"Wait a Minute, I Got Married..."

Well, it's been a busy week....

The wedding was last Saturday, and it all went beautifully. The whole day was generally a lot of fun. I haven't seen very many pictures yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting a phone call from the photographer....

Jimmy and I flew out early on Sunday morning for a little honeymoon in Washington D.C. We'd both been to D.C. before, so we got to spend the trip seeing the things that we either wanted to see again or hadn't seen before. We went to the International Spy Museum, the National Postal Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library of Congress, the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, and various other places. While I enjoyed visiting most of the places that we went, I particularly enjoyed the Postal Museum, the Shakespeare Library, and Ford's Theatre. I was a bit disappointed by the JPII Cultural Center; I was expecting a museum and it was more of a cultural/convention center. I probably would have enjoyed the Spy Museum and the National Archives more if they hadn't been packed with children who were apparently on school trips to D.C.

Our honeymoon was generally pretty low key. However, we stayed at the Hotel Rouge, a fancier-than-usual little place, and went out for a fancier-than-usual dinner one night which was followed by a limo tour of the D.C. area. We flew back home on Wednesday so Jimmy could be back to work on Thursday morning.

I feel like I've spent the last couple of days just trying to put my house back in order. (My absolutely wonderful family came down for the wedding, and my house--now our house--was Grand Central Station. The back room got turned into a flower shop, the kitchen became a cafeteria, and the rest of the house was either visiting space or work space as needed.) Between all of the traffic from the past week, the wedding gifts and stuff (decorations, etc), and the recent return from a trip, there's a lot of work to be done before the house looks like I think it should. Most of today was spent in the back yard; tomorrow I'm staying in the house.


A Story: "Wait a Minute, I Got Married...."
On Sunday night (after a long day involving airplanes, problems with check-in at the hotel, and some sight-seeing), Jimmy and I decided to go find a pub where we could just sit back and have a beer or two. We pulled out our little D.C. guidebook and decided to go to The Brickseller (the bar that's in the in the Guinness Book of World Records for bar with the most beers). Jimmy was very excited because they had Lithuanian beer. Anyway, after the first beer, I decided to make a trip to the ladies room. After trying to open a door in the ladies room the wrong way, I flippantly remarked, "Well, you can tell I've never been here before." Another young woman replied, "I've only been in town two days, and this is my third visit to this bar. They have the cheapest beers in town." I replied, "We decided to check the place out because my fiance...oh, wait a minute...I got married yesterday...that means he's my husband...well, my husband was hoping they'd have Lithuanian beer here...." The lady laughed, offered her congratulations, and asked if my husband and I would like to join her and her friends; I politely refused, but I'm sure I left her with a little story to tell her friends....

Married.

I got married today. More details and stuff to come after we get back from the honeymoon....

"go ogle"

"Go ogle." That was the spelling suggestion that I got from my Yahoo! e-mail when it came across the word 'Google.' I giggled (not googled, giggled). Tee-hee!

Weddings and Life....

If you're reading this, I'm guessing you survived the Ides of March. I hope you had a Happy St. Patrick's Day too. It seems I've missed a few reasons to celebrate this past week....

The name of the game recently has been wedding planning. The pesky little details are still being pesky, and they're really starting to get in the way of every day life. Though I'm excited about the wedding, I'm also looking forward to being able return to something resembling a normal life. I fear that, despite my best efforts, I'm slowly becoming a bridezilla (metaphorically, of course--I certainly don't have either the complexion or the coloring for it).

3.14

Happy Pi Day!! One of my friends who is a junior high math teacher reminded me that today is Pi Day. Just thought I would remind you too....

Wow, Time Flies....

It seems like time has gotten away from me. I was a bit surprised to see that it's been 10 days since I last updated my blog....

I think the time change probably contributed to the time flying, but I don't think that's why I haven't blogged in a while....

I was away at a conference for a few days this past week. I got to go up to Kansas State University for their annual Cultural Studies conference. I presented a paper on WWII films and their influence on the Vietnam War soldiers and Vietnam War literature. The conference was interesting, and I certainly enjoyed visiting with friends and the faculty members there. The drive there and back, however, was not quite so much fun. (I forgot to pick up an audiobook at the public library before I went.)

I've been working quite a bit on wedding stuff. Jimmy and I met with the caterer this weekend, and I've been in contact with quite a few other people who will be participating in the wedding in various ways. I don't think I quite realized just how many pesky little details there are in planning a wedding....

I'm on Spring Break this week. YAY!!

Carmen

Tonight was an opera night. Jimmy and I went to see Bizet's Carmen. Though I'd played some of the music on the piano a very long time ago, I'd never seen the opera on stage before. The music was absolutely amazing (both the stuff I already knew and the stuff I didn't). I think it was probably one of the best productions that I've seen here....