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Took this pic at a friends wedding.. decided to add something =\ 

I’m not sure when it happened or how..  but suddenly  my social life has been suspiciously active. I say suspicious   because, me being me, I know me, and If I was not me, meeting me and then spending time with me, I know that me that is not me would more than likely strangle me that is me simply because I would only be able to handle me that is not me in small doses. Or maybe that’s just me.

Me that is me finds all this activity puzzling, has  the wedding  union made us more acceptable to the married sect? 

Is there a secret handshake?  I don’t know it yet.teach me!

Is there a new  layer of social activity the moment you have your first child?  [NOT HAPPENING ANYTIME SOON! ] with a better secret handshake and innocuous fist bumping and calling each other “BRO”  [Not the cool way. The douche way]

And when you have your second child..oh wait .. no one cares about the second child [skip]

When you get your first  SUV people carrier for the whole entire 1 new  human, does that  provide the entry way into the land of strange accents and weird  “key” parties [not the seventies kind, the kind where you show off how many cool mcgyver like gadgets your car key has ]

“look im gonna summon the devil with this here little button!”

You get the gist

With each new social “elevation”  do you drag the old sect members with you? Or do you find yourself becoming the leader of your own sect and becoming an evil crime lord .. or  a dad like figure where you have the solutions to people’s problems  [for the small price of their unborn child]

It might sound all  doom and douche but I’m pretty sure I can design a flow chart   to avoid some of the pitfalls of douchedom… or take cues from the epic board game snakes and ladders which mimics life in the most wonderfull of ways.

At this point the me that is not me would strangle me that is me.

”Seriously? This is the nonsense that goes through your head!?”  - Me that is not me

After you get married the bride usually cuts off the long flowing locks that they’ve spent months growing.. so why not the groom ?

I was thinking of perhaps  going that route and shaving my head completely….

Avid readers  (all 3 of you) will know that I have some photoshop skill hidden in my skill palace.

Using a that skill , I did a lazy unclean work of it, to get the general idea…  =\ of how I would look.

Do I, don’t I

=\ =/ =|  0_O

Great, its 2012.

Everyone has had time to pretend to reflect post drunken stupor on the year that was.

Everyone has had time to pretend to make resolutions that they “will make sure happens this year!”

Everyone has had time to be joy-full and happy and worry about what they going to eat later in this month

By everyone I mean people that I know.

So whats happens now? if you go with the crazy mayan interpreters then  that was the last new year we gonna see .. or is it?

Wife  asked me a question during the drive to work

W- “Do you think the world is going to end?”

ME – “Nope, I think the mayans ran out of ink and couldn’t continue making calendars”

W-  “be serious, what do you think is going to happen when the world ends?”

ME – “What do you mean by  end of the world? ALA roland emmerich, earth shifts and we die a Lavary death? “

W -  “No I don’t mean that, I mean.. like end of the world stuff”

ME – “ I don’t get it, isn’t that the end of the world, KAbLOOM! DEAD!, . or do you mean Zombie Acolypse?”

W – “don’t be ridiculous, What if  December rolls around and then the world ends?”

ME – “ rightly confused because I don’t know what the world ending means,  I guess nobody does.. , its not  Zombie thing, that would be cool!, its not world exploding into oblivion.. then what is it, I reckon it could just be the world ending as we know it, a new age begins, dawn of a new ERA, or the much delayed  Y2K bug could finally strikes and crashes everyones home computer and IPOD IPAD IROBOT.”

W – “I agree, a zombie apocalypse could be cool”

ME – “ SO now the question is , not what will happen, but do you believe the world will actually end, come that date?”

W  - “maybe a little”

ME – “so the whore crux of this little convo isn’t what do I think is gonna  happen, but do I think  something is going to happen… yes something is going to happen,  a Giant Alien Space ship named  POOKIE is going to come and attack us while secretly launching a Zombie Apolocypse  and then  the Large Hydron collider is gonna rip apart a photon and create an unstable wormhole that’s going to rip us into another dimension where we all  become characters from our worst nightmares and then we’ll be in a show called Terra Nova”

W -  “shutup”

And were back….

* Troy and abed in the mooorrnnniiinngngg!......

I haven’t posted in a while simply because the events of my wedding  and the events at my work kept me too busy to sit here and update this. Also not having internet access at home hasn’t helped. And there is no way im gonna come into the office just to update my blog  with  a  + -7 people readership view.

So  lets jump into it the events of the last few months., As of a 4 weeks ago, I am a married  man, I use the term man very loosely because It’s not as if anything has fundamentally changed in terms of my relationship,  my mentality stills feel like a  teenager just with a little more common sense and less angsty.

Ok, so the wedding  details.

I have no idea what’s customary in your neck of the woods, but here, Cape Town SA.  Its customary to have the following:

1.Church  , decked with flowers

2.Elobrate Car

3.Pretty bridesmaids in awful colors

4.Crazy  shoes for the bride

5.Breath Taking venue for the reception  (at night, which results in everyone getting sloshed )

6.all your front teeth in for the day.

I wore a plain black suit with  black shirt and red tie, and the grooms men wore plain black suits, summer in December here is  hot and wearing cumberbands and  neck tie nonsense with ruffles and crap just wasn’t going to happen. The wedding was held at my wife’s local congregational church at 4pm  followed directly with a reception at the gorgeous  suikerbossie (say-ker-bos-sy) restaurant and function venue. 

The bride, my wife had the most amazing dress , bought a few years ago I did  not see it until the day she walked into the church… (see the pics).. words fail to describe the awesomeness of that dress.

So yip, church ceremony went off without an hitch. Nobody objected , nobody made a dramatic entrance other than the bride.

The car was a 64 ford galaxy,  as any fine car collector should know , cars from that  era are massive!,  you could fit a few dead men in the trunk  and still cruise along comfortable (if you ignore the smell from said dead men). We drove in the capable hands of Mr Burton ,car collector and part time historian,  very cool and calm and chilled.  Got to the venue which was decked out in the plain black, before you go.. wtf is up with all that black,  let me explain, every single wedding ive been to was white and some strange color ive never heard of, white and cerise pink , white and  maroon, white  and  snot green.. we went with white and black, classic timeless sophisticated brilliance. We had help from the  most amazing floral technician in the business  ‘’flowersbyarlene” google her. Who did the most amazing work with the centre pieces , red and white roses with a little  umbrella thingy.. awesome.

So the bride was in white, all the chairs and tables were black, Red centre pieces  at a dreamy venue. The Wedding as far as I could tell went off without a hitch, the food at the venue was  brilliant, sliced roast hip beef with veggies and  angle dust..O_O it was that good.

We sang, we danced, we ate, we sang we danced some more

And in reviving a tradition I haven’t seen in a long time, we asked the guests to make the arch leading us out…which they did….

On the mercurial and  serendipitous side of things  my wife  shared her wedding day with her best girl friend from her high school days, which too my knowledge wasn’t planned at all  =\=/ =\ hmmm,.....

I was told not to tell anyone too much about the honeymoon and  wedding night.. So all I can say, it was  wonderfully romantic and special. (check out the pics)

So yip, its been 4 weeks as a married “man”, things are great , everyone is happy, life is good.

To anyone reading this.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

*love that show

My boss decided to test my knowledge.. can you name all of  them?