Jeff’s Journal

…I got married.

Many of you reading this have known me, either through school or work or through LiveJournal, for longer than my wife has known me. You know full well where I’ve made my mistakes, where I’ve done embarrassing things, where I’ve made my life harder than it has to be. With Ann, all of that changed - she’s my rock, she gets me in ways most others have not, she validates my existence in ways I never could have imagined. Marrying her was the easiest and best choice I’ve ever made for myself, and I’m reminded of this fact nearly every day.

31 March 2007 was a really cool day in my life, and I’m glad so many people were able to share in it in their own way. For those who couldn’t be there, I’ve finally gotten video of one of the best parts up, so enjoy the Unity Volcano. Excuse the video quality - it was the best rip from the DVD we could get at the time, but it’s the idea that counts and YouTube isn’t entirely known for high definition anyway.

1) Meet Gobbles:

I got home from work today, and Ann started yelling “Did you see!? Did you see?!” I, of course, did not see, and we went out to the patio to see a large wild turkey chilling out on the roof of someone’s SUV. Pretty hilarious - he hung out for a few hours, hopped on a couple other cars before shuffling off into the sunset.

It’s not rare to see flocks/packs of wild turkeys off the side of the highway up here - it’s one of those great, odd things about New Hampshire wildlife that I appreciate. Ann took these pictures over the course of the afternoon.

2) So, since they’ve made their way to Chicago by now, I guess it’s safe to talk about them - thank you cards!

We made a deal early on after the wedding - Ann’s in charge of her family, I’m in charge of mine. She got her cards done before the summer, I think, and I was bogged down in summer reading and then dodgeball and then dodgeball and I never really got to it. Ann went to Philly a few weeks ago, and I totally intended to just do them and be done with it (if you were at the wedding, you know how many people we’re talking), and I essentially slacked off and played video games all weekend. Monday rolled around, and I’m swearing to myself, so I tell her that I’m needing to crack down and need her help finding things, which is when she shows me the cards, finished (and finished for weeks at that). I felt like more of a tool at that moment than I have the entire time we’ve been married.

If you got a neat little joke in your card outside of the pre-printed headline, I promise every word is true. If you didn’t get a card because you weren’t there, the text at the top was something close to “The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned After 11 Months of Marriage…When Your Husband Says He’ll Do the Thank You Cards, Don’t Trust Him.” It’s true.

So, publically, thank you all for coming, again, and making our big day worth it. Our anniversary is in 2 weeks, and I’ll have a fun post up for that.

3) Speaking of why New Hampshire is awesome, I bet your criminals don’t try to leap out of the courthouse window, and if they do, I bet they don’t apologize first. I love my state.

4) Our dodgeball team won! We;re 1-5! We’re 1-5!

Okay, ’tis all.