wedding programs world-life and whatnot

obviously i fell off the grid before the wedding because i was busy doing things like cutting my fingers open with kitchen scissors while trying to tie 200 black ribbons on 200 printed programs. steve’s and my wedding programs were a shameless DIY rip off of these programs from etsy. i loved the way they look, but I felt the call of the DIY fairy and believed programs were an appropriate place to try my hand (because if I totally screwed them up they were only programs after all… also there’s a pun in there somewhere about ‘trying my hand’ what with how much my hand was bleeding from that scissors hack job). the interior and exterior spreads i designed in photoshop, then i had them printed by uprinting, and then spent a couple evenings binge watching jersey shore and tearing through ribbon like it was my job.

speaking of things that are my job: let’s talk about the other reason i was so M.I.A. before steve and i tied the knot. since coming to texas i have more than 20 job interviews of varying nature, and let me tell you i am still really really sick of recounting the professional version of my life story (which is still ongoing as people at my new office introduce themselves). though some of the hiring (or not-hiring) experiences were more horrific than others and though i’ve had my hands full since the wedding trying to juggle offers, i’m finally standing on stable ground with an awesome marketing job at a construction company less than a mile from where we live (in houston a commute of this scope is kind of a big deal). i’m still getting used to going to work every day again (alas, no more leisurely days of late morning gym, early afternoon pool time with infinite jest, cleaning, errands, and dinner-cookin’… sigh… housewifery suited me) but i’m loving the chance to get dressed up again, and i love being up for espresso and green smoothies in the morning with stevedor.

on the subject of green smoothies both combos below (which really yield more like brown smoothies) are both super yum:

2 cups spinach

4 pineapple spears

3 cups frozen cherry berry mix

2 cups almond milk

&

2 cups spinach

1 orange

1 peach

1 pineapple spear

2 cups frozen berries

2 cups almond milk

now that our wedding is done it feels like steve and i are fresh turn of the century immigrants off the boat on the atlantic coast staring west across the country. between the move, the wedding, the honeymoon, and the job hunt it doesn’t seem like we’ve had a chance to actually think about anything else, such as “what do we do now?” now that we’re lucky enough to be two, happy, married, stable, employed, cat-owning adults in a fairly new part of the country the world kind of feels like our oyster, all we have to do is decide what kind of adventure to have next.