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Sunday, January 6. 2008Wedding Photos
Yes, this rightfully belongs in the amazingly slack category, but I've put our profesional wedding photos online!
In my defence, it was a year later that we actually got the digital versions, but that still makes me over 10 months late... Monday, February 20. 2006Best Weekend Ever
That's a bold claim up above this but that is my personal feeling and one which I'm very happy to write.
I married my sweetheart witnessed by huge numbers of friends and family, amongst the vineyards, with storm clouds and lightning as backdrops. Closely following that was a wonderful party with great speeches, dancing and more people helping us celebrate our love. Sincere thanks to everyone who came along to make this the most wonderful weekend of my life. Many people helped us out with odd jobs or even huge large ones, more than I could thank properly here. I'm sure more will surface over time, but there's already photos from Kelly, Brenton and Kate, and Dad. A lot of people were able to lend me their memory cards from their cameras the day after, which I have copied all their photos from into one big slideshow. Not going to have time to do anything with them today so they'll have to wait until we get home again. We'd love more - if you took digitals please keep the originals for us to grab copies when we return or else give them to Dad if you see him. Plenty of information about our wedding is at timandliz.com, and you can see the plans for our forth-coming Europe trip (starting tonight!!!!) at timandliz.com/europe2006/. We should be keeping this blog going while travelling, but only posting less regularly in bigger lumps. Next post likely from Bahrain! Thursday, February 16. 2006It's finally here!
Well, that's gone remarkably quickly. This morning we have a few small things to tidy up before we head north to The Valley, picking up ourselves a nice car along the way.
There's been so much to do this week that I'm pretty suprised we fit it all in. Everything from beauty therapy (well I at least need all the help I can get) to arts and craft (still doing this late last night), as well as organising musicians, gifts, paying suppliers, the list really does go on. Thanks to all who have helped - it has been very much appreciated, and there's no way we could have had as big a wedding as we are without your help. I look forward to seeing many of you up there this weekend and hope you have a great time away with us. Several couples are making this their valentines weekend away, which is rather nice. If you are coming, check out the URL (web link) we gave you for some final details. We get back to Sydney Monday, and then from Tuesday night onwards, we are travelling again! Follow what is going to happen over here. Sunday, February 12. 2006Hens / Bucks
Not feeling too bad today after yesterday's rather extended and great fun Hens and Buck's night. Thanks to everyone that made it along to help us celebrate our respective last weeks or so of "freedom".
I'll let the photos speak for themselves. Edit: Dad's photos of the day are up over here. Wednesday, February 8. 2006Today: Watch out for Flying Pigs
ING Bank, whom we have our homeloan with, just randomly and of its own accord decided to lower mortgage interest rates.
An early wedding / honeymoon present from the bank??!? (Please note - this is FAR from a complaint!) Tuesday, January 31. 2006Enjoying the warmth
I keep sending Liz links like this when she asks whether it's going to be cold when we get to Europe in just over three weeks.
I think the answer is yes. In particular we aim to get to Andorra (mentioned in the article), in perhaps six weeks. We used our tent on the weekend up at the Hunter sorting out some final wedding things - it may be a little while longer than we originally predicted until we use it again. Perhaps we should have ticked the snow-chain option box on the car lease form after all. Saturday, January 21. 2006I hate things that spin
Grrr. Woke up this morning, came into the computer room and heard a nasty grinding whirring noise. At first thought it was the fan on the laptop, perhaps gone bad with a dodgy bearing as they some times do.
Next, noticed it wouldn't get out of screen saver. They crash sometimes, so no worries really. Then noticed I couldn't connect to it in any way from my other computer. Also not too bad. So, power it off, leave it for a while so that the fans won't have to run, and then start it up. Uh oh, this time a very sad looking "No home folder" icon flashing. Not good. By now some of you may have guessed that my laptop's hard drive has in fact crashed. I've tried target disk mode onto both my linux box and Liz's laptop but no luck there. The linux box shows me: [292836.278829] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Eeeck. So, I'm going to have to grab another disk, pull the thing apart and perform some surgery. Luckily, I backed up the contents of my home folder to a computer at work this week just gone, so I shouldn't loose too much. It's amazing how costs spring out of nowhere when you think you have a budget for a wedding and travel all organised. Saturday, December 31. 2005Happy New YearTuesday, November 22. 2005A Dog to Keep!Monday, November 14. 2005Infrequent posting: B-
Bean has prompted me into action by noting that my blog has interesting content but I don't post often. I appreciate the first part and couldn't agree more with the second.
Except for one major problem - I do too much stuff. Here's a short listing of some of the things I've done since last posting:
We have tickets to the next qualifier tomorrow night out at Telstra Stadium, which should totally rock. Don't have any green/gold gear to wear though, and apparently it's quite expensive. Might just wander around the city and buy some tacky tourist version. We're off to the Hunter this weekend to hopefully talk with the wedding cake, hair, photography and flower people. No, not the same person, although that would make life much easier.
