Today I became obsessed with this:

I've always hated popcorn but someone gave us a popcorn machine as a wedding present and wow! Fresh, buttery, nacho cheese flavored popcorn is incredible!


yum!

Happy November!

Want to see some honeymoon pictures??
The actual wedding ones are still being refined and worked on so more to of those to come.

It's a new month! And it's my goal to blog more. And read more. And write more. I have a new life! I need to make it new!

By the way, I have the most fantastic husband.

After everything that could go wrong DID....

We're married! And greetings from Paris; where the croissants melt in your mouth, the hotels are super crappy, and sparrows eat out of your hands! I'm happy beyond belief and can't wait to start this most incredible, hard, rewarding journey! More pictures from Germany and Spain soon!

that's not why ships were built

So everything is about done and I'm trying to enjoy myself (thanks bright light!) and wanted to blog. I couldn't really think of anything interesting but i came across this photo and it made me laugh. How often do we all try so hard to be original and new and nothing comes out? The Artists Way (more about this incredible book in a later, longer post) is teaching me that everything is original! I am original! It's beautiful.

I just liked this photo because it's fall! I plan on going up into the painted mountains today. Hooray for autumn!

Summer before Senior year in highschool two of my girl friends and I decided to live in my white, ex-cop car lumina for a week. We called it our "hippie week". We slept in it and ate in it and actually it was a blast. We took a ton of pictures but they've been lost over the years. This is the only one I still have. It was a good summer.

the fortune says: "A ship in harbor is safe. But that's not why ships are built" What words! It feels like fire under my feet and I am running to be myself. How true! We must take risks, be afraid, and grow. How beautiful.

too fast

so much, much, much wedding planning! =no blogging time :(

12 days and counting :)

where did the rain go?

I've been neglecting my notebooks. they miss me. i miss them.

I will be grateful will this is all said and done and we can run away to the green hills of ireland. the lights of france. the bathhouses of germany.

wait. i will wake up!

our hearts have hands

When I was in highschool I wrote for the literary magazine. I was actually the editor. Anyway, we had a writing lab. There was an old striped couch, two computers, various paintings and emo poems on the walls, millions of coffee cans, and an old, decrepit desk. I spent a lot of time in there. In fact I would skip class and sneak in there to write and listen to music. It's interesting to think about that time. I was unhappy at home, unhappy at school, unhappy in life. It was my home because i truly felt i had none. The lab was the reason I woke up in the morning. Jessop, the teacher, probably saved my life without knowing it.

There are a few things that remind me so shockingly of The Lab. They remind me of the smell of the room, the window at the back wall, the feeling i had as i typed away at the computer....

One is the song by Regina Spektor; Samson. I listened to it hundreds and hundreds of times in that room. I can't hear it without thinking of Junior year.

I remember the summer before Junior Year. I went out to dinner with some friends, it was the end of august so it was starting to get copper, like autumn. Someone put a cd in and the song playing was; I Will Follow You Into The Dark. We drove and we were quiet.

I wish I could convey what it is I feel inside of me. I don't miss it, and I do. I would never go back, I want to so much.

Do you think, when we die, the best moments of our lives are played over? The solace and peace we found in tumbling, boiling waters will come back? It aches. It aches like Israel. But different. so different.

I am so young.

love & outhouses

My wonderful uncle took our wedding announcement pictures last week. He's incredible and I absolutely love all of them! That's why I need your help. Which ones do you like best? Help! We can't decide!


we're in an outhouse in the one below. I'm pretending to....well....you know. I just love how it turned out!f