un año

Mi husband and I celebrated our first year of marriage on Monday the 22nd. 

In honor of the occasion, we headed to the Happiest Place on Earth for dinner at the Blue Bayou. It sure was a challenge ordering since the only thing we could eat on the menu was the portabello mushroom with pepper and corn couscous and Matt doesn't like any of those things. Thankfully the waitress knew her stuff and they made him a pasta with marinara sauce. It reminded us of just one of the things we've been challenged with our first year of marriage, a total diet change.

Along with combining our finances and living together, seeing each other through sickness and health, the first year of marriage has been really easy and really great. I love him more today than a year ago... but not as much as the years from now...

red

Sometimes my job has unexpected perks. For example, when the art department has to buy and paint six chairs red and can't return them to the place where they were purchased, they must be either sold or given away to someone. This is how I came upon six West Elm chairs for $0. I figured I'd buy this cheap table from Ikea and ta-da, totally new dining area. More images to come.

The fitness goal is being challenged by delicious craft service cheese and goodies. Must resist temptation. A friend and I went to our first actual yoga class last Saturday which unfortunately I must miss this weekend because of work. Boo.

Matthew, in his brilliant attempt to avoid having to get a new TV stand, suggested switching our coffee table into the TV stand, making our current TV stand a side table and purchasing a cheap coffee table at Target. It actually looks pretty good though much like a shrine to video gaming with the wii, sega genesis, and classic nintendo now on display (add to that a playstation 3 in a few months...) but it makes the TV look bigger, and what man or woman can say that's a bad thing? The cheap coffee table looks just what it is, cheap. I want to put a yellow patterened rug underneath it to distract from the cheap. I'm very excited that it is likely I will score some cool dining chairs for free, which means I'll be buying a new dining table to match with the new chairs and doing something with the dining area which I am not a fan of either. I want these two things from Target: 1) a cuckoo clock 2) a ceramic horse.

I'd be lying if I said those were the only two things in my head. I've been thinking about women in the bible, women in politics, this election year, and the country I love and what will bring us together.