About a month ago, Melissa and I ordered our Save the Date magnets online, and when they arrived in the mail everything in the picture looked fine...except that our faces were bright, shiny and orange. Everything had looked fine when we submitted it, but for whatever reason they printed out funny and we look like a bunch of very happy, very orange people (we were tan in the picture, but we look like Oompa Loompas in the magnet). Long story short, the company agreed to let us do-over for free and we ended up having to get my friend Eric, who has a really good camera, to take a picture of us at a park in his neighborhood a few weeks back, and they came out lovely. I just got notification that the new magnets have shipped and will arrive Thursday. If, for some reason, they come out making us looking different than we look in real life...then here are my Top 5 ideas on what to send out:
#5 - Original picture, with the question, "Orange you glad you're invited to our wedding?"
#4 - Original picture, with the phrase, "Shiny Happy People". Then post it on numerous Garden State Parkway tolls, giving thousands of 2009 Jersey shore-goers the impression we're a new R.E.M. cover band/duo.
#3 - Headshot of the Phillie Phanatic
#2 - My roommate just got a Save the Date magnet last week from some dude we used to know, and, no joke, it's a picture of the guy and his girlfriend sitting on a jetty staring at the beach. It looks ridiculous. It totally looks like a Valtrex commercial. If ours come back crappy, I'm sending this dude's magnet out.
#1 - No picture. Just the date (12/19/09), and phrase, "Where will amazing happen this year?"
Thanks.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Top 5 Things About Being Engaged
I got engaged 11 days ago, on the steps outside the Art Museum in Philly (and not the main "Rocky" steps - too many morons running up and down). She said yes, it was great, it was awesome, it was wonderful....and I was a stuttering, sweating, crying, blubbering mess. The week and a half since has been a total blur...but now that we've set a date (December somethingth, this year) and I've had time to regroup, here are the top things I've noticed about being engaged so far:
- When you tell people you're engaged, one of their first questions is always, "Did you guys set a date??" Which is a perfectly legit question...except if they're asking an hour and a half into your engagement ("Actually, I haven't even gone to the bathroom yet"). I think most people really just ask because they feel like they have to ask, but I love how the ones who sound like they REALLY want to know are always the ones who you know aren't going to be invited anyway. ("Sure, when we do I'll let you know...so you can go ahead and make other plans for that day.")
- The other big one is "Was she surprised?" I don't really get that one - is it every girl's fantasy to get punk'd when we propose?
- In case you're just tuning in, Melissa and I met on Match.com. Which means I'm probably about 10 months away from being a Match.com commercial. Wonderful. ("This next guy coming to the stage works clubs and colleges, and you may also recognize him from cuddling with his wife in a hammock on TV...")
- I spent all of last weekend driving around North Jersey with Melissa and her parents, looking at different reception venues, smiling and nodding, and pretending to not be confused by the dinner menus. But the part I'm REALLY looking forward to is when we go DJ-shopping...because, believe it or not, I actually used to be a wedding DJ (cringe) for a few years in the late-90s (believe it). I have no idea which DJ we're going to go with...but my money's on whichever dude least reminds me of myself circa 1998 ("Shave that goatee and lose the visor, and we'll book you.")
- This is a truly unique time to be engaged. Melissa and I are in full-on "save mode" for the next 10 months, watching every penny we spend and trying to find any way possible to save. So I can't say I feel any different...because it feels like the rest of the country is engaged right now too.
Alright, that's all for now. I have to get back to deciding on a picture for the Save the Date magnets. Plenty more on all this to come.
- When you tell people you're engaged, one of their first questions is always, "Did you guys set a date??" Which is a perfectly legit question...except if they're asking an hour and a half into your engagement ("Actually, I haven't even gone to the bathroom yet"). I think most people really just ask because they feel like they have to ask, but I love how the ones who sound like they REALLY want to know are always the ones who you know aren't going to be invited anyway. ("Sure, when we do I'll let you know...so you can go ahead and make other plans for that day.")
- The other big one is "Was she surprised?" I don't really get that one - is it every girl's fantasy to get punk'd when we propose?
- In case you're just tuning in, Melissa and I met on Match.com. Which means I'm probably about 10 months away from being a Match.com commercial. Wonderful. ("This next guy coming to the stage works clubs and colleges, and you may also recognize him from cuddling with his wife in a hammock on TV...")
