Title courtesy of Blink 182.

So, my weekend is officially here, so let the party commence! I'm talking like four days straight of celebrating the fact that I'm getting married to an amazing girl. Now that's my kind of extended weekend! Although, it was a little rough in getting to this point. Work the past two days hasn't been pleasant. I was at a customer that I didn't really want to be at, and when I thought I was out the door at about 1:00 PM or so this afternoon, I get a call just as I got on the highway saying that I had to turn around and go back. Then, I had to basically undo everything that I had done this morning and then re-do it all. That was a ton of fun. But I got out of there at a decent time and now the fun can begin.

I had my last personal trainer session this evening and that went really well. I got a bro hug from the guy on the way out, along with a very sweet card addressed to Missy and myself from the staff at the gym. I'm really going to miss that place. It was a great, small gym that really gave you a personal experience. Much better than a Golds, or a Bally's, or any place like that. I hope we can find someplace similar to go around here.

Well, that's about it for now. Let the party commence! I'll try to post something else over the weekend before the big day comes about. Thankfully the past few days have been drama free, except for a phone call I need to make to the band about the song my mom and I are dancing to. What that's about, I have no idea, because I can't see why the song is a pain in the ass for them to play or anything, and its not like the lyrics can be misconstrued or anything. We'll see. I tried calling them tonight, but no one was there that could help me, just a clueless receptionist. I'm going to try first thing tomorrow and see what happens.

Alright, adios people!

Title courtesy of the one, the only, Led Zeppelin.

So, according to the wedding website the hotel we used for out of town guests setup for us, its T-minus 4 days and 19 hours until the wedding. Crazy. Its days away. I'm not nervous or anything like that. Well, maybe a little, but not about getting married, I'm really psyched for that. I just want everything to go smoothly that day, you know? No drama please. No crisis, or anything like that. I just want a smooth and enjoyable wedding day experience. Please? Thank you.

In the meantime I still have two days of work to get through. Possibly two and a half. I'm counting today as done and in the bag. I'm trying to get Friday off and it all depends if a customer is coming in on Friday for a meeting I'd have to attend. It would be in the morning and I could leave after my portion of the meeting, but there's a good chance it'll get rescheduled, which would be sweet. I need to go with my dad that day to pick up my cousin from the airport. She's flying in from Turkey where she's been living and working for the past few months for the State Department. How crazy is that? She's in the bridal party, but on my side, as the lone groomsmaid. I figure if we have a man of honor, instead of a maid of honor, we can have a groomsmaid instead of a bridesmaid. Anyway, she's super psyched for the wedding, which is awesome. As am I. Have I said that enough? So two, possibly two and a half days to get through of work. Tomorrow and most likely Thursday I'll be at a customer, so that shouldn't be too bad, I hope. I've never been to this place before and I've heard they're difficult, so we shall see. I'm hoping it goes smoothly, because I don't need stress these past few days. I've worked really hard to get back into a good place, and I don't need it messed up by work. That's sort of what's caused my bad mood to begin with, or at least didn't make anything better!

Also, I'm totally digging the Wii. Missy came over last night and we played two games of Wii bowling. She got so into it! Her dances of joy at getting a spare or jumping up and down at a strike were hilarious. I think she's warming up to the fact that I bought one, although she was initially somewhat pissed. More so at the four games I bought the next day than at the Wii itself, which was paid for on gift cards and whatnot, mostly. Whatever, she'll be over it in no time flat.

That is about all there is to report. 4 days, and less than 19 hours to go. Can't wait!

Title courtesy of Barenaked Ladies. Great tune.

Oh yeah, have I mentioned, I'm getting married in a week?! Actually, less than a week. More like 6 days, 11 hours and 24 minutes at this exact moment. Crazy, right? All this planning for the past year and a half and its almost here! The sad thing is it'll be over in a heartbeat, and that kind of sucks. But I plan on enjoying it to its fullest extent.

