This email just went out to pretty much everyone in my address book and I wanted to post it here as well:

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From: Jeremy Schneider
Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Subject: Wedding Announcement: 26 days!
To: Jeremy Schneider

Well if the word hasn’t made it out to you yet, I’m getting married! Erin and I began a courtship shortly after we met each other through a mutual friend here in Chicago; and this past January I proposed in a small 4-seat Cessna Skyhawk airplane, 2500 feet above downtown! The wedding will be on Saturday June 14th in Chicago.

Just last week we finished our website - with more pictures and stories!! The name is a little cheesy… but have a look around and leave a comment. :)
http://www.jeremyloveserin.com/

Though we’re keeping the reception small, we’re having an open ceremony and would especially love to invite all of our friends to a swing lesson and dance on the lakefront after the reception! (Think 1920s and 30s lindy hop and jitterbug!) If you’re in the Chicago area then come celebrate with us! The lesson starts at 8pm and directions are on the website.

Jeremy

Couldn’t resist at least one short tourist moment and had to snap a pic (not a great one). It’s pretty cool that my hotel is a short walk away.

I’ve been in DC all week working on PeopleSoft HR and Financials database systems for a major world-wide publisher. Oh yeah - and of course swing dancing. :) Went to The Jam Cellar Tuesday night and had a blast! They had a great turnout and there were lots of cool people around.

Also, just picked up this short video from another blog I read pretty regularly and I think it’s worth reposting. What do you think of it?

Chicago Blues Festival and CUBE were AWESOME!!! Holy smokes what a great weekend! Was a little crazy but worth every minute.

I got home from Phoenix at about 2am Saturday morning, slept for a few hours, played a softball game, then hung out with everyone staying out at my place for CUBE. We made breakfast then went down to the blues festival for the rest of the day. Then came home, cleaned up, and went the late-night party which started at midnight. Didn’t stay long… came home and went to bed around 2 so I could get up for church this morning… then had lunch at church… now frantically getting laundry done and packing before small group and the flight back to Arizona. Yup. Crazy.

Found a great club and had a great time dancing on Wednesday night in Phoenix! You can see some much better pics of us dancing in the gallery here:

http://www.clubredswing.com/photoGallery.aspx

Hey it turns out that there’s swing dancing in Raleigh and I found it! And if you want to see why lindy hoppers are so awesome then read the thread where I posted on Hackzapoppin.

So I got there a bit late due to a few extra hours troubleshooting an issue for the client I’m working with this week… but once I got there I had an awesome time. There were lots of great dancers and some great music. My only complaint was that they waited until right when I wanted to leave to start playing all the awesome music… which made me stay much later than I should have… that’s why it’s quarter to one and I’m just now going to bed. Oops…

By the way, the place was packed all night - I took this picture right before I left at like 12:30am which is why there are only a few couples on the floor.

Well the pic doesn’t show it well but there was a great turnout at this workshop with Mike and Nina in Michigan. We had a crew of six people go from Chicago and a seventh joined us to stay at my folks’ house. The weather was great, the music was fantastic and I think that we all had an awesome weekend! Plus I finally nailed that airstep I was working on with Amie. RJ took a video of it; if I can get a copy of that video then I’ll post it…

This is my other picture from the weekend. There were a couple hundred people from all over the place in Houston for this weekend dance camp. It was pretty much amazing! My favorite part was definitely the social dances. (I’m much more into that than the competitive side.)

Here’s a bit of what my weekend looked like:

Yep… a crazy and yet amazing weekend!