Jacob and Marcia

A few weeks ago we went to a very short (just over an hour) lecture by Dr. Stephen R. Covey. The lecture was about strengthening families and was basically a short rehash of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with a specific bent towards how the principles of the 7 habits apply to families.

There was one quote from Dr. Covey that I found particularly poignant during this particular lecture. Speaking about interpersonal communication, he said:

The deepest hunger of the human body is for air. The deepest hunger of the human heart is to be understood.

We’ve almost completely settled on wording for the invitations. Here are a few things we’ve learned in the process:

The wedding announcement/invitation is always written in the third person. Saying “we would like to invite you…” is not traditionally appropriate (not to say it’s wrong, just not the traditional way of doing it).
In a [...]

So, this site has existed for three whole days, and already technorati has picked it up.  I’m not sure how that happened, since they picked it up as jacobandmarcia.com, which I only registered on thursday night (and technorati had it by friday afternoon) and haven’t told anyone about it yet.
But here’s the great part: according [...]

In yet another brief fit of work avoidance curiosity, I was taught something interesting.  Look at the main news headlines of CNN, Fox News, and Google News, and then at digg.com, a web site that tracks the most popular web sites at a given moment, and (I think) a pretty good gauge of what people [...]

One of the interesting things about running a small business where you sell software on the internet is that people can buy what you’re selling without you having to do anything.  In my case, they go to my web site, click a couple links, and make the purchase entirely online.  When they do that, I [...]

Today we started putting together the painfully long list of people to whome we intend to send wedding invitations. In about 30 minutes, we came up with roughly 200 people who will receive invitiations, and that’s without consulting our parents for lists of people that THEY want to notify.

This is our website. When we get married, it will be a “family” website. Until then, I’m not sure what it is, but it’s ours.