T-26 Days Fandom Friday. One of @willbeason.bsky.social's favorite holiday movies is A Muppet Christmas Carol. Tonight, he is going to a showing of it with a live orchestra in Seattle. I look forward to next year when I'll get to join him. 1/2

T-27 Days Not many days left to complete books 1-3 of the Stormlight Archive...not quite halfway through, but my goal is book 2 done by Sunday. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-28 Days Holy crap! Four weeks! With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-29 Days More wedding details today with the venue, the caterer, and the bakery. Also, across the country @willbeason.bsky.social met with the divas - a group of gay realtors in Seattle. Talk about tackling things from multiple fronts!

T-30 Days Wow! We are there - the final month. Today was productive, coordinating with the cake decorator and getting all 7 playlists and instructions to the DJ. I may be a little bit of a groomzilla about the music. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-31 Days Highly productive wedding planning day with @willbeason.bsky.social. Alcohol choices made, preliminary seating chart drafted, and first dance song selected.

T-32 Days The details are coming together. Tomorrow is Will's last day in Austin for this trip. Monday he returns to Seattle. I will see him next in Philadelphia when we will be at T-19 days. Tomorrow is a big day for planning. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-33 Days Today was the last TX Ren Fest trip for @willbeason.bsky.social and I (at least as residents). I've gone every year since 2000....and many before that. Will and I have gone together every year since 2018. It was bittersweet and spent with dear friends. Another milestone checked off.

T-34 Days In a world of chaos, there is still much to be thankful for as well. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-35 Days Five weeks. As I prep for our final Austin Thanksgiving, I realize that each week will hold some final milestone. I have to take a (paraphrased) lesson from Way of Kings -the future comes quickly, focus on the journey not the destination. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-36 Days @willbeason.bsky.social is home for the week! Proof I need downtime: At airport to get Will. Stopped to grab him water. Exiting and someone was trying to come in the same door, I step to the side, so do they...we went back and forth a few times before I realized it was my reflection.

T-37 Days Motivation Monday...or maybe not. As my days at work before I take off for the wedding shrink, my focus on the holidays and wedding makes it so very difficult to care about work. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-38 Days Partial wedding milestone reached...Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive completed. @willbeason.bsky.social is drawing from the first 3 books for his wedding vows. Now I just have to finish Books 2 & 3. Setting a goal of 88 pages a day.

T-39 Days The category is...... BOXES! One room completely full of wedding related boxes and items, another room with Christmas boxes. Both wedding prep and Christmas prep took major leaps forward today. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-40 Days Christmas decorating is 10% done. That's enough for a Friday. And also......40 days! That's a whole Noah's Ark flood - but we won't forget the gay unicorns. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-41 Days I've been waiting all week for the weekend. There are major wedding milestones to be knocked out this weekend. Six weeks will fly! With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-42 Days Days like today are the reason I am taking 4 weeks off spanning days before and after the wedding. I need to disconnect from office pettiness and condescension well before the wedding to make sure I joyfully immerse myself in the experience. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-43 Days Long week, long day. Sleep now. Updates later. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-44 Days We pause our regularly scheduled wedding programming to begin Christmas decorating and culling. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-45 Days While I have minimized use of Amazon for wedding things, quite frankly the convenience is a major factor right now. I'm sourcing some things locally, but time is moving swiftly - and there are also two holidays and a trip to Philadelphia before the wedding. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-46 Days With the finalization of the guest list it means that so much more planning can move forward. Today alone multiple parts of the ceremony and decor came together. It is getting exciting! With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-47 Days Today is the deadline for wedding RSVPs. It appears that around 67% of invited guests have accepted, and, honestly, I'm not mad about that number. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-48 How about a Fandom and music mash up. Both @willbeason.bsky.social and I are Doctor Who fans. One of the most incredible stories is that of River Song (I know the basics, but no spoilers). It made sense to add The Wedding of River Song to our preshow playlist. youtu.be/dQOXSRjgXOQ?...

T-49 Days Seven weeks. 13% of the year. We started planning almost 2 years ago when we booked the venue. Since then we have been so far ahead, but so much more is still to be done. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-50 Days Putting the final touches on playlists before sending to the DJ. @willbeason.bsky.social loves instrumental music and Lindsey Stirling is a favorite. It was only natural to add her My Immortal cover to Will and Jay's Preshow. youtu.be/-onQcF95pfs?...

