Scenes from Thanksgiving

So as I reported a few weeks ago...I was incharge of preparing thansgiving. I don't have much to report except that I got all he sides down cold. Hehe....so you are wondering about my turkey eh? Well it didn't work out so good; despite my best efforts, it was undercooked, dry and not tasty all at once! It is now being enjoyed as turkey tetrazinni. Anywho, here are some picture for you to enjoy.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=7ix2yrd.bo5poepl&Uy=-bnucws&Ux=0

How does it feel to be married?

I am sitting at home sick and my voice is gone so I felt inspired to write about the question that I get asked the most. Invariably, my answer is that it doesn't feel much different from my life before. Which is true for the most part. Everyone who knows us as a couple knows that we are truly different individuals, we have our own friends, we have our own interests and we really don't make anyone go awww all the time. But the cool thing is that we can talk through everything and we accept each other and all of our flaws...which is what got us through 8 years, 6 jobs, 4 cars(RIP Berretta, I30 and Sentra), 2 cross-country moves,1 house closing and 1 wedding.

We have already had the big fights and know how we feel about cleaning, money and sex so we don't have to work through those newlywed issues. What is really new to us is that we have to present our married couple front on certain things and that is what we are trying to work through. So we are trying to figure out how we entertain together (we never had any events at our house prior to the last month!), how we shop for gifts (we realized that Christmas presents and wedding presents will now come from the Joneses), how we give to charity and what will become our traditions. I find it to be new and challenging for me because I have to ask Todd how he feels about things that I used to just decide on for myself; this is hard because I have been grown for a long time and it feels like I am giving up some independence...argh! He really asked what I bought on one of my many Target runs and when I asked "why you want to know?" he was like "well you are now spending my money too." The nerve!

The other thing that is new is that I have to develop my "wife" persona. I remember having so many conversations with my friends when I graduated college about how weird it felt to in the working world because being in school was such a strong part of my identity up until that point. So I feel that inevitably I will have the define who I am as a wife and work that into my identity as well. Most days when I think about it, part of me is like "but you are not grown enough to be a wife!" but then my grown-up side, the side that pays the bills and goes to work, regains control...hehe ;-) So in conclusion, I would say that being married feels good because I get to take it all in stride and I don't feel any pressure to fit into a "married person" mold; we will make it all up as we go along. It really helps that we both presented a true picture of who we are as a person beforehand and that our marriage is sanctioned and supported by all of our friends and family.

Pictures

I am back! No more west coast for me this year. So I wanted to post some links to pictures because I know I won't have any free time tomorrow.

First, here is the link to the photographer photos. Not everyone likes them but I happen to like the pictures. I really wanted to focus on candid shots rather than 200 formal poses and I certainly got that...I can't wait to put the final album together.

http://www.saffronstudio.morephotos.com/mp_includes/index.asp

password: crojon07

I plan to send the link out to all guests as soon as I muster the energy to type up all of their e-mail addresses. The pictures do cost more than snapfish or photo gallery but its a photographer so that is what their prices are...I hope guests wont find it too terrible to spend $12 for a 5x7 that they really like. If you just want a couple of 4X6 though you can just wait until I get the cd. My cd will have low-resolution images that can print out to a 4x6. The photographer has the high resolution images that can print out in poster size. I do plan on buying my high resolution images but not this year ;-) Just in case anyone was wondering, I do plan on sending a wallet size picture out with the thank you cards and I am committed to getting them out before the year ends.

Links to Honeymoon Pics:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=7ix2yrd.a04dxnu1&x=0&y=mwp9nn

Looks like Thanksgiving is on me...

So my mother called me today to figure out the holidays and this year for the first time we had to pick sides because I supposed is no longer cool to just go our separate ways during the holidays (at least not for year 1). So we had an invite from the Chandlers (always a great time...fried turkey, oxtails, oh my!) for Thanksgiving and my mother wants to know if we want to cook Christmas or have Christmas with them. After much back and forth and conferencing DH's mom in, it looks like I am cooking. DH's mom doesn't want to go down to the C's because she went last year and she feels like she is imposing (understood, I guess) but that would mean that they would be home alone because Todd is usually the only person that comes over so of course I can't go elsewhere because I would feel like a horrible person.

So for the two people that visited me in Memphis (you know who you are) you can imagine how terrifying that is because 1) my turkey was horrible and 2) I don't like to cook a lot of food. I never quite understood why there has to be 5 types of proteins 8 starches and 2 vegetables at Thanksgivig! So I need help with recipes and anyone who wants to be at my house to see how it goes down is welcome to come spend next thrusday with me.

Ok, as you know I am in San Francisco at a conference, time to go to some more "networking" events.

Addis Doin it Diva Style...a week b4 the wedding!!

Ya'll remember this...

Not ready to give up the blog just yet

So I thought that I was going to give up the blog as soon as the wedding was over but there is so much more that I still need to share. I am still trying to piece together everything that happened that night as well as finding pictures of all of the blog readers at the wedding. I also haven't shared my honeymoon pictures. So now this is going to evolve into my newlywed blog...hehe!

I will post about the honeymoon later this week, right now I am having an issue with decorating my house and I am going to need an intervention. So here is what happened in short: I always wanted a yellow dining room and a green livingroom. Then my DH comes along and requests a plum living room. So I had this plum and yellow thing going which was bad. Last week I repainted the dining room beige so the walls have receded. Now I am trying to find curtains for my plum living room but nothing is working and DH can't come up with a solution for the color scheme that he invented!

This is my plum living room....

And these are the curtain that I found thus far. I would seriouly go for some wooden blinds and call it a day, but I want to save money on my utility bill by having panels ;-)

Does this table look too tight in my kitchen?