the teeth are somewhat 3Dish. it didn't quite turn out like i had hoped. but it still looks good. :)
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Mah Pumpkin
the teeth are somewhat 3Dish. it didn't quite turn out like i had hoped. but it still looks good. :)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
sweetness
here's movies from the cam:
recorded to memory stick:
POV rear camera 1
and
recorded to tape:
POV rear cam D8 2
all videos can be found here
recorded to memory stick:
POV rear camera 1
and
recorded to tape:
POV rear cam D8 2
all videos can be found here
i need help sugga.
two things have struck me deep in the past 3 days.
sunday i was telling brittany that i need help with some personal things, and she said i just need to find Jesus. i knew it was true, but i hardly gave it a second thought until yesterday.
i did some work for a well-to-do couple and they gave me a cash tip after the work was done. i saw him playing with a $20 so when he gave it to me, i didn't look at what it was. at publix last night, i reached in my pocket and found a $100 :-0
i had just stated monday that "when i get a spare $100, i'm going to go get an eye exam and start wearing some contacts" and... well, look what happened.
coincidence? i think not...
sunday i was telling brittany that i need help with some personal things, and she said i just need to find Jesus. i knew it was true, but i hardly gave it a second thought until yesterday.
i did some work for a well-to-do couple and they gave me a cash tip after the work was done. i saw him playing with a $20 so when he gave it to me, i didn't look at what it was. at publix last night, i reached in my pocket and found a $100 :-0
i had just stated monday that "when i get a spare $100, i'm going to go get an eye exam and start wearing some contacts" and... well, look what happened.
coincidence? i think not...
Monday, October 27, 2008
good times.
i searched my blog for "jellyfish" and came across this post. here's an excerpt:
yeah! i been playing chris's game on the gamecube Animal Crossing. it's addicitve as a mofo! i played on his name last weekend, and just fished for him (you sell the fish for money) so i had fun fishing, and he got money. we both happy :) lol then this past... saturday? i think so yea, i fished for melanie. got her some money. today i got bored and fished for chris again. today i set the clock on teh gamecube to "september" so the game thought i was playing in september. and Woah! oh boy did i catch some big dollar fish! most fish are like 120-300 "bells" (the equiv of dollars). some fish are worth 650, 1300, 3000, 5000 and even 10000 bells. i've cought at least 1 of all of these, but, they're not too common. in the ocean you can catch jellyfish left and right, all worth 100 bells each. every now and then you'll catch a big fish worth 3000 or even more rare is the 5000 fish. well, today, the ocean pulled up about 3 pieces of trash, and every single other fish was the 3000 or 5000 fish. a "good" fishing trip before i head to the store was about 10-20k bells. today's was about 40-60k bells a trip :) heh yeah, in about 3-4 hours this morn (i played a long time) i earned him about 400k bells! :) lol sad me. but i paid off his bigger house in the game and got a basement added on :) who knows what that'll cost. tis was fun tho. sorry melanie i'm all fished out. get chris to wire you some money or something - i know he's got some reserves :P
hahahaha :) good times.
yeah! i been playing chris's game on the gamecube Animal Crossing. it's addicitve as a mofo! i played on his name last weekend, and just fished for him (you sell the fish for money) so i had fun fishing, and he got money. we both happy :) lol then this past... saturday? i think so yea, i fished for melanie. got her some money. today i got bored and fished for chris again. today i set the clock on teh gamecube to "september" so the game thought i was playing in september. and Woah! oh boy did i catch some big dollar fish! most fish are like 120-300 "bells" (the equiv of dollars). some fish are worth 650, 1300, 3000, 5000 and even 10000 bells. i've cought at least 1 of all of these, but, they're not too common. in the ocean you can catch jellyfish left and right, all worth 100 bells each. every now and then you'll catch a big fish worth 3000 or even more rare is the 5000 fish. well, today, the ocean pulled up about 3 pieces of trash, and every single other fish was the 3000 or 5000 fish. a "good" fishing trip before i head to the store was about 10-20k bells. today's was about 40-60k bells a trip :) heh yeah, in about 3-4 hours this morn (i played a long time) i earned him about 400k bells! :) lol sad me. but i paid off his bigger house in the game and got a basement added on :) who knows what that'll cost. tis was fun tho. sorry melanie i'm all fished out. get chris to wire you some money or something - i know he's got some reserves :P
hahahaha :) good times.
