February 18, 2007

• Karen & Steve’s Wedding

  EDIT ADD: So I was a little sad to hear from a friend about this, but then I read this, and it made me feel a little bit better.
  Studio 60 is one of those shows that Christy and I love, because yes, it IS smart. The writing is impeccable. It is also a great show for us to record on our DVR and bust out on a Friday or Saturday or something. I know it’s not super popular, but I hope it sticks around.
  

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  Today was Karen & Steve’s wedding out on the green…literally. It was at a really cool ceremony at a nice golf course out in Eastlake. It was great to see all of our old San Diego friends (even more than last Tuesday!) and to hang out with Chris & Melody. On the trip down I was really grumpy because there was pretty much non-stop traffic from Mike’s house all the way to the 805. We left at 10AM from our house and made it to the golf course in Eastlake at about 2:15PM. We were really stressing out because the wedding started at 3:30, but we had to soundcheck (our duet) before the prelude music started at 3PM. Praise the Lord, everything turned out OK in regards to the time, even though I was really freaked out we wouldn’t make it. We even had time to call in a small order of breadsticks and salad to my favorite (and San Diego native) restaurant Pat & Oscars. Yum.

  You can see some pictures I uploaded from the wedding here. I didn’t take a million, but a few. I’m not a great picture taker, just ask Chris & Melody–I took pictures at their engagement, and they were pretty shabby…

  On a related note, two CRAZY and frightening things happened to us today:

  1) It was really windy at Karen’s wedding. We were scheduled to sing “The Prayer” (why is this such a popular wedding song?). We were not comfortable trying to do the song memorized, so we used music. During the soundcheck, our music was kind of flying all over the place due to the wind, but we got some binder clips and figured we’d be OK. So we get up to sing, and as Christy is about 30 seconds into the song, I notice that the pages aren’t really right. At first I thought she had turned two pages and skipped ahead in the music, but as I kept looking, I discovered that the music went from page 4, to page 7. It was only at this point that I FREAKED OUT. My part was coming up, and I do NOT have this song memorized. But we continued on…and I have no idea how the lyrics came out, but they did…mostly. We were pretty much petrified, though. Thankfully, page 7 came none too soon. I also made a track for it myself, and it turned out pretty cool. Yay Logic!

  2) On the way home, a strange thing happened on the 57 North. We were traveling northbound and come upon the 57 and 60 interchange (where all the traffic usually stems from). It is at this point, right at Diamond Bar, that they have been doing construction on the freeway for at least 150 years, seemingly to no avail. Well tonight, my friends, I accidentally got sucked onto a new carpool ramp at this place. It was really freaky because we have driven that route a million times and had never encountered this road. It was so scary that we both were questioning where we were. What is this? Did I just go through a wormhole? What street am I on? Should I get over?
  And we saw the cars in front of us having the same reaction. One of the guys swerved over to the normal part of the road, and then changed his mind (it was too late) and swerved back.
  I had actually seen this part of the road being built, but the last time I saw it, the end of it just dropped off into nothing. It was incomplete. I actually saw our cars jumping off the ramp in my head, like my life was flashing before my eyes or something. And having the fear that this road might not actually go anywhere–was terrifying. We were stunned. And for the eternity of 60 seconds that we were on that connecting car-pool ramp, we didn’t breathe in horror of plummeting to our inevitable demise.
  Thankfully, it did connect with the rest of the road, and did in fact bypass all the congestion. The only problem was trying to merge 5 lanes to the right in the span of a mile to continue north on the 57 and not get stuck on the 60.

  All in all, it was a pretty eventful day.

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