Marrying a Myers

Dear Readers,

Rest easy, for the long awaited blog of Nick has arrived.

Kaley has done an excellent job picking up the slack the past two weeks with starting this blog and providing something good for you the reader. I will admit, I was putting this off because I am a bit lazy when it comes to writing. In fact, I am writing a paper this very moment for one of my classes that was due a couple days ago (sorry Kaley). I figured that I could use the procrastination time to update this blog and make my future wife content that I am contributing to this "married" blog.

So what's new? I will tell you. I have two weeks of classes left and I graduate in three weeks. Can't get any more exciting than that. But it can. Last week, as you may already know, I was told that I was selected to go to the Navy's Officer Candidate School up in Newport, Rhode Island. Upon graduation of said school I will be and Ensign in the United States Navy. Not only was I selected for the Navy but I was selected into their Meteorology program as well. You may be asking yourselves why is this exciting and some of you may be asking what the heck is meteorology, why does the Navy study meteors? Well to answer your first question, this is what I studied in college so I will be applying my studies to my career and to answer the second question, seriously? Anyways, its exciting because now Kaley and I know what lies ahead for our future.

To our upcoming marriage. I can honestly say that I am 100% excited and ready to be married to the most beautiful and wonderful woman in the world. We are t minus 53 days to the big day. I am excited to spend the rest of my waking days with the woman that captures my heart. I know that marriage holds many things that I will not expect but I can't wait to find out what those things are. I think that I am going to stop there and let Kaley talk about married things because I think that I am sounding kind of gay now.

I am going to end this blog with a recap of this weekend. On Saturday Kaley and I went to dinner with her Aunt and Uncle for a pre-marital exercise. We talked about family of origin and in laws. Anyways, Gilbert (Kaley's uncle) said how all the Myers (Kaley's mom's side) have married opposite of themselves. Now if you don't know, the Myers are a reserved people. They're not to keen on being outspoken or addressing conflict. So, when marrying they have married very outgoing people. Now, in church on Sunday we ran into Kaley's other Aunt and Uncle, Bob and Alice. Bob is a Myers so Alice is very outgoing and talkative. Anyways, we told her about our weekend and how we had dinner with Marty and Gilbert and Alice says that the Myers marry people who are opposite of themselves, funny because that is what Gilbert said the night prior. This leads me to what Kaley and I did Friday night.

We went to Rams Head to watch a show. We went to watch Dave Barnes and Andy Davis. Now I really like Dave Barnes, so much so that I chose one of his songs to be Kaley and my's first dance song. So you can imagine that when I learned he was going to be playing here in Annapolis, I jumped on the opportunity to go see him. So we get to the show and we order some drinks and some food (both food choices had entirely too much bacon in it) and we waited for Andy Davis to open up. Now the whole time, since I ordered the tickets a couple weeks in advance, I could sense that Kaley was apprehensive of watching the show. I don't think she shares the same passion I do for Dave Barnes but she was gracious enough to come with me, plus she has to because we will be married soon and as a rule we have to do everything with each other. So Andy Davis comes on and starts to play the keyboard and sing. He was amazing. I love listening and watching musicians like him because they are so talented. He sounded exactly as what he would sound on a cd. He was pretty funny too. Kaley fell in love with him. She thought that his voice was amazing that he looked like Sam wise Gamgee (correct spelling?). If you don't know, Kaley has crushes on hobits that have a little meat on them. She says that I kind of look like Sam wise, so of course she now has a crush on this Andy Davis guy. Andy if you are reading, watch your back! Then Dave Barnes came up on stage. He was really good too and he was totally hilarious. He could be a stand up comedian.

This leads me to the Myers family gene. So the show ends and Kaley and I buy Andy Davis's new cd, buy it is really good (Let the Woman), and I ask her if she wants to go talk to Andy and have him sign our ticket stub. She says no. I am a little shocked at this point because all she could talk about was how amazing he was. So it took a little while and about 10 minutes later I walked up to him, shook his hand and asked if he would sign our ticket stub. Kaley stands behind me the whole time and doesn't really say anything. The Myers gene. Then I wanted to see Dave Barnes so that I could get a picture and tell him that we are using one of his songs for our first dance. So we wait and he doesn't come out. Kaley continues to ask if we really need to wait and she keeps telling me that she doesn't think that he is going to come out. This is her way of avoiding talking to him. But we wait and eventually he comes out and we talk to him and he gets in a picture with us. So from this I know that, yes the Myers are very reserved and that I am marrying one but that is ok because I am somewhat outgoing and I think it will work out.

So this is the end of my ridiculously long blog but I am just making up for lost time. I probably won't post for a while so Kaley, keep up the good work.

Sincerely,
Nick

Spring Fever!

