Tuggin' One Out

I know I haven't posted on here in some time, but it's mainly because Stephanie and I have been spending a lot of time with each other and wrapping up all of the planning for our wedding. Married life is set to commence in nearly four weeks.

For all of you out there that are Catholic, and maybe some that are not and wished to get hitched in a church you may have had to go through a little something I like to call "Wedding Boot Camp." When Stephanie and I met with the priest that was going to marry us he said that in order to be married in a Catholic church type environment that we were to complete pre-marriage counseling.

We had our choice between meeting with a married couple each week for several weeks in a row, or we could take a highly concentrated dose of marriage know-how in one no holds barred weekend extravaganza. Guess which option we hopped on?

This weekend will mark our foray into the subject of learnin' about some marriage. As you can tell, I'm already critical of what we'll learn/study. I'm excited to do some things to maybe get to know Stephanie a bit more, but given our past, and the previous long distance format our relationship was in, we've done a lot of communicating.

We'll be sent away to a Catholic Compound somewhere in an undisclosed location in Kansas City, Kansas somewhere by our speedway. It will be miles away from Arrowhead Stadium, which is where the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing their home opener. Since we will be at a church stronghold, we will not be watching the contest. We will be at our retreat. I always thought it was cute that the word 'treat' is in the word 'retreat.'

We are not looking forward to this at all, I won't try and hide it. We will be rooming with people we don't know who are also pre-marriage material. It's really out of our comfort zone as Stephanie is generally shy and reserved around people she doesn't know and I know I just don't like people in general.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to God because I do believe in a God and in Jesus. It's just hard to get behind organized religion. I know what you're thinking and you can dispense with the Catholic priest jokes. I've been to one church retreat and that was for my confirmation about 11 years ago. It was a 24-hour fast/lock-in at the church and was an overnighter as well. It culminated with a pizza feast at the end, but overall the whole experience pretty much blew. Seriously, enough with the molestation jokes.

So, we are about to jump in with both feet not knowing how deep the water is. I think that is the most difficult part of it, the unknown. Will my roommate(s) suck? Will I buy in to what they are trying to teach? Will the food suck? All I know is that I don't want "Wedding Boot Camp" to be like this…

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Brienne

I am amused by the title of this blog. Oh, and we did the classes. Well, we made it to 2 of 4 and they still married our dumb asses. That's all. Good day. Posted by Brienne on Monday, October 01, 2007 at 9:28 PM [Remove] [Reply to this]