- I spent all of last weekend driving around North Jersey with Melissa and her parents, looking at different reception venues, smiling and nodding, and pretending to not be confused by the dinner menus. But the part I'm REALLY looking forward to is when we go DJ-shopping...because, believe it or not, I actually used to be a wedding DJ (cringe) for a few years in the late-90s (believe it). I have no idea which DJ we're going to go with...but my money's on whichever dude least reminds me of myself circa 1998 ("Shave that goatee and lose the visor, and we'll book you.")
- This is a truly unique time to be engaged. Melissa and I are in full-on "save mode" for the next 10 months, watching every penny we spend and trying to find any way possible to save. So I can't say I feel any different...because it feels like the rest of the country is engaged right now too.
Alright, that's all for now. I have to get back to deciding on a picture for the Save the Date magnets. Plenty more on all this to come.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Top 5 Disappointments From Eagles Game (Non-football-related)
And when I say "non-football-related" I just mean that lots of plays during the game were disappointing, and I'm in no mood to cover them now. So here was everything else:
5) Going to an Eagles Party for the game: I wasn't superstitious, but I think I am now. Should have just stayed low-key and watched it a local bar like we did for the first couple playoff games...but instead we decided to show up at my friends' full-fledged Eagles party. And I'm sure that's the reason why our defense decided not to show up at the game.
4) Getting made fun of by everybody for wearing my McNabb jersey tucked into my jeans: I realize I look like a big dorky dad wearing my jersey like this, but it's a Large and if I untuck it almost goes down to my kneecaps and then I kinda look like an Eagles cheerleader who's wearing nothing but a jersey and heels in the March 2009 page of the team calendar. Except that I'm a guy, and I clearly have pants on. Whatever.
3) Bears fan sitting up front by the TV and being loud and annoying: No idea who this guy was, and thank God we weren't playing the Bears...but why were you at our party? You talked a lot, I couldn't tell if you were wearing a do-rag or not, and you were smiling way too much during the first half. Thank God you left at halftime, or this blog would be entirely about you.
2) Non-football smalltalk during extremely tense moments: It was 4th and ten, one last-ditch play for the Eagles left, when they cut to commercial for the two-minute warning...and one of my friends broke the silence by actually saying to me, "So how's comedy going?" I don't even think I moved my eyes from the screen and just said to Melissa, "Hon, can you deal with that for me?"
1) "Snow ahead" signs on the Turnpike on the ride back: We saw about eight of these on the hour ride back home, and kept wondering where the hell the snow was each time. What a tease. Kinda like when your favorite sports team gets within one win of the Super Bowl every other year, then stops playing.
And if you don't follow football, all you needed to know for this blog was that yesterday was the fifth NFC Championship Game the Eagles have played in during The Bush Administration. And it ended up being the fourth that they lost. So here's hoping for some real change. Mr. Obama, can you please stop the recession and get me a Super Bowl win too? That's all I ask. Thanks.
5) Going to an Eagles Party for the game: I wasn't superstitious, but I think I am now. Should have just stayed low-key and watched it a local bar like we did for the first couple playoff games...but instead we decided to show up at my friends' full-fledged Eagles party. And I'm sure that's the reason why our defense decided not to show up at the game.
4) Getting made fun of by everybody for wearing my McNabb jersey tucked into my jeans: I realize I look like a big dorky dad wearing my jersey like this, but it's a Large and if I untuck it almost goes down to my kneecaps and then I kinda look like an Eagles cheerleader who's wearing nothing but a jersey and heels in the March 2009 page of the team calendar. Except that I'm a guy, and I clearly have pants on. Whatever.
3) Bears fan sitting up front by the TV and being loud and annoying: No idea who this guy was, and thank God we weren't playing the Bears...but why were you at our party? You talked a lot, I couldn't tell if you were wearing a do-rag or not, and you were smiling way too much during the first half. Thank God you left at halftime, or this blog would be entirely about you.
2) Non-football smalltalk during extremely tense moments: It was 4th and ten, one last-ditch play for the Eagles left, when they cut to commercial for the two-minute warning...and one of my friends broke the silence by actually saying to me, "So how's comedy going?" I don't even think I moved my eyes from the screen and just said to Melissa, "Hon, can you deal with that for me?"
1) "Snow ahead" signs on the Turnpike on the ride back: We saw about eight of these on the hour ride back home, and kept wondering where the hell the snow was each time. What a tease. Kinda like when your favorite sports team gets within one win of the Super Bowl every other year, then stops playing.
And if you don't follow football, all you needed to know for this blog was that yesterday was the fifth NFC Championship Game the Eagles have played in during The Bush Administration. And it ended up being the fourth that they lost. So here's hoping for some real change. Mr. Obama, can you please stop the recession and get me a Super Bowl win too? That's all I ask. Thanks.
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