Bloggies,

Nick and I went to the Dave Barnes concert on Friday. Dave is going to be our first dance song. Nick forced me to stay after so we could tell him. What I would really like to talk about is Andy Davis. He was the opener. I loved him. He was like a dark Samwise Gamgee... but he was wearing skinny jeans. Check him out, I like him alot.
I'm getting excited about the wedding, I sent out invites and scheduled a dress fitting and everything!
My students are crazy from spring. I wrote my first referral today for insubordination. It was so empowering. I'm not really sure what they do, but they seem to scare the students. Then another kid from my class got sent home before he even made it to my classroom for spraying other kids in the EYES with his Axe spray. Someone please save me! Sometimes I sing "Help" from the Beatles in my head while staring at my psychotic class of eight year olds.
OK- instead of a top five, I think I'll write a poem to tell why Nick and I won't crash and burn like Britney and K-Fed.
Here it goes:

There is a sad story
of Britney and K-Fed
It gets a bit gory
There's even a shaved head

Though Nick shaved his beard
He's still rather stable
While her head she sheared
I saw live on cable

Though K-fed has dance moves
He married a loon
She didn't wear her shoes
she'll get fungus soon

So Nick and I will make better decisions
We'll stay off drugs and take intermissions

If he ever thinks of running amuck
Oh well, it's forever, it seems we're stuck


I'm a little rusty. Love, Kaley

Faithful Blog readers (Of which I'm sure we have none),



I'm writing to update the world in general to the biggest news I've gotten since my engagement.

Nick has been picked up as a Naval OFFICER!!!! He is due to go to Officer Candidate School (OCS) in August we think. Tomorrow I am riding up with him to New Jersey to visit our recruiter who happens to be my old midshipman Demond. You might recognize him from six years ago when he was on the Navy Basketball Poster. (Of course, I'm being ironic, I doubt anyone could remember that) We are very excited about this news!!!!!!!!!!! We have a future!!!



Also, a horrendous package just arrived in the mail. The bottom to my pink polka dot bikini that I plan on wearing to Mexico. This is bad news because I am not in bikini shape. So, I'm going to exercise (me?) and eat like 5 weight watchers points a day until I do not have bikini muffin top! I have worked out three times in one and a half weeks, which does not impress Nick, but impresses me because that tops my number of workout sessions all YEAR! I mean, I couldn't work out today, I had to address 100 wedding invites with Tara! However, this lackluster fitness plan has done little but made me sore and realize how out of shape I am. When you see my wedding pictures, there will only be a skeleton with a wedding dress on and you'll see how successful I've been. Nick on the other hand just told me he lost ten pounds in a week. I'll show HIM! I'm challenging him... to work out... yeah, I'm too lazy to fitness challenge Nick. Good for him though.



My next blog will most definately be celeb centered. I'm thinking: The top ten reasons Nick and I won't end up like Britney and K-Fed...or WILL WE???? Stay tuned.



Love, Kaley (I tried to force Nick to blog, but he said he's too busy)

PS It wouldn't be a blog if I didn't give you a little taste of what it's like to be a third grade teacher 

Student- "does soda come from horses?"

Me- "Yes , everytime a horse becomes a unicorn, a six pack of soda is born"

Student- "Really??!!"

Me- "No, it's carbonated water and syrup. Now do your work"

That could be funny to just me, but it's my life.

Our first post!

Nick and I have started this blog because we are hoping to eventually...in eight weeks... start a married blog. If I didn't start it now, odds are that I would forget.

On Monday the 21 of April, the countdown is eight weeks until marriage. After six years of dating, we are feeling extremely pleased to be closer to tying the knot! Though, we don't feel very stressed because we have mostly everything booked.

We're especially excited to be going to Cozumel, Mexico for our honeymoon. Even though I just heard a terrible story about someone getting into a moped accident and the hospital had blood spattered on all of the walls. So, as long as we avoid mopeds, we should have a relatively relaxing honeymoon. The only negative review we read about our resort, Sabor (check it out, it has water slides), was that five years ago one of the staff members tried to attack a stray kitten with a piece of discarded beach glass. We hope the recent rehaul of said resort has gotten rid of such ne'er do wells.

I just had a bridal shower thrown by my bff, Tara Peddicord. It was lovely and perfect and pink and green. We made out like bandits. Nick is especially enthused about the egg and muffin toaster we received. He can't wait to cook eggs in it. I'll admit, it's a little weird, but as long as Nick is happy so am I. I have to admit, as I was opening the bevy of kitchen items I was suddenly struck by this thought "I suck at cooking, I have no culinary talent". So, to solve this problem I have started watching Top Chef on Bravo. I even watched the True Hollywood Story on Rachel Ray today. Give me a couple weeks and I'll be pumping out gourmet meals like...Bobby Flay?
Back to the shower- The only frightening gift we received was a "hot tub" chip and dip bowl. The bowl is a pool. With little clay people sitting around it in their bathing suits. And there's a jacuzzi for the dip of course! I can't wait to use it... or for Nick to take a bat to it. Either one. We are going for a menu tasting on Saturday, so we will update all of you faithful readers on our boring lives soon.
Signing Off,
Kaley Miller