And It's Been a While

Since I've last posted. But I guess I'll make a quick update for anyone who reads my blog or whatever. So, married life is good. It's not much different than before since we were living together before, except the fact that our car insurance is cheaper.

I posted the pictures from the wedding in my last post. Hawaii was beautiful and the photographer did an amazing job. I have many other pictures that i have not posted. I need to get those uploaded to flickr or photobucket so I can share then easier.

So I'm having the family over tomorrow night for dinner. It's mine and Phillip's first Christmas together as a married couple so I figured I'd have the immediate family over. We'll probably do stuff with friends that weekend or weekend after for new years.

So, yeah, life is good. Still trudging through classes trying for that degree which seems so out of reach. But when I look back to where I was a few years ago I can see I have made good progress. But I still have so far to go. *sigh*

Wedding Photos

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Goodbye Dear Friend

I hate that this occasion is why I'm posting, but I just wanted to say goodbye to a friend of mine who passed on this weekend. You have some great friends who are going to miss you dearly. I guess it was your time to go, but we can all agree it was all too soon. This world could have used many more years of Pat in it =)

We miss you already.

Wish List!

I want this dress.

Pretty Dress

That is all.

Continuing Boredom...

This is one of my favorites. It's a URL hack I learned and it's hilarious. It specifically designed for those who have ill feelings towards our president. Make sure you have headphones on for those at work =D

How to pronounce Dubya's name

This one made me actually laugh out loud!

Alternative pronunciation

What's in a name?

So today I've been looking at baby names. No, I'm not pregnant, just bored. But what sparked this, I have not a clue.

Anyway, a few years ago I found out that my great aunt Gaynell's first name is Callie. Why she goes by her middle name, I have not a clue lol. Anyway, I thought this name was pretty and decided if I ever have a girl I want to name her Callie. Well, Callie sounds like it is short for something else, but my aunt said it's not short for anything. At least her name wasn't. I went online and saw that Callie, and other variations of it, is short for Callista which is an absolutely beautiful name. The name itself is greek meaning the most beautiful one.

This is where my boredom kicks in. I went online today to look at other female greek names to use as a middle name. I have a thing for greek names, considering my first name is greek in origin =D. So, I came up with this combination: Callista Enora. It just rolls off the tongue. Enora means light. Together you could say the name means the most beautiful light =)

Yeah, there's my morning so far. I had to jot this down somewhere, else I would have forgotten.

Ah, Spring...

More like ah-choo. Yeah, yeah. My humor sucks. But nonetheless, it's allergy season. Surprisingly my allergies haven't been as bad as they were last year, but it is still early spring. My boss suggested to me last year to eat a spoonful of local made honey to build up my immunity, however I have a cat I live with every day and I'm still allergic to her. The degree to which I'm allergic to her is less than when I first adopted her, but still allergic...

I absolutely love spring: the colors, the aromas, birds nesting in my attic...I should go for a hike this weekend. I haven't been hiking in quite a while. I should go after I finish my Chem lab this Saturday, that is if it's not raining...

So yesterday was April Fool's Day and I thought that I would go all day without getting pranked, but I get home from class. I'm tired, it's 8:30pm and I haven't eaten since 12pm. So I get home, and my fiance tells me that his work wants him to attend a launch in Florida and that he would be gone for 2 - 3 weeks and that 2 - 3 weeks happens to fall within our wedding/honeymoon plans. Of course I go off on a rant. After he tells me he's just joking I call him a few choice words, just out of playfulness. Ah, spring, how I hate thee. Spring is just one big cruel joke...

This is irritating....

This is pretty much continuing from my previous post. So, I'm driving to work again and I hear talks of an English government official wanting to sterilize the poor to combat an economic crisis. So, when I go to look up this news on the internet I find nothing of the sort, except of course of cases in South America that occurred a few years ago. So, I'm beginning to doubt the news reported on my favorite radio show. This really doesn't surprise me since they are not a news reporting show. I'm sure they're just trying to get ratings.

I do want to make a few comments on this idea that seems to be happening in struggling countries. Of the articles I did find, Peru had passed a law stating that the poor be forcefully sterilized against their will. Of course, this is a gross infringement on human rights. However, I have a better idea. In all lightheartedness, I say we should castrate the idiots in this world, George Bush, Jr. being the first one on the list. We're overrun with them and it is an infection we must cure. We must cleanse the gene pool.

In reality I may feel that our society gets dumber by the minute, but I would never wish anything like that upon another human. I let Darwin kill off the idiots for me.


Yeah, he looks like a killer, don't you think? ;)

Well burst my bubble...

I had this great idea to rant about, but I can't rant if I don't have anything to back it up. On my way into work this morning I heard on the radio that many parents are sueing Wii becuase their boys are mimicing the movements in real life fights making them look like wussies. The DJ mentioned one incident where a kid was sent home from school for flicking his wrist at another boy's head.

I figured this would be something great to go off on, especially how a lot today's parenting skills are lacking. However, I cannot find one single article about a recent lawsuit. The only articles that come up in my search are those about the wrist straps or copyright infringement, or about how people are throwing out their backs because they're just now getting their lazy asses off the couch.

I was going to go into a rant about how I can't stand people who think the world owes them something, people who try to get rick of other people's misfortunes. My office mate told me a story about her sister in law and how she had hit a mailbox while turned around in her big honking SUV yelling at her kids and thought that the owner of the mailbox should replace her mirror because it was too close to the road. Yeah, people like that piss me off.

Well, it looks like I went into a rant anyway, even though I technically had nothing to rant about... Heh. Oh well.

It's about time...

...for an update. The past couple of weeks have been for wedding planning. We decided to just get married in Hawaii that way we can have the honeymoon there too. For us, this route is much cheaper than having a 5 minute, "wham bam thank you ma'am" ceremony and reception. Although it would be nice to have our friends and family witness the ceremony, this way would be more memorable.

So we bought our airline tickets, courtesy of the groom's parents, 2 weekends ago. And this past weekend we reserved the hotel. The only thing left to plan is what we're going to do while we're there and the reception when we get back. I'm thinking the reception is going to be a small one. At our house maybe. Or we can have 2 receptions, one for the family and one for our friends. That way we can accommodate everyone and no one's panties will get in a wad because of alcohol being served (family).

Several weeks ago we called up the place that's doing our ceremony and put a deposit down to reserve the date which is October 11. So that's taken care of. Now we just have to come up with some money for the rest of the cost of the trip/wedding =) I don't think it will be that difficult. We have plenty of time to save money. I've started saving between $100 and $200 a month which I will end up with at least $1000 by the time we leave. And that'll be our spending/backup money.

Everything is coming together and I'm excited!