me: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! AT&T is definitely getting the htc kaiser in their line soon

me: which means if i can ignore my desire for the VGA screen, i can get something the same size (actually a little thinner i think) as my current phone with basically all the same features of the htc advantage

me: EXCEPT THEY TOOK OFF THE FRONT CAMERA

me: *sobs*

me: *kills AT&T*

me: actually there's a small amount of hope. apparently it's still up n the air, despite preview models not having it

Spazholio: What about European models of the same phone?

Spazholio: They tend to leave the cool shit on there.

me: yeah. but it'll cost as much as the bloody advantage then. the nice thing about AT&T is that i could get it subsidized

me: my contract is up with them :) time for a nice renewal incentive

Spazholio: Ugh....but it's AT&T

me: heh. they get more phones i want than t-mobile

me: sure as hell am not going with cdma

Spazholio: Sissy

me: hey i'm not the one with the lame carrier ;)

Spazholio: My carrier rules.

me: your carrier doesn't work more places than my carrier, nor anywhere else in the world, and doesn't have swappable sim cards

Spazholio: So?

me: *pats you on the head*

Spazholio: At least they're not EVIL.

me: says the guy with the sony camera

Spazholio: Ooooh, low blow.

Soooo many great photos! I'd link a bunch of my faves but there are too many, so I'll leave that to letting you flip around. Lotsa cute photos from Cuba too. *big sigh* Such an incredibly special day (and prep!).  EDIT: Ok, soooo many good ones starting around this page.

Awww, it's like we like each other or something.

Exciting news. T-minus six days until I have a MacBook! Yeah, remember that MacBook I posted about Spaz selling months ago? Well, we decided on that last trip to Toronto that travelling with only one laptop just doesn't work for us. At least not if we're trying to get work done. VNC is nice but really I need a computer of my own rather than doing everything over a remote connection.

I've also really been wanting to pick up a Mac, just not as my primary machine. Aaaaand he had a couple of spare 15" LCDs kicking around, so we can retire the last of our CRTs used around the house. Tech between friends is a good thing :)

Any must-have Mac programs?

Lots o' photos to follow :)

It is so great to see them in their own place. But my god, two people moving into a new apartment for their wedding day is exhausting! You know that feeling that lasts for a while after you move, when you just don't know where things are? Yeah, well imagine that + wedding. No wonder Jon managed to misplace (and eventually find, no worries) both his passport and the rings at midnight the night before the wedding. Not to mention a million extra things to do.

But they have an awesome new apartment in Mississauga, with a dedicated music room, a luxurious new king sized bed, and some lawn furniture in their living room. Priorities, after all...

The bachelor (guys + girls) and bachelorette parties were a blast. I had a serious game of Fluxx going as an alternative to the guys playing poker. I organized a private pole dancing class for the bachelorette, and then we took Meagan out and made her consume more alcohol than I've seen her consume in the rest of her life combined :P

Then it was a week of moving belongings, running wedding errands, making favours, a wide assortment of things at Meagan's mom's house (prep photos were being done there, so she was taking this opportunity to redo and spruce up most of the house), wrangling Jon away from WoW and dealing with minor car emergencies, cleaning (Meagan's room nearly required hazmat gear *cough*), packing and prepping for the honeymoon, plus Chris's birthday (yay!) and a family dinner amidst all this chaos.

Then the rehearsal/rehearsal dinner. Lookie, I get to practice signing the register. Such a beautiful (and very pregnant) priest! Jon gave all the groomsmen Airzookas, which was hilarious fun, particularly since we were in a restaurant. Meagan gave me a beautiful necklace as a thank you too :)

Ah, then the day of...

Nothing like a tall glass of alcohol in the morning.

I went over to Meagan's house early in the morning to get ready, and Chris stayed back at Jon's while the groomsmen congregated... which turned out to be a good thing since none of them knew how to work suspenders or cufflinks ;)

I zipped Meagan into her dress, and she turned around and I started crying. She literally took my breath away. I don't have any really good shots of her in the dress, but the photographer doing the prep photos took some absolutely stunning shots, so I'm sure those will make their way out eventually.

After getting into our own dresses/hair/makeup and doing the initial photos, we piled into her family's minivans decorated with pompoms and headed to the ceremony.

Looking at Jon, I could see that it was taking everything in him not to burst into tears when he first saw her. There was a great moment of humour when Jon grabbed the wrong ring at first, but the ceremony went off without any problems. I sang a solo ("There is love") during communion (over the accompanist's questionable playing throughout the ceremony, I have to say...) and the next thing I knew, they were married!

Attack of the killer bubbles!

It was so wonderful to see them radiating with happiness. They've been together for ten years, and it was the culmination of so many things.

Buster took some lovely shots at the reception, so I'm kind of lacking in images to share there... but I'll leave you with this one of the first dance (which was to Marry Me, by Amanda Marshall).

Now they are in Cuba for 12 glorious days! 

Wow, the week went fast. In a few hours, Jon and Meagan will be married :) Between moving them both into the apartment, wedding prep, house cleaning, and a few family things thrown in for good measure, we haven't had much spare time the past few days.

