Well I'm "officially" back at work post-wedding/honeymoon and Mike is officially back at school. MIIIKKKEE, WHY ARE YOU NEVER DONE WITH SCHOOL?!!!??
The question everyone likes to ask me now (one month into our marriage) is: "So how does it feel to be married? Different?" It's an awesome question. I think I've just been asked it a lot when I'm still just trying to figure out what day of the week it is or how old I am.....so I've mostly just said "It's awesome! I totally don't think I made a mistake!" (Although there was that one time over our honeymoon that I thought Mike was going to buy a $5,000 statue of a shark made of Alaskan marble...and I may have had a moment's pause.) ;)
Anyway, today is Monday, and I've had time to reflect.
There isn't a lot that is different about our lives now compared to before. We haven't "arrived" into glamorous adulthood just because we got married. Mike is away and it's still winter here in DC and I still have to work full-time and I still don't know how to cook meat without him haha. We still learn new things about each other every day....does anyone know Mike used to make candles?!! :) Our place is still an accumulation of random things we've received. I think the biggest revelation to me in all of this is that EVERYTHING is built by what you choose to put in day in and day out. We started writing a story together 3 years ago and are still writing it. We've found our voices and will continue to grow. I thought the artwork below by Dallas Clayton was a perfect way to describe how I feel reflecting on the wedding.
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| Dallas Clayton artwork. |
Anyway, got the feels out. Here's more of what I've been up to lately!
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| Museum of American Art with friends! |
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| My first trip to IKEA with some girl friends! Did you know they have a full breakfast for only $3.17?!?! |
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| I just can't get over this picture of my nephew and his red panda stuffed animal. |
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| I actually got back in the gym this past weekend and promptly also re-found my frozen yogurt routine:) |
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| The struggle was real the day that Mike left. This is here to remind me how awesome brownies are and to make some with our new standing mixer soon! |
Tonight: Mike and I watched Downton Abbey together over Facetime. It was glorious. He is supposed to get a ton of snow up there before tomorrow and I hope everything is okay and everyone stays warm.
I love everything about this post (except that Mike's away at school again), and I literally laughed out loud at "I totally don't think I made a mistake!" I remember when Mike made candles! I think he gave me a 'fresh cotton' scented one. I still have it somewhere. Maybe in Williamsburg? Next time we're down there together I can show it to you. Also-- Ikea is CRAZY! When did you go? Zan and I went last spring and it was overwhelming, but I kinda wanna go back... And I LOVE your nephew with the red panda stuffed animal. So adorable!!!
ReplyDeleteLet's hang out soon!!!!
I totally agree with your thoughts on marriage! It doesn't feel different on a day-to-day level (especially when one of you is so far away boooo!) But there is, from time to time, that feeling of absolute togetherness, of being a team and facing the world with each other, that is beyond lovely.
ReplyDeleteNot to say that you can only get that feeling through marriage, of course. But for me, that's what did it. =)
And yes, I remember Mike's candle-making phase! Some of the scents were weird, but Brian proposed by the light of a very lovely, pine-scented Mike candle. =)