Whaddayagonnado?

So, it seems that the name isn't very fitting for this blog. Or is it? No, I don't think so. I re-started doing this after I lost my job and thought that I would easily be able to keep up with it. One 8 week contract later, and here I am updating 2 months late. I guess I should just do some of the main highlights of the last few months:

November

Not a whole lot happened in this last month. Of course, Thanksgiving was just last weekend but it was pretty uneventful. We went to Grandma's for lunch and then off to Mike's parents for dinner. I still managed to not totally stuff myself and I'm not quite sure how exactly that happened.

The only noteworthy event of the day happened when we went to see Jennifer and Joe's new house. Right before we head out, Elijah decides to run into the bathroom and lock the door. Being an older house, the door isn't all that easy to open from the inside and he can't get the door open by himself. We all spend the next 10 minutes trying to shove every small stick like object we can find into the door handle to pop the lock. Nothing seems to be working and the boy keeps asking why we don't open the door. Finally, Jennifer is able to pop the lock and we find Eli standing in the middle of the bathroom with his pants and underwear down around his ankles. He said he had to poop and was going to try to do it himself. (A for effort, but F for follow through.)

October

I think the most noteworthy event of October was Jennifer and Joe's wedding. It's been a long time coming since I can't even remember how long they have been together. I had the honor of doing a reading during the ceremony. As I'm sure Jennifer would tell the story one way, here's how I saw how things went down...

I got to the church a couple of hours before the ceremony was to begin and went to the bride's room to help the girls finish with the last details of getting ready. Working in a photo studio and helping to style models on set gave me quite the advantage and I was able to tape up dresses, fix shoes and make things presentable all around. The girls were having a good time getting ready, all game faces were on and things were looking good. I was fine.

With about 10 minutes to spare, I head upstairs to the sanctuary and take my seat next to Mike. The event is underway and the girls begin the procession. Tiffany and Kelly look great as they head down the aisle before the bride. All heads then turn to see the doors open and Diane and Jennifer coming through. Of course, Diane is a mess as this is her only daughter and I'm guessing she never thought this day would actually come. Halfway down the aisle, Jennifer starts to tear up as well and they both are trying their hardest to keep themselves together. Now, I'm not so fine.

Diane gives Jennifer away and the priest welcomes everybody to the ceremony. And of course, my reading is up first. I take my place, find my reading and look over at the happy couple sitting there....staring at me. And this is when I lose it. For some reason, I begin to tear up and can't seem to find my voice. After a few looks out into the crowd and a quick "Give me a second" I finally begin. I somehow manage to make it through the reading and with a quick sorry to Jennifer and Joe, head back to my seat. Really? What the heck was all that about?!?! I still to this day have no clue what made the flood gates open, but whatever. She'll try her hardest to not let me live this down but I don't care. I play it off like it was no big deal. She does have it on video though.

Other than that, everything else went great! The bride was beautiful, the reception was wonderful, the food was good and we got to see Frank dance. What more could you ask for?

I'm sure there were other things that happened in between the bigger events, but as you get older you seem to lose the details. Hopefully I'll get a little better at posting things when they happen. No promises though.