Time for bed. Got a big week ahead of me and I need to start of Monday right!

Title courtesy of Velvet Revolver. They were cool while they lasted.

So its Sunday night, and by this time next week I will be married and the party will be over. That is really exciting. I can't wait for it to get here. Less than one week away! Yay!

I had myself a pretty good weekend, although I could call it a wii-kend, as that seemed to be an all consuming factor in much of the past two days. I bought a few games for it yesterday at Best Buy, and between that and getting the Wii, it didn't please Missy too much, but I think she'll get over it. Boys and their toys, right? Right now my younger brother is enjoying some Super Smash Brothers Brawl, while I enjoyed some Super Mario Galaxy a little earlier. Maybe later I'll give Zelda or Metroid a spin. It really is a cool system. And I can't wait to start diving into all the old-school Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 games you can get for it.

In other news, Missy and I went to IKEA this morning to pick up two dressers to match the two she has in her apartment already. Thankfully IKEA wasn't too crazy packed, as it can get to be on the weekends and we found what we were looking for pretty quickly on the showroom floor, and even faster when we got to the aisle and bin section. Now putting it together wasn't so fast, but it wasn't that much of a pain in the ass either. Just time consuming. Especially screwing the tracks onto twelve shelves, three screws apiece and two tracks, that's too many. Really, the drawers were what I hated the most! But its done, and after the wedding I'll start moving my stuff in. Really at first I'll just need enough to last the week because then we'll be on our honeymoon for two weeks. After we get back we'll move me in as much as possible. There's a ton of stuff I'll have to leave at my parents because there simply isn't enough room. Hopefully it won't take long to save for a down payment on a house. Or at least that's what we pray happens.

Alright, enough typing for now. Peace out party people. One week to go!

Title courtesy of Queen. Usually you here that song and they go right into "We Are The Champions."

Sorry its been awhile with the posting. But work has been keeping me busy and with about 9 days until the big wedding day, my time is not my own anymore. I'm trying my best to sane, but its not an easy feat. I'm trying my best not to take out my stress on the loved ones around me and turn them into punching bags, but again, easier said than done. I haven't exactly been proud of some aspects of my behavior over the past month or so, but I'm hoping in this final week, now that everything is pretty much done and paid for and handled, I'll be able to return to my normal state of being a decent human being. Really, all that's left for me to do with the wedding is show up. Not too hard, right? I hope not!

So, in order to de-stress in the worst way, I treated myself to something I've been desiring for quite awhile now. A Nintendo Wii! I just got it this afternoon and its awesome. Although I only have the Sports game that comes with it, it was so much fun to play. I can't wait to get a few more games. That'll come with time. Missy wasn't too thrilled that I got it, mostly because I didn't exactly consult her on it, and because it put me in a better mood today than I've been in quite awhile, and it took a Wii to put in that state of mind when she's probably been trying like crazy to do the same. Oh well. As far as buying it goes, I had some gift cards that I got from cashing in credit card reward points, along with some BestBuy reward zone certificates, so all told I think I paid $60 tops out of my own pocket. Not bad! I was playing for awhile with my little brother and the boxing had us both sweating. I gotta get the Wii Fit thing, and really get a work out!

Alright, that's about all for now. I'll try to keep a sane head on my shoulders and post some wedding countdown updates. If you happen to have a Wii and have any suggestions for games, I'd love to hear them!

Title courtesy of Guns N Roses. It still describes what I lack the most. Monday night Missy and I had a nice long talk about my mental state of mind. The conversation started with her basically drilling me about whether or not I was getting cold feet, which is definitely not the case. After we talked about it, I felt better. I went to work the next day and left early to hop my flight to Nashville. My trip to Tennessee was really good, a little too short, but still good. I got all my work done by about 3 PM on Wednesday, so I had some time to wander around the city, I had some amazing food, and flew home on Thursday, which was yesterday.

