wednesday thoughts
- today is the first day since i’ve been back from the honeymoon where i don’t i feel like i’m drowning in work, and it feels so great.
- changing your name has to be one of the biggest administrative hassles i have ever experienced. please explain to me why the gap needs more proof of identity to change my name on my gap card than the social security administration needed to issue me a new social security card.
- i’m teaching myself to play the ukulele. i can now play “ho hey” by the lumineers. playing a musical instrument is so much less stressful when no one is forcing you to practice and you can play whatever songs you want.
- i am reading mr. penumbra’s 24 hour book store by robin sloan, and i can’t put it down. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a new book.
- on that note, i will need a new book soon. any recommendations?
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jenny + jon got us a slow cooker for our wedding, and yesterday i tried it out for the first time. i made these enchiladas, also thanks to jenny’s suggestion. they are amazing and i would highly recommend making them if you have a slow cooker.
i also have to say that i would highly recommend getting a slow cooker. it may have changed my life.
Saturday night.
trying to keep the wedding spirit alive with some pink and white peonies.
trying to keep the wedding spirit alive with some pink and white peonies.
I was up until 1:30 last night and this is why. (yay new furniture)
does scalp sunscreen exist? because my scalp got really sunburned in hawaii and the peeling that is happening right now is really gross/embarassing.
i’m trying to really hard to be positive about this whole returning to the real world thing, but it’s 10:40pm, i’m still working, i worked until midnight last night, and i’m still massively jet lagged. not cool real world. not cool.
i am not sure how to adequately describe or summarize the last 3 weeks. i’ve always judged people who say that their wedding day was the best day of their lives - it seems hyperbolic and almost sad that the wedding day was more important than the marriage itself - to ignore all that is yet to come. that being said, our wedding day, and the days leading up to it, were some of the most amazing days i have experienced. there are so many details i never want to forget: my dad bursting into tears when he saw me in my wedding dress, j’s face when he was finally able to turn around and see me during our first look, our beautiful, beautiful ceremony and the way our rabbi so perfectly captured the essence of marriage, looking out into a sea of faces and feeling nothing but love and support, my dad’s speech when he gave us the journal he has been keeping since the day i was born, dancing the night away and the inability to stop smiling.
on that day, and the days preceding it and after, when we were surrounded by the people i love most in this world, i felt the most profound sense of love - the air radiated with it. and when the weekend was over, it was hard not to feel a little sad - that there will likely never be a time when we are surrounded by all those people at once ever again - but also this hopefulness - that we can only move forward - that our lives can only succeed when we have that kind of support from so many people.
and now, after the wedding festivities and two amazing weeks in hawaii, i feel sort of invincible. i feel full of excitement for the future, for our new little family of 2, and everything we have ahead of us.
so now i am just going to try my best to keep all those positive feelings alive as i jump back into the real world…
