Christmas Presents
Friday, December 12th, 2003

It’s not nice to send your fiancee an email saying the following:

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Holiday Stress
Friday, December 12th, 2003

We’ve got a few things to do in the next few weeks. The list has overflowed one sheet of paper and is onto the second sheet. The second sheet has overflowed to a third sheet. The sheets are stacking upon themselves so fast that a heavy breeze could topple the entire pile, killing us in our sleep.

When’s Christmas, after all? The list, probably not a final version, is as follows:

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When and Where
Thursday, December 4th, 2003

So the when and the where have been pinned down. The official announcement as to these details will be revealed soon.

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Guidelines for Invitees?
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

How many is too many? If you invite everyone, you risk not having a relatively intimate ceremony. If you limit the number of guests, you risk seeming like a snob.

What the hell are you supposed to do? Where is the line to be drawn?

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Stacking Bricks Onto Jello
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

Jessica and I are trying to make arrangements as fast as possible. We just have different ways of doing it.

My engineering background and intuition keeps stressing the importance of research and development time as a prelude to any large decisions like the ones we’re preparing to make.

Jessica, however, has a hard time allowing me to not make any visible progress. We’re working on it, however. We’ve found a few locations that would suit us, now we’re just trying to tack down arrangements.

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First Holiday Meal
Monday, December 1st, 2003

Jessica and I undertook the responsibility of cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year for her family. We knew we would have leftovers, but I don’t think we had any concept of just how many leftovers we would have.

I have enough photos to get us all banished for gluttony.

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