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April 18, 2006

These days, it seems I can't ake more than about 4 steps out the door before someone--a co-worker, a store owner, the doormen, --the local lovable homeless guy--asks me, "So, are you nervous?" My mom asked me the other night--and she was hoping I'd up and ask S long before I actually did. We've got 11 days till S and I are mister-and-missus Shoe. I don't know if it's politeness, if that's just what you say when you hear or know someone's going to get married, like if someone's about to buy a home or sneezes their milk or something like that (you know, consequential), but it amazes me how many people ask that question. To me, it makes sense in the context of the old days where you courted each other before getting married. And yes, I know that that's a fanciful, sterilized vision of The Way Things Were™, but the fact is that I don't really know anyone who doesn't know their betrothed all that well. Nor, I suspect, do you. S and are among the last people who don't live together before they're married. That doesn't bother me at all, but if anything, I've got more reason to be worried. I'm not, though. It's this simple: I love her. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with her. I can't wait to celebrate it, and I sure as shooting can't wait to go on our honeymoon together and then move into our beautiful new home together. The only thing I'm worried about is whether I'll remember the wedding and reception, or if they'll shoot by like the last couple of birthdays I've had, whether all will go according to plan or if we'll find the band has gone to the other hotel. Either way, I'm not nervous. I just want to slow down time next Friday afternoon and never have it speed up so I can enjoy it all.

This was Amusing To Me and Love and Perspective , and it appeared on April 18, 2006 8:22 AM.

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