Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Apricrots from the green market.
Yum! I am sitting here, at my desk, eating the most delicious apricots that I picked up at the green market in Sunnyside on Saturday. Local farmers set up stands about 2 blocks from mine & Andy's apartment every Saturday, and it's really such a special treat! Everything we have had from this market has been amazing...so we have decided to make it a regular Saturday morning stop. Coffee & the green market. I love Saturday mornings.
Right now I have so many delicious summer fruits and vegetables in my apartment - Jersey corn that June brought us, Jersey tomatoes, cucumbers, apricots! Now the only question - what to make for dinner??
I have to make a correction about the invitations - they are not ready to go out in the mail today. They probably won't be ready until next weekend, because the printing is taking quite a bit longer than we anticipated. We have had to feed the paper in at about 10 pages at a time, instead of all at once, plus there is so much text going on different components of the invites that it just takes a long time for it to print. No worries though - they are coming out so well, and that is the important part! Yesterday June and Justine came over to help me with the invites, and the boutonnieres. It was really a great day filled with wonderful company, conversation, music, and food! Plus so many things were accomplished! Thank you so much again June & Justine - I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate all of your help!
Everything else is pretty good. I can't say that things have been perfectly smooth lately, but that is okay. We all go through difficult things right?? I know that what I have been dealing with in the past 5 days is going to make me stronger in the end, and I'm sure it is for the best. But dealing with hardships is never easy. I'm truly blessed to have such a wonderful family and close friends to lean on. So thank you everyone for listening and comforting me. A special thank you to my wonderful fiance.
Life is not easy, and relationships are not easy. I think we all go through times where we don't understand where each other is coming from, or we feel misunderstood or unappreciated - and I truly believe (now more than ever) that the true test of a relationship is in fact these times. If you can get through the tough times, you can absolutely get through the rest!
I also think the way we deal with conflict amongst each other says a lot about our character. It's never easy talking to someone when you are upset with them, or telling them how you truly feel - if it's not particularly pleasant. But I think sharing your feelings with that person or persons is extremely important. How can we grow or learn from each other, and how can our relationships grow and improve if we don't communicate our feelings to each other?
Very recently I had a conversation with Andrew about this very topic. Sometimes Andrew (like most of us) would rather walk away from the problem completely, than actually deal with it or try to make it better. In one particular situation this was what he wanted. Him and I talked and talked and talked about this topic, and he finally decided to give it a chance, and sure enough - it all worked out for the best and there was no writing off or walking away. Things are better and I am so thankful that they are.
I'm not trying to sound off on the blog, but rather use it as a forum to get out some of my own emotions in a mature fashion. I am speaking in generalities, because that is what I am taking from my own situation. I am taking life lessons.
Thank you to all of my family and friends for supporting me all of these years, and for being there for me. I love you all, and want you to know that I am here for you - for anything.
Until next time,
Amanda
Right now I have so many delicious summer fruits and vegetables in my apartment - Jersey corn that June brought us, Jersey tomatoes, cucumbers, apricots! Now the only question - what to make for dinner??
I have to make a correction about the invitations - they are not ready to go out in the mail today. They probably won't be ready until next weekend, because the printing is taking quite a bit longer than we anticipated. We have had to feed the paper in at about 10 pages at a time, instead of all at once, plus there is so much text going on different components of the invites that it just takes a long time for it to print. No worries though - they are coming out so well, and that is the important part! Yesterday June and Justine came over to help me with the invites, and the boutonnieres. It was really a great day filled with wonderful company, conversation, music, and food! Plus so many things were accomplished! Thank you so much again June & Justine - I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate all of your help!
Everything else is pretty good. I can't say that things have been perfectly smooth lately, but that is okay. We all go through difficult things right?? I know that what I have been dealing with in the past 5 days is going to make me stronger in the end, and I'm sure it is for the best. But dealing with hardships is never easy. I'm truly blessed to have such a wonderful family and close friends to lean on. So thank you everyone for listening and comforting me. A special thank you to my wonderful fiance.
Life is not easy, and relationships are not easy. I think we all go through times where we don't understand where each other is coming from, or we feel misunderstood or unappreciated - and I truly believe (now more than ever) that the true test of a relationship is in fact these times. If you can get through the tough times, you can absolutely get through the rest!