Last night we worked out the table assignments with my parents. They already knew who they were sticking at what tables, we just had to figure out where we were going to put each table full of people. That was fun. Mostly because we insisted that the table we sit my parents and their friends at wasn't where the initially wanted to be seated. Oh well. That was a fun exchange. Then Missy got all pissed, but not in front of my parents, that my mom insisted on sitting my brother's in-laws, who my mom has a great friendship with at my parents table, with all of their life-long friends. Missy was upset because at my brother's wedding, my parents sat them at a table full of strangers. So Missy is pissed that her parents relationship with my parents isn't like the relationship my parents have with my brother's wife's parents. I'm OK with that. I've resigned myself to the fact that our parents are not going to be the best of friends, because they don't need to be, they just need to get along, that's all. Honestly, I think a lot of the feelings stem from the whole bridal shower incident and how my mother was not included. She says she's moved on from it, but you don't forgive and forget so easily, and I don't blame her really. But again, I'm OK with our parents not being the best of friends, but Missy isn't. Oh well. So I tried to keep my patience as best I could with that. It wasn't really an argument we had last night about it, more just an airing of feelings and grievances.

Then, this morning, my dad insists on pushing up the time of the morning after breakfast we have planned at the hotel where all the out of town guests are staying from 10 AM to 8 AM, to accommodate people taking early flights home. I ran it by Missy, and she's checking into her parents opinion on the matter, and whether or not we'll even be able to push it up. I don't think so, and don't really care either. Its just another one of those stupid little things that have been pushing my buttons and make me almost lose it. I just want all of this crap to be over and done with. I just want Sunday, August 3rd to get here. I just can't take it anymore. I'm really going to flip out in the worst way. And of course work BS isn't helping much.

Alright, I'm going to stop complaining about this all right now before I make it any worse.

Title courtesy of Blink 182. Shame they don't make music together anymore. They're definitely better together than Angel & Airwaves and +44 are separately, in my opinion. I saw them once, along with No Doubt and The Living End at Jones Beach. Great show all around.

Anyway, the title has multiple implications here, and they all tie together. One is the lyric, "Work sucks, I know." I don't know what it is, but I just don't seem to have the patience for work at the moment. I don't know if its just that I need a break and a vacation in the worst way, or what. Thankfully I'll be gone for two weeks for the honeymoon, but that's over three and a half weeks away. Not soon enough if you ask me. Yes, I did just have a long weekend away with my friends for my bachelor party (more on that later), but that was just a day off on Friday. Its weird, I just suddenly, in the past two weeks or so, have absolutely no patience, for almost anything. Its like any little thing that bugs me, sets me off. And its not a good feeling, at all. I hope it passes once the wedding has come and gone and after I get back from my honeymoon. I really do.

And its not just work. All the small things, the stuff that people tell you not to sweat, are really aggravating me. I have no tolerance for almost anything lately, and again, its a horrible feeling. Mostly because I take it out on all the wrong people, namely Missy. I'll be the first to admit it, that in the past month I've been quite the asshole lately. And I don't know why. I just need to relax, but I just can't, at the same time. It sucks. It just sucks. My greatest fear is that even after the wedding and the honeymoon that these feelings will persist. I hope to whatever higher power is out there that they won't.

OK, enough about that, before I get going again. So the bachelor party was this past weekend and I had a lot of fun just hanging out with my friends and brothers in the middle of nowhere. We rented a cabin outside of Lake Placid, NY, which is about 5 or 6 hours north of Long Island. So yeah, it was a bit of a drive to get up there. My brothers and my friend Jason left about an hour before I did on Friday, so they beat us up there. I picked up Seth and left at about 3:15, and we got up there, after making some stops for food, gas and groceries for the cabin at about 9:15, so six hours up. Brett had to work Friday night so he didn't get up there until Saturday, and he was delayed by getting lost, with very little gas left in his tank. I felt bad for him, but at the same time, he has a GPS system, he just didn't bring it because he didn't know how to work it. Anyway, so most of us got up there Friday night, we made some frozen pizza's we bought, and started doing what we did for most of the weekend, eating and drinking beer. I also brought up my XBox 360 with Rock Band and all the instruments, so we played that until past one in the morning. I was playing the drums, Seth was on guitar, Jay on bass and Mark singing. And throughout all the banging and singing, Randy was passed out on the couch. Poor bastard. After Rock Band, Jay and Rand went to bed, so Mark, Seth and I stayed up watching Eddie Murphy Raw on Comedy Central. I eventually passed out after 2 AM, and went to bed.

