56 posts tagged “will”
will and i traveled down to manhattan during july to celebrate my BFF lynnieloo's birthday. we had such a great night!!!
first we started off going to a mexican restaurant and then we went back to lynnie's apt to cut the birthday cake!
this is the underwear i got from the britney spears store for lynnie's present - i bought a pair for myself and for mikala too (early bday present for mikala, her bday is in september).
my sister brianne got married to her girlfriend yami back on june 27th. it was simultaneously the most stressful and also the most joyful day i have EVER had! there was a lot of rushing around and making sure everything was ready for the wedding. i spent three days before the wedding baking and decorating cakes (along with taking a cake decorating class in march & april and preparing frosting flowers weeks ahead). i was so freaked out that i was going to ruin their wedding cake!! luckily everyone pitched it and i am sooo grateful to everyone that helped out! i thought my mom and me were going to have to singlehandedly put on this wedding and i am so relieved and also surprised at just how many people it took to put on this wedding!
it was supposed to thunderstorm that whole day so we were nervous about where we would hold the wedding. after setting up all the chairs, my cousin keith had the final word and said FUCK IT - we're having it outside! i kept joking that if God made it rain then it means He hates gay marriage. we could hear the thunder in the distance as they were married but it NEVER rained that entire day and night! so THERE - that means that God DOES love gay marriage!
their ceremony was so touching and so personal and i felt so honored to stand beside my sister and yami as they made their union together. it was the most beautiful wedding and it was THE best night of my life!
(thats will, scottie, brian - married to my cousin amy, jimmy & keith)
here's a clip from the wedding - everyone POURED onto the dance floor once the band started singing i kissed a girl!
...stay tuned for more pictures from the after party!!!
will's birthday was back on april 14th but i never posted about it!
i wanted to make a very special birthday cake for his birthday using my newly acquired cake decorating skills. the initial design i came up with was to have seahorses on the top of the cake spelling out 25 (thats how old he was turning). will thought the seahorses were "too girly" and we got in a bit of a row over the design. i kept the seahorses, despite his protests, but i worked in his three additonal demands: (1) it had to be "manly" (2) it had to have a shark and (3) he wanted his face on it.
this is what i came up with!
Show us whatever it is that makes you happy.
this is a cake i did awhile ago for my boyfriend's "fraternity" Cleo of Alpha Chi. i say that in quotes because cleo is technically a literary society. will was away all weekend for cleo's initiation and i had to practice frosting a cake so i made a cake for everyone to eat!
i realized i forgot to post about my valentine's day and birthday celebration!
since my birthday was on a monday (feb 16th), i kind of celebrated valentine's day and my birthday in reverse this year. on friday the 13th, will and i traveled down to lynda's place in westport to hang out with lynda, ryan, michelle and katie. lynda surprised me with a birthday cake!
it was a funfetti cake with chocolate pudding layers! it was sooo delish and the decorating job was fantastic - thanks for making it lynnie loo!
(this is will plotting his evil uno ways)
oh yeah and i can't tell you what i got will for his v-day present! ;-)
i wish i had a better attitude about aging. if i'm this bad at turning 26, i can't imagine what i'll be like in four years when i turn 30. i dread the day! i really don't want to be one of those women who is horrified when she discovers her first grey hair and then rushes out to get botox and plastic surgery. i don't want to be like that - but yet i still can't fathom myself getting older. every time i think about my age, i get this paralyzing fear that my life is passing me by and my "good years" may already be gone.
which is a stupid way to think because when i really look back on my life so far...my life just keeps getting better and better as i grow older. sure, there are a few things i miss about the past - old friends, living with my family under one roof, being in school. but overall, i am pretty happy about where my life has taken me. thats not to say that i am SATISFIED with my life right now - i have a lot of things that i still need to accomplish. in fact, i'm sure i'll never be 100% completely satisfied with my life because that would mean that there is no room for improvement - and i think there is ALWAYS room for improvement.
but instead of focusing on my wrinkles or how i am not measuring up, let me focus on some positive things in my life and what i am thankful for after living on this earth for 26 years.
I Am Thankful For...
- my boyfriend who loves, cares, and cherishes me every single day...and somehow manages to put up with a LOT of my shit
- my parents love and support, especially my mom's cooking and my father's patience
- my sisters' love, laughter and advice
- my brother-from-another-mother - who is always on my level and loves me unconditionally
- my friends' loyalty and humor - i am really lucky to have such wonderful people in my life
- my job - i want a new one soon but i am still grateful that i even get a paycheck when a lot of people don't have jobs right now
- my education
- my feet - even when i think i can't carry on, they keep moving me forward
- the $5908.59 thats in my savings account
- my health - even though i am not 100% healthy right now, i know it could be worse
- a functioning car: Cherry Red - my 240 volvo with almost 250,000 miles on it
- the life experiences i have gained over the past years - both good but mostly bad - which have helped me to become stronger and wiser
- president obama - although he has YET to prove to me that he is capable of turning this country around, i am thankful just to have someone elected that values scientific thought and logical reasoning. i never realized how big the dark cloud of dubya was hovering over me until he finally went away.
- the internet - which helps me to survive my working day, provides me with a creative outlet, educates me, and allows me to interact with people from all over the world and gain amazing new friends and connections.
- my hair - which does NOT have any grey in it...yet
What's the most complicated part of your life right now?
here are some lolcats that describe my situation better...
okay so i am finally getting around to writing about my new years celebration!
luckily both will and i got let out of work early on wednesday and but it still didn't save us from the snowstorm we had to drive through in order to reach my sister brianne's place in somerville, right outside of boston. the snow was coming down hard and the roads were crazy but we made it to their place safe and sound and it only took us about a half hour longer to get there.
the original plan was to chill at brianne and yami's place and then go to their friend's studio apartment where we could see the fireworks go off right outside their windows. since it was snowing so hard, we knew the fireworks were going to be canceled. plan b was to go out and do first night boston stuff but that idea was nixed because it was TEN DEGREES OUTSIDE and the wind chill was zero degrees - it was fucking COLD! at the very last minute, brianne called johnny d's, a restaurant/club about ten minutes down the street and they had a table open for the night right next to the stage but we had to get there by 7:30PM or the guy was gonna give our table away. it was 7:20PM when she called.
we booked it as fast as we could down the street, i seriously ran because it was so darn cold out...and lo and behold! i discover that i left my wallet at my sister's apt. with all the rush of getting ready to go, i totally forgot to bring it! the bouncer made me walk all the way back to my sister's place to get my ID. granted, i don't really look my age but i don't look THAT young (who am i kidding? i get carded when i buy lighters). remember - it is TEN DEGREES OUTSIDE! i was soooo pissed! also, there was a $22 cover charge which i was not down with but i guess it *was* new years.
luckily though, that was the only bad thing that happened that night! we had great food, drinks and this awesome disco cover band called booty vortex played some groovy tunes to dance to! and it was boss to have a table right next to the band because we could sit down when we wanted to. and they had allllll these new year's hats and party favors to give out so everyone in the crowd was really into the swing of things!
i'm so late uploading this but the holidays were so busy for me that i didn't have time to post pics!
here are some shots taking during the snow storm a few weeks back. the snow started falling on dec 19th and both will and i were let out of work early around 1PM. it was such a great treat for a friday! these first pictures are us walking around the campus during the snowstorm about seven hours after the snow began to fall.
the snow kept on falling the next day so we went out to play some more!
