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the past week or so since we returned from our honeymoon we’ve been pretty preoccupied trying to get the house in order before amy starts school. she’s painted the bathroom and is now working on painting the kitchen details we never finished, you can see a picture on her website. we’re been doing a ton of organizing, moving stuff around, buying stuff for the house, and general nesting. i’ve also been pretty busy at work so i haven’t even had time to surf at lunch like i usually do. obviously with all of that going on i haven’t had as much time to blog either, but don’t worry, i’ll be back more regularly once we get into our groove again. tomorrow i’m starting a new 12 week challenge. i have big goals for my 29th birthday in august and don’t want to free fall back to my december weight. wish me luck, i’ll write more tomorrow …

oh yea, i forgot to mention that in my copious free time, when i could blog, i’ve been working on a new website for my astronomy club. that link is to the old site, when i get the new site done and it’s ready for public consumption i’ll let everyone know.

we’ve had the ipods almost a month now and we love them. i use mine every day walking to the train, on the train, from the train to work, at work, and then that in reverse. i’m using it to backup important data from my computer, obviously store my music, as well as store all of my contact information. i still have to figure out how to export my calendar data from palm desktop into the ipod though, anyone have any ideas? anyhow, i love it … not sure how i got along without it. actually i know how, i had a lot of silence throughout my day.

i must admit that we have had a small problem with the ipods though. the ipod comes with a pair of ear nubs that can either plug into the ipod or the remote control. the remote is itself a cable that plugs into the ipod and allow you to control the unit while it’s away in your bag or somewhere else. the connector for the remote control to the ipod has a really small sheath of protection. it’s hard to explain, but most headphones have a rigid yet bendable connector near the plug that jacks in. the ipod remote has a stylish yet nonrugged connector which after only 2 weeks of use was breaking open at the point where the cable connects to the plug. there have been a few threads on this topic in the apple ipod forums. anyhow, i called apple on it because my unit had all of the wires exposed and amy’s was starting to do it and these things were only 2 weeks old at the time. after a few seconds of talking to them we had 2 new remotes being next day shipped to us and we only had to return 1 of our older remotes.

not only are the ipods a remarkable piece of technology but our first experience with apple technical support was impeccable. we’re very pleased so far with our purchase. i have about 2000 songs on mine, all owned music mind you, and amy has about 1300 on hers. i’ll update you as we use them more.

because i’m a geek and it’s now my mission in life to make amy a geek i bought her a web domain. you can now read my wife’s weblog over at amywillson.com. i don’t know if she’ll have that much time to update it but right now there are a few more wedding pictures up there. they’re from our digital camera and christina took them. go check out the site and the pictures if you get the chance.

our photographer, linda horton, has released a few pictures of our wedding. if your interested go check them out, they are really nice. i like the perspective and dimensions of the black and whites the most. there’s something about the feel of black and white which makes things seem so much simpler.

we have a bunch of pictures that we took during our honeymoon with our digital camera that i want to get up on the site soon. we also have our camera pictures from the wedding and some other pictures we want to scan in from other people. i unfortunately don’t have access to iphoto any more so it may take a little longer to get it the way i want, i.e. slide show like the other ones. i promise to work on it though, these pictures from linda should hopefully tide people over for a few days though.

well we’re back from our honeymoon, i’ve returned to work, and now i wanted to return to my blog. the wedding went off without a hitch. after all of the planning, last minute changes, phone calls, worried people etc. there were no problems to speak of. everyone said they had a great time and more importantly amy and i had a wonderful time. we’ve now entered the state of matrimony, does anyone have a map i can borrow?

the wedding was beautiful. i almost cried but held it together, which was good as amy would have killed me. whenever i cry she instantly cries as well and we didn’t want that since she can’t talk when she’s crying. our vows went off well except for a small ring incident. seems amy didn’t like my left hand when i gave it to her so she decided that the ring should be put on my right hand. after we turned back to the front for the rest of the ceremony i just tossed it on my left hand, problem solved. we did find out something weird and ironic though. on sunday when her parents were driving us to the airport her mom told us that she did the exact same thing at her wedding. it can’t be all that bad, their marriage has lasted for over 30 years.

the day after the wedding we had a bunch of people over to our house. nothing major but we figured since everyone was in town, which is a rare event, why not have them over to see the house and us of course. it was pretty cool having everyone there to see our home, hang out, and talk. it takes a lot of prodding to get some of my family out of the house let alone out of the state. it wasn’t anything big just a few drinks, snacks, and then dinner later in the evening after everyone had an excursion into downtown chicago. while they were there amy and i packed and made the ipod purchase.

on to the honeymoon … we were in the bahamas for 7 days of near perfect weather. it was always in the upper 70’s to mid 80’s and partly cloudy. it rained a few evenings while we were sleeping but other than that the weather was perfect. we spent a lot of time swimming, relaxing, swimming, shopping, swimming, drinking, swimming, and sleeping. did i mention that we went swimming? we even went snorkeling a few times. while we were snorkeling we saw a nurse shark and a 4-5’ barracuda. i kind of freaked out at first when i saw it which was kind of ironic because i was telling amy not to freak out when she saw a fish. after a few seconds i stopped freaking out and just watched it swim near all of the divers, it was pretty cool.

we also visited atlantis while we were in nassau. the fish were cool in their aquarium though the tour was a bit overpriced along with the rest of the resort. i can’t quite get a grasp why it is as expensive as it is. it is really nice but there are so many tourists that i can’t see what the draw is. i guess if we had kids then maybe we’d see it differently. there were zillions of kids in atlantis, well maybe not zillions, just a lot more then we saw at sandals. hehehehheh … in case you didn’t know, sandals is an adult only resort, that was nice. don’t get me wrong, we love kids, just not on our honeymoon.

the plane flight was short but we were laid over in charlotte north carolina for about 5-6 hours because of weather in the midwest. i started a new book that morning and by the time we landed in chicago i had almost finished it. at first didn’t want to leave the bahamas but we were very happy to finally get home.

i’m going to try and get some pictures from the wedding and the honeymoon up this weekend. we took over 200 pictures on the honeymoon and another 150 at the rehearsal dinner and the wedding. well we didn’t take them at the wedding or rehearsal, christina did.

it’s rapidly approaching, that day everyone talks about. for some it’s the greatest day of their life and for others it’s “the end”. the day i’m talking about is my wedding day. i’ve just gotten back from our wedding rehearsal and the associated dinner festivities. i’m sitting in front of my computer already missing amy.

tomorrow afternoon i’ll stand before a priest, family, friends, and the world and swear my love and life long devotion to amy hitz.

the words “i do” have an innate meaning that is sometimes hard to explain. it’s that feeling when you know you’ve found “the one” but can’t put all the words together to explain how you know that. the feeling when your with them, that feeling of complete comfort and acceptance. knowing they love you with all their heart, just as strongly as you with theirs. looking into their eyes and feeling it. not some cheap fly by night or short term romance. i’m talking about the real deal, dedication and devotion. when you see that in someone’s eyes it’s a powerful thing.

tomorrow afternoon i start a new chapter in my life with the woman i love. to me tomorrow is a new beginning, a new set of experiences, a new journey! except this time, i have a companion.

i’ll return to writing here in a few weeks. the only electronic device we’re bringing on our honeymoon is a digital camera to record the experience. i’ve cast the rest of my silicon wafers to the curb for a while. a few good books, some white sand, clear blue water, and my new wife is all i need.

and then, there were two …