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Bless me father for I have lived. Its been 13 days since my last blog session.

So I haven’t felt like blogging in a while, sue me. Anyway, here is the run down of things that have happened.

• Friday October 12th -I drove down to Southpoint, Ohio (the definition of a one horse town) for Andy and Jenny’s rehearsal dinner. I meet up with the immediate family at the hotel (Shantel, Mom, Anthony, and Ayla) and we check in. Then it dons on me that I need to pick up my Tux. Enter the following conversation:

Me: Shit I don’t know how to get there.

Shantel: You got the address?

Me: Yes.

Shantel: You want to borrow the bitch?

Me: Mmmmm….Yeah, give me the bitch.

The bitch we are referring to is her Garmin Nuvi portable GPS unit. The nickname was given by my mother who came up with the name the first time she was in the car listening to it give us directions. “The bitch told us to turn left.” I stopped trying to explain the weird quirks of my family long ago.

Anyway I get to the Tux place in back only to have to round everyone up to head over to the church. Anthony and I were in the wedding party, so we had the privledge/curse of having to put up with the most psycho wedding cordinator I have ever met. I knew it was bad when I pulled Andy’s dad, Charlie, aside and told him if he didn’t shut her up I was going to shoot her. The funny thing is Charlie is a retired State Trooper, and offered to help me take her down. Kevin, the best man and adopted son of Charlie and Gwen, is a current State Trooper and he asked to join in on the fun. Needless to say we all (no I didn’t really shoot her) made it out alive and headed over to dinner.

Texas Roadhouse on a Friday night in a small town that has next to no fine dinning establishments was packed. Add a 46 person rehearsal dinner, and you have the recipe for a blocked entrance. Its kind of funny to realize that you are standing next to a Fire Fighter (my Uncle Pat, he’s a Fire Fighter in Northern Kentucky and DJs on his free weekends for fun/money) in an entrance packed so much with people that it has to be breaking fire code. They finnaly seated us, and dinner went off more or less without a hitch.

We retried back to the hotel room where I introduced Anthony to WoW. Shantel is going to kill me for corupting her son.

• Saturday October 13th – Woke up, had breakfast, and then got suckered into to going to Walmart. At the end of the trip, my cart was full of household stuff for the new apartment thanks to mom.

We got back tot he hotel and started getting ready for the wedding. As I was putting my black vest on over my ivory shirt, I turned to look in the mirror and realized I could Cosplay as Han Solo in this outfit. After a good laugh, I finished getting ready, grabbed Anthony, and headed over to the church. The wedding and the pictures were a blur (though we did get Anthony, Michigan fan he is (I know, how can he go against his uncle/godfather like that), to help us do the O-H-I-O cheer for a picture.

We arrived at the reception, ate, drank, and were marry. There was much drinking, shot buying, cigar smoking, and general debauchery that goes on at family events. The high point of the night was the playing of a song that has become a family tradition for weddings and such, “Family Tradition” by Hank Williams Jr. During my cousin Lisa’s weddin, this tradition got slightly perverted into a drinking binge (it was BYOB and grandpa had a full 1L bottle Captain Morgans at the start of the song). This reception did not stray from that tradition.

Why do you drink?

To get drunk!

Why do you role smokes?

To get high!

Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?

To get laid!

The bottle made it around the circle one and quarter times, and was empty just as the song ended. Grandpa would later remark that the family seemed to have a few extra “additions” in the circle. Thats what happens when you break out free booze. It was a good time for all and I hope Andy and Jenny enjoyed themselves.

• Sunday October 14th – Got up and said my good byes. Drove back home and crashed. Got up and went out to dinner with Nate and Mraz. Afterwards we headed back to Mraz’s place to watch Avatar.
• Monday October 15th – First day of the insane work week from hell. Unfortunately I can’t blog about the fun juicy gossip stuff that goes on at work (either at the client site or HQ), so you’ll just have to take my word on it. Got home that night and had Mraz drive me to meet my parents at the Bob Evans in Jeffersonville (so I could get a one way moving truck the next day). He thought it was kind of humorous that we all ordered breakfast while he ordered dinner. Go fig.
• Tuesday October 16th -The wettest moving day ever. Wayne and I got drenched loading the stuff at my parents condo. I fought with an uncooperative mirror on the truck on the trip up. Unloading was a little easier with Mraz and my dad helping us at the destination. Thankfully mom took the time to unpack the kitchen for me while we setup the bedroom furniture. Wayne and I had finding the place to return the truck. Eventually everyone left and I turned in for the night.
• Wednesday October 17th – More work? Get home and find out Katy has twisted her ankle. I went and bought her a couple of huge bags of peas to ice it down. John met me at her place. I found out later they had and interesting adventure at the hospital. Read what he said and then read what she said. Its good for a laugh. I retired back to the house to meet up with an old friend. After that it was bed time.
• Thursday October 18th – Is it Friday yet?
• Friday October 19th – TGIF! Got home from work and headed over to Mraz’s place. Greg, the drunk Ukrainian, was in town for a visit. We hit up Fazolis for dinner, and then played WoW.
• Saturday October 20th – Mraz talked us into buying Team Fortress 2. I highly recommend you check out the videos for the Heavy, Solider, Engineer, and Demoman. They are hysterical, even if you don’t like video games. After that we hit up the Movie Tavern for 30 Days of Night and the fastest service I’ve ever received at the place to date. Seriously, I ordered a salad with my meal, and it was at my seat within 60 seconds of ordering it. It literally beat my drink order to the table. Now that is service.
• Sunday October 21st – More gaming and Anime viewing at Mraz’s place. So I pretty much blew any hope of getting chores done over the weekend, but I had a good time, so who cares.
• Monday October 22nd – Back to work. Someone shoot me now.
• Tuesday October 23rd- A productive day at work. A weird night. I couldn’t shake something that had started to bother me. A feeling that seems to creep up around this time of year. I’ll learn to deal with it one of these days. Katy listen to me ramble about it for a bit. Thanks! I also setup dd-wrt on my router at home. I love having the power of a business class cisco router for only $50.
• Wednesday October 24th – Another productive day at work. I also found out my boss is moving on to a new company. Good for him, he needs this kind of change in his life right now, and he deserves it. Of course that means work is going to be even more fun for me and my co-worker. I think we’ll live.

So I’ve finished this long winded post and I’m looking at a pile of boxes that I still haven’t bothered to unpack. I hate moving.