"DJ, it's August! We're getting married next month!" Me, calling Mike on my way to work on August 1st. "I know." Mike
	"I already count the $20 I borrow from you for my golf last week. Thanks for your ATM support." Dad, keeping track of money we owe each other.
	"Sometimes it's fun and happy and other times it's the most annoying stressful thing ever." Me, on getting married.
	"It's like 4 times as much. But everything tastes 4 times better." Nicki, about Whole Foods.
	"I don't mean to brag, but I made the 'elite' group on Yelp." Ross "Oooh whats that?" Me "It means I speak with authority on yelp. Also, work has been so slow that i wrote 125 reviews in the last 3 weeks." Ross. Nice.
	"I'm on vacation next week." Benj "Where you off to?" Me "Yellowstone, then Mt. Rushmore. More pins to put in the map." Benj, about the fun interactive TripAdvisor map. "Yeah I know I want to go to new places now too to put more pins up." Me
	"We had wine for dinner. And a few pieces of bread with pesto. And popcorn." Me, telling Mike about my date with Nicki.
	"Have a nice day at work and date at night!" Mike's greeting to me one day I had a date with Stephanie later.
	"Who are they?" Me, to Mike about a wedding rsvp. "I dunno—they must be somebody." Mike
	"I'm so excited I get Chick-fil-a. I wasn't even expecting Chick-fil-a and I get it! " Mike, excited that they have them in Indy across the street from where we're staying.
	"Are they open?" Me, about the Chick-fil-a in the Indy airport. "Yes! I was secretly hoping..." Mike, all smiley at 5:30am after our red eye flight.
	"I can't write it yet—I have to talk to my mom first to see who they are." Mike's reply to me asking him to write a thank you note for a wedding gift.
	"I can't believe how close we are to Chick-fil-a and Steak and Shake." Me, arriving at our hotel in Indy. "I know. How awesome is that! I didn't even plan it." Mike
	"A perfect ending to a perfect day... Oh no that's not right there needs to be a Clemson game in between." Mike, at Steak and Shake after a Chick-fil-a breakfast and snack and seeing his favorite band.
	"You're my favorite thing... in this room." Me, to Mike. "Gee thanks." Mike "Well, there's a TV in the room!" Me "And your phone." Mike
	"I just got a good idea for a text message: Tix 4flight n concert and hotel 900 bucks. Eating at chick fil a steak n shake and white castle plus seeing collective soul all n the same wknd priceless." Silly fast food lover Mike
	"It's only slow cause you need something now." Dad, on looking up info for me on his computer.
	"I'm getting really excited! You really know how to throw a party so I can't wait to see how this all turns out! Whoo- hoo!" Malty, about the wedding.
	"I'm still the same person I was, just with a different last name which takes a bit of getting used to, but hey I move up the alphabet last name wise! The worst thing was the people at work who said, 'you know, it's just not as much fun going out to a bar and drinking with someone named Chasin as it is with someone named Mahoney!'" Jessica's take on the changing name thing.
	"Thanks so much for your Thank you card!!!" Cute Gisela's response to my thank you card.
	"They are arriving late Fri night..." Me, on Sophia and Malty's wedding travel plans. "Wow, I'll already be partied out by the time they show up!" Daniel "NO you wont. Big party outing is Sat night baby." Me, to Daniel about the wedding day. "I'm just kidding. I'll probably be on the flight home on Sunday wishing I could party some more!" Daniel
	"I miss attending the EVEnts you put on." Living in OK Daniel.
	"A new place opened up called 'POPS' they have more than 740 different types of soda !!!! I'm going there on my birthday for lunch!" Fellow Coca-Cola collector Daniel.
	"WOW - I think I have never seen so many pictures of food from a vacation..." Nicki, who must not look at my pictures much. ;-)
	"Bloggerman/Diceman/ReaderMan/ManMan" Way Dice signed his email.
	"Toddlers babbling, pulled groin, studying stats, bought new front door, installed ceiling fans (not me of course, I'm about as handy as a snake), zoo trips, job searching, yada yada yada." Dice's response to how things were going.
