The Future.

Most of you who come here know me personally.
You know I often find myself here like this:

As Halloween came to pass I began to find out things
about my life that I didn't know could ever exist.
I gained a best friend. The kind you don't ever realize
or think could exist until a little while after it happens.
From the very first time I actually looked into her eyes
I knew that I was meant to share my life with her.



She has a cute little keyhole tatooed onto her chest,
and come Christmas I knew beyond measure that
I had found someone that truly felt like home.
So I saved some money, sold a few things, and
bought an engagement ring. I wrapped it up in
cloth and began sculpting a key around it, which
turned out like this:


I made a box for it, and gave it to her for Christmas. She was thrilled with it, but had no idea of the ring kept in stasis inside of the key.

Barely two weeks into January, she decided that if I wasn't going to give her a ring, she was going to get one for herself:

Those of you who've met me know that I have the same tattoo (sans keyhole) on the back of my neck. It was designed for me as a band logo back in 1999 by Ben Templesmith, and has pretty much evolved into my modern family crest.

After work one night we were getting into an argument, and I pulled the box out and grabbed the key. She was terrified, because she thought my smashing the key was my way of breaking up with her, but between the huge sobs that were tearing me apart she found the little clump
of fabric, and opened it to reveal the ring. I never realized I could possibly make anyone so happy, and I'm so honored that she would choose to share her life with me.

We were originally going to get married on Halloween, but the desire for an outdoor wedding made us push the date up to September, and after a conflict with that date, settled on July 22nd. We'd just begun all the planning for that when last Tuesday she found out she was pregnant.
So we aren't quite sure now how we're going to do it, as the finances that would be put to the wedding would be better served towards our child.

I've never been more excited in my life, and I can't believe that I get to share something so incredible with my best friend. Hopefully this helps explain why all the good new stuff that was on it's way got sort of sidetracked and why I haven't been updating throughout the winter, I've also don't have an internet connection of my own. I'm starting a family of my own, and that takes priority over all of my projects.

We (being all my fellow creators) have outlined a plan to have all projects in and done by October. This gives us two months of production prep to start pushing "the wave" in 2007. I'm still getting work done, it's sometimes hard after working such long and hard hours to get off and put hours into one of the records, or work on some pages for the graphic novel, and when I do I always get this face;

but I know it'll be worth it. I think unfortunately, alot of people when they find out they're going to have a child put their dreams on hold. I'm finding myself wanting to work even harder towards them, because I know should I be successful, I can provide a better life for my family. Thank you for your continued support over the years, and those of you who are just finding your way here, welcome, and thank you for being here at such an important and exciting time of my life.

In the next month or so I will be finding another place to upload music, and by that time hopefully we'll have a few songs fully mixed from my band 'I as well', plus some new 'Nautili' material. If anyone has suggestions for good upload sites, let me know.