Sunday, October 3, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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 :)
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.
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.
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