We woke up Saturday and Rand cooked breakfast for everything. Just bacon, eggs and toast, but it was good. We hung around the cabin waiting for Brett to show up. While we were waiting Seth and I tossed around the football, and just generally relaxed outside. Once Brett finally showed up we decided to head into the town of Lake Placid, which was about a 25 minute drive from the cabin. We headed to a local micro-brewery for lunch and more beer, then walked around town some more. Once we got back to the cabin Seth, Brett and myself threw the ball around some more and tried to play some whiffle ball, while Rand went for more groceries to BBQ that night. He cooked up a ton of food, which sadly, I didn't have much of, since I was so stuffed from the huge lunch we had. While Randy was cooking, Seth built a fire outside, so he, Brett, myself and Mark sat around the fire for about 4 hours, until about 10:30, just eating, drinking and talking. It was a good time. Jay came out every so often to join us, while Rand was watching a NASCAR race on TV.

After the fire died out we went back inside and played some more Rock Band for a few more hours. Good times. We played and drank, basically. I passed out sometime around 2:30 probably, woke up the next morning, ate breakfast, cleaned the place up, then we hit the road for the almost six hour drive home. By the time I got home, I was beyond exhausted. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time, I was just shot, beyond belief. I unpacked, showered, ate some dinner and was just ready for a nice relaxing evening. But that didn't quite happen, because I was an asshole.

Basically, Missy's shower was on Saturday, the same day as the bachelor party. She guessed that the shower was happening on Friday and I said I was sorry for not being able to be there and for lying to her about it, and she understood. I genuinely wanted her to have a good time at the shower, and she did. Its just that by the time my weekend was over, the fact that I couldn't be there when I knew she really wanted me to be, made me really angry, and I kind of took it out on Missy, when I shouldn't have. So we had a nice long argument about it, but its all good now. I just need to stop being such a jerk sometimes. Its not easy though, like I said, no patience, and short fuse, for almost everything that goes on around me. I'm trying though. Seriously trying.

Alright, that's it. Back to work. And please, let the next three weeks just go by fast. I can't take it much longer!

Title courtesy of John Mayer, off of "Heavier Things." I'm going to see him tonight with Missy. I supposed to go with my brother and his wife as well, but they punked out, so I sold his pair of tickets to a co-worker at full price, so that should be interesting! I'm looking forward to it, but the concert is at Jones Beach, and the weather is calling for rain, and thunderstorms. So that should be even more interesting.

So, as the title implies, I'm trying to find some clarity amongst the final push towards the wedding day. Between work and trying to tie up all the loose ends before the big day, it feels like I'm working three jobs sometimes, and the wedding seems like its taking up two! I know in the end it'll all be worth it and the party will be kick ass, but I just wish it would get here already. I know I've said it a million times, but its true. I don't want it to be over, because I'm really looking forward to the big day, but I just want August 3 to get here already. Soon enough. I know.

The three day weekend definitely helped with my state of mind though. We had an awesome Fourth. My best friends came with their wives, and we were all hanging out, eating, drinking, playing catch for like two hours, and setting off Diet Coke and Mentos fountains. It worked, and it worked beautifully. I'll post pictures soon. But those suckers shot up like 15 feet in the air once I had the proper caps in place. Missy was thoroughly proud of me, as was my dad, I think. I didn't see the look on anyone's face as it was happening, so I'm trusting Missy's report.

