5 Things That Are Stressing Me The F**K Out

  1. Unem­ploy­ment is immi­nent, so I am look­ing for a new job
  2. Get­ting mar­ried next month and I have a lot of stuff left to do
  3. I have jury duty next month too.
  4. I almost, finally, have all of the money I need for a new bass head but its going to have to wait because of item #1
  5. Opt­ing for a small wed­ding means exclud­ing peo­ple and being put in awk­ward sit­u­a­tions where you asked when their invi­ta­tion will arrive. Even jok­ingly, this is the most awk­ward posi­tion I have ever been.

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  • 1) You are a tal­ented guy. Some­thing will come along. Just remem­ber to leave all pos­si­ble doors open.

    2) Wel­come to mar­ried life. Your list will always be longer than you have time for.

    3) Just say you sup­port pub­lic exe­cu­tion for all crimes.

    5) Yeah, I was kind of wait­ing patiently by the mail­box. Oh well. I’ll set­tle for pic­tures after the fact. hahahahahaah!

  • 1) I keep telling myself that. In the past I get bailed out the last minute, but only if I freak the fuck out first. The good news is that I won’t work here any­more soon.

    2) You’re the dummy who went ahead and did it again

    3) I thought I’d just pro­claim my deep hatred for all non-whhhhites. (just kid­ding, prospec­tive employ­ers who value diver­sity in the workplace)

    5) Its been espe­cially tough drop­ping the axe on non-married sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers of fam­ily mem­bers. I mean truth­fully there ARE peo­ple not com­ing who I’d rather have there than some peo­ple who are. The rule was “fam­ily only” but the con­cept of fam­ily is very gray when it comes to Kim’s fam­ily. There are fam­ily mem­bers who are blood who will not be attend­ing (mostly because there’s so many of them out of state and out of coun­try we can’t afford to them all and can’t just invite some but not oth­ers) but there are also “fam­ily,” who are closer to Kim but not blood, who actu­ally make up the major­ity of the atten­dees and I can think of at least one who IS a non-married sig­nif­i­cant other of another attendee (Wal­ter), so the rules are loose. I think it makes sense to us and to most of the peo­ple in our cir­cle, but it looks really elit­ist from the out­side. I’m also invit­ing three of my clos­est friends from col­lege (only two can make it) but con­sid­er­ing my only other fam­ily attend­ing is my par­ents and Bill’s par­ents its not a big por­tion of the total crowd.

  • when’s my invi­ta­tion gonna get here?

  • Seri­ously. It hurts me. Stop it!

  • 2. Let’s pray I don’t have to face a third time. I swear I’ll quit it at that point. hahaha.

    What­ever the case, con­grat­u­la­tions my friend. Tran­si­tions can be awe­some times. Take it for what it is worth and try to enjoy it!

  • You’re only not invit­ing ME because you sub­con­sciously sense that I have the power to talk you out of giv­ing away your balls, capit­u­lat­ing to your infan­tile fears and inse­cu­ri­ties; fool­ing your­self into think­ing mar­riage cer­e­monies are an act of love and devo­tion rather than a tax break and excuse to let your­self go. Or, per­haps you’re afraid I’d get drunk and heckle the offi­ci­a­tor (reli­gious or not) till we ended up in a fist fight, blood from the alter­ca­tion splat­ter­ing Kim’s inex­plic­a­bly white dress.

    Prob­a­bly true (on both counts) but you are SO pass­ing up the likely gift of a wicked cool espresso machine. ‘;)

  • I didn’t invite you because at the time I hadn’t talked to you in almost a year. Also, your ten­dency to say things like the above state­ment to peo­ple who are not me fright­ens me to the point of exclud­ing you from any social gath­er­ing I might be a part of.

    As for balls, name a time besides col­lege when you have not lived with your par­ents or in a house owned by your par­ents, or in the Navy that your par­ents pres­sured you to join. You are a giant five year old.

  • You know…from a guy who sends me links to the kind of mate­r­ial you do to take what tastes vaguely like offense to such an obvi­ously absurd sce­nario strikes me as a bit schizo. It seems odd you’d cite it as a rea­son to exclude me from company…unless that com­pany now con­sists solely of gar­den tea par­ties and polite rotary club book meets.

    Your per­verse mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of my post-graduate life aside [did that make you feel bet­ter? — I paid my par­ents’ mort­gage, did you?], I don’t aspire or pur­port to be your role model. That was a soft pitch, chief; I’m sur­prised I struck a nerve. Best guard that glass jaw: life has meaner things than my tame snark for you to get bent out of shape over.

  • Nerve schmerve, you paid your par­ents mort­gage play­ing a video game for money which is as morally ambigu­ous as counterfeiting.

    I mean, really, was sup­posed to LET you attack me? The fact that I defend myself means you struck a nerve? Hardly. You gave me shit, so I gave you shit back.

  • Also, exchang­ing links between to irrev­er­ent web comics is not on the same level as you poten­tially embar­rass­ing me in front of my in-laws. It’s funny to me that you think it is. For the record, though, that is not the rea­son you were not invited. I doubt they’d get your jokes or even hear your mum­bling banter.

  • Con­grats on the impend­ing wedding!

    Do you know for a fact that you will be laid off soon or are you just prepar­ing for it just in case? I hope it’s the latter!

  • Actu­ally, it’s as morally ambigu­ous as deal­ing nar­cotics, but we digress.

    I wasn’t attack­ing you, douche noz­zle. What I noted are the themes and plot points of HOW many stu­pid come­dies about con­tem­po­rary mar­riage? If any­thing I was being self-effacing in sug­gest­ing I’d be any­thing other than a prince. I’ve only known you since mid­dle school, but do I REALLY care that I wasn’t invited? NO; you know what I think of mar­riage now, explained well enough already why…and I save on travel/espresso maker expenses. ‘:p

    You, my friend, should stop pre­tend­ing you have no idea how to inter­pret me when­ever I offer up the same tough love [if you are so sen­si­tive as to con­sider gen­tle chid­ing ‘tough’] you offered me a decade and more ago. You should know I love you man. I’ve got your back. You can frame it like I’m some kind of ass­hole, but you’re not that dumb…maybe that much in denial, though.

  • This is not the forum for your per­sonal non­sense. Go be fat some­where else.

  • Best of luck on the job hunt dude. You’re going to find some­thing, I’m rootin’ for ya.

    Tell Kim I said what’s up.

  • There is a lot to be said about tax breaks and sav­ing 10% on our car insur­ance. I love sav­ing money…but I love Justin even more than that. At any rate, not all mar­riages end in fail­ure and some peo­ple do have cer­e­monies that are an actual act of love. I’m pretty sure most of the brides in those cases aren’t named after women in Greek tragedies. That’s when you should have seen it coming.

  • Justin: I’m fat every­where… And you started ‘it’ — could have emailed me. :p

    Kim: Fair shots. You might also have noted that she legally changed her name to that and was bi. ‘;)

    The mere fact that you’ve both both­ered spend­ing any time what­ever ‘defend­ing’ against my off-the-cuff remark rather than eye-rolling at it says things. As long as these are things you’ve said to each other, I’m con­tent to keep my yap shut. Of course, I wish for the best. Of course. Nam­ing demons in advance goes a long way in lay­ing a foun­da­tion for those bet­ter out­comes, though; wouldn’t you agree?

  • You aren’t invit­ing me to the wed­ding!?!?! You f@#$ing prick!!
    just kidding.