& that's the way life goes

A good way to get back into the swing of things.  A few weekend shots…

How was your weekend?

Three years ago today C and I got married, on my parents anniversary, on a beach on Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

Three years ago I had no idea what it actually meant to be married.  It couldn’t be much different than living together, right?

Wrong.

In the past 3 years I’ve gone through a lot of emotions.  I won’t lie and say most of them were good, I’d say it was 60% good and 40% bad.  I think it took me 3 years to adjust to being married.  To being attached to someone and  having to share almost everything with another person.  I think we do a good job of staying true to ourselves and keeping our separate identities.

When you get married everyone tells you it isn’t all fun and games and they can talk until they are blue in the face.  It’s one of those life things that you have no idea what it’s going to be like until you actually do it and are immersed in it.  You can’t plan for the fights or what they will be like, or even what they will be about.  Some are pretty petty and stupid but a fight all the same.  It’s amazing how fast you can go from a feeling of pure adoration to ‘omg I might hate you right this moment”.  But it’s because of the fights and aggravation that you can fully appreciate the moments (big or tiny) when you are laughing together and you think life is good and you feel completely content.

There have been numerous ups and downs.  Life events that changed us both.  But we’ve made it this far and because of that I think we’ll survive this societal thing called marriage.  I still have a hard time signing my married name.  It isn’t me. Yet. Or maybe I’ve always had a problem writing ‘ch’ in cursive, I have no idea.  No one can prepare you for marriage.  But I can tell you that you do build strong bonds in everything you go through as a couple.  C and I, we may be complete opposites, but it works for us.

I’m so thankful that we’ve stuck through everything together.  There are many times I’d like to punch him in the face, but lucky for him there are more moments of us laughing together to make it all worthwhile.

I’m not that great at being all smooshy.  And I’m not one to tell you all the nice, thoughtful things he does for me.  So just know that he is awesome and I’m lucky

I’m still feeling really crappy with a cold I’ve been trying to fight off.  I was going to do multiple posts but I’m so excited about this weekend that I think I’m going to cram it all into one.  So you’ve been warned

Saturday morning was my last aerial yoga class of the session and I probably won’t sign up for another one until the fall (if I have the money).  I adore it, if you can’t tell by how much I talk about it.  I did a whole trick that included a drop (that I may have made me scream as a fell).  In case you care, diaper stag – swingset – locust – forward drop – hip something.

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The last sequence I went through to finish up class was diaper stag – something – corkscrew – knee hang

Saturday night I attended the best wedding reception ever! It was held at the Henry Ford Museum. It felt like I was in a movie at fancy, classy party. More importantly, since we had the whole museum to explore with an open bar it was easy to escape having to talk to family! Though my drunk relatives were pretty entertaining. This includes Maeko, who I didn’t even get a picture with because I only saw her twice in 5 hours!  Her dress was absolutely gorgeous and very Mae.  Here are a few of my favorite pictures, please notice beer on the rosa parks bus – FTW

Sunday was the Detroit Zoo Kidney Walk. My Dad, LP, C and I walked around the zoo. The weather was beautiful and it was nice to spend time with them.

And the best for last. Both the wedding and kidney walk had photobooths!!!

How was your weekend?

*so if you want to make the collages bigger – click on them to open in a new page and then click again to enlarge. i don’t know why, just because.

I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  Or maybe it started last night when my Sprite exploded all over me and then when I opened the bag of carrots they went all over the floor.  It continued this morning when my phone just quit working.  You know they make lovely paperweights when they don’t send/receive phone calls, send/receive texts or connect to the internet.  Yep, a nice blue paperweight.

I spent an hour on the phone with Verizon and it resulted in me having to completely reset my phone.  It wasn’t that bad but I lost some cute text messages from C and my ring tones and notifications sounds.   I hope, hope this doesn’t happen again!

So enough complaining…some good things to get me through my afternoon meeting:

• Red Wings victory and into the 2nd round – did you see my boyfriends Datsyuk’s 2 goals!?
• Finding my favorite brand of jeans on ebay for $5
• Getting home owners insurance on the cottage
• Craigslist
• Plans to buy some Nuvo Vodka
• Buying paint for the cottage tomorrow
• Sunshine – even if it is a bit chilly

And of course this face

The first shot

5 shots in

completely on his nerves

I’ve had the worst headache for 3 days now. Yesterday it was so bad I was almost in the bathroom throwing up. The first few hours of our road trip were pretty much hell. Luckily, after some advil it subsided.

Thank you for the stories and love you shared with me on my insecurity post.  Hugs all around

I’m a little behind on what’s been going on the past couple of weeks.  So here we go…

Liko ate the library copy of Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea aka Liko Eats Chelsea Part I

I went to Chelsea Handler’s book signing with Jenni and Mandy!!

photos via Jenni

Liko ate my signed copy of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang aka Liko Eats Chelsea Part II

I have no idea what he has against her!

Jenni, Sarah and Mandy are rocking aerial yoga

C told me he likes it when I don’t wear makeup sometimes, I think it makes me look tired.

