Anyone Reading?

I don't think so...but if you are, and if it's not obvious enough, I'm not blogging here anymore. Amanda and I are both using the following for our blog site. Thanks!!!

http://theburts.wordpress.com

Daniel

Married Life...

...is AWESOME!  Amanda and I are having a wonderful time setting up our new little apartment. It's really cool...small space, will keep us from having a bunch of stuff (ok, will force us to get rid of a bunch of stuff) but it's really efficient and feels very comfortable. Which brings me to this off topic thing I wanted to blog about...

While on our vacation, we saw this TV thing (don't worry guys we didn't really watch TV on our honeymoon...we may have turned it on a couple times to find out if we were going to be swept away by Hurricane FLOSSIE, heheh, that's all) where this guy was building 75 square feet HOMES. His idea was that we live with so much excessive space AND excessive debt that he decided to make a home with everything one would need for less than twenty grand. Now, many are buying them, customized, from 75 to a few hundred square feet, and he's even making a community of all "tiny homes." Check it out... Tumbleweed Houses as featured on Oprah, by the way. What a great testimony to the fact that we live in WAY excessive abundance. The weird part is that even with this home's tiny size, it's still so much more luxurious than what the average person has to call their home.

Also, our honeymoon was awesome. We actually did NOT get swept away by Flossie...probably because no hurricane called Flossie could actually do any damage, like my friend Andy mentioned. No wonder it fizzled out...it was called Flossie for goodness sake. But Hawaii was beautiful and we had tons of fun. We snorkeled almost every day...a nice free activity since we took our snorkeling gear with us everywhere. More on Hawaii when I have pics sorted through to illustrate.

The last quick thing is that I may be switching this blog to another one that will be for both Amanda and my posts....I figure that might be easier for people to read both our blogs instead of having to go to both our blog sites. We'll see. Back to work...

Thanks to Ariah

I received yet another lesson in computer streamlining from my roomate Ariah tonight. The last one was on RSS feeds, and I think I've forgotten all but the basics of that one. This one was on blogging via e-mail with the idea of it being easier so one will do it more. That's what this is. So thanks, Ariah, for your computer genius. ;)

So Amanda were at the lodge this past weekend working out some more final stuff for the wedding day(s), and it hit me...we can actually be ready in 1.5 weeks! Before then, I kept thinking there would be this crunch time where we would be totally overwhelmed with all that had to be done. I've told her and others all throughout this wedding preparation that it's all been fairly stress free. Nothing more than usual stresses or frustrations (like wanting to throw my printer out her third story window while printing invitations, hee) that could happen anytime. And now we're so close to the actual day, and most of the stuff that needs to be done is just getting stuff there that day, setting up, etc. There are a few more things, but nothing that we can't do by this coming weekend. So yay for us going Anti-Stress on our wedding preps. I'm proud of how organized and focused we've been to get everything done.

Oh, Amanda, I love you so much that if you were to plug my love for you up to an electrical outlet, it would blow up the whole neighborhood. There, I wrote about how much I love you.  :) 

18 more days!

So we're really coming to the end here! Just over 2 weeks, and we'll be heading to Natchez Trace State Park to get married!

I'm in the process of getting another doctor to work for me 5 days during the almost two weeks I'll be gone, so that's hopefully going to go well. Amy will be my/her assistant for the next month, and she's doing a fine job. Just have to get the doc up to speed on the equipment before I leave.

Other than work, I'm finally (hopefully) getting the fence done this week! It's been a long and somewhat frustrating process to work on a patio where I don't even live...but at least it's almost done. Thank God for Justin who's been helping me out tremendously.
And we're finishing up all kinds of other tasks, somehow managing to be stress free thus far! Finishing the huppah (or getting my mom to do the quilt), programs done last week, picking out a couple more songs, making CDs, finding amanda's jewelry for the wedding, reserving things to do in Hawaii, exercising (or trying), reading books on marriage and sex, and still finding some time to be together as friends and lovers and not just wedding planners. That last one is a toughie. :)

So I'll try soon to post something that's not just updating my life, but actually has some sort of connection to things I'm thinking or believing or hoping. In the meantime, I "hope" that what I'm doing is good enough for you. Cheers.

Whoa...what's this?

"Ahoy! I'm sailing! Way out on a boat? Out on the lake, way far away from the shore?
I sail! Ahoy!"

Ok, so I stole those lines from "What about Bob?", and I'm not tied to the mast of a sailboat as I scream them out. And, come to think about it, it doesn't really have to do with anything. Except when I signed up for a blog I wanted to scream out "Ahoy! I blog! On the computer, with the words and sentences? I BLOG!!!"

Alright, now that I've weeded out the first few people who come by to read my blog, I've done my job and will end my first blog. Goodbye.