Let Me Introduce You

This is (from left to right) Jan, Dave, and my nutty self. Jan is who I worked for when I was bartending at the big televised theatre called the Hammersmith Apollo. He's getting married to Dave's sister this month. So Dave got me a job with him last year, and I really appreciated it. It was so fun. Funny thing about this picture is that none of us told each other to do funny faces or hand gestures---we just assumed these positions.

This here is Rachel. Rachel is Dave's sister, and Jan's future wife in about two weeks. She's a sweetie pie, and she works in the box office for the West End theatre shows.

This is Dan at his gig last night. Dan and Dave are like brothers to Brian. They were living together when Brian and I met, and they warmly welcomed me into their home and immediately took me in to their "family." Dan has recently heard me perform at an open mic gig in London, and has since then asked me to sing at Rachel and Jan's Wedding with him---he wrote the song, and we're re-writing a bit of it together. I'll play piano and sing, and he'll play guitar and sing. It will be the first song of the evening to start the reception party off.

This is Jen. Jen is Dan's girlfriend, and Brian's replacement in the household of past Dave/Dan/Brian's. She's my closest girlfriend here, and she's MOVING south to study teaching the little shit... The little girl is Tillie. Her full name is Tiger Lily and she's Dan's niece. He LOVES her to pieces, and since she's only six months younger than Skyla, when the girls get together they have a nice time. Dan and Dave are "Uncle Dan and Uncle Dave" to Skyla. Auntie Jen has watched Skyla for Brian and I a couple of times now, and she's from a family of 9 kids (she's the oldest), so she's PRETTY good with the wee ones.

Never mind that girl in the middle. The one on the far left is Lou. Louise is Tillie's mother/Dan's sister. Whenever there's a function, we are the staples. Dan, Dave, Jen, Brian, Me, Lou, Jan and Rachel.

This is Carley. She's also one of our group--she's Sean's girlfriend. SEAN is JAN'S little brother. I worked with Sean and Carley at the Apollo. They're VERY nice. I don't have a good picture of Sean I'm afraid, so the one of him in the red shirt is the best I could do by cropping him out of the background of another.

Lastly for now, on the left there we have Mikie. He's a grade school friend of Brian's from Felixstowe that has always kept in touch, and they are silly together. Mikie came all the way over to America to see us get married last year, and only about a month later he had proposed to his girlfriend of seven years. We attended THEIR wedding this weekend. It was gorgeous. I'll do those pictures next. Mikie's always been super nice to me. He's a P.E. teacher and coach at a high school in Oxford.