Nick DeNardis

Planning a wedding for Andrea and I has turned out to be relatively stress free. We got most of the hard work done early and now 3 months before are just wrapping up the details. Our families work well together and so far there has been no drama. That all changed this week when we received a pretty odd letter from one of my relatives.

Not only was the contents out of the norm but it was sent on her companies letterhead. It was all about etiquette and a few stabs at the family. What I thought odd initially was it was addressed to my mom and not me. I have personally only met this in-marriage family member once when I was probably 13 years old. The least she could have done was address the letter to me, I am an adult and it is my wedding.

Anyways, here is the contents of the letter. You decide for yourself if Carollynn Andren is accurately representing her company, Renaissance Enterprises, inc.

Dear Cindy,
I am in receipt of your invitation to the shower for Andrea DeFillippo. Additionally Jeff and I received a “save the date” notification for your home last month.

Jeff and I thought this rather strange since we have not spoken to you or your family since Christmas of 1998. By my math that would be 10 years ago.

First of all my name is Carollynn Andren, not Carollynn Kondrat. You and your family seem to be the only people that I know that can not get this straight. I married Jeff, more than 10 years ago and it never has been a problem for him, my family, friends, or clients. Professional women that get remarried, rarely change their names, in the real world.

Cindy I have coordinated 27 weddings in my life, some small, some very large, (800 people). I always sit down with the bride, groom and their families and talk about what is and is not proper. Sending invitations to people you have not seen in years is not proper.

We with both the bride and groom and their families, good luck and best wished. We will not be attending any of the events that are associated with this wedding. We do believe that your family’s desire to eliminate us from your social events, was made clear to us years ago. We shall continue to follow this way of life, with respect for the privacy and life style of all parties involved.

Sincerely,
Carollynn Andren

It took just a few hours and my misspelled title on a Flickr photo made it to the top spot on Google and Yahoo. With thousands of photos being uploaded every minute it amazes me how efficient search engines are.

Often I use google to search for the correct spelling of words. Mainly because I have way too many thoughts running around, if I stop to really think about a words spelling I could loose more important ideas. Words don’t change their spelling too often.

“creepyist” was one of those words. Im so use to OS X’s inline spell checker that sending photos from my phone often results in misspelled words. In the 3 hours the misspelled word was on Flickr before I had a chance to correct it, it made it to the top of the search results of Google and Yahoo. Unfortunately MSN lagged behind and missed my misspelling.

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Now reindexing, that is a different issue. It has been a few hours since I made the change and still no update from Google or Yahoo. Seems odd, but I guess the more accurate the first time you upload the better its position.

After months of searching we found a house that fits almost everything we were looking for at a price point we could live with. We saw over 50 houses and well over 500 online. There’s alot out there and we were not looking to settle on the first we saw. We didn’t know what we were getting into.

1. Garage
2. Porch
3. Good sized basement
4. Nice sized backyard
5. Not on a busy street
6. Not a ton of fixing up but enough to make it our own

We also did not want to be too far from where we currently live. Since Andrea is graduating in May we don’t know where she will end up working and I will be driving downtown everyday so 25 miles was our max from downtown Detroit.

Foreclosures are all over the place, ranging from pretty nice to downright disgraceful. We decided to scrap the foreclosures and found a few regular houses around where we live and ended up seeing a few. The first we liked ended up to be waaay too big and they were asking to much.

We then found this one it had everything we were looking for and it is in a court. The backyard is HUGE and the house is well taken care of. Finally a house that is unique inside and stills gives us the ability to make changes to fit our style.

After an inspection we are on our way to closing. Ill be sure to let everyone know when the house warming party is.