I do believe it is. Sorry about that! We'v been married for 6 months and I haven't written a single thing.
Well, maybe that's not true. I've written in a journal once or twice.
Hence the blog makeover. I'm not trying to get published or even noticed in a Google search. I just like to write. And, sometimes, I will write a lot. Sometimes I won't write for, umm, 8 months.
So what have I done the past 8 months? Let me recap:
February, March and the first half of April were spent working on the final details of the wedding.
The wedding was at the end of April. I really loved the day itself. Really loved having family and friends in one place. Really loved how it all turned out. Then, really loved going on vacation right after.
Once we got back from the honeymoon, my summer at work really went into overdrive. We had events from May through July. That is pretty much how the summer was spent: Summer Camps, Vacation Bible School, and Volunteer Appreciation. Throw in a couple of swim parties, awards nights, and tons of planning meetings for fall 2012 and early 2013 and there is my summer.
My dad's entire side of the family (all 13 of us total!haha) went to Las Vegas in early August to celebrate my Grandparent's 50th Wedding Anniversary. Their actual anniversary was just before our wedding, this was the best time for all of us to get together to celebrate them. We had a great time there but don't think we will be going back. Unless you like to party and drink or unless you are super rich to go shopping, there isn't really much to do there...except walk up and down the strip. We did that a lot. People watching was a big thing to do as well.
September meant getting ready to go back to South Africa. I will write more about that later. The trip was from the end of September to almost the middle of October. I loved being back there. It is like a home away from home. The way we are treated by our hosts over there is just like family. I think the fact that we get to stay in the same place each year helps with that. Being familiar with your surroundings in an unfamiliar place helps make the long trip not so long.
Coming back and jumping into the middle of October means getting ready for our Fall Family Festival. I'm pretty pumped for this event. It is one of my favorites we do.
That is the past 8 months in a nutshell. Tonight is a quiet night at home, switching channels between the World Series and currently the final season of The Office.
I'm excited for things to slow down for us. Not that they ever really do, but we are learning to work with crazy schedules.
I'm excited to see where this new phase in life will take us and excited to see how much I will write about it...or not.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Can't Sleep
It's 1:15am.
I cannot sleep. Not at all. I tried to go to sleep three hours ago but my body obviously decided it did not want or need the rest. Though my mind is begging me to attempt it again...
...or is it the other way around? Is my body begging my mind to try to fall asleep again?
I am not really sure.
What do I know at the moment? My stomach is growling like something fierce. I think I need a snack. But then comes the dilemma. If I eat, I will wake myself up more and possibly not sleep. However, if I do not eat, then I will soon lay here in the dark dwelling on how hungry I am and that I should go find a snack. That will also bring no sleep.
It is looking like a lose-lose situation with my stomach.
Maybe I can drink some water and that will satisfy...
I cannot sleep. Not at all. I tried to go to sleep three hours ago but my body obviously decided it did not want or need the rest. Though my mind is begging me to attempt it again...
...or is it the other way around? Is my body begging my mind to try to fall asleep again?
I am not really sure.
What do I know at the moment? My stomach is growling like something fierce. I think I need a snack. But then comes the dilemma. If I eat, I will wake myself up more and possibly not sleep. However, if I do not eat, then I will soon lay here in the dark dwelling on how hungry I am and that I should go find a snack. That will also bring no sleep.
It is looking like a lose-lose situation with my stomach.
Maybe I can drink some water and that will satisfy...
Friday, January 13, 2012
epic fail when it comes to blogging
it's true. the last time i blogged was in August 2011. here i am, Janaury 2012 and i haven't posted a single thing. no end of year reflection. no christmas blog. no new year's update. nothing.
zilch.
nada.
zero.
it's like i fell off the face of the earth. which, is in correct. because since that time, i have not only been on the face of the earth, but i traveled to the other side of it.
a lot has happened since the last time i posted. a few days after the post, hurricane irene slammed the eastern seaboard and caused some major flooding. that same weekend, my boyfriend's family came to visit. we enjoyed a lovely day at the pool while the coast was getting hit with the storm.
in september, i went to the dentist and had my teeth cleaned. not sure why it is blog worthy, but i have slacked off so much lately that i feel like i should just let you all know that my oral hygiene is still kept up.
on september 29th, i left to go to south africa for 14 days. i journaled while i was there. or, at least i tried to everyday. it was a trip that changed my life. even thinking about it now is bringing back tears. the people i worked with and the students i met are all extraordinary. it is rare that i use a word of that caliber, but it fits perfectly. soon, i will post about that trip. tonight i will only catch you up on life. and, i do promise that i will write about my trip. until then, here is a picture of me and some of the students i worked with...
i got back from south africa on october 12th. that was a wednesday. when i got home, around 11am, i went home to drop my stuff off, then went to have my first meal back on americian soil...taco bell...not my pick. but it was food and way better than airplane food. i went to work the next day 100% jet lagged. if you asked me anything about that day, i could not tell you much. i did, however, manage to get everything done that i needed to get done.
