When Dooce linked to this video about a girl and her dog and said that she cried during it, I thought she was exaggerating as she is wont to do.
But OH MY GOD! That has to be one of the most bittersweet, heart wrenchingly, wonderful videos I have seen in a very long time. I too am sitting here balling. Where is Freesia? I have to give that little puff ball a snuggle.
Take stock of the current state of the state. E and I now have:
1) A Wedding Wiki, to collect ideas, links, and document decisions
2) A Wedding Website, to be launched at the end of the month, with info for everyone else
3) A Basecamp Site, to house the project plan and to do lists
The Geek is strong with these ones.
I am totally in love with Geni.com. I spent a vast majority of yesterday entering information into the site. Cousins, cousins' cousins, great-great aunts and other relatives all got added and updated. I went through the photos that I had scanned in while at my grandmother's years ago and uploaded a vast majority of them. I also sent out invites to a bunch of cousins.
The site really makes me happy. I love seeing the tree fill in with a complete picture of the family. Adding the images really helps as well. I wish my father could have seen the site. I'm sure he would have loved it. And the fact that anyone in the family can add to it and keep it up to date is just such a boon.
E said how he's a bit worried/suspect that I'm putting so much effort to enter data into someone else's system. Yes, he does have a point. There is no guarantee of how long Geni will be around. But I don't have a usable copy of Windoze right now (Leopard doesn't seem to want to play nice with Parallels) which means I can't get to Family Tree Maker. And it's the multiple authors thing that really is so nice. There's no way that I could keep all this updated on my own. But with everyone helping it becomes at least a bit possible. So... we'll see.