GAH, I’m rather unhappy if you couldn’t tell. I can’t believe I let myself get talked into this wedding thing. It just occured to me that I hate weddings. And now I’m having one. A big one. A really big one. Ella has just lost her mind over it. Her mother is getting involved now, as well, saying stuff like she’s waited so long for her daughter to get married and that she’s going to make it a night to remember. I don’t know, it’s just getting to my head because guess who has to pay for it all? That’s right. Me. Me. ME!!!
I wish I could go back in time and tell Ella that there was no way I was having a wedding. Maybe she would’ve dumped me, but honestly, this stress is making me have second thoughts about her anyway. She’s not a full fledged Bridezilla yet, but you never know. She’s constantly been on my ass about doing a person lookup for the guest list. Dude, how many guests does she need? She’s flying in relatives from Iceland just to come, does she really need her 3rd cousin twice removed on her great uncle’s side to come? I swear to God, I never knew her family was so huge. And they’re all weird looking, like rejected Sesame Street Characters. I’m trying to hold my tongue, really I am, but all the engagement sugar seems to have evaporated in a cloud of wedding fervor. Hopefully we can get the magic back cuz I dunno how I’m gonna make it to the fall otherwise…
We’re getting married in October. She decided she wanted a fall wedding because where we live, fall is the nicest season out of the year. Not too hot and not too cold; just right! I’m still flying high on being engaged, although the wedding planning is getting to me. She’s actually asking my opinion about stuff and I really don’t care. Whatever she wants is fine! But when I give her that answer, she gets offended
What I’m tripping about is the guest list. I know I have way more relatives than my address book is telling me. It’s going to be tough to run a successful person search, when half of them have unlisted numbers (I’ve had this problem before). I may even have to hire a people search private eye to track them all down; gah, even more expenses to add to this wedding. I don’t want to think about it right now, I’ll just get all mad again. I’m going to go drown my sorrows in a box of cherry cordials (bought for gift boxes, but I’m breaking in early) and think about how I can get my message across to the super delegates.
Being engaged is so sweet, I don’t ever want to get married! Well, I’m kidding, but not really. Being engaged to this woman truly is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me! It’s an insane feeling. I’ve always heard that being married or engaged doesn’t feel any different, but that’s totally not the case. This feels different. It feels… real and wholesome and pure and good! I want to climb to the tallest building in the city and scream to the heavens and the crowds below that I am the happiest man alive. Cause it’d be true. It totally would.
Now, wedding planning? Not so much fun. But she loves doing it, and I’m the obliging boyfriend who comes along for the ride and nods or shakes his head (much less often). I like it. She likes me.
Things are peachy. I won’t need to run another background check for the rest of my life, and that makes me happy. I love the ability to find people, but I don’t think I’ll need to do it much anymore. Now I can focus my attention on stuff like To Unnecessary Male Nudity in the Locker Room.
I popped the question.
We were at dinner, this real nice Moroccan place. Our mutual favorite..it’s where we went on our first date, in fact. So anyway, we’re drinking this great house honey wine they serve. The tagine hasn’t yet arrived, so we’re snacking on bread and hummus and just enjoying the atmosphere. I drop my fork — on purpose — and ask her to get it for me, as it’s fallen on her side of the table. When she bends down to pick it up, after chiding me, of course, she sees the ring. I know she saw it, because she’s down there, paused for like 10 seconds. Way longer than is necessary to retrive a stupid fork, ya know? So that means shock, which can be good or bad. I’m betting on good. But then she pops her head up to answer me and hits her head on the table! She’s always been a klutz, so this was just perfect. We just sat there for a minute cracking up. I’m talking belly laughs. Finally, she’s able to spit out the answer.
She said yes!
And she didn’t even have to run a background check on me first to figure out if I was worthy. So I’m on cloud nine, pretty much. Not sure what to do with myself, quite frankly. I’m jittery as a june bug on a metal pan in an Alabama summer night. I think I’ll go person search to calm down. But this is good jittery, mind you. Happy jittery. Okay, this isn’t working. I’m going to peruse Rant Farm…this one looks funny: To The Girl Scout Cookies Name Change. Oh, and I better look into orac value. Gotta shape up for the wedding!
So with the return of the sun, business is, as expected, booming! And I’m getting tons of pressure from all sides to expand into a full fledged business. Pressure from Ella, from my parents, from friends, potential business partners, but most of all from myself. I have this urge to kinda grow up. I mean, I love the boater’s life. I’ll always love waking up to the sun shining, hopping in my boat and just floating out into the ether of the sea. I love losing myself in the waves, the gulls, the ice cold brewskies. But I’m not getting any younger. And Ella’s not gonna wait forever. I wanna be able to bring my kids up to be boaters. I want to be young enough to teach them all the tricks of the trade. So I actually went out and got a ring. A real simple one, with some small Celtic style etchings on it, but one that I know Ella would love. I’m trying to figure out a way to pop the question. This is the right thing to do…I want to grow up, and Ella is the one who’s driven me to want this. I think once I get her, I can start the rest of my life, and find people now to help me with my business plans. But what are those plans, exactly? I dunno yet…hopefully people search will be the answer. I have the leadership skills and the knack for yachting—now I just need to find the people. If anyone else is in need of a great people search engine, try this one to help you people search now. Okay, I’m gonna go eat some cookies and try to brainstorm proposal ideas. Speaking of cookies, here are the best cookies money can buy.