However, it's all culminating today and oh yes, there will be many photos!

Time zones are funny things!

Made it safe and sound, slept in to some ungodly hour by eastern time standards, and about to head out to do some errands with Jon.  Can't wait to see their new apartment tomorrow.  Eight days til they're married!

Well, I just bought my first what could only be called "foundation garment."  Like this, but not nearly so sexy  :P  But hey, at least I'll be all nice and smooth under the MoH dress.

Girls, I need help.  What do I do with my hair?  It's at chin length right now, and Meagan said leaving it down was cool... but how can I dress it up a little?  Maybe some nicely defined waves?  A sparkly barrette/clip thing at the side(s)?  Help!

Shoes #1 ended up actually being the most comfortable, even more so than the really flat ones with the wider straps.  And the heel was even lower than I thought.  I think they must take photos of the size six shoes or something, because by the time they're up to my size, the heel really doesn't look that high!

Um um what else... we leave tomorrow morning.  I finally bought a damn travel pillow so I don't have to whine and then bitch about how expensive they are at the airport.  Need to practice the song I'm supposed to be singing at the wedding while people are going up for communion... and make sure things are all together for the bachelorette party.  We're doing a pole dancing class, betcha wanna be a fly on the wall for that one  ;) 

Welllll a long tangent tonight started with looking for my CD of album recordings without vocals as requested by Jay to include in the CamGirls documentary (by god they actually got an editor a couple of weeks ago -- updates in the blog there).  Which I still haven't found yet.

Which DID lead me to discover my grade nine CD-ROM yearbook (yep, that's 1998 folks).  Which, as you can imagine, led onto a massive tangent giggling at old photos (good lord Meagan, you really haven't changed much in a decade... well, except for the boobs... and your group with Martine!  And the squish-in-a-bug contest!  And Grease!  And old boyfriends!  And and... is that Candice in a Xena costume??) and hunting down people online.  I think that needs to be a post of its own.  Lurid stories and huge crushes and reminiscing, oh my.  In my photo I'm even wearing what I still call my favourite shirt to this day!

Which then led to looking for more album stuff, and remembering to check CDBaby, and discovering I have over $100 sitting in there that I hadn't cashed out.  Woohoo!

It's nifty to see my album's digital sales stats:

 

Anthem for the Perverted has the highest number of sales.  Pervs  ;) 

Oh and we spent five hours (!!) today re-running cables, including our new 5' power strip and big, sexy UPS.

 

The back of my desktop area now.  I swear it looked a lot worse before.

And Spaz, proving once again that he is my web god and I must one day clone and steal him, is writing a wonderful picture rotating script that will clinch my victory for having all the pieces necessary for a harmonious Flickr/Gallery/StephTheGeek.com integration for images.  I guess now I just have to implement it.  Pesky details.  Go admire his large DVD collection.

Flying across three time zones for only two days of visiting is more tiring than I thought. I don't think my body moved while sleeping at all last night. And I'm hearing some kind of high pitched noise that sounds like the noise a TV makes when it's on. Ugh, I hope that's related to my headache and will go away. I'd forgotten how much flying takes it out of you.

It is SO WEIRD going to the "US Citizens or Green Card Holders" line. I totally freaked out inside my head. No problems whatsoever through customs either way. In other news, the new terminal at Pearson Airport is absolutely stunning. It's like the airport of the future. Meagan's shower was so much fun :) One month until the wedding! I'm glad I got her what I did... all the other gifts were more practical things off their registry, which is great of course, but she's my best friend and I wanted something more personal for her, yet not mortifying to open in front of family.

So I got her this, but in "ivory":

 

She just kept saying "oh it's so pretty..." over and over again.  Happy sigh.  I really miss being around Meagan.

It was weird, she has these other three friends and the four of them are sort of a friendship foursome since high school.  I seem to have a very different and separate relationship with her (yes yes, snicker all you want).  They talk on the phone and seem to have a more girly relationship though.  I was blown away when she asked me to be the Maid of Honour and said I was her best friend.  But then even yesterday at the shower, one of them said something to me about how "she's different with you, she talks to you about these things".  I really treasure what her and I have, but sometimes I don't understand it  :)

Chris finally met my grandparents, who gave me endless crap about my hair.  My grandma, who is sweet and stubborn as hell was telling me about how she was going to remodel her kitchen and spend her money before I get it all!  Hah!  She asked what I'd do with the money and I said I'd buy lots of hair dye, and make sure I dyed my hair green, her favourite colour.  She didn't seem too impressed by that.  I told her about the work I was doing now and she said I needed to march back to Google so she could tell all her friends that her granddaughter worked there  :P  Gee, thanks.

And my dad and Chris had a multi-hour man-to-man talk that I'm still being filled in on... I must've looked like a deer in the headlights when Chris told me what he'd been doing while I was at the shower.  And of course we hung out with my sister and the kids for a while, who actually looked less different from the last time I saw them than I expected.  All in all, a great visit and it's nice to know we'll be back in just a few weeks rather than many months.

Now we both have a terrifying amount of work in the next few days before the boys arrive for spring break later this week.  Won't be around much this week...

Is it just me, or are these message forums pretty quiet?