So here's the picture I wanted to be our picture over there on the right column, but it always came out squashed. (blogger you suck). I hope it looks right this time. While I'm at it, I'm gonna add some more wedding pics. yay! The above pictures are some of my favorites, especially right now when I'm missing these guys so much - we've got mom, dad, and my adorable bro and the bestest sister. Oh yeah and one of me and Kelly leaving with sparklers. People tried to burn me, that's why I'm dodging. Bye bye for now!
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Wedding pictures
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Painting
So Renee's Blog has inspired me to get going with this thing and not create a page of "mindless banter" (as I call it) that nobody wants to read. I want it to be useful 'n stuff. So pretty soon I'm gonna take pictures of some of my recent paintings and post them. I'd take a picture of the guacamole I made today, but it's not nearly as beautiful as Renee's Honey Peach Ice cream with hand picked fresh blackberries scattered on top. Oh my goodness, I need to stop talking about ice cream. But more importantly, I should stop eating it every day. Mine and Kelly's attempt at the South Beach diet lasted for literally 1 day. after dinner on Monday, our start day, we broke down and cursed the diet, and then I had ice cream. And I think Kelly had cereal. We're very rebellious. I'm gonna start cooking more. It makes me happy, makes me feel accomplished, makes us eat healthier, saves more money (that we'd use to go out for dinner), and makes me feel like I'm eating when really I'm just touching food. It's not the same thing, if you were unclear. But I titled this post "Painting" and I'm going to be true to that. I'm having a lot of fun with it and just need to go out and buy some ridiculously huge canvases as soon as we have some moneys in the bank. I have begun commissioning paintings from friends and family- at no cost, of course... maybe someday I'll actually sell some! Who knows? But for now I am just getting my creative juices flowing again. I never found a style, so every painting I do is completely different from the last. I suppose to some extent you could tell that it was the same person who painted them but I'm hoping to begin some sort of themed series at some point. I'm not trying to go deep and get all artsy or anything, just want to find something that I think is beautiful and run with it for longer than just one canvas. I've never done that before! And that kind of deep look into something is what makes an artist, I think. Kelly's started playing his guitar again, regularly enough that his fingers are getting back in shape, so I guess we're an artsy little couple! Never really thought of us like that before! Anyway, pictures to come at some point!
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Weekend update
Alright, so this week hasn't exactly been eventful. I did have another couple of interviews but not with ReMax, and I think another one is on its way next week... Thursday, I got to go to the Young Life area interest meeting for prospective volunteers, committee, etc. and made some connections, yay! Hopefully I will start involving myself with those people, especially once I get my job thing all straightened out and know what my schedule is like - but right now it lookes like I'll be able to join a "coffee talk" group where young adult ladies pair up with some junior and senior high school girls and do a mentorship... SO excited about that, so I'll keep updating the more I know about what's going on with that. Last night, Kelly had a fantasy football draft order-picking thingy with the boys, so all the girlfriends and wives involved ditched the boys to go see Becoming Jane. My first thought was... *gag me.* And though I wasn't remotely interested it was nice to feel like I belonged to a group again, even if just a little bit. And I won't lie the movie wasn't actually bad! I would never have dragged Kelly along though, and all the girls are really sweet, so it turned out to be a much better night than anticipated. Today was quite possibly the most boring day ever, except that I decided I didn't feel up to eating actual dinner (my tummy feels funny) so I replaced dinner with some vanilla ice cream (easier on the stomach, you know? heehee!). Tonighttt, Kelly and I are chillin with Barbie and Chad as usual, but this time we're going to the bowling alley (yay!). I hope everyone is in the mood for a butt-kickin'. That's pretty much it for now... unless of course anyone would like to come be entertained by how incredibly messy my closet is right now. I usually like to keep the door shut so kelly can't see my clothes on the floor inside the closet, but at this point all the clothes have taken over the bathroom as well. If anyone would like to come clean our room and my closet, it would be much appreciated.
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Bored on a Monday!
Hi Everybody, so this is our blog (right now it's just me, Griffin - Kelly's at a meeting and doesn't even know I've created this blog but it will be so much fun!). No telling how often we'll update, since we're both (hopefully) getting ready to start our new jobs! That is, Kelly's definitely getting ready to start teaching his little 6th graders (eee!) and I'm anticipating some job offers sooner rather than later! I'm feeling so detached from everyone up in VA that I feel like I need some sort of connection that's regular and not so randomized. So link to this blog and check up on us every once in awhile and see how we're doing. We'll try to post lots of pictures and update on our housing situation, job situation, doggy situation, and anything else that might come up along the way! I think the picture on the side over there from our wedding looks squashed... but maybe that's just this computer... Oh well, it's a work in progress! Now I'm going to try to be productive today and see about that interview I'm supposed to have with ReMAX tomorrow!
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