think we have wedding photography figured out. Well, I thought we had it figured out weeks ago, but now I guess it's actually figured out. So..that's good! One less thing to worry about.

And we're meeting with Miss Connee, Miss Deb, and Miss Amber on Monday night to discuss wedding coordination and decorations and stuff. Everything is coming together. I still need to figure out what I'm going to wear.... HMMMM

It's way late. I'm going to bed.

I'm missing Kelli, man. I'm really looking forward to "goodnight" instead of "goodbye." I've said way too many "goodbye"s. :P

Day 041 (Or: Retrospect)

Kelli's working tonight. So I've been parked at the house goofing off and playing video games and such. Kinda bored. Kinda tired. Kinda got a headache.

BUT it's the weekend! YEAH.

I received some of the best news I've gotten in a long time today. I... I never really figured out if the whole thing was public knowledge or whatever. So I won't break any potential trust. I'll just suffice it to say that I almost broke down at work today, ha ha ha. Keep it together, Josh... No seriously. I was elated. But I shan't elaborate anymore since I'm not even saying on here what it actually was. A N Y W A Y S.

I'd originally intended his blog to be a retrospective look at my school life, since I am distancing myself further and further from it as the days go by, as well as a look ahead towards married life. Well, it's sort of turned out to just be the latter, it feels like.

But I don't really know what to do about that. The only time I think about school is when I'm thinking about how it's kind of weird that I don't think much about school, haha. You'd think that 4 years of something would warrant SOME sort of retrospective, nostalgic...something something, right? Instead, I just...wake up. I go to work. I get off work. I go to the Feener's and get stuff ready for the wedding, or Kelli and I come to my family's house and we do the same thing. I don't think about school... heck, I don't even think much about the radio station. And it's only been just over a month since my nightly radio show ended. Isn't that sort of strange?

I think about the radio station, but mostly just to wonder how my old friends there are doing. I don't make my way to that end of town much anymore. Radio was such a dream of mine growing up. It was like the first real thing I ever remember wanting to do with my life. I'd sit in my room every night and play the intros and outros of CD's and pretend I was an announcer on the radio, letting everyone at home know that that was "Just Between You and Me" from DC Talk. I went to Trevecca because I had such an affinity for the nightly rock radio show they aired when I was like 14 or 15 (The DJ's name was ironically "Josh" too). But I ended up not even getting into the radio stuff until my junior year. I couldn't even tell you exactly why.

So I worked hard, and got myself my own radio show by last fall. I loved it man. But once I got the CTN full time day job, it became pretty much impossible to put the energy into a nightly radio show that I wanted to.

And now...I don't even miss it. I mean, I loved it. LOVED IT. But I can't tell if it's the kind of thing I'll end up revisiting in my life, or if it was God's way of letting me do something I always wanted to do and just get it out of my system, hahah. Who knows. I'm open to whatever. I'm happy I could leave my mark on WNAZ. I'm glad I got to use my senior project to learn about its history. I guess when I think back on college, it's gonna be that radio station. Even though it was only technically the last three semesters that I spent there. Hmm...yeah, writing about it is making my miss it. But just in that nostalgic "Yeah, that was a lot of fun." kind of way. I mean, if I had the time, and I was able to stay on without being a student..oh, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But as it is, I look back fondly on that time. The whole thing. I loved the whole thing.

I know I dumped on Trevecca a lot during the four years I was there. But honestly, the professors there care. I count a few of them as friends more so than professors. I wouldn't have wanted to live there in that college environment (I will never, ever miss that college student "I know how to fix the world" mentality blehg...) but I did enjoy the classes I took and the professors I had.

Anyways, I probably won't talk much more about school, because I really don't think about it much. But that was the original intent on this blog, so. There ya go.

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