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Hello, dedicated stalkers! Here’s a list of cool things that I have to report since you’ve last peered into my window:

We have a date/location for the wedding.
Our wedding will be on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Jester Park Lodge, which is a very pretty, rustic lodge on the western shore of Saylorville Lake. Our plan is to get married and have the reception in the same location, thus cutting down on commute times and whatnot. Plus, that way we can get to drinking straightaway, which is pretty important. Anyway… save the date. And if any of you already have pressing commitments 13+ months from now, well, that’ll actually probably work in our favor. Amanda has just informed me that she has over 100 aunts, uncles, and first cousins in her family, and we’re really trying to keep the number of people at the wedding/reception to around 150 people. So I think that means that I get to invite half a dozen friends, my parents, and probably my grandparents. ;)

I have an iPhone.
Probably not as cool as my wedding news, but still pretty fun nonetheless. I’ve been craving an iPhone for a while now, and needed a new phone regardless, but I couldn’t really justify the cost. But when the new 2nd-gen iPhones came out, I scored an old 1st-gen model off of someone who needed the latest and greatest. So I got an iPhone, and at a really great price. Score.

Friend Anne is back in the States.
Admittedly, this one didn’t happen under the best of circumstances (but that’s none of your business, thank you very much!), but my friend Anne is back in the United States. She’d been living in Amsterdam since around the 1st of the year, and while that worked out great when we were visiting Europe this spring (free room and an excuse to visit A-Dam), it sucked not having her around more often. So now she’s back in the good ol’ U-S-of-A. Of course, she’s living in Minnesota for the time being, but it’s a start. And Amanda and I are going to see her this weekend (we were already heading north for a camping trip with her family this weekend), and I think I have her convinced to come down for the state fair, as well.

My dad is out of the hospital.
This is another one of those “silver lining” things that I’ve been so fond of as late. My dad is out of the hospital, which is pretty great news. Of course, that meant that he had to be in the hospital first, but I’ll take what I can get. He’d come down with MRSA, which is an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, and it was spreading through his body. But it seems to be under control now, at least to the point where he can leave the hospital after a 3-day stint, and I’m choosing to see that is good news. :)