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The front runner in the battle for wedding venue

I am SO in love with this place www.chapeldulcinea.org

If I find something local that I like as much we'll have the wedding in the Houston area, but if I don't we are so doing it in Austin at Chapel Dulcinea.

If anyone has any other Texas locations to recommend I'd love to hear them.

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Wedding stuffs

So after trying on more dresses I have come down to a final three and today I found my boquet.

Photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/tikeshlia/WeddingStuffs

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Offsprung Gathering: Houston Edition

Here is information for all of those who didn't get the Evite I emailed. Speaking of evite... those fuckers made me use html to format the information box on the invite (without HTML all you get is an endless block of unformatted text).

It's the first Houston Area OS gathering. We'll have two days of activities (Saturday, October 4th and Sunday, October 5th). Details are below. If you need anything just call me or email.

Day 1  (10-4-08): Houston Zoo

Time to meet up: 10:00a

Admission: $10 for people age 12-64

$6 for people aged 2-11

If you're under 2 it is free.

Discount tickets can be purchased at Fiesta Grocery stores for $8 (12-64) and $5 (2-12).  Admission to the Houston Zoo is free for active duty military personnel and their families (limit 8 persons per visit).A valid Military ID must be shown

Food:You can either bring your own lunch or buy food at the zoo. Their concession stands aren't totally unreasonable but we always just load up a cooler and bring in our own food/drinks.

More Info: www.houstonzoo.org
Houston Zoo
6200 Golf Course Drive, Houston, Texas 77030

Day 2 (10-5-08): Museum of Fine Art

Time to meet up: 1:00 pm

Admission: Free (Compliments of Target)

Parking: is $3 in the Museum Garage.

More Info: www.mfah.org
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnett Street, Houston, TX 77005

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Nothing to see here... I’m just reminiscing

It is hard to believe that 6 years ago today I was a scared college student in a hospital bed fearfully awaiting drug induced contractions.

Where most are afraid of suddenly being responsible for another person, I was afraid of the pain I knew was coming. To my credit emotions and head were a totally screwed up because my dad had just died 10 days before. Jonas saved me from myself because I know that I’d have never survived my dad dying otherwise. 15 hours and 2 minutes from now (3:22p) he will officially be 6 years old.

Backstory: on the 4th of July my dad had go to the hospital thinking he was having a heart attack. After a ton of tests it was finally discovered he had seemingly uncontroable fluid build up in his parcardial sac was because of cancer no one (not even he) knew he had. He had liver cancer that had spread and started filing both lungs. He went from feeling ok to suddenly sick. Once he got into the hospital it was just a downward spiral. My dad had been in the hospital just over 2 weeks before I decided to disobey my doctor's order forbiding me to travel that far and go anyway. I had been doing all of my communication with his doctors on the phone and via fax. I arrived in Louisiana Friday just after midnight and I got a call early Saturday morning from the doctor saying they needed to rush my dad into surgery for a clot and they needed consent. When I responded that I'd be at the hospital in 10 minutes the doctor said "you can't get here from Houston that fast". Once I got the hospital I told explained to him that I'd not been released to travel but had driven up anway. I had everyone in the LSU Hospital ICU scared that I'd go into labor because of all the stress.