I've been a terrible slacker and have not yet shared with everyone the super awesome treasure of our wedding portrait! I commissioned this as a first anniversary present from me to Ian. It's done by Gail Cali at Elephant Tree Art who is \m/ awesome \m/, and who listened to me, was open to questions and requests, totally patient, and whose work is ( Read more... )

Exciting! I've got an appointment to go get fingerprinted tomorrow morning for the background check in preparation for my legal name change. Hooray! Can't wait to make this official ( Read more... )

Here are some of the wedding pictures for your enjoyment:

http://www.i-moriarty.com/wedding/pix_01.html

More to come later!

Trace

Last night back at our apartment in Plano, I joked with Ian that I feel like Marty McFly when he wakes to the soothing tones of his mother's voice calming voice telling him all that time travel business was just a nightmare and how he's safe and sound here in good ole 1955! The past month has been so busy for us, and after an active (and delightful ( Read more... )

Ian and I had perfect weather for our outdoor wedding in Florida. Photographs of the wedding itself won't be available for a few more days, but you can see some of our vacation at Disney here. I hope to post more over the weekend.

( Included among the amusing stories of little mishaps that didn't cause any real harm... )

( Sleepy thoughts the day before my wedding. )

I just watched a movie called, "September Dawn," about a massacre of some pioneers that was blamed on crazy Mormons. Really interesting; it made me think ( Read more... )

"Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born..."
My Wedding Dress Arrives!Yesterday I finally had the pleasure of trying on my wedding dress! After its own saga just to order it, there was a sequel in the receipt. I paid for express shipping for its arrival last Wednesday. Ian tried unsuccessfully to pick up ( Read more... )

Ya know - I really loathe wedding planning. I do. This is not fun. The wedding will be fun -- the planning? Not so enjoyable. I wish I had the money to hire a wedding planner to do all this for me -- and even so, there are aspects that someone else could not do, like bra shopping, or deciding whether or not to wear panty hose, or try to count the ( Read more... )

I'm calling Disneyworld to confirm our hotel reservations which are a little weird. I'm on hold. First it was that little weird purple EPCOT dragon guy singing, "Imaaaaaagination!" in my ear over and over. Now it's, "Canada!... blahity blah... Canada!" Oy vey.

Maybe I shouldn't be making this call today.

T.