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"Mr. John Nelson... That's got a nice ring to it."

Disclosure: I stole that title quote from Andrew Bernard on The Office - which happens to be my favorite television show.
 
Well, here I am. A married man. Yeah, I know, right? Woah.
 
I could do like every newlywed blogger does, and tell you about how amazing it feels to be married, or about how the wedding day went or about my new apartment. These are all very valid and interesting blog posts, but I honestly haven't processed everything that has happened to me in the past week. I want to have a clear head and organize my thoughts before I tell you about the most important day of my life.
 
But let's be honest - you don't want nor need to read 1,000,000 words of mushy, narcissistic love talk, so I'll boil it down quickly before I move on:
 
Our wedding day was awesome, I feel awesome and living with Stacy is awesome. Marriage is awesome. Love is awesome. Wearing a wedding ring is awesome.
 
I'm not being sarcastic. It all really is awesome. Ecuse my brevity, but my brain is just a bit tired right now, and I really have some other thoughts to share in this post. Five of them:
 
1. I'm really, really glad that Stacy and I are waiting to honeymoon later this fall (another, near-future post). If I were in Hawaii right now, I'd be sleeping. Not watching volcanoes, eating mahi mahi nor snorkeling. Sleeping and stressing over moving to Sioux Falls. Waste.
 
2. Cleaning ovens might be my least favorite part of being alive.
 
3. I'm really, really happy that my friend Jeremy made it home safely from Yemen this past week.
 
4. I'm really, really proud to have friends like Jeremy - who advocated journalism for three months in Yemen. And Heather - who is currently diving into a two-year service for the Peace Corps in Niger, Africa.
 
5. I'm completely attached to Stacy. I hope she isn't getting sick of me yet. We're having a great start to our new lives together. I'm a very lucky man to be with such an amazing woman.
 
Sorry for that last bit of mushyness.