HOLY TUESDAY BATMAN!!!!

Hey ya'll! Well, since I've arrived in KC, we've just had an amazing time. We had lunch with my mom, stepdad, and one of my sisters, and that was awesome. Great time relaxing, and my sister has a wonderful house, and it was just really nice and relaxing. Hung out with Bibi's family, and that was great, too. Good times abound.

Sunday night we hung out with friends, and that was nice. Yesterday, we got together around noon, and made our itinerary for the wedding, which was good. Every little thing we do that needs to be done before the wedding, seems like a symbolic huge step towards actually getting married, and I get more excited with each step!! I've had a perpetual grin/smile on my face since we got here. (And, even more importantly, I've had what an old friend used to call, a "soul grin" on the whole time. MAN I"M EXCITED!!!)

We also were able to line up someone to play the song that we really wanted to have played at the wedding, and that looks like it's going to go really well.

Oh, and along the excitement lines...
BACK STORY: Junior Year of high school, a Sunday in the spring, after church: I was absolutely stoked about joining the peace corps. IN FACT, I called them and asked about the possibility of joining before college. Realized, that wasn't going to happen. (They aren't that needy, they can actual limit volunteers to college grads (for the most part.))

FLASH FORWARD TO 16 MONTHS AGO: Bibi and I discussed how we had both kinda wanted to do the peace corps at one time. Conversation fizzles.

FLASH TO A MONTH AGO: Bibi and I realize that we want to wait to have kids for a couple of years, we are going to be in Kirksville until next year, but after that, well, the whole world is open to us. Why not? Why NOT?! Heck, let's go for it!! C'mon, when will there be a better time for us? So, yesterday we spent a bunch of time online researching and we're absolutly psyched about the whole thing. And, there is a conference in July about the Peace Corps in St. Louis, and we're planning on going. WHOO HOO!!!

All right...more later!

Thanks for reading...
Tommy

Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days....

Hey everyone! I'm sitting here in our living room, typing away on my laptop--which is now internet enabled!!!--updating my blog. whoo hoo!!!

Bibi and I are leaving here in about 20 minutes to go down to KC for the rest of the time til the wedding. I. Can't. WAIT. !!!!!

Just had to pack for the next two weeks, as well as for the honeymoon. (THAT was awesome!!!)

All right....I"ll update from KC...hope everyone is doing well!!!

Oh, and Steven King's book, Cell, is really really good. More later!

Thanks for reading...

Tommy

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Well, at last the day is here. I am done with school for another
year. It's always a bittersweet time. I'm going to miss these kids a
great deal. They're a good bunch, and I have a lot of fond memories. Good
times, good times.

Wedding plans are coming together. Bibi is amazing. She's really doing an
amazing job of organizing and situating, but I really feel like I'm a part
of the process--as much as I can be, before school is out.

Today is another one of those cool days where I get to play a fun song for
the kids...."School's Out" by Alice Cooper. Yeah, that's right. I'm THAT
teacher. (c;

Oh, and I found a HIlarious clip of the Peanuts Gang dancing to OutKast's
"Hey Ya", which I'm showing to the kids, too. (Thanks, Matt! It's
AWESOME!!!!)

Well, until later...God bless, and have a great day!

Thanks for reading...

tommy

Update

Hey everyone...

just wanted to drop a little note.

The year is winding down. Tomorrow we go on our major field trip of the
year. At 7:15, we (7 of 8 fifth grade classes) will board school busses
and ride two hours to Nauvoo Illinois, where we will spend our day touring
an 1840's village. Good times, good times.

We've gotten Bibi's things moved into our house, and she's leaving this
afternoon to go back to KC til the wedding. It's getting down to crunch
time, and we'll admit, it's a bit scary. (Not the actual being married
part--we're both cool with that--but the throwing of a huge major shindig
has us both a bit harried.)

On a much sadder and personal note...Kaya, my beautiful boxer is not doing
well. She's doing very poorly, actually. She's been incontinent for more
than a year now, and it's not gotten better, even with different
medications. I talked to the vet, and he told me that basically, at this
stage with her age, we can put her through an extensive and costly (+$2000)
set of tests, which will (given the aforementioned age) have slim to no
chance of providing helpful answers, or we can consider what no dog
owner/lover wants to consider.

She's been an amazing dog, and Bibi and I will miss her immensely. We
spent about half an hour last night taking pictures of our little girl and
I'm really not looking forward to the appointment tonight. Someone sent me
a really sweet poem/story today about the "rainbow bridge" and that was nice.

I'll talk to you all later, and God bless....

thanks for reading...

Tommy

greatest news today.

Knight Rider is being made into a movie. That. Is. AWESOME.

That is all.

greatest news today!!!!

Knight Rider is being made into a movie. That. Is. AWESOME.

That is all.

Thanks for stopping by...

Tommy

Testing

So, we're going to test this new-fangled thing out...so, this'll be short
in case this doesn't work.

My thigh is the color of a smurf. And, it hurts real smurfing bad.

Today starts the beginning of the end of the year for me. I've gotten
everything planned, everything scheduled and the end is in sight. So, I
got that going for me.

Oh, and seriously, if you haven't read "Lamb" by Christopher Moore...what
are you waiting for? It's ded-funny! (Oh, um...except, if you happen to
think that God doesn't have a sense of humor...then, um definitely DON"T
read the book. Yeah.

Karaoke tonight, looking forward to that. And, I'm taking requests if
anyone has one.

"Lost" tomorrow night. Wow, what a great show.

What About Brian? was great last night....left Bibi and I both SCREAMING
for another episode. (If you haven't watched it yet, check it out in
re-runville this summer.

That's all.

Thanks for reading...
Tommy

Hey ya'll!

So, just tried something, and we'll see how it goes.

Things are going well. School is gearing up/winding down, and I"m enjoying myself, and I believe the kids are, too. I'm getting married in less then 5 weeks, and I can't wait.

I'm in our new house, and I love it. Great location, nice time.

This weekend I had my bachelor party, and that was fun. My stepdad came up for it, and brought me his old bike. It's great! I rode it to school today, and promptly proceeded to run into a telephone pole on the way home. (Please--don't ask.)

The bike's ok. (The front brake needs to be checked out.) And, my thigh has a MASSIVE bruise on it. Yeah!!!! (Sarcasm.)

I'm re-reading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." I LOVE this book. Absolutely hilarious and really interesting look at Jesus' human side. Good stuff.

All right, I think I've worked out so that I can post more frequently. We'll see.

Off to watch the Season Finale of What About Brian?

Thanks for reading...
Tommy