Yeah, I’m not in a writing mood, at least not here. I will be eventually, but here’s the deal:
1. I LOVE my new job and I actually want to do well at it. This means I can no longer blog during work about how much I hate work.
2. More freelance work and collaborations are on my plate, eating the little free time I have. (I don’t get paid much for the jobs, but Mike always gives me a bottle of wine.)
3. My benefits are about to kick in, which means I have to deal with 401Ks and health insurance and bleeeuuugghhh p=(0_O)*
4. I’m trying SO hard to get to the Y, you guys! I work on my fitness for an hour a day! I ordered my bridesmaid dress in a size too small, so I HAVE TO OR IT WON’T ZIP UP.
5. I’m still used to working early in the day, but my partner and boss stay late, so I usually end up working at least 9 hours. And I like it?
6. Choreschoreschoreschoreschorescho
7. The ongoing saga of Justin’s puppet film.
8. A social tsunami of weddings, Double Quinceañeras, art shows, happy hours, concerts, showers, parties, Soulard Market, triathlons, NAPA and more happy hours.
9. Watching Fringe while eating parmesan popcorn is still the highlight of every evening and I won’t sacrifice a second of it.
10. Three of my friends are now engaged to people they’ve been dating for a year or less (one friend? Three months). I am also now the last friend standing out of my high school crew to be without a spouse or a baby (an 00ps-i-knocked-up-a-sorority-girl baby, but still). I’m in the best relationship of my life, have a career I couldn’t have reached otherwise, and am clearly in no hurry to lose any more of my free time to wedding planning or babies. But I feel like if I start exploring the fact that I’ve hit “old maid” status this early into my thirties, I will have a Cathyesque breakdown.
11. This whole May 21 Rapture thing. Okay. Y’all. Family Radio is a creepy sect with a billboard budget. Can we please not call them Christians? And can you guys remember for 2 seconds that I grew up in a church where people speak in Tongues and fall over and believe in this stuff? And that I somehow turned into a nice person who loves gay people and Jesus and canvas grocery bags and education and F bombs and helping orphans all at the same time?
Even though most churches gross me out these days, many Christians are just like me, people who are just trying to be good people and don’t talk about their faith or their politics or how perfect they’re trying to be. You don’t notice these Christians because they’re doing exactly what they should be doing. You only notice the crazies, and then you lump everyone who ever jammed to DC Talk (andmayormaynothaveaDCTalkcassetteinhercar) into that crazy train and then I scroll down my feeds and I see you mocking my past and it hurts my feelings and this is why I can’t even you guys.
P.S. That was me blowing my brains out, courtesy of Glark.
Secretly Stephie 
Are you doing a triahtlon now? I think you should. 🙂
NOPE! Just coming to see yours. I would love to try, but can’t afford all the equipment right now. And time, obvs.
Just so you know, Christine and I are just getting married to throw a bunch of parties and get a bunch of presents. Don’t tell anyone. *wink*
Isn’t that why they all do it?
Congrats, though. That wedding website is CUTE! How are you liking Kirkwood? I miss living there.
Kirkwood is pretty sweet. It really is a nice place to live. We live right next to the city center so there is plenty to walk to from our place. We’re still talking about moving to Austin after we get married, but it’s not a definite. I kinda like our life here, and both our mothers don’t want us to move.
Glad you like the wedding site. Our friend Amanda did the photos. It did turn out pretty nice. I just grabbed a template I liked and gave it my own twist, like making that “glasses in love” logo in the header. The photos really bring it together, though.