	"I hate being sick for no good reason. I didn't even drink last night!" Matt D.
	"We did pretty good. We dusted 3 bottles." Yed, on us hanging out and drinking wine on a random Tuesday night.
	"Happy bday my favorite D!" My IM status "Uh, shouldn't I be your favorite 'D'?" Daniel "Ha nope. No one can compete with my Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!" My response
	"It's my dad's birthday today. If he wasn't born, I wouldn't have been born and then your life would be a disaster!" Me, joking with Mike. "Totally!" Mike
	"Doing another show tomorrow. Can't tell if I'm getting funnier or not." Stand up comedy James. See his show.
	"After this week, 50 more weeks to make it a year." Yed, 2 weeks into his new job.
	"We can get your car and go home and do one quickstep and go eat." Dad, after our first dance class.
	"He's a good looking guy. If I was gay I'd like him." Dad, about our ballroom teacher.
	"Try not to step on my dress." Me, about our father daughter wedding dance. "Of course I'll step on you. We can have a laugh. That's the kind of wedding I like." Dad
	"I think I have jet lag." Dad "When did you fly?" Me "I invented a new word. When you drive non-stop on 5, you get highway 5 la." Dad, on his drive two days ago from LA.
	"Why can't it be Friday?" Mike, Thursday am. "Cause there's football." Me, excited about football being on TV that night. "I'd rather it be Friday then football." Mike
	"Being Eve's friend is a big deal. It's not like any passer by. You're like family." Cute Malty
	"Why were you so mean to me in my dream???" Me, all disturbed after waking up one morning. "I don't know. I didn't mean to be. Remind me to kick my dream self's butt tonight." Cute Mike.
	"Oh cool! I'm gonna go show Yed." Me, walking out the door with our new decanter. "Hey, I haven't seen it yet!" Mike
	"I have a better Dison than him now." Yed, about Stopher.
	"The best thing about working there is we're a big enemy of Microsoft. I enjoy that very much." Gisela, working at VMware.
	"He looked like Beeker but with a rice bowl haircut." Mark, about a guy we used to go to school with.
	"That's the worse proposal story ever! He filled the room with balloons, made her pop them to find the ring, and they didn't end of going to happy hour like they were supposed to!" Me, reading a cool bridal story book Malty gave me. "I'd never buy you balloons and deny you happy hour." Mike
	"Are you going to the So You Think You Can Dance show? There's a boy coming now too." Me, to Mike. "No, I'm not going. It's not my cup of tea." Mike "You're not my cup of tea. Or glass of wine." Me
	"Why so fancy today?" Mike, on me wearing a dress. "I dunno. I just feel like it." Me
	"Pumped I have a pic on your wedding web page!! I will be a good greeter/program hander outer....promise!!" Steph
	"I got my so you think you can dance tickets!!!! :-)" Me, all excited. "I got my Raider's tickets!" Brian
	"We are so excited to see the Carolinas. That is one area I have always wanted to go and just have not gotten to yet, so thanks for marrying there! :)" Leslie E. (not to be confused with LesliE)
	"Seriously, I would do anything for all of that food...it looked insane!! Jealous!" Steph, on my midwest trip.
	"I have the pager, so nothing too nutty. Mike a is coming over and I'm going to fix his 'puter." Geeky Lady, on her weekend plans.
	"Obsessed with Brady...he is such a little pumpkin. I just want to squeeze him." Steph, on my new super cute nephew.
	"OK, so I might be wearing elasticized pants to the wedding after all this food, thanks again!!!" Leslie E., after hearing Mike's Carolina food suggestions.
	"Hope you had a lot of fun and some good womanly time with all your friends." Sophia, about my bridal shower.
	"Nah... I'm not smooth cheeckers any more. I've retired and found a successor (Lily). :)" Sophia (aka Cheekers), about her daughter.
	"I can tell I like it already without eating it." Dad, about bread at the restaurant we went to for his birthday
	"It tastes like you haven't taken a shower for a while." Dad, on not liking lamb.
