So, you may have seen my post last Friday, talking about my nuptials.  The rings are so awesome, and I love it!  If you missed it, you can see it here(markdown isn't playing nice for some reason):

https://steemit.com/wedding/@ddrfr33k/achievement-unlocked

We started Friday night with a late night limo ride to a hotel that my parents took care of arranging for us.  It was bitterly cold, and the main entrance of the hotel was a nightclub, so we had tons of people cheering us on as we walked in.  We felt like celebrities, but we were too exhausted to mingle.  The hotel gave us a bottle of champagne to celebrate, so we popped it open and enjoyed a glass before bed.

The next day, we got up, went to Perkins for brunch, I returned the parts of my tux that I rented, and we kicked off our Honeymoon!  Or at least, our mini-moon.  It's too cold to go to most of the places we want to visit, so we decided a weekend at the local casino would be a good starting point.

The casino had just recently opened a new hotel on their premises.  So new, we were the first guests to stay there!  Seriously, it opened last Friday.  And let me tell you, it was beautiful.  Very, very nice amenities. The room was spacious, nice TV, great view, it was perfect.  We checked in, went down to the lobby, and played some Blackjack.  I won a towel, but lost $100 in the process.  That dealer wasn't that great, anyways.  I wasn't that mad.  Now, the penny slots, on the other hand...

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I had a decent run of luck with the penny slots.  Put in $20, eventually walked away with $39.  I'll take it!

It was Sunday that was the troublesome day.  We ordered up an omelette from room service (She doesn't eat as much as I do, so we split entrees.  Cheaper that way.) and got ready to go splash around in the pool. Pool was great, soaked my feet in the hot tub and enjoyed the sauna. Chatted with a couple great people, one of them was a crazy awesome bodybuilder, so I asked him a bit about his regimen, he asked us about our wedding, stuff like that.

Right around 2:00 or so, I started feeling like something wasn't right.  It was right in the middle of blackjack, and I was up a decent amount, too.  I took water from the drink cart as often as it came by, but I felt rather uncomfortable.  But damn it, I'm grandfathered in at $10 bid on a $15 table, and I'm doing great!  I'm gonna stick around!

The wife came down around 6, and I gave her some of my chips and some extra cash for her to play.  I told her I wasn't feeling well, and that I was gonna lay down.  About an hour later, she comes back, and...

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Now, it felt awful leading up to it, but I did feel a little bit better after getting it out of my system.  Something in there didn't sit right, and it needed out.  I get that.  We were joking about it, though.  I mean, I've heard of "in sickness and in health," but this is ridiculous.

So yeah, I spent New Year's Eve, on my honeymoon, in the bathroom of a very nice hotel.  It was not the sort of thing I wanted to be doing on my honeymoon, but some things can't be helped.  On the plus side, my new wife is a wonderful woman, and was there to help me out the rest of the night.

On our way out the hotel, her claws came out.  Thank god they did, because I was still in no shape to put up any sort of protest.  We determined that the two of us ate all the same things, save for one thing: lo mein at the buffet.  That was the only thing that I ate and she didn't.  So we talked to the hotel front desk about comping us one night's stay due to the circumstances and loss of a honeymoon.  They said they couldn't do it without the buffet signing off on it.  So we go to the buffet, talk to the manager, manager calls security, and we're stuck waiting.  It's 10:48, we're waiting on a response from security, and check out is at 11:00.  Wife goes back to talk to the hotel front desk, calls me a little later.  We wound up getting a 20% discount, which we probably should have been a bit more aggressive in our negotiating, but I was in no shape to argue.  I didn't sleep well, I was in a bit of a haze, I couldn't put up a protest if I tried.  They tried to pin a late checkout fee on us, and my wife was very quick to pounce on them and have them remove it.  Thank god, we did our part...

So yeah, hell of a way to start a marriage, am I right? I'm better today, but I'm still keeping myself to a simple diet.  Saltines and gatorade, all day for me.  It sucks, but my stomach hurts too much otherwise.