Going to the Chapel...

...Well, more like City Hall, honestly.

It's 5:59AM Pacific Time, and Chris is in the shower...she's been awake since about 4:30, totally giddy, unable to sleep. Me, I've been trying to sleep next to my "little woman" who's been jittery and grinning and making cute noises of happiness. I finally said, "let's get up" about 8 minutes ago. It's her Wedding Day, she's more than happy. I'm happy too, mind you, but I'm trying to keep it calm so that I can actually get myself on the plane and to San Francisco in a timely manner, and not mess up our plans due to nerves (which most commonly show up as what I like to call "Intestinal Difficulties").

Should be interesting.

Heck, I'm thrilled! I really am! But...I'm trying to stay calm and reserved...

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I hope to have pictures of our escapades from yesterday sometime this week. The camera we took pictures on has a memory card, and the computer wants to format said memory card (which is NOT good)...so, I have to see if there's a USB hook-up on our camera or not...if not, it will have to wait until I get back to Flar-da.

Yesterday we went to "Deadberg", where I spent 3rd grade (after Christmas break) through Senior year. It was really entertaining. My friend Jennifer and my other friend Melissa met me at Burgerville and we had a blast driving around and looking at things...and, my "little sister" Kathryn, who has 2 kids that I've never met, I managed to find via remembering their phone number somewhat miraculously. I haven't seen "Kat" since probably 1999. I love that kid - and she's 31 now. Her mom and her mom's mom all live in the same house with Kathryn's two kids (Gage, 12 and ...I forget her daughters name, but she's 7). Very cute kids - Gage is very much a picture of her in boy form at that age...and she looked a lot like a little boy back then, too. They've got her ice blue eyes, they are lucky.

I found out that Kat is bi-polar and just got approved on disability. That explains a lot. She's always been a little unstable, but I never really could pin-point it - it's gotten worse over the years since I've left.

I met her best friend, "Lolly" who's like her "other sister" and found out that Kathryn always talks fondly of me...and has told "Lolly" on several occasions that "you're just like my big sister!" :-D That makes me grin from ear to ear. It seems Lolly has gotten her to hug her back - something it took me awhile to get Kathryn to do, too. I'm happy she's got her in her life. It also seems that Lolly and I have probably crossed paths in the past as she knew the "clan" that I used to know of Jacksons, and hung out with the older ones in the family (while I hung with the younger ones and graduated with one) and also knew some other folks that I knew.

We all go pretty far back in that small town. It just goes to prove that while you can leave home and you can't go back, your life is forever laid in the fabric of what has built it into today and the future.