Rinsefirst

I think Christmas is starting to take on new meaning now that I have my own family. It’s just different… Obviously I don’t have any kids… but that doesn’t seem to be taking anything away, at least from the start of my holiday season.

Yes, I’ve started, as has Amber. We went out and bought or first *fake* tree on thursday, and I set it up today… We don’t have to many ornaments, but those we do all have meaning. I put the first wave up today, and our Star Trek infested tree is now up. Pictures below.

Just wait til you see the next phase of Justin’s and Amber’s christmas tree… It’s going to rock :-).

I’m learning vary quickly how fast things change because you get married. I’m a firm believer that this is the transition point in life where old traditions start fading away, and new ones start taking their place. If you want to hold an old tradition, you gotta work harder to keep it, and if you want to start a new one, you better be ready for a little fall out.

In any case, Halloween sounds like it’s changing at least a little bit this year, and who knows if it will stay that way or not next year.

Normally, every year at Halloween, my family would go over to the Hunt’s house for a halloween dinner. It started back when I was probably 3, and my parents needed a place to take us trick-or-treating. We lived out in the country after all, so coming “into the city” to trick or treat with my cousin’s just made sense.

I believe we did that every year with 1 year somewhere around 10th grade that worked out that I stayed home and played Ultima Online (something about a big in game party where I was a bartender… I wonder if I was blogging then…). In any case, in recent years, it’s taken the form of a nice halloween dinner, where we sit around and make classic jokes about Harry Potter and his demise (we all love Harry, but it’s just so easy). Either that, or we make fun of my mom… whichever is easier.

Well this year, much like that year around 10th grade, my cousins have decided to leave for Orlando (I don’t blame them with the snow we had yesterday). That said, they won’t be hosting dinner unless we head down to Orlando to join them (hey, I wouldn’t mind).

So, here we are at a decisions as to what to do.

Seeing as I don’t like answering the door for strangely dressed children, I figured the best solution was to find people who do. So we decided to do dinner here… I don’t really know what that means, but hopefully it means my parents and Amber will handle all the scary children, and I can sit peacefully playing Guitar Hero World Tour, Tetris Party, or World of Warcraft (whichever seems like the best waste of time that evening).

As you can tell, I don’t very much enjoy Halloween. In fact, I all I really enjoy about it now is the candy, the friends and family i often get to see, and all the in game events that happen to be going on.

So I’m posting the first wave of photos regarding our honeymoon and wedding. Below are all the photos that I am aware of that exist of us from Disney. IE: all the photos we took with our iphone, camera, or had taken by Disney Photographers. Wedding Photos Coming soon…

I apologize for the quality of this post. I’m writing it on my iPhone.

Amber and I have been on our honeymoon for close to a week now. So far, it has been a blast.

Ok Monday, we hit the magic kingdom. Amber wasn’t in the best of moods, but by the end of the day Disney had worked it’s magic and convinced her she was having a good time.

Tuesday, we hit typhoon lagoon. All we really did was the lazy river. The funny part was that the moment we put our stuff in the locker, it started raining. We also hit downtown Disney a little, as well as orlando’s prime outlets and some big indoor mall. Amber will be coming home with a whole new wardobe from the Gap and Puma.

Wednesday, was Epcot. We got there a little late, but it worked for us. Someone leaving the park had a dream pass with 3 uses left on it. Combined with regular fast passed, we were able to do almost everything in the park.

We ate at the coral reef restuarant which is one of the many spots they filmed boy meets world. It was pretty cool and we have lots of pictures to share because Ashley sent amber her camera via mail (we had left it at home).

Amber loved illuminations, epcots fireworks show. It was pretty good.

We then caught the monorail to magic kingdom and hit 5 more rides. All of which amber loved. It’s amazing how easy it is to get ok rides when everyone is watching fireworks.

Thursday we took our first trip to universal studios. Amber and I had a good time but there is something about Disney that universal just hasn’t captured. We dined at the hard rock cafe where Amber picked up a pinned and a glass.

From there we went to blue man group. That was awesome. We had some of the best seats in the house. They put us right in the action. It was great. So far the biggest highlight for me.

Friday, we hit animal kingdom. Amber loved this place and probably wore out her digital camera. Amber didn’t want to hit the roller coaster here but we did almost everything else. Afterwards, we went and picked up our tickets for la numba as well as took a 30minute walk around Disney quest. We then stopped by another outlet mall where we again hit the gap and puma.

And so now, it’s Saturday. It was looking to be a sunny day when I started writing this, but now it’s raining. Amber is still sleeping. It’s been a great week. More most likely when I get home.

Right now I am laying in bed with my iPhone.

The rehersal dinner went really well. Lots of good food. I was hoping we would get to take some home, but alas green mill didn’t allow it, which as stupid. We paid for it.

My computers are now at the townhouse. From here on out, that’s what we will call home. After all, home is where the computer is. Right?

My laptop is with me. Thanks to my great timing, it seems my hard drive had decided to quit. Perhaps I really won’t bring a laptop on the honeymoon.

Well, I best get some sleep. Goodnight bachelor blog,

There are 10 days until the wedding. 10 days until I’m Mr. Justin Gehring. 10 days until I move out most likely for good. 10 days until I become responsible for not one, but two lives.

So on a deep level here (as deep as I get that is), what does this all really mean?

I have no clue.

Despite all my logic, all my planning, all my knowledge, all my experiences, all my observations. I have to admit, I’m scared shitless when it comes to the possibility of outcomes that could happen as a result of this one event. But that’s just it….

I’m doing this because despite all the possibilities, one thing holds true. That I want her to be a part of all of them. I want her to be there when JR makes it’s first million. I want her to be there when my first child is born. I want her to be the one that pushes me to be better. I want her to be the one that actually gets past my logic sometimes. I want her to figure out what’s bothering me. And most importantly, I want her happiness to come before mine (as much as is possible with me).

So why am I writing this? Is it to calm myself down? Is it be a sappy romantic?

Nope.

It’s non of these.

I’m writing this because sometime in the future, I will be fighting with Amber. I will be more frustrated than I ever have before. I may even ask myself, “why in the world did I marry this girl.” And when that happens, I tend to look to my past… And just maybe, I will look back to the posts surrounding my wedding day, and maybe that will be enough to remind me that it’s not the fight that’s happening that matters. All that matters is that she’s the one you want to fight with (so go make up already, your probably wrong anyway!)