But it makes weekends easy when I’m not going anywhere special.  Sometimes it’s nice to go au natural.

And last but not least, Scooby is a ham.  He sits like a human and it cracks me up!

What’s a good caption for this picture?

Update: OMG I forgot to mention my new obsession.  I watched The Proposal last night.  First,  I love Sandra Bullock and the scene with her dancing around the fire singing – HILARIOUS.  I want my own Ryan Reynolds though.  No really.  He is one sexy dude.  I don’t usually drool over celebrities but last night…yeah.

I’ve seen this on other people’s blogs and since I  need a jump start on writing I think it’s a good time to try this.

Pieces of Me – April 2010

I like:

The sun shining more and taking the dogs for walks with C at night. Spending more time together because the warmer weather makes us want to stay home and work outside instead of play hockey and go to taekwondo.

I don’t like:

Having to sit at work when the sun is out and it’s warm enough to go without a jacket. Being stressed about money

I want you to know:

I’ve made some bad choices in the past but I learned a lot, so I’m not sure if they were really bad at all.

I’ve planned:

To put us on a stricter budget so we can start saving money instead of spending as frivolously.  Though I’m sure we will still spend, hopefully not as much, because I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.  I don’t believe in hoarding all my money away now in hopes of using it later.  Tomorrow is not promised.

I want to say to someone special:

You infuriate me and I would rather not let you back in my life, but I’m afraid if I don’t, I won’t be able to obtain the information you have that one day I will need.

*Thanks for the toothfairy for starting this

A little over a week ago I went downtown to meet C for lunch.  He works in Detroit in a not so glamourous neighborhood.  Unfortunately, my camera was dead but I did take some photos inside the shop where he manages and does machine repair.  There is so much to be captured.  I wish I would have gotten some shots of the graffiti on the outside of the building.

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I’m like a little (Filipino/Irish/English/French/Czech) Betty Crocker!

I started off with tropical fruit an macadamia nut pancakes, turkey sausage & fruit

After shopping I made chocolate chip with walnut cookies and homemade granola bars.   It’s really flexible for you to add whatever your heart desires.  Since it was my first time I followed the recipe minus the cranberries because I forgot to buy them.  I also added a little honey.  I think next time I’d play with it a little bit more.  Maybe add some spices like cinnamon and nutmeg to start.  They were really quick, I think it took me 10 minutes to stir the ingredients and throw the pan in the oven.

While I was in the kitchen today I started compiling a wish list of things I wish I had.

Kitchen Aid Mixer in red

New metal measuring spoons & cups

New Wooden Utensils

New Baking Sheets

What is your kitchen missing?

I ♥ surprises in the mail! When I called C yesterday when I got to taekwondo he told me I had a package waiting from one of my pen pals. Yes, he calls bloggers pen pals. It’s cute and I’m sure it’s because people who aren’t bloggers can’t really wrap their heads around how awesome our community is. That and he might still think the internet is full of porn and stalkers. He’s slowly starting to realize that the interwebz has a lot more to offer.

Erica from Five Blondes sent me the cutest package. A knitted headband that is adorable, some chocolate, Harajuku (!) perfume and a miso wash. Great stuff!

And as much as I love the headband I’m hoping I won’t have to wear it until Fall. I can be optimistic right?!

Scooby liked it too, though when I first came into the living room he didn’t recognize me, I never said he was the brightest crayon in the box.

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It’s that time of year where I start making summer plans.  You know how it is, right?  The weather starts touching 60 degrees and even though I know that the poor flowers that are trying to sprout up are going to get a big heavy snowfall before we are officially out of winter, I’m making plans for my flip flop clad feet.

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Let’s start with April.  Yes, I realize that it will probably still be freezing in April but humor me.  For C’s birthday we are going up north with the dogs, with the hopes of maybe finally actually looking at cottages.  We went up in April a couple years ago and got caught in an ice storm.  Obviously not flip flop weather but eh, you gotta start somewhere.

{Oscoda, April 2008}

{Oscoda, April 2008}

{Oscoda, April 2008}

Next up is May.  At the tail end, Memorial Weekend, we are going to Chicago to celebrate my birthday.  It’s 2 weeks before the actual day but it’s cheapest then

{Chicago, March 2009}

{Chicago, March 2009}

The weekend in June, while C is gone with his friends, I plan to have a party at my house.  Who’s coming over to watch girly movies and play Wii with me?!

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Shell and I are making plans to invade Oscoda in June.  Possibly even reliving our glory days by camping in a tent.  OMG, I did just say that.  We’ll see if it actually happens.  I’m kind of excited of the prospect of throwing up our old tent since it’s been 9 years since both our hands have done it together.  We were totally these girls, ah, those were the days

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{Oscoda, July 2000}

LP and I are planning another girls weekend up north sometime in July or August.  Hopefully this year there will be more than just the two of us.

{Oscoda, August 2009}

{Oscoda, August 2009}

These are just the beginnings of what will hopefully will be a warm summer.  C’mon mother nature, I’m ready!!