Catching up.... Again?

Well, it has come to my attention that I have neglected to remember care about this blog for quite some time. A lot has happened since I last typed in this little white box (which you will see as more of a tan color, if memory serves). Most notably though, remember the girl that I always spoke of in my previous blogs as the girl of my dreams? Well, she still is, but we are married now (told you I was going to marry her!). Yeah, I decided on a ring, proposed in the middle of the day at a Cheesecake Factory, and she was surprised and nervous and crying and she said...

YES!

Obviously... Since I already told you that we are married now... I need to get better at telling stories, don't I?

Its been almost a year since the day we said "I do" (July 16th, no, I didn't forget), and God has thrown us our fair share of curve balls. But He is good, all the time. The more we rely on Him the more things seem to fall in place, and as much as that makes perfect sense, I still tend to forget it. I am a genuinely forgetful person. I wouldn't know what day it was if I hadn't hovered my mouse over the clock on my start bar (which is actually not where it usually is on a computer, mine is on the left side-- cool huh?). Danielle helps me remember almost everything.

We got a "new" car, so we had to say farewell to the infamous "U sin" bumper sticker. Its a 2005 Dodge Stratus, and its actually really nice. It is in the shop right now because the check engine light keeps coming on and they keep telling us that it is fixed when it isn't quite fixed. It's good to know that God is in control of our finances too-- Another thing I forget a lot.

I hit my head on a basketball hoop (no, not regulation size, it was in a pool) and cut it open pretty badly. My wife, pastor, and a few other people took one look at it and said "Stitches!", so off we rushed to the ER at 10:30pm. I (apparently) passed out on the way there from loss of blood, and my Danielle about passed out herself from worry. She had a 911 operator on the phone as soon as I was out (which was only for about 10 seconds, I'm told). Not a minute later, an ambulance followed closely by a fire truck pulled into the Circle K where we had parked just moments before. They checked me out and said I was fine (relatively speaking) and offered to give me a ride to the hospital. No thanks. We can drive 0.25 miles ourselves and not pay for an ambulance ride. We got to the ER and sat there for about an hour before they decided to staple my head shut (apparently since it was at my hair line, staples are better than stitches).

Our good friends Joseph and Heather Wegert were kind enough to stay the night to "keep an eye on me", although the real reason they stayed was to calm a frantic young woman by the name of Danielle Luker. She really is the best. She has a wonderful heart and wears it right on her sleeve where it should be. I love her.

We are preparing for a trip to Ohio (again), this time in the summer, so I will get to see all of that green that I was hoping for. I am looking forward to seeing all of the fun things my wife has planned for us to see.

But we have a lot to do before we go, and only today to get it done, so I am afraid I must say TTFN.

(Oh come on, Winnie the Pooh fans? It means Ta-Ta for now)

-myii