"Be your own person. Don't try and copy other people. Don't be awestruck by what you perceive others as having accomplished. Don't judge your achievements against those of someone else. You're the best you that ever will be, and nobody can accomplish your goals as efficiently and effectively as you can. So, instead of searching for a role model, become one yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
1000 awesome things is winding down, but that doesn't mean that we're running out of awesome things. Mr.S has the Awesome Things calendar at work and sends me ones he likes. Today's is:
And you know what that means! You better have reservations for that restaurant you were planning to go to tonight! Or have a back-up plan!
Haha.
Mr.S and I aren't big on Vday. As my father-in-law said this morning (among other funny things related to the topic), it's "for young ones." We do "celebrate" it though. We're going out for a cheapo dinner (and these days, cheap is romantic for us, people!) and exchanging $5 gifts as we've done in the past. We celebrate our love every day, so today's no different. Hahaha.
Anyway, have you checked out the Google Doodle today? It's really cute. Turn down your speakers though. It was kinda loud.
Oh, and did you watch SNL this weekend? My homegirl, Zooey Deschanel, (yes, she's my homegirl, because she feels like my best friend, even though I don't know her) was hosting and even though I slept and missed the whole thing, I did watch clips of some of the sketches. Her monologue was good too.
Has your Valentine ever forgotten about Valentine's day? Mine has. Or well, he didn't forget, he just didn't have time, with midterms and stuff going on at the same time. And if you know me, I'm not a big understander of the excuse, "Sorry, I didn't have time." Because to me, if something means something to you, you make time. I've come to understand the excuse more these days as my time has been filled up with mom-things, wife-things, work-things, pregnancy-things, being-tired-things, life-things, but I try to make sure that the people involved in the time I should be making understand that I wasn't able to make time, and promise to try in the near future. So yeah, Mr.S said that one Vday he didn't have time, and this was back when we actually celebrated V-day with actual gifts and stuff. But you know what? The year after, he TOTALLY made it up. Like, FO REAL. That day went down in history as one of the days in my life where I felt super duper special.
Anyway, Happy V-day, y'all! Have a good one, whether you're of a couple or a singleton. You don't have to be in love to celebrate love!
It's no secret. I Love Ellen DeGeneres...yes, in italics with a capital L. Anyway, she's put out Ellen's Dance Dare and basically, it's getting footage of you dancing in and around strangers without them knowing. Hilarious. And the first person I thought of was my cousin...this is totally something she could do, and she's easily the funniest cousin I have (sorry, other cousins, but you know she's our funniest cousin!)
...we got these free engagement photos done for fun. It was the first eco-wedding show and they had them, so we thought, why not. Plus, I thought it'd be interesting to look back on and see my weave. Haha, yep, I had a weave.
Well, the day to look back on them was a few nights ago. Mr.S was showing me what a disaster his inbox is and he had stuff dated all the way back to 2007-2008. Yep, disaster. And speaking of disaster...
Oh my. Horrible.
I read a photographer's blog post once about her "policy" on not taking piggy-back or piggy-front pictures of couples. I completely agree with her policy. I remember when we took this, we were like, "What? Do what?" and I think he took several because you could see the lack of comfort on our faces. He thought it'd be fun to take pictures that emphasized our height difference, but this one just looks dumb/slightly obscene. Who would send this to people as part of the announcement that, "We're getting married!!"? I just checked out this photographer's website and it appears he's no longer doing wedding photography. Maybe this picture is one of the reasons why?
One of the deals we scored for Boxing Day (we weren't really looking to score deals but whatever) was Bridesmaids on Blu-ray for cheeeeap (still on sale at Best Buy until Thursday!). Mr.S hadn't seen it, so we watched it last week. One of the best parts is this part:
This is currently trending on Twitter. I don't usually pay much attention to what's trending, but I found it interesting that when I read it, I actually had something to Tweet...but didn't and instead decided to write. And here I am.
#Iknewitwasoverwhen he told me the only person he could think of that deserved to be with me was JS (i.e. Mr.S)
So I had this "boyfriend" when I was 16. We "dated" for a few months and then it became what it was, one of those teenage "romances" that don't last because you're too young to realize what you're doing. It was one of those things I didn't count, just like you don't count that boy you "dated" (i.e. held hands with haha) in 6th grade.
And yes, he thought I should be with Mr.S, who wasn't my Mr.S yet. To be honest, I didn't know Mr.S knew I was alive. Mr.S is a very quiet guy, who, at the time, I thought just wasn't into girls and dating yet. The only girl I ever saw him talk to with interest was one of my friends, who I later found was his cousin! (PHEW!) I thought maybe he was one of those late bloomers who would find a girl when he was ready and love her forever. Only, I never thought it'd be me. And so I dated thatguy.
We had a conversation one night about people we liked before we started "dating", and it came up that I liked (and secretly still liked haha, oops) Mr.S. Then he told me that of everyone he knew, he thought JS deserved to be with me, whatever that means. Why do people think someone deserves to be or not to be with someone? ANYWAY, it was over within a few weeks. (It wasn't just me thinking about Mr.S that ended it, but a combination of many things, many 16 year-old childish boyish things.)
But after that conversation happened, I thought more and more about Mr.S. And, thatguy didn't know that Mr.S and I had actually spoken, like, had an actual exchange of words (not common with guys like Mr.S). Mr.S had called me a few times from said cousin/friend's house and it turned out the coming school year graced us with 4 classes together (we had 2 classes together the previous year). OH BOY. Yes, thatguy was history.
Fast forward 13 years later, and here we are, married with 1.5 kids, me, being the girl he found to love forever.
Thanks to thatguy for dumping me when he did. (Um yeah, he broke up with me. See? 16 and stupid.) I needed that. SO needed that. And all the best on your upcoming wedding! (Seriously.)
...where you could send in a picture and you'd be the face of the next Maynards candy. Had I known that you could send in something like this, I would have told my sister. She has the most amazing funny face on her Chuck E. Cheese card (don't ask me, ask her), which I would have been happy to bite into. Hahahahaha!!
So it's not a new thing or even an uncommon thing for couples to have a twist on their first dance as a married couple. We've all seen plenty of YouTube videos and seen them at weddings we've been to. To be honest, first dances like that are losing their element of surprise since so many people are doing them, and well, if you can't dance, you shouldn't be doing it. Luckily, all the ones we've seen have been awesome, even one that I watched over and over again on video because the bride was a dancer. Heck, my husband and I even planned to do one, but because it wasn't high up on our list of priorities and well, the dance we chose was more to be funny and so required that we not have any rhythm and I was having a very hard time doing that, we scrapped it last minute and decided to stay traditional. It worked out better that way anyway--I would have had the jitters all throughout the "predance" which was what I had been looking forward to for a long time.
Our first dance
Anyway, enter this first dance. Not your traditional first dance for the bride as a married woman with her father...I just want to say now, that if any of my kids (even if it's my daughter, if I may be so blessed) want me to do this, I am SO in.
On the note of weddings, I'd just like to congratulate our faaaaavourite Vegetarian and her new hubby, one of our BFFs from waaaay back, on their spankin' brand new marriage! YAY! :)
(And I just realized I never wrote about all our friends who got married this year! Must get on that! Stay tuned!)
