Archive for December 1st, 2008

What a change is here...

The plan went as follows:

1. Rent a new apartment large enough for both of us.
2. While paying the first month’s rent on the new apartment and one last month’s rent on our old, separate ones, gradually move in our belongings.
3. Set up satellite TV and DSL internet at the new apartment.
4. Once enough of my stuff is moved, I begin actually living there while bringing the remainder of my property over at my leisure.
5. Cancel satellite TV and internet at the old apartment.
6. Once her last month ends, move her remaining belongings either to the new apartment or to her parents’ house, which is where she will sleep until our wedding.
7. Get married.
8. Bring her and her luggage to the new apartment and begin a blissful marriage.

This is what is known as a segue:  a smooth transition from one state to another.   Best of all, the wedding was scheduled for November 29, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so that we’d both have a few days off from work for last-minute details.

Right.

The actual chain of events was more like this:

1. Rent a new apartment large enough for both of us.
2. Spend two months’ rent on all three apartments (hers, mine, and ours).
3. Bring not nearly enough of our stuff to the apartment before I begin living there.
4. Have satellite TV and DSL internet installed, but have absolutely no time to watch TV or set up the internet access for nearly a week, because I’m
5. spending Thanksgiving week working from 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning until after midnight, every day, right up until the night before we
6. get married in a beautiful ceremony with lots of friends and relatives present (more on this in later posts, but it was magnificent).
7. Bring her and her luggage to the new apartment and begin a blissful but very busy marriage.
8. Spend the day after the wedding still trying frantically to empty out my old apartment (again, more on the theme of “why do I own this much stuff” later).

Argh.  The entire week was incredibly stressful, and I nearly fell asleep on the road this morning, and I’ve been saying for about four or five days that I really will get the internet set up today (which is why I haven’t posted in nearly a week), and it hasn’t happened yet… but, you know what?

The wedding was beautiful, my wife (wow) in her wedding gown was absolutely gorgeous (as opposed to merely very, very beautiful, as she is the rest of the time), the catering at the reception was amazing, and this afternoon when I leave school I’ll be going home to the most wonderful and amazing woman in the world.

I am feeling incredibly happy and satisfied right now.

Maybe she’ll make cookies.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

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