The Dickey Wedding

Last night I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep and thinking about everything that has been going on in the past few months. I realized I haven’t posted in forever so now is as good a time as ever to write everything down.

First off...I’m pissed because my wireless card in my desktop isn’t working. Oh, it worked when I took it to the “genius bar” but when I got it home it still didn’t work. So I’ve been using my laptop for a few months now, which is a major pain in the ass to say the least. On top of that, I broke my space bar on my laptop last night so this post is really going to be a pain in the ass. Today I realized that the LCD on my iPod is also screwed up. It looks like I’m going to end up spending the weekend at the Apple store trying to get everything fixed since nothing I own works anymore.

Now that I’m done with my rant...

The beginning of this month I took my first two vacation days since I’ve been working for Donnelley. I flew to Raleigh on the last day in August to stay with Jeff for a few days before we headed down to Ocean Isle for Matthew and Sarah’s wedding. Jake got to say with his doggie park friends Miles and Piper instead of staying in the kennel, which made it a lot easier to be gone for a week. While I was in Raleigh I persuaded Jeff in to driving me to Chapel Hill to see Brian. We went out to Carburrito and then to some hole-in-the-wall bar downtown. I had never been to Chapel Hill before...I know, crazy...and I hadn’t seen Brian since graduation, so it was nice.

Friday after Jeff got out of class, we drove down to the beach. We stayed at my grandma’s house at Sunset, so we drove there first to change clothes. We didn’t go to the wedding rehearsal since we weren’t in the wedding party, but we did show up afterwards for the cookout. Jeff found one of my grandma’s gardening hats that he decided he was going to wear to the cookout. Towards the end of the night someone decided we should go to the beach. Matthew’s brother Chris decided to go swimming, which led to a couple other guys stripping down to their shorts and going swimming, which later led to Matthew and Jeff carrying me into the water fully clothed. It ended up being a lot of fun. The funniest thing was one of the brides maids, Mary Gray, and Matthew’s older brother, Jason, were sitting on the shore with everyone else who wasn’t swimming. After Jeff and Matthew took me into the ocean they went back to get Mary Gray and Jason and they both refused because they were “wearing designer.” Damn Sean Jean and Lacoste.

Saturday was the wedding. It was beautiful. If I ever get married, I could see it being something like theirs – casual, small... I hadn’t seen Matthew and Sarah since before I moved to Nashville so it was great to see them, along with Freddy, Jason, Jennifer, and everyone else that I hadn’t seen in over a year. We also got to meet Freddy’s new girlfriend. She was great, and they both seemed very happy. Jeff and I went to Big Nell’s for breakfast and ran into my Brooke Pullen, one of my old neighbors, and her 7-month-old son. It’s crazy to see people I graduated high school with that have kids.

Sunday we went back to Ocean Isle to see everyone one last time. Most of went to the beach for the morning. Matthew and I went skim boarding and I managed to body slam a little knee high kid into the surf. I felt horrible, but he took it pretty well. Jeff decided that the little bit of lawn that we have in front of the beach house needed to be mowed, so I called my dad to see where the gas can was. He told me where to find it but then proceeded to tell me about how the lawnmower was such a piece of crap that Jeff shouldn’t even bother with it, but it was nice to him to even think about it. I think he won some points with my dad just for the thought. Jeff decided to try the lawnmower out anyway. It didn’t take him too long to figure out how my dad had it jerry rigged and get it to work. My parents and grandma drove down from Laurinburg later that night and we all had dinner together. My dad was more impressed with Jeff getting the mower to work and mowing the lawn than I’ve ever seen him. My grandma seemed better then the last time I had seen her, which was nice.

Before I flew back on Monday, I had Jeff take me to the NCSU bookstore to buy a copy of Tiger with his student discount. I’ve had it for almost a month now. I wish my computer were in better shape so I could fully enjoy it.

The trip back to NC was a lot of fun. It brought back a lot of old memories. I wish I could have spent more time at the beach and with Jeff. It’s really hard seeing him once a month, but it really makes me appreciate what little time I do get to see him. The end of one visit starts the countdown to the next. Fall break...October 5th!


I think that's more than enough for one post. I'll write more later. Until then, enjoy some wedding pictures...


My Pictures

Freddy's Pictures

Karen's Pictures