I also think the way we deal with conflict amongst each other says a lot about our character. It's never easy talking to someone when you are upset with them, or telling them how you truly feel - if it's not particularly pleasant. But I think sharing your feelings with that person or persons is extremely important. How can we grow or learn from each other, and how can our relationships grow and improve if we don't communicate our feelings to each other?
Very recently I had a conversation with Andrew about this very topic. Sometimes Andrew (like most of us) would rather walk away from the problem completely, than actually deal with it or try to make it better. In one particular situation this was what he wanted. Him and I talked and talked and talked about this topic, and he finally decided to give it a chance, and sure enough - it all worked out for the best and there was no writing off or walking away. Things are better and I am so thankful that they are.
I'm not trying to sound off on the blog, but rather use it as a forum to get out some of my own emotions in a mature fashion. I am speaking in generalities, because that is what I am taking from my own situation. I am taking life lessons.
Thank you to all of my family and friends for supporting me all of these years, and for being there for me. I love you all, and want you to know that I am here for you - for anything.
Until next time,
Amanda
Friday, July 31, 2009
78
It is exactly 78 days until the wedding. 7/8 is my birthday. I guess
every time I check The Knot, it just so happens on a cool date, such
as last time it was 98. Time is flying!
every time I check The Knot, it just so happens on a cool date, such
as last time it was 98. Time is flying!
We are almost done with the invites.
Pretty much they will be out by Monday, so expect them this week!
Hi!
I love you Amanda!
More than anything, now until forever, I will be there for you. I will honor, love, and cherish you.
Thank you for being my all.
More than anything, now until forever, I will be there for you. I will honor, love, and cherish you.
Thank you for being my all.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Wonderful shower weekend in Cuse, now time for bed!!
Just want to say another thank you to everyone who made my shower so special...I really enjoyed every single part of it. Thank you extra specially to my mom and Mike for hosting the shower, and opening your home to everyone for my special day. Also, I hope your 50th birthday party was great Mike! It was special that both you and I were able to share Saturday to celebrate milestones in our lives.
I will definitely post some pictures of the shower when I'm not fighting to keep my eyelids open. I will also write more about it at that time. For now, goodnight everyone and thank you for being in my life, and for celebrating the love that Andy & I share. Without the love and support of our family and friends, we would not be the people we are today - two people enraptured in a glorious love. I am thinking of how I can't wait for my handsome fiance (who is currently in the bathroom) to come into bed and put his arms around me, and run his fingers through my hair. On that note, signing off for now.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Weekend filled with wedding & shower prep.
Weekend. What weekend?
I'm not being negative, it's just the simple truth. The weekend passed in a blur of paper & spray adhesive, whipped honey, and a very HOT apartment. All parts of the processes necessary to finish the wedding invitations and make the bridal shower favors.
My Saturday began with screen printing and coffee, followed by cutting and gluing and yoga. Yes yoga too. Thank god.
After working on invitations for HOURS, my back started to ache. I never have back aches, because I do so much yoga. But I had one on Saturday from sitting in the same position for a few hours while gluing and cutting. So I did yoga, and then did some more work on invitations. Then Andy and I decided we both needed to relax for the rest of the evening, so we had a really great dinner (steak and sweet potato fries), and then watched a movie called the Happening. It was a creepy movie, which I didn't expect considering Andy picked it out. He doesn't usually like scary movies...I expected it to be more of an action movie, but it wasn't. However, the ending was pretty lame. I felt like there should have been a really scary ending, but it was sort of a happy-ish ending and it involved aliens (SPOILER ALERT - oops...a little late!)
Any time the end of a scary movie involves aliens, the movie is ruined. Just saying. I like aliens and all...I like outer space...but I think it's cheesy not to have a scary movie end with some sort of bizarre, creepy ending. There's something comforting about the scary things in a movie being caused by aliens. I don't know. Not a fan of the ending.
But it was really nice to lay in bed and watch a movie with Andy...relax after a pretty tiring day.
Sunday we both woke up and went for a walk/ jog to Kristin and Nathan's, to feed Cassie since they are out of town. After that we stopped at Michael's craft store and Stop & Shop, and picked up some things we needed for baking the cookie favors for my shower this coming weekend. (yay!!!)
I spend the rest of the day on Sunday baking - about 8 hours worth. Geesh! But it was worth it...the cookies came out so great, and our refrigerator benefited during my downtime. It is now clean as a whistle! Andy was busy studying and brushing up on things for an interview he has today (good luck my love!)...so I put on some Andrew Bird and BAKED!
