A brief update of various things…
We’ve been busy and we will be busy so here’s an update of a few things that have been happening lately….
1) We FINALLY got our professional proofs of our wedding photos. They were posted online for us about a week ago, and we got the cds of the digital images last week. There’s over 700 photos to go through, so it’s going to take a while. The good news is that we have to full rights to the high resolution digital images, so we will be posting a bunch of those photos, and we’ll send info out so if anyone wants a high resolution image, we can send them out (instead of having to pay to get a photo from the company who took the photos). Please bear with us while we take our time to go through the photos. The good news is that we did pick the photo we want to be included in our thank you notes, and will soon be receiving those cards and photos so we can, at long last, send out our wedding gift thank yous!
2) Yes, I still have a WHOLE LOT of wedding pictures I got from Ray, Valerie, Jerilyn, and Aunt Paula that have not been posted to my gallery. Not only does it take time to go through all the professional photos, but we’ve been busy with other stuff too. They will eventually get posted! And I will certainly have a blog entry indicating that has been done when the time comes.
3) We’ve been super busy. We’re about to leave for our second trip to AZ in two weeks, this time for the 2007 Prescott Rally. Last week both Kris and I prepped for the event - he was down at the shop all week while I took care of the paperwork and organization. We both went down for a full day at the shop getting our hands dirty yesterday (I mostly took the old stickers off the car, yay, now my new name is on there!) Anyway, you can take a look at how we’re doing in the rally this weekend with our APRS tracking system.
4) Oh, yeah! I officially changed my name! You can now call me “Mrs. M.” I spent most of the week before our CA reception party by going to the Social Security office, the DMV (to change my name on my license, two car titles, and pay my registration), and the campus registrar. Kris and I spent two hours one night talking to Geico to change my name and combine our two policies into one - the really good news is that by doing that we saved almost $1000/year on our car insurance! The week afterwards (when I got my new social security card) I had to go to our payroll/HR person, talk to the heads of my own lab, and called and wrote letters to my retirement account companies, and the two other colleges I’ve attended. I also had to call all my credit card companies. I just started getting letters back this week that the name change has gone through. I got all my new credit cards and my new license (yay, another good picture!). I just realized I still have to update my high school transcript, and I’ve been putting off going to get my new UCI ID card and getting a new UCI net ID, which will change my email address and logon for anything computer/internet-related at UCI (there’s a whole bunch of things this will affect both at home and school/work, which is sort of why I am putting it off).
5) On Saturday, Kris and I went to a BBQ at a rally couplefriends’ new house (just married in March, house is rental property for the time being). It was sort of a housewarming thing, very fun. We got to see their wedding pictures; their wedding was super-informal and so different than ours, but really nice! Kris had a blast because Erik took him out in his Lotus and even let Kris drive. 
We were the second people to get there, but the last to leave…needless to say we’re in the process of making dinner party plans for mid-October.
