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Fitness: Well, after hitting 199.6 on Saturday, I springboarded to 204.2 on Sunday due to the wedding I attended (which I’m about to write about). I got it down to 203.6 today, but this is definitely going to have to be a week of watching my diet like a hawk and working out hard. Mouse: It’s been a rough weekend for me in this area. It really hit me hard that his time to go is coming, so I spent a lot of time with him on Sunday – holding him, grooming him, and giving him lots of love. He seems to be doing pretty well at the moment, as he can clean himself again (though he has a hard time with it). I also think he was getting tired of eating his vitamin-enriched wet food, so I mixed it with some of his older wet food and he’s taken to eating more again. I wish he could eat his dry food since he wants to, but it’s too much for his tongue. I’d pull it up as to not tempt him, but my other cat Bootsie still eats it. However, I’m going to celebrate the good this weekend with the upcoming post, so on to a wedding! |
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On Saturday, I attended my good friend Eric’s wedding at the Renton Community Center in Renton, WA and had an excellent time! It was great to be able to go there and support the two of them on their special day and their wedding reminded me of my good friend Steve and Bridget’s wedding in that it was about 10% wedding, 90% party. I got a ride there from my friend Mark, who came down from Canada to attend and crash at my place after the wedding. He got held up at the border for three hours when the wait was supposed to be 70 minutes, so he arrived at 4:15 PM instead of the figured 2:00 or 3:00 PM. We exchanged pleasantries, then hopped in his car and headed for the wedding. We hit all the usual topics on the ride – music, fitness, and gaming. We almost made it there without difficulty, but we overshot the final turn by a few blocks. We turned around and came back, arriving at the wedding at 5:10 PM or so. The wedding didn’t get underway until 6:20 PM or so, so we arrived in plenty of time. The both of us talked with Eric when we arrived, talked with his cousin Andy for a little bit, and then made our way outside where our friend George was taking photos for the wedding. After talking with George for a minute or two, our friends Alex, Dan, Chris, and Kevin danced their way on over and we got to talking for a while before heading inside. WCS Reunited After more conversation and shenanigans, our friends Matt and Josh showed up, which almost reassembled our original group that got together one fateful day in May of 2005, save for our friend Mike up in Alaska. That original group being George (he hosted at his house), Eric (he gave me a ride home that night and began a great friendship), Alex and Dan (the virtuoso brothers), Josh (he likes Cheez-Its), Mark (the shredmaster), Mike, and myself. It’s been a while since Mike has been to Seattle, but he made it to [MAGFest 8], so at least I’ve seen him fairly recently. What happened is that we all got together to listen to a monthly video game music cover competition ([Dwelling of Duels], which Mike ran at the time) and were inspired to do a cover of “I Am the Wind” from the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night soundtrack. The resulting song was entitled [We Are the Wind], and it was something of an epic nature that would be recreated during karaoke later on in the evening. I mentioned Matt, and while he wasn’t there for the first one, he was there for the 2nd time we all go together in July of 2005 (which Mike was missing from) and we all covered “Ninja Rap” by Vanilla Ice from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze movie. We called it [In Loving Memory of Crimson] (Crimson is our friend Mike’s nickname) and it honestly sounds better than the original. There’s also video footage of this incident that has yet to see the light of day (save for at a few gatherings), though I’d be rather unrecognizable as I was over 300 pounds back then. That, and I was wearing the Michelangelo bandana that I talked about in [this article]. The art of disguise definitely helps with not incriminating oneself. In any event, it was great to have the gang back together (mostly) for such a special occasion as this, as now George and Eric are the married men of our group. The Ceremony As I mentioned, it started at about 6:20 PM and was over by 6:35 PM. Eric and Breanna’s friend and co-worker Alicia presided over the ceremony and it was a very short and nice affair. It was a pretty standard ceremony with the entering of the groom, then the groomsmen & bridesmaids, then the bride herself. Alicia presided over the ceremony, Eric & Breanna said their vows, they exchanged rings, kissed, then exited. I think having the wedding ceremony in the same place as the reception kept the mood lively and the proceedings moving along. It was also nice to make out strains of certain Final Fantasy pieces that George recreated specifically for their wedding. Unfortunately, it was turned down pretty low so I couldn’t hear much of it. Hopefully George will have it posted online somewhere soon. A Diet of Decadence Oh man, the idea to have an all-you-can-eat taco bar was a great one that absolutely destroyed my weight goals. I could have shown some restraint, but I only party every once in a while and I can get it off with getting my diet back to normal and pounding it out in the gym this week. There was also a pony keg of Henry Weinhard’s Hefeweizen that I worked on all night and an absolutely decadent three-tier cake. The cake’s top two tiers were a lemon cake with blueberry filling and marble frosting, and it was delicious. I didn’t have any of the bottom layer, which was chocolate with marble frosting. Time to Dance It Off During and after all that food and beer, there was much dancing that was done – mostly by the WCS crew. We danced it off to a plethora of tunes with great beats, incorporating such great moves as the gotcha, the t-rex, the scoop, the scoop launcher, as well as some rave, popping, and cossack dancing. We don’t worry about formal dance moves, we just go for it. The festivities started with “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie and the booty-shakin’ beats were pretty much non-stop from there on out. They had a homemade playlist and I requested “Ready or Not” by Herbie Hancock, which got all of us WCS gentlemen out on the floor and dancing it off for its seven-minute duration. Epic times indeed. Karaoke Crazy There was some karaoke later in the evening, but the most memorable part of it was when Eric and Alex recreated their duet from “We Are the Wind” and the rest of us were waiting in the wings to join in on the final chorus at the end. They sang over the top of the original, so there was no liquid evil guitar solo, but it was mostly identical to the original. Eric and Alex have become better singers, George didn’t hit his monster high note and I sang instead of roared my part, but otherwise it was the same. A Fond Farewell Festivities wound down around 10:30 PM, so we got some more cake for the road and said our goodbyes to the new bride and groom in the reception hall, then to each other in the parking lot. We were all together for around five hours, but they were very memorable and I hope we can all get together again in the near future. Borderlands Before You Go-Go? After Mark and I got back from the reception, we crashed out and then when we woke up the next morning, we hit up Borderlands on the Xbox 360 for a little while. I was talking up the game quite a bit on the car ride down to the wedding and we had about 45 minutes before Mark had to take off for Canada, so we went through the introductory stages of the game and had a good time before he left. All in all, it was a great time and I wish Eric and Breanna an outstanding life together! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on March 8th, 2010. |
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