This past weekend, Jay and I were fortunate enough to have an opportunity to go to a Carolina Panthers v. Minnesota Vikings game. It was the first NFL game for both of us. We decided that since the game happened to fall on the weekend of our six month wedding anniversary (coincidentally) and I had [...]
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Mars & Venus Read Cosmo
So in my crazy emo mood last night [I feel better now], I was of course reading the article on the left in Cosmo while brushing my teeth. I left it open to that page for Jay to see it this morning. He countered by leaving the magazine open to the page on the right [...]
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Not only was yesterday mine and Jay’s 4th dating anniversary and our 3 month wedding anniversary, but it was also the day that our fabulously talented wedding photographer Ken Hild gave us our wedding pictures! He gave 1,035 pictures on a DVD and now we get to decide what to do with them (album, big [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Ballad of Smokey
You ever think that certain things happen for a reason? Not in the super meta sense of the phrase. Just that a bunch of really insignificant little things can tend to lead to something meaningful happening that would not have happened otherwise? I do. On Saturday evening, Jay and I were about to make some [...]
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Thank you very, very much to Rob for stepping up last minute and filming our wedding ceremony. Here is the full mass, from start to finish. The mass was at St. Anthony’s of Padua in Rocky Point, NY. The readers were Jay’s Aunt Tammy (Old Testament), my Grandpa (New Testament – Corinthians reading), and my [...]
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Jay & I got a pleasant surprise last night when we got home from Mexico to find that our official State of New York Marriage License had arrived already! I brought it down to the Social Security Administration office this morning and changed my name officially! Instead of “Colleen H. McAllister,” I am now legally [...]
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Greetings from Day 4 in Riviera Maya, Mexico! Today, we are going to visit the Mayan Ruins of Chichén Itzá. Even though they’re giving us “breakfast” on the tour bus, Jay went downstairs to get some bacon from the buffet lol. All the sugary drinks we’ve had the past 3 days has given me a [...]
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Well, we did it! The wedding went off without a hitch. Jay even said “I do” too early because we were so excited hehe. This is a short post because I’m exhausted and we’re getting up at 5:30am to make sure we get to JFK with plenty of time to go to Mexico. I may [...]
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There used to be nothing in common There used to be nothing to share It used to be ‘sit by the window and stare at what used to be there’ It used to be lonely in numbers Impossibly weak on my feet When the game starts and one person’s left out It used to be [...]
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