one thing i do remember is telling my boyfriend that i did not want to go walk around and give him a tour of a local church that i had interned at. that place is massive and being in the mental and physical state i was in, i was in no mood to go walk around that enormous building.
the day after that, my boyfriend and i hopped on his motorcycle to go look at the fall foliage in the mountains. the leaves are beautiful in the fall here. and they are even more beautiful when you are riding on the back of a motorcycle. the day was bright and sunny...but it was an illusion. it was also cold and windy. we both dressed in layers but it wasn't quite enough. but we ventured on. somewhere along the way, i lost my hair tie. made for quite the windy look. i decided that instead of dwelling on being cold, i would dwell on the fact that i lost my hair tie. i was still pretty tired from the plane ride home two days earlier so i figured i was justified in my thoughts.
we rode 2 1/2 hours up to the mountains. once we got onto the parkway, we stopped at the first lookout we saw. it was nice to stretch but it was cold and if we were going to be cold, i thought we should be cold and moving. not cold and standing around...
...well, lo and behold we were lingering in this spot for a reason....my boyfriend walked me down a path AND PROPOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup. that's right. he popped the question. now, by this time, most people reading this already know that we're engaged. but, like i said, this is an update of the last few months...
there is more to that story than i am posting. and i will fill you all in on the wedding details after the wedding. i don't want to give up all of my secrets before hand. i fully intend to chronicle the days leading up to my wedding on here as well as the things i learned along the way. hopefully it will help someone who reads it.
so now do you see why i haven't been blogging? i've been busy wedding planning. he proposed october 14th. we're getting married in april. that gave us 6 months to plan. i needed to get on the ball.
november flew by and in that month was my fiance's birthday. i was nervous about what to do for him. i mean, i've never had to plan something for a significant other's birthday...let alone for my fiance's birthday. i can plan parties (and weddings now!) like there is no tomorrow and they will be great. but when it comes to gift giving i freak out. i stress out over it way too much. so what did i do? went the simple route and we went to dinner at his favorite restaurant and saw a movie. i will have the rest of our lives to plan birthdays for him.
the day after his birthday, i woke up sick. the day after that i was beginning to lose my voice. the day after that i had no voice at all. i wanted some hot tea from starbucks that day. but had no way of ordering it. thankfully i had a small white board in my car. i wrote on it "hey, i lost my voice. could i please have a venti orange blossom tea? thanks!"
seriously, i did that. no shame. i thought it was pretty funny and brilliant.
anyway, i was sick until the first of the year.
christmas was great. again, first christmas i've had with a significant other. we had fun. he got me a mop as a gift. haven't used it yet. said i am going to wait until we're married.
the new year was celebrated at one of my best friend's house. i was surprised i didn't fall asleep shortly after midnight. nope, stayed up until 4:30am. yeah, i can't believe it either. then, i got up at 8something to go to church. no, i didn't fall asleep during the service if you're wondering. i did have a nice long nap that afternoon, though.
wedding planning after the new year has been kicked into high gear. all i have done the past 11 days has been devoted to the wedding. seriously, i don't think there is a day where i have not spent a little time working on stuff. i should keep a time sheet on it to see how much time i actually am putting into it.
my fiance and i met a year ago on the 10th. we had our first date a year ago on the 12th. that was yesterday. we went back to the place where we had that date. its a coffee shop just outside of a college campus. neat little place. it hasn't changed at all in the past year. but my life sure has. i went from walking into that shop last year not quite remembering the face of the guy i was meeting to walking into it this year with him and knowing he is the man i am going to spend the rest of my life with. pretty big change if you ask me. i think if you had asked me last year if i knew that he was "the one" i would have laughed and said "who knows. why are you trying to rush it?"
actually, i did say that to some people. guess they were right. i should tell them "thank you" for being right.
i think that leads me up to today. i've been sitting on the couch for several hours now working on wedding stuff. i took a break to go eat dinner with my brothers and had a great time with them. i've been back at it for 5 or 6 hours now. i decided it was time for a break.
i cannot say how much i will post in the next few months. but i will promise to post the things i wrote in south africa. and, once the wedding is over and things have settled, i will write about the process of planning this shindig. i would say it has been an "ordeal" but then i checked to see what the meaning of that word is and don't think it quite fits...
ordeal - noun
zilch.
nada.
zero.
it's like i fell off the face of the earth. which, is in correct. because since that time, i have not only been on the face of the earth, but i traveled to the other side of it.
a lot has happened since the last time i posted. a few days after the post, hurricane irene slammed the eastern seaboard and caused some major flooding. that same weekend, my boyfriend's family came to visit. we enjoyed a lovely day at the pool while the coast was getting hit with the storm.
in september, i went to the dentist and had my teeth cleaned. not sure why it is blog worthy, but i have slacked off so much lately that i feel like i should just let you all know that my oral hygiene is still kept up.
on september 29th, i left to go to south africa for 14 days. i journaled while i was there. or, at least i tried to everyday. it was a trip that changed my life. even thinking about it now is bringing back tears. the people i worked with and the students i met are all extraordinary. it is rare that i use a word of that caliber, but it fits perfectly. soon, i will post about that trip. tonight i will only catch you up on life. and, i do promise that i will write about my trip. until then, here is a picture of me and some of the students i worked with...
