Three Days In One

So, I've been a little behind - of sorts, by not actually saying anything these past few days.

Simply put, Wednesday I had a reoccurrence of the overall cold / cough irritation that meant I was off from work being sick. Feeling better on Thursday, I was in work once more, and that evening after work I was at the pub with people from work. I think there was a reason - someone may be leaving at some point soon - but I wasn't really sure.

Today I had a meeting in the morning at a different location, and this afternoon is my time off in lieu from last Friday's release. Hence why I am typing this from the comfort of my home midway through the afternoon instead of being at work!

This weekend I must focus on ensuring all the details Chrissi needs for her visa application by way of supporting documentation, and ensure that this is all duly forwarded to her by way of post so that she can use it. Besides that, I have a backlog of ironing and other typical tasks to procrastinate on!

Illness Paradox

Today the persistent cold that has been dogging me for a few days - and that I thought I had beaten at the end of last week - sprung up once more. I spent a large part of the day blowing my nose and grumbling to myself under my breath.

The paradox refers to whether it's right to go into work in these circumstances. As I'm ill, being far less productive and probably infecting everyone else around me, it makes sense not to go in - recover for a day, and go in well and ready the next day. However, if you do that with the 'excuse' of a cold - then it doesn't sound too convincing.

You have to go in for a day - and then having proved how unproductive you are at work and how liable you are to infect everyone, you're then able to be off ill the next day once you're better once you've infected everyone and it's too late!

Effort

Maybe it's football that's the catalyst. When I come back from football, I end up eating, showering, coming onto the computer relaxed and then feeling the need to blog! Today was the first time I had played in three weeks, due to holiday and returning from holiday jetlagged. Surprisingly, it was not a terrible performance considering this - some enthusiastic running around, a few good tackles, one decent goal and a cleen sheet for my stint in goal, even if I don't think I had a shot to save. A rare high, in fact!

Weekly Tales

Far from the daily or near daily blog that this is advertised as, for the last little while it is a weekly event that is only posted on a Sunday - this being the third consecutive post in this fashion.

What has been happening inbetween, you may ask? Well, many things. I have had a busy week at work, and mostly adapted back to home life without too much interruption from jet lag. I have been awake earlier than usual and to bed a little earlier too, but that is now mostly balanced out - much better than usual too!

It's probably about time to look back and start providing more wedding details, pictures and the like. For those of you who haven't seen them on facebook, we look a little like this:



Official photos have not come back yet, although I have discovered that in America they are not familiar with the term 'photies' which is a shame. Besides photos, the other detail we are expecting to come back to us from the wedding is the actual marriage license!

Once this is in place, Chrissi can start the process of applying for a spouse visa. We have been looking into this already at least to establish just how someone goes about it, and the answer is that it seems convoluted and complex.

See you next week?

Return Summary

Well, I've not blogged for a week after a very impressive run through September and the early part of October - however, as this week I was on honeymoon I hope you can forgive this lapse.

Since the last blog I posted I have gotten married - all of which went down very successfully, without any major issues. There are pictures but not official ones yet, and in some of those I may look acceptably presentable - I'm not really sure yet! The unofficial pictures, those taken by individuals, can also be viewed here - there was this fantastic thing provided of a photo booth for people to take photos of themselves, with accessories also. Some people got a little carried away!

I'm now back on the UK having arrived back this morning and pondering the inevitable chaos this will have on my sleep schedule - as usual I didn't sleep at all on the overnight flight and have a full day to navigate without causing utter confusion to my sleep routines!

Big Morning

As final preparations go on around me, I've got a decent portion of time to myself as it takes less effort to make me quite so beautiful - or it takes so much effort that people have decided to pass on this!

Everything should pretty much be in place, which is convenient considering that we leave for the venue in about an hour. I still need to get properly dressed - having not wanted to sit in something or render myself unable to do things by being properly dressed too early. However, that is all that I can think of on my to-do list.

So we should be all good to go, I would think!

Countdown

At the moment I am reminded that it is a little under 22 hours until Chrissi and I are married. There doesn't seem to be much left to organise in this time, although I do still need to iron my shirt. That is about the sum total of everything that needs to be done for my part - to my knowledge!

Last night Carisa, who is officiating the ceremony tomorrow, kindly sent us a preview of what she will be saying. In an effort not to steal her thunder, I will keep quiet as to what is going to be said, but it suffices to say that it is awesome and very much suited to us!

Now I have to go off and coordinate family again.

Evening Blogging

This is actually the first blog I have written since being in the US that has been written so late that I've actually had to fix the time - the 8 hour time difference means that it's hard to get them in the right day quite so easily otherwise!

Today more of my family arrived - my cousin and his girlfriend, and also my aunt and uncle. This is now my entire half of the wedding guest list sorted - besides a couple who we both know who I am try to claim as mutual guests! We went down to San Diego with most of my family, and had a nice walk around on the waterfront, Seaport Village and Balboa Park. Similar to my blog on the subject four years ago, I did not meet Ron Burgundy either.

Besides the overwhelming feeling of confusion (see yesterday's "what are my family doing here with me" bemusement), the weirdest moment was on the return trip. Rachel, Chrissi and I came back to hers briefly so she could pick up some of Chrissi's older books. Rachel in Chrissi's room made absolutely no sense!

This will be ramped up tenfold when all my family are here!