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A new dawn

// January 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

The Beauty of a new year is the same as a new day. It’s the promise of something new. Seeing as in the last couple years I have settled down in a home and gotten married, the idea of something new is going to change drastically.

Sadly, new does not always mean better or good. There is a fear in my heart of the new things that will happen. It’s the age old drama… The day you are born is the saddest day of your life. Prior to being born you could not do anything wrong (sin) and nothing could effect you. After being born you can make bad choices, get hurt, or hurt someone else.

I hope in 08 I can be true to myself. New things will come and go, but I will still be me at the end of the year.

It’s Done

// October 8th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

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.

Eternal Return

// August 31st, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
The Unbearable lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

My life is like many others. It’s the choices we all make that separate me from you and you from me. The choices we make are the parts of our story. Every good story has plot, which requires a change.

So many things have changed for me in the last couple years. Many of which I chose and many of which have happened by circumstance. Sadly, the ones I have not had any control over have become a weight on my happiness. Making me the guy who chooses to live in the past.

So I have come to a point in my life, a fork have you, where I must update my sense of who I am and where I am going and with whom. I must accept the life I have and choose to make changes that guide it to where I want it.

This is not new news, but a reflection of some of my stress and frustration around the wedding. It is at events and points like this in ones life that all these things that I may be holding onto come into play. My understanding of my family, friends, enemies, aquantaces all play a role in what I expect. But perhaps what I expect is something that only exists in my head, expectations based on a time in my life that has set the course for the story that I write.

It is time for me to open the new book of my life and place my name and my fiance’s name in the cover. Perhaps in this book some of the old characters will return, but let’s not write a book about my old book.