Honeymoon Photos

Well, I was sick for the first couple of days (I got sick literally the minute we left the reception), but it got way better once we got to the Caribbean. How couldn't it, right? Here are a few photos of our week in paradise.

View from our balcony. Can you see the humidity in the air?

Our building at the resort from the boat we took snorkeling.

Sunset on our balcony


Before dinner at the French restaurant


Dinner on the dock our last night in St. Lucia. It was really pretty.

A little late....

Me and the new hubs. Well, that's a lie because we took pictures beforehand, but he is my husband now.

It rained. The ceremony was supposed to be outside, but we had to change it an hour before the ceremony. I think it turned out pretty well, yes?

My sister was a wonderful best woman (not to mention she looks pretty in the pictures - a nice bonus - way to be pretty Em!)

This is a lot of my immediate family - almost everyone. Minus a brother-in-law, three nephews, and a grandma. Pretty impressive. I am so thankful they were all there. How blessed we were that they were all able to make it out to California. And those who couldn't make it were in our thoughts.

It turned out to be a beautiful day (well, not the actual day, but you know...) and a good party with dear friends and family. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

(Thanks to Brant for sharing these photos. They are the only ones we have right now so they are wonderful to have).

A sad yet liberating realization

The last few weeks have been full of papers, projects, and presentations for me. As I was writing the most recently completed one, I had a realization. I was agonizing over things, thinking, there's no way the professor will think this is any good. And that's when I realized: I have no control over my grade. I usually put in about the same effort on all of my projects and papers. Which is a decent effort given the time constraints. And sometimes I get As and sometimes I get Bs. Occasionally, I'll know I did a mediocre job and I will get a mediocre grade, but just as often the professor thinks it's great. Or I will think I aced something and I'll get a B. So rather than try really hard and disappoint myself. I'm just going to do the usual and leave it up to the whims of my professors since even if it's an A effort, if he or she is having a bad day or didn't like what I was wearing last week, I might get a B anyway. Or conversely (and I like this better), it's a B paper, but the professor likes me or is just feeling the holiday spirit a little more than usual and give me an A for fun. Oh to have that power.

Unfortunately, I have to admit that I watched the Today show this morning to write this post, but it was a fluke.

So, on the aforementioned show, they were doing ambush makeovers. They made over two people who were in the audience, and they truly looked great. And then...they gave them both a hideous T-shirt that was approximately a Men's XL (for normal weight women) that said "I was ambushed by Today" with the big ugly Today show logo.

Excuse me. Did I miss something? We want these women to start dressing better, right? So I have an idea: let's give them an oversized T-shirt that no one should ever be caught dead in. Seriously, is this a test?

The name

The name of this blog is stolen from a Ben Folds song by the same title. If you don't know it, I'm sorry. I chose it for lack of a better title (and it's an excellent song) because everything else I though of seemed too self important or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, far too cutesy. It also is a good commentary on where I live. Los Angeles is a place where everyone is trying to be somebody. Well, I'm not. And as soon I start to think that, I just play Ben Fold's song and it slaps you right back down to earth.

It was time...

I guess now that I'm staying on the other side of the country from most of my family and many of my friends, it's time to start a blog. I do not promise that it will be exciting or even entertaining, but I love keeping updated on other people's lives through their blogs, so I thought I'd start my own. I started to feel guilty about only taking from the blogger world without giving back. Haha. So here it is. Enjoy. Or not.