October 13, 2011
8/365 Awesomeness on Flickr.
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Today, I went with my co-workers to AIGA Richmond’s “Infographic Awesomeness” with Column Five Media. It was awesome. After a presentation of their works, there was a raffle and I won a book! And then, since the event was held in the same building as the Richmond Tumblr office, we decided to snoop around a bit too. But we got as far as the stairs—which were chained off—before we decided we didn’t want to get in trouble. Rebel fail…
Afterwards we all went to Legend for dinner and drinks. My co-worker, Jess and I had this dark, smoked chocolate ale. It was delicious!
And awesome.
Like Barney Stinson.
October 15, 2011
9/365 Lean Pockets on Flickr.
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I had all these plans to go see Four50Four play at The Republic tonight, but all those plans failed. Many times. I ended up going right as they were finishing up their last song, and left before they even started their second set. But at least I got to see LeAn (pronounces Lee-Ann… or just Lean Pockets) for a little while!
She looks great! I look… well…
How is this relevant to my wedding? Well I had first heard of Four50Four because my old co-worker is the bass player. They played at our old job’s office opening party and Ryan and I really liked them! So my original plan was to watch them play tonight to see how they would sound indoors if we were to have an indoor wedding. Aw yeah, this was potential band scouting!
Too bad I didn’t really hear them play. Fail. Oh well, next time!
October 16, 2011
10/365 Swing Kings on Flickr.
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My brother came to visit me from VA Tech. He was doing Jammin’ on the James, this big swing event held in Richmond every year.
In my senior year of high school, all the AP Calculus students did an end-of-the-year project called “Just Because” where we all had to learn something new… just because (and also because we had finished AP testing and there was nothing left to learn in Calculus). I decided to learn swing dancing. When my brother was a senior in AP Calculus, he had to do the same project; he followed suit and learned swing dancing as well. The difference in our stories is that after high school, my brother kept up with swing dancing. He joined the VT Swing Club and attended a bunch of events and dances. I had joined the VCU Swing Club my freshman year, but VCU Dance Team took up a lot of time so I wasn’t able to keep up with swing during college.
So anyway, I went to the Late Night dance at Dance Space with my brother to work my lindy hoppin’ and jitterbuggin’ again. I was sooooo rusty! It literally had been 4yrs since I had done swing! But with each dance, my brother (the pro) kept telling me how I was exponentially improving, and that he was incredibly jealous of how easily I was able to pick up other leads’ stylings. I felt more and more at ease too throughout the night. In the beginning, my focus was all on technique and the stuff I learned 4yrs ago… but later on, I realized I was supposed to be having fun. This was a social dance, not a competition or performance!
And I had sooooooo much fun!
Serena and Justin swing too (Justin was on the VCU Swing Club board at some point). I’m definitely having a swing session at my wedding! And I’m gonna look damn good doing the jitterbug in my wedding dress!
October 17, 2011
11/365 Top Secret on Flickr.
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Today I assisted with a photo shoot. I also found out that the nature of the shoot is a secret, so all I’m able to provide you with for day 11 is a cameraphone snapshot of the photographer at work, and cowboy (I’m sorry, cowgirl) boots and a hat.
Maybe I’ll reveal what I was doing when the official photos are released. I’m excited though, because everything/everyone looked gorgeous! And the photographer is beast!
12/365 Dexter on Flickr.
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Since I had such a crazy weekend, and Ryan’s still sick (he has a hard time with colds—luckily, he only gets them once a year), we decided to have a relaxing evening which consisted of Chinese takeout and our favorite serial killer, Dexter Morgan.
October 18, 2011
13/365 Chocolate Things… on Flickr.
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Today is apparently National Chocolate Cupcake Day. I surprisingly didn’t got out buy a chocolate cupcake, but this morning I mixed hot cocoa powder into my coffee. It counts :p
October 20, 2011
14/365 Haaaave you met Ryan? on Flickr.
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This picture is really bad and blurry because it was taken last minute, after I had one too many glasses of wine. We spent all night watching How I Met Your Mother and ended the night with American Horror Story.
Have you ever wondered what mine and Ryan’s relationship is like? In HIMYM, each character has his/her own doppleganger. Lily and Marshall are our relationship dopplegangers! When we watch HIMYM, it’s like watching ourselves on TV! We’re alike, from our professions (kinda) to our random quirks. From Lily’s loud chewing, to Marshall’s ability to make a theme song to any situation. We even have an irresponsible Barney in our lives, aka Ryan’s best friend.
We do need a Ted and Robin though.
And we’re not going to have 15lb turkey-sized babies…
15/365 Wallow, wallow… on Flickr.
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Ryan found out that he has been moved to the evening shift at the airport. (He’s airport po-po. He’s the one giving you your parking tickets when you’re not looking!) That means he works 3pm-11pm. I work 9am-5pm. WE’RE NEVER GOING TO SEE EACH OTHER! EVER AGAIN! He’ll be on that shift until someone else is hired or if someone quits. Or he could be on that shift until the end of his contract with the airport, which is two years! We may be spending the first year of our marriage completely void of our spouse’s company!
But then I found out when my parents got married, my dad was away for 3 months doing diplomatic things (or killing terrorists as Ryan would interpret it… he’s convinced my dad is a secret agent). So it made me feel slightly better. At least I can see Ryan on his days off… and when I wake up in the middle of the night to pee, he’ll be there! He’ll be asleep and unconscious, but he’ll be there.
I wallowed a little with the help of my good friends chocolate cake, Purple Haze, Rex Goliath, and some nasty White Zinfandel.
Just kidding…
I ate all the cake though.
Oh yeah, and this is what I was helping out with on Sunday: https://www.facebook.com/LadyRaidersDanceTeam. Totally makes me feel great about the chocolate cake :p
October 22, 2011
16/365 NOVA Jam on Flickr.
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I spent more than an hour of my day sitting in traffic. Only in NOVA, would you find yourself stuck in dead-stop traffic at 11:30pm. I could’ve made it home in record time, but noooo, some genius decided it would be a great idea to shut down two lanes of traffic on I-95. WHYYYY?!
Visiting my parents up in Burke. Jolly good times :)
