The Sucking Power
i have been writing a lot about the wedding. details of the wedding. stuff.
here is my 1 month check-in on the trip into the wedding vortex:
1) the wedding sucks a lot harder than i ever dreamed possible. from almost the very first moment i placed the ring on her finger, the vortex began sucking -- and not the good kind of sucking which cannot be shown in R-rated films. the kind of sucking that gives you a hickey before your big job interview at the bank.
2) all that wedding stuff is stressful. budgets. plans. decisions. pressure. it's your freakin' wedding and you better not fuck it up. see?
3) the wedding is not really all that stressful at all. it is just illusion distracting you from the fact that you are getting married. and what the hell does getting married even mean?
well. here's what kevin and i discussed:
getting married is like going to college. it's something you've been looking forward to for a long time. something that's supposed to be exciting and fun and adult and which entails a new level of freedom and commitment simultaneously.
there's also some piece about how once you're in college, hanging out with high school students is not the same. you're happy to have your friends from high school come visit you at college, but you're not so keen to hit the high school parties unless you're kind of creepy and stunted.
uh. we have officially lost the analogy now. untethered it. i suppose i'm just trying to say how being invited to parties, or going to parties, seems totally different now that i'm engaged.
because i no longer care if i impress women and that was more or less all i cared about before. should i not admit that? whatever. before i got engaged the primary driving force in my life was finding the woman i wanted to marry.
now my primary driving force is finding a caterer.
see? it's different. unless you want to marry a caterer.
i have something else to discuss. more and more lately, i've been getting comments on old blog entries that say things like, "hey." or "just wanted to say hi." they've got email addresses attached and always a URL as well -- but the URL is always dead.
for the past few months i've just assumed it was some devious sort of spam (i get at least four spam-comments a day) and deleted them or ignored them.
this morning it occured to me that maybe people are actually finding this blog and reading it and want to say hi.
if so, sorry for being so rude.
hi.
Ha, ha.
So after you find your caterer, do you know what your driving purpose in life will be? I will give you a hint, it looks like this:
aren't you married yet, du? you keep talking about it. anyways, i just wanted to say hi. hi.
p.s. what's up with that a & p guy?
honestly, i think it's spam. weird spam, but blog spam nevertheless. i've been getting the same types of entries as well...
I have been getting the same emails/comments with dead URLs so unfortunately I don't think it's a mass of friendly people out to spread cheer in blogworld. It is a little disappointing though because one of mine simply read: "Interesting" and I got all puffed up with pride.
(BTW I got here via Miss Nelson and we exchanged a couple of emails way back when I was a betting woman).
Oh, sorry, it's just me, asswax and pencilsnax is a psyeudonym I use when I get extra-stupid, sorry.
Getting married is great, I love being married. But it's also hard, and I like making jokes about the hard part.