breaking pointe is back!

I'm in Richmond till Wednesday gettin' WERK done this week, but I'm stopping in to make a shameless plug for our friend Josh's tv show! 

Breaking Pointe's 2nd season premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on the east coast, & we're ESPECIALLY excited because we'll be seeing a LOT more of Josh this year... Since he's all fancy & has a lead role on the show this season. It's almost like hanging out with him. 

Tune in to the CW (local ch. 27) & find out more about the show here!

back in the swing of things

I'm getting back into the swing of things around here, mostly adjusting to life not in the office & figuring out how to make my days productive. This includes investigating what exactly our neighbors one wall over are doing to make horrific slamming noises at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, purging my closet of clothes I've kept since high school (because they still fit! But no, not actually, they've merely stretched with me WHEEEEEE) & singing the Newsies soundtrack just as loudly as I darn well please to the amusement of the landscaping crew outside the window. After all of this, I take to the windowsill to watch the birds fly while pondering, "When do you actually stop seething with jealousy over your high school classmates who are now living in New York City?"

Ahem. I'm also working real real hard on getting my new job up & running. I've been accused of not updating my blog frequently enough this summer (to which I say MY BLOG, MY RULES) but it's true. I have neglected this wee babe of a blog. I'm diligently working on getting St. Louis trip photos posted, & just... planning, in general. So much planning.

This is so boring, haha! But bear with me. Prettiest of pleases?

home again

 a little fair in the middle of nowhere, kentucky

Hullo! We returned from our Midwest adventure on Friday afternoon, with about 1800 photos to sort through & oh-so-much-sleep to catch up on. You know how you always need a vacation from vacation? Yeah, that was our last 48 hours - sleep & How I Met Your Mother on Netflix. So much driving... So much corn field. But! The best friend is married & honeymooning, the extended family members have been hugged, & Jared has officially been introduced to Busch Stadium + the disgustingly delicious phenomenon that is White Castle. (He hated it & still isn't ready to talk about it.) Lots of fun, & OH will there be photo documentation on this here blog!

Part of our vacation recovery weekend included the beach yesterday, & we both sort of burned. A lot. Turns out that you can burn the underside of your wrist, which I've only just now discovered as I uncomfortably type with my laptop digging into my wrist sunburn. But I'll be back! Definitely with photos, but also aloe vera.

ps // As a teeny update, our lease was automatically renewed 10 days earlier than we thought it would be, so we're apparently staying in this little home for one more year. While a lower rent at a new apartment would have been nice, I am just thrilled to pieces that I'm not packing boxes right now.

three years later

Last night at nearly 11 p.m., after a long & sweaty event day, I went back to my office for the last time I'd call it mine. My pictures had been packed up, my updated desk manual had been submitted & my voicemail message had been changed. Instead of moving my dot to "out", I moved my name to the middle of the board & placed the coveted blue "vacation" dot underneath it. Until that moment, the emotions of saying goodbye hadn't hit.

It's nothing short of crazy that it is somehow three years later, & I am leaving this job. I was not planning on getting a job straight out of college. It was 2010 & no one was getting hired, especially not in the exact field they wanted to go into. I figured I had a slow summer of job applications & wedding planning in front of me. Instead, God opened all the windows & all the doors. I was told about this job opening by a friend from high school that I hadn't seen in years, but he had thought of me. The job was for a fulltime event coordinator of a large (& "wild"... cough) non-profit park. It wasn't part of my plan, but it would be crazy not to interview. I knew walking out of my first interview that they would hire me. I did not know that I would want to die trying to manage that first summer of events on top of planning an October wedding. It was awful, ha. But man-oh-man, did it make me strong.

I'm really terrible at goodbyes, & I always have been. I am so excited for what lies ahead, & there's a lot of stress that I'm not sad to be leaving behind. But I also have made some of the best of friends, had the silliest of moments on the most chaotic of event days, & learned invaluable lessons over the last three years. I know it's not really goodbye, & I know I still only live 8 minutes away. But there is a finality to closing your office door... My home away from home, really... for the last time. I am truly honored to have been working for the past three years for an organization that believed in the little blonde who wore a flower in her hair to her interview, two weeks before she graduated from college. It has been an experience that has filled my heart & head with all sorts of love & lessons. Thanks for believing in me.

& so, we are leaving for a grand vacation to the midwest for a wedding & family visiting for the first two weeks of July... & then? Well, I'm going to keep you waiting for that announcement. Sorry. Kinda ;) In the meantime, I'm putting my well-loved, event-day Sperry's in the back of the closet for a niiiiice, long break.

oh, what a day

It just wasn't that long ago that the end of June 2013 seemed so far away.  A very far away time that held a closed chapter & an open door, along with oh-who-knows what else in between. It's somehow here & every day, I'm answering questions at work about my last day & what I'm doing next. The answers have started to roll off my tongue, & I've mastered the answering them in a most confident tone. 50% of the time, I actually am feeling that confident. The other half, I'm feeling like I'm doing the right thing but ohhh lawd, does failing sound so not awesome.

I'm drowning a little bit right now, to be honest... But the best kind of drowning there is. Like, in cream cheese frosting or that lotion that they jump you with in the middle of the mall. I'm finishing my last week at a job that has been nothing but good to me, & I'm stepping forward into a great unknown, with God all around me.

Life hasn't been all that photogenic. It's been a lot of working, a lot of apartment hunting (yep, again), & mostly just a lot of busy. I can't wait to join life on the other side of an 8 hour day in the office & 16 hour event days. I'm sure these introspective posts are getting a little old, but it's either this, or silence, or pictures of our laundry. Someone get me a dog, already, right??