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Chuppah Fitting

// September 25th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I would like to introduce you to 2/3rds of our wedding chuppah.

In my wedding even the chuppah gets a fitting. My pumkin and I met up with members of Team Chuppah today to work through the logistics of how one put up a knitted chuppah. We are overwhelmed by how awesome this whole thing is.

Speechless… or should I say the only sounds we can utter are.. ahh.. ghaa.. oohh…

We knew it was big and awesome, but we did not know how big and awesome.

Gone…

// September 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Beauty, my dog of thirteen plus years, died tonight.

She was part of the glue that holds my family together. She echoed the love and neediness that comprise all of my family. Her fur was soft and her body was always warm. She preferred human food to everything else and would snatch anything she could get her paws on. Holding her paw at the table and near the couch would calm her.

We were fortunate to have her for all these years. No matter how sore and thin she got, she always turned into a puppy if you brought her to the beach.

My family will miss her… Home will never be the same.

Taking my heart for a walk

// September 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I have gone high tech. I am now using my heart rate monitor. So instead of just walking, I am going to watch my calories and try to go calorie nuetral until the wedding. This is something that I have been meaning to do for a while, but until now have not done it.

As it turns out, taking your heart out for a walk is something that is in in Boston, hence the photo.

Measuring Up

// September 12th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

In case you can’t tell, I am getting fitted for my tuxedo.

The tape measure is lost in the folds of my shirt. I am not amused. I am a little larger than I thought I was and now I have to deal with it.

Five miles a day.

Five Miles

// September 4th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Most experts agree that no matter what, exercise is good for you.

So I am going to try and walk or bike at least 5 miles a day from here until the wedding. I hope that this gives me the time to let go of some of the stress and get me ready for a night of dancing. Because I will be damned if I am not the last one standing at my wedding.

The traveling people

// September 2nd, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

A couple of years ago I went to Prague with my family. My brother was graduating from College and we decided to travel together.

As a family we have traveled together a lot. Chile, Europe, Puerto Rico, Montserrat, North Dakota… Yeah, I said North Dakota. As a matter of fact my parents are traveling around North Dakota this weekend. We have friends who they visit on the Man Dan reservation.

Friday, I got a call from my parents. “Guido, can you remember that place where we got pie that last time we were here, five years ago?”.

Sadly, my parents were out of luck because, I can barely remember where I had lunch yesterday let alone where we got pie five years ago. Thank god I have pictures to remind me where I have been.

My new shed

// September 1st, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Today marks my first day with my new urban shed. See, here in the wilds of Boston, we don’t have backyards where we can build sheds. Here in Boston we rent them by the month.

I have to say while talking to the guy who runs the storage rental space office I went to today I thought, now this could be a neat job. A little customer service, a little administration, a little sheriff work, and a lot of free shwag. It’s a dream if you are a pack rat. Apparently many people leave there things behind and then they become treasure.

Not a bad deal.

Finally, for those of you keeping track to see how many of the things I do/write about are related to my wedding, I would like to point out that this is a pre-wedding activity. That’s right, shed=wedding. It’s not as sexy as a wedding band but it is just as useful.

When my fiancé and I moved into the place where we live we realized that we had a lot more stuff than space in our home. So we have had this wall of boxes hanging out in our bedroom for over a year. We don’t mind them so much, but… with all the people who will be dropping by around the wedding we thought it would be in our best interest to really clean house.

So one more expense for the wedding, urban shed.