Hi.
Yeah, sorry I’ve not really been present at all. I’ve been super-duper busy. Fighting with my landlords (they want their house back WAY before our lease is due); sooner-than-expected talks of buying a house with each other, with our real estate agent; going on a quick vacation to Tybee Island/Savannah, GA that wasn’t really a vacation…
it was a honeymoon.
Because we got married. (eep!)
But we like to keep things complicated, so of course it was a secret marriage.
And I learned some things:
1. It’s reallyreallyreallyREALLY hard for me to keep my own secrets as I typically do not have any secrets and I’m used to just walking around and gabbing to anyone who is in range about what’s going through my head.
2. I do NOT handle stress well. Back in high-school/college era, I was a stress-managing machine–a good German through and through, I could itemize, list, and conquer with the very best of them. I have since turned to a life of mostly leisure and am now quite unaccustomed to a stressful way of living. This means that I turn into a little ball of bitchiness. It’s not fun. And it’s real fucking ugly.
3. I have no idea how women (or men) who plan full weddings do it. NO FUCKING CLUE. We had us plus nine people and a minister at a park on a Saturday morning and guys, it was just too much for me to handle. We didn’t even have invitations–just stopped by to visit grandparents and parents and let them know about it. Seriously, it was ridiculous.
4. Honeymoons are awesome. I mean, for real. In all our years, we’d never taken a vacation that was just the two of us. We’d always go along with our families or we’d plan trips with our friends, never had we traveled long-distance over several days just the two of us. And it rocked! We did nothing but sit on a beach and stare at the ocean for three days (fourth day we walked around Savannah), stuff our bellies with the most amazing seafood we could find, and have lots and lots of sex (sorry, mom). It was a blast.
So, hopefully, I’ll get back into regular blogging that I’m sure will be all about how awful it is trying to find a house. We’ll see.
I’ll leave you with our wedding announcement we posted after we got back. Made pretty much entirely by the lovely Rock Star:
-K
Jesus christ, next you’ll be telling us that you also carried and gave birth to a baby, got your PhD in physics and cured cancer. Anything else you need to share?
All that aside, CONGRATU-FUCKING-LATIONS! I hope someone remembered to take pictures somewhere in there!
We also took the second half of our honeymoon in Savannah, GA, quite lovely. And planning a wedding isn’t that hard when you treat it like another show. (If you think about it, it’s just a whole lot of staging, lighting, costuming and props.) We planned the bulk of ours in about 11 days.
I can’t wait to see pictures!
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