May Asawa Na Ako!

I am now a married man. And I love it! I think I love it so much because I love her so much.

Toni is the best. And I hope I never forget it.

We got married November 27th around noon at

the LDS Oakland California Temple. It was a beautiful thing. The weather was great, a little cold, but great non the less. It was overcast for pictures which is great because I HATE having to squint for pictures. The sky cleared up and was blue for the rest of the day, which Toni and I spent in San Francisco. All

went perfect on our wedding day, except I forgot the marriage licence, so I hade to phone home and have Kyle bring it up with him. It all tured out good in the end, it just got us a little behind schedule is all.

Our pictures turned out AMAZING. Desiree Nebeker did our photography and we are very happy with what we have seen so far of what she has posted on her website.

I am so thankful to everyone

who turned out to both the wedding up at Oakland and at our

reception in San Jose. A special thank to Jennae for putting the reception together and

both my family and Toni's for helping with decorating and food ans all that Jazz. We GREATLY appreciate all the help and suport.

Toni and I are loving life. I love coming home from work and seeing what she has done around the apartment. I really love that she is learning to cook. I came home from work my first day back after the wedding to find her in the kitchen, cook book propped open and two pots going on the stove. The dinner was AMAZING but not nearly as AWSOME as my new bride.

Work Work Work

The last few month have been interesting to say the least when it comes to my working life. In about May I was let go from working at Keifer Professional Search, were I had been working since I came home from my mission a little over a year ago. I enjoyed working there, and loved the walk to work. Liz very kindly got me a job at Jamba Juice, but this isn't exactly my idea of an ideal job. I started looking, very unsuccessfully for something with better pay and more hours. I applied for over a dozen jobs listed on Craigslist.

Then, about a month and a half ago, I was handed a few opportunities. Rachel got me in contact with the manager at Golfland. He gave me a job doing maintenance, the hours were 6 a.m. till 2:30 p.m.. On my very fist day of that job, I went over to apply for a position that Jonathan hooked me up with where he works. All this time I was still at Jamba. I worked Golfland for just over a week, full time, before Toni and I went to Disneyland. After returning home I started my new job and gave my 2 weeks notice at Jamba Juice.

I am now a happy employee of ASAP Collection Services. I enjoy my job. It's not what I want to do with the rest of my life, but it works. It has great hours and flexibility around my school schedule and it pays decently. I have a lot of different ideas about where I would like to go in my career, but my focus for now must be on finishing school and taking care of my immediate needs.

Check out my professional profile on Linkedin.

Assembly Line of Happiness

Earlier this month Toni and I went to Disneyland, and it was a BLAST!  It was her birthday on Wednesday, we spent that day and the following in Disneyland and California Adventure, we spent significant time in Down Town Disney Wednesday trough Saturday, we went to an Eric Whitacre concert Friday night, and we drove home saturday.  For a complete brake down of the week and adventures check out Toni's blog post.

I made an interesting observation while we were there: Disneyland is set up to keep you moving and not to loiter.  Also, we were in line for Space Mountain and I observed that working there is like working on an "assembly line of happiness."

You will not find many benches or sitting areas at Disneyland but what is necessary at dinning locations.  Even out side of the women's rest room, which is where all the men wait forever, has no sitting.  Once off a ride, you are put into a gift shop or walk way, no sitting.  To get from one end of the park to another you rarely can one travel in a straight line.  All this is set up to keep you moving and exploring new things, making it difficult to sit around.

The parks have employees in every crevasse.  A single rid will have a dozen or more, each at their assigned station performing their task.  They pass visitors along, in parking lots, in lines, on roller coasters, on boats, and on the sidewalk before, after and during parade time.  They do a great job of moving everyone along, and boy oh boy do they do a great job of making us happy.  Truly I have never witnessed a more efficient assembly line of joy and happiness!

This also got me thinking.  What if you could get into Disneyland for free and just payed for the rides?  You know, like the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.  Remember the lack of benches?  These theme parks are crowded enough, they have to work hard enough to keep it running smoothly and keep people moving.  If it too was admission free the park would be over run with free loaders, people in just to have a good time.  There is plenty you could do to have a good time in Disneyland that would not require you to pay for rides.  You could have a very enjoyable afternoon, or even day in either park with no cost, or perhaps just the cost of a churro or cotton candy.  

So instead everyone pays admission and all can enjoy every aspect of the park with out the hassle of buying tickets or bumping into people at every turn.  This is a much better system.  Disney sure does know what they are doing.  And, I am sure they have studied and concluded that this is more profitable for them.  This gives them sufficient to run the park smoothly and effectively for everyone to have a much more enjoyable experience. 

This lead me to think of other applications of these principles.  In our society we have to pay for services and entertainment.  Imagine if people just come in for free and sit around?  What if we don't keep moving and enjoying what is around us?  What if we just sit still and do not act?  How would our society be if we only payed for what we are using at that time?  We would pay for a replacement for our tire when it goes flat but we wouldn't pay taxes to maintain the roads.  We would pay for food to feed our family, but we would not pay for the service that picks up our garbage.   

I am sure there are much more applications of this.  I have many more ideas myself.  I am also rather curious if 1) anyone but Toni actually reads this and 2) if there are, what is it that you all think about this idea?  let me know via comment to this post, email or facebook message.  Thank you for your time and thoughts.