MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

Vanessa and I have chosen a date! We would like to be wed at 7:07 am on Saturday, July 7th, 2007. For those of you playing the home game, that's the 7th minute, of the 7th hour, of the 7th day, of the 7th month, of the 7th year this century/millenium (incedently, Saturday is also the 7th day of the week). So, we're thinking about a whole "seven" theme...

It feels good to have picked out a wedding date. Now I can start making solid plans, rather than telling people, "sometime next year." I think it's helping Vanessa realize some tings too, like we're actualy going to go through with this, and I'm not putting things off.
The only thing that might suffer will be my birthday (only three days later) but then again, I don't really celebrate birthdays too much any more as far as parties go.

We don't have any more details - No idea if it will be in Germany on in the USA. If we do it in the USA, I'd like to have her father (a minister) marry us. I think that would mean a lot to my bride to be. He could walk her up the aisle, then keep going. When he asks "who gives this woman..." I think it would be funny if he said something like, "oh yeah, I guess that's me, here you go." :)

Start thinking of all the songs or Movies with "seven" in the title. I might want to put a little somehing together for the wedding video. Now that I think about it, one of the first gifts I ever gave Vanessa was the movie "Seven" on her birthday the year we met and before we were even dating. See how things really work out when they're supposed to? I'm in awe, even as I write this!

N-E-Way, I'll let you know more as I find out what's going on with the plans. We've broken up the list of tasks into three groups: Vanessa gets to plan the wedding, I get the reception, and we both get the Honeymoon (wink, nudge). No, I mean we both get to plan where we'll go, and what we'll do. It's too bad we're in the military, and only get a few days a year of leave, otherwise, we could set up the wedding together. I SO hope I get stationed in Germany with her. It will make planning this so much less stressfull on both of us!

Make Someone's Day Today

Yesterday, I was walking to work from about a mile away, in the rain, when a soldier stopped his vehicle and asked me if I needed a ride. It surprised me at first, as no one here is usually that nice. So I got in, and he took me as far as he could. While I was in the truck, he and I talked a little about the weather, and I noticed he spoke with an accent, so when he dropped me off, I said "Thank you" in German. He replied back in German, and Spanish, so I said again my thank you's in Spanish. Still, I figured out he wasn't German by the way he responded, so as he started to drive away, I said, "Da-svi-da-niya," which means goodbye in Russian. He stopped the car, and was excited that I spoke Russian. He waved, and said, "Vy gavareeteh pa ru-sky?" Which I know means, "Do you speak Russian?" I smiled and waved as he drove away.

That's all it took to make two people's days.
1. He gave me a ride in the rain.
2. I spoke his naitive language (if even only a word or two).

Here's your challenge: Make someone's day today. Do something nice for a complete stranger, with no expectations on getting anything in return. I doubt the Russian Soldier thought I knew a little Russian, so he expected nothing back from his kind gesture of a ride out of the rain.