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diff --git a/life/2019-07-21-dancing-the-shag-and-the-new-lion-king.md b/life/2019-07-21-dancing-the-shag-and-the-new-lion-king.md
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+---
+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: Dancing the Shag and The New Lion King
+categories:
+  - life
+tags:
+  - carolina
+  - shag
+  - dancing
+  - wedding
+  - lion
+  - king
+  - remake
+published_date: "2019-07-21 12:38:48 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+---
+Not all of my posts are huge, and they probably shouldn't be. Amy and I had a
+really great time yesterday at Two Left Feet Dance Studio, learning more about
+how to dance the Carolina Shag in preparation for our wedding (which is in less
+than 20 days)! An enormous swing band is going to play all of our favorites
+from the brass band/swing era, and one of the easiest dances to do to that
+music is the Shag. I wrote a paper on the Shag a few years ago for school but
+never actually learned how to do it. The steps are simple for us to remember
+and it's easy enough to add flair or mix it up so we look like we know what
+we're doing during our first dance.
+
+We also got out to see the new Lion King remake and I can honestly say it was
+worth it. If anyone's a Lion King purist, it's Amy. It's easily been her
+favorite movie since she was a toddler, and to see it tastefully redone almost
+25 years after it was first released was thoroughly enjoyable. There were minor
+alterations to literal sentences in the script that all added some context to
+things that were always kind of assumed in the original (clarification on
+Scar's backstory, etc.). I did however feel like they were trying to throw
+Beyonce lines the way a middle-schooler tries to turn a 500-word paper into a
+700-word paper. Regardless, it's definitely re-living the classic, not
+re-hashing it.
+
+
+
diff --git a/life/2019-07-28-i-finally-found-a-drink-i-like.md b/life/2019-07-28-i-finally-found-a-drink-i-like.md
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+---
+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: I Finally Found a Drink I Like!
+categories: 
+    - life
+tags: 
+    - mixed
+    - drinks
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+published_date: "2019-07-28 01:36:47 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+---
+Anyone who knows me even slightly well probably knows that I don't drink. And
+it's not out of moral obligation or anything like that. I just plain can't
+stand the taste of alcohol. So it's no surprise that my entire family has been
+trying to throw different alcoholic beverages in my direction to see what
+sticks.
+
+But it finally happened! I finally found a drink with alcohol in it. And not
+only did I not gag, but I genuinely enjoy it, think it tastes great, and mix it
+myself. 
+
+It's called *Blackberry Cream Soda*. It's just blackberries, ginger ale, and
+spiced rum. It's darn good. And it's going to be the signature drink at our
+wedding, whatever that means. All I know is I can finally order something at a
+bar and that's cool by me.
+
+![Behold, Blackberry Cream Soda](https://nextcloud.53hor.net/s/Jdpp8QYwo6nY9Fx/preview)
+
+
+
diff --git a/life/2019-08-11-marrying-my-best-friend.md b/life/2019-08-11-marrying-my-best-friend.md
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+---
+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: Marrying My Best Friend
+categories:
+  - life
+tags:
+  - wedding
+  - honeymoon
+  - carpenter
+  - squire
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+published_date: "2019-08-11 14:56:58 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+---
+It was an inexplicable mixture of joy and butterflies getting to marry my best
+friend. It was truly like a dream come true, so much so that it drove me to
+tears multiple times. Now that we're on our honeymoon, it feels simultaneously
+like everything and nothing has changed but I think that's a good thing. 
+
+More to come!
+
+
+
diff --git a/life/2020-04-10-the-obligatory-covid-19-post.md b/life/2020-04-10-the-obligatory-covid-19-post.md
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+---
+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: The Obligatory COVID-19 Post
+categories:
+  - life
+tags: [coronavirus, update, 8 months]
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+published_date: "2020-04-10 02:41:15 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+---
+We're alive! All three of us: Amy, Clementine, and myself. We're doing what we
+do best and that is being hermits with zero social contact. That's pretty okay
+by us though because it lets us slow down from all the fast-paced life changes
+we've made in the past few months. 
+
+In January Amy and I bought a house! We couldn't have done it without the
+wonderful help of everyone who gave us wedding gifts. We got a nice little
+standalone place in Suffolk, much closer to where I work and centrally located
+for Amy's tutoring business. We spent all of January painting and prepping for
+the big move. Late January and early February were all moving and unpacking and
+trying to get back in the groove. Since the outbreak, we've been using the
+extra time at home to finish up all the move-in projects we wanted to:
+finishing painting, putting up shelves, hanging pictures, and rewiring
+electrical outlets. 
+
+Amy also finally got the chance to pursue her dream job: she started up her own
+private tutoring business. She's been working hard with clients all over
+Hampton Roads, from college students all the way to first-graders. Business was
+booming before schools closed but I know she'll bring it back once things have
+returned to normal again. No worries though, she's spending this time helping
+William and Mary handle remote operations and students in need. She's also
+[supposed to be] writing her master's thesis so she can graduate in May but you
+know how it is.
+
+We're also working through a family illness, which is benign but difficult
+nonetheless. We expect a speedy recovery and we're really excited for that.
+All-in-all, we're really enjoying our lives as a happily married couple. It's
+been about eight months now and I've enjoyed every minute of it: the glad, the
+slightly stressed, and the overarching worry as the world took a strange turn.
+But we're looking forward to a good Summer now. The weather has turned nice --
+really nice -- and Clementine is forcing us to get outside. She's in love with
+her nice, big fenced-in yard and refuses to come in after catching hoops most
+of the time.
+
+Stay safe!
+
+
+
diff --git a/life/2020-04-10-wedding-photos-are-here.md b/life/2020-04-10-wedding-photos-are-here.md
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+---
+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: Wedding Photos Are Here!
+categories:
+  - life
+tags:
+  - wedding
+  - photos
+  - reception
+  - ceremony
+  - bachelor
+  - bachelorette
+  - honeymoon
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+published_date: "2020-04-10 03:06:00 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+---
+
+At long last we have all of our wedding photos together! Unfortunately a large
+portion of the professional ones were lost during editing but we're extremely
+fortunate to everyone who took pictures throughout the festivities so we have
+more to share! We hope you enjoy flipping through them as much as we did! There
+is also a collection of the photos we took while we were on our honeymoon on
+Mackinac Island, MI. It was an absolutely magical place and truly the
+experience of a lifetime for us to run away there. We're in contact with our
+videographer, who's working on the final cut now.
+
+Everything is available at the links down below. You can scroll through the
+photos, view them in fullscreen, and even download them or share them
+elsewhere. We hope you have as much fun flipping through them as we did!
+
+# [Bachelor & Bachelorette Parties](https://nextcloud.53hor.net/s/eYLqeMGnSPGRNFE)
+
+# [Wedding Day](https://nextcloud.53hor.net/s/FxekyGQFTFKG5ot)
+
+# [Honeymoon](https://nextcloud.53hor.net/s/mgZ6M4ayqX73DqL)
+
+
+
diff --git a/life/playing-with-leaves.md b/life/playing-with-leaves.md
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+---
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: Playing with Leaves
+categories: []
+tags: []
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: true
+---
+Start writing already...