Bill (and Dana's) first contribution

I'm not entirely sure what we're supposed to do here with this Blogger thingy majiggy, but since Christina took the time to create it and name it after my favorite cat (or ghost thereof), I figured I'd better participate.
I guess we're supposed to keep in touch and let people know what we're up to or something like that, right? Christina? Right? Am I right?
All right, well here's what's going on with Dana and I. We're getting married. Duh! You already knew that. We're spending most of our time these days planning or worrying about not being able to pay for the things we're planning for: our wedding. It sounds like a drag, but it's really not that bad, and you're all gonna love it.
Recent news: this last weekend we decided on and bought our wedding bands, booked our DJ, and met with and decided on our officiants for our wedding. "Officiant? What's an officiant?" Well that's what you say when you're not sure if you're looking for a Priest or a Rabbi or Pastor or a friendly bum or anything inbetween to perform your wedding. In our case, it's a Pastor and a Cantor (Wiki it. It's like a Rabbi, but not). They have a very interesting relationship, involving living together for 5 years and raising their respective children together in both Christian and Jewish traditions. For whatever reason, they are not "going" together anymore, but still work together in interfaith ministries and weddings and the like. Pastor Alexia runs CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), which really focuses on poor and immigrant families, and Cantor Steve runs Breeyah, which is a fledgling Jewish congregation that meets at a Catholic nunnery in Bel Aire (yes, where Carlton lives) and works with interfaith couples and Autistic children. They both came into their relationship with preconceived notions of the other religion and learned a lot and changed a lot as a result of their experience. In short, they're very cool, and have a lot of insight to offer.
So, that leaves us with this:
Things left to do: book photographer, book videographer, find suits, cake, flowers and lighting, make playlist. Should be simple.
And here's our schedule through the 4th of November, if you're wondering where we'll be:

Oct 18th - San Jose for Dana's sister's wedding.
Oct 25th - Dallas for shower and "Bachelor Party"
Nov 1st - Nevada to canvass for Obama and various assorted Nevada Democrats.
Nov 4th - Vote, sit back and celebrate!

That's it for us for now. What are yaaaaaaaaa'll up to?
-Bill (and Dana)

PS. No, Simon's not mad that I called Ali Baba my favorite cat. Afterall, since the blog is called The Ghost of Ali Baba, it's really named after Simon. That would explain a lot, after all.