Just going through the motions here at work. I guess that is what happens when you have such a relaxing 3 day weekend without a care in the world with your beautiful fiancee by your side and being able to see a bevy of friends…
Aaaaaaaa! the kind of weekend you just want to take a deep breathe as you overlook the wedding plans and the wedding decisions still to come. Good thing my self-planned bachelor’s weekend is just around the corner…. back to the weekly swim.
Another weekend of more wedding preparations and planning. During most conversations with my fiancee about the wedding we definitely go into the whole “I really want this at our wedding” or “I think we can save money by cutting this”… When in the moment may get frustrating, after about 5 minutes of arguing about things, I just smile to myself since this is exactly what I thought wedding planning would be… some disagreements and stress and then everything just working themselves out. Of course there are some more bumps along the road to close out and there is still that last few weeks of pandemonium, but this has been such an amazing experience so far.
August is just around the corner!!!
I cannot believe Georgetown and George Mason are in the Sweet 16… it is just great to have that vibe when the local sports teams are doing well. I still attribute the best sports feeling of the last 10 years occurred last year as Santana Moss caught his second touchdown pass against the Cowboys at Dallas… I enjoy seeing our local teams kick butt and show that our area has alot of good teams and good spirit…
Monique and I have our engagement retreat weekend this weekend. It is surreal. I sort of feel like everyone there will be really religious with halos walking around and I will say something that is controversial and then suddenly I will get banished to the naughty corner (oh wait, is that a bad thing???). Well for those of you out there that have gone through this sort of a weekend, don’t tell me too much and do lots of praying for me!!! For those who havent gone through it I will try and write some sort of a positive or negative summary when I return on Sunday.
Registering for the wedding has been fun. At first we were going at it pretty conservatively, trying to be too realistic and living in the now… but after shaking that off and shopping for the future for a time when we have loads of space and a big house made shopping for some of the things much easier… Stay tuned for when all that goes more public…
Yesterday I did a day trip with Monique to Jersey City to drop of her sister’s things before she fully moves in to Manhattan next week. Well a day trip really is not what I should call it. We left Maryland at 12:44pm yesterday, arrived in Jersey City at aroun 4pm, met up, and ate dinner at Maynila with the sister’s friends. And started our return trip to Maryland around 7:30pm to arrive here at 12:30am.
It was a nice roadtrip. Made me remember the 3 cross country drives I have done, but more recently the last one I did solo from Sunny San Diego to the Beautiful 4 seasons of the east coast. Talk about a tramatic yet thrilling experience. I dont think you ever really know about yourself unless you give yourself hours and hours of alone time. There were times when I would just yell at the top of my lungs and other times I would count the raindrops and see how long I could drive without using the windshield wipers. I recall driving through roads filled with torn up tires and being able to see for as far as the eye can see trying to see further than the sun shines. I made the mistake of trying to be adventurous and drive through Area 51 in between New Mexico and Texas… bad move. I felt as though I was in happy cruising/American Dreaming driving to desolate/post apocolyptic earth… the drive similar to many of my nightmares.. there was nothing for myself, no plants, no cars, and a silent road. When I finally found myself out of Helm’s Deep I found myself in the middle of Texas driving through a barrage of hail that made me feel as though God hated me and hated my car even more… I may have wept, I don’t remember.
So when is the next trip?
