I've been married for almost 3 1/2 weeks now and man is it weird! Lisa and I keep saying the same thing. "It's so weird!" But weird in a good way. I love being married and I feel almost like an anomolie when I'm at school. I'm probably one of a handful of people my age at UNF that is married. Now, at BYU I would be in the majority. You're weird if you aren't married by 24 in Utah. Anyway, it's so nice to come home and have someone there that isn't another dude who welcomes you with a grunt but a beautiful woman who's excited to see you and you know how excited she is because you get a big kiss!
Now the bed sharing is a different story! Just kidding. I love being married and I thought I'd let everyone know!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
How Quickly Time Flies!
So now it's September 11, 2007 and there is tons of stuff that has happened since I last posted on here. It's the 6 year anniversary of 9/11 and it seems to be that things are back to the normal way of life. The majority of people are simply going about their days, only reminded of the significance of this day by the flags at half staff and the news bits on the morning news. As the most terrible day in recent American history it is now Patriots Day and we stop for a moment of silence to remember all those who gave their lives or lost their lives on that day 6 years ago.
Most people have flashbulb memories of that day. If asked, they could tell you exactly what they were doing when they heard about the Twin Towers. I was asleep on my best friends couch but was tossing and turning and kept catching a glimpse of the tv, that was left on the night before, and thought that a movie was on when in reality... it was reality. It's the same with our parents and grandparents when JFK was shot. Most of them have very vivid memories of where they were or what they were doing. I know my mom said she was home from school because she was sick that day. September 11 just can't get enough attention for what happened.
I was listening to a morning show on my way to work this morning and they played some clips from their show that day 6 years ago and it was so hard to listen to all the actual broadcast and the fear and uncertainty in their voices. I never thought that a radio show could almost bring me to tears.
I hope that we can all remember the cost of freedom!
Most people have flashbulb memories of that day. If asked, they could tell you exactly what they were doing when they heard about the Twin Towers. I was asleep on my best friends couch but was tossing and turning and kept catching a glimpse of the tv, that was left on the night before, and thought that a movie was on when in reality... it was reality. It's the same with our parents and grandparents when JFK was shot. Most of them have very vivid memories of where they were or what they were doing. I know my mom said she was home from school because she was sick that day. September 11 just can't get enough attention for what happened.
I was listening to a morning show on my way to work this morning and they played some clips from their show that day 6 years ago and it was so hard to listen to all the actual broadcast and the fear and uncertainty in their voices. I never thought that a radio show could almost bring me to tears.
I hope that we can all remember the cost of freedom!
Monday, August 13, 2007
Ahh, Provo and Other Stuff I've Been Reminiscing, Worrying, and Fretting Over
So as I get ready to get married this weekend, and as I've settled down here in Florida, I've come to realize how much I missed being in Provo! It was hard to be so far away from Lisa and to be so far away from my family but I really like living there. Call me crazy but I miss the bubble! I loved working at Bio-Medics, well to a certain degree, and I could essentially walk anywhere I needed to (which I did the first time I lived there because I didn't have a car and I'll tell you what that's the way to get tone legs!), I enjoyed to camaraderie living in King Henry and meeting new people every day. Now it's a lot different, living in a big city where it's all hustle and hurry. It just goes to show that we take for granted the here and now and really only appreciate what we have when it's gone and no longer directly in front of our eyes or at the forefront of our minds. I loved living with all my roommates, even when they left week old dishes in the sink or on the stove with food still in them. Now I didn't like cleaning up their week old dishes in the sink or on the stove with food still in them but I enjoyed their company and the chats we had about nothing. Before all 'this' happened, my life with Lisa, things seemed so hard and at the time they were. I struggled to make enough money to pay my outrageous rent ($270, with electricity it was about $290, yeah I know how could someone ask for that much!) and try to change my diet of soup and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all on a $9.50 an hour job. Now my rent has nearly tripled and with even more bills it doesn't seem possible to get ahead but now I don't have to just worry about myself, I'll have to worry about my wife. My circumstances have changed dramatically but I still worry about everything. I am looking forward to starting my new life with the woman I love and am uber excited to make new memories with her, ones that will make me smile and laugh out loud just thinking about them. I have plenty of those already from before I met Lisa and I have plenty with Lisa but our life together will be filled with memories that are good, great, grand, bad, worse, and ugly I'm sure but we'll have each other and it will be amazing I just know it, actually I can feel it... in my nuggets! How could it not be with someone like Lisa!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Wedding Day is Coming
Well, well, the day I thought that would never come for me, personally, is indeed arriving rather rapidly! So rapidly, if fact, that Lisa and I are stressed to the max about getting things finished! I guess this is nothing new for the Bride and Groom but I was hoping to avoid most of this with more non-traditional events. I guess I was wrong! No wait, I know I am wrong because I am Man! I've been told on several occasions in the recent past that I should learn that now and learn it well. So from my mentors, and fathers who have gone before, I now take the "Men are never right according to women" stance.
I shouldn't make it sound as though this has been a horrible experience though. It has been a lot of fun actually. Seeing the excitement in the people's faces when we tell them we are engaged! I think it's mainly because they are surprised that anyone would agree to marry me but that's beside the point, and Lisa would disagree but I once again refer to my statement mentioned before that men are never right according to women. Lisa has been really excited as well and that has been the best part. It's always nice to see her smiling when we talk about things that we'll have at the reception or how something will be done that she's always dreamed about.
I shouldn't make it sound as though this has been a horrible experience though. It has been a lot of fun actually. Seeing the excitement in the people's faces when we tell them we are engaged! I think it's mainly because they are surprised that anyone would agree to marry me but that's beside the point, and Lisa would disagree but I once again refer to my statement mentioned before that men are never right according to women. Lisa has been really excited as well and that has been the best part. It's always nice to see her smiling when we talk about things that we'll have at the reception or how something will be done that she's always dreamed about.
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