A WEDDING OF COURSE!!!!! A couple of months ago Emily asked why I stopped posting on my blog. I’m not really sure I answered. Blogging for me is a form of release. A setting free of words or ideas trapped in the mind of a busy college student. Speaking words is so easy for people. Many times our words are not kept in check or even recorded. Sure, when we say something really mean or rude to someone it may stick longer. How many words do we speak that become lost in eternal nothingness. I could go on about how many words we speak a day, but how many of our words are taken to heart, or repeated by others? Are we really listened to or are we just speaking to avoid silence.
Positive or negative, I’m sure you can remember a few things that people have said to you over the course of the day. I vividly remember the first time Emily told me that she loved me, or her saying yes when I popped that “oh so infamous” question. It was an excited, “I can’t believe this is actually happening” kind of response. I can still hear the slight trickle of fear coming from her mouth when she came over to my house for the first time and asked,”Do you have a dog?”. I remember her talking about her family and friends. I remember being told I was mean in High School, I also remember being told I was really nice. We remember encouragement and ridicule, love and hate. Writing down words is a way to capture them, to hold on to them, to throw a lasso around them and corral them into a more permanent storage location. What have you said today that is worth writing down? What have you told someone that they will remember for years to come? Will they adore you for it? Will they resent you for it?
I guess I haven’t discussed much of the title yet have I? Well it is pretty much all there. I’m very excited! I’ll be finishing RIT on February 29th. Then, God-willing, I’ll be starting a new career and moving into a new apartment. And June 9th… I’m getting married!! To Emily Masi, my beautiful bride. With a heart of gold and the mind of a life loving, God-fearing, romantic, endearing and encouraging free-spirit. AMAZING!!!
Oh, more words to remember, I saw a friend the other day that I hadn’t seen in a long time. When I knew him, I didn’t think he was much of a deep person. Ha gave me some advice that I definitely plan to put to use. He told me, “On your wedding day, take five minutes, pull Emily aside, step outside and really use that time for yourselves. Enjoy the fact that it’s your wedding day. Be with each other. You’ve worked hard for it.” even now I just want to take five minutes and look how far we’ve come and how close we are…. What a blissful place. Write some things down. You’ll be surprised what a pen and a piece of paper can remember.
, putting ketchup in my mouth. I very thankful for the girl God has blessed me with. She looks out for me and cares for me so much!! When I am about to do something dangerous she reminds me that I should think about what I’m doing before I do it. Like standing on furniture with wheels, driving my car, drinking water from certain places, sliding on ice, using sharp instruments, lifting heavy things, running around in the dark, and climbing large rock formations out west. She does love me, and she loves me so well. She is also a woman of vocabulary. The number of words she knows is at least 2 times larger than the number of words I know. A deal shopper, She knows how to find deals. Which is great because I’m not the best shopper.
