Emerald Isle
My poor neglected blog. How often must I dust the cobwebs off you? Anyway, here's a lengthy update for the few people who check my blog...
Emerald Isle
In mid-September I had a blast while visiting Emerald Isle in North Carolina. Heather & Dave organized the whole deal, and we had 10 people total staying at a beach-view beach house. I ended up driving there from Cleveland and it took about 12 hours or so. While there, we primarily relaxed in the ocean.. I really had a lot of fun body boarding with the waves.. When we weren't doing that, we hung out on the beach with many games of touch football.
In one such game, Dave leaped up to block the football and managed to swat it down to the ground. As he did, his wedding ring popped off and landed somewhere in the sand. We all spent about an hour looking for it, but no such luck - it had disappeared. Some people went to see if anyone nearby would have a metal detector, but the only thing we managed to borrow was a rake, which we used to mark the location.. The next morning, our hopes sunk as we had a huge rainstorm. When we went out that afternoon to the rake, Mike, Heather's brother saw that the ring was just sitting there, only partly in the sand. Everyone was really excited about that!
We had a lot of really good food.. I can't even remember all the different types of seafood I had.. there was only one that I didn't like, and that was because it still had fish bones in it.. eww.. I do remember that my sea trout was very good though!
From North Carolina, I headed north to Philly to visit with Kath. That was actually a very cool drive.. It took me past places like D.C., where I got to see the Washington monument and Capital building... to Baltimore where I got to see a neat view of the harbor..
If nothing else, it was a welcome break from the normal routine at the office. :)
Kath and I
Well, at the end of August Kath started her junior year at Eastern University near Philly. It's pretty far away (7 1/2 hours), so it's been tough not to be able to see her every week. We make up for the distance though, by talking on the phone every night which is a lot of fun (and usually leads to spontaneous fits of laughter). Plus, we've been able to schedule fairly regular visits. Last semester, I saw her in late-September at the end of my vacation, then in mid-October she got to meet Dave, Nate, Doug and Kim M when we met up in State College to watch the Michigan game, in early November I went out for another visit, and then she spent Thanksgiving with my family. Three weeks later she was back in Ohio for Christmas break! Christmas break was a lot of fun and we got to spend a good amount of time with each other and with our family and friends. It's just a shame I had to go back to work and she had to go back to school! Well, we're both excited to see each other in just two weeks when I go to visit for Valentine's Day & our 1 year anniversary!
Wedding Plans
Let's see.. what do we know so far? We both agreed on our original date: 06-07-08.. we're having it at her hometown church in Shiloh, OH.. We've booked the reception hall and have started to look at menus from caterers. She's got an excellent menu figured out and apparently knows almost exactly the wedding dress that she wants too! We've started picking out some of the songs like what she'll walk down the aisle to, what our first dance will be, etc. The plans are coming together nicely and we're both very excited. Pretty soon I might even book the hotel for our honeymoon in Paris!
Marissa's move
Well, this past weekend I went back to State College to help load Marissa's stuff into a U-Haul truck, drive down to the Philly area, and then help unpack it [including taking two hours to assemble her futon]. It was a pretty exhausting weekend, but thankfully you couldn't have asked for better moving weather in February. Plus I got to spend Saturday with Kath! Marissa's apartment was nice and the office did a good job of cleaning it before she arrived. It's very big too! Now she's starting to go through the joys of setting up your own place.. and of course the biggest one is the constant struggle with the phone companies. Once again, I'm so happy I left AT&T. :) Hopefully everything will come together for her shortly.
Website News
Well, sadly my free 3-year subscription with 1and1 has expired, so I was forced to find a new home. Luckily, I found a new location a few days ago and it appears everything is running smoothly. If you notice something not working correctly, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can.
Anyway, I'm doing well. Thanks for reading all this!
Emerald Isle
In mid-September I had a blast while visiting Emerald Isle in North Carolina. Heather & Dave organized the whole deal, and we had 10 people total staying at a beach-view beach house. I ended up driving there from Cleveland and it took about 12 hours or so. While there, we primarily relaxed in the ocean.. I really had a lot of fun body boarding with the waves.. When we weren't doing that, we hung out on the beach with many games of touch football.
In one such game, Dave leaped up to block the football and managed to swat it down to the ground. As he did, his wedding ring popped off and landed somewhere in the sand. We all spent about an hour looking for it, but no such luck - it had disappeared. Some people went to see if anyone nearby would have a metal detector, but the only thing we managed to borrow was a rake, which we used to mark the location.. The next morning, our hopes sunk as we had a huge rainstorm. When we went out that afternoon to the rake, Mike, Heather's brother saw that the ring was just sitting there, only partly in the sand. Everyone was really excited about that!
We had a lot of really good food.. I can't even remember all the different types of seafood I had.. there was only one that I didn't like, and that was because it still had fish bones in it.. eww.. I do remember that my sea trout was very good though!
From North Carolina, I headed north to Philly to visit with Kath. That was actually a very cool drive.. It took me past places like D.C., where I got to see the Washington monument and Capital building... to Baltimore where I got to see a neat view of the harbor..
If nothing else, it was a welcome break from the normal routine at the office. :)
Kath and I
Well, at the end of August Kath started her junior year at Eastern University near Philly. It's pretty far away (7 1/2 hours), so it's been tough not to be able to see her every week. We make up for the distance though, by talking on the phone every night which is a lot of fun (and usually leads to spontaneous fits of laughter). Plus, we've been able to schedule fairly regular visits. Last semester, I saw her in late-September at the end of my vacation, then in mid-October she got to meet Dave, Nate, Doug and Kim M when we met up in State College to watch the Michigan game, in early November I went out for another visit, and then she spent Thanksgiving with my family. Three weeks later she was back in Ohio for Christmas break! Christmas break was a lot of fun and we got to spend a good amount of time with each other and with our family and friends. It's just a shame I had to go back to work and she had to go back to school! Well, we're both excited to see each other in just two weeks when I go to visit for Valentine's Day & our 1 year anniversary!
Wedding Plans
Let's see.. what do we know so far? We both agreed on our original date: 06-07-08.. we're having it at her hometown church in Shiloh, OH.. We've booked the reception hall and have started to look at menus from caterers. She's got an excellent menu figured out and apparently knows almost exactly the wedding dress that she wants too! We've started picking out some of the songs like what she'll walk down the aisle to, what our first dance will be, etc. The plans are coming together nicely and we're both very excited. Pretty soon I might even book the hotel for our honeymoon in Paris!
Marissa's move
Well, this past weekend I went back to State College to help load Marissa's stuff into a U-Haul truck, drive down to the Philly area, and then help unpack it [including taking two hours to assemble her futon]. It was a pretty exhausting weekend, but thankfully you couldn't have asked for better moving weather in February. Plus I got to spend Saturday with Kath! Marissa's apartment was nice and the office did a good job of cleaning it before she arrived. It's very big too! Now she's starting to go through the joys of setting up your own place.. and of course the biggest one is the constant struggle with the phone companies. Once again, I'm so happy I left AT&T. :) Hopefully everything will come together for her shortly.
Website News
Well, sadly my free 3-year subscription with 1and1 has expired, so I was forced to find a new home. Luckily, I found a new location a few days ago and it appears everything is running smoothly. If you notice something not working correctly, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can.
Anyway, I'm doing well. Thanks for reading all this!
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