is it normal to read 40+ blogs? i was having trouble keeping up with all of them until my good friend michelle mentioned google reader... this is exciting stuff! it checks all your daily reading blogs and shows you which ones have posted. hours, maybe even days have been saved thus far. apparently that means no more excuses on not posting on my blog. i love it when people post daily, but... i can't be witty daily. (maybe i am kidding myself that i can- at times- be witty.) SO... my new goal is weekly! (setting those standards low.)
life has been happily busy since my last post... last night a great dinner with a large group of friends to wish Shanna a happy birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. i realized at this dinner, that single/dating women put on a number of airs... 'i don't talk about farts, that disgusting...' etc. (i won't go into the other subjects we covered for the gentle eyes that maybe reading) but once we marry we give in! we become a one of the guys... and suddenly all those icky things we scorned become ok.
i couldn't stop laughing at dinner... everything was so funny! my crazy friends have stepped it up a notch since marriage. i then come home to four guys (cory mon was here at his second home) and listen to the same sorts of disgusting jokes... (i will admit they were bumped up a bit- these are single guys talking to other single guys, about single guy stuff)- the light bulb clicked on- we sink to the level of our husbands! some time during the dating process we think- we can handle this, put up with that... until it is to late! we have given in.
oh the shame! or... MAYBE we just learn to relax and have fun. which is true? ...it depends on my mood. (the blessing of being a female.)
on the rest of the docket... the hubby had a fun show with his band, Code Hero, last week. i love watching him play, love hearing the music, but hate trying to get pictures in these dark places!
i used film... (no dslr for this girl until is out of debt!) and this what i got:

not lovin' it... i think the panio and rhodes pic was my favorite, though still nothing to get excited about...
and don't you fret your little mind... i will keep everyone up to date on justin's rise to fame. he is already my personal rockstar. now we just have to bring the rest of band up to snuff... check them out and email me if you would like to come to their shows. they are all ubber talented and know how to give a great show. (i was just joking about that band thing nate, relax.)
on other foreign shores... i have been working a little on my craftiness... even had a craft night with michelle (she painted and spilled the beans about google reader), amy (who is an amazing 3rd grade teacher prepared work for later that week... ugh.) and daniella (wrote down all the quotes from my plethora of stickers.) i worked my calender of the first year of marriage- (we really might be having too much fun.) i came to the decision that more of crafty nights are needed... good food, girl talk, and throwing creativeity around- could life get any better? anyone out there like to come? anyone?
the night before i finished up this layout:
then i changed the top right hand corner to this...
here are a couple more details...
all the fabric is from different projects that are special to our relationship... ah... how cute!

this layout resulted from justin not liking to look at his own face...? i don't understand either, but here is the story:
we printed this beautiful 16x20 for our wedding dinner. picture this.... you walked into my parents house from the rain and you behold our beautiful faces. (insert chorus of heavenly angels)... why would anyone what to look anywhere else?
when we got back from our honeymoon i promptly put the picture up in our room. after all where else would it go? duh, right? later that day i came home to find it gone... disappeared. i found it a few days later hidden by boxes in our room. tried again in a new location, it was perfect... perfectly missing within the hour! after the picture went mia a few more times it vanished for good. i asked again and again... justin just shrugged his shouldered and suggesting we could establish terms and conditions for our pretty picture... "i just don't want to look at myself... if we could cut me out... then it would be great." ugh and evil glare. (but to no avail.) so... as any new swayable wife i gave up- made it into a scrapbook page... it works... but don't be fooled justin! you may have won this time, but in the end i always get my way! (somewhat evil cackle)
love you honey.