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This about sums the console wars up.
Anyway. Life moves on. Nothing dramatic at this time, though there's some stuff about Witty, and some talk of the wedding.
Witty's little outdoor escapade has flared up his allergies. He's healed all his cuts and scratches, but his fur still needs to grow back. At least he's not furiously scratching and washing as much anymore. I wonder if the allergies were what caused his possibly self-inflicted injuries. He's nibbled raw spots into himself every spring since moving up here, so I can only imagine how bad it is when he's completely exposed to all the allergens of the outdoors for a prolonged amount of time. He is both more grumpy and more affectionate, though. He is annoyed at me, I think for 'capturing' him again, but he has started taking a liking to the others around the house, and even curled up in Danielle's lap once recently. That never happened before... but whatever. I can still scritch him in all the right spots and get him purring, and I make a note to play with him more so he is not so bored around the house.
Work... oi. But that's just work. I continue to search for inspiration and/or opportunity.
Home. Danielle's back onto wedding stuff lately. We now know we can get THE DRESS for her for as little as $700 or so. That's a lot less than I was afeared of. She is also looking for the ultimate wedding favors, something ingenious, endearing, and yet... inexpensive. Have I mentioned how much I love this girl? It's been so hard to find someone who is so deliciously girly, and yet so sensible at the same time. We are also considering doing the whole thing at the river house (my grandmother's house on Winward Island in Savannah), since it would be both beautiful when it's cleaned up, and ever so economical. Renting locations we've even remotely liked have all run into the the $1000+ range, both locally and in Savannah.
I am with Danielle all the way on this, though. I believe we can do a wedding to remember, and still not throw down $100,000 on it. Most of the Wedding Industry is a crap business anyway, charging out the ass for things that come off pretty once, and then are so much garbage. If it's not garbage, it's a keepsake that will get stored away and forgotten until it's so age-damaged or out of date that it's garbage anyway. We just attended a friend's wedding a few months ago, and they put themselves into incredible debt to throw what was, in my opinion, a pretty mediocre event. Part of it was the bride's rather overbearing choice of decoration and theme, but also a lot of it was rental this, reservation that. A good wedding should be a quality event, not a giganti-huge, echoing cathedral with a fussy, supercilious staff and where all the attendees barely fill the first 4 pews, or a rickety meeting hall with Bingo Night tables, overbearing floral arrangements, and not much else. Danielle and I are, I feel, quite confident that it's not the size of the event, but it's meaning to our families, friends, and ourselves.
And just in case you didn't know or are worried about it, the wedding's tenative date is still a year from now.
Anyway. Life moves on. Nothing dramatic at this time, though there's some stuff about Witty, and some talk of the wedding.
Witty's little outdoor escapade has flared up his allergies. He's healed all his cuts and scratches, but his fur still needs to grow back. At least he's not furiously scratching and washing as much anymore. I wonder if the allergies were what caused his possibly self-inflicted injuries. He's nibbled raw spots into himself every spring since moving up here, so I can only imagine how bad it is when he's completely exposed to all the allergens of the outdoors for a prolonged amount of time. He is both more grumpy and more affectionate, though. He is annoyed at me, I think for 'capturing' him again, but he has started taking a liking to the others around the house, and even curled up in Danielle's lap once recently. That never happened before... but whatever. I can still scritch him in all the right spots and get him purring, and I make a note to play with him more so he is not so bored around the house.
Work... oi. But that's just work. I continue to search for inspiration and/or opportunity.
Home. Danielle's back onto wedding stuff lately. We now know we can get THE DRESS for her for as little as $700 or so. That's a lot less than I was afeared of. She is also looking for the ultimate wedding favors, something ingenious, endearing, and yet... inexpensive. Have I mentioned how much I love this girl? It's been so hard to find someone who is so deliciously girly, and yet so sensible at the same time. We are also considering doing the whole thing at the river house (my grandmother's house on Winward Island in Savannah), since it would be both beautiful when it's cleaned up, and ever so economical. Renting locations we've even remotely liked have all run into the the $1000+ range, both locally and in Savannah.
I am with Danielle all the way on this, though. I believe we can do a wedding to remember, and still not throw down $100,000 on it. Most of the Wedding Industry is a crap business anyway, charging out the ass for things that come off pretty once, and then are so much garbage. If it's not garbage, it's a keepsake that will get stored away and forgotten until it's so age-damaged or out of date that it's garbage anyway. We just attended a friend's wedding a few months ago, and they put themselves into incredible debt to throw what was, in my opinion, a pretty mediocre event. Part of it was the bride's rather overbearing choice of decoration and theme, but also a lot of it was rental this, reservation that. A good wedding should be a quality event, not a giganti-huge, echoing cathedral with a fussy, supercilious staff and where all the attendees barely fill the first 4 pews, or a rickety meeting hall with Bingo Night tables, overbearing floral arrangements, and not much else. Danielle and I are, I feel, quite confident that it's not the size of the event, but it's meaning to our families, friends, and ourselves.
And just in case you didn't know or are worried about it, the wedding's tenative date is still a year from now.