Yesterday was Sarah's Birthday!  Huzzah!  I had a good time, getting to see her for a little while during the middle of the day, which ended up being timed perfectly because the gifts I had ordered came at exactly that time, so I could watch her open them.  It was also a nice little break in the middle of the day, so I enjoyed that as well.

She did yell at me a bit though, because I bought her things when she said not to buy her things.  I'm convinced this is a trick though.  I learned my lesson long ago, there is no such thing as "Don't get me anything".  Plus, to be honest, I like getting presents, although I'm not very good at it.

We do have the party tomorrow.  I'm a bit nervous.  I don't want Sarah to have to do everything, but she's already done almost all of it while I'm at work, so I feel like I haven't contributed anything, but I don't know how else to help.  I guess I'll just have to get up and get my errands out of the way early, and keep an ear open for what I can do.  Hopefully that will be enough. 

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It's funny, I've noticed that I seem to go through phases.  Sometimes I feel incredibly energized, and will tear through projects at an incredible pace, and end up feeling very production when I'm finished.  The flip side of the coin though, is when I start to feel completely overburdened, and like I've lost hope on keeping up.  It's during those times that I feel completely NON-Productive, and just want to hide and shirk my work responsibilities. 

The tough part is, I haven't yet figured out what flips me between the two.  My best guess is deadlines.  Whenever a deadline begins to loom, I kick into high-gear, and turn our products to meet the deadline.  This isn't always the case though. 

I wish I could figure it out and control it.  I think I'd be way more productive if I could. 

Grrr...

I've got a huge number of exciting things going on at work.  We are working on a few major development projects that have a great deal of potential for the company and our future growth and revenue.  I'm very excited about them, but it can get awfully tiring working a full normal billable day, and then coming in at night to continue work on them.

Sarah has been a trooper, she is very supportive and understanding about the extra time invested, but I feel bad for missing so much time with her on this stuff.  I'm lucky to have someone who is so open, but sometimes I feel like I don't live up to a fair expectation or pull my weight around the house with everything she does.

At least traveling has been way down.  I haven't had to go anywhere on a plane in months now.  While it's certainly nice to be home, it was a big loss for the business, and though we've made up for it well with local work, it definitely is a bit more constraining to struggle to find the local work in it's stead.

Anyways, I'll...

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Well, a great deal of time has passed!  It tends to do that though, if you don't keep a close eye on it.  Rather than spend a lot of time going over all the details, I'll just hit the major points to bring everyone up to date!

Wedding went great and I'm currently loving married life.  Our relationship itself isn't much different at all, but I really like just knowing that we are now Husband and Wife.  Something about that alone is very nice to have and to think about. Sarah has taken some time off work in favor of projects at home, although she'll start looking for Theatre related part-time stuff soon.  I've had to work very hard to not feel spoiled, and take anything for granted.  She's gotten so much stuff done around the house that I barely know what to do with myself.  Everything is taken care of long before I get there.  It's amazing how hard she works at it, and although I still feel bad that I'm not doing much, it IS really nice having everything taken care of like she does. Travel...

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Holy cow, I'm going to be married in two weeks!  Wait, less than two weeks!  Woah!

I think I'm getting nervous.  It's funny too, because I'm not nervous about being married, or the wedding itself, nor about the enormity of the whole thing.  No, the only thing I'm nervous about is that somehow something will go wrong in the wedding that's out of our control or (worse) that I cause, that will disappoint Sarah.

I was thinking about this today.  It's funny how things are like that a lot for me actually.  Usually if there's anything I worry about, it's doing something that would disappoint and/or upset Sarah.  I suppose I'm that way with others as well, I don't like to disappoint or hurt anyone, but it seems most prominent with Sarah.  This would make sense, given that she's such a huge part of my life, but I found it somewhat ironic in the scope of the wedding.

It's also funny how many people around me make (mostly) joking negative comments when they find out I'm about to be married.  They all...

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