national day of regret

i think that's what the day after st. patrick's day should officially be called. because we all know we feel it. i also think st. patrick's day should be moved so it's always on a saturday so that national day of regret won't be a work day. i know someone might read this and think to themselves that perhaps to avoid the regret one should avoid the revelry. and to that i say do so and the terrorists win. no one wants that. communist.

now, if you'll excuse me while i go forage for some chips and cheese dip to cure what ails me. hooray for regrets!!

is this thing still on?

ambitions. i have them.

plans to make them real. not so much.

if there's anyone still checking in on our defunct website i owe you an apology. months ago you received a post card that instructed you to come here for details about our wedding. you maybe came and found...nothing. wah-wah (debbie downer sound effect)

i had a dream of creating a space that was filled with information, tidbits about us, fun things about our life together so you could get to know us. that dream got sidelined when we (1) bought a new house in november, (2) moved in december during gross weather, (3) i got busy with classes and moving and taking a final exam on moving day (WTF?) and (4) i doubted that i'd have anything to say. that's probably the biggest reason this idea never took flight. i thought i didn't have anything worthwhile enough to say to keep you coming back. so i said nothing. and you never came back. this is self-fulfilling prophecy 101.

so we will call this attempt #2 at blogging. i will make more effort. maybe you'll come back?

in conclusion i will share with you my new motto: let's make better mistakes tomorrow! who's with me?

from above

i'm sure that most of you know the story of how we met (or if you don't i'll get into that in another post, another time). the thing that some of you might not know is that, before meeting each other in august 2008, b and i worked across the street from each other for about 3 years. and when i say across the street, i mean literally across pennsylvania street in carmel. i can look out the window of my office and see his office building. we sometimes talk about all the times we revolved around each other at the local subway, or stopping in at the meijer on a lunchbreak to buy cat food, or the countless number of ways we existed in the same space but not conscious of each other yet.

when i heard this song by ben folds with lyrics by the painfully sweet nick hornby it immediately made me think of us. and it made me thankful we became aware of each other at just the right moment.

std

our 'save the dates' went out in the mail this morning. that means that in the next week or so some of you might find your way here to this old website that is not full of content like i hoped. blech! this may have been an ambitious endeavor on my part.

for now, i will share with you things i love today:

1. it's finally october and finally fall! living in the no AC house is getting back to being bearable, if even a bit chilly in the evenings when we leave the windows open. we survived the summer of no AC! holla!
2. i'm going to king's island tomorrow. that's double exciting because i haven't been in like 5 years and i think there are new rides and also the halloween stuff. (yes, i know that was a run-on sentence but i don't care because i'm run-on sentence excited. i think i made another one there)
3. i am pretty sure i murdered my stats exam last night. for those of you who don't know i'm taking some classes at IUPUI and i am killing in my stats class. right now i have a 108.2% -- how is that possible? with awesomeness, that's how.
4. i am happy that i found a wedding dress (again) last weekend. this is my second wedding dress (and last...hopefully!). i found one a few weeks ago that seemed perfect at the time but didn't seem so perfect after sleeping on it. luckily i am not going the conventional bride route so purchasing the plan B didn't break our bank. and the first one can be returned for store credit when it comes in (yeah, i changed my mind and bought another dress before plan A even came in. that really happened. i have no explanation)
5. that our save the dates went out! b designed them and i think he did a wonderful job. it's just a taste of what's to come with the design elements of our wedding/party.

so, that's all for friday. i'm going to go start my weekend in a few and can't wait. if you stumble over here after you receive your postcard please comment on something, anything...just let me know you're alive. :)

knitting

i know how he likes his burritos, his favorite diet soda, preferred pop tart, that he doesn't really care what kind of detergent we use, that he likes crisp/cool sheets in summertime and warm but lightweight blankents in the winter. i know his feet get cold easily and sometimes he wears two pairs of socks. i know to leave his room alone when i clean because it's just how he likes it (no matter how much it kills me not to do some organizing). i know he tries very, very hard to be an equal partner in all things domestic and that his earnestness is the most rewarding part of that. i know that he makes playlists to show how he feels about people/times/things and that it's something he approaches with a seriousness and precision liken to a neurosurgeon. he means business about music, people! i find 99.9% of the things he says hilariously funny and i think he's probably one of the smartest people i know.

i know all of these things because we are knitting a life together. it started out over 2 years ago with an innocent first date and has progressed to something so deeply entangled that we've decided to make it official and be married. i feel like this is work we will do for the rest of our lives -- i KNOW this. i want to become more knitted to him as the days pass, adding to the lexicon of knowledge that maybe only i am priviliged to know.

of all the things in life that are unfair

i think the most unfairest thing of them all is the existence of this woman --

i mean, seriously!? how can the rest of us compete with this, christina hendricks??

this makes me infinitely happy...

and i'm not ashamed to admit it!