i got back from south africa on october 12th. that was a wednesday. when i got home, around 11am, i went home to drop my stuff off, then went to have my first meal back on americian soil...taco bell...not my pick. but it was food and way better than airplane food. i went to work the next day 100% jet lagged. if you asked me anything about that day, i could not tell you much. i did, however, manage to get everything done that i needed to get done.
one thing i do remember is telling my boyfriend that i did not want to go walk around and give him a tour of a local church that i had interned at. that place is massive and being in the mental and physical state i was in, i was in no mood to go walk around that enormous building.
the day after that, my boyfriend and i hopped on his motorcycle to go look at the fall foliage in the mountains. the leaves are beautiful in the fall here. and they are even more beautiful when you are riding on the back of a motorcycle. the day was bright and sunny...but it was an illusion. it was also cold and windy. we both dressed in layers but it wasn't quite enough. but we ventured on. somewhere along the way, i lost my hair tie. made for quite the windy look. i decided that instead of dwelling on being cold, i would dwell on the fact that i lost my hair tie. i was still pretty tired from the plane ride home two days earlier so i figured i was justified in my thoughts.
we rode 2 1/2 hours up to the mountains. once we got onto the parkway, we stopped at the first lookout we saw. it was nice to stretch but it was cold and if we were going to be cold, i thought we should be cold and moving. not cold and standing around...
...well, lo and behold we were lingering in this spot for a reason....my boyfriend walked me down a path AND PROPOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup. that's right. he popped the question. now, by this time, most people reading this already know that we're engaged. but, like i said, this is an update of the last few months...
there is more to that story than i am posting. and i will fill you all in on the wedding details after the wedding. i don't want to give up all of my secrets before hand. i fully intend to chronicle the days leading up to my wedding on here as well as the things i learned along the way. hopefully it will help someone who reads it.
so now do you see why i haven't been blogging? i've been busy wedding planning. he proposed october 14th. we're getting married in april. that gave us 6 months to plan. i needed to get on the ball.
november flew by and in that month was my fiance's birthday. i was nervous about what to do for him. i mean, i've never had to plan something for a significant other's birthday...let alone for my fiance's birthday. i can plan parties (and weddings now!) like there is no tomorrow and they will be great. but when it comes to gift giving i freak out. i stress out over it way too much. so what did i do? went the simple route and we went to dinner at his favorite restaurant and saw a movie. i will have the rest of our lives to plan birthdays for him.
the day after his birthday, i woke up sick. the day after that i was beginning to lose my voice. the day after that i had no voice at all. i wanted some hot tea from starbucks that day. but had no way of ordering it. thankfully i had a small white board in my car. i wrote on it "hey, i lost my voice. could i please have a venti orange blossom tea? thanks!"
seriously, i did that. no shame. i thought it was pretty funny and brilliant.
anyway, i was sick until the first of the year.
christmas was great. again, first christmas i've had with a significant other. we had fun. he got me a mop as a gift. haven't used it yet. said i am going to wait until we're married.
the new year was celebrated at one of my best friend's house. i was surprised i didn't fall asleep shortly after midnight. nope, stayed up until 4:30am. yeah, i can't believe it either. then, i got up at 8something to go to church. no, i didn't fall asleep during the service if you're wondering. i did have a nice long nap that afternoon, though.
wedding planning after the new year has been kicked into high gear. all i have done the past 11 days has been devoted to the wedding. seriously, i don't think there is a day where i have not spent a little time working on stuff. i should keep a time sheet on it to see how much time i actually am putting into it.
my fiance and i met a year ago on the 10th. we had our first date a year ago on the 12th. that was yesterday. we went back to the place where we had that date. its a coffee shop just outside of a college campus. neat little place. it hasn't changed at all in the past year. but my life sure has. i went from walking into that shop last year not quite remembering the face of the guy i was meeting to walking into it this year with him and knowing he is the man i am going to spend the rest of my life with. pretty big change if you ask me. i think if you had asked me last year if i knew that he was "the one" i would have laughed and said "who knows. why are you trying to rush it?"
actually, i did say that to some people. guess they were right. i should tell them "thank you" for being right.
i think that leads me up to today. i've been sitting on the couch for several hours now working on wedding stuff. i took a break to go eat dinner with my brothers and had a great time with them. i've been back at it for 5 or 6 hours now. i decided it was time for a break.
i cannot say how much i will post in the next few months. but i will promise to post the things i wrote in south africa. and, once the wedding is over and things have settled, i will write about the process of planning this shindig. i would say it has been an "ordeal" but then i checked to see what the meaning of that word is and don't think it quite fits...
ordeal - noun
- A painful or horrific experience, esp. a protracted one.
- An ancient test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence. (source:google)
i don't think it is painful or horrific. though i may think it has had its moments. as for the second definition, well, i don't think it is that either. wedding planning is something ancient, though.
oh well. it has been an experience. and i will share it with you all once i am done with it.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)