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Three Things I’m Grateful For Today:
- The Core Four officially becoming The Fab Five.
- An amazingly fun time at Boy The Elder’s wedding.
- The love that filled that room yesterday.
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The song in my head when I woke up: “I’m With You,” by Avril Lavigne
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: I’m looking for a place/I’m searching for a face/Is anybody here I know/’Cause nothing’s going right/And everything’s a mess/And no one likes to be alone
Wedding Tunes: Yesterday’s drive to the wedding was done to songs from my Nu Rock playlist:
- Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked, Cage The Elephant
- The Diary of Jane, Breaking Benjamin
- Through the Ghost, Shinedown
- Amarylis, Shinedown
- Hemorrhage, Fuel
- Teenagers, My Chemical Romance
- Bring Me To Life, Evanescence
Something I’m looking forward to today: A nap. Or two. Or three.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Back to baseball action this coming weekend.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: The wedding.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved nothing. I’ll get back to writing soon.
What I’ve written: South Korea Provides a Road Map for Dementia Insurance, the first story I ghost-wrote for my new company.
I woke up this morning around 7 after going to bed just after 1 a.m., and my first thought was, “Did that really happy last night?” After a day of waiting around for 5:30 p.m. to arrive, suddenly Boy The Elder was married and there I was, on the dance floor — dancing, no less! — as the party proceeded around me.
There was so much love in that place yesterday. So many people who had been there for BTE from the start, who had been there for our family from the start, celebrated along with us … and it looked like the United Nations, too! There were people from India, people from Vietnam … it was really cool.
What there wasn’t was any drama, and that’s just the way it should be. It took way too long to get to that point, but by the time the nuptials happened, those who should have been there were there and those who shouldn’t have been weren’t. It’s ironic that my now-daughter-in-law and I had similar situations we had to deal with in advance of the wedding, and we dealt with them as the adults that our parents weren’t. Thus, everything about last night was good, and I am happy about that.
So … now what? BTE and the DIL are setting up their home and are preparing to leave for Punta Cana tomorrow morning. I’m absolutely exhausted and have baseball practice tonight in preparation for our tournament this weekend. Wifey Poo is doing what Wifey Poo does, finishing off a breakfast she organized for out-of-town guests, and again, those guests were all about love and nothing about the drama that has for far too long pocked this family.
Tomorrow, I’ll return to work and my side business. There will be stories to write and social media posts to craft and meetings to attend. After a few months off due to general busyness, I sent out a notification to the guys for a return of Poker Night in July. Life will return to whatever the hell normal is in my world.
My son is married. Married. I have a daughter-in-law. I say these things, and they don’t quite seem fully real yet, almost translucent. I’m sure they will solidify in time, but for right now, they are kinda-sorta-real, at best.
Anywho, some random wedding notes:
- Boy The Younger has more rhythm by far than the other three Core Four members combined. The kid can dance.
- As for me, I don’t know what to do with my arms when I dance and fear I come off looking like I’m doing the Jeffrey Dahmer dance from that Netflix show.
- BTE’s friends are amazing. It was so sweet to see them tearing up during the ceremony.
- As the couple began to say their vows, a deer came out of the woods on the opposite bank of the lake. It was poignant.
- An open bar with Old Fashions is dangerous for me.
- I made it through my wedding toast/speech, and I had to pause only once after my emotions caught me bigtime.
- The first time I cried yesterday was when I was invited into where the bride and her crew were and saw the DIL in her wedding dress. The last time I cried yesterday was watching Wifey Poo and BTE in the mother-son dance. My goodness.
- Wifey Poo looked really beautiful all dressed up and with her hair done did.
- Now, we’re onto BTY’s 15th birthday in a few weeks. He’s excited about getting his learner’s permit. Wait … what!?!??!?
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