you me and dupree
is a dorky movie. i'm not that much of a Owen Wilson fan anyways. like in wedding crashers and drillbit taylor. he was good in zoolander. actually he's prob 2nd to Ashton Kutcher in the worst actors ever. well, Ashton Kutcher's good on that 70's show, and dude where' my car. i want to see what happens in vegas.
i printed my photos today at walmart. they didn't come out with all the luster i was hoping for. actually - alot of them kinda suck. the best, by far, is this pic:
the blue was a uber magnificent blue. very nice. i might just make me a huge poster of it, it's so purdy. almost as blue as my baby's eyes :D
so anyways. the audio driver is about done downloading. yea im' fixing scott's pc as we speak. peace!
i printed my photos today at walmart. they didn't come out with all the luster i was hoping for. actually - alot of them kinda suck. the best, by far, is this pic:
the blue was a uber magnificent blue. very nice. i might just make me a huge poster of it, it's so purdy. almost as blue as my baby's eyes :D
so anyways. the audio driver is about done downloading. yea im' fixing scott's pc as we speak. peace!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
tonight
was good.
Friday: went to trey's. his place is cool. pool table and big screen. nice. my better half came over.
Saturday: brought Brittany to Athens where she took her gace test. i walked around downtown and took a few pictures. we drove through grayson and drove by some houses for sale that were nice. watched the sex in the city movie. it was good. i liked it. now i need to see the rest of the apparently 6 seasons. i've seen some of some of the seasons.
today: we cleaned some. mostly in the kitchen, some in the living room. the house is shaping up. she had to leave :( i ordered a truckload of pictures through walmart, i can pickup tomorrow. i also watched The Astronaut Farmer. it was ok, parts were very far fetched - and the ending was... stereotypical. and his space suit? wtf it was the most unrealistic thing of the movie - 2nd to his rocket not leveling his house and bar upon takeoff.
i cooked me a baked sweet potato. it was good. sweet potato and chocolate milk for dinner. nice :)
maybe tomorrow when i get home from work, I'll get on the picture frame making ball. who knows? i might actually do it :)
i can't wait to marry my the lady of my dreams. =) between last night's movie (the subject being relationships, marriage, kids, the future, etc) then tonight's movie (she supported her husband no matter how crazy he was), i can't wait to start that life.
Will Beacon: Mr. Farmer, how do we know you aren't constructing a WMD?
Charles Farmer: Sir, if I was building a weapon of mass destruction, you wouldn't be able to find it.
*CRASH!*
Charles Farmer: You want my house, I'll give it to you brick by brick!
hahahahah nice. ok.
why am i so selfish in that i want it all? i want everything to go my way, i want to do everything my way, and i want everything to be perfect. is it that I'm afraid if i don't do it my way, it won't turn out right? am i afraid that something bad will happen? is it because that's how i learned growing up, that if it' wasn't done a certain way then it was being done the wrong way?
my classic example, illustrated and implemented just today. Brittany was loading the dishwasher her way - bowls on top, pans in the back. i though i just gave constructive criticism in that, i said normally the pans take up too much room, so i just hand wash those few items; otherwise, the bowls fit better in the bottom and i have more room for cups in the top. however, i don't think it quite came out that way.
i hurt her today. not physically. but it hurt her the way that i criticized her. in my head, i did what i said above. however, apparently I've been nearly brainwashed in my bringing up, that the way i said what i said, wasn't nearly as constructive as i had perceived. :'( and then it took forever for her to open up to me and to tell me what it was i said or did that was so bad. :( am i that bad of a person? am i that fearful, that you don't want to share with me what i need to know? I'm not just being nosy and want to know everything going on - i need to change. I've said before that while i may love my family, there are certain traits and characteristic I'm afraid I've inherited and i don't want to carry on.
