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With only 11 days before the wedding, you’d think I’d be freaking out. For those of you who know me, being the center of attention is not something I usually seek out. In fact, a few weeks ago I was hyperventilating at the thought of the impending date.

However, for some reason I’m completely calm. It’s the strangest feeling. Part of it is the fact that the to do list is dwindling. I was really stressing about being able to get everything done in the few weeks left before the wedding. Luckily, I’ve had some awesome people step up and help me out, namely my parents and future mother-in-law.

But mostly it is the thought that occured to me after returning from my bachelorette weekend in Florida. In only a few days time, I’m going to be married and not to just anyone. I’m going to be married to my best friend.

All this time, I’d been planning a party. I was worried about getting everything just right and trying to do it with a tiny budget. I never stopped to think about the reason I was doing all this. I forgot about why I was willing to stand in front of over a hundred people and be the center of attention. It’s the guy standing at the end of the aisle.

Today, I asked Charlie to make me an online phonebook for all of my work numbers. Now that I’ve been at my company for almost two months, I have four whole contacts, which apparently is too many for me to keep track of.

Recently, Charlie made a phonebook for himself because he kept destroying his cell phones and losing his numbers. I thought this was super cool and had to have one of my own. Him being the funny guy he is, when I went to check out what he did, he had changed the header to say amanda[dot]com (instead of charlieholder[dot]com) and below it read the following:

Wives
There should be a limit to what getting half of my possessions applies to.

Since we are soon to be officially Charmanda, Charlie asked me to be a guest blogger on his website. I was of course honored to share my thoughts with his public. I’ve never journaled for the masses, but I thought I would give it a try. I mean everyone’s doing it.

It makes me wonder how all of this got started. Whatever happened to writing your inner most thoughts to… well… yourself? Who thought, “I think I’m going to write about my daily life and post it on the internet?” I mean who would want to read that crap?

Well, apparently lots of people. Strange as it sounds, people actually like this kind of stuff. Who knew?

I actually got really into reading the blog of a teacher I had in Oxford. It’s the whole idea that when students see their teachers out in public buying groceries or something, their first response is, “You buy groceries here?” Teachers aren’t supposed to have lives outside school. That’s why I really enjoyed reading her blog. It was like I could peak into her personal life. I especially enjoyed her blog about how she got so drunk on one of our last days at Oxford, she had to be escorted back to her room. Niiiiice! You just couldn’t find out something like that any other way.

I think it’s the little voyeur in all of us. It’s the same reason Facebook is so successful. We want to be able to know what’s going on in people’s lives, especially the stuff they wouldn’t normally share with us. People are strangely open when it comes to the internet. I’m amazed what people will put out there.