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So, the wedding date creeps ever closer.

We have just about everything done. Should be fun.

I'm tired. Of a lot of things. I don't have the energy to go into most of it here, but let me say this:

Wedding stuff sucks. Women are crazy for being so involved in it. If I had the money, or her parents were paying for it, I'd be "that guy, in the tux, next to HER." But NOOOOO. I gotta be Mr Helper-boy, creater of invitations and soother of frayed nerves.

This crap has been pretty tough on both of us. Working as much as we have, combined with trying to make this "special day" special is wearing thin.

I just want the shit to be over with. Of course, I can't express this to Jen, as it would just cause her more angst. Love ya honey, but damn, if we ever do something like this again, we are going to Vegas and having an Elvis marry us.

In the world of sports, this is my favorite time of year. Too busy to watch any of it though. Football, playoff baseball, hockey and College Basketball starting soon. Yum. I am, finding out that I can't watch a tivo'd sport. I end up just hitting the fast forward button and leaving it on moderate-to slightly fast-frame mode. Games go by in like 45 minutes, but it sucks. Maybe great for you, but not for me.

In other news, I've started working out regularly again. 3 times a week, whether I need to or not. And right now, I need to. I've grown soft in places I ain't supposed to be, and that ain't happening.

I have posted like 3 comments in a week. I've been trying to read, and am missing Surak's recap since I haven't had much time to browse slashgeekdom. Such is life I guess.

So, in effect, if you see a mushroom cloud over northern Atlanta, know it was me loosing my patience and cool.

I do, however, still love my breasts. And yeah, I am reading your journals, just not much to respond to, ya know?

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  • You chose to get married. Stop complaining, it's the price to pay. (or so I have been told)
    • Quick, somebody get this guy a drink.

      Yes, Jaw, as you stated, I chose to get married. So I should stfu and deal with it right?

      I am. But I get to bitch here in this journal, and you lucky few get to read it and tell me to stop being a whiny git.

      See how that works? ;)
      • Quick, somebody get this guy a drink.

        At 14:35, and while being on antibiotics? I think not.

        stop being a whiny git
        Happy now? ;-)

        Oh, and another thing. Add the tilde to your "homepage" in your "slashdot webpage settings". http://slashdot.org/em%20emalb doesn't work. http://slashdot.org/~em%20emalb will work.

  • If you think planning a wedding is fun, wait until the first year of marriage.
    You are about to be let in on the biggest inside joke.
    And you will not laugh.
    Good luck and God bless.
    *toasts*
    • What inside joke?
      I've been married 9 years and still haven't gotten the joke.
      Will somebody PLEASE let me off the hook?
  • Are we all invited? ;-)
  • I just want the shit to be over with. Of course, I can't express this to Jen, as it would just cause her more angst. Love ya honey, but damn, if we ever do something like this again, we are going to Vegas and having an Elvis marry us.

    *lol* I remember saying shit like this and look where that got me. I'm sure #2 is going to want pictures and memories of her own, thus I get to relive the pain^H^H^H^Hjoy one more time.

    I feel like the slow kid that never learned....OUCH, quit it.....OUCH, quit it.....
  • I've been in a few (mostly as ring bearer when I was little, cause I was the only boy in my generation for close to 9 years on either side of the family). MAny of my friends have gotten married recently and I've made it a point to miss every wedding (but still show up to the reception) except for one. One of my buddies and his then GF since high school had waited 6 years of dating to get married (she was a virgin waiting for marriage, to boot). I went to the wedding (only cause I couldn't find another exc
  • You and my wife both. She couldn't be bothered with most of the minutia. She just wanted to Part-A! (and have the Part B tommorrow (Sorry, that was uncalled for))

    "Try not to get caught up in the drama." " Let a smile be your umbrella." (lets see, are there any more dumb, overbroad comments that have no bearing on reality I can make? Hmmmmm, oh yeah, "Look on the bright side"!)

    Good to hear you are working out- should help with stress levels.

    Just remember that tradition or not, you should try your best t
  • You're being a good sport. That's nice.

    You gotta realize that this is a MAJOR rite of passage for a woman. The more effort she's putting into it, the better, because that means she's only looking to do it ONE time.

    It'll be worse when you have a kid -- there's no let-up after s/he's born -- just a lifelong hullabaloo. :-)

    ....Bethanie....
    • That's the primary reason I don't want to have kids yet.

      I'm not done living for me. As soon as you have a little one, your life effectively revolves around them.

      So, I am being selfish and am not ready yet.
      • I'm not done living for me.
        AH hah ha ha ha! That's what you think!
      • Excellent! I couldn't ask for anything more than an acknowledgement of that fact -- if you're not ready to give it all up, then by ALL MEANS! don't have a kid yet.

        A caveat is that guys can still have more of a life... You get to go to the office and have relationships there and go out to lunch and stuff. Women's lives, when they have children, fundamentally change -- even if they keep working outside the home, it's pretty much guaranteed that they will have almost *no* time for themselves at all. So you'd
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    • It'll suck up until the ceremony, almost guaranteed. Then it'll be awesome. Enjoy. :)

      Seriously, Sam has this one pegged, Em. I hated planning, and my wife would say, "Which do you like better?" - I soon found out that "I don't care, you pick" made her cry because she wanted me to care about everything... it got to be a chore. But the actual ceremony and wedding day were awesome. (Our honeymoon, due to a medical problem, was a bit traumatic, but life after that has been great, and the second honeymoon more
  • I've grown soft in places I ain't supposed to be, and that ain't happening.

    Might I suggest you get used to this? Makes things much easier after the first year of marriage. (I suppose you've heard about the jar of dried peas next to the bed?)

    • (I suppose you've heard about the jar of dried peas next to the bed?)

      This I don't know about. Do tell.
      • When you get married, you place an empty jar next to your bed. During the first year of marriage, you place a pea in the jar each time you make love to your wife. Beginning on the day after your first anniversary, you remove a pea from the jar each time you make love to your wife. You will never empty the jar.

        • You will never empty the jar.

          Sounds sort of pessamistic, though when the baby's born, we're going to have to take a break, and then I don't know how often we'll be able to after that, but it still seems like we'd be able to get through the jar in a couple of years...
  • Levels of stress in planning are insane. The wife tried to get me to quit smoking while we were planning ours, that went poorly to say the least. Everything will probably be crazy until the day before or the morning of and then calm down. Just try to remember and do something that'll relax you everytime you start to lose it that goes for the both of you. Good luck!
  • I am an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church (just call me rev.rdewald), you can be too [ulc.org]! I'll do the ceremony for free and then we could all go get a beer somewhere. Just a thought.
  • Personally, I think that the whole "ceremony" that people plan is way to over-rated. I for one, am not into MAJOR crowds or even the, "OH! Look at ME, I'm getting married" thing. I think it's BS! And you wind up paying WAY to much for the over-all cost, thus leaving you already almost bankrupt when you 2 first get started in your adventure in life together. I think it should be "personal", meaning...this event is for the 2 that agree to this marriage. It should be kept between them, the closest family membe
  • soother of frayed nerves

    this is the most important thing you can do. my wife got so worked up during planning that i had to convince her to let me help sooth things. even if you don't care about some detail, inventing an opinion can help a lot. it makes her feel like she's not having to do everything, even if you're not really doing a whole lot.

    the planning sucked, especially that last 2 months. millions of tiny details that i couldn't even always understand why there was some part of it left to choi

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