i sit and worry and fear that my ancestry is going to catch up with me and I'm going to ruin the best thing going on in my life. i fear that the way i act, the way i carry myself, the way i talk, the things i say, the - you name it - will drive her away. i am scared nearly to death that I'm going to do this, and it'll be all my fault.
there are more examples, other than the dishwasher, that i can think of that have surfaced in the last week. but all this does make me think and wonder - what can i do to keep from screwing all this up?
what a debbie downer. didn't mean to end the post like this, but it is 11pm. thoughts? :'|
Friday: went to trey's. his place is cool. pool table and big screen. nice. my better half came over.
Saturday: brought Brittany to Athens where she took her gace test. i walked around downtown and took a few pictures. we drove through grayson and drove by some houses for sale that were nice. watched the sex in the city movie. it was good. i liked it. now i need to see the rest of the apparently 6 seasons. i've seen some of some of the seasons.
today: we cleaned some. mostly in the kitchen, some in the living room. the house is shaping up. she had to leave :( i ordered a truckload of pictures through walmart, i can pickup tomorrow. i also watched The Astronaut Farmer. it was ok, parts were very far fetched - and the ending was... stereotypical. and his space suit? wtf it was the most unrealistic thing of the movie - 2nd to his rocket not leveling his house and bar upon takeoff.
i cooked me a baked sweet potato. it was good. sweet potato and chocolate milk for dinner. nice :)
maybe tomorrow when i get home from work, I'll get on the picture frame making ball. who knows? i might actually do it :)
i can't wait to marry my the lady of my dreams. =) between last night's movie (the subject being relationships, marriage, kids, the future, etc) then tonight's movie (she supported her husband no matter how crazy he was), i can't wait to start that life.
Will Beacon: Mr. Farmer, how do we know you aren't constructing a WMD?
Charles Farmer: Sir, if I was building a weapon of mass destruction, you wouldn't be able to find it.
*CRASH!*
Charles Farmer: You want my house, I'll give it to you brick by brick!
hahahahah nice. ok.
why am i so selfish in that i want it all? i want everything to go my way, i want to do everything my way, and i want everything to be perfect. is it that I'm afraid if i don't do it my way, it won't turn out right? am i afraid that something bad will happen? is it because that's how i learned growing up, that if it' wasn't done a certain way then it was being done the wrong way?
my classic example, illustrated and implemented just today. Brittany was loading the dishwasher her way - bowls on top, pans in the back. i though i just gave constructive criticism in that, i said normally the pans take up too much room, so i just hand wash those few items; otherwise, the bowls fit better in the bottom and i have more room for cups in the top. however, i don't think it quite came out that way.
i hurt her today. not physically. but it hurt her the way that i criticized her. in my head, i did what i said above. however, apparently I've been nearly brainwashed in my bringing up, that the way i said what i said, wasn't nearly as constructive as i had perceived. :'( and then it took forever for her to open up to me and to tell me what it was i said or did that was so bad. :( am i that bad of a person? am i that fearful, that you don't want to share with me what i need to know? I'm not just being nosy and want to know everything going on - i need to change. I've said before that while i may love my family, there are certain traits and characteristic I'm afraid I've inherited and i don't want to carry on.
i sit and worry and fear that my ancestry is going to catch up with me and I'm going to ruin the best thing going on in my life. i fear that the way i act, the way i carry myself, the way i talk, the things i say, the - you name it - will drive her away. i am scared nearly to death that I'm going to do this, and it'll be all my fault.
there are more examples, other than the dishwasher, that i can think of that have surfaced in the last week. but all this does make me think and wonder - what can i do to keep from screwing all this up?
what a debbie downer. didn't mean to end the post like this, but it is 11pm. thoughts? :'|
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
good stuff.
