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!

best.day.ever.

well, nearly the best day ever. i think the BESTbest day was still my birthday this year when b surprised me with homemade chocolate covered bacon. i know you're probably tired of hearing about it but seriously...COMEON!! how well does this man know me and my weaknesses?

today, though, is a good day because of the following things that happened all before 9:00:

1. i got a groupon coupon for my favorite spa -- that's right! i am now the owner of an 80-minute swedish massage for the low, low price of $60! HOLLA!! this is seriously amazing because i have been bemoaning to b for a while now that i want a massage. we just haven't had the extra funds to make it happ'n because of saving money for our wedding partay. so yeah!
2. someone brought in a venti bold coffee for a client that wasn't here and gave it me instead! starbucks for free!

i sometimes have a hard time seeing the good things in the day-to-day. today was a chance to find good all before lunch and i like it!

resolution

resolved: i will create and post something on this here blog no less than 4 times per week until the end of time (or i get tired of doing it, whichever comes first)

i think, in general, i put too much pressure on myself about what a post should be. it's like making dinner -- sometimes you just scramble some eggs, toast some toast and call it a day. not all of my posts need to have some catchy elements to them. you're here for us, right? you want to know more about us, right? well, know this...we're kinda lazy people. maybe i shouldn't speak for b on this one but i know that to be true about myself. i, like a flowing river, will look for the path of least resistence every single time.

let's hope this resolution provides some much-needed focus. and excuses my lack of posting thusfar. i promise, by the time our save the dates go out (which should be soon, and, did i mention they are awesome!!) and you people start finding our/my little spot on the internets there will be more to come for than just that cool picture in the header. but that's pretty sweet, right?

now what?

the last time i started a blog this happened -- i got excited about starting it, wrote probably 4 posts and then promptly stopped. i had really high hopes for that blog and have the same high hopes for this one but i am afraid that my technical skill level will fall short of my vision. essentially, i don't know what the hell i'm doing. i don't know how to make this blog look cool like others that i like to read. does anyone know how to pimp a blog?

specifically:

1. i don't like the font choices blogger provides. they're lame and they're limited. how can i choose from more fonts?
2. how do i make sure the blog is formatted properly for people who are using an RSS reader, like Google reader?

ok, so maybe that's not a huge list (although in the interest of full disclosure i got sidetracked for about an hour and forgot my major gripes). any advice? anyone want to be my blog mentor?

inaguration

i originally intended to start a blog using theknot.com as a way to get out information about our upcoming wedding. in thinking about doing that i thought, "but what if there's more i want to say? where does that go?" so, instead i've decided to start 'love is a verb' -- your one-stop shop for all things b+l (which will probably include more l than b, but that's ok). i would like for this to be a place to share information about our lives, our home, our likes/dislikes, our cats, our reading habits, and anything else we want to share. it is sure to be a lot of wedding stuff until the day arrives in april 2011.

hang on to your hats, kids. you're with b+l now.