Sun Moon Stars Girl )-(

Welcome to my little place to vent…

Yay! We finally had some time this Thanksgiving weekend to go through our formal wedding photos, and I uploaded them today! We also finally ordered our wedding album, which won’t be delivered until January, but at least it is done!

Here is the link directly to the new Our Formal Wedding Photos Album!
Enjoy - but keep in mind there are almost 600 pictures in this new album.

In addition, we recently uploaded pictures from Our Celebration of Marriage.

Feel free to download the low-resolution image that we’ve posted. However, if you would like a high-resolution digital image of any of these pictures, please email me or Kris, or leave me a comment, and make sure to include the photo number (Example: FILE 4/589)!

I have a post-it above my computer in the lab that says in all caps “DTMS.” Most people don’t know what it really means, I’m assuming that anyone who just takes a glance will think of it as some chemical I need or need to order. In reality it is my little way of being able to say “keep out” without actually saying that. It means “Don’t touch my stuff.” I don’t care if people ask before using my things, although I am still rather particular about them, but it’s usually cool as long as they actually ask first. I really don’t like if anyone tries to use my pipets, not just because they have been calibrated recently, but also because they are not generic and are difficult to master, ie, most people don’t know what the heck to do with them and run a large risk of breaking them instead of actually figuring them out.

Why rant today? Well, I’ve been away competing at the Laughlin International Rally, and I just realized today that my box of P-20 pipet tips was missing. Why do I care? Because the stock room is about 5 feet away from my lab bench. Because they are the special filter tips. And really, because they were the only P-20 box with a shiny silver label that finally matched the other box tops on my lab bench. There, I’ve said it, and I know I sound about five years old…but I want my shiny back!!!

Ok, ok, seriously though. Why would anyone do something like that? The only shared piece of equipment on my bench is the spec, which has its own set/supply of tips. In addition, the stock room is RIGHT THERE! I know most of the people in my lab don’t know how particular I am with my things, and I’m not going to tell them (hence the “DTMS” post-it), so I’m pretty sure it wasn’t done on purpose to annoy me. Or maybe it was. In either case, it still annoys me. /end rant….

Kris and I headed out early Saturday morning to Las Vegas where our friends Brian and Vanessa were to be wed. The drive wasn’t too bad, since there usually isn’t much traffic going out on a Saturday morning. We arrived early enough to have plenty of time to change and relax after finding the hotel to check in early. After finding our room in the hotel in Old Downtown Las Vegas (near Fremont Street), we headed out to find the Wee Kirk O’ The Heather Wedding Chapel. We realized it was much closer to the hotel than we’d thought, so we spent some time driving around the block to check out the rest of the area. While driving down Las Vegas Boulevard, we spotted Brian and a bunch of other people headed down the street to the Chapel, so we found a parking spot. I didn’t have much change for the meter, so we sat in the car as long as possible before I fed the machine as much change in as I could, figuring the ceremony would be pretty short.

Click here for our pictures from the wedding!
And here’s the link for Brian & Vanessa’s gallery!
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Last night Kris and I had an appointment to fulfill our bridal registry from Macy’s. We were able to utilize a special 15% completion discount, in addition to a Macy’s giftcard and some American Express Gift Cheques we received for our wedding. We had a good time going all over the home store finding the items we still needed, and trying to figure out if there was anything else we wanted to use the 15% discount on. Last time we had our friends over for dinner we realized we did not really have any wine glasses, so we picked up a simple set of six wine glasses with a very cool decanter. This was the only “extra” item we decided on, but we’re very excited to now have everything we wanted from Macy’s, compliments of several wedding guests. And now we have the picture frames we wanted so much and we can spend some time deciding which professional photo prints we want to order (once we get back from Laughlin, that is…).

We still have a few items left on our Sears registry and our Tupperware.com registry, so I think we’ll be requesting those items or giftcards to Sears for Christmas. I’ve removed the links to the Macy’s and BBB registries because they are now completed. Thanks again to everyone who made this fun shopping trip possible!

Well, it’s taken a bit of time, but we are MOSTLY done with writing a heartfelt note in each of our thank you cards. There’s still a few we have left to do, a few that need updated addresses (hey people you know who you are!!!), and a few that need stamps. I’m about to go to the post office today, but please don’t be upset if you don’t get the expected card in the mail in the next week or so. We’re about to go away for the weekend for Brian and Vanessa’s wedding and when we get back we’ll only be home for one day before we leave for the Laughlin International Rally. Since we’re still waiting (mostly) for those updated addresses, hopefully we’ll hear back from everyone we need to by the time we get back and then the remainder of the cards will go out.