(Insert obligatory excuses about a two-month gap in posts here.)
2010 is gonna be a good year, I think. Lots of change on the horizon for yours truly.
In five days (holycraponlyfivedays!) I will be getting married. It’s definitely a bit of an untraditional ceremony – there isn’t one! It’s looking like we will be having a small dinner with Jess’ mom and my parents on the night of the wedding (the 9th), and then a larger family deal somewhere later this month. The real full-blown wedding ceremony will hopefully take place sometime within the next year. I can’t imagine how much fun that’s going to be to plan based on just this one – we don’t have rings, our honeymoon is going to be just staying here, Jess is sick – still, I’m happy that we’re finally able to get married.
Work… arrgh. Work has been all kinds of stress lately, but hopefully that will be changing in the near future. A lot of the problem was that our CIO (Boss’ Boss’ Boss) has been only marginally present in the corporate environment because of a really nasty battle with lung cancer; unfortunately he passed away late in December. Currently his position is empty, with one of the directors filling in as interim CIO. It looks like this particular director might get the position, which is rumored to bring a rather wide-sweeping management shakeup in the IT department. This could be both good or bad (and I’m sure I will have more to say on the issue later).
We’re also still looking at the possibility of Jess going into the Air Force as an officer sometime next year. Maybe. Possibly. To be honest she doesn’ seem very enthusiastic about the idea, largely because of pressure from her parents. I’m hoping that once she’s out from under her mom’s umbrella that she’ll decide to do it on her own, or stop wasting time and figure out what she does want to do as a career. If she does go in the service, though, that will most likely mean me stepping down from my job and following her to whatever posting she is assigned (pending of course the whims of the military).
Gotta admit, I’m nervous about all three of these things. Any one of them is a pretty major event, and they’re all likely happening within the first half of 2010. I definitely have the feel-good-vibes about the wedding, but the other two are just wild cards. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it goes.
Obligatory resolutions that may or may not be realistic and/or followed: less WoW/practice guitar/keep working out/manage finances better/be good husband.

