three years
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:04 pm | love, wedding | Comments (19)There are a lot of things I could say today, on our three year wedding anniversary. Like how I’m really glad we got married on a federal holiday, and how much I’m thankful to veterans for letting me “share” this day with them. Like how I have a pretty darn fabulous husband who is sweet and thoughtful.
One one hand, this perfect day in Mexico seems like ages ago. Since that day many friends have gotten married (two in Cabo even!), some have had babies, people have moved across the country and taken new jobs. We of course still get together and laugh about some of the best wedding memories.
I’m very grateful for the last three years, and a little bit excited to think about what the next year holds for us. By our 4th anniversary, there’s a chance we will have plans to move across the country too, or even have a baby on the way. (Don’t worry! Not pregnant! Just thinking ahead a little…)
Thanks to everyone out there (in real life, facebook, and bloggy friends) for your love and good wishes today, and especially to you longtime readers who went through all my OCD wedding planning years ago. And to my husband – I love you sweets!
like a book tour without a book
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:15 pm | life | Comments (7)I’m not sure how exactly it came to be November already, but in case you’re interested in hanging out with me on any weekend left in 2009, it’s not going to happen. I am about to enter a period of Insanity and Frequent Flier Miles and say goodbye to sleeping in my own bed on Saturday nights.
Where am I going? Next weekend we’ll be celebrating my sister-in-law’s upcoming wedding with a 80s-themed bachelorette party sleepover in suburban northern Virginia. The following weekend the husband and I are visiting friends in Charlottesville, and then it’s off to Seattle for Thanksgiving and to celebrate my grandpa’s 90th birthday. But we won’t let cross-country travel wear us out! Just four days later we fly to Charleston, SC for the big family wedding. The weekend after that I’m heading up to New York City to see my sister, who will be there for a conference. Finally just before Christmas I’ll have one weekend at home before we leave once again for Delaware for the Christmas holiday.
Plus I was just in New England a few weekends ago, so I feel that I’ve got about half of the United States covered with my travel plans. A pit stop in Tulsa would get me to the midwest – OH WAIT, I did that already once this year when our giant jet had an engine go out midflight and forced an emergency landing. Oh Tulsa, those were some fun times.
Of course I’m sad that I’ll miss Christmas in Denver with my family this year, but I’ll go in January instead. That is, if I don’t die of H1N1, which I will surely catch while breathing recycled, germy airplane air. Perhaps I should invest in one of these:
purple majesty
November 3rd, 2009 @ 8:22 pm | pretty things | Comments (19)Our credit card statement came today. It was ungodly high, prompting me to immediately IM my husband to say that we MUST stop spending so much dang money!! And of course he agreed so let’s just all be thankful that I bought this lovely winter coat before we decided to go on a spending diet:
Don’t worry, it was on sale.
Here I am in the coat, and yes, I am wearing it with my yoga pants.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who wear yoga pants all the time, and people who do yoga all the time. Please take a wild guess as to which kind I am.
So I’ve got a lovely, purple-y, fuschia-y, quite vivid coat for winter. Please, please help me find the perfect accessories for it! I need a scarf, hat, and mittens. Any suggestions on color or style? Items that fit into the new spending diet are especially welcome!
love & hate thursday
October 28th, 2009 @ 8:57 pm | love & hate | Comments (15)love: When the Phillies win, my husband is happy, and when he is happy, I am happy.
hate: When the World Series knocks Glee off my Wednesday night TV schedule.
love: Two (or is it three?) years later, my parents finally sold their house. So happy for them!
hate: I’ll never get to cross-country ski in their backyard in a blizzard again. Bye-bye exurban house, hello city house!
love: We got a brand new washer and dryer delivered today, finally!
hate: Sadly, it’s not much better than the old one. The curse of the tiny appliances to fit in our tiny house, I guess.
love: Thinking about sending photo Christmas cards this year. Where’s the best place to order them, perhaps Costco?
hate: Feeling grinchy about Halloween already; this does not bode well for the rest of the holiday season
love: My sister in law is getting married in less than six weeks!
hate: Perhaps I should think about getting my bridesmaids dress hemmed.
love: Our three year wedding anniversary (seriously, can you believe that?) is in a few weeks.
hate: We celebrated early already. But I bet I can convince him to take me out to a nice dinner anyway 
love: Went to my first ever NHL hockey game last night, and it was more fun than I expected!
hate: Being under one roof with tens of thousands of people? Pretty much guaranteed H1N1 exposure, yep.
love: Reading about the loves and hates in your lives. It’s been too long…fill me in!
autumn in new england
October 26th, 2009 @ 5:10 pm | girl time | Comments (9)My DC-BFF and I took a trip to New Hampshire and Vermont this weekend to visit our gal pal (OH-BFF) and her husband. Longtime readers may remember our antics from years past during weekend trips to Akron, Ohio. They pretty much revolve around two things: booze and crafts. (Oh, and staying up all night chatting like eight-year-olds at a slumber party.)
This weekend we did more cooking than crafting, and perhaps a little less drinking than usual, a sure sign of our impending thirtysomething-ness. The New England countryside was stunning, with all the lovely fall colors on display even this late in the season. In fact, the lovely town of Woodstock, Vermont, was so cutesy-wootsy, that we lingered too long on our walk around town, which caused us to nearly miss our flight home. Our ensuing 80+ MPH drive to Manchester airport and luggage-dragging full sprint to the terminal resulted in the teeny, tiny little problem of leaving our camera bag with the USB uploading cord behind. Whoopsies.
Side note: If you happen to pick up a black Ford Focus with Tennessee plates from the Hertz booth at the Manchester airport this week, can you look in the center console for our camera bag and send it to us? Thx!
Anyway, never fear because I found some very, very similar pictures to share!
Here are my DC-BFF and me, all dressed up in cold-weather outfits. Man, those bonnets really kept our ears warm when it dipped into the high 30s!
Here are our hosts for the weekend. They live about 12 miles from the nearest wagon crossing stoplight.
The first night in town, we drove across the border over to Vermont to have dinner and drinks at a local pub. Oddly, this image only shows guys at the bar, but us three girls were definitely there; we must have just all gone to the bathroom together with this was captured.
The next morning we woke to pouring rain, but we still went out exploring nearby towns, even stopping to buy horse feed fleece jackets. How very Vermont-y! (But seriously, the fleece jackets were from a store that also sold horse feed in the next room over.) I’m sure if we could have seen past the pouring rain it would have looked just like this.
After a brief, self-guided tour of Dartmouth’s campus, we headed back home to milk the cow make frozen margaritas and slaughter a lamb cook vegetarian, low-glycemic-index pasta for dinner.
We ate our homemade meal in their lovely dining room adorned with seasonal table decor. Some things really are timeless!
As I said, the following morning’s sightseeing was so lovely that we almost missed our chance to move forward in time 200 years fly home.
I hope you enjoyed the paintings photos from what I was truly a really fun, really pretty weekend. Stay tuned, because I even came up with a few blog post ideas, or at least I hope to post some recipes from our culinary endeavors later this week.