i'm all cramped up in a little office at work. let me back up. i've moved my "office" around a few times. first started: right glass office. then dispatch moved in, i moved to left glass office. (and by glass office i mean 3 sides of glass to be see through)
after there, i followed dispatch down the hall, in the back, where i was nearly by myself during the day. nice :) then we (me and dispatch) moved up the hall one office. really big room, essentially to myself during the day, own bathroom and a/c controls for my side of the hall (well, nobody used this bathroom, so i "claimed" it.
then dispatch moved to behind the receptionist. i don't like that setup. my back (and was 3, now 4 or 5 monitors) are facing the front door. no more myspace. no more questionable material. no fun :(
so i've started hanging out in the left glass office again. i got a hold to a spare computer, grabbed a spare LCD, grabbed the unused USB2VGA adapter and grabbed the CRT monitor (to have dual monitor again) and it's comfy. however, it's crowded. very crowded. a bunch of computer crab all shoved into a room that will soon be dispatch. again.
so i asked thomas "hey thomas. we just got some spare furniture from the office we just closed. and i'm about to lose this room again. can i get an office?" to which he replied "sure, no problem"
SWEET!
we looked at 2 spare offices. the bigger is the cooler (a/c) office, but has alot of stuff stored in it. the other is right beside scott. oh well, i'll take the good with the bad :)
now i can get my own phone (hah, i have the company cell, but now a landline phone). i can get a chair nobody will steal (or better not). i'll get my own pc (not the best, but it'll work. maybe i'll bring one from home that's better.... i'll get a place to have pics of my favorite lady :) i'll finally feel like somebody.
btw, we closed that office for finding a more cost efficient way to distribute paychecks and phones other than out of a rented, unmanned office. lock boxes on-site. who knew? :P yes, 20-30 little $35 boxes each onsite is more cost efficient than one office at prob $1000/month.
so anyways. yeah. good stuff :)
after there, i followed dispatch down the hall, in the back, where i was nearly by myself during the day. nice :) then we (me and dispatch) moved up the hall one office. really big room, essentially to myself during the day, own bathroom and a/c controls for my side of the hall (well, nobody used this bathroom, so i "claimed" it.
then dispatch moved to behind the receptionist. i don't like that setup. my back (and was 3, now 4 or 5 monitors) are facing the front door. no more myspace. no more questionable material. no fun :(
so i've started hanging out in the left glass office again. i got a hold to a spare computer, grabbed a spare LCD, grabbed the unused USB2VGA adapter and grabbed the CRT monitor (to have dual monitor again) and it's comfy. however, it's crowded. very crowded. a bunch of computer crab all shoved into a room that will soon be dispatch. again.
so i asked thomas "hey thomas. we just got some spare furniture from the office we just closed. and i'm about to lose this room again. can i get an office?" to which he replied "sure, no problem"
SWEET!
we looked at 2 spare offices. the bigger is the cooler (a/c) office, but has alot of stuff stored in it. the other is right beside scott. oh well, i'll take the good with the bad :)
now i can get my own phone (hah, i have the company cell, but now a landline phone). i can get a chair nobody will steal (or better not). i'll get my own pc (not the best, but it'll work. maybe i'll bring one from home that's better.... i'll get a place to have pics of my favorite lady :) i'll finally feel like somebody.
btw, we closed that office for finding a more cost efficient way to distribute paychecks and phones other than out of a rented, unmanned office. lock boxes on-site. who knew? :P yes, 20-30 little $35 boxes each onsite is more cost efficient than one office at prob $1000/month.
so anyways. yeah. good stuff :)
Monday, October 20, 2008
one year ago today.
and probably around this time of day. i met my fiancee. :)
long story [maybe not so] short:
i was at my parent's house helping dad do something. something outside where i was nasty and dirty. as i goto leave, i get a call from brad:
B: Jason.
J: What.
B: Come over.
J: Why.
B: I'm throwing a party.
J: I've been working, i'm nasty.
B: So what. come.
J: No.
B: Yes.
J: IF i were to come over, i'm taking a shower first.
B: Then do that.
J: Why.
B: Look, there's girls and alcohol.
J: Say again?
