It’s my birthday today!!! Wooohoooo!

Damn. I feel old.

Where are all my presents?!?!?!?

Will be held at Ledo’s Pizza.. the BEST pizza place on earth!

Rehearsal starts at 6pm….I’m not nervous yet, but I wonder if it will kick in then?

For now I must clean clean clean before my guest come over to chill with me before the madness begins.

I have tons to say and updated you about, but for now I’ll keep this post to a short and simple rant.

I just found out(4 days before the rehearsal dinner, mind you) that my father won’t be paying for ANY alcohol at the rehearsal dinner.

His reasoning? He believes if people know they can order alcohol on his tab, they’ll go crazy and order as much as they want. (Does he think they’re alcoholics or something? He hasn’t met a single one of them!!)

Keep in mind that the ONLY thing they have to do for the wedding (other than show up and rent a tux) is the rehearsal dinner.

Also keep in mind that they didn’t plan a damn thing concerning it because they live in England and felt they couldn’t, so Megan and I planned everything.

Also keep in mind that when Megan and I proposed the current rehearsal dinner plans(that they agreed to and said they would pay for) it included 1 beer for about 90% of our guests there–because we know who’s coming and who drink and who won’t. Not to mention it also included a wee bit of ‘wiggle’ room for those guests we thought might drink two.

It’s tasteless to invite people to a rehearsal dinner and have them pay for their own drink, and I can’t supply any alcohol because the restaurant obviously won’t allow it.

If only they could have let us know this, oh, I don’t know…. MONTHS ago when this was originally planned, I’d be prepared for it, and who knows? Maybe would have picked a place that allowed us to supply our own drinks. But no. Gotta be an ass and tell us 4 days before the event.

Thanks alot.

Now to find a tactful way of telling people that they can’t order alcohol, even though most of them think they can.

I was going to go with the whole ‘my father is an asshole’ excuse, but we both know thats not tactful.

My sister claims it’s because it’s my second wedding and I’m having (what she considers) a large rehearsal dinner.

Wow. With that attitude I guess I should feel special he’s even showing up.

Not that I even want him to now. Thank God he wasn’t paying for anything for the actual wedding. We’d be having it in the backyard with hose water for refreshments.

Yup, I’m pissed.

EDIT: I’m still pissed, but it turns out Megan called my mom and ‘gently reminded her’ of the financial details(ie, how cheap alcohol is at this place) and that they’d already agreed to pay for it. My mom spoke with my dad(I don’t know what was said) but my mom called Megan back and said they’d pay for it. Thank God.

My Bachelor party is next Friday, and the Friday after that I’m getting married.

Time sure does fly by, huh?

On a totally unrelated note, my store just got a new GM, and let me say I am very happy with who they picked.

How many kings stepped down from their thrones?
How many lords have abandoned their homes?
How many greats have become the least for me?
How many Gods have poured out their hearts
To romance a world that has torn all apart?
How many fathers gave up their sons for me?
Only one…

I’m about to leave to go catch my flight.

No updates til I return.

Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Tuesday I’m flying into Miami to visit my Abuella til Saturday. It may be the last time I see her alive.

Pray for traveling mercies and for strength, cause it’s gonna be hard.

The world lost a great, great man.

I lost a Grandfather.

I’ll see you again someday Grandpa.

My Abuella is in the hospital.

I’m very sad.

I met her.

Now, in less than two months we’ll be husband and wife.

Isn’t life wonderful?

I just picked up my 2 new pairs of eye glasses.

And damn do I look hott!

From the end of March til I get married, Anne Arundel Community College is offering Basic Dance for Wedding Receptions as a non-credit course.

Megan, myself, and her parents are all going to take it, and I’m thinking maybe Megan and I will take a couple private dance lessons to learn some advanced moves for our foxtrot.

Yay for dancing!

So it’s been in the ‘works’ for a while now, with both Megan and I going back and forth on how I could go back to school, which school, what I would study, etc…

But suffice to say a major candidate for the school is Global University. It’s mainly a distance education school affiliated with the A/G. I’m really interested because since I went to two A/G schools, I know my credits will transfer with minimal complications, and their B.A. in Religious Education is right up my ally.

Nothing set in stone yet, but its a great feeling to at least know theres a stone to work with, if you know what I mean.

Please continue to keep me and this situation in your prayers.

Hanging out with my friends

Carbs

My old youth pastor

Toby

Minneapolis

old skool ztug.net

Simon

Passion…

In no particular order, my top 3 guys are:

David Archulata(damn that kid can sing)
Danny Noriega(I love your attitude, and your hair looks WAY better than it did last year)
David Hernandez

My top three girls (in no particular order) are:

Kady Malloy(is it just me, or does she have a little mandy moore thing going on?)
Carly Smithson
Brooke White.
I’ve also got a soft spot for Kristy Lee Cook(how could I not love a cage fighter?)

I think it was a BIG mistake to send Alaina home yesterday. The two girls who I can’t wait to be sent home are Amanda Overmyer(stupid rocker chick. You can’t sing!) and Asia’h Epperson. The two guys are David Cook(In my mind he’s now a major jerk for the comment he made to Simon) and Jason Castro.