October 23, 1998

It's been a while since my last journal entry, and a lot has happened. I'll try my best to explain the life of a guy who's getting married in 2 weeks.

The Couples Shower was excellent! It was hosted by Shane and Sarah last weekend at our house. I have to preface by saying that Laurel and I had been living in the basement for two weeks while the floors of the new house were finished. We crammed all of our stuff down there and put a matress on the floor - hey, just like the old days! We got so cramped we took to throwing socks at Evil so he'd give us some space.

The floors were done on Tuesday, the furnature all came on Wednesday, and I took the day off to install new lamps, hang the curtains and move everything upstairs. We got 75% of the the work done on that day. Before the party we were up till 2 moving the last of the house upstairs and putting everything away. We were more than ready for the party, and it turned out to be great! They even had a cleaning service come straighten up for us.

This past week as been about taking care of details. We got our marriage license (an experience you should try some time), met with our Pastor, where we took the compatability test, finalized the ceremony, the music, the limo, the hotel, the trip, got all the tuxes and dresses ready to go, set up the rehersal dinner menu, the rehersal, the deserts, the food and drinks, and wrote our vows. We're not even close to being done.

Keith Jackson invited us to his shop to try out his candy assortments. We got to see the place where he makes his delicious chocolates, or the "Factory of Love" as Laurel might say. He's been kind enough to provide candy and cakes for the reception in exchange for a web site, which we have been talking about for several years now. I guess it'd better be a good site huh?

Here's a partial list of zany questions I keep getting asked: "Are you getting nervous yet?" "Now do you wish you'd eloped?" "Have you had your first fight yet?" Ha ha! Very good questions! Go away! I'm going crazy!

That's the update for now. Check back later! There might be pictures!