Wedding Photos

Tonight I finally uploaded a selection of the official photos from the wedding. This is just about our favourite one of the lot.


I proposed to Tiarnee under the end of the jetty in the background.

New Template

Ok so I got bored tonight and applied a new template to my blog. Not quite sure why. Especially since the only people that read my blog do so through RSS. Maybe it was because I thought that as I'm a web programmer, I should have a semi-respectable looking blog. I'm also not sure why I'm doing this post to alert all you RSSers (7 of you according to google reader!) as now you will go to the blog to see the new template and then see that it's a work in progress.

Anyways, if you do so despite the above warning you will see I shamelessly downloaded a free template and will eventually finish customising it. Over the next few days you should see dud links removed, new ones added, and better content generally on my page.

Who knows? I may even get around to uploading the official photos of the wedding. Or the photos of our reception venue. Both before and after it was destroyed.

2008: Year in Review

In 2008 I managed to achieve amongst other things, the following (in order):

• Turn 21 & have party.
• Moved interstate into a new flat.
• Learnt that nothing is open in Adelaide when you want it to be open.
• Started a new job in the real world as a 'Graduate Software Engineer' for a web development company.
• I graduated with a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Ballarat.
• I joined a new church & home group: Holy Trinity.
• Helped my fiancee plan a wedding.
  
• Took my fiancee on a suprise night out for her 21st.
• Had my bucks weekend in Adelaide. Which consisted of Halo 2, Paintballing, Go-Karting, steak and Ice-Cream.
• Found & moved into a 1890s built 3 bedroom house with Air-con and.... a pool!
• On the 22nd of November I got married to my girfriend of almost 4 years and my fiancee of 16 months, Tiarnee Munn.
• Following that we went on a Honeymoon to Fiji.
• Went on a small holiday just before Christmas to the Yorke Peninsula
• Spend most of Christmas with my wifes family.
• Went to Melbourne and saw the first day of the Boxing Day test match.
• Rocked out New Years Eve to Peter Coombe. Hearing such hits as 'newspaper mama' and 'Juicy, Juicy Green Grass'.

All in all. BEST YEAR EVER.

Can 2009 top that? Time will tell.

Throught for the evening...

I was predestined to choose to make this post. You chose but were pre-destined to read it.

The Foxtel Lap Shameless Plug

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Hi all,

I have joined the Deloitte team to run in the FOXTEL Lap which supports the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, dedicated to helping children live happier, healthier lives.

I'll be running/walking for 30 minutes on the Deloitte/Eclipse treadmill to complete as many 100m laps as I can, on Friday 17 Oct, 2008, in Victoria Square, Adelaide.

Please support my run by making a donation here: http://www.foxtellap.com.au/goto/sponsor. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

For more information visit www.foxtellap.com.au

The FOXTEL Lap is proudly supported by FOXTEL, Nova, NAB, Eclipse and Virgin Blue.
Many thanks,

Jonny
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Please sponsor me!

A lot at steak

Last weekend I had a bucks weekend here in Adelaide. As apart of the awesome and very fun weekend we were very Australian and went to the 'Ned Kelly's Retreat' restaurant in North Adelaide. Saturday was a day of firsts for me. A day where I did several things I'd always wanted to do. Including.... eating a 1 kilo steak. It was AWESOME!!! 

'Euroa Kilo Steak' - Medium-Well done with Gravy.

Thinking about it however, I can see many parallels between eating a kilo of steak and getting married.

1. It's takes ages to arrive. Which is good and bad. Whilst you are excited and impatient while waiting, the reality is that any sooner and it would still be raw and not enjoyable at all. 
2. The closer you get to it arriving (6 weeks today!) the faster you want it to arrive. 
3. When it finally arrives, you realise the enormity of whats about to happen and wonder if you've bitten off more than you can chew. 
4. You start, and it's all you've imagined and more. Juicy, tender and you savor every moment.
5. Despite the amazing beginning you realise that it is a marathon and not a sprint. You're in this for the long haul, come what may. 
6. You're a little way in and it keeps getting better! Despite the initial excitement wearing off, it's still delicious and nourishing. 
7. You have tough patches.
8. Despite the tough patches & the taste being a little different to how it was at the start. You're still glad you did it.
9. You get towards the end and you wonder how on earth you made it this far. But deep down you know it was through persistence, patience, a lot of hard work, and encouragement from those around you. 
10. It's something you only wish to do once!

And Finally:

It is satisfying. Immensely more so than you ever imagined. It is wonderful and beautiful.