I'm back, baby

Hey, it's been a while!

Ryan's been bugging me for ages to write a blog post. For some reason, despite driving me to work, exchanging an email or two during the work day, picking me up and driving home with me, going to the gym with me, eating dinner with me, sitting next to me on the couch while we plow through our Best Picture Winners project and snuggling next to me at night, he still wants to read about what's going on in my head.

Aw, we're so damn precious.

So what have I been up to? Turning 25 was, actually, surprisingly painless. Moving out of the old house and into the new apartment was not quite so painless, with a huge snowstorm slamming the Upper Midwest the night before. Nothing makes moving exciting quite like a foot of new snow and bitter cold! We had lots of lovely help from the Berglund-Husebys and the Rosoks... that sister of mine is a taskmaster, and I mean that in the best way! She was instrumental in motivating all of us to keep on moving heavy furniture.

Other than that, Ryan and I joined the YWCA; we bought a 42" LCD TV and schmancy new tv stand for it, along the way realizing that we have a lot of IKEA furniture!

I've also been attempting at wedding planning, although I am terrible at it. Really, awful. There are some people, some of whom I have called friends, who really excel at this type of thing. I don't excel at it and I don't enjoy it. But we have the church, the reception hall, the dress, the wedding party, the bridesmaid dresses and the date. We have a photographer and soon we'll have a baker. We need an officiant (um, very important) and a florist. Hopefully the rest will fall into place easily enough.