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i mean seriously guys.

i'm not gone. it's just been very busy around here

you'd think that by missing the call on joshua i'd just quit the whole blogging thing, but no. it has just been _that_ busy that i don't have the spare cycles to rant for all of my adoring fans (LOL.)

here's a quick attempt to get everything back up to speed. what have we been up to?

• aron visited for a week, so we went travelling and touristing and things like that
• we had another dinner party, i made merri's famous 2-4-2-4-1 brownies
• i <3 the puma outlet
  
• work is really fun. i like end-to-end demos. (can i say that?)
• hancock was a lot of fun, and the bad action movie (BAM!) club is going to see tropic thunder soon. i'll let you know what we think of it.
• we got the official wedding photos and had to sort through them, as well as decide what we want in our album/stuff like that.
• we went to portland, me. trying to determine which portland wins.
• OMG OLYMPICS
• fun stuff, don't you think?
  

i wonder if i will ever get a prediction right

i have a feeling courtney doesn't have a shot. and when down to it, it's really hard to choose between joshua, katee and twitch.

joshua and twitch are so similar: blah blah blah they don't have training blah blah blah. but they are both great hip-hop dancers, they have the charisma and they do the other dances really well. something about joshua's strength and the type of choreographing that he can take is very different from twitches. it seems like he's the power guy to twitches finesse. sort of like your warrick dunn/mike alstott combo. it's really hard to pick one of these guys over the other, especially after that russian dance last night.

katee, not sure. everyone just goes OMG KATEE whenever she does anything. i mean she's great, and i love her dances, and all, but i guess i already ranted about the whole katee/joshua domestique thing. she's definitely the safe pick right now.

i kind of want to go out on a limb and go vote for twitch. as amazing as joshua and katee have been, i think something about the musicality and style that twitch brings i really like. having logo'd clothing and doing a solo with blinged teeth and gold rims (and then getting deeley to put on the teeth) really wins it for me.

twitch, then josh and katee tied for second (as always, together, although what's up with the chemistry between twitch and katee?)

official wedding slideshow ftw

we just got a little taste of our official wedding pictures. the whole gallery is going to be available soon, but here's a little slideshow that jen and jody put together for us in the meantime.

official wedding slideshow! w00t!

the pictures are great! thanks again to everyone that made that such a special day for us all

friendly tips about lightning and hiking

Rachel and I went hiking on Sunday at Mt Monadnock. It was a good time, there are some pictures around and it had some great views. All in all a good time. I'd recommend it, but that's not the reason for this post.

One of the qualities of the hike that made it more memorable were the numerous storms that went past us. The weather was so random, from sunny and blueberry picking (as you can see in the pictures,) to thunder, lighting.





So here is another good read on lightning safety.

ps. Cairns rock!

wood for sheep! (and tasty greenbeans)

hosted a dinner party last night. it was great. way to combat adversity, dinner party. get this recipe for success:

• rainy day (so people can get scared away from coming)
  
• people invited being doctors and being oncall (at hospital all night != coming, lots of conversation being about sick diseases and such)
  
• no food assignments (we had pulau, addictive green beans and potato salad as a meal)
• lots of wine.
• german chocolate cake and plum/apricot crisp for dessert.
• settler's of catan as an afterwards
  

given all of this, it turned out great. looking forward to the next one. it was great to finally have people over and social at the house, doctors being social is a rare thing and so i made it a point to take advantage of it as much as possible. the food turned out to also be a huge hit. we also got the opportunity to teach people about settler's and get them excited about that too.

the only downside was that we didn't take any pictures. although i guess if that's our only complaint, we're doing alright.

now going hiking somewhere in south new hampshire. fun!

[EDIT: here's the link to a new blog, mgh dinner party recipes]