The trip

Hello all,

This is Richard Gregg. On August 5th,I am heading up to San Antonio to meet with Shawna at the airport for the long journey to our home together.  I ask prayers and good vibes to be sent as the final days approach. We will need them.
I know most of you don't know me from Adam but I promise you I am an honorable man.  Shawna is my life. I love her and will love her forever.  I want to reassure you, I will never dishonor her intentionally.

That said we have a route planned out and looking foward to being there by Sunday night.  Wish us luck.

Registry

I've been asked several times when Richard and I will register for stuff.... well.... we have.

The easiest thing for us to do with being in two states was to hop online and register at Amazon.com

The nice thing about Amazon is that you can buy things elsewhere and still check it off the list....

Under "Wedding Registry" you can type in either of our names and a wedding state of Utah and ta-da! there it is....

Of course, we will also accept money if you'd rather save yourselves the hassle.... the one problem with having given away all of my furniture and gadgetry when I moved down to Utah years ago is that we now have to buy it all again. Bed, living room furniture, pretty much everything for the kitchen.... I have to say, I forgot how much it costs to start from scratch.

We will still add items as we think of them to the registry.... and don't think anyone is held to the list (or that we expect everyone to shower us with gifts!)

The information will also be on the wedding invites that should be winging their way to you by mid-August.

Wouldn't it be funny...

Okay, due to some warped twist of fate, Richard has started calling me his "sweet hen" after likening himself to Gonzo the great. (I have no idea how strange things like nicknames come to be, but this one is at least well intended!)










So how funny would it be to use these darling action figures I found online on top of the cake, instead of the traditional figurine I purchased?

Yeah, I think I will stick with the ones I already purchased.... though these would be hysterically funny. Maybe I will save them for the first anniversary, and use them on a small cake then!

Update

Okay, think we finally have a place....

What a pill home hunting can be... especially when you are insane enough to want a rental company to allow you to have 3 cats! I can't believe how many people wouldn't return my phone calls when I mentioned a feline was involved (let alone mention that there were 3 of the little stinkers!)

One elderly gal got uppity when I said the place was for my fiance and that I wouldn't be moving in until after the wedding. "Oh no, I can't rent to you" she argued. "The state doesn't allow renting to unmarried couples!" Uh, actually it doesn't have that law, but I couldn't convince her that I fully planned to not sleep or live with the guy until after the "I do's".... oh brother. It wouldn't have been a good deal anyway, since the neighbors underneath us would have the house's temperature control... as the little gal put it, "well, if they WANT to open up the vents and let you have the warmer air in the winter, that's entirely up to them"....

Wow....

The next place was a cute duplex in Provo that turned out to be a starter unit for newlyweds.... complete with rude jerk who expected me to show up to see the place on a moment's notice (seriously, 15 minute warning that he was going to show the unit!) and then he kept me waiting on the doorstep for 20 minutes while he waited to see if anyone else was going to show! Best of all he works from home about 50 feet away... so this "I can't give you more notice about when I am going to show it" crap was a joke. He also refused to say "excuse me" or any sort of apology about answering his phone numerous times (several from his wife next door on what sounded like unimportant things)... often while he was in mid-sentence with me! The topper was him telling me that the deposit was a new thing he'd invented and he really thought would catch on.... some hugely convoluted formula of "its the same price as your last month's rent but its not your last month's rent". I could honestly go on and on about this guy, but you get the drift!

I looked at another duplex not far from where I live now and really liked it. Despite my telling the owner previously that I had cats, he showed me the place, then re-discovered I had cats and backpedaled, telling me that even though the neighbor had dogs, that they were thinking of becoming a no-pet facility. When I gave him my apologies for wasting his time he quickly assured me that his wife would probably agree to a couple of cats and insisted I fill out the paperwork and was asking me how soon I could make the down payment and that he'd call me back in the next day or so...... that was over a week ago now. Geez.... give a person a call instead of leaving them hanging buddy!

So I did what I wasn't expecting to do.... look at apartments. I found a pet friendly complex that has been remodeled into very roomy and nice units. And its about a mile from my place now, so moving stuff over shouldn't be much of an issue. I should know by the end of the day, but the gal was sure everything would be fine based on the information I gave her and I've already made my down payment to reserve a unit for the beginning of next month. As soon as I know for certain I will breathe quite the sigh of relief.... I really do not like looking at places.... its a full-time job in and of itself.

As soon as this is done I can start back into wedding mode...

I did find out that Sundance's Harvest Market is my wedding weekend.... so I will need to reserve a lodge up there as soon as possible (which, with everything else going on will probably not be until the second week of August) But I am not really worried about it....if its full up then I will check into staying in Midway or Park City or some such. As much as I like the idea of staying at Sundance, its not THAT important...and Park City would offer more if we wanted to get out and explore the town a bit.

So, after today I should start posting again about wedding this and that.... stay tuned!