Weddings...And Such

As predicted, this last weekend was a blast. Liz and I packed into the car and headed back to Appleton to attend M/Andy's wedding. Let me try to put together a very quick synopsis...

Friday night - Liz and I arrive at the Nate Pad. Nate's still at the rehearsal dinner so I begin the process of eating all of his food and drinking his beer (it really is a weekend long process so I figured I'd better start right away). Around midnight, Natron graced us with his presence, along with Andy and a handful of Andy's friends. The night proceeded with the bunch of us (except for Liz, who somehow managed to sleep on the couch) playing Texas Hold 'Em and drinking heavily until about 3 in the morning.

Saturday was the wedding, of course. As we got to the church, Nick Lucht's mom spotted Liz and I so I started talking to her and, in my delight, Monica was standing right next to her - so I finally go to meet the illustrious "M". I told her that I felt rather funny as, even though we'd never met, I knew a lot about her from reading Nick's blog. Nonetheless, it made those initial awkward conversations a lot easier because I already knew that she was living in Chicago, doing her residency there, and even what kind of music she liked. So I guess that wasn't all bad.

Met up with Dave and Stacy at the wedding. We milled around for a little bit and ran into Andy's dad...quite the cat, that man. I haven't seen him in years, but he hasn't changed much. As we met him, he said, "Corey! Dave! Dave, you've put on weight!" Ummm...yeah. What else can you say? ;)

The ceremony was nice and it wasn't long until we were all over at the reception hall enjoying real Wisconsin old fashioneds and free beer. By the end of the night, Stacy and Monica were...well off...and Nate and I, while doing better, were probably not fit to drive. So Lizzy drove us back to the Nate pad where we prompty zonked for the night.

You know, I often hear people say that friends come and go, but the friends you meet in college are your friends for life. It just hasn't been that way for me. For me, it's mostly the friends I had as a kid that I've stuck with. Heck, I've known Dave since 1st grade or so and Andy since 3rd. Even my more recent friends, like Nate and Nick, I've known since High School and before. You know, I don't get to see them nearly as often as I'd like to, but it's funny - when I do finally get to see someone like Dave (who I've been friends with for probably 75% of my life or more), even if I haven't seen the guy in a year, it's just like we've always been together. It's great, really. The best part of the weekend was getting to see that whole group again.

So now I'm back to Rochester and "real life." Work is fine - I avoid doing it whenever possible. Football season is off to a rough start. The Packers lost miserably and my fantasy football team is now without one of my high round draft picks for the season, Javon Walker. Double whammy. On the up side, Wisconsin beat Temple a billion to nothing. That was fun to watch...for about 5 minutes until the scored was 24 to 0. The starting lineup didn't even make it to halftime.

Anyway, enough babbling. I'm out'ta here.