diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'life')
| -rw-r--r-- | life/2019-07-21-dancing-the-shag-and-the-new-lion-king.md | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | life/2019-07-28-i-finally-found-a-drink-i-like.md | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | life/2019-08-11-marrying-my-best-friend.md | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | life/2020-04-10-the-obligatory-covid-19-post.md | 49 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | life/2020-04-10-wedding-photos-are-here.md | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | life/playing-with-leaves.md | 10 |
6 files changed, 196 insertions, 0 deletions
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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f567ea5 --- /dev/null +++ b/life/2019-07-21-dancing-the-shag-and-the-new-lion-king.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aaf6e86 --- /dev/null +++ b/life/2019-07-28-i-finally-found-a-drink-i-like.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +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. + + + + + diff --git a/life/2019-08-11-marrying-my-best-friend.md b/life/2019-08-11-marrying-my-best-friend.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c70a3b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/life/2019-08-11-marrying-my-best-friend.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0fe492 --- /dev/null +++ b/life/2020-04-10-the-obligatory-covid-19-post.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfe73d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/life/2020-04-10-wedding-photos-are-here.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ab26f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/life/playing-with-leaves.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n" +permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}" +title: Playing with Leaves +categories: [] +tags: [] +layout: post.liquid +is_draft: true +--- +Start writing already... |