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The cat’s out of the bag. On January 19th Courtney and I re-married. I could go into the whole history of things, but I’d rather save that for my autobiography. We celebrated our second time around the way we wanted, small and intimate, without much fanfare. I’m quite excited with what’s ahead of us.

I stole a few pictures of the weekend from Courtney’s camera. Enjoy!

Thanks to Chad and Tina for everything and thanks to all those well-wishers. We really appreciate all the love and support.

This weekend was pretty chill. Courtney and I spent some quality time together doing what we do best: getting into trouble and hanging out.

After a long and cheap night of drinking at Lyle’s Court, Chad, Tina and I tried to hop on a plane for Vegas. At 1 AM we thought it would be a good idea to call the airport, get on a plane, and go. Needless to say, it didn’t work out like that at all. Did you know there’s no redeye from Minneapolis to Vegas? Go figure. After regaining sanity we’ve decided to go in January.

Saturday we intended to do some Christmas shopping. It didn’t go so hot. We ended up parking ourselves at Barnes and Noble for an hour or so. We sat in the knitting section for awhile. Side note: if you still don’t know what to get me, Stupid Sock Creatures has been added to my list. Anyways, a very friendly youngerish lady wandered into the section where we were parked on the floor. She greeted us and made some friendly banter. As we grew more comfortable with her she mentioned she was looking for a good starter knitting book as a gift for her niece. Courtney offered her 2 cents about Stitch ‘n’ Bitch being a very useful reference for beginners. To our surprise the lady was taken aback by the title of the book alone. She would not say the title and began to question the instructions contained within. It was an uncomfortable moment. We realised we had accidently hit a nerve with her. Courtney asked if her reluctance to purchase the book was because her niece was young. “No, she’s 22.” Her friend, or mother, or somebody she knew, walked up in the middle of the conversation. Her friend began a rant about what a poor choice of title the book was. We somehow became surrounded by uptight right-wing-anglo-christian-bible-bangers out to dominate the world one knitting book at a time! The indignities continued. The younger woman proclaimed that there was absolutely no way she could possibly give a book of that type in a family setting like Christmas. I didn’t have the balls to tell her we gave it to Court’s mom for last year’s Christmas. We dropped the conversation and they moved on to the christian knitting section. Sometimes I forget that there’s another 49% of the world who actually voted for George Bush.

The rest of the weekend was spent just coolin’ out, running errands, and just enjoying the moment. There’s a laundry list of things we should have done, or could have done, but we didn’t do. I’m fine with that though. I wouldn’t have wanted to spend the weekend any other way.

In October Courtney and I went to Green Bay for Maggie and Nick’s wedding. When we arrived home I discovered two dead computers. I accidently found Lambaeu that weekend.

Whoa! Where did December go? Between the wedding, Vegas, Christmas, computers, and the dentist I haven’t had time to think. So let me recap what’s been going on in my life.

Wedding
Although there are a ton of outstanding issues everything seems to be falling into place. The big thing I have left to do is write my vows. I keep promising Courtney I’ll do it. One of these nights I actually will. For the second time our honeymoon got a little derailed. Not as bad and before though. We were flying on Sun Country until they decided to close up shop. Now we have to take a flight back at 11:40pm Sunday night which is less than ideal.

Las Vegas
Las Vegas was everything I thought it was going to be. And I’m never going back again. Well, at least not for many, many years. The trip was best summed up by Grant at 12:30am Friday night when we were trying to find a bite to eat. We had been there for 16 hours and Grant declared to everyone in a very low, shaky voice, “I am a delicate flower.” We peaked high and quick and from there on out it was all down hill. Vegas has too many lights and too much noise. It’s a sensory overload. I can say honestly if I never see Carrot Top again I’ll be a happy man.

Christmas
Christmas has really snuck up on me this year. We finished our shopping early ‘cept for Courtney’s dad. Though Courtney’s brother said he had it all taken care of. All we had to do was kick in some dough. But I haven’t heard from him lately so if you’re out there, Chad, I think you know my email address. I went to the jewelers (again!) to see if I could find Courtney anything interesting for Christmas. We promised not to go all out like we traditionally do. Neither one of us have much money to be throwing around. So I wanted something cheap. Well, I couldn’t bare to have my darling wearing anything cheap so I picked her up a nice pearl necklace and earrings. You know, for the wedding and all. I couldn’t keep a secret so I gave them to her that same night. Now I wish I hadn’t cuz I won’t be able to top that with a cheesy Christmas present.

Computers
The week before Vegas my computer decided it was going to give up. It basically stopped functioning all together. The hard drives started spouting loud profanities at me so I decided to finally put it in its final resting place and build a new one. I wasn’t able to go all out like I had hoped but for $450 bucks I was able to build a pretty decent machine. 512 megs ram, AMD Athlon 1700+, a new motherboard and case have turned me back into the hardcore computer elitest that I love to be. Feel free to envy me.

Dentist
You may be asking why this was such a big deal, right? I haven’t been to the dentist in 5 years. Of all things my parents made me do, the dentist is what I feared most. This topped off with a tooth ache that was starting to throb had me scared shitless for two months. That’s how long I had to wait for an appointment. I ( and by “I” I mean Courtney) made the appointment back in October. I mustered up enough courage to go this morning and after all was said and done, the Doc told me I have great teeth…..except for the gaping crack in my back tooth. So it wasn’t so bad I guess. It could have been worse. They did say the crack was probably from me gritting my teeth. So no more caffiene or stress for Jason! Yeah, right.