mycrack

i am thoroughly addicted to myspace. i had a myspace page a long time ago, but i took it down once i realized all the 13 year old girls on my caseload--and several of their mothers--also had myspace pages and i didn't want them to find me out in cyberspace, see all my friends, and know too much about my personal life. since then, all kinds of my friends have gotten on myspace and i have been assured that i can set my profile to private (which i haven't yet figured out how to do) so that only my friends can "see" me. i started up my account again yesterday and played with it for HOURS. i even got up early this morning so i could play with it some more before i had to go to work. i LOVE myspace. now i know why so many teenagers are fat and blind--it's easy to get to where all you do is sit on your butt and stare at the screen! i need to go to Myspace Anonymous meetings or something. i've even got my DOG signed up for his own page (on dogster.com). this can turn into a serious obsession...

who'd have guessed that the internet they had when i was in high school (pretty much nonexistent, and only for serious nerds, geniuses, and rich adults--i had no idea how to use it) would turn into what it has, huh?

honey MOON!

i'm back from my wedding and the four subsequent days relaxing at edgefield. it's kind of hard to pay attention to work (as you can see by the fact that i'm posting a blog at 2 pm). the wedding and reception themselves were gorgeous and everything that i wanted them to be. except for long enough. i'm sure they were long enough for the other people who participated, but i felt like they day went by in a big, happy blur and i didn't get to sit down and spend enough time with everyone who was there as much as i would have liked.

after the reception we went to and then got kicked very politely out of tp and as's room and downstairs into the pool hall. one poor guest had fallen asleep/passed out at one of the tables and all of a sudden, right when someone was saying "it's called a honeymoon because it's sweet and you get to see each other's butts," i looked over and there was a full moon in the form of jk's butt getting it's picture taken next to the sleeping c.

the rest of the week was so nice. we stayed out at edgefield for three more days. it rained on monday, so we stayed in, did honeymoon things (wink wink), watched oceans 13 in the theater there, sat on the porch with a bottle of champagne and played cards, etc. tuesday we tried to play golf on edgefield's 17-hole golf course. we sucked. i kept trying to hit the ball and ending up swinging at air or tearing up the grass instead. we both lost several balls to the blackberry bushes. we got frustrated and gave up to go get a beer about half way through. then we went wine tasting in the little winery where matt proposed a year and a half ago. we had breakfast every morning and dinner tuesday night at the black rabbit restaurant, which has amazing 5-star food and is nothing like a mcmenamin's pub. we ate more meat and drank more wine than we have all year--i'm sure i've gained back the 13 pounds i lost for the wedding! on tuesday night there was an irish band playing in the garden outside the little red shed. it was so perfect. wednesday morning, we got up and got our dog (who had made friends with an adorable little 6 month old border collie, and who also was returned to us with a piece of tape over his id tag saying that his name was "satan" and that his phone number was "666-6666"...), and headed back to normal life.

thank you everyone who was able to come celebrate with us--you made it the beautiful day and great time that it was. :)

try milk thistle...it really works!

i had my first "annual" physical in three years last week and apparently i'm very healthy! my good cholesterol (hdl) is way high, my bad cholesterol (ldl) is quite low, and my overall cholesterol and cholesterol/hdl ratio are both remarkably good. all my blood cell counts are normal, and apparently my thyroid, kidneys, and liver all function very efficiently. my doctor actually hand-wrote "excellent" on my copy of my lab results that i got in the mail. matt recently has his blood work done too and his results were just like mine. now, the reason i'm telling you all this is not just to disclose too much personal information, but because, by all rights, neither of our livers should be anywhere near the well-oiled machines that they both apparently are, and i credit milk thistle. as long as i've known matt, he's taken this obscure supplement. he told me, and several other people have since, that many brewers take milk thistle because it supports and enhances liver functioning, and brewers tend to drink a lot of beer. having similar tendencies myself, i started taking it about a year ago. and lo and behold, it works! so i'm writing this post as advice for any of you who also enjoy ample portions of beer and wine: milk thistle...it does a body good.

m.i.a.

i know i've not been around on my blog much lately, but more than likely i've been--or will be soon--around in person much more. in about two weeks i'm due to see just about everyone i know, all in one big room together! it's coming up on matt's and my wedding day and i've been super preoccupied trying to make sure everything gets done. who knew that there were so many online wedding checklists, and who knew they had so many things on them you have to do?! and it's a good thing, too. i wouldn't have thought of things like "designate who will meet, greet, and handle each vendor on the wedding day," and "confirm location, date, and time with photographer; create your 'must take' photo list. " i didn't want it to be, but evidently it is a lot more complicated than throwing a graduation party in your backyard... and hopefully with fewer things catching on fire...

i've also been up in portland for my bachelorette party and bridal shower, both of which were incredibly good times and made me feel very blessed to have such fun and caring friends and family. i'm also quite blessed to have a fiance who has no qualms about getting into the wedding planning and is handling several of the tasks on the stupid-ocd-bridezilla-website-checklist himself. as annoyed as i may get with the all the cliched bride-y-ness that has suddenly invaded my life, i am glad for this wedding planning thing because it has made me see very clearly that i have a true partner in matt. we work well together as a team, and we balance each other out (i've found that semi-naive optimism paired up with semi-intentionally-exaggerated grouchiness really can add up to one whole pragmatic realist). and we can count on each other to get shit done.

ok, i'm done with the self-indulgent shmooping all over my relationship now. i just wanted to say "hi" and explain what i've been up to. i'm sure i'll be back to blogging once this thing is over with. see many of you soon! :)