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We were in the unusual camp when my wife and I were married. We spent about 20 minutes planning the ceremony in Vegas (which was awesome by the way.) and had our reception dinner at In-N-Out burger.

We also didn’t have an engagement ring.

We stopped at Albert’s Jewelers about 6 months ago to get a nice big rock. Nice jewelry doesn’t come cheap, of course.

We’re paying a car payment each month for about 10 more months to pay this sucker off. Then it’s time to get a Prius to offset the $4 a gallon gas.

We are in the midst of moving so things are a bit spotty right now.  We have internet but it is someone else’s wifi at the moment.  We are at another apartment for now, because Corrin is just coming up from Indy.  Someday we will get our own house and get into land investment instead of piddling money away to a landlord.  Our current plan is to move to Denver in a year.  We will own a piece of the rockies!

Christmas is over.  It’s time to start saving for Valentine’s Day.  I think that 2 months isn’t enough of a break in between major gift giving holidays.  Why not have it in June? 

I have no idea what to get Corrin this year.  She always manages to get me cute stuff like boxers and plastic handcuffs and stuff.  And I’ll probably never top the Shitbitch bear.  I don’t know…maybe fine lingerie this year.  Although that strike me as more of a gift for me.  I think if it were up to Corrin some flannel PJ’s would be preferred.

One of the rules of nature is that girls like anything that sparkles.  I don’t know where that fits into the evolutionary process, but it does.  It should be taught in a textbook somewhere.  Corrin wants some costume jewelry for Christmas and I’m not sure what to get.  She already got one huge rock this year and the guy in me asks why she needs another.  Such things are not for men to ask.  It defies all logic, but that is the nature of women.  We should all just lie down and stop resisting.

The best thing about the internet is that you can avoid the massive number of people shopping around the holidays.  I’m more than happy to support my local UPS man by ordering things online. 

I’ve been bugging Corrin about what she wants for Christmas for several days now and she mentioned that I should look at gift baskets that actually have nice stuff in them.  Most gift baskets come with a lot of stuff that looks nice, but in reality will never be touched.  (I’m looking at YOU, summer sausage.)

 iGourmet is the king of online gift basket companies.  They have everything from exotic game to fine wine and cheese, to chocolates, to salsas.  If you know someone who enjoys coffee, you can get them a selection of specialty coffees that will blow their mind.  You can find rare selections for almost any person.  The gift baskets can be customized in any fashion, too.  You aren’t stuck with a few measly selections that cannot be changed. 

Oliver loves flowers, as you can see.  It is a trait he picked up from Corrin.  When we got married in vegas, we weren’t sure what kind of wedding flowers to pick out.  We ended up going with a bridal bouquet of purple daisies and carnations and other assorted things.  I had a purple rose boutonierre that looked great. 

When we got home, My mom told me to put the flowers in the freezer so they could be pressed later.  Of course, this killed them and turned them all brown.  We eventually recreated the bridal bouquet so we would have something to save.

Our little pupster had two teeth removed yesterday because his baby teeth didn’t fall out when they should have.  i am told he is doing well and eating.  Cor and Ollie are coming for a visit today.  We are also going to pick up a new diamond from Uncle Al.

I’ll give another Ollie update when they arrive!

I am a really bad gift shopper.  I tend to buy everything last minute.  I’m still not sure what I am going to get Corrin for Christmas.  I was thinking about makeup mirrors because she always leaves my bathroom mirror opened when she leaves.  That’s okay though.  I leave messes everywhere when I’m over at her place.

I come up with some good gifts though, even if they are last minute.  Last year was an iPod Nano! 

Ever since my dad became a realtor, I’ve seen a lot less of him.  In fact, I haven’t seen him since March.  It’s rough because Corrin and I want to move to Denver when I’m done with school.  My dad knows a lot more about the real estate market than we do, so it would be niceto have his input.  We’ve found quite a few properties that appeal to us, but picking the right neighborhood is important also.

And it must have a biiiiig backyard for Mister Oliver to run around in.

I got married last May in quiet little ceremony at night in Vegas.  Even though our ceremony was small, I still need to look nice.  We were thinking about a beach wedding at first, and that means no suit.  I still would have needed a nice shirt.  (I’m not Kid Rock.)

The wedding shirts over at Wedding Tropics are nice because they are somewhat casual, but still suited for a wedding.  The website is still being worked on, but what I’ve seen so far looks like something I would wear.  No wild hawaiian prints. 