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Monday, August 1. 2005Unbelievablyparanoid States of America
Those who know us should know that Liz and I like to travel. There was the year and a half we spent in Europe, we're going back again next year and have tentative plans for other largish trips to other places after that.
But there's one country we won't be going to any time soon. The U.S. of A.. I've never been super-keen on it anyway, due to the fact that our country's media and government policy pretty makes us the 51st state so what's the point, but their latest plan is just icing on the cake. Don't people get it? Terrorists will always find their way around this stuff. Or they will be from inside your own country. Liz and I have tourist dollars to spend (or will do, after our wedding, honeymoon and months more frantic saving), yet America is far from welcoming us with open arms. As a matter of interest, rough list of places we'd like to get to in the next five years:
Tuesday, July 19. 2005Wedding saved!
Sorry for the late notice - plenty of people have asked us about it, but I had neglected to blog it, yet again.
We spent a night up at the Hunter with Liz's mum and ended up choosing a great new place for our ceremony - Catersfield House. It actually works out better than the previous site for a few reasons - it is walking distance from the reception, meaning less driving for everyone, it has shiny new dedicated grounds for weddings, and fewer public would concievably be wandering through than they may have at the other place. The guy in charge was most helpful, and seems to genuinely care as it is a family-run operation where they live on site and do the breakfast, and also run a café. There's accommodation there, including a separate "summer house" that Liz and I are going to book for ourselves on the night, and also seven or so great other rooms which people can book, perhaps our bridal party. So, we're both very relieved, and happy things are going to work out yet again. We've paid a deposit watched very closely as he wrote the date down in his diary, so we're much more confident that no double-booking suprises will come and bite us again. Other tasks in the near-term future are finding a photographer (any suggestions?) and the invitations. We have a recommendation of a place in Newtown for the latter, so that's probably the next thing we'll work on. Thursday, July 7. 2005Wedding Stuff-Up
I'm not happy. Liz is even less happy.
Constable and Hershon Wines, the place that we were going to have our wedding ceremony (but not reception), has double-booked us, and chosen to go with the other people. In January this year, we were up there, chose the place, and were told when we asked about booking for Feb 2006 "we don't even have a diary for then yet!". Still, one month later, we rang, and booked in our date. Apparently even though we said "18th February, in the secret garden", this got written down as "19th February, in the Rose garden". Or perhaps they had us confused with someone else who enquired. I have no idea. The only thing I do know about is that at no stage did we ever want a Sunday (the 19th is a Sunday), the rose garden (wouldn't fit the number of people we are going to have), and nor would Liz make a mistake of that magnitude when talking about the "most important day of her life" on the phone to someone. A while later, other people rang, and booked the place for the 18th. Since then, we have of course booked and paid for our reception, on the 18th of February, at the much more helpful and thus-far reliable Hunter Resort. So, sometime in the near future we're going to have to take yet more time off work and go and pick a third place out for our ceremony (Audrey Wilkinson, our first choice, require you to take their company-owned reception package as well, which we weren't interested in). I hope the fact that Google likes my blog at the moment will warn people off them in the future. Despite all this stuffing around I still believe we will have the best day of our lives together, with as many of our family and friends as we can manage together with us. Friday, May 27. 2005First wedding "event"
We went up to the Hunter Valley with out bridal party last weekend to show them around the places for the ceremony, reception and accommodation.
We camped just out of Cessnock which was lots of fun, if a little cold. Also, the permanent resident coming over at 10:05pm on a Friday night and telling us 10pm is now quiet time was a bit rich. She's the one who chose to live there! Having endured that, we spent the remainder of the next two days looking around at the ceremony and reception locations. We had a bit of a chat to the relevant people at each place but the main aim was to get more people than ourselves familiar with the layout. Hopefully they can chip in some ideas as how the proceedings would work best. Needless to say, we ate heartily and sampled plenty of wines. The cars were full on the way up there, so going home with several more cases of wine shared between us was quite a challenge! Completely unrelated, Max has gone to a new home and we have a new dog Chicka. She's a smaller sheppard cross and amazingly cute. Not as house-trained as we'd like, as we discovered about six this morning, and we think we'll rename her Bailey as we don't really like the name Chicka and she doesn't exactly respond to it right now anyway. Wednesday, May 11. 2005I'm still here
If you want to find out whether people read your blog, stop writing it. I've lost count of how many people have asked me when I am going to blog again. I guess I'll take that as a compliment.
Stumbling across this site where you can create a customised map of the world highlighting certain countries, I went on to update my "Me" page showing where I've been and also the main Europe 2002-3 page with a Europe map showing where we went. On that topic, it's now pretty much decided that after the wedding on 18th Feb 2006, we will head over to Europe for 2-3 months to sort of fill in the gaps of bits and pieces we missed out on last time. Some other random news in point-form:
That's enough for this post, I'll try and do it a bit more regularly. Maybe.
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