our first christmas

live garland atop the bookshelves in the living room
the advent wreath Shawn made from live garland

we bought our live tree from the high school down the street; it was just 5 feet, but as you'll see, fit nicely in our apartment
the tree all lit up

pictures of all sorts of things

at the reception on our wedding day
a bowl of grapes
we went to the Filoli House for Shawn's birthday
my first trip to Lake Tahoe
beautiful Lake Tahoe!

four months

four months. i've been married four months. that feels a bit weird. sometimes it seems longer than that.
i've been having the urge to travel lately. france. i want to go to france. shawn can come, too. he's never been overseas. i really want him to experience life overseas.
so tonight is date night. we take turns planning dates. it's my turn. since it's our fourth monthiversary, i thought of a four-part date. start with dinner, go to worship (singing four songs; reading four scriptures), then to our 'homework' for our Bible study, then to dominoes (Mexican trains to be exact). should be fun.
i think Shawn might come by work today to 'surprise' me. he's only got one job in San Fran today so he'll have the time. that would be fun.
so yeah, that's about it.

random randomness

on my lunch break, i called shawn (usually do). he and ken (guy from church helping him out on fridays with work) were going to job #2. i was on my way to the grocery store. a girl from church is having some co-workers over. we're having a southern-style potluck. the latourelles (ahem, Loren since she's the southern one; southern Minnesota does NOT count as southern) are responsible for jiffy cornbread and green bean casserole. so as i'm gathering canned goods i hear a girl on her cell phone say, 'i think i'm four months pregnant, but haven't seen a doctor, yet.' um, ok. first of all, that's sad. second of all 'think'? four months and you 'think'? anyway, THEN the other highlight was getting hit-on by the cashier. solid gold that is. yikes. maybe if he were the fireman in front of me in the line...just kidding (i think).
last weekend was the reception in SC. i'll try and figure out posting pictures on here from shawn's mac. it's not my favorite thing in the world...
we started a couple's Bible study (that's a bit weird sounding to me still). there are three other couples. should be good. home builders is what it's called. this week is on oneness. there's homework and everything.
i'm procrastinating at work. it's friday. i'm ready for the weekend. we're not doing much, but still. i've become addicted (again; i'd stopped for a while) to grey's anatomy cause i can watch online. since we don't have a tv, that's my only choice. pretty happy. i'm catching up from when i was on teh hiatus. at least i didn't cry watching the last two episodes i viewed.
one day perhaps i'll get shawn to post something...
he made my sandwich for today's lunch. he's a great one, i tell ya'.
back at it, i suppose.

writing

a friend sent me another person's blog. this person had, in alpha order, a list of 18 links to all kinds of notecards and such. how fabulous.

http://www.cavallini.com/products.html

http://www.finestationery.com/

http://www.graphicimage.com/index.html

http://www.katespaperie.com/store/productView.php

http://www.lovelydesign.com/

http://www.luxepaperie.com/

http://www.papercupdesign.com/index.html

http://www.paper-source.com/

http://www.russellandhazel.com/ideas.html

http://www.seejanework.com/

i'll make them usable later. get to meet a friend from high school for dinner (shawn's coming, too)

san francisco

while we don't live IN san francisco, we live near enough to go into the city for dinner whenever we want (we met friends at this amazing Chinese restaurant called Old Mandarin there Wednesday night) and actually the lady from whom we're buying the golf is in san francisco.

i'm a bit bummed, however, that i won't get to vote for mayor in the upcoming November elections. check out this list of who's running for mayor:

Candidates in the Nov. 6 San Francisco mayor's race:
Harold Brown, retired teacher and blogger
George Davis, nudist activist
Tony Hall, former supervisor
Lonnie Holmes, San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department manager
Harold Hoogasian, flower shop owner
Grasshopper Kaplan, taxi driver
Quintin Mecke, program director for the nonprofit Safety Network Partnership
Gavin Newsom, incumbent
Wilma Pang, music teacher
Michael Powers, owner of Power Exchange sex club
Chicken John Rinaldi, showman
Billy Bob Whitmer, educator
Josh Wolf, blogger

pancakes and zoom

every weekend since we've been married shawn's made pancakes. most of the time it's been on saturday morning. most of the time coffee is included. from time to time, i get bacon, too. YUM-MY. i think my favorite were the fresh peach pancakes (peaches IN the pancakes). this morning it was mixed-berries. it's been two months since we've been married. somewhat surreal. really good. happy.

today we're buying a car. it's a 2002 VW Golf fully loaded with 30,000 miles on it. it's going to replace shawn's geo metro (1994, NOT loaded...i mean no air conditioning, no radio, no power anything included no power-sterring, 197,000 miles with original clutch still in). it's pretty exciting.

we're going to drive to Point Reyes to celebrate!