One of the things I love about where I live is that there isn’t much winter. In fact, after waaaay too much rain, the sun came back with a vengence. Doesn’t even feel like winter. The good news is that means people are back on their boats, and that means I’ve been busy again, and THAT means I can afford to get Ella want I want to get her for Valentine’s Day. I’d tell you but just in case she reads this, I don’t want to spoil the surprise. Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking more and more about taking this from a one-person operation to an actual business. I mean, working on the boats is great and all, but it would be even better to manage crews instead. I need to find a person who knows a lot about business to run some ideas by. Ella says I should talk to her dad, but I want to do this on my own. Check out that linked site above, and this find person one as well. Good stuff on both. I think the hardest part of my business idea is getting reliable people to work for me. Ella sent me this article on finding people like you that she thought might help. I’m thinking I may be actually be able to pull this off…I’ll keep you updated. I guess the big issue is, do I really want to be serious about all this, or keep the lackadaisical lifestyle I’m used to? The longer I’m with Ella though, the more serious I want to take things…meh. Love. :)
My orange glow has been replaced by an actual tan. Finally…so, winter time tends to be a bit slow for me because of the weather, so I got to take an extra-long vacation with my girlfriend—she goes to school still, working on a masters in business with an emphasis on environmentalism. In fact, she just sent me this article on how to go green. She’s really smart, and always trying to smarten me up about things. We met when I worked on her dad’s yaht—yeah, one of those stories. Rich daddy girl’s and the hired help—but actually her dad is really cool. We spent part of the holiday with him, part with her mom, and then the rest with my family down in San Diego. It was great! For the most part Ella and I get along great, but she still doesn’t get my people search hobby. I try to tell her that with all the people I meet traveling around, it’s the only way I know to get back in contact with them. Finally, I’ve been looking for some blogs that she can get into as well; this guy from Germany talks about how to find someone (don’t worry, the blog is in English) and this other person search site that a nice housewife runs, to prove to Ella that normal people do it too. Not that I’m not normal, but she calls me “alternative.” Frankly, with her push on environmentalism I think she fits the “alternative” label better…actually, she’s really gotten me into it. I’m off to do some serious recycling—I’ve convinced all my clients to save their bottles and such and now I make some cash recycling them. It’s nice when you can make money from helping the environment.
Since I work on Yahts, I have this gnarly tan. I mean the farmers tan to the max. I was complaining about how weird I look, especially in November and so my girlfriend told me to get some self tanner to even it out. I told her that she was crazy, I was man. She just shrugged and told me to stop complaining about it then. I grumbled. But then the next night I was alone, and I decided that maybe I would try the tanner on a small part of my body just to see. So I went to the pharmacy and bought some. I started with a little on my legs, but soon i got carried away and I was covered in it. It is so bad. I am orange. The thing is, everyone knows why too. My girlfriend just laughed hysterically. Needless to say I haven’t been going out much, and have been staying inside trying to search for people online. I’ve become a real people search private eye, or at least that’s what my girlfriend keeps calling me. She just doesn’t understand how cool it is to find people. She’s really into what’s going on in the news, especially foreign affairs. She sent me a link to PeopleSearchDigest.com-Baidu Search Censorship, which talks all about how China is censoring the Internet. It was pretty cool, I’ll give her that. Anyways, I’m going to go take my fifth shower of the day. Be back soon.
I’m a people searchin’ fool :) I’ve been doing lots of research this past month for this blog and have lots of people search goodness to share with you all. But before we get to that, just wanted to let you all know a little more about me. I work in the yachting industry,which means I clean boats for a living. The work is pretty mindless, but I get to travel which I love and working outside is cool (I have a great tan year round). So back to people search and the goodness I promised:
Find A Person
Find People
I also found this really funny site recently, it’s a laugh a minute Giant Lists - Phobias. This is my favorite list.
Hello world, welcome to my shiny new blog entitled finding people. The reason I called it finding people is simply because of my new-found people search hobby. I want this to be a place where I can record everything I learn about people search, people search engines, background checks, etc. and hopefully becaome a people search resource for all those looking to find people.
So how did my passion for people search start, you many ask… Well, it all started when I volunteered to help with my high school reunion. I was assigned the task of finding current contact info for my class of 1997. A dauting task I thought… I started with a Google search for: people search and a whole new world opened up to me! Who knew there were so many different ways to find people. I found a couple of blogs like Find People that directed me to people search engines, the best one I tried was PrivateEye.com - Find People with People Search. Through my research, I have amassed quiet alot of people search information, that I plan to share with you all, so check back on a regular basis.