	"I liked him." Me, about our waiter. "Yeah, he was very cute. I bet he gets good tips." Mom "Oh, I forgot to ask him for his number." Joking Dad, in Castro.
	"Why are you so nice today?" Me "Cause I like you." Mike "Why do you like me today?" Me "I like you every day." Mike
	"I still can't believe I have a son who's 30." Doodle's mom, at his 30th birthday party.
	"You can stick me with a beer and music and I'm good." Mike, at a party where he didn't know many people.
	"That baby is SO cute!" Me, to Mike "One thing at a time. First comes love, then comes marriage then comes Eve with a baby carriage. We have to work on the love part." Mike
	"Yed got 5 new bottles." Me "So we can over to his house for a wine and wine party?" Mike
	"I'm so full I might die." Me, after being at Matt's house all day and night. "You won't die. You will live to eat again." Mike
	"If neither does, I will start a job search. I'll just stop buying wine." Yed's backup plans for if a few potential jobs don't work out.
	"I went to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill concert that day... I love them so much... Poor Dobro - I made him go with me. Reggae boy at a country concert. Ha!" Kimi
	"My couch needs me." Likes to be home David, on being away from home for a few weeks.
	"Seriously I'm so depressed I wanna cry." Me "Don't... there's a lot to celebrate..." Matt "What's there to celebrate?" Me "You are getting married!!! We are all alive and well!!! There's a new Whole Foods opening..." Matt
	"Ugh. Work should be optional." Mike, not wanting to get up to go to work.
	"What kind of printer is it?" Mark, when I was asking for his help finding a good paper to print on. "Like the brand?" Me "Well I don't want to get upset but yeah brand." Loyal HP Mark
	"That's a girly purple. Clemson is a manly purple." Mike, assessing acceptable colors.
	"It's good we found a cab. It's gonna be our day after all!" Ro, after searching all around the city all day.
	"We wanted to get into Gary Danko but we couldn't." Ro, to our waiter at the Ritz Carlton Dining Room.
	"They really have to stop rolling around that dessert course that's so uncool." Ro, at dinner.
	"How do you figure out who gets which dish?" Ro, on the tasting menu that was different for both of us. "Well typically it's a male and female and they have different tastes..." Waiter "Am I the guy or the girl?" Me
	Waiter describes a dish he brings to us at dinner. "Did you say MILF?" Ro with nutty hearing
	"Wow we made that half bottle last a while." Me "I'm milkin it. You know me--I don't get out much." Ro
	"Him and Dan dork it out all the time talkin about molecules and stuff." Ro, on her husband and Grant: the chemistry guys.
	"Everything was good after we got the paper." Ro, assessing our cuz date day in the city.
	"My tux is in perfect condition! It will be hot though. Reporting live from SJ." Dad's text.
	"I wished we had more time to hang out and eat! Wow did I just say that?" Nicki, traditionally not one to be excited about food. I'm so proud. :-)
	"I feel like I need to take a Lipitor just looking at the photos of the food! Its sooooo good though. Midwestern life rocks!" Malty, on my WI and Chicago photos.
	"It was very Top Chef/Iron Chef." Me, describing our awesome meal at the Ritz.
	"It sounds kind of gross, but I bet it was delicious!" Niff, on me talking about the dishes my cousin and I ate during the fancy tasting menu dinner.
	"Oh how I miss fast food. There's only McDonald's and Burger King here. And then there's a Subway in a mall but it doesn't taste the same for some reason." Krissy, in Spain.
	"Coressa and I are sleeping as much as Kaitlyn and Cassandra will let us in preparation of not sleeping much once Charlotte is born." Daddy Kevin
	"Can I ask you an embarrassing question? Did I send in my response card?" Kathi. I was prepped for so much worse. ;-)
	"I told you never to have a big wedding already right?" Me, to Yed on a particularly frustrating day of wedding stuff. "Yeah. numerous times." Yed
	"I'm tired. And I miss you! And I'll have your DVD tomorrow. And CD. And me." Cute Matt D.
