Jesse Loves Brady

August 13, 2005

The Countdown to " I Do"

So this blog has never really had a theme. Granted Brady is my cat and I love him. He is beautiful and sweet and a part of my life. If Brady were the only part of my life, many people would think I was strange. Cookie was kind enough to start this blog for me when I was living in North Truro and quite lonely. She introduced me to a whole part of the internet that I had never heard of...and it panned out like one could not imagine. Through "Jesse Loves Brady", I fell in love with "Sunday Morning Blog". I like to think that our story is unique, but I welcome other peoples stories of falling in love through blogs. Our very first full length IM conversation involved getting hitched and making a home together. Who would have thought?

On April 22, 2006 "Jesse Loves Brady" will marry "Sunday Morning Blog". If you read our blogs on Codblogs this may make everything more clear, or everything much more confusing. So I get to my point. There are alot of adjustments that have to be made when sharing a life together. In nine months we have met, fallen in love, bought a house, and gotten engaged. A relationship at breakneck speed makes the adjustment even more interesting. So I would like to dedicate this blog, atleast for the next year or so, to our antics at trying to start a life together. This shall include keeping the house standing, planning a wedding, my graduating from college, and my finding some sort of earnings. I would love it if you would make suggestions for my description at the top of my blog. The more silly the better, as I expect that the stories shared here will be quite funny. I will start this new blog theme with a few posts.

Episode One

As I was saying, there are many adjustments to sharing a life together. Some are more interesting than others. For instance, one of us goes to the bathroom too frequently, while the other hardly ever goes. One of us sleeps like a corpse, while the other takes advantage of their sweet slumber to do step aerobics. Last night when I was considering going to the grocery store, my love suggested that this was a great idea so that he could have some quality alone time in the bathroom. We have two bathrooms and a 3 floor split level house. But I digress. My trip to the grocery store this morning has reminded me of a great example of adjustment that has been made over the past few months. You see, my love is a very healthy man. He knows what he likes, and he eats what he likes. He is very conscious of nutrition, and adheres to a well balanced diet. I thought this was great until I started doing the grocery shopping. As follows are the fluids that my man likes to have in the fridge at any given time:
Gatorade(large bottle)
Gatorade(small bottle)
V8(large cans)
V8(large bottle)
Adam and Eve Cranberry Juice(atleast one backup)
Silk Soymilk with Calcium(my man is lactose intolerant)
Coffee Mate(two cups of coffee a day)
Bottled Water

Now this is not a matter of money. It has nothing to do with the finances. This has more to do with logistics. First, when putting all of this in the cart, it makes it very difficult to steer. Small children need not fuss in front of me, my cart will solve the problem. The biggest hurdle is getting all of this in the fridge. While some people we know have a fridge filled with condiments, ours is full of fluids. And we must not forget my regular milk and carbonated water. If you are coming to dinner at our house anytime soon, bring the food, we will supply the drink.

Episode 2 "The Dress"

One of the things a little girl dreams about is her wedding dress. Those dreams do not include credit cards, fittings, strapless bras, and petticoats. When we got engaged, I was very excited to get to look for that dream dress. Reality sets in. Even the most discounted dresses started at $500. There was no way I was going to spend that kind of money on a dress I would wear for a few hours. As if! So the research began. Labor day is approaching, and I knew all things white would be on sale. I found my dress 50% at Macys.com. It isn't a wedding dress, but it is white and beautiful and I am proud to have found it. So here comes the interesting part. Most brides worry themselves sick about losing weight. I, to the contrary, cannot lose any weight. In fact, it might do me some good to gain a few pounds. My dress has the option of being worn strapless. This is a feature that I wanted in my wedding dress before I found out that we would have to remortgage the house. As the dress fits now, The Girls just barely hold the thing up. Now we all know that when a lady loses weight, the first things to go are The Girls. I am already researching the strapless bra with an extra cup size built in. I never thought I would get to a point in my life where I wouldn't want to lose weight. I am one of these people who is constantly wanting to lose weight, but never doing anything to lose it. So, if you have some nice boobies I can borrow, or a box of Hoho's you want to share please stop by. Oh, and anything you feed me is directly proportional to the amount of time you have to spending working out with me post-wedding:)

Posted by Jesse at August 13, 2005 10:32 AM