Weithy is Married to Lacey

I am the luckiest man alive.  Wait wait, I meant to say Lacey is the luckiest woman alive.  You know, because she’s going to marry ME!  Haha.  I know that sounds conceited but, but it’s true!  It’s true because she found her one true love.  It’s true because I love her unconditionally.  It’s true because I want to be married to her until death do us part.  It’s true because I want to make the best life I can with her and grow old with her.  And it’s true because flip the script and it’s all still true!  So what I’m saying is that she’s the luckiest woman alive but what I’m really saying is that I am luckiest man alive!

All serious humor aside, I am thankful to find the woman that was always destined to be my wife.  I don’t mean preordained, but destined because the course of our lives took us on journeys that collided at precisely the right moment to fuse and explode.  I always wondered, how do you not totally know when you find the right woman, the woman you are going to marry and be with forever?  Does it make me a romantic to believe that?  I think it does, but really what it comes down to is recognizing God’s guidance in your heart.  I didn’t know right at first that Lacey was the one, but when it was revealed to me I knew without a doubt.  And I’ve been impatiently waiting to marry her ever since!

I have more to share about marriage, which I will do in succeeding posts, but right now I just want to share how much I love my fiance, how thankful I am for her, and that I know true love exists through God because I’ve experienced it.  And I promised more photos so… my favorite one so far!

p.s. In sharing my thoughts on marriage I plan on making the case that being married is the most manly thing you can do, repudiating a popular cultural myth that real men ride off into the sunset either because they’re born to ramble or because they have to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of society, and that married men are whipped into femininity.  That’s naive, reckless, foolish, and just plain B.S.  Hehe.

Look what I can do!  *Jumping with limbs splayed*  I fixed it!  Conveniently, it was an issue with my hosting site, 1&1.  I had to force the hosting server to use PHP 5 instead of 4 by adding a couple of lines into my .htaccess file.  That’s obvious right?  Surprisingly, a forum provided a real answer, and it was even the Gallery forum!

Lame update I know, but at least you all can start sleeping again knowing I can start posting mildly hysterical anecdotal evidence of my manly life.

Oh, and even though I’m engaged to be married to the most amazing woman in the universe, I’m still manly.

Check back for a new post with new photos soon!

Stuff is not showing up because I’ve been trying to update to the newest version of Wordpress and the Wordpress/Gallery2 plugin, which obviously is not working yet…

I installed he latest version of Wordpress, 2.5, and found that it broke the WPG2 plugin, which is the plugin that integrates Wordpress with Gallery 2.  I don’t want to go downgrade Wordpress because the developers of the WPG2 plugin are working to release a new version of it so that it works with Wordpress 2.5!  So I choose to wait for the upgraded plugin, and for now you can check out my photos here.

Lacey and I have been absolutely horrible when it comes to taking photos.

One reason is that my camera liked to flip to taking video all the time when you’re trying a take a picture.. very annoying to say the least.  But I have a new camera, the Canon SD870 IS!  So now I’m taking photos in 8 megapixels instead of 4.

Another reason is because, according to Lacey, I always pick the worst possible time to take them (like in the morning at her parents house when she’s still in her pajamas (yeah it’s like noon)).

Another reason is that we’re generally so focused on loving each other and talking that we forget!  But during my last adventure down to Austin, we took the time to snap off a few photos.

I know I know you all feel so ignored!  But I’m sure you’re used to it by now… the only real reason is that all of my free time is dedicated to this woman.  So far this is the only real picture we have of each other because all of our time together is spent just being together and talking and doing our best to ignore everything generally called normal life.  So, sorry if you feel left out but we both just don’t want to share one another very much right now!  Since this photo was taken during the first week of 2008, we’ve seen each other every 2 weeks but right now we’re on our longest hiatus of 2 1/2 weeks, coming off of our longest streak together, which was 5 days with her, 3 days apart, and then 8 days with me!  Good times with my baby!

As Mitt Romney unfortunately loses the Republican nomination, I’m posting this little update.  Tonight, I finished inserting photos into one of my favorite stops on my Southeast Asia adventure, Tonle Sap in Cambodia.  Check it out, it is an amazing place.  Click here.

I have finished June 2005 and July 2005 for inserting photos in with my blog.  Check it out, it’s pretty sweet.  I’ve been wanting to do that since I got back from Asia but you know how life can take it’s own course.  In other news, my truck was out of commission all summer as I was working on the fuel tank.  I’ll be blogging about all that when I get to it.  But it’s up and running now and destroying the Earth and I love it!  I am having new garage doors installed tomorrow so I’ve been framing back jambs for them.  Plus of course much of my nights are taken up with talking to that girl I’m kissing in the header!

Ok fine!  So demanding!  My comeback currently consists of working on stuff you aren’t seeing, as in I’m working on the photos in my entire blog starting at the beginning..the beginning of my Southeast Asia trip…

Things are rolling and I’m on my way back from the missing in action!