Archive for January, 2008
I know
Last night Lisa and I were running across the street behind the Exit/In and the wind was blowing so hard that I thought we might blow away into the sky. The wind was so loud it overpowered all of the other sounds of the city. We started to run as fast as we could until we got to my car, where we both attempted to pry the doors open and pile in. We sort of sat there for a moment, both of us looking out through the windshield, our hair all blown in all directions, both of us gasping and trying to put ourselves back together.
We looked at each other and I said what I always say to her at moments like that.
And I knew that I’d be remembering that moment forever.
Things
Things are still moving along, I promise. Lisa has been trying to focus on her part time job, search for a new job, get ready for an interview tomorrow, get over sinus sickness, and put up with stormy the chewing machine and myself.
We’re still trying to get everything put together. It’s been really trying dealing with finding the right location and the right cost. We have two more potential locations to look at in Asheville, which we’ll be doing this upcoming weekend. We’re also looking into joining our church here in Nashville to become full-fledged members and having the wedding here.
Of course, all of this is in progress.
The good, great, amazing news is Jay and Jill Clarke have agreed to help us with marriage counselling. The Clarke’s lead the bible study that Lisa and I attend on Sunday’s after church, and have been incredibly insightful on all sorts of things. We had lunch with them at their house after church yesterday and they agreed to counsel us, which, honestly, appears to have them as excited about it as we are. I don’t think we could have found a better couple to mentor us and pray with us about our marriage. I’m thankful that they are in our lives and that they want to continue to be in our lives.
Other than that, things are great. We’re super busy around here. We’re both looking forward to getting out of town again for a few days and seeing family. I think it’s going to be good to have her folks along with us in Asheville. I’m looking forward to seeing her folks. And right now I’m looking forward to seeing Lisa tonight when she gets out of work. I always look forward to that.
Apologetic
Hey guys,
Matt and I were talking last night about how we haven’t updated the blog in a while. We’re kindof taking a bit of a break from full on wedding planning. We both got a little burnt out a little too fast.
Also, I got an interview with a really awesome company that I hope to work for…priorities!
We’ll be up and running again soon.
Love you all! 
)
~lis
Also
My average day is usually getting up around 6am or so (although that seems to be getting harder every day) and showering for work. I try to run when I can, but that doesn’t always happen, especially with this whole ’sleeping is awesome’ kick that I’m on. I’m usually at work, at my desk by 730am, trying to get my head on straight, etc. I drink a lot of coffee, but I think I’m going to start replacing that routine with juice; my body is starting to do this whole ‘hey dude, too much coffee’ thing and I’m not so much a fan of it.
The first thing I do at work is email Lisa. I’ve been doing this everyday literally since we started ‘hanging out,’ or pre-dating or whatever you want to call it. I email her every morning like clockwork, so much so that there have been a couple of odd days where I couldn’t email her right away and she would email me all concerned about it (I can remember one instance where my morning email landed in her junk mail folder and confusion commenced thereafter..).
Lately she’s been emailing me all day long with wedding stuff; information about locations, budget stuff, updated spreadsheets, what I need to do or who I need to call to check on something, and so on and so forth. I have a little folder in my Outlook Inbox for wedding stuff.
She asks me (from time to time) if the emails get bothersome or stressful to me.
Truthfully, Vanderbilt University could be on fire and burning to the ground and I would still rush to check my Inbox if that little email alert popped up in the corner of my computer screen. I love listening to her get excited about the wedding. The Bridal Show in Asheville was a lot of fun. She kept asking me if I was okay, and I kept telling her that I was completely overwhelmed; and completely overjoyed and excited. She would start signing us up for a mailing list or for some sample of something and I would stand back a few feet and just watching her grinning and talking with whomever it was at the table.
It’s pretty much the greatest thing ever.
End result after crawling out of the war zone…
We made it back from Asheville successfully! Weddingcon II, Asheville Reign, wasn’t so bad. It was about 1/4 to 1/5 of the size of Weddingcon 10,000. (Although a bit overwhelmed, Matt enjoyed it a little, I think….). They gave him a “I’m the Groom” sticker, which he displayed proudly for the following 2 days.
We went to the Biltmore and were blown away again at how amazing it was…just enchanting almost. The Tree, our tree…is unavailable. She showed us alternate locations, reception locations, all beautiful and utterly amazing…and then the price tag.
And we’ll leave it at that.
We hung out with my awesome, published author, cousin Chris. We had dinner and went to this amazing bar on, what appeared to be, sugar momma/daddy-over 40’s night. They played a weird mishmash of music, then a live band began to play jam band blues. We danced and laughed at the other, much older, couples…
And we’ll leave IT at that as well.
We traveled home and shared our adventures and sweet tacos with my parents, discovered that my dog had been mangled by a full speed run in with a barbed wire fence, and stopped for a milkshake with my dear friend Elisabeth and her husband on the way back to Nashville.
It was a fantastic trip. And we finally have a budget. Which means we’re on the road to finally setting a date.
Good news everywhere!!!
It’s all true.
Matt made a blog today. I get to write in it first.
We got engaged the Tuesday before Christmas, on December 18th.
We’re going to Asheville this weekend to see if having the wedding at our 1st choice location is actually realistic. My mom is sad because she wants to come, but we have to go this journey alone…it could be a treacherous undertaking…(Matt is teaching me how to make my part of our blog sound tough).
I just karate kicked a picture off my wall. (
I’m also subjecting Matt to Weddingcon II, Asheville Reign. So send your prayers in early on Saturday morning, he’ll need them. My roommate and I went to Weddingcon 10,000 in Nashville…we saw only a handful of dudes, and they all looked miserable.
Love you Mattie!