	"Did I tell you im going to ride the colored coasters this weekend?" Niff "Noooooo. You are?" Me "Yes. I wish you could come!! I was prego last year, so I am having major roller coaster w/d." Niff
	"OK that's it. I just wanted to call you to tell you I was annoyed." Niff, about the twins' school.
	"Every once in a while I'd like to give people something to be happy about." John R., on getting hump day donuts for our office.
	"I like that Taco Bell. We used to take you there where you were younger." Mom, about Pacifica.
	"You're going to law school?" Matt, on my "In-law day" IM status. "In-law silly! As in mike's parents." Me "OH!!! hehehe." Matt
	"I feel so adult." Me "Why? Cause you almost maddied?" IM Yed "Hahahaha oddly enough no. Cause I just bought my first case of wine and I belong to a wine club." Me
	"I really need something. Does anyone have a corkscrew? Do we have a company corkscrew?" Susan, looking for one Friday afternoon at work to open her bottle of wine she found from Xmas. "Now I just have to get styrofoam cups." Susan, excited when someone found one.
	"I work with freaks--it's great." Me
	"I bought my first case today--I'm super excited." Me, after my wine order. "Of beer?" John joking with me.
	"What was your favorite part of the day?" Me, to Mike's mom after they went around Monterey and Carmel. "The food." Mike's mom. I guess we can be friends.
	"Winey." Mike, to me on wanting to go into wine stores. "That's you. You're whiny!" Me, to Mike. "We're both in a different way--see how it works." Mike, proud of himself.
	"My hair's all crazy." Me, after a ride on the ferry in SF. "That's cause it reflects your personality." Mike
	"Is there any part of the weekend you won't be drinking?" Me, to Mike about his upcoming bachelor party. "Maybe when I'm sleeping." Mike
	"It's best to have a couple rum and cokes before Bob's family comes over." Mike's mom
	"Aren't you gonna turn that off if you're not gonna dance anymore?" Me, to Dad, on our dance song. "No, I'm still listening so it gets engrained in my head." Dad
	"What was your fave?" Me, to Niff on her roller coaster weekend. "Orange for sure." Me "I need more challenging coasters--the thrill is kind of gone I've been on so many times." Niff
	"Oh good then that works out." Me "Yeah. For the most part. If your defintion of working out means I don't have to quit any wine clubs, then the answer is yes." Yed
	"I think paying for a wedding is the easy part. It is actually finding someone worthy of marrying that is the trick." Yed
	"The goal wasn't to hurt you. It was to discourage you." Mike's mom, to his dad. "To keep me afraid and off balance the last 32 years: success!" Mike's dad
	"I'm 89 and I'm still kickin'" My Gma E., on her 89th bday.
	"So you haven't backed out yet, eh?" My WI Gma, to me about the upcoming wedding.
	"My iPhone was what kept me sane. I could do all sorts of stuff on it to keep myself from going crazy." Matt D.
	"The babies are wonderful...but they started crawling! I read somewhere that babies did that - but I wasn't fully prepared! Good heavens - they can get EVERYWHERE!! I'm thinking about moving back into the RV - nice, confined spaces seem really good about now!" Tiff
	"Looked at my calendar today and thought .... Hmmm..... August 29, 2007, now what does that remind me of...... let's see, somehow August doesn't sound just right, Hmmmm July? August?? September??? September, September, THAT IS IT...... SEPTEMBER 29th, that is what I was thinking about. Seems that something SPECIAL should be happening then. Hmmm... a shower? a party?? Yes, a PARTY, but WHAT KIND???? I THINK IT IS A WEDDING!!!" Mike's super cute grandma.
	"I'm even thinking about taking the helicopter flight over there (instead of the ferry) because I'm ridiculous. So, this should be an expensive and interesting weekend." James, on going to Macau.
	"I know everybody is going to love everything and have a great time. I'm SO looking forward to it, and spending that time with you." James, on our wedding.

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