B: Well, by alcohol, i mean, the beer you left in my fridge.
J: And by girls, i assume more than just michelle?
B: Yes. you need to meet her.
J: Hmmm..
B: Take your shower then you're coming over.
J: Fine.
B: Cya.
well. that's basically it. i go take my shower, come back, meet Brittany. she was rather shy, seemed very... innocent. i just knew i had no chance in hell.
we watched princess bride, we all talked for a lil while, then i left. during the movie i jokingly txt'ed brad "i'd hit it" to which his reply was "what are you waiting for?" it was all fun and games til michelle saw the txt and replied "i'm going to f'in kill you"
later that night, maybe early morning, i txted back to michelle some txt which i wish i still had (it died when my phone died) in which i replied something to the nature of "my apologies for the lewd txt earlier. it was intended to be received in a jokingly manner and was not a true representation of my real intentions. i'd be thrilled if i could have the pleasure of meeting your cousin again, potentially over lunch?" (but the original was alot more sophisticated)
i met her again with brad and michelle that afternoon for lunch at amici's. sitting in the park i was afriad of scaring her off for being too aggressive. brad and michelle basically just push her off on me, saying "ok you bring her back to the apartment and ya'll have a chance to get to know one another"
we did. and by the afternoon i got a hug from her :) then i bought my gas grill later that evening on my way home. and the rest is history. :D
just shy of a month later, after seeing her 4-5 times, i started dating her exclusively. then just over a month later, after repressing my words in fear of lowering their validation, their power and authenticity, she said that she loved me, to which i whole heartily felt complete reciprocity to. :D then 2.5 weeks ago i finally put a ring on that finger that i've been wrapped around. only 7 more LONG months to go before we can tie the knot. :)
long story [maybe not so] short:
i was at my parent's house helping dad do something. something outside where i was nasty and dirty. as i goto leave, i get a call from brad:
B: Jason.
J: What.
B: Come over.
J: Why.
B: I'm throwing a party.
J: I've been working, i'm nasty.
B: So what. come.
J: No.
B: Yes.
J: IF i were to come over, i'm taking a shower first.
B: Then do that.
J: Why.
B: Look, there's girls and alcohol.
J: Say again?
B: Well, by alcohol, i mean, the beer you left in my fridge.
J: And by girls, i assume more than just michelle?
B: Yes. you need to meet her.
J: Hmmm..
B: Take your shower then you're coming over.
J: Fine.
B: Cya.
well. that's basically it. i go take my shower, come back, meet Brittany. she was rather shy, seemed very... innocent. i just knew i had no chance in hell.
we watched princess bride, we all talked for a lil while, then i left. during the movie i jokingly txt'ed brad "i'd hit it" to which his reply was "what are you waiting for?" it was all fun and games til michelle saw the txt and replied "i'm going to f'in kill you"
later that night, maybe early morning, i txted back to michelle some txt which i wish i still had (it died when my phone died) in which i replied something to the nature of "my apologies for the lewd txt earlier. it was intended to be received in a jokingly manner and was not a true representation of my real intentions. i'd be thrilled if i could have the pleasure of meeting your cousin again, potentially over lunch?" (but the original was alot more sophisticated)
i met her again with brad and michelle that afternoon for lunch at amici's. sitting in the park i was afriad of scaring her off for being too aggressive. brad and michelle basically just push her off on me, saying "ok you bring her back to the apartment and ya'll have a chance to get to know one another"
we did. and by the afternoon i got a hug from her :) then i bought my gas grill later that evening on my way home. and the rest is history. :D
just shy of a month later, after seeing her 4-5 times, i started dating her exclusively. then just over a month later, after repressing my words in fear of lowering their validation, their power and authenticity, she said that she loved me, to which i whole heartily felt complete reciprocity to. :D then 2.5 weeks ago i finally put a ring on that finger that i've been wrapped around. only 7 more LONG months to go before we can tie the knot. :)
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
myspace uploading help
picture uploading has sucked crazy bad lately. anybody else experience that? i try to upload 5 photos - it quits after 2. i try uploading 20 - it quits after 1. i try uploading 1 - it sometimes works. i just update my Adobe Flash and now - crap. it just got stuck on #8 out of 11 :(
May 16th, 2009
Mark that down.
