New Year's Resolutions

If you hadn't noticed we sort of forgot to blog in December. I know -- some faithful reader(s) has been anxiously awaiting a blog and because of all the built up suspense they may now expect the blog equivalent of a unicorn sighting. But that's not going to happen. Instead, the best you'll get is an update and my two New Year's Resolutions of 2010. To start it off, I hereby declare and resolve to do the following:

1. Lose weight (as previously discussed)


2. Marry Eileen

I'm pretty sure the first one is doable. And of course the second one is, too, otherwise I lose my security deposits. But after going through some of the wedding details over the winter break, it's crazy to think that in six months this party is happening.

I was fortunate to take some vacation in December and was looking forward to relaxing, maybe catching up on some video games with my brother, etc.

(dramatization depicted; not actually me and my brother playing video games)

Lucky for me, Eileen had plans that were even more fun.

Welcome to the wonderful world of linen shopping. I won't go into all of the details because I'm sure you can imagine my excitement when we walked into the room and were presented with various shades of purple named things like eggplant, lilac, fuchsia, and shoot-me-in-the-face-now-please.

But what about invitations? You still haven't picked out the design. Will it be a single page, fold-out, tri-fold or whatever-you-call-it? Will you use this paper, or that paper in this color, or what about this paper in that color? What? No Evite option?

I know -- I'm making it sound worse than it really is. I didn't greet everything with total indifference. For example, I did sort of look forward to cake tasting. But what I thought was going to be us going in to taste cakes turned into more questions being asked -- buttercream, whipped cream, or fondant? How many tiers? I just wanted some cake.

The final wedding related task I had to help out with was finding what the groomsmen were going to wear. So I hung out with the groomsmen, passed through a store or two, had some lunch, went to the suit store, picked and tried on suits, opened up a credit card to reap the discount benefits (25% additional off on a suit already marked down 50%), purchased suits, and left the store. All within about 2-3 hours for seven fitted suits of varying sizes. Maybe this wedding planning thing isn't that bad after all.