The end result of the cookies is marvelous if you ask me. I tend to bake with some recipes in hand, and an idea of what I want to make...but I usually throw extra ingredients into things and change them up/ play around to see what comes out. I made two kinds of cookies. The first are vanilla sandwich cookies with lemon curd and grapefruit cream filling. The second are vanilla sandwich cookies with whipped honey and vanilla honey cream filling. Andy and I bought a jar of whipped honey from the green market in our neighborhood on Saturday (great marketing skills by the man working at the stand), so this ingredient inspired the honey vanilla cookies. It is local whipped honey, organic, and kosher! Woohoo!
I think both sets of cookies are equally delicious, and hopefully the shower guests will enjoy them as much as I do!
I need to take some photos of them in the freezer and post them...
Andrew took pics of the invitations in progress, so I must post those too!
LOTS to do this week. Laundry, and getting things ready for our upcoming weekend in Cuse. Hopefully working on the invites some more, and the bags for the cookies. And maybe relaxing/ taking a breather somewhere in the midst of all of this. Maybe.
Really really looking forward to taking a little road trip up to Cuse just Andy and me. Will be a nice way to start the weekend.
Can't wait for all the FUN to come!!
I'm not being negative, it's just the simple truth. The weekend passed in a blur of paper & spray adhesive, whipped honey, and a very HOT apartment. All parts of the processes necessary to finish the wedding invitations and make the bridal shower favors.
My Saturday began with screen printing and coffee, followed by cutting and gluing and yoga. Yes yoga too. Thank god.
After working on invitations for HOURS, my back started to ache. I never have back aches, because I do so much yoga. But I had one on Saturday from sitting in the same position for a few hours while gluing and cutting. So I did yoga, and then did some more work on invitations. Then Andy and I decided we both needed to relax for the rest of the evening, so we had a really great dinner (steak and sweet potato fries), and then watched a movie called the Happening. It was a creepy movie, which I didn't expect considering Andy picked it out. He doesn't usually like scary movies...I expected it to be more of an action movie, but it wasn't. However, the ending was pretty lame. I felt like there should have been a really scary ending, but it was sort of a happy-ish ending and it involved aliens (SPOILER ALERT - oops...a little late!)
Any time the end of a scary movie involves aliens, the movie is ruined. Just saying. I like aliens and all...I like outer space...but I think it's cheesy not to have a scary movie end with some sort of bizarre, creepy ending. There's something comforting about the scary things in a movie being caused by aliens. I don't know. Not a fan of the ending.
But it was really nice to lay in bed and watch a movie with Andy...relax after a pretty tiring day.
Sunday we both woke up and went for a walk/ jog to Kristin and Nathan's, to feed Cassie since they are out of town. After that we stopped at Michael's craft store and Stop & Shop, and picked up some things we needed for baking the cookie favors for my shower this coming weekend. (yay!!!)
I spend the rest of the day on Sunday baking - about 8 hours worth. Geesh! But it was worth it...the cookies came out so great, and our refrigerator benefited during my downtime. It is now clean as a whistle! Andy was busy studying and brushing up on things for an interview he has today (good luck my love!)...so I put on some Andrew Bird and BAKED!
The end result of the cookies is marvelous if you ask me. I tend to bake with some recipes in hand, and an idea of what I want to make...but I usually throw extra ingredients into things and change them up/ play around to see what comes out. I made two kinds of cookies. The first are vanilla sandwich cookies with lemon curd and grapefruit cream filling. The second are vanilla sandwich cookies with whipped honey and vanilla honey cream filling. Andy and I bought a jar of whipped honey from the green market in our neighborhood on Saturday (great marketing skills by the man working at the stand), so this ingredient inspired the honey vanilla cookies. It is local whipped honey, organic, and kosher! Woohoo!
I think both sets of cookies are equally delicious, and hopefully the shower guests will enjoy them as much as I do!
I need to take some photos of them in the freezer and post them...
Andrew took pics of the invitations in progress, so I must post those too!
LOTS to do this week. Laundry, and getting things ready for our upcoming weekend in Cuse. Hopefully working on the invites some more, and the bags for the cookies. And maybe relaxing/ taking a breather somewhere in the midst of all of this. Maybe.
Really really looking forward to taking a little road trip up to Cuse just Andy and me. Will be a nice way to start the weekend.
Can't wait for all the FUN to come!!
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