Be there.
Wedding bells will ring.
It appears to be the date. We wanted it around there (i did, and i assume i'm speaking on her bahalf too) and my bride checked with her people and it seems to be the date of choice. 7 months from thursday? sweeeeet. :)
Be there.
Wedding bells will ring.
It appears to be the date. We wanted it around there (i did, and i assume i'm speaking on her bahalf too) and my bride checked with her people and it seems to be the date of choice. 7 months from thursday? sweeeeet. :)
times have changed.
browsing through craigslist showed me somethign i didn't know existed:
Sony DSC-F505 digital camera.
now don't get me wrong. i don't want this camera but for anything but a novelty. actually, i don't even really want to pay any money for it. it was new in 2000 - two years older than my Sony DSC-F717 that i just recently replaced.
the F505 is a 2.1MP camera (compare that to the 5.0MP of my F717, or the 14.2MP of my a350) :)
what i really wanted to point out was battery life. in the review of the F505, it's stated that it got an "amazing" 60 mins of shoot time with the LCD black light off (or 80 mins with the back light off).
lets compare this to my F717. they changed their standard for how the battery was tested, but in the updated test, it yielded 4 hr 02 mins.
while 4x the time wasn't regarded as "amazing" it was remarked as "very very good". btw, at the bottom of the list was Minolta DiMAGE 7 at 1 hr 14 mins, and at the top was the Olympus C-8080 WZ at 5 hr 52 mins.
amazingly i can't find any stats on my a350 other than 730 shots in OVF or 410 with live view. bleh.
ok enough rambling for now :)
Sony DSC-F505 digital camera.
now don't get me wrong. i don't want this camera but for anything but a novelty. actually, i don't even really want to pay any money for it. it was new in 2000 - two years older than my Sony DSC-F717 that i just recently replaced.
the F505 is a 2.1MP camera (compare that to the 5.0MP of my F717, or the 14.2MP of my a350) :)
what i really wanted to point out was battery life. in the review of the F505, it's stated that it got an "amazing" 60 mins of shoot time with the LCD black light off (or 80 mins with the back light off).
lets compare this to my F717. they changed their standard for how the battery was tested, but in the updated test, it yielded 4 hr 02 mins.
while 4x the time wasn't regarded as "amazing" it was remarked as "very very good". btw, at the bottom of the list was Minolta DiMAGE 7 at 1 hr 14 mins, and at the top was the Olympus C-8080 WZ at 5 hr 52 mins.
amazingly i can't find any stats on my a350 other than 730 shots in OVF or 410 with live view. bleh.
ok enough rambling for now :)
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
LOL family guy :)
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
best weekend ever :)
OK. rewind 3 weeks ago. this post. why was i grinning ear to ear? cause after me and Brittany looked at rings in Jared, she went to work at 5, and i went back and said "i want what we were looking at."
fast forward to about 2 weeks ago. this post. it may have been small, but i wrote "me so happy." i talked to her dad and asked for his blessing. he said that i have it :)
last week. this post. i had picked up the ring the Saturday before. i wrote: "Friday going to Biltmore. oh yeah i gotta charge up my camera - hope to take tons of pics :) maybe the leaves will be changing by then." yeah, yeah... uh, the leaves are what I'm going to take tons of pictures of.. mmhmm... ;)
jumping back a little bit we were trying to decide to go to Biltmore Saturday the 4th or Saturday the 18th. i knew what i wanted to do - and i didn't want to wait 2 more weeks. a little over a week ago, i hear Sarah (Brittany's friend) has a party on Saturday and can't do it. "no! we have to go this weekend! Friday! i can take Friday off!" i knew i couldn't wait 2 more weeks. 3 weeks were long enough to wait - there was no way i could hold that back another two weeks!
