Happy Black Friday

Happy Post-Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you all had a great time and ate too much. Kirsten and I jumped right into family duties and had our first Thanksgiving at home, just the two of us. She started a new job at another hospital when we got back from the honeymoon and by that time all the choice vacation days had been snatched up so she had to work late Wednesday night and early this morning. So, begrudingly, we made the decision not to travel to spend any time with our families and to spend our first Thanksgiving together, alone. It was a good day. Kirsten made her first attempt at cooking a turkey...a 10-pounder...and it turned out great (nice job hun). Also we made a standard favorite, cheesy potatoes, and also green bean cassarole and apple pie. Needless to say , we have quite a bit of leftovers but that's pretty usual of my favorite holiday.

We both laughed at the amount of time and effort into the planning, preparing and cooking and then the 10 minutes it took to eat. Reminded us of a smaller version of the wedding. We got our picture proofs back the other day. Half the pictures I don't even remember. It's amazing that after the months and months of planning, the day goes by SO fast and you barely remember it. I was talking to my Dad last night and he asked "so, how's married life treating you?" It's funny, I've been asked that a few times now and the only reponse I have is "oh, it's good." I have nothing else to say because the big event went by so fast, that I hardly remember it so things don't feel really any different, other than this ring on my finger and my credit card bills. Oh well..so it goes. I suppose I should come up with a better, more positive answer to that question though...

Updated List

Alright, so I was out for some drinks last week at Euro Bar for a friend's birthday, and the topic of my bar list came up. I was surprised to be reprimanded for having bars that have changed their names listed as only one bar. Here I thought I was doing the right thing by doing that so the list wouldn't look artificially inflated. I was apparently mistaken. I have updated the list to now be each bar I've gone to whether it had been something previously I had patroned or not. Sometimes apparently doing the right thing is the wrong thing....Enjoy!

New Toy

So I picked up the new 30 GB iPod the other day. A co-worker offered to buy my iPod Mini so I thought that would be a good time to upgrade to something new. This thing is pretty sweet. The screen is by far the best thing about it because it's huge (2.5 inches). I haven't tried loading any video onto it yet, just music and pictures. The pictures look great. The only thing is I can't use my iTrip anymore to listen to this in the car. I have to see about fixing that.

Honeymoon Pictures

If you're interested...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19693015@N00/sets/358045/

Back to reality...

Well, the wedding is over. The honeymoon is over. Back to reality. It's incredible how fast the wedding goes by after months and months of planning and ridiculous amounts of money. Everything was a sucess as far as I know. I've heard many many great things about the day from those of you I've run into since then. I don't think the day could have gone any better. Well, except for the limo, but I'll save that for another post.

The honeymoon was absolutely great. We went to Cabo San Lucas which is over on the Baja Penninsula in Mexico. The weather was just amazing. It was sunny and 90 every single day. Most of the days were spent sipping frozen vodka/lemonades poolside for me. We stayed at Dreams Los Cabos which was really nice. All-inclusive with 5 different restaurants to choose from. Tuesday night we tried the first of the five, Portafino, and the food was great. Well, up until Wednesday morning when Kirsten came down with a touch of food poisoning. That wasn't so cool. However that was the only hiccup of the week. It was so nice that she even wants to go back despite her little trouble. All in all a great wedding and trip and now, back to reality...