Got a massage today - it was marvelous. One of the ladies on the ship is a massage therapist. I used to do that myself, but for several reasons, my license has lapsed. Every other week, we do trades. I get a massage for free, and by giving Kathy a massage in return, I am able to keep my skills honed, so that eventually I can get back into the massage business. It was very nice to relax amid the flurry of planning a wedding. After a very long time waiting, I am finally able to plan my we...

Dear Dave, I know you read what I write, so I thought I'd take the opportunity of giving you a public apology seeing as I can't come up there and do it in person, in front of everybody. This is the best I can do; I hope you find it sufficient. I'm sorry for what I said. I'm sorry that I went so far off at the deep end on you. I'm sorry that I yelled at you and said stuff that wasn't nice and that I really didn't mean. You didn't do anything wrong, I did. You are perfectly entitl...

Dave and I had a monster fight last night, that somehow carried over to this morning. I hate fighting at the best of times, but when we're thousands of miles apart it really sucks. We have a habit of hanging up on each other when we're getting angry, which seems like a good idea at the time but only serves to infuriate the person on the other end and inevitably leads to disintegration of patience and childish, tit-for-tat behaviour. He hadn't really done anything wrong, but what he did ...

I've had this discussion with Dave and my friend Rob over the past couple of days..which prompted me to write about it. The first year is NOT the hardest. They're all hard, to varying degrees, because, I think, the relationship is constantly changing and evolving so you have to change and evolve too...or is that that because you're changing and evolving, your relationship has too as well? Either way, each year doesn't neccessarily get easier, just different. The wedding ceremony ...

Tonight my wife, pregnant 7 months, pointed me to an article on her "pregnancy board" about the Quiznos sub comercials featuring the "Spongmonkeys". The article and the 34 replies were all women who couldn't stand the little buggers. However, the majority of husbands found the comercials hilarious and quite catchy. They'd even go around the house humming the tune and saying "They got a pepper bar!!". I fall squarly this category of husband. Luckily for me, my wife finds the commercials amusing...