Brittany came over Thursday, we found some food, loaded up rock band, and headed to Sarah's house. we got up like 5am and headed for Ashville, NC. the house was nice, kinda overkill - and they allowed no pictures. :( hungry, we eat at the bistro next to the winery - passing the gardens where i knew i wanted to be... after eating we did a wine tasting. they all tasted nasty. then we finally went to the gardens.
I've had the ring in the camera bag all along - the bag being so bulky nothing looked different. when we arrived at the gardens, i stuck it into my front jeans pocket. twice i thought i was going to get busted when she'd come up to hug on me, i thought she was going to ask "ouch - what's in your pocket?" but she didn't. i was thinking of a witty come back in case she did, like "something big and the hardest thing in the world - why don't you feel and see if you agree" ;) LOL no i didn't get to use that line :P
anyways after roaming through about half of the gardens, i saw my window of opportunity soon disappearing. Sarah and Schnurr were normally close by, and while i wanted them to be nearby, i didn't necessarily want them right there as i did it. i got my chance as i saw a bench about 50 or so feet away. they were looking at some flowers and i asked "hey lets go over to the bench."
on the way i tried to say the line i had been trying to rehearse since the day before, something like this: "last week when i went to see my parents, i saw something that I'm going to have a hard time getting out of my mind for a long time. i asked my parents how they would like you as a daughter in law, and the look on dad's face was all i needed to know that they approved and were happy for me." however. i don't quite remember saying all of that, nor could i hardly talk, and i don't even know if i finished the sentence. and, i don't think she quite got where i was going yet. however...
when i got down in front of her, and produced what was in my pocket... she started to almost look worried. "what - what - what are you doing? omg omg!"
"will you marry me?"
*not even a one second pause*
"YES!"
we turn around to see Sarah and Schnurr finally noticing just what was going on. Sarah took a picture i want of that moment, and Schnurr had the video camera rolling - how much he caught, i can't wait to see.
after Biltmore, we went into Black Mountain into Montreat and walked around. then we found some bar-b-que, got some gas, and headed back to ga. at the gas station, things started to really set in when sarah said "ok, i'm going to get gas, and jason, you go get your fiancee some ibuprofen" [she had a killer headache, from between being out in the sun all day and having an empty stomach before finally eating bbq late in the evening]. it was at that moment that i finally realized how glorious and wonderful of a thing i had finally done. my fiancee. how great it is to say that!
since it was 11pm getting back to Sarah's, we crashed on the couch, and found our way to Brittany's house after breakfast. we spent the day with her family on Saturday, and with mine on Sunday. church service (we went to my old church) was interesting, Terri had already told a few people the good news, i got to tell a few others. "who is this beautiful young lady?" "i would like you to meet my fiancee Brittany" :) hahaha even Brittany called me out on "you just like saying that don't you?" to which i replied "yes i do" :)
this - was the best weekend ever. EVER. currently we're looking to tie the knot somewhere around middle May to early June. Jason's life? is now perfect :)
does anybody notice my blog title, and how it's changed over the years?
06/05 "i'm normal. i really am..." (blog created)
06/07 "the sad life of jason" (melanie noticed this within a day - just the normal sad daily grind of working at the computer store and living the single life.)
11/07 "jason's life outlook is looking bright" (just after i started dating Brittany)
01/08 "jason's life is near perfect" (found she was in love with me as much as i was in love with her)
09/08 "jason's life is nearing perfect" (buying rings)
10/08 *well - look for yourself* =)
fast forward to about 2 weeks ago. this post. it may have been small, but i wrote "me so happy." i talked to her dad and asked for his blessing. he said that i have it :)
last week. this post. i had picked up the ring the Saturday before. i wrote: "Friday going to Biltmore. oh yeah i gotta charge up my camera - hope to take tons of pics :) maybe the leaves will be changing by then." yeah, yeah... uh, the leaves are what I'm going to take tons of pictures of.. mmhmm... ;)
jumping back a little bit we were trying to decide to go to Biltmore Saturday the 4th or Saturday the 18th. i knew what i wanted to do - and i didn't want to wait 2 more weeks. a little over a week ago, i hear Sarah (Brittany's friend) has a party on Saturday and can't do it. "no! we have to go this weekend! Friday! i can take Friday off!" i knew i couldn't wait 2 more weeks. 3 weeks were long enough to wait - there was no way i could hold that back another two weeks!