That's about it. Just checking in for sanity's sake. 24 days to go, or something like that.

Title courtesy of U2. You have to love U2, or at least I have to. For one thing, they're an amazing band. For another, they did the song that Missy and I are going to have our first dance to, "All I Want Is You." Great tune. I've heard it enough times at dance lessons lately, that's for sure. And yes, I've been taking dancing lessons, well, actually Missy and I have, and we have a whole routine and everything for our first dance. It's going to kick ass and be awesome.

OK, I'll shut up about that now.

So as the title implies, there is only one month, as of today, until my wedding. This time, one month from now, I'll be partying down at the reception as a married man. Crazy, right? Its starting to blow my mind a little. But I'm looking forward to it, so it's all good. But I just know how fast a month can fly by. I know June felt like it went by without batting an eyelash. Although July is one day longer than June, so who knows, it might take just a tad longer.

The deadline for wedding invitation responses was today, and as it stands we have 32 invitations that we have yet to receive a response on. 8 of those belong to some of my dad's partners, 3 to members of my family, 5 to friends of my parents, 3 to my mom's coworkers, 3 to Missy's friends and 10 of Missy's family members. How messed up is that? You get an invitation, you respond, its that simple. Thankfully I chased down all of mine and either got them to mail it in or got a verbal response. I only had one no! And a few coming solo instead of with their significant others, but its all good. So now my parents, Missy and her parents have to start chasing people down to respond. And can you believe that family members, family, of all people, are such a huge chunk of absentee responses? That's messed up, on so many levels. Whatever. I'm not going to get pissed at it, as it only agitates me. I just want to start making table assignments already, you know? I want that over and done with, pronto!

OK, so its the Fourth of July tomorrow and a nice long three day holiday weekend. Next week I'm taking Friday off as well for my bachelor party, so that's two short weeks in a row. After my bachelor party I have to travel to Atlanta, then to Nashville and then home, so that's four days on the road, which should be fun, I hope. The work will be easy, and hopefully I can take in the sights, and not melt in the deep south in July. I don't do well in the South. I just don't fit in I find. I'm too much of a Yankee, and a Yankees fan, really.

Back to the Fourth. I have my best friend Brett and his new wife coming over to my parents house for a barbecue. Missy of course is joining us as well, and possible Seth and Shari, my other best friend and his wife, will come over too. I'm looking forward to a grand old time. I also need to run out and buy some mint Mentos and Diet Coke. Why you ask? Because when you add them together you get this! How cool is that? They do that in the new Weezer video, and I just think its the coolest thing ever. Its like fireworks, but with soda. I so want to do it, and I will. Maybe I'll get some pics too, because those are always fun.

That's about it really. Just counting down the days, basically. Have a great Fourth party people, and stay safe out there!

Title courtesy of Fall Out Boy, a band I'm not a huge fan of, but a few of their tunes are catchy as all hell. The title track here has been played in a few spin classes I've taken, and its a good tune to work out to. Plus, they do an awesome cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" with John Mayer on the guitar, which kicks so much ass. That boy can shred. I can't wait to see him next week at Jones Beach. Its gonna be awesome.

Anyway, so my parents got an interesting thank you card in the mail earlier this week. A little back story though. I have a cousin that lives in North Carolina that got married about a month or so ago. The wedding was actually in South Carolina, and even though we're Jewish, it took place in a church. So, needless to say, no one in my family went, and we didn't bat an eye over it, and of course, my parents still sent a gift. After all, it is still their niece, even though we're not close with them at all. So, they get the thank you card in the mail sometime this week and I found it on my dad's desk, and once I read it, I found how I would love to fill out all of our thank you cards for our wedding. Missy didn't quite agree with me unfortunately. Oh well. So, without further ado, the card read, and I quote:

"Thanks for money. See you someday" And then they signed their names.

How awesome is that? You can't help but laugh! I mean, that's just beyond awesome. I don't know why. I just find it highly entertaining.

Alright, that's all. Carry on.