T-51 Days This is enough news for today With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-52 Days One of my favorites books is "There's A Monster At The End Of This Book" as Grover becomes more and more frantic as the end approaches. Kinda like a countdown.... With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-53 Days Today was a productive Saturday...wedding shoes ordered, Seattle gay realtors engaged, and more RSVPs received. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-54 Days What to do when you are planning a wedding at the end of December? Begin putting up Christmas decorations, of course! With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-55 Days One advantage of being ahead on wedding planning is that when a groomsman's custom vest comes with the wrong lining, you have time to get a replacement made. I don't think this is "watercolor blue". With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-56 Days Wed(nes)day Jitters. Y'all - this wedding is seriously in less than 2 months. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-57 Days Today was my birthday, and @willbeason.bsky.social stayed to celebrate and took me to dinner - I take him to the airport at 4 am. Tonight was a blue wave - a year too late, but it still gives hope. My birthday wish is for the momentum propel us through the midterms. Now enjoy food pics.

T-58 Days Motivation Monday. We ticked multiple things off the list today, and it feels like major movement. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-59 Days As you can see, Daisy is totally wiped out from all the wedding planning - with @willbeason.bsky.social

T-60 Days Fandom Saturday. I've been to the Texas Renaissance Festival 1-2 times each season since 2000. @willbeason.bsky.social started going with me in 2018. Typically, we go the Saturday before my birthday and again on Black Friday. Enjoy some pics and then two videos of the Spice Boys. 1/3

T-61 Days Sometimes, a Friday is just a Friday. Tomorrow will be a Fandom Saturday...check back for more! With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-63/62 Days Time Smash Thursday. Somewhere along the way, this countdown got off track. As a result, days 63 and 62 exist together. Carry on as if nothing happened. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-64 Days Wedding suit Wednesday. Our custom suits arrived last week, and we tried everything on this evening. Just a few tweaks needed to the jackets, but otherwise, we are excited. With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-65 Days Queer marriage is alive and well in Travis County. Today, @willbeason.bsky.social and I picked up our marriage license. Ahead of us, when we got there, was a lesbian couple getting theirs.

T-66 Days Motivation Monday. @willbeason.bsky.social and I have checked a few more boxes. 1. Songs for the ceremony have been selected. 2. Step 1 of getting our marriage license - filing the electronic application - has been completed.

T-67 Days Last night, @willbeason.bsky.social and I had the great joy of attending the wedding of our friends, Will and Eris. This was our 7th wedding together. Each wedding provides inspiration for ours. Will and Eris' wedding was the first we've been to where identity and acceptance were 1/4

T-68 Days @willbeason.bsky.social and I will be at some friends' wedding today. The theme is surrealism - as out there as you can imagine. We are probably on the surrealist light side with our outfits. Yesterday, we toured the Mardi Gras museum. One exhibit focused on female krewes 1/4

T-69 Days Fandom Friday. @willbeason.bsky.social and I are in NOLA, home of some amazing drag queens. We both are fans of drag and went to a show tonight. Enjoy some sights and sounds of Southern drag. 1/3

T-70 Days In New Orleans for a wedding this weekend. We celebrated @willbeason.bsky.social a day late, but in style

Bonus T-71 Days Today is @willbeason.bsky.social's birthday! This is the first year in a long time that I haven't been able to spoil and celebrate his awesomeness. We meet tomorrow in NOLA to attend a wedding this weekend- so we will extend the celebration across the week!

T-71 Days The custom suits for @willbeason.bsky.social and I have arrived! I guess we are having a wedding.

T-72 Days Today, the DJ checked in since the wedding is only 9 weeks away. Zoinks! With @willbeason.bsky.social

T-73 Days Spent the evening making sure people received their wedding invitations. with @willbeason.bsky.social

T-74 Days While @willbeason.bsky.social is an avid reader and can read anywhere, the conditions have to be right for me. While he can easily read on a plane, I can't. On my trips back and forth to Seattle, I have started watching movies I might not have otherwise watched. 1/3

T-75 Days Somber Saturday. I've said before that @willbeason.bsky.social and I are not blind to what is happening in our country. I keep this countdown going to show that we will not be bullied into giving up joy. 290 days ago, people urged us to get married early - while we still could. 1/7