Brittany came over Thursday, we found some food, loaded up rock band, and headed to Sarah's house. we got up like 5am and headed for Ashville, NC. the house was nice, kinda overkill - and they allowed no pictures. :( hungry, we eat at the bistro next to the winery - passing the gardens where i knew i wanted to be... after eating we did a wine tasting. they all tasted nasty. then we finally went to the gardens.
I've had the ring in the camera bag all along - the bag being so bulky nothing looked different. when we arrived at the gardens, i stuck it into my front jeans pocket. twice i thought i was going to get busted when she'd come up to hug on me, i thought she was going to ask "ouch - what's in your pocket?" but she didn't. i was thinking of a witty come back in case she did, like "something big and the hardest thing in the world - why don't you feel and see if you agree" ;) LOL no i didn't get to use that line :P
anyways after roaming through about half of the gardens, i saw my window of opportunity soon disappearing. Sarah and Schnurr were normally close by, and while i wanted them to be nearby, i didn't necessarily want them right there as i did it. i got my chance as i saw a bench about 50 or so feet away. they were looking at some flowers and i asked "hey lets go over to the bench."
on the way i tried to say the line i had been trying to rehearse since the day before, something like this: "last week when i went to see my parents, i saw something that I'm going to have a hard time getting out of my mind for a long time. i asked my parents how they would like you as a daughter in law, and the look on dad's face was all i needed to know that they approved and were happy for me." however. i don't quite remember saying all of that, nor could i hardly talk, and i don't even know if i finished the sentence. and, i don't think she quite got where i was going yet. however...
when i got down in front of her, and produced what was in my pocket... she started to almost look worried. "what - what - what are you doing? omg omg!"
"will you marry me?"
*not even a one second pause*
"YES!"
we turn around to see Sarah and Schnurr finally noticing just what was going on. Sarah took a picture i want of that moment, and Schnurr had the video camera rolling - how much he caught, i can't wait to see.
after Biltmore, we went into Black Mountain into Montreat and walked around. then we found some bar-b-que, got some gas, and headed back to ga. at the gas station, things started to really set in when sarah said "ok, i'm going to get gas, and jason, you go get your fiancee some ibuprofen" [she had a killer headache, from between being out in the sun all day and having an empty stomach before finally eating bbq late in the evening]. it was at that moment that i finally realized how glorious and wonderful of a thing i had finally done. my fiancee. how great it is to say that!
since it was 11pm getting back to Sarah's, we crashed on the couch, and found our way to Brittany's house after breakfast. we spent the day with her family on Saturday, and with mine on Sunday. church service (we went to my old church) was interesting, Terri had already told a few people the good news, i got to tell a few others. "who is this beautiful young lady?" "i would like you to meet my fiancee Brittany" :) hahaha even Brittany called me out on "you just like saying that don't you?" to which i replied "yes i do" :)
this - was the best weekend ever. EVER. currently we're looking to tie the knot somewhere around middle May to early June. Jason's life? is now perfect :)
does anybody notice my blog title, and how it's changed over the years?
06/05 "i'm normal. i really am..." (blog created)
06/07 "the sad life of jason" (melanie noticed this within a day - just the normal sad daily grind of working at the computer store and living the single life.)
11/07 "jason's life outlook is looking bright" (just after i started dating Brittany)
01/08 "jason's life is near perfect" (found she was in love with me as much as i was in love with her)
09/08 "jason's life is nearing perfect" (buying rings)
10/08 *well - look for yourself* =)
Friday, October 03, 2008
Thursday, October 02, 2008
gah
i get to drive 76 miles from my house to braselton, ga - then come back to work. maybe i can make braselton last until like 2-3pm :P
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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