Back to reality

Sorry I have been MIA---I am back at work! I am in Seattle for training and heading back home tonight. I will write more when I get back!

La 'Shana Tova

Happy Jewish New Year! Tonight at sundown marks the Jewish New Year. Jews all across the world tonight will be celebrating with the sound of the shofar and apples dipped in honey. Eli and I will dip hallah into honey since it is still our first year of marriage. It symbolizes a sweet first year of marriage.

We will go to synaggouge tonight, the same one he grew up in; went to hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah. I love going to temple with E as it reminds me that we have so much yet to explore together as husband and wife, especially when it comes to religion.

Shana Tova!

We pause during our regulary scheduled program to

give a shout out to my husband for saving me from my MIL's cooking and bloody chicken.

He is a good man my friends, a good man.

Perfect way to end my whirlwind trip to the Midwest

Sunday I met up with Rusti and Jenny. These two lovely ladies were so kind to drive up from where the live to Kzoo! It was about an hour and a half trip (one way) for them. I was so honered that they would even drive that far to have lunch with someone they barely know. That whole weekend, I was so excited--never nervous. I just knew it was the perfect thing to do--to meet them.

I knew that Jenny and Rusti's significant other's were a little leary about having them drive to meet someone they have not met. So to help ease things, I had my mom drop me off--I figure that would put me in the harmless category :) Lunch did get off on a rocky start--the resturant I had picked was slammed! I guess it is a hotspot for Kzoo folks. Plus the kitchen started to back up so it pushed our wait time backward instead of forward. So a quick call to Mom lead us to Burdicks. The whole time we were laughing and chattering non-stop. No awkard silences. It was too perfect! Like we had always known each other.
Lunch ended, they dropped me off to meet my mom at the shell station. Snapped a couple of pictures and off we went--separtely. We waved goodbye to each other from our cars. It was a perfect way to end my week. I am so happy that we were able to meet. Both of these girls are so fun, caring, hiliarous--everything you get from reading thier blogs is truely who they are in person.

Blog world meets real world

in two and a half hours, I get the pleasure of meeting both Rusti and Jenny! I am so excited! I hope the drive for them is okay, it's a little cloudy this morning. It rained all night. I hope the sun decides to come out. I am mentally running through a list of topics to chat about just in case we don't have anything to say--though I know I doubt that will happen. The 3 of us have google chatted before and we were going back and forth with a ton of things to say. EEK! I am bouncing off the walls!

5 things you didn't know about me

I was tagged by a couple of you so here I go...5 things you didn't know about me. ( bare with me, I am a little nervous here trying to come up with some stuff)

1) I will be 32 on Septmeber 30th and I have lived in 6 states-
Utah, Colorado, Alabama, Ohio, Illinios and Califorina. I even had a southern accent for awhile.

2) I was 8 weeks premature. Weighed 4lbs when I was born then dropped to 2. My parents thought I wasn't going to make it.

3) On both hands, my fingers are double jointed--this means I can make them look like witches hands (or at least I think they look like witches hands)

4) My good friend R from college is my sister in law. I married her husbands younger brother. Eli and I "met" each other 3 times before it finally clicked btwn the both of us. 8 months later, he moved from the bay area to chicago and we immediately moved in together and never looked back. We will be married a year on October 22nd.

5) I puked on the golden gate bridge. When Eli and I were dating, I flew in for the weekend and we went on a bike ride in SF and then on to ride across the golden gate bridge. On the way up to the bridge is a MASSIVE hill. I am from the midwest--so there are no hills and I was trying to impress my future husband on my biking skills so I tried to keep up with him. (remember, he was born and raised on those hills) I maxed myself out so bad that I had to stop right as we got on the golden gate bridge, get off my bike and find a quiet, secluded spot to hurl. Eli was a good sport about it and the best part was, that night we ordered pizza. I downed about 5 slices and promptly fell asleep on him. yeah, i am a winner :)

Hope you enjoyed learning a little bit more about me :)
I think everyone was tagged but if you were not--then you are now!!!

Made it!

After waking up at 430am and getting to the airport at 5am, crusing the various ticket counters to see which airline would be so kind to let me board their boeing..Northwest Airlines won!!! I flew from OC to Minneapolis and then Minn to Des Moines. I barely made to the flight as I had haul my booty from one side to the airport to the other. I was so thankful the little puddlejumper had some open seats for me.

Ah, back in Des moines. It is a relief to be here again and not be crazed with wedding stuff. This time last year I was a little over a month out from the wedding and as soon as we drove in from Chicago, it was a race to get everything we needed to get done. Now I am back to hanging out with the grandparents.

Last night I hung out with my momma (her picture is on the side bar) We went out to dinner, had some drinks and stayed up talking until 1am. We do a good job spanning the topics. Now that I am married some new ones popped up--sexy time. I could not believe I was discussing sexy time with my grandmother. My how I have grown up.

Tomorrow will be devoted to my other grandparents. They are mid 80's and filled with pure stubborness. They are still kicking it in their home my mother grew up in. I will be running them around for various errands that they need done. It will be good for us to be together, but I will need to take an extra patience pill with me.

Thursday I leave again for MI--I am hoping the airplane gods cooperate again!