Wedding Update

Hello again. Here is to the dust bunnies of the internet that still happen upon my blog by surprise and would be interested in something new to read. I'm married now! Have been for about 20 days, ahh whose counting? Married life has treated me well so far. The honeymoon was amazing. We went to St. Thomas USVI and had a blast. It's been a slow mellowing process after the wedding and honeymoon were over. All the hype, all the work and now we just have pictures, a few cool souvenirs and lots of tissue paper and boxes. Life begins again. Not that it wasn't running the whole time, but for a two week period in there somewhere it felt as though time stood still. I needed to see pictures after the wedding, we're talking 2 hours after the wedding, to realize that it actually happened. You can also see these pictures if you visit the amazing blog that my husband created. http://sethandbecky.blogspot.com. Yes, that is all his hard work, I think I've posted once on there, but is that really surprising? I am the first to admit that I've been horrible about keeping things up to date. I actually have to write "internet/email stuff" in my planner, so that I remember to pay bills, write emails, ya know the usual grown up stuff to do. It's hard work when I have to make a trek to the library to spend some quality time with the pc. I am proud to announce that I now have a laptop and Seth starts classes next week which means it will be critical, yes I said critical, for us to have internet at our place of residence, YEAH!!!! I can write emails in bed!! This is going to be so fabulous.

The stuff you eat on

The dining room/ kitchen table / incredible piece of art is the inspiration for today's long awaited blog (to all my cheering, wish I had been a fan, fans...the hiatus is over, I shall begin blogging again). I know the engagement saga was getting a bit overread...
So on to the kitchen table. For those of you who have been lucky enough to enter my humble place of living you know of which table I speak. It's the signature extraordinaire, of drama and war. War being, which one of the sisters will get the table and drama being the meals that have been served on its expressive surface. We thought of cutting it, having weekly visiting rights or maybe the winter months with one, the summer months with the other. Where the table, I'm sure, feels very loved and wanted, we must think with our minds and not our hearts. I get the table. For those of you who were cheering for Jess, it was better this way. The table needs its own space...one that honors it's beauty, not a space shared with a table of pretentious demeanor. Yes, that means Jess gained a table upon the day of her nuptuals. The table whose name has been left confidential for security purposes, shall abide in my loft, but not before going through a major makeover. It was beginning to run ragged. I'm still debating over the sanity of my choice to change the color from white to iced espresso and to sand the rough edges down. This could take a while. We will see what happens as we close this chapter of our sisterly bachelorettehood. Check back for photo updates on the beauty.

Engaging Adventure

The Beginning: An early morning hike up Mt. Sherman (14,036 ft)Where it all started: the two mile hike up to the trail head, thank you inventor of snowshoes.

Looking back to where the hike began in the valley far below. The snowshoes were no longer useful, so with them strapped to our backs the climbing started. The wind became unbearable and 500 ft. from the summit Mother Nature won and we headed back to the protection of the mountainside. Exhausted and freezing, we hunkered down in a little hut halfway down. I couldn't have been more clueless as to what was about to take place. I was just out for a fun outdoor adventure. The riddle was given, the key discovered under the insole of my boot, the box was revealed, and the lock was opened. The wind came barreling through the shelter and slammed the box closed, but not before I glanced inside and saw something that surprised me to tears.

This is what I saw. After hiking up the side of a mountain, fighting the winter weather and now in the little hut...I said YES
Nothing like a little Snow Bling to brighten the day
We're ENGAGED!!!

Second Step

Re-read my "First Step" post from October 2nd. The second step has finally arrived. I've quit, arrive derci-ed, adios-ed. What you wonder?, stopped smoking - no idiots, I don't smoke, stopped picking my nose in public - that's up for question. Here it is. I've quit my job. It's been good while it lasted, but I've been unhappy for some time and I had to re-prioritize; health, relationships, work. From the previous; work, hate work, relationships that also hate my work, because I can't stop saying how upset I am with my job. I've made friends and learned so much about life. It's a scary step and I seriously thought last night "what did I just do?", but I have peace and seriously folks if you want one thing in life, it's PEACE, 'cause heck it's an amazing thing to have. I'll miss coming to work and riding up that elevator, saying "good mornin'" to Dorothy and heading off to my little cubicle with Alcove (my beta, from my cool friend Snipes) and my green plant, but life is more than material things. You have to LOVE what you do and if you don't then you need to go find what you love and do that. Life is too short, waaaay too short and it's not worth it to waste one moment of it on something that you can't take with you. I have faith and confidence. I am who I am and I don't ever want to forget that. Jobs come and go, but you always have to live with yourself...leave no stone unturned! I love whoever is reading this and I hope if there's one thing you understand about this post is that I'm following my heart and life is worth learning from. "Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering" Fanny J. Crosby. "For the Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord gives grace and glory; He does not withhold the good from those who live with integrity" Psalms 84:11

FareeeeezZING

What to do when the weather's been below 10 degrees for 3 straight days? Go outside and play of course and play hard. It was rather frigid, but that didn't keep me from heading to the mountains to try out snowboarding in sub-zero temperatures. I believe the temp. when we were driving in was -6 (that's the lowest I've seen my car thingy read). Seth and I were bundled, were talking many, many, many layers, but did that keep the cold out? Nope. Apparently it isn't a good idea to have even slightly tight snowboarding boots when the mercury dips below 0. At first I thought I was being a pansy and then I thought maybe I'd lost my ability to handle pain, the thought of exhaustion also crossed my mind, but this was the first run down the frigid mountain, so that one was quickly tossed out. I slowly made my way down the mountain, my toes felt like they were in a vice grip, then on a razor blade, then I was sure they just fell off. I walked off the slopes looking like a toddler with a loaded diaper and a bad case of "pigeon feet". The thought of frost bite crossed my mind, then was tossed aside, until....I went inside. The warmth of the indoors reminded me that my toes had not fallen off, they were still very securely on my feet, except I rather wished they weren't there anymore. They were returning to life and with that the sobbing started, scaring all little children within eyesight. My toes were what scared me and they were indeed frostbitten. FYI: anyone who has never had frost bite, this is by far one of the most miserable and painful experiences of a lifetime. Two hours later I was back on the slopes and I felt like a new person. Thankfully, I do still have all 10 toes and I'll probably be buying a new pair of snowboarding boots!

Kissing Dragons

I really didn't think it was that important to keep up a blog, until my friend Snipes told me otherwise. I caught the tiniest curl of the lip in disgust when he shared this trivial piece of information with me and that's when I determined to remedy the situation. Even though he will be moving far, far away I thought perhaps I can amend a friendship gone awry. Here's to you ole' snipiolio! Eat your heart out!

We got a Blizzard....and not the DQ kind!

It's insanity. I went running last night and it was mild weather, a few clouds, and a sliver of a moon. The wind was blowing cooly, but nothing weather threatening. The radio and TV were blurbing something about snow, gnarly weather and power outages...it definitely didn't seem like that when I went to bed. This morning I woke up to a winter wonderland and my car buried in almost a foot of snow. It was incredible! It's 5:30pm, the skies are blue and the snow is melting. You think I'm crazy, just click here