6:50AM.

We don’t really have a plan…but there is a romance to the spontaneity of it all.

 

New York anyone?

Did you know that New York City gives me butterflies? Because it does.

Since I’m an idiot and believe that each state can be traveled in it’s entirety within half an hour, I let the bride in on my master plan:

“I think I want to spend the week in New York City. So, I will probably get a hotel there and just take the subway or something to Rochester that day.”
14 minute pause (possibly 3 seconds in real time)
“Well, New York City is like 6 hours away…and we don’t really have a subway.”
All I said was “oh okay” but I guess she could tell I was taking it quite hard.
She quickly interrupted my pity party with a cheerful “But it’s super close to Canada-Niagara Falls is like an hour away!”

SOLD!

I booked a wedding in Rochester, NY today.  It’s at the end of June 2010.
I want to take a week or so trip and I’m not coming back until I see Niagara Falls.
If you’re reading this, I want you to come with me.

No one believes “The more the merrier” more than I do today.

NYC December 2008.

2010.

What if I stop saying “listen” before every sentence and start saying “look”.
It will be hard-but I want to go crazy with this new year.

Your love is seventy.

My grandparents celebrated their 70th Anniversary and I think that is just insane (for lack of a more romantic or celebratory word.)

Can you imagine liking the same person for 70 years?
I can’t. I tried.

I tried to think about the longest I’ve ever liked a boy and I think it was in the 12th grade. I liked the same boy for 8 months. 8 whole months. And I thought I deserved a medal or something for hanging on to a feeling so long. Not that it was hard to like him-he never came to my house without a handful of flowers…granted, these were flowers he picked out of his grandmothers garden-and I’m sure she did not appreciate it, but I did. I remember he was just learning to play the guitar so he would write me songs and strum all 2 chords he knew.  I didn’t even care that the lyrics were obvious rip-offs.  Okay, that’s not true. I did care. I cared a lot. I just didn’t know how much I cared until later. If I could go back in time I would say “Sweetheart, you know that I listen to David Grey too, right?”

Anyways, my grandparents have been married for 70 years.
I think they are just precious.
And they still love each other…
or maybe it would just be too much of a hassle to divorce at the age of 89 and neither of them have experienced the wonderful joys of the world wide web so eharmony is just out of the question.
Plus I think they got a lot of gift cards to fancy restaurants.

Happy Anniversary to two people I could like for 70 years!

I’ve gotten this wrong more than once.

There is just something about November and I can’t stay away.
I will give you what I’ve got-a crooked heart and a nervous laugh.

 

Long distance relationships don’t work.

SAYS WHO????

French & Boring.

I guess it’s because most people want to talk about themselves.
I guess it’s because I want to talk about the sunset.

Sentence by sentence.
Sunset by sunset.

You always want to know.
I always want to feel.

Do you think we over shared our hearts? Do you think that is even possible?
I just want to be warm.

Love that hurts.

I don’t love her for anything she did or I think she might do in the future.
I love her simply because she is.

This is Ava Grace and she makes my stomach hurt.

<3 aunt steen.

Reasons to get married.

Reason # 1:  Bugs.

Mary Kathryn is in her room right now squealing every 10 minutes “CHRISTINA! IT MOVED IT’S LEGS AGAIN!” You see, there is a giant roach laying his back across her hardwood floor. I was always a little jealous of her hardwood floor…until October. For the first time since we moved here, I am ever so thankful for my ugly beige carpet that I spent the past few months resenting. That wood floor I’ve envied all summer now sends a winter chill from the balls of my feet  to the center of my heart that instantly freezes the hype of walking on fancy planks of wood.  Who wants to put shoes on first thing in the morning?

The point is, you were right about the carpet. It’s not so bad. I might even like it.

The other point is, I am a lousy roommate when it comes to bug problems.  Last month, I found a roach in my room so I put a ceramic mug over it. It stayed there for 2 weeks. Yes, 2 weeks. It would still be there today if it weren’t for Jeffrey James Prater coming to town and scooping it up with his bare hands!

I treat bugs the same way I treat guys who gel their hair back …I avoid them at all cost. I pretend they aren’t there. They don’t exist to me.

Mary Karthryn is still squealing…I still don’t hear her.

Reason # 2: hmmmm….  nothing really comes to mind right now.

We went for a walk in the middle of the road.

This is my good friend Jon.
He also happens to be my baby brother.
I guess he might be a grown up now?
This makes me think I’m an adult…which I am.
But why do I always feel like I’m ten?