Old is new again.  My wife tells me leggings are in again.  A few years ago the only leggings I ever saw were compression leggings meant to reduce peripheral edema.  But that is neither here nor there. 

Corrin tells me that leggings slim down your silhouette, don’t rub against your legs, and can even reduce vericose veins.  Who knew? 

Of course I remember them fondly as a child of the 80s so I was pleasantly surprised when Paris and Nicole started wearing them again and brought the trend back.  Since Sweetest Day is coming up, I went over to hue tights and got some ideas (and maybe some gifts…shhh) for Corrin. 

I don’t usually write about individual calls I respond to, and I’m not sure if this will translate well into text, but I’ll give it a shot. 

We were called out to a pedestrian versus car accident 1 block north of our station yesterday, so we were at the scene in less than a minute.  We saw neighbors congregating and heard a strange gutteral screaming that I normally associate with people who have the wind knocked out of them. 

We walk up and find the patient to be a teenage boy lying in the grass.  He is the one screaming, obviously.  The best comparison I can think of to his voice is that of Anne Ramsey.  You know, Ma Fratelli from The Goonies.  After a quick assessment we realize this kid isn’t injured in the least, he’s just panicking.  And wailing like someone just stole One Eyed Willie’s gold.

…And the shit coming out of this kid’s mouth was just priceless. 

Me:  “What’s hurting you?”

Kid: “NOTHING JUST LEAVE ME HERE IM FINE DON’T BREAK MY LEG!”

Me: “I’m not going to break your leg.  What happened?”

Kid: “I’M AN IDIOT I RAN OUT IN THE STREET WITHOUT LOOKING!  I FAILED MY FAMILY!”

Me:  “It’s allright, accidents happen.  Your leg looks fine.  Does anything else hurt you?”

Kid: “MOMMMYYYYYYYYY!”  (Note:  It is only acceptable for someone to cry ‘Mommy’ when they are nearly dead or under 10 years old.  This kid was neither.

After a few attempts to get Ma Fratelli to stop screaming, we just got him into the ambulance so the neighbors would go away, but the screaming continued.  Apparently he failed his family.  I have no idea how that phrase enters the vocabulary of a middle schooler, but whatever.  He also thought that we were going to break his leg, and he was screaming about how he was going to not be able to go to school “this year”.  I kept telling the kid his leg wasn’t broken or even bruised, and he kept alternating between “NOTHING HURTS IM FINE” and “I FAILED MY FAMILY”  I couldn’t even get a radio report in because I kept stopping to laugh. 

I guess I’m just a really mean person, but come on.  At this kid’s age there’s no reason to be wailing like you’re about to be thrown from the train.

Since my wife and I have been talking about moving from Indiana to Colorado, I have been digging into as much data as I can find on the state.  I know its pretty, but do we want to live there?  The answer is now YES.

http://www.slashfood.com/2006/08/14/mississippi-is…

As you can see, Colorado is the leanest state, with just 16.9% of adults above the obesity line.  Of course, it may go up if I move there, but that tells me that there is plenty to do outdoors there to keep you active and in shape.  A shape other than round.  Indiana is pretty chub-tastic, but I blame our long winters and incredibly boring geography.  At least we aren’t Mississippi, with almost 30% of adults able to be classified as “Huuuuuuuge”.  Montana did well in the ranking also, probably because it’s hard to be fat when you are riding bulls and roping cattle all day.  That is what people do in Montana, right?

Earlier this year Corrin and I had a trip to London planned that didn’t work out, but we plan on making another attempt next year.  We had to go through a lot of hassle to get the tickets refunded through the place we bought them, so next time I think we are going to go through Holiday Hypermarket.

Holiday hypermarket has cheap tickets, cheap hotels, and cheap rental cars.  This is all good stuff, and the service is excellent, also.  I want to do an all-inclusive, and you can search through a whole list of all-inclusives to fit your needs. 

Next time you need to get away on a budget, try them out and let me know what you think.

When I bought my pimpin’ new Corolla in September of 2006, I was ecstatic because I had my first new car in over 7 years.  It had everything I could possibly want, except a low interest rate.  My credit sucked so I got stuck with about 15%.  When I got married Corrin and I fixed up my credit and I knew I could get lower car payments if I refinanced.  RateGenius makes it easy to appy for financing and they send your application out to a ton of different lenders so you can pick the best one for you.  My car payment went from $439 a month to $360 and we knocked off over 10% worth of interest, and it was easy!  I didn’t even have to pay for the application!