20-ish days into the new year and I already feel like 2016 is going to be a completely different year than the last. I started the year traveling between multiple cities for work and fun, hopping from Montreal > Chicago > Vegas > San Francisco > Vermont > NYC in a span of 3.5 weeks ( Read more... )

"You were by far the hottest girl at the party, and I'm glad I get to take you home."

*dies a little*

lol my life continues to be a series of cool things combined with intermittently getting pwned. After we finally had "the talk" over the summer, we've gotten pretty comfortable discussing "the future" and he had alluded to the point that until I move out from the apartment I share with my parents (for which I pay a share of the rent), we can't move ( Read more... )

"I don't really care for girl names that are after flowers or plants."
"Really? Because I had planned to name our future daughter Sunflower."
"GROSS."

He was joking, but it was the first time he had referred to an imaginary family for us with future children in mind. After all these years, the little things still make my heart flutter.

Well, that was something new. Over the past few months, I was approached by two different companies to try to poach me over to their sites. It's a nice feeling to feel wanted, but it was extremely stressful to consider given how I wasn't exactly looking to leave my job ( Read more... )

I finally had my oath ceremony yesterday and something about the process stood out to me. While we were sitting and waiting for reach row to be called to return our green cards, a woman came out to pass around voter registration forms to encourage everyone to be prepared for this year's elections ( Read more... )

At last I'm finally getting to that age where I start seeing "real" engagements happen on my Facebook feed! It's weird how a couple of years ago we'd be like "Wow, that's way too soon, they will not last." But we're all getting to that point where this is just a natural part of life now ( Read more... )

I'm kind of strangely excited that I have tickets to Oklahoma City now. For years, our friend who we met in Hong Kong have tried to convince us to come visit his hometown, but we haven't been all too thrilled because, I mean, Oklahoma ( Read more... )

So I'm still trying to process what happened last night. The boy and I went out to watch Inside Out, and if that wasn't emotionally draining already, we finally had "the talk ( Read more... )

I'm not doing a very good job on this